The 6th Winterschool on Coding and Information theory took place from December 17-20 in the beautiful setting of Castle Reisensburg in Günzburg, Germany. The 50 participants enjoyed the exclusive athmosphere in the old completely renovated castle. Main goal of the winterschool is that Ph.D. students from different universities get to know each other and that scientific presentations have an informal character. The tradition of the Winterschool is that only Ph.D. students (or just finished ) are invited to give a 20 minute presentation.
About 25 contributions were delivered from Universities of Ulm, München, Erlangen, Essen, Kiel, Bremen in Germany, Linköping and Lund in Sweden, Bergen in Norway and Zürich and Lausanne in Switserland. Four main lectures of a tutorial nature were given by Johannes Huber (Erlangen) on Multilevel Codes, Amos Lapidoth (Zürich) on Limits on Reliable Communication over Flat-Fading Channels, Jim Massey (Lund) on Noisy Sequence Acquisition and Viktor Zyablov (Moscow) on the History of Concatenated Codes.
Earlier workshops took place in Essen (Germany, 1991 and 1993), Eindhoven (the Netherlands, 1994), Mölle (Sweden, 1996) and Aarhus( Denmark, 1998). In addition Prof. Fliedner gave a 2 hour tour on the history and development of the castle. The meeting was sponsored by the IEEE German chapter on Information theory and the University of Ulm. Information on the meeting can be obtained from the organizer Martin Bossert (University of Ulm).
Han Vinck, january 2001.