After the first four symposia held in London in 1950, 1952, 1955, and 1960, LSIT was revived and was held again in London in 2019 (King鈥檚 College London), in 2021 (Imperial College London), and in 2023 (at University College London). This year LSIT 2025 took place in Cambridge for the first time, at St John鈥檚 College in the University of Cambridge, on May 14-16, 2025. The symposium continued the tradition of having free registration. There were 122 registered participants, including 50 students and 22 postdoctoral researchers.
The symposium was single-track and consisted of six invited sessions, on Coding Theory (chaired by Joachim Rosenthal), Communications (chaired by Tobias Koch), Facets of Information Theory and Machine Learning (sponsored by the EPSRC funded AI-hub Informed-AI and chaired by Sid Jaggi), Frontiers of Quantum Shannon Theory (chaired by Mark Wilde) and Hypothesis Testing (chaired by Yuval Kochman); each session had 4 talks.聽
During the welcome reception a poster session was held, with 20 posters on coding, communications, data compression, machine learning, privacy, probability, quantum information and statistical inference.
In addition, one of the invited sessions was the 2025 Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium, which聽 took place on 15 May 2025 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, and included invited talks by:
- Michael Gastpar, on 鈥淚nformation Measures, Universal Prediction, and Large Language Models鈥
- Emina Soljanin, 鈥淥n Non-Local Coset-Guessing Quantum Games鈥
- Anelia Somekh-Baruch, on 鈥淚mpossibility Results in Channel Coding via Auxiliary Channels and Genie-Aided Techniques鈥
- and Mark Wilde, on 鈥淨uantum Doeblin Coefficients: Interpretations and Applications鈥.
Organising committee: Amir R. Asadi, Nilanjana Datta, Albert Guill茅n i F脿bregas, Lampros Gavalakis, Varun Jog, Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Po-Ling Loh, Jossy Sayir and Ramji Venkataramanan