CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 2005 Information Theory Workshop On Theory and Practice in Information-Theoretic Security October 16- 19, 2005, Awaji Island, Japan http://imailab-www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~itw05/ The 2005 Information Theory Workshop on Theory and Practice in Information-Theoretic Security is jointly sponsored by IEEE Information Theory Society and International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). The workshop will be held in Awaji Island, one of the most beautiful islands in Japan, and devoted to the dissemination and further development of boundary areas between information theory and information security. A main goal of the workshop is to create a unique and excellent venue for researchers working in diverse disciplines to exchange latest research results on unconditional security and to discuss directions for future explorations. Program: The workshop program will consist of several sessions of invited talks and one or two rump sessions of contributed talks. While a core part of the technical program will be invited talks given by a number of distinguished speakers from related research areas, participants are encouraged to share their research interests by presenting at the rump session(s) latest results, work-in-progress reports and other topics of broad interests. Topics: Topics to be covered by the workshop include but are not limited to: - Theoretical and practical issues concerning information-theoretic or unconditional security - Paradigms, approaches and techniques concerning information-theoretic security - Information theory, quantum information theory applicable to information security - Applications of information theory to computational security - Topics in the bounded storage model and the noisy channel model - Quantum cryptography Organizing Committee: General Co-Chairs: Hideki Imai (University of Tokyo, Japan) Yuliang Zheng (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) Program Chair: Ueli Maurer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Local Organizer : Junji Shikata (Yokohama National University, Japan) Further information: Inquiries on rump session presentations and general matters related to the workshop should be addressed to: ITW05 Japan Secretariat Imai Laboratory, Information and Systems, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan, Fax: +81-3-5452-6295 E-mail: itw05info@imailab.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp