The University of Melbourne will be hosting the 2026 IEEE Australian Information Theory School (AusITS) from Monday, Feb 16th to Thursday, Feb 19th in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. The school will provide graduate students and postdoctoral researchers with the opportunity to engage with leading experts in Information Theory, Communication Theory, and Machine Learning through short lectures, as well as the chance to present their own work. Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in Australia and New Zealand working on problems in information/communication theory and machine learning are encouraged to apply with the title and a short abstract of a poster that they would like to present. Early bird fee: AUD $125 (before 16 January 2026) Normal fee: AUD $160 (from 17 January 2026) With the generous support of the IEEE, a limited number of discounted rooms are available at Graduate House. Co-sponsored by: Dept. Electrical & Electronic Engineering and School of Computing & Information Systems, The University of Melbourne Agenda: https://sites.google.com/view/2026ausits/program-abstracts-slides Melbourne, Victoria, Australia