First Russian-French workshop on Mathematics of Communications took place from November 3 to November 6, 2003 in Moscow, Russia. The workshop was organised by the French-Russian laboratory LIFR-MIIP of CNRS (France) and Independent University of Moscow (IUM) with the participation of the Embassy of France in Moscow, Institute of Information Transmission Problems of RAS, Centre de Physique Th?orique and Institut de Math?matiques de Luminy. ... V.I. Levenstein (Institute of Applied Mathematics), . ...