9th IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING WORKSHOP ON
                 STATISTICAL SIGNAL AND ARRAY PROCESSING
 
              September 14-16, 1998     Portland, Oregon, USA
 
                         CALL FOR PAPERS
 
        This workshop is the ninth in a series of biannual
meetings sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. 
Following the successful scheme of previous meetings, the 
workshop will feature keynote addresses by leading researchers
in the area, and poster sessions consisting of both invited 
as well as contributed papers.  Participation will be limited. 
 
 
Authors are invited to submit contributions in the
areas of, but not limited to: 
 
      Real and complex multivariate statistics 
      Covariance and spectrum estimation 
      Higher-order spectrum estimation 
      Nonstationary signals and time-varying systems 
      Non-Gaussian signals and nonlinear systems 
      Parameter estimation on differential manifolds 
      System identification and calibration 
      Sensor array processing 
      Signal processing for communications 
      Signal processing for mechanical systems
      (special session) 
      Computational and implementation issues 
      Applications in all areas 
 
 
Prospective authors should submit four copies of a hundred word 
abstract and a two to four page extended summary to the Program 
Chair at
 
        Daniel R. Fuhrmann
        Dept. of Electrical Engineering
        Washington University
        St. Louis, MO 63130
        email: danf@saturn.wustl.edu 
 
The summary should include affiliations, addresses, tel/fax numbers and
e-mail addresses, and keywords identifying one of the above topics. 
 
Important Dates: 
 
      Submission of summary              February 27, 1998
 
      Notification of acceptance         April 10, 1998
 
      Camera-ready paper                 May 22, 1998
 
 
Technical Program 
 
 Daniel R. Fuhrmann (Chair)
 Dept. of Electrical Engineering
 Washington University
 St. Louis, MO 63130
 email: danf@saturn.wustl.edu
 
 Kristine Bell, George Mason University, USA
 
 Jian Li, University of Florida, USA
 
 Eric Moulines, ENST, France
 
 Arye Nehorai, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
 
 Christ Richmond, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
 
 Peter Sherman, Iowa State University, USA
 
 Alle-Jan van der Veen, Technical University of Delft, Holland
 
 Lang White, DSTO, Australia
 
 Mike Zoltowski, Purdue University, USA
 
 Al Hero, University of Michigan, USA
 
European Liaison
 
 Mats Viberg, Chalmers Inst. Tech., Sweden
 
Austral-Asian Liaison
 
 Alex Kot, Nanyang Tech University, Singapore
 
Local Arrangements
 
 Eric Wan, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA
 e-mail: ericwan@choosh.ee.ogi.edu 
 
Publications/Publicity
 
 Qiang Wu , Intel, USA
 
Treasurer/Finance
 
 Kwok-Wai Tam , Portland State University, USA
 
Consultant
 
 R. Lynn Kirlin, University of Victoria, Canada
 
Organizer and Chair
 
 Fu Li
 Dept. of Electrical Engr.
 Portland State University
 Portland, OR 97035-0751, USA
 Fax: (503)725-3824
 e-mail: f.li@ieee.org
 
Website: http://www.ee.pdx.edu/conferences/SSAP-98/
Inquiry: ssap-98@ee.pdx.edu