The IEEE Signal Processing Society is hosting the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Signal Processing Workshop on March 16-17, 2000 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The SAM Workshop is the principal IEEE conference devoted to array processing. We have an exciting agenda encompassing array processing applications in radar, sonar, communication, detection, estimation, and biomedicine. You are cordially invited to attend this important workshop. Details for this event (including workshop and hotel reservation information) can be found at http://sam2000.uconn.edu. SAM 2000 will feature: Distinguished lectures presented by the field's leading experts Open forums for peer reviewed poster presentations **IMPORTANT** Deadline for early registration: February 8, 2000. The hotel reservations should be made by calling 1-800-MARRIOTT, and mention the IEEE SAM Workshop. The agenda of sessions is shown below. A full agenda including all papers will be posted at http://sam2000.uconn.edu within a few days. ============================================================================== SAM 2000 Technical Program Overview Thursday, March 16, 2000 Distinguished Lectures (8:30-12:00): 8:45 - 9:00 Workshop Welcome 9:00 - 9:30 Kenneth Senne MIT Lincoln Laboratory "Development of Adaptive Array Processing: From Theory to Implementation in Real-World Systems" 9:30 - 10:00 Arogyaswami Paulraj Stanford University "Space-Time Techniques for Fixed Wireless Access" 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11:00 Alfred Hero University of Michigan "Statistical Signal Processing for Radio-nucleide Tomography" 11:00 - 11:30 Allan Steinhardt Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency "Subband STAP Processing, the Fifth Generation" 11:30 - 12:00 Arthur Baggeroer Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Matched Field Processing: status at 2000 and where to now?" 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 Poster Sessions Session 1: Arrays in Communications: Modeling and Diversity Techniques Session 2: Adaptive Beamforming Theory Session 3: Sonar Session 4: Detection 3:00 - 3:30 Break 3:30 - 5:00 Poster Sessions Session 5: Space-Time Coding Session 6: Acoustic and Microphone Arrays Session 7: Imaging Techniques Session 8: Space-Time Adaptive Processing Session 9: Biomedicine Friday, March 17, 2000 Distinguished Lectures (8:30 - 12:00): 8:30 - 9:00 Jack Winters AT&T Research "Smart Antennas - Overview and Tutorial" 9:00 - 9:30 Richard Klemm FGAN-FHR, Germany "Perspectives in STAP Research" 9:30 - 10:00 Mats Viberg Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden "Can High-Performance and Robust Direction Finding be Achieved at a Reasonable Cost?" 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11:00 Charles Rader MIT Lincoln Laboratory "The Wideband Nulling Problem, Architectures and Algorithms" 11:00 - 12:00 Louis Scharf University of Colorado "The State of Array Processing: Where Are We and Where are We Going" 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 Poster Sessions Session 10: Blind Deconvolution Session 11: Adaptive Beamforming Methods Session 12: Angle Estimation Techniques Session 13: Array Signal Processing Theory 3:00 - 3:30 Break 3:30 - 5:00 Poster Sessions Session 14: Smart Antennas for Communications Session 15: Radar Session 16: Subspace Methods Session 17: Applications of Array Processing Workshop Commitee: ================== General Chairs: Edward Baranoski, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Arye Nehorai, University of Illinois at Chicago Technical Chairs: Steven Smith, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Donald Tufts, University of Rhode Island Coordinator: Stephen Kogon, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Publicity: Douglas Abraham, University of Connecticut Publications: Daniel Drake, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Finance: Robert Alongi, IEEE Boston Section Timothy Barton, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Local Arrangements: Michael Zatman, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Michael Brandstein, Harvard University SAM 2000 will follow the Adaptive Sensor Array Processing (ASAP) Workshop, held at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on March 14-15, 2000, providing a unique opportunity for interaction between the academic and applied research communities. For more information visit the ASAP website at http://www.ll.mit.edu/asap. MIT Lincoln Laboratory ASAP 2000 Workshop Chairman SAM 2000 Workshop General Co-Chair