I am writing to you about the Student Forum for ICASSP 2001, which will
be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, during May 7-11, 2001.  The objectives
of the forum are to provide the best opportunities for (1) young DSP
engineers to share their research problems and to get know each other,
(2) students to introduce themselves to the technical and industrial
communities, and (3) participating companies to identify future
qualified engineers and employees.  Please share this message with
your students and others who will benefit from the event.

The Student Forum will consist of several poster sessions in which
students can present their technical work.  The abstracts selected for
presentation in the Student Forum will be included in the Conference
Proceedings and the abstract booklet along with regular papers.  Since
one of the objectives of the Student Forum is to facilitate
interaction between industry and their potential employees, students
are encouraged to include a short resume or biosketch in their poster.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the forum is Jan. 22,
2001.  Presentations are accepted based on abstract only (no paper
will be submitted or published), which must be submitted
electronically via the ICASSP 2001 paper submission page (see
http://www.icassp2001.org for details).  These abstracts must follow
the same guidelines outlined for abstracts of regular papers.
However, the limit on the number of papers one can co-author does not
apply to Student Forum papers.  If the work is based on results
obtained jointly with others, they should be properly acknowledged.

In keeping with the objectives of the Student Forum, we will try to
accommodate as many presentations as possible at the event.  We
especially encourage students to present preliminary results that are
not necessarily ready for publications as a regular paper at ICASSP or
in technical journals.  In the same spirit, we may be able to include
in the Student Forum papers that could not be accommodated in the
regular sessions at ICASSP 2001.  We also encourage presentation of
open problems at the forum as a means of finding collaborators or new
ideas for possible solutions.  Finally, if a student so desires,
he/she may present the same material at both the Student Forum and a
regular session.

If you have any questions regarding the Student Forum, please contact
me using e-mail at dhyoun@ee.utah.edu.  I look forward seeing you in
Salt Lake City.

Sincerely,


Dae Hee Youn
Student Forum Chair, ICASSP2001
Professor, Dept. of  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Yonsei University,  Seoul, Korea. 120-749
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, 84112