Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS)
                           http://www.gensips.gatech.edu
           In Cooperation with IEEE Signal Processing Society

                                      Raleigh, NC
                       October 12-13, 2002

                        CALL FOR PAPERS

     The Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics is a
cooperating conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and
will be sponsored by DARPA, NSF, and the Kenan Institute. Genomic
data represents enormous signal processing challenges due to the
high variability of the data acquisition process, high dimensionality
of the data space, and high complexity of genetic signals.

     The workshop will be held near the North Carolina State University
campus in a thriving region known as the Research Triangle which is
home to three major Research Universities, hundreds of companies in
biotechnology, information technology, communications, computer hardware
and software. The Research Triangle is easily accessible from all
parts of the U.S. though the Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
The beautiful ocean outer banks and the Smoky mountains are within
driving distance of the conference venue.

     The aim of this two-day workshop is to identify potential areas
of collaboration between the biological, statistical, and signal
processing communities and to open new avenues of research to address
new challenges in genetics by exploiting potential synergies between
signal processing, statistics and Genomics and by building on their
respective strengths. Such problem areas might include: signal
processing and extraction of microarray and gell images;
incorporation of accurate image formation models into clustering and
classification algorithms; application of communications/signal-
processing/image-processing techniques such as array processing and
blind equalization; and novel high-throughput hardware/software
approaches to large scale genomic computation. This workshop will
consist of both invited sessions and contributed sessions. The
invited speakers will give tutorial talks on genetics, bioinformatics,
and genomic signal processing. There will also be a panel discussion
and four plenary sessions. This call for papers is to solicit
contributed papers for the poster sessions which are expected to be
highly interactive. Those interested should submit a four-page
summary describing original work. Final version of accepted papers
will be published in an electronic proceedings which will be
distributed by the web and by CD-ROM at the workshop. Acceptance
will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Participation
at the workshop will be limited to 130 attendees. Registration fee
will be kept very low and travel grants will be offered to selected
student participants.

AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE
* Digital signal processing and statistical approaches to
   bioinformatics problems
* Digital communications approaches to gene sequence estimation
* Image and multidimensional signal processing for microarray data
* Data mining and pattern recognition; signal extraction
* Processing of genomic signals relevant to aging, disease, and
   development
* Novel genetic signal and image models
* New genetics-based signal processing approaches and architectures
* Models for cellular metabolism and inter-cellular signaling

DEADLINES
* May 1, 2002:    Four page summaries due
* June 15, 2002:  Accept/reject notifications sent out
* Sept 1, 2002:   Final four-page camera-ready papers due

For detailed submission instructions, please visit the workshop web page.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Co-General Chairs:
   Prof. Alfred Hero, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer
       Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Statistics, University of
       Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
   Prof. G. Tong Zhou, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
       Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

Technical Program Committee:
   Chair:   Prof. Hamid Krim, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,
            North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
   Members: Prof. Debashis Ghosh, Department of Biostatistics, University of
            Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
           Prof. Simon Godsill, Department of Engineering, University of
            Cambridge, UK
            Prof. Jeffrey Macdonald, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
            University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
            Prof. Kerby Shedden, Department of Statistics, University of
            Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Publications Chair:
   Prof. Daniel Fuhrmann, Department of Electrical Engineering,
       Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Local Arrangements:
   Prof. Marc Genton, Statistics Department,
       North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

For additional information, please contact Prof. Alfred Hero,
Tel. (734) 763-0564; Email: gensips@eecs.umich.edu