2003 IEEE WORKSHOP ON STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
                 September 28 - October 1, 2003
                    St. Louis, Missouri, USA
                     Chase Park Plaza Hotel
                     http://ssp03.wustl.edu

Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society

Important Deadlines:
               Submission of summaries:     April 18, 2003
               Notification of acceptance:  June 16, 2003
               Final manuscripts due:       August 15, 2003

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
               Alan Willsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
               Kannan Ramchandran, University of California, Berkeley
               Simon Godsill, Cambridge University
               Noel Cressie, Ohio State University
               Patrick Fitch, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

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The 2003 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing will be held
September 28-October 1, 2003, at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel in St. Louis,
Missouri, USA.  The purpose of the workshop is to be a forum for technical
exchange among engineers and scientists from the IEEE and elsewhere, with
common interests in statistics, signal processing, and the interplay
between the two.  All members of the international research community with
interests in statistics and signal processing are invited to participate.

Prospective authors are invited to submit a 2-3 page extended abstract
in the areas of:
     Detection and estimation theory
     System identification and calibration
     Multivariate statistical analysis
     Learning theory and pattern analysis
     Data hiding and watermarking
     Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
     Signal processing for communications
     Time-frequency analysis
     Distributed signal processing and sensor networks
     Nonstationary and cyclostationary signal processing
     Sensor array processing
     Speech processing
     Radar and sonar applications
     Security technologies
     Signal authentication
     Bioinformatics
     Medical imaging
     New methods, directions, and applications

Instructions for electronic submission of paper summaries will be available
soon on the conference website, http://ssp03.wustl.edu.

The workshop schedule includes a reception the evening of Sunday,
September 28, followed by technical sessions during the day on Monday and
Tuesday, September 29-30, and the morning of Wednesday, October 1.  The
format of the technical portion of the workshop will include 5 plenary
speakers and 100-150 contributed presentations, which will be all-poster
or a combination of posters and oral presentations.  Social activities,
including a banquet, will be planned for Monday and/or Tuesday evening.

The Chase Park Plaza Hotel is a St. Louis landmark, located in a midtown
area of St. Louis known as the Central West End.  It is about two miles
from the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science,
and one mile from the Washington University School of Medicine.  It is
situated on the corner of Forest Park, one of the largest urban parks in
the country. The hotel has recently undergone extensive renovations, and
is ideally suited for a workshop of this nature.

Workshop Committee:
     General Chairman
          Daniel R. Fuhrmann, Washington University in St. Louis
     Technical Program Chair
          Robert Nowak, Rice University
     Local Arrangements
          Joseph A. O'Sullivan, Washington University in St. Louis
     Finances
          R. Martin Arthur, Washington University
     Publicity
          Aaron D. Lanterman, Georgia Institute of Technology
     Publications
          G. Tong Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology

Technical Program Committee:
     Olivier Cappe
     Mark Coates
     Meir Feder
     Al Hero
     Don Johnson
     C. C. Ko
     Erik Kolacyzk
     Hamid Krim
     Urbashi Mitra
     Pierre Moulin
     Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola
     Louis Scharf
     Andrew Singer
     Anuj Srivastava
     Barry Van Veen
     Bin Yu

Important Deadlines:
     Submission of summaries:      April 18, 2003
     Notification of acceptance:   June 16, 2003
     Final manuscripts due:        August 15, 2003