[news.announce.conferences] Bilkent Conference on Communication, Control, & Signal Processing

firat@alberta (Firat Uludamar) (10/28/89)

             1990 BILKENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
                              ON
    NEW TRENDS IN COMMUNICATION, CONTROL, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING

                          July 2-5, 1990

                Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

                         CALL FOR PAPERS

A conference devoted to new and emerging trends and topics in
communication, control, and signal processing will be held on
the campus of the Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey from Sunday
evening July 1, 1990 through Thursday afternoon July 5, 1990.
The conference will feature a number of invited speakers on
selected topics, as well as contributed papers. All papers
accepted for presentation will appear in a Proceedings volume,
which will be made available at the beginning of the conference.
In addition to the technical program, there will be organized
tours to major cultural and historic centers in Turkey.

                          PAPER TOPICS

COMMUNICATION:
Information theory and coding
Communication systems
Multiaccess communications
Optical communications
Data security and cryptography

CONTROL:
Large-scale systems
Adaptive and stochastic control
Algebraic methods in control
Robust control
Random processes

SIGNAL PROCESSING:
Signal processing
Image processing
Pattern recognition
VLSI signal processing
Neural networks

              INVITED TALKS WILL BE PRESENTED BY:

T. Basar (U. Illinois)             S. K. Mitra (UC Santa Barbara)
M. Bellanger (TRT, France)         D. C. Munson (U. Illinois)
R. E. Blahut (IBM)                 Y. Neuvo (Tampere U. Tech.)
E. J. Davison (U. Toronto)         H. V. Poor (U. Illinois)
R. G. Gallager (M.I.T.)            M. B. Pursley (U. Illinois)
B. Hajek (U. Illinois)             D. D. Siljak (Santa Clara U.)
T. Huang (U. Illinois)             P. Varaiya (UC Berkeley)
T. Kailath (Stanford U.)           J. C. Willems (U. Groningen)
P. R. Kumar (U. Illinois)          J. K. Wolf (UC San Diego)
J. L. Massey (ETH, Zurich)

                      AUTHORS' SCHEDULE

400-800 word summary due :            January 15, 1990
Notification of acceptance mailed :  February 15, 1990
Camera ready copy due :                 April 15, 1990
The conference language is English.

                           TOURS

The following optional tours are planned:

29 June - 1 July : Tour of Istanbul, Izmir, Ephesus, Pamukkale.
4 July           : Trip to Cappadocia. (No conference on this day.)
6-8 July         : 3-day tour of Istanbul.


For further information please write to:

                  BILCON'90
                  Bilkent University,
                  P.O.Box 8, Maltepe, Ankara,
                  06572, TURKEY.

                  Tel: (90) 4-266-4307
                  Fax: (90) 4-266-4127
                  E-mail: bilcon@trbilun.bitnet
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