firat@alberta (Firat Uludamar) (11/01/89)
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 -- Good health is merely the slowest rate at which one can die.