CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

Dear Colleagues,

The Fourth IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multi-channel Processing
(SAM 2006) will be held on 12 - 14 July 2006 at the Westin Hotel,
Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. We invite you to view the conference web
site at: http://www.sam2006.org

We welcome our banquet speaker and distinguished lecturers to SAM 2006!

BANQUET SPEAKER:

Dr. Eli Brookner , Principal Fellow / Raytheon

DISTINQUISHED LECTURERS:

Prof. Daniel Fuhrmann , Dept. of Electrical and Systems Engineering,
Washington University at St. Louis

Dr. Hugh Griffiths , Head of Dept. of Electronic and Electrical
Engineering, University of College London  

Dr. Joseph Guerci , Director of the Special Projects Office, DARPA

Prof. Simon Haykin , Author, Fellow - Royal Society of Canada

Prof. Jeffrey Krolik , Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Duke University, Durham, NC

Prof. Tom Luo , ADC Chair in Digital Technology, Dept of ECE, University
of Minnesota

Dr. Arye Nehorai , Principal, MURI project: Adaptive Waveform Diversity
for Full Spectral Dominance

Dr. Leonid Perlovsky , Principal Research Physicist/Technical Advisor,
Air Force Research Laboratory/SNHE

Prof. Donald Tufts , Consultant/Researcher, various branches of the
Office of Naval Research


TECHNICAL PROGRAM

The IEEE Boston section in co-operation with the Air Force Research
Laboratory (AFRL), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), and the Office of
Naval Research (ONR) will be organizing the Fourth IEEE Workshop on
sensor array and multi-channel processing (SAM-2006). The SAM Workshop is
the principal IEEE conference devoted to array processing. The organizing
committee invites the international community to present and discuss
state- of-the-art developments in sensor array processing and
multi-channel signal processing. SAM-2006 will feature plenary lecture
sessions by leading researchers in the field as well as peer reviewed
poster sessions.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit contributions in the following areas:

 *  Adaptive beamforming
 *  Detection and estimation
 *  Direction of arrival estimation
 *  Space-time adaptive processing
 *  Radar and sonar array processing
 *  Array processing for communications
 *  Array processing for biomedical applications
 *  Microphone array applications
 *  Synthetic aperture techniques
 *  Waveform diverse sensors and systems
 *  Multi-channel imaging
 *  Performance evaluations with experimental data
 *  Statistical modeling for sensor arrays
 *  Blind source separation and channel identification
 *  MIMO systems and space-time coding
 *  Sensor networks
 *  Non-Gaussian, nonlinear, and non-stationary models
 *  Intelligent systems and knowledge-based signal processing
 *  Emerging computational and optimization techniques for array
    processing
Prospective authors should submit:

 *  Paper summary cover sheet
 *  Two to four page extended summary including text and figures. PDF
    files of summaries must be submitted via the conference online
    submission process at
http://www.sam2006.org/sampapers/submitfrm.htm The summary cover page
must contain the name of the author(s), affiliation, and contact
information including telephone number, fax number, and email address.
Comprehensive guidelines for summary preparation and submission can also
be found at the conference website at
http://www.sam2006.org/absguidelines.html


PLEASE KEEP THIS IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission of summary: February 1, 2006

Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2006

Final manuscript submission: May 5, 2006

The previous Sensor Array and Multi-channel Processing Workshops have
proven to be extremely educational and we anticipate another successful
workshop of high-quality presentations in July 2006. We invite you to
participate and look forward to receiving your summary.

Best wishes,

Muralidhar Rangaswamy (Ph.D.), USA
General Co-Chair

Michael Wicks (Ph.D.), USA
General Co-Chair