University Defence Research Centre (UDRC) in Signal Processing at Imperial College

12:00 – 13:00

Registration and sandwich lunch at the concourse outside the Lecture Theatre G34

13:00 – 13:10

Welcome speech from Imperial College

-         Peter Y. K. Cheung (Head of EEE Department, Imperial College)

13:10 – 14:10

Speeches by Senior MoD officials

-         Phil Sutton (Director, General Science & Technology Strategy, UK MoD)

-         Andrew Baird (Head, Defence Technology & Innovation Centre, UK MoD)

14:10 – 15:00

University Defence Research Centre Challenges

-         Paul Thomas (Dstl Technical Lead - UDRC) 

-         Simon Crook (EPSRC representative) 

-         Anthony G. Constantinides (Director – UDRC) 

15 :00 – 15 :15

Welcome speech from Imperial College Rector

-         Sir Roy M. Anderson (Imperial College Rector)

15:15 – 15:45

Global perspective of signal processing

-         Vincent H. Poor (Princeton University, USA)

15:45 – 16:15

Coffee Break

16:15 – 16:45

UK perspective of signal processing

-         Peter M. Grant (University of Edinburgh, UK)

16:45 – 17:45

The UDRC researchers’ perspective

-         Nick G. Kingsbury (University of Cambridge, UK)- Representative from Open Call research 

-         Brian Barber (Dstl)- Representative from Internal research 

-         Kin K. Leung / Athanassios Manikas (Imperial College, UK)- Representatives from Core research 

18:00

Wine Reception and Dinner at the Senior Common Room (SCR)