Dear Colleagues
We are very happy to announce the workshop High-performance Signal and Data Processing 2014. The workshop aims to bring together key people to discuss grand challenges facing the signal processing community in Radio Astronomy, Gamma Ray Astronomy and Particle Physics, and to provide knowledge sharing to delegates in both a lecture format, as well as a classroom environment for hands-on hardware and software training. General overviews and in-depth presentations will be given. The event will take place at the Wits Professional Development HUB at the University of the Witwatersrand, the week of January 27th to January 31st 2014. We are honored to have the following keynote speakers at the event: Dr. Daniel Adams, Chief Director: Emerging Research Areas and Infrastructure at the DST Prof. Jean Cleymans, Chairman of SA-CERN Dr. Bernard Fanaroff, SKA Project Director Dr. Peter Jenni, former Spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment at CERN Prof. Justin Jonas, MeerKAT Associate Director of Science and Engineering Prof. Naba Mondal, Spokesperson of the India-based Neutrino Observatory Keynote addresses will be followed by plenary sessions for in-depth presentations by experts in areas of physics and engineering. Students and young researches are also welcome to deliver presentations. Several hands-on sessions with FPGA-based boards, RHINO and ROACH, will be provided. A session on GRID software is also envisioned. The registration and abstract submission are now open till December 31st 2013. It is envisioned to publish a book of proceedings. There are funding opportunities for students outside Johannesburg. Visit the workshop’s website for more information: http://www.hpspsa.com Looking forward to your participation Best regards, The organising committee Dr. Oana Boeriu Dr. Andrew van der Byl Prof. Sergio Colafrancesco Prof. David Davidson Dr. Andreas Faltenbacher Dr. Siegie Fortsch Prof. Michael Inggs (Co-Chair) Mr. Francois Kapp Dr. Jonathan Keartland Prof. Bruce Mellado (Co-Chair) Prof. Elias Sideras-Haddad Dr. Trevor Vickey Dr. Simon Windberg
