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Mathematics of the Ear and Sound Signal Processing

January 31 - February 2, 2005

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Monday, January 31, 2005

Morning Session

Session Chair: Jack Xin

8:30 - 9:15 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Mark Green, IPAM Director
9:30 - 10:30

Mario Ruggero (Northwestern University)

"Cochlear mechanics: what we think we know and what we may or may not know"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Charles Steele (Stanford University)

"Simulation for the organ of Corti and excitation of inner hair cell cilia"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Li Deng

2:00 - 3:00

Christopher Shera (Harvard University/School of Medicine)

"Emergent Phenomena in Cochlear Mechanics"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:15

Laurel Carney (Syracuse University)

"Quantitative Studies of Information Coding in the Auditory Nerve"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

DeLiang Wang (Ohio State University)

"An Auditory Scene Analysis Approach to Speech Segregation"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Morning Session

Session Chair: Stanley Osher

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Abeer Alwan (UCLA)

"Toward quantitative models of human speech perception and the application to noise-robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 11:10

Elvir Causevic (Yale University / Everest)

"FAST WAVELET ESTIMATION OF WEAK ABR SIGNALS"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:10 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30

Joseph Keller (Stanford University)

"A sound source location mechanism and its development"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Jack Xin

2:00 - 3:00

Jont Allen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Cochlear modeling and its role in human speech recognition"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:00 - 3:10 Break
3:10 - 4:10

Richard Chadwick (National Institute of Health)

"Cochlear wave propagation and micromechanics"

4:10 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

Karl Grosh (University of Michigan)

"Mechanical-Electrical-Acoustical Modeling of the Cochlea"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)


Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Morning Session

Session Chair: Yingyong Qi

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Li Deng (Microsoft Research)

"Computer Speech Recognition: Mimicking the Human System"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Fred Juang (Georgia Institute of Technology)

"Cognitive modeling and processing for speech recognition - ears and beyond"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Jack Xin

1:30 - 2:30

Yingyong Qi (Qualcomm)

"An Invertible Discrete Auditory Transform"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 3:45

Sigfrid Soli (House Ear Institute)

"A model for prediction of functional hearing abilities in real-world noise environments"

3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00

Fan-Gang Zeng (University of California at Irvine)

"Speech recognition with amplitude and frequency modulations: Implication for cochlear implants."
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

5:00 Conclusion

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