Signal Processing (Spring 2026)
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Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00 PM in 34-101
Recitations: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:00 PM in 34-101 or 32-141
Pset Room / Office Hours:
Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays from 4:00 to 5:00 PM (room: TBD)
Fridays from 4:00 to 6:00 PM (room: TBD)
Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9:30 PM (room: TBD)
Tentative Calendar: Details may change as the semester proceeds.
| Week | Lecture A Tuesday |
Recitation A Tuesday |
Lecture B Thursday |
Recitation B Thursday |
Homework |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feb 3 Signal Processing Handout / Answers | Feb 3 Fourier Series Handout / Answers | Feb 5 Sinusoids and Series | Feb 5 Series and Symmetry | HW1 |
| 2 | Feb 10 Fourier Series | Feb 10 Complex Fourier Series | Feb 12 Sampling and Aliasing | Feb 12 Sampling and Aliasing | HW2 |
| 3 | Feb 17 Presidents Day (no lecture) | Feb 17 Presidents' Day (no recitation) | Feb 19 DT Fourier Series | Feb 19 DT Fourier Series | HW3 |
| 4 | Feb 24 CT Fourier Transform | Feb 24 CT Fourier Transform | Feb 26 DT Fourier Transform | Feb 26 DT Fourier Transform | No HW Quiz Info |
| 5 | Mar 3 Quiz 1 (no lecture) | Mar 3 Quiz 1 (no recitation) | Mar 5 Systems | Mar 5 Systems | HW5 |
| 6 | Mar 10 Unit-Sample Response and Convolution | Mar 10 Unit-Sample Response and Convolution | Mar 12 Frequency Response and Filtering | Mar 12 Frequency Response and Filtering | HW6 |
| 7 | Mar 17 Discrete Fourier Transform 1 | Mar 17 Discrete Fourier Transform | Mar 19 Discrete Fourier Transform 2 | Mar 19 DFT and Circular Convolution | HW7 |
Spring Break |
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| 8 | Mar 31 Short-Time Fourier Transform | Mar 31 Short-Time Fourier Transform | Apr 2 Short-Time Signal Processing | Apr 2 Short-Time Signal Processing | HW8 |
| 9 | Apr 7 Communication Systems | Apr 7 Communication Systems | Apr 9 FFT | Apr 9 FFT | No HW Quiz Info |
| 10 | Apr 14 Quiz 2 (no lecture) | Apr 14 Quiz 2 (no recitation) | Apr 16 Speech | Apr 16 Speech | HW10 |
| 11 | Apr 21 2D Fourier Transforms 1 | Apr 21 2D Fourier Transforms | Apr 23 2D Fourier Transforms 2 | Apr 23 2D Convolution | HW11 |
| 12 | Apr 28 Inverse Filtering | Apr 28 Filtering Images | Apr 30 DCT and JPEG | Apr 30 DCT | HW12 |
| 13 | May 5 MRI | May 5 MRI | May 7 Synthetic Aperture Optics | May 7 Review 1 | No HW Final Info |
| 14 | May 12 Wrap Up | May 12 Review 2 | May 14 Study Period (no lecture) | May 14 Study Period (no recitation) | No HW Survey |