Signal Processing (Fall 2025)
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Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2pm, 3-270
Recitations: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3pm, 4-370 (or 4-237 starting September 9)
Common Room Office Hours (starting September 8):
-- Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, 4:00pm-5:00pm, 26-204
-- Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 7:30pm-9:30pm, 26-204
Tentative calendar: details may change as the semester proceeds.
| Week | Lecture A (Tuesday) |
Recitation A (Tuesday) |
Lecture B (Thursday) |
Recitation B (Thursday) |
HW |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 2 Registration Day (no lecture) | Sep 2 Registration Day (no recitation) | Sep 4 Signal Processing Slides / Handout | Sep 4 Fourier Series Trig Form Slides / Handout | HW1 |
| 2 | Sep 9 Sinusoids and Series Slides / Handout | Sep 9 Sinusoids and Fourier Series Slides / Handout | Sep 11 Fourier Series Slides / Handout | Sep 11 Fourier Series Complex Form Slides / Handout | HW2 |
| 3 | Sep 16 Sampling and Aliasing | Sep 16 Sampling and Aliasing | Sep 18 DT Fourier Series | Sep 18 Discrete-Time Fourier Series | HW3 |
| 4 | Sep 23 CT Fourier Transform | Sep 23 Continuous-Time Fourier Transform | Sep 25 DT Fourier Transform | Sep 25 Discrete-Time Fourier Transform | No HW Practice Quiz |
| 5 | Sep 30 Quiz 1 (no lecture) | Sep 30 Quiz 1 (no recitation) | Oct 2 Systems | Oct 2 Systems | HW5 |
| 6 | Oct 7 Unit-Sample Response and Convolution | Oct 7 Superposition and Convolution | Oct 9 Frequency Response and Filtering | Oct 9 Convolution and Filtering | HW6 |
| 7 | Oct 14 Communication Systems | Oct 14 Communications Systems | Oct 16 Discrete Fourier Transform 1 | Oct 16 Discrete Fourier Transform | HW7 |
| 8 | Oct 21 Discrete Fourier Transform 2 | Oct 21 DFT and Circular Convolution | Oct 23 FFT | Oct 23 FFT | HW8 |
| 9 | Oct 28 Short-Time Fourier Transform | Oct 28 Short-Time Fourier Transform | Oct 30 Short-Time Signal Processing | Oct 30 Short-Time Signal Processing | No HW Practice Quiz |
| 10 | Nov 4 Quiz 2 (no lecture) | Nov 4 Quiz 2 (no recitation) | Nov 6 Speech | Nov 6 Speech | HW10 |
| 11 | Nov 11 Veterans Day (no lecture) | Nov 11 Veterans Day (no recitation) | Nov 13 2D Fourier Transforms 1 | Nov 13 Two-Dimensional DFT | HW11 |
| 12 | Nov 18 2D Fourier Transforms 2 | Nov 18 2D Convolution | Nov 20 Inverse Filtering | Nov 20 Filtering Images | HW12 |
| 13 | Nov 25 DCT and JPEG | Nov 25 Discrete Cosine Transform | Nov 27 Thanksgiving (no lecture) | Nov 27 Thanksgiving (no recitation) | No HW Practice Final |
| 14 | Dec 2 MRI | Dec 2 MRI | Dec 4 Synthetic Aperture Optics | Dec 4 Review Questions 1 | No HW |
| 15 | Dec 9 Wrap Up | Dec 9 Wrap Up | Dec 11 Study Period (no lecture) | Dec 11 Study Period (no recitation) | No HW |