Signal Processing (Fall 2026)
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Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00 PM in 4-370
Recitations: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:00 PM in 4-370 or 4-237
Office Hours: 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 | Sep 8 Registration Day (no lecture) | Sep 8 Registration Day (no recitation) | Sep 10 Signal Processing | Sep 10 Fourier Series Trig Form | HW1 |
| 2 | Sep 15 Sinusoids and Series | Sep 15 Sinusoids and Fourier Series | Sep 17 Fourier Series | Sep 17 Fourier Series Complex Form | HW2 |
| 3 | Sep 22 Sampling and Aliasing | Sep 22 Sampling and Aliasing | Sep 24 DT Fourier Series | Sep 24 Discrete-Time Fourier Series | HW3 |
| 4 | Sep 29 CT Fourier Transform | Sep 29 Continuous-Time Fourier Transform | Oct 1 DT Fourier Transform | Oct 1 Discrete-Time Fourier Transform | No HW Quiz Info |
| 5 | Oct 6 Quiz 1 (no lecture) | Oct 6 Quiz 1 (no recitation) | Oct 8 Systems | Oct 8 Systems | HW5 |
| 6 | Oct 13 Indigenous Peoples Day (no lecture) | Oct 13 Indigenous Peoples Day (no recitation) | Oct 15 Unit-Sample Response and Convolution | Oct 15 Superposition and Convolution | HW6 |
| 7 | Oct 20 Frequency Response and Filtering | Oct 20 Convolution and Filtering | Oct 22 Communication Systems | Oct 22 Communication Systems | HW7 |
| 8 | Oct 27 Discrete Fourier Transform 1 | Oct 27 Discrete Fourier Transform | Oct 29 Short-Time Fourier Transform | Oct 29 Short-Time Fourier Transform | HW8 Quiz Info |
| 9 | Nov 3 Fast_Fourier_Transform | Nov 3 FFT | Nov 5 Short-Time Fourier Transform | Nov 5 Short-Time Fourier Transform | No HW Quiz Info |
| 10 | Nov 10 Quiz 2 (no lecture) | Nov 10 Quiz 2 (no recitation) | Nov 12 Speech | Nov 12 Quiz Review | HW10 |
| 11 | Nov 17 Quiz Retrospective | Nov 17 Quiz Retrospective | Nov 19 2D Fourier Transforms 1 | Nov 19 Two-Dimensional DFT | HW11 |
| 12 | Nov 24 2D Fourier Transforms 2 | Nov 24 2D Convolution | Nov 26 Thanksgiving (no lecture) | Nov 26 Thanksgiving (no recitation) | No HW Final Info |
| 13 | Dec 1 Inverse Filtering | Dec 1 Filtering Images | Dec 3 DCT and JPEG | Dec 3 Discrete Cosine Transform | No HW Final Info |
| 14 | Dec 8 MRI | Dec 8 Final Exam Review | Dec 10 Synthetic Aperture Optics | Dec 10 Retrospective | No HW Survey |
Final Examination Week |
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