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Professor Athanassios Manikas, Chair in Communications and Array Processing, presents his Inaugural Lecture on; “Differential geometry and wireless systems: locked horns or hand-in hand?”
In the Chair: Professor Peter Cheung, Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Vote of Thanks: Professor Jaafar Elmirghani, Chair in Communication Networks and Systems, University of Leeds.
A tea/coffee reception will precede the lecture at 16.45 in the Senior Common Room
Abstract: Differential geometry is a branch of mathematics that is concerned with the application of differential calculus for the investigation of the properties of geometric curves, surfaces and other objects known as “manifolds”. Manifolds have a deep and profound mathematical structure and have been an area of intense pure mathematical analysis. In parallel, in Electrical Engineering over the last few years there has been a wealth of novel wireless communication systems including multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), Spread Spectrum, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Multi-Carrier and MIMO Radar amongst others. The two areas of “differential manifolds” and new “digital communication systems” can be shown to converge. From this convergence arises a new robust framework to allow the analysis and design of wireless systems in the future.
Biography: He came to Imperial in 1984 as a PhD student. In 1988, after a short period as a Research Associate, he joined the Department of the Electrical Engineering as a Lecturer in the Digital Communications research group. He was promoted to Reader in 1997 and since 2005 he holds the Chair in Communications and Array Processing. He is on the editorial board of IET Proceedings on Signal Processing and a member of the Royal Society’s International Fellowship Committee. He has served as an expert witness in the High Court of Justice (UK) and is currently the Technical Lead of the newly established DSTL/EPSRC University Defence Research Centre. He has written the monograph “Differential Geometry in Array Processing” and his main contributions are in the area of array signal processing and its application to space-time communications.
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