BarryFest June 15, 2023
Workshop: 9am-3pm, UW–Madison Pyle Center

A one-day workshop to celebrate Professor Barry Van Veen’s outstanding contributions to engineering, science, and education.
Workshop Schedule
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00am | Rob Nowak | Opening Remarks |
| 9:10am | Louis Scharf | In his youth Barry formed beams even when wavefronts were wrinkled and wobbly |
| 9:30am | John Pierre | Signal Processing Success Stories in Applications to Power Systems |
| 9:50am | Brad Postle | Decomposing the signal from scalp EEG |
| 10:10am | Break | 20 minutes |
| 10:30am | Ramya Vinayak | Learning Diverse Preferences |
| 10:50am | Wim van Drongelen | Beamformers in our Head [remote] |
| 11:10am | Srikantan Nagarajan | The Trail of Barry’s Beamformers in Electromagnetic Imaging |
| 11:30am | TBD | Special Virtual Presentation |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | 90 minutes |
| 1:30pm | Rebecca Willett | Machine Learning for Data Assimilation |
| 1:50pm | Kurt Hecox | The Art of Science |
| 2:10pm | Jeff Krolik | A golden oldie: the Barry-inspired multiple-time scale modularized adaptive beamformer [remote] |
| 2:30pm | Break | 20 minutes |
| 2:50pm | Waheed Bajwa | FAST-PCA: When Eigenvectors, Covariance Matrices, and Distributed Data Walk Into a Bar |
| 3:10pm | Kangwook Lee | Unfolding the Magic of GPT: A Flipped Classroom Ode to Barry |
| 3:30pm | Martina Rau | Learning with visual representations in signal processing courses |
| 4:30pm | Reception | Memorial Union |
Hotel Information
1308 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53715
(608) 263-2600
Event: Barryfest
Rooms on hold: 8 king bed single rooms for June 14th – 16th (2 nights)
Government rate for each room is $131.00 per night without taxes
