Dear colleagues and students:

Through your registration to the 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), which was held on Kos Island, Greece from 28 August to 2 September 2017, you are now a member of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). Your membership extends until 31 December 2018.

I would like to extend a warm welcome to you and I truly hope that you will continue to support our activities.

Your membership benefits are wide-ranging and valuable, whose description can be found on our webpage www.eurasip.org.

Firstly, I wish to mention the 10% discount on Open Access publication charges in our EURASIP-SpringerOpen journals. As a member of EURASIP, you are entitled to this discount by entering the code TC00888044 at the end of the submission process, once you are prompted for a SpringerOpen membership account number.

Many initiatives were launched by EURASIP in the recent past. These include seasonal schools, some of which have been jointly organised with other professional organisations and societies, such as the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). A comprehensive list of seasonal schools held since 2014 can be found on the EURASIP webpage.

I would like to extend an invitation to you to organise a seasonal school in your area of expertise or to encourage your colleagues to do so. Such schools are an invaluable resource, not only for graduate students, but also for research engineers and established researchers to discover new and emerging areas or deepen their knowledge in an established area of signal and image processing research and their applications. A financial support by EURASIP is available for the organisation of a seasonal school. For more details, please visit our webpage.

Another initiative by EURASIP is the launching of Special Area Teams (SATs) in 2016. The main objective of the Special Area Teams (SATs) is to facilitate the interaction and communication of EURASIP members in a specific scientific area. There currently exist eight SATs. Please feel free to contact the chair of the respective SAT, or the Director for External Relations, or myself, if you are interested to joining a SAT. More details about SATs can be found on our webpage.

Should you be a PhD student, feel free to submit a proposal to present your thesis work in a contest. Should you be shortlisted, you will have three minutes to present a compelling oration of your thesis and its significance at one of the EUSIPCO conferences. Should you become the winner of the contest, you will receive a check over 1000 Euros and a certificate.

I wish to thank you wholeheartedly for your support of EURASIP and I wish to encourage you to get involved with any activity you feel comfortable with, such as nominating for awards, becoming a SAT member, organising a future EUSIPCO or a seasonal school. Should you have any suggestion, for example for a new initiative, please do not hesitate to contact me.

In closing, let me remind you that the next EUSIPCO will be held in Rome, the beautiful and historical capital city of Italy. EUSIPCO 2018 promises to become another memorable event. The Call for Papers and more detailed information is available on our webpage or by following the link www.eusipco2018.org.

I very much look forward to welcoming you in Rome in 2018.

With warmest regards,
Abdelhak Zoubir
President, EURASIP

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