It will also be useful to AMIE and IETE students. Written with student centred, pedagogically driven approach, the text provides a self-contained introduction to the theory of signals and systems. This book looks at the concepts of systems, and also examines signals and the way that signals interact with physical systems. It covers topics ranging from basic signals and systems to signal analysis, properties of continuous-time Fourier transforms including Fourier transforms of standard signals, signal transmission through linear systems, relation between convolution and correlation of signals, sampling theorems and techniques, and transform analysis of LTI systems. All the solved and unsolved problems in this book are designed to illustrate the topics in a clear way.
Each named professorship brings its own distinct legacy. Many professorships, for instance, have long-standing histories, and pass on through each appointment a tradition of discovery and exploration from one academic generation to the next, from one colleague to another. A professorship may also provide a faculty member with an opportunity to forge meaningful connections with the philanthropists who provided the donation that made it possible.
Anima Anandkumar is a computer scientist researching ways to make machine learning fast and practical for real-world use. She develops efficient techniques to speed up optimization algorithms that underpin machine-learning systems. In addition to her appointment at Caltech, she is a principal scientist at Amazon Web Services, where she works on the practical aspects of deploying machine learning at scale using the cloud infrastructure.
Diana Kormos-Buchwald is a historian whose research lies at the intersection of science, politics, and culture. She also studies controversies stemming from the interactions of religion, authority, and science from the dawn of the 20th Century up to the end of the Second World War. Since being named general editor of the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech in 2000, Kormos-Buchwald has overseen the publication of nine volumes of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. She is now serving her third term as editor.
Steven Low's research focuses on cyber-physical systems, networking, and the development of smart grid systems. In 2016, he led a project that installed adaptive charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) in the Cahill Parking Structure. The Caltech Adaptive Charging Network uses a smart algorithm to coordinate the charging schedule with the Institute's existing electrical infrastructure, which helps minimize energy usage while charging EVs and allows users to track the progress of their vehicle's charging online.
Kai Zinn's research seeks to understand how genes control the patterns and functions of synaptic connections in the brain, using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism. Many of the fly's neural circuits are hardwired by genetics, making it straightforward to study the contributions made by individual genes to brain wiring patterns during the fly's development from embryo to adult. The lab's major focus is characterizing certain proteins that mediate interactions among neurons and between neurons and other cell types.