| Chapter | 
			Dates | 
			Distinguished Lecturer | 
			Lecture Details | 
		
		
			| New Zealand/Central/North/South | 
			October 2, 2015 | 
			Akihiko Sugiyama(NEC Corp., Japan) | 
			Lecture topic: "Signal Processing for Robot Audition: How signal processing helps a robot recognize user commands in adverse environment" and "Phase: Unexplored Wilderness in Signal Enhancement". Contact chapter chair Terence Betlehem for more information. | 
		
		
			| Oregon | 
			October 2, 2015 | 
			Alex Kot (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) | 
			Lecture topic: "Image Forensics: is a photo worth a thousand words?". Contact chapter chair Fu Li for more information. | 
		
		
			| Gujarat | 
			October 3, 2015 | 
			Gaurav Sharma (University of Rochester, USA) | 
			Lecture topic: "Translating Signal Processing Theory into Applications". Contact chapter chair Chirag N. Paunwala for more information. | 
		
		
			| Germany | 
			October 5-7, 2015 | 
			Hynek Hermansky (The Johns Hopkins University, USA) | 
			Lecture topic: TBD. Contact chapter chair Udo Zoelzer for more information. | 
		
		
			| Malaysia | 
			October 19-20, 2015 | 
			Jean-Luc Dugelay (EURECOM, France) | 
			Lecture topic: TBD. Contact chapter chair Syed R. Abu-Bakar for more information. | 
		
		
			| Thailand | 
			October 22-23, 2015 | 
			Jean-Luc Dugelay (EURECOM, France) | 
			Lecture topic: TBD. Contact chapter chair Supavadee Aramvith for more information. | 
		
		
			| Singapore | 
			October 26-27, 2015 | 
			Jean-Luc Dugelay (EURECOM, France) | 
			Lecture topic: TBD. Contact chapter chair Pina Marziliano for more information. | 
		
		
			| Japan/Kansai | 
			November 5, 2015 | 
			Fred B. H. Juang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) | 
			Lecture topic: "Problems and Innovations in Signal and Information Processing - Early History and Inspiration". Contact chapter chair Takehiro Moriya for more information. | 
		
		
			| Sendai | 
			November 6, 2015 | 
			Fred B. H. Juang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) | 
			Lecture topic: "Deep Neural Networks - A Developmental Perspective". Contact chapter chair  Akinori Ito  for more information. | 
		
		
			| Vancouver | 
			November 23, 2015 | 
			Hamid Krim (NC State University, USA) | 
			Lecture topic: "Convexity, Sparsity, Nullity and all that....". Contact chapter chair Ivan Bajic for more information. |