The Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing (LMS) is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and the Chair of Telecommunications Engineering (LNT), from which the LMS emerged, is celebrating its 60th anniversary. To mark this double anniversary, a celebratory colloquium will be held on October 9, 2026, in the Werner-von-Siemens Lecture Hall (H9, MHB Mensa Building, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 60) with the following program.
13:00 Welcome and Introduction
Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup
Historic Development of the Chair
Anfänge der Digitalen Signalverarbeitung
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Vary, RWTH Aachen
Vom Institut für Nachrichtentechnik zum LMS
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Rabenstein, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Die Ära Bernd Girod: Bildkommunikation im Aufbruch
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckehard Steinbach, TU München
15:00 Coffee break
15:45 Award Ceremony for the EMSig Student Awards
Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup
Current Topics of Signal Processing
Mehrdimensionale Signalverarbeitung in der Audiotechnologie
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sascha Spors, Universität Rostock
Abtauchen, aufsteigen, am Boden bleiben
Dr.-Ing. Andreas Weinlich, Continental AI Lab
The Agent-Assisted Lab: Orchestrating Multi-Agent Teams for Academic Workflows
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Vasileios Belagiannis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
18:00 Closing