Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Events for May
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EE Pioneer Series - Jerry M. Mendel
Tue, May 05, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jerry Mendel, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Talk Title: Ode to Joy of Research
Series: Pioneer Series
Abstract: To me Research is synonymous with Exploration, traveling into the great unknown and hopefully discovering something that no one else has seen before. Just as Explorers must ask critical questions, many of which are open-ended, in what we call âResearchâ itâs important, arguably crucially important, to focus on asking the right questions. In this short talk Iâm going to focus on some of the questions that Iâve asked or that my students have asked so you get a very good sense of what I mean, beginning with my days as a graduate student, continuing with my years in industry and concluding with my more than 40 years at USC. I have been very fortunate to have experienced the joy of research for more than 50 years, and will also highlight especially joyous moments.
Biography: Jerry M. Mendel received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY. Currently he is Professor of Electrical Engineering at USC, where he has been since 1974. He has published over 550 technical papers and is author and/or co-author of 12 books. His present research interests include: type-2 fuzzy logic systems and their applications to a wide range of problems, including smart oil field technology, computing with words, and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and a Fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association. He was President of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 1986. He was a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for nine years, and was Chairman of its Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee and the Computing With Words Task Force of that TC. Among his awards are the 1983 Best Transactions Paper Award of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, the 1992 Signal Processing Society Paper Award, the 2002 and 2014 Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Awards, a 1984 IEEE Centennial Medal, an IEEE Third Millenium Medal, and a Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award (2008) from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Host: Ming Hsieh Institute
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/about/news/2015/04/20/ee-pioneer-series-jerry-m-mendel/
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elise Herrera-Green
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/about/news/2015/04/20/ee-pioneer-series-jerry-m-mendel/
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Communications, Networks & Systems (CommNetS) Seminar
Wed, May 13, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Frank C. Langbein, Cardiff University
Talk Title: Controlling Information Transfer in Spintronics Networks
Series: CommNetS
Abstract: The propagation of information encoded in spin degrees of freedom through networks of coupled spins enables important applications in spintronics and quantum information processing. Control is required to direct the flow of information through a spintronic network in an efficient manner, e.g for an on-chip interconnect or for routing quantum information. In principle information stored in spin states can propagate through a network of coupled spins without any charge transport. As propagation of spin-based information is governed by quantum-mechanics and the Schrodinger equation, excitations in a spin network propagate, disperse and refocus in a wave-like manner. We study control of information propagation in rings of spins as a simple prototype of a router for spin-based information. For our purposes we restrict ourselves to spin-1/2 particles with uniform nearest neighbour couplings forming a ring with a single excitation (or one bit) in the network. Control can be utilised to maximise transfer efficiency and speed of this excitation. We specifically consider optimising spatially distributed potentials, which remain constant during the evolution, in contrast to dynamic control schemes, which require dynamic modulation or fast switching of the control potentials. Due to the limited degrees of freedom in the system, finding a control that maximises the transfer probability in a short time is difficult, but in principle simplifies the implementation of the routing scheme. For practical implementation of such a scheme specific network structures and spin coupling strengths will have to be identified from measurements of actual devices to build a model suitable to find the necessary controls. For this we present an approach for discriminating between different network structures and learning model parameters.
Biography: Frank C Langbein is a lecturer in computer science at Cardiff University, leading the Quantum Technologies Group, and is a member of the Geometric Computing and Computer Vision research group. He is also a member of the Research Institute for Visual Computing where he is co-leading the sub-programme on vision-based geometric modelling and the interface with science. He received a diploma in mathematics from Stuttgart University in 1998 and a PhD from Cardiff University in 2003.
He is working on computational and geometric modelling, control, machine learning and visual computing with applications in quantum technologies, healthcare, mechanical and chemical engineering and spintronics.
Host: Prof. Edmond Jonckheere
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Compressive Sensing RF Signals with Photonic Systems
Tue, May 19, 2015 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. George Valley, Aerospace Corporation
Talk Title: Compressive Sensing RF Signals with Photonic Systems
Abstract: We and other researchers worldwide have now developed several photonics approaches for measuring the properties of sparse RF signals using compressive sensing. In this talk I will review the most promising of these approaches, compare them and talk about several special issues that arise in photonic compressive sensing. These issues include mixing matrix calibration, recovery of off-the-grid sinusoids, and reducing system complexity.
Biography: George C. Valley has an AB from Dartmouth College and a PhD from The University of Chicago, both in physics. He has worked at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratories, Hughes Aircraft Company, and is now Senior Scientist at The Aerospace Corporation. Past research work has focused on nonlinear optics, optical solitons, photorefractive materials, free-space laser communication and wave propagation in random media. Current research interests include photonic analog-to-digital converters, optical signal processing and compressive sensing.
Host: Urbashi Mitra, ubli@usc.edu, EEB 536, x04667
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
