Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Events for November
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series - Dr. Michael Green, UC-Irvine
Fri, Nov 07, 2008 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
"Novel CMOS Design Techniques for Multi-Gb/s Broadband Communication Circuits" - a talk by Dr. Michael Green, Professor, UC-Irvine
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
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DLS: The Parallel Revolution has Started: Are You Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem
Fri, Nov 07, 2008 @ 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract:This talk will explain
* Why the La-Z-Boy era of sequential programming is over
* The sorry record of prior commercial forays in parallelism
* The implications to the IT industry if the parallel revolution should fail
* The opportunities and pitfalls of this revolution
* What Berkeley is doing to be at the forefront of this revolutionBiography:David Andrew Patterson (born November 16, 1947) is an American computer pioneer and academic who has held the position of Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1977.A native of Evergreen Park, Illinois, David Patterson attended UCLA, receiving his A.B. in 1969, M.S. in 1970 and Ph.D. (advised by David F. Martin and Gerald Estrin) in 1976. He is one of the original innovators of the widely used Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) (in collaboration with Carlo H. Sequin), Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks (RAID) (in collaboration with Randy Katz), and Network of Workstations (NOW) (in collaboration with Eric Brewer and David Culler). Past chair of the Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley and the Computing Research Association, he served on the Information Technology Advisory Committee for the U.S. President (PITAC) during 2003-05 and was elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2004–06.He co-authored five books, including two with John L. Hennessy on computer architecture: Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (4 editions—latest is ISBN 0-12-370490-1) and Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface (3 editions—latest is ISBN 1-55860-604-1). They have been widely used as textbooks for graduate and undergraduate courses since 1990.His work has been recognized by about 30 awards for research, teaching, and service, including Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as well as by election to the National Academy of Engineering and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. In 2005 he and Hennessy shared Japan's Computer & Communication award and, in 2006, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and received the Distinguished Service Award from the Computing Research Association. In 2007 he was named a Fellow of the Computer History Museum and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and, in 2008, won the ACM Distinguished Service Award and the ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award.Lecture: SAL-101, 3:30PMReception: SAL Courtyard, 4:30PM
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - Auditorium (-101)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Nonlinear Light Matter Interactions in Slow Light Photonic Structures: Performance Metrics
Fri, Nov 14, 2008 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jacob B. Khurgin,
Johns Hopkins UniversityAbstract: Strong confinement of the electromagnetic field and reduction of the group velocity can be achieved in various Slow Light Structures can greatly enhance the strength of light matter interactions. These interactions include various nonlinear effects as well as spontaneous emission. Based on these well understood observations a number of devices based on slow light had been proposed, including all-optical and electro-optical modulators and switches, various sensors, and the devices for quantum communication and information processing.All these slow light devices inevitably rely upon existence of strong optical resonances, and the resonances are always accompanied by strong dispersion and significant loss. As a result, the bandwidth of SL devices becomes limited.In this presentation I will address the issue of trade off between the bandwidth and other important characteristics of SL devices – switching power, size, average power dissipation, noise floor, and others. I will show that different photonic schemes (for example single rather than coupled resonators) may be more applicable for different nonlinear effects. I will identify the most promising application niches for the nonlinear devices based on slow light.Biography: Jacob B. Khurgin had graduated with MS in Optics from the Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics in St Petersburg, Russia in 1979, where he was also born before that. In 1980 he had emigrated to US, and, to his own great surprise, immediately landed what then seemed to be a meaningful job with Philips Laboratories of NV Philips in Briarcliff Manor, NY. There for 8 years he worked with various degrees of success on miniature solid-state lasers, II-VI semiconductor lasers, various display and lighting fixtures, X-ray imaging, and small appliances such as electric shavers and coffeemakers (for which he has 3 patents). Simultaneously he was pursuing his graduate studies at Polytechnic Institute of NY, where he had received PhD in Electro-physics in Jan. 1987. In Jan. 1988, prompted by a promotion to a Department Manager, Khurgin's industrial career came to an abrupt end, and he had joined the Electrical Engineering department of Johns Hopkins University, where he had settled down and is currently a Professor. His research topics over the years included an eclectic mixture of optics of semiconductor nanostructures, nonlinear optical devices, optical communications, microwave photonics, and condensed matter physics. Currently he is working in the areas of laser cooling, phonon engineering for high frequency transistors, coherent optical communications, and slow light propagation. His publications include 2 book chapters, one book edited, 170+ papers in refereed journals and 8 patents. Prof. Khurgin is an OSA Fellow.Host: Alan Willner, willner@usc.edu, EEB 538, x04664Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Thinking Outside the Box: How to Survive Peer Pressure
Fri, Nov 21, 2008 @ 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
EE Students 'Practical Guide' Seminar Series
Seminar Leaders: Profs. Michael J. Neely and Viktor K. PrasannaHost: Prof. Todd Brun
Organizer: Prof. Alan Willner
Website: http://ee.usc.edu/news/practical-guide/* Pizza will be provided by the EE Department.*Abstract: Graduate students, particularly international students, face a number of challenges as they settle down. This seminar will offer informal discussion of many opportunities on campus as well as in our department for academic success and enrichment. It will also offer a perspective on "thinking outside the box" for research success. This involves understanding and identifying constraints that are useful (and those that are not), building up research confidence, and mastering old ideas while being open to developing and applying new ones.Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Applications of Feedback System EngineeringPrinciples to the Design of Brain-Machine Interfaces
Mon, Nov 24, 2008 @ 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Refreshments will be served 3-4 PM.ABSTRACT: Although it is well-known that every brain machine interface (BMI) depends critically on the use of feedback, many of the algorithms in place for designing (BMIs) do not completely exploit this implication. In this talk we discuss how novel exploitation of feedback delivered to the user can result in significant improved performance. Our approach comes from stochastic control, recursive estimation, and feedback information theory; it is independent of the specific neural sensing modality, the device to be controlled, and the specific neural delivery mechanism of feedback. In effect, we interpret the user and the prosthetic as engaging in a dialogue about user intent, and we consider feedback delivery strategies that not only give the user information about the state of the prosthetic, but also information about the interface's belief about user intent. We will discuss some EEG-based BMI applications and develop an approach that espouses principles from stochastic control and feedback information theory coding. We illustrate significant performance improvement and lowcomplexity implementation. Lastly, we conclude with a discussion of future directions we plan to pursue with this methodology. Joint Collaboration with Timothy Bretl (UIUC) and Ed Maclin (UIUC) BIO:Todd P. Coleman received the B.S. degrees in electrical engineering (summa cum laude), as well as computer engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2000, along with the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 2002, and 2005. During the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a postdoctoral scholar at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital in computational neuroscience. Since the fall of 2006, he has been on the faculty in the ECE Department and Neuroscience Program at UIUC. His research interests include information theory, operations research, and computational neuroscience. Dr. Coleman, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient, was awarded the University of Michigan College of Engineering's Hugh Rumler Senior Class Prize in 1999 and was awarded the MIT EECS Department's Morris J. Levin Award for Best Masterworks Oral Thesis Presentation in 2002. http://www.ifp.uiuc.edu/~colemant/index_files/bio.htm
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mary Francis
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Information Theoretic Approaches for Utilizing Packet Timings in Networks
Tue, Nov 25, 2008 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Todd P. Coleman
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAbstract: The use of network services and distributed applications is becoming more and more prevalent as time progresses. This motivates the desire to use advanced communication, control, and prediction strategies to enable these distributed applications - without perturbing the normal operation of networks. Recently, researchers and practitioners have begun espousing the use of the timing modality to afford new degrees of freedom. Here we discuss utilizing packet timings in networks in order to gather and convey information. We specifically speak to: (a) the development of sparse graph codes combined for communicating with packet timings across queuing timing channels that enables efficient reliable decoding at rates approaching fundamental limits, and (b) closed-form characterization of the rate-distortion function of a Poisson process with a queuing distortion measure. If time permits, we will show how the technique used in (b) enables a simple memoryless proof to the capacity of the celebrated "Bits through queues" channel model of Anantharam and Verdu and enables new converses to multiterminal timing channel information theoretic problems.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
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.
