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Events for January 27, 2010
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Jan 27, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
University Calendar
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Admission Intern
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Sign Up for IEEEs Student Professional Awareness Conference (S-PAC)
Wed, Jan 27, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join IEEE at USC and industry representatives for an evening of dining, networking, and story-telling! S-PAC is IEEE's biggest annual networking event with the industry, where students get the opportunity to hear professional speakers from IEEE speak about how to be successful in the industry after graduation and network with industry representatives for fulltime/internship opportunities. This year's S-PAC will take place on Friday, Feb. 12th from 5-9PM at the Radisson Hotel near USC. Participating companies include Abbott Medical Optics, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Sandia National Labs and more... S-PAC is a FREE event for Viterbi students. Spaces are limited! Please sign up online by Friday, Feb. 5th and turn in your refundable $25 deposit checks to RTH 110 by 5 PM on Wednesday, Feb. 10th once you receive a confirmation email. For more information, please visit www-scf.usc.edu/~ieee or email us at ieee@usc.edu.
Location: Radisson Hotel Ballroom (540 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engin
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Wireless Network Coding Algorithms
Wed, Jan 27, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Christina Fragouli,
School of Computer and Communication Sciences,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), SwitzerlandAbstract: The paradigm of network coding allows intermediate nodes in a network to not only forward but also linearly combine their incoming information flows. This modern application of coding to the theory and practice of communication networks raises novel and exciting research problems, and is beginning to have an impact in diverse areas of network engineering that include multicasting, network monitoring, reliable delivery, resource sharing, efficient flow control and security.However, one of the main challenges is to enable network coding functionalities with implementable computational complexity. This aspect becomes particularly important in wireless networks where network coding can have a significant practical impact. We illustrate through two examples how algorithmic and combinatorial tools can be applied to make progress on this challenging question.We introduce the framework of vector network coding, which is applicable not only to graphs but also to deterministic models for wireless communications. We give the first polynomial time algorithms for unicast and multicast communication in such networks. Our unicast algorithm can be interpreted as an extension of the classical Ford-Fulkerson algorithm to deterministic networks. The framework of vector network coding generalizes the traditional scalar network coding, and thus offers a larger space of choices for optimizing cost parameters, such as the communication block length.Wireless sensor networks, require not only low-complexity operation, but also energy-efficient communication. There is a significant class of sensor-network applications, where the identities of the reporting sensors constitute the bulk of the communicated information, whereas the message itself can be as small as a single bit. We term this as identity-aware sensor networking, and re-examine the traditional message-identity separation, for such networks. We demonstrate that there can be a significant advantage (in terms of energy efficiency) to jointly encoding the messages and identity, instead of keeping them separate. We develop subspace coding methods that exploit this idea and give provable performance guarantees. We also translate our designs to networking protocols, and deploy them on a Tiny-OS sensor network testbed.Biography: Christina Fragouli is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland. She received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1996, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1998 and 2000, respectively. She has worked at the Information Sciences Center, AT&T Labs, Florham Park New Jersey, and the National University of Athens. She also visited Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and DIMACS, Rutgers University. From 2006 to 2007, she was an FNS Assistant Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland.Her research interests are in network information flow theory and algorithms, network coding, wireless sensor networks, and connections between communications, networking and computer science. She received the Fulbright Fellowship for her graduate studies, the Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award 2000-2001, UCLA, Electrical Engineering Department, the Zonta award 2008 in Switzerland, and the Young Investigator ERC grant award in 2009. She served as an editor for IEEE Communications Letters, and is currently serving as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications and Elsevier Computer Communications. Host: Giuseppe Caire, caire@usc.edu, EEB 528, x04683
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Get Connected
Wed, Jan 27, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Interested in getting more involved in Viterbi? KIUEL is hosting an involvement fair specifically tailored to Viterbi students. Learn how you can get involved with engineering student organizations, research, Freshmen Academies, and several other activities! To learn more about KIUEL and Get Connected, visit www.viterbi.usc.edu/kiuel
Location: Bloom Walk
Audiences: Undergraduate
Contact: KIUEL
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Samoan Tsunami: Observations on Coastal Resilience
Wed, Jan 27, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Lesley Ewing
Sr. Civil Engineer, California Coastal CommissionAs a leader in the civil engineering community on disaster and response, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has sent engineering teams into the field following major events, such as the attack on the World Trade Center, Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Ike, and the Indian Ocean tsunami. In response to the 29 September 2009 Samoan Region Tsunami ASCE sent a small volunteer team of engineers to American Samoa and Samoa with the purpose of investigating the performance of coastal engineering structures, natural coastal systems, infrastructure and buildings. The ASCE team collaborated with a team of researchers from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and several Samoan engineers. A report of the field investigation and a technical note on structural performance are in preparation. Lesley Ewing, ASCE Team Leader, will present some of the initial observations from the Field Investigation concerning tsunami response, coastal change, structural response, lessons learned, what worked and what did not work.Lesley Ewing has worked as the California Coastal Commission's Civil Engineer for over 20 years during which time she has focused primarily on coastal issues, investigating shoreline change, and wave and storm damage along California's 1,067 miles of coast. Her work responsibilities include technical review of shoreline armoring projects, beach protection and restoration and new development along the coast. Her first Commission project was to report on the possible consequences from rising sea level to the California Coast and this has remained an important aspect throughout her current career. Prior to the CA Coastal Commission, she worked for the Rural Electrification Administration, Energy and Environmental Analysis, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and R.W. Beck and Associates.She is on the Senior Advisory Group for both California Ocean Observing Systems, technical advisor for USC's Sea Grant Program, technical reviewer for ASCE's International Conference on Coastal Engineering, past president and current director of California Shore & Beach Preservation Association, Director of the Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute of the ASCE, and has been on the organizing committee of several international coastal conferences, most recently ASCE's Solutions to Coastal Disasters. She is the recipient of the ASBPA Morrough P. O'Brien Award and the Coastal Zone Foundation's Coastal Zone Management Award.Ms. Ewing received a Sc.B. in civil engineering from Brown University, a M.R.P. in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and M. Eng. in Coastal Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a licensed engineer in California and Virginia.
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Special Lecture with JPLs Dr. Marc Rayman
Wed, Jan 27, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Now Flying Through a Solar System Near You: NASA's Dawn Mission to the Asteroid BeltThe ambitious and exciting Dawn mission, launched in September 2007, is NASA's latest venture into the solar system. The spacecraft will orbit both Ceres and Vesta, which are among the last unexplored worlds in the inner solar system. They are the two largest residents of the asteroid belt, that vast collection of bodies between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres is so large that it is included in the category of dwarf planets, along with Pluto. The alien landscapes Dawn will reveal should provide humankind with a new perspective on the solar system. Remnants from the time that planets were formed, Ceres and Vesta hold clues that will help scientists investigate the dawn of the solar system.Dawn will be the first spacecraft ever to orbit an object in the asteroid belt and the first ever to orbit two targets. Such a mission would be impossible without the use of ion propulsion, a technology that has mostly been in the domain of science fiction, but which was tested extensively on the Deep Space 1 mission, paving the way for Dawn. Dr. Marc Rayman will describe the Dawn mission and its use of ion propulsion as well as its two exotic destinations. He also will share the excitement of controlling a spacecraft in deep space.
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: -- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Engineers Without Borders General Meeting
Wed, Jan 27, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
This will be EWB-USC's first general meeting of the semester! Come join us and find out what EWB is all about. Also, t-shirts will be sold at this meeting or $15 and the general election for next years board will take place. This is not a meeting to be missed!
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Engineers Without Borders
