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The USC Smart Energy Summit
Fri, Jan 27, 2012 @ 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Workshops & Infosessions
The USC Smart Energy Summit
8:30 am â Friday, January 27, 2012
ACB 238 (second floor West Wing of Ahmanson Center)
Location information at the following websites:
http://dornsife.usc.edu/distance-learning-studio-classrooms/
http://web-app.usc.edu/maps/
The Smart Energy Summit is aimed at developing an understanding of future possible research directions and opportunities. The presentations will be video recorded. Slides presented will also be made available and incorporated into a workshop proceedings document.
8:30am Coffee
8:50am Welcome and remarks from Dean of Engineering, Dean Yortsos
9:00am Rich Carlin (ONR), Fuel Cells: Thermodynamic Engine to a Sustainable Energy Future
9:30am John Luginsland (AFOSR), The AFOSR Perspective and Combustion
10:00am Khalil Amine (ANL), Advanced High Energy and High Power Battery Systems for Automotive Application
10:30am Coffee break
11:00am Bedros Afeyen (Polymath Research Inc.), Controlling Plasma Instabilities: A Multidisciplinary Approach
11:30am Keith Bradley (ANL), Nuclear Energy: Now What?
12:00pm Roger Ghanem (USC), Challenges and Opportunities in being Predictive for Complex Interacting Systems
12:30pm Lunch (sandwiches and salads provided)
1:30pm Habib N. Najm (Sandia NL), Analysis and Reduction of Power Grid Models under Uncertainty
2:00pm Zhifeng Ren (Boston College), Electron and Phonon Engineering in Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials
2:30pm Mike Campbell (Logos Technology), Perspectives and Opportunities for Renewable Energy and National Security
3:00pm Coffee break
3:30pm Commercial opportunities
4:00pm Discussion
5:00pm Wrap-up
5:30pm Dinner at Moreton Fig, USC
http://www.usc.edu/dept/engineering/eleceng/Adv_Network_Tech/Html/SmartEnergySummit.htmlMore Information: Smart Energy Summit with Abstracts and Bios.pdf
Location: Ahmanson Center (ACB) - 238
WebCast Link: http://dornsife.usc.edu/distance-learning-studio-classrooms
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
Event Link: http://dornsife.usc.edu/distance-learning-studio-classrooms
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AME Department Seminar
Fri, Jan 27, 2012 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Panos Papadopoulos, Professor. Department of Mechanical Engineering. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1740.
Talk Title: Multiscale Modeling of Phase Transition in Superelastic Nitinol Polycrystals
Abstract: Nitinol is a Ni-Ti alloy used widely in biomedical devices, such as endovascular stents, angioplasty guidewires, vena-cava filters, etc. One of the major attractions of Nitinol as a biomedical material is its superelastic behavior. This is due to a stress-induced solid- solid phase transformation which accommodates large deformations that may be completely reversed upon removal of the stress. Most constitutive models of phase transformation in superelastic Nitinol account for the austenite-martensite transformation only, and disregard the formation of an intermediate rhombohedral phase (R-phase). However, the presence of R-phase influences the formation of martensitic variants, thus rendering the transformation process path-dependent. In this seminar, a path-dependent micromechanics-based model that incorporates all possible transformations is presented first for the stress-induced phase transformation of Nitinol single crystals. This is subsequently extended to a multiscale thermomechanical model which accounts for the presence of polycrystalline texture. An efficient numerical strategy for solving the resulting constitutive equations is also proposed within a finite element setting.
Host: Prof. Geoff Spedding
More Info: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcomingLocation: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming
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The USC Smart Energy Summit
Fri, Jan 27, 2012 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Workshops & Infosessions
The USC Smart Energy Summit
8:30 am â Friday, January 27, 2012
ACB 238 (second floor West Wing of Ahmanson Center)
Location information at the following websites:
http://dornsife.usc.edu/distance-learning-studio-classrooms/
http://web-app.usc.edu/maps/
The Smart Energy Summit is aimed at developing an understanding of future possible research directions and opportunities. The presentations will be video recorded. Slides presented will also be made available and incorporated into a workshop proceedings document.
8:30am Coffee
8:50am Welcome and remarks from Dean of Engineering, Dean Yortsos
9:00am Rich Carlin (ONR), Fuel Cells: Thermodynamic Engine to a Sustainable Energy Future
9:30am John Luginsland (AFOSR), The AFOSR Perspective and Combustion
10:00am Khalil Amine (ANL), Advanced High Energy and High Power Battery Systems for Automotive Application
10:30am Coffee break
11:00am Bedros Afeyen (Polymath Research Inc.), Controlling Plasma Instabilities: A Multidisciplinary Approach
11:30am Keith Bradley (ANL), Nuclear Energy: Now What?
12:00pm Roger Ghanem (USC), Challenges and Opportunities in being Predictive for Complex Interacting Systems
12:30pm Lunch (sandwiches and salads provided)
1:30pm Habib N. Najm (Sandia NL), Analysis and Reduction of Power Grid Models under Uncertainty
2:00pm Zhifeng Ren (Boston College), Electron and Phonon Engineering in Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials
2:30pm Mike Campbell (Logos Technology), Perspectives and Opportunities for Renewable Energy and National Security
3:00pm Coffee break
3:30pm Commercial opportunities
4:00pm Discussion
5:00pm Wrap-up
5:30pm Dinner at Moreton Fig, USC
More Information: Smart Energy Summit with Abstracts and Bios.pdf
Location: 238
WebCast Link: http://dornsife.usc.edu/distance-learning-stucio-classrooms
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
Event Link: http://dornsife.usc.edu/distance-learning-stucio-classrooms
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USC PSOC Monthly Seminar Series
Fri, Jan 27, 2012 @ 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Denis Wirtz, Ph.D., Theophilus H. Smoot Professor, Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Oncology, John Hopkins University
Talk Title: Cancer Cell Migration in 3D
Abstract: Two-dimensional (2D) in vitro culture systems have for a number of years provided a controlled and versatile environment for the study of cell adhesion and migration, two interrelated cell functions critical to cancer metastasis. However, the organization and functions of focal adhesion proteins in cells embedded in physiologically more relevant 3D matrices is qualitatively and functionally different from their organization and functions on conventional 2D planar substrates. In a 3D, cross-linked, fibrillar collagen matrix, cell migration and protrusion activity are still regulated by focal adhesion proteins, such as p130Cas, FAK, Zyxin, Vinculin, Talin, and VASP, but differently from the 2D case. This talk will describe the implications of the dependence of focal adhesion protein-based cellular functions on microenvironmental dimensionality in cancer. We will discuss the implications of this work in cancer metastasis.
Biography: About the USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center Monthly Seminar Series
USC was selected to establish a $16 million cancer research center as part of a new strategy against the disease by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and its National Cancer Institute. The new center is one of 12 in the nation to receive the designation. During the five-year initiative, the Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers will take new, nontraditional approaches to cancer research by studying the physical laws and principles of cancer; evolution and the evolutionary theory of cancer; information coding, decoding, transfer and translation in cancer; and ways to de-convolute cancerâs complexity. As part of the outreach component of this grant, the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine is hosting a monthly seminar series.
Host: Center for Applied Molecular Medicine
Location: Clinical Science Center (CSC) - Harkness Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kristina Gerber
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; MRI and Health
Fri, Jan 27, 2012 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Krishna Nayak, Associate Professor, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
Talk Title: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; MRI and Health
Abstract: Dr. Krishna Nayak, Associate Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC, will present "MRI and Health" as part of the W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium.
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
More Info: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/honors/schedules/Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Amanda Atkinson
Event Link: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/honors/schedules/
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Probing "inside" quantum collapse with solid-state qubits”
Fri, Jan 27, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Alexander N. Korotkov, University of California, Riverside
Talk Title: Probing "inside" quantum collapse with solid-state qubitsâ
Abstract: We discuss what is "inside" the quantum state collapse due to measurement, and what happens if the collapse is stopped half-way. For particular setups with solid-state qubits the answer is rather simple: the qubit state changes in accordance with gradually acquired information, without loss of its purity (no decoherence). The simple theory of such measurement leads to a number of experimentally testable predictions. So far three such experiments have been realized with superconducting qubits: partial collapse, uncollapse (measurement reversal), and
persistent Rabi oscillations. These effects can be potentially useful, for example for quantum feedback and decoherence suppression.
Biography: Alexander N. Korotkov received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1991 from Moscow State University (adviser: Konstantin K. Likharev). After that he worked at Moscow State University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he also held visiting
positions at Université de la Méditerranée (Marseille, France), and at NEC Fundamental Research Lab (Tsukuba, Japan). In 2000 Alexander Korotkov joined the faculty of the University of California, Riverside, where he is a Professor of Electrical
Engineering since 2006. Research interests of Alexander Korotkov include quantum computing, quantum measurements, quantum feedback control, and nanoelectronics. He has authored 105 journal papers and 37 proceedings/book chapters, which have
over 3,000 citations (h-index of 31).
Host: Todd Brun, x0-3503
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Jan 27, 2012 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Pavan Kumar Hanumolu, Oregon State University
Talk Title: Synthesizing Accurate Clocks with Inaccurate Components
Host: Hossein Hashemi
More Information: Seminar_Speaker_kumar_2012_1_27.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
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Global Game Jam with MEGA
Fri, Jan 27, 2012 @ 05:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
The world's largest game jam is coming!
Wanna make a game in 48 hours?
The Global Game Jam happens at the end of January.
Every year.
Everywhere.
In LA, it happens here:
January 27 - 29 (Fri - Sun)
Starting location: SCA (tentative)
Opening keynote: Fri @ 5
More info at: http://globalgamejam.org/
Register now: https://sites.google.com/site/megausc/News/the2012globalgamejamapproaches
If you want to prep/find a team, come to:
Global Game Jam Prep with MEGA
SCA 203
Fri Jan 20
5pm
See you there,Location: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC MEGA
