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Events for January 29, 2009

• Jan

  29

  How to Find a Job in a Recession

  Thu, Jan 29, 2009 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

  Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections

  Workshops & Infosessions

  
  

  Worried about finding a job or internship in this economy? Come learn about job search strategies that work during slow economic periods. Viterbi Career Services will present general tips and specific best practices for engineering students. We hope to see you there!
  

  Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services

  

• Jan

  29

  Computational analysis of droplet- and particle-laden, turbulent and separated high-speed flows

  Thu, Jan 29, 2009 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

  Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  Gustaaf B. JacobsDepartment of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering MechanicsSan Diego State UniversityThe optimization of fuel droplet/particle and fuel-air mixing improves performance of scramjets and pulse detonation engines and reduces environmental pollution. Understanding the impact of debris in explosions can save lives. The flows in dust explosions and in high-speed combustors are characterized by the intricate interaction between droplets, particles, separated shear layers, turbulence and/or shocks. The tremendous complexity of this interaction has left many questions unanswered. I will discuss our efforts to computationally analyze the droplet- and particle-laden flows. I will first discuss high-fidelity Eulerian-Lagrangian computational methods that model the gas flow equations in the Eulerian frame with high-order methods, while particles are traced along there path in the Lagrangian frame. I will discuss high-order coupling between the two frames and illustrate the performance of the method. I will secondly discuss flow separation, compressibility effects and the droplet dispersion of flows with relevance to the high-speed separated flows in simplified combustor geometries.
  

  Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 252

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: April Mundy

  

• Jan

  29

  Biometric Recognition: How Do I Know Who You Are

  Thu, Jan 29, 2009 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

  Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Workshops & Infosessions

  
  

  SPEAKER: Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, http://biometrics.cse.msu.ABSTRACT:
  Should Alice be allowed to enter the country? Is Bob entitled to access the database? Has John been convicted before? Is Charlie the real owner of the credit card? Every day, a variety of organizations pose questions such as these about the identity of individuals. An emerging identification technology that is being increasingly adopted to identify individuals is biometric recognition - automatic person recognition based on anatomical or behavioral characteristics such as fingerprint, face, iris and voice. Biometrics allows us to confirm or establish a person's identity based on who he is, rather than by what he possesses (e.g., ID card) or what he remembers (e.g., password). It is, therefore, not surprising to see biometrics permeating our society (laptops, mobile phones, border crossings, national ID cards and even Disney parks). Biometrics is not a new idea. Pioneering work by Faulds, Galton and Henry over 100 years ago established that each print of a finger exhibits a unique pattern that persists over time. This set the stage for the development of automatic fingerprint identification systems (AFIS) that are now used by almost every law enforcement organization worldwide. The success of fingerprints in law enforcement coupled with growing concerns related to homeland security, financial fraud and identity theft has generated a renewed interest in biometrics. This talk will present an overview of biometric recognition, emerging applications and our ongoing research on (i) fingerprint and palmprint matching, (ii) fingerprint individuality, (iii) face recognition and (iv) matching and retrieval of scars, marks and tattoo (SMT) images. BIO: Anil Jain is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Michigan State University. His research interests include pattern recognition, computer vision and biometric recognition. He received K.S. Fu Prize and Guggenheim, Humboldt, Fulbright, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement and IEEE Wallace-McDowell awards. He is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE and served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Holder of six patents in the area of fingerprints, he is the co-author of a number of books, including Handbook of Biometrics (2007), Handbook of Multibiometrics (2006), Handbook of Face Recognition (2005), Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition (2003) and Algorithms for Clustering Data (1988). He served on The National Academies committees on Whither Biometrics and Improvised Explosive Devices and has been nominated to the Defense Science Board.HOSTS: Keith Jenkins and C.-C. Jay Kuo

  Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Mayumi Thrasher

  

• Jan

  29

  What should we learn from 25 years of the Internet: A DNS case study (CS Distinguished Lecture)

  Thu, Jan 29, 2009 @ 04:00 PM

  Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  Speaker: Dr. Paul Mockapetris, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Nominum Inc.
  Host: Prof. Ramesh GovindanAbstract:
  There are several "definitive" Internet histories, and there will be more. While there are many reasons to study history, this talk concentrates solely on finding lessons that will have value looking forward, and uses several examples from naming and DNS as its case study. While many argue that a clean slate is the best way forward, we beg to differ. We begin by looking at the general problem of extracting useful ideas from Internet history.The DNS case study has three foci. The first is the long and flexible "food chain" that comprises today's DNS industry and dataflow. The second is the roots and implications of securing the DNS infrastructure. Lastly we look at what it will take to vastly expand the role of naming in the Internet, either by DNS evolution or replacement.
  

  Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: CS Colloquia

  

• Jan

  29

  Conversations with Alumnae

  Thu, Jan 29, 2009 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM

  Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs

  Workshops & Infosessions

  
  

  Hosted by AOE, SWE, & WIECome join us for a panel discussion with USC Female Engineering Graduates on Engineering Careers after graduation.Food will be provided after the panel discussion.January 29th, 2009
  7-9pm, Performance Café
  Arts and Humanities Residential CollegeBusiness Casual Attire RequiredSpace is limited! RSVP at viterbi.wie@usc.edu

  Location: Performance Cafe, Arts and Humanities Residential College

  Audiences: Undergrad

  Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs