Select a calendar:
Filter January Events by Event Type:
SUNMONTUEWEDTHUFRISAT
Events for January 29, 2010
-
Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Jan 29, 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 12:00 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
-
Sign Up for IEEEs Student Professional Awareness Conference (S-PAC)
Fri, Jan 29, 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
-
Graduate Seminar Unconventional Reservoir Simulation
Fri, Jan 29, 2010 @ 12:45 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
"Unconventional Reservoir Simulation"Professor Yu-Shu WuDepartment of Petroleum Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
Golden CO 80401 USAAbstract:
Unconventional hydrocarbon resources from low-permeability formation, i.e., tight sands and shales, are currently received great attention because of their potential to supply the entire world with sufficient energy for the decades to come. In the past few years, as a result of industry-wide R&D effort, progresses are being made towards commercial development of gas and oil from such unconventional resources. However, studies, understandings, and effective technologies needed for development of unconventional reservoirs are far behind the industry needs. Unconventional reservoir dynamics is characterized by highly nonlinear behavior of
multiphase flow in extremely low-permeability rock, coupled by many co-existing, processes, e.g., non-Darcy flow and rock-fluid interaction within tiny pores or microfractures. Quantitative characterization of unconventional reservoirs has been a significant scientific challenge currently. Because of complicated flow behavior, strong interaction between fluid and rock as well as multi-scaled heterogeneity, the traditional Darcy-law-and-REV-based model may not be applicable for describing flow phenomena in unconventional reservoirs. In this presentation, we will discuss a general mathematical model proposed for unconventional reservoir simulation. We will present a unified framework model to incorporate various nonlinear flow and transport processes using a multi-domain, multi-continuum concept to handle multi-scaled heterogeneity of unconventional formation. Specifically, we will use extended or modified Darcy law to include the following processes: (2) non-Newtonian behavior (i.e., threshold pressure gradient for flow to occur); (3) non-Darcy flow with inertial effects; (3) adsorption and other reaction effect; and (4) rock deformation. The proposed modeling methodology has been implemented into a general reservoir simulator and will be demonstrated for its application in analyzing well tests in fractured vuggy reservoirs, non-Darcy flow, and non-Newtonian flow in porous and fractured reservoirs.
Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce Sapir
-
W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; Engineers in the Legal Profession
Fri, Jan 29, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Robert A. Green, Partner at Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP, will present "Engineers in the Legal Profession" as part of the W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Admissions & Student Affairs
-
Advanced Nanoelectromechanical Devices and Systems
Fri, Jan 29, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract:
Nanoscale devices with mechanical degrees of freedom offer compelling characteristics that make them not only interesting tools for fundamental studies, but also intriguing candidates for technological applications. In particular, nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) vibrating in their resonant modes provide promising opportunities and advantages for developing novel sensors and transducers, in the previously inaccessible regimes. This seminar will describe my research interests, efforts, and thoughts in advanced NEMS engineering, with a central theme of how to innovate and advance today's primitive nanostructures into functional devices and integrated systems with high performance. I will first briefly overview the fundamentals of NEMS devices enabled by the state-of-the-art nanofabrication techniques (both top-down and bottom-up). I will then focus on two specific technological thrusts. One is to demonstrate that engineering of NEMS resonators and signal transduction, in very-high and ultra-high frequency (VHF/UHF) ranges, has enabled single-biomolecule sensing in real time, and the prototyping of NEMS-based mass spectrometry for future proteomics. Second is to show novel, high-performance silicon nanowire NEMS based on a hybrid top-down/bottom-up technique. This new device technology has opened up the opportunities for monolithic integration at large scale; and has led to self-sensing nanowire NEMS gas analyzers that are now being manufactured using industrial SOI technology. Next, I shall briefly introduce and highlight some latest milestones such as the nascent radio-frequency (RF) NEMS for frequency control and timing, NEMS based logic devices, and their very-large-scale integration (VLSI). Finally, I will discuss the tremendous opportunities created by such explorations that transcend boundaries of traditional disciplines. I will show my perspective on future fundamental and technological research, and possibilities for novel devices in emerging applications. Biography:
Philip Feng is a staff scientist at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), affiliated with the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, where he has also been serving as a co-principal investigator since 2008. He obtained his Ph.D. from Caltech in 2007 for developing ultra-high-frequency nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) with low-noise technologies. He has since been leading a small team of engineers and applied physicists to advance NEMS and other device-related technologies for sensing, signal processing and computing. He has been privileged to deliver invited lectures at several peer-reviewed international conferences. He has served on IEEE frequency control technical committee and also served as a frequent reviewer for more than fifteen high-impact multidisciplinary and IEEE journals.Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hazel Xavier
-
AIAA Undergraduate Design Team Meeting
Fri, Jan 29, 2010 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come join the AIAA Undergraduate Aircraft Design Team! Questions? Email aiaa@usc.edu
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: -- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
-
Crosscorrelation of $m$-sequences and related topics
Fri, Jan 29, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Tor Helleseth,
University of BergenAbstract: Sequences with good correlation properties are important in many communication systems, for example in Code-Division Multiple-Access systems(CDMA). Many sequence families in practical use involve maximal-length (or $m$)-sequences as part of their construction. Therefore the crosscorrelation of $m$-sequences has been a classical and ongoing research problem for more than 40 years.In this talk an updated overview of the crosscorrelation of $m$-sequences will be given. The status of what is presently known including recent results involving exponential sums and Dickson polynomials will be presented. Open problems and several conjectures will also be pointed out. Several of the problems have also been considered and significantly inspired by researchers from USC during several decades.Biography: Tor Helleseth received the Cand. Real. and Dr. Philos. degrees in mathematics from the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, in 1971 and 1979, respectively. From 1973 to 1980 he was a Research Assistant at the Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen. From 1981 to 1984 he was at the Chief Headquarters of Defense in Norway. Since 1984 he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics at the University
of Bergen.During the academic years 1977-1978 and 1992-1993 he was on sabbatical leave at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and during 1979-1980 he was a Research fellow at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. His research interests include coding theory, cryptology and discrete mathematics. He has published more than 100 journal papers including more than 70 in the IEEE Transactions in Information Theory.From 1991 to 1993 he served as an Associate Editor for Coding Theory for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He is on the editorial board of Designs, Codes and Cryptography and Cryptography and Communications: Discrete Structures, Boolean Functions and Sequences. He was Program Chairman for Eurocrypt'93 and for the IEEE Information Theory Workshop in 1997 in Longyearbyen, Norway. He was a Program Co-Chairman for SETA04 in Seoul and SETA06 in Beijing. He was also a Program Co-Chairman for the IEEE Information Theory Workshop in Solstrand, Norway in 2007. He was serving on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Information Theory Society 2007-2009. In 1997 he was elected an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to coding theory and cryptography. In 2004 he was elected member of Norsk Videnskaps-Akademi.Host: Gerhard Kramer, gkramer@usc.edu, EEB 536, x07229
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
-
Disorder-immune slow light with topological electromagnetic modes
Fri, Jan 29, 2010 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University Calendar
Speaker: Dr. Zheng Wang, MITAbstract: Chiral edge states were discovered around 30 years ago in quantum Hall effects in 2D electron gas. They are the underlying mechanism that supports dissipationless transport of electrons in quantum Hall systems and quantum spin Hall systems. Although they were only observed in fermionic systems, such as electrons in graphene, our work experimentally demonstrates, for the first time, that chiral edge states also exist for photonic systems.Light can be confined and routed using structures known as waveguides. The slimmest waveguides, known as "single-mode waveguides", allow light to propagate only in one spatial configuration either in forward or backward direction. Using photonic chiral edge states, we can force light to propagate only in one spatial configuration and only in one direction, essentially creating "half-mode waveguides".When the possibility of traveling backwards is eliminated, light exhibits fascinating and unparalleled properties. For instance, scattering can be completely suppressed, even in the presence of very large disorder. With a waveguide highly tolerant to large imperfection, a wide range of practical applications from electromagnetic isolation, to slow light and optical buffering may benefit.Biography: Dr. Zheng Wang is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 2006.
Location: Frank R. Seaver Science Center (SSC) - 319
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Michelle Povinelli
