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Events for January 31, 2011
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Safety Management for Aviation Maintenance (MAINT)
Mon, Jan 31, 2011 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course provides supervisors with aviation safety principles and practices needed to manage the problems associated with aircraft maintenance operations.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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Viterbi Ball Ticket Sales
Mon, Jan 31, 2011 @ 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come buy your tickets for Viterbi Ball! $25 each, checks made out to USC or cash accepted.
Visit the Facebook event for more info: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170374009672457
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: VSC
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Software Defined Radio, Cognitive Radio, Cognitive Networks: Current Research Efforts and Future Trends
Mon, Jan 31, 2011 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Lizdabel Morales-Tirado, Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Talk Title: Software Defined Radio, Cognitive Radio, Cognitive Networks: Current Research Efforts and Future Trends
Abstract: Wireless networks have been well studied and optimized with traditional radio resource management techniques, but still there is room for improvement. Cognitive radio technology can bring significant network improvements by providing awareness to the surrounding radio environment, exploiting previous network knowledge and optimizing the use of resources using machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques. Cognitive radio can also co-exist with legacy equipment thus acting as a bridge among heterogeneous communication systems. In this seminar, an introduction to the concepts of software defined radio, cognitive radio and cognitive networks is presented. An approach for applying cognition in wireless networks is described. Current research efforts in the area and future trends in the area are discussed.
Biography: Dr. Lizdabel Morales‐Tirado received her Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus in 1996. She received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1998 and her Doctor in Philosophy in Electrical Engineering in the January 2010 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (UPRM) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She teaches courses in communications, and is conducting research in the areas of wireless communications, cognitive radio and cognitive networks. Her newly formed research group, the Intelligent Wireless and Networked Communications Laboratory (iWiNC), currently is composed of one graduate student and eleven undergraduate students.
Dr. Morales is a GEM Fellow, a Virginia Space Grant Consortium Fellow and a John Lee Pratt Fellow. She is also co‐founder of Divergent Engineering Inc., an engineering consulting company in Puerto Rico. Prior to attending Virginia Tech, Dr. Morales was an instructor at the Interamerican University in San Germán, Puerto Rico. She also worked as a Systems Engineer for Lucent Technologies from 1999 to 2001; and at Motorola's iDEN group from 1995 until 1999.
Host: Professor Timothy M. Pinkston
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Jan 31, 2011 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. George Truskey, Duke University
Talk Title: Engineering Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Vascular Repair
Series: Invited Chair Series
Abstract: Endothelial progenitor cells can be obtained from cord blood, adult blood or bone marrow and serve as a potential source of vascular endothelium for a variety of therapeutic applications. Our own work has focused upon using late outgrowth endothelial progenitor cells for a variety of applications including seeding vascular devices, preparing, tissue engineered blood vessels and repair of endothelial injury. The focus of this talk is upon the use of human endothelial cells derived from late outgrowth cord bold (hCB-ECs) to accelerate vein graft re-endothelialization, and reduce vein graft atherosclerosis.
As a principal cause of vein graft failure, endothelial injury complicates ~500,000 vein graft procedures performed annually in the US to treat atherosclerosis. Over-distension of the vein graft by arterial pressure leads to endothelial injury, which exposes the extracellular matrix to circulating blood and promotes vein graft thrombosis. Neointimal hyperplasia subsequently predisposes vein grafts to accelerated atherosclerosis, and late vein graft failure. The hCB-ECs function similarly to vascular endothelium. The hCB-ECs demonstrate smaller size, superior adhesive properties and higher 51 integrin expression levels compared with EC adhesion to SMC/extracellular matrix is significantly greater under flow conditions with hCB-ECs than with ECs derived from adult human peripheral blood EPCs. When administered intravenously, hCB-ECs enhanced vein graft re-endothelialization, and prevented thrombosis in carotid interposition vein grafts implanted in SCID mice. To better understand the adhesion process, we examined adhesion of hCB-ECs as a function of shear stress in vitro. The number of adherent cells varied with shear stress, with the maximum number of adherent cells and the shear stress at maximum adhesion depending upon fluid viscosity. A dimensional analysis indicated that adhesion was a function of the net force on the cells, the ratio of cell diffusion to sliding speed and molecular diffusivity. This work suggests that delivery conditions can be developed to maximize adhesion of EPCs for repair of damaged arteries.
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering, USC
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Progressive Degree Program Info Session
Mon, Jan 31, 2011 @ 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
The Progressive Degree Program (PDP) gives continuing USC undergraduates another path to earning a Masterâs degree from USC. The main advantages to a Progressive Degree are: 1) the option to start graduate-level classes during the senior year, and 2) a reduction in units required for the Masterâs Degree.
Juniors and transfer students are encouraged to attend this information session if they are interested in applying for the Progressive Degree.
More information about PDP can be accessed at: http://viterbi.usc.edu/pdpLocation: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Joseph King
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Dancing the Poem
Mon, Jan 31, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Join us for a choreographed collaboration between poetry and danceâtwo languages of aesthetic revelation. The Get Lit Playersâteen poets from Los Angelesâand USC dancers led by USC dance director Margo Apostolos will enact and dance both traditional and spoken-word poems. Poems by contemporary poets, including Joy Harjo, Robert Pinsky and others, will be read aloud by California poet laureate Carol Muske-Dukes, then interpreted by the Get Lit Players and danced in a variety of styles, including jazz, tap, modern and hip hop. The event will demonstrate the creative relationship between dance and language. A great poem may dance on the page; this event will translate that choreography of our imaginations into reality. The performance will be followed by a discussion.
Margo Apostolos is the director of dance and an associate professor in the USC School of Theatre. She has authored and presented numerous articles on her research and design in robot choreography. A recipient of the prestigious NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty fellowship, Apostolos worked for NASA at Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech as a research scientist in the area of space telerobotics.
Carol Muske-Dukes is a USC professor of English and creative writing, founding director of USCâs PhD program in creative writing and literature and creator of the Magic Poetry Busâher project as California poet laureate. She is the author of seven books of poems (including Sparrow, a National Book Award finalist), four novels and two collections of essays. She has received numerous awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the Library of Congress Award.
The Get Lit Players is an award-winning teen poetry troupe composed of high-school students from throughout Los Angeles. The troupe travels the nation inspiring thousands of their peers to read through their explosive live performances. Their work has been featured on HBO and in the Los Angeles Times and has been embraced by two poet laureates, Russell Simmons, the California Arts Council, and educators and students throughout the nation.
Organized by Margo Apostolos (Dance) and Carol Muske-Dukes (English).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Grand Ballroom, Section A
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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AIChE Resume Workshop w/Leland Char
Mon, Jan 31, 2011 @ 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Location: Elaine & Kenneth Leventhal School Of Accounting (ACC) - 303
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC American Institute of Chemical Engineers
