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Events for February 01, 2008
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Final Deadline for Transfer Admission
Fri, Feb 01, 2008
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
University Calendar
February 1, 2008 is the deadline for admission and scholarship consideration for transfer students. Engineering applicants must submit the USC Part II Undergraduate Application for Admission on or before February 1st. Engineering applicants are also advised to complete the Viterbi Supplemental Transfer Application at http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission.
Audiences: Prospective Undergraduate Transfer Students
Contact: Admission & Student Affairs Division
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Meet USC
Fri, Feb 01, 2008
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
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.This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 12:00 p.m. Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/events/meet_usc/ 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: Viterbi Admission
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Corporate Tours - BAE Systems
Fri, Feb 01, 2008 @ 10:00 AM - 01:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
The tour will include: Company overview, Demos of products regarding homeland security, Demos of Disaster relief (Hurricane Katrina and the San Diego/CA fires), and current research work. RSVP to shpe@usc.edu by Tuesday, January 22nd. Please include: Name, Citizenship or permanent residency (will require proof of ID), and if you would like to join the carpool. Drivers will be reimbursed for travel expenses.
Location: BAE Systems - San Diego, CA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: SHPE
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Oblivious Cooperation of Wireless Colocated Transmitters
Fri, Feb 01, 2008 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Professor Shlomo Shamai, Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyABSTRACT: We consider a scenario where a source sends information to a remote destination and where a relay terminal is occasionally present in close proximity to the source, but without the source's awareness. We assume slow fading (block fading) independent channels between the source and the occasional relay to destination, while the channel between the source to the relay is assumed to be additive Gaussian, due to their relatively close proximity. The focus is on oblivious cooperative schemes which make efficient use of the relay when it is present, and still maintain single user optimality when the relay is absent. One such scheme is shown to be Block Markov decode-and-forward which involves correlated transmissions of the source and the relay. The optimal correlation for this scheme is found by solving the optimal outage performance of a 2 X 1 multiple-input single-output (MISO) link under individual power constraints and a correlation constraint. Finally, quantization schemes based on various levels of side information are also discussed.Joint work with Michael Katz, EE Department, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel.BIO: Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) is now the William Fondiller Professor of Telecommunications at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion---Israel Institute of Technology. His research interests encompasses a wide spectrum of topics in information theory and statistical communications.Dr. Shamai (Shitz) is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the Union Radio Scientifiqu e Internationale (URSI). He is the recipient of the 1999 van der Pol Gold Medal of URSI, and a co-recipient of the 2000 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, the 2003, and the 2004 joint IT/COM societies paper award, and the 2007 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award. He is also the recipient of the 2000 Technion Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research. He has served as Associate Editor for the Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory}, and also serves on the Board of Governors of the Information Theory Society.HOST: Prof. Giuseppe Caire, caire@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Aerospace Corporation Recruiting Event
Fri, Feb 01, 2008 @ 12:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Student Activity
Hiring Managers will discuss the role that Aerospace plays in National-Security Space and speak with students about Full-time employment and Summer internships.Open to all Engineering and Science Disciplines.An informal pizza lunch will be provided.Qualified individuals should bring their resumes. US Citizenship required for employment.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Honors Colloquium: Desalination Helps Meet Southern Californiaâ€s Water Demands
Fri, Feb 01, 2008 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Lecture offered by Mr. Steve Tedesco, Senior Vice President for the Infrastructure Group, and Dr. Mark Wilf, Director of Membrane Technology for Tetra Tech, Inc.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Honors Program Students and all Faculty and Staff are invited to attend
Contact: Erika Chua
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Uptake and Methylation of Mercury in Planktonic and Biofilm Cultures of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria
Fri, Feb 01, 2008 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Chu-Ching Lin, Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Los AngelesAbstract:
Mercury (Hg) methylation is the most critical Hg transformation in nature because the end product, methylmercury (MeHg), is a potent neurotoxin that can be effectively bioaccumulatd and biomagnified through food chains to become a level of a threat to human health and wildlife reproduction. It is well accepted that the dominant environmental Hg methylation process is mediated biologically, and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) have been identified as the primary Hg methylators in a wide range of aquatic systems. While all previous Hg methylation studies to date have been conducted with planktonic SRB cultures, it is generally believed that the majority of bacteria in the environment live in surface-attached communities, or biofilms. Little work has been undertaken to investigate the role of biofilms in Hg cycling, particularly in the formation of MeHg. In this seminar, the effects of chemical speciation on uptake and methylation of Hg in both planktonic and biofilm cultures of the model microorganisms (E. coli and Desulfovibrio desulfuricans) will be discussed. Also, pathways of Hg methylation that caused the observation of differential Hg methylation capacity between planktonic and biofilm cultures of SRB will be touched.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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IEEE-Xtreme - Laser Tag
Fri, Feb 01, 2008 @ 06:00 PM - 11:59 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come network and socialize while dodging lasers and strategizing in a night of unlimited laser tag games at Ultrazone Laser Tag in Sherman Oaks.
Location: Ultrazone Laser Tag, Meet in front of RTH to carpool
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: IEEE
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Visions and Voices
Fri, Feb 01, 2008 @ 07:45 PM - 11:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
University Calendar
The Wooster Group: HamletThe legendary Wooster Group is the most widely renowned experimental ensemble of our time. Don't miss their wildly inventive, multimedia incarnation of Hamlet, as they take on Shakespeare like you've never seen it before.Friday, February 1, 2008
7:45pm to 11:30pmAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
