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Events for February 03, 2006
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Viterbi Student Council Funding Board Meeting
Fri, Feb 03, 2006
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Viterbi Student Council's Funding Board weekly meeting to discuss applications for funding.
Audiences: Funding Board only
Contact: Viterbi Student Council Funding Board
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Meet USC (AM session)
Fri, Feb 03, 2006 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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The musical engineer -- examples of experiments and explorations
Fri, Feb 03, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Engineering Honors Colloquium Lecture
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Erika Chua
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Meet USC (PM session)
Fri, Feb 03, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Cortical Reconstruction Using Implicit Surface Evolution (CRUISE) And More
Fri, Feb 03, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES"Cortical Reconstruction Using Implicit Surface Evolution (CRUISE) … And More"Prof. Jerry L. PrinceDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering The Johns Hopkins UniversityAbstract:Knowledge about the position and shape of the human brain cortex can be used for a wide variety of purposes in medicine and science, from learning about the function of the brain, to planning for surgery, to studying how diseases affect the brain. This talk presents CRUISE, an automatic method to find and geometrically represent the cortex of the brain from magnetic resonance images. Tissue classification and segmentation using geometric deformable models are at the core of this approach, and topological correctness is an underlying theme. It is shown how geometric properties of the cortex can be used to match the gyri and sulci (folding patterns) of multiple subjects. The result is an alignment of the cortices, which can then be used to apply a coordinate system to a given subject, to perform population analyses of function in a standardized coordinate system, or to assist in normalizing the whole brain to a standard atlas of the brain. CRUISE has been run on over 1,000 magnetic resonance brain images for testing, validation, and carrying out scientific studies.Bio:Jerry L. Prince received the B.S. degree from the University of Connecticut in 1979 and the S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in 1982, 1986, and 1988, respectively, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering and computer science. He has worked as an engineer at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, and The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC). He joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins University in 1989, where he is currently William B. Kouwenhoven Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds joint appointments in the Departments of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Dr. Prince is a
Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Sigma Xi. He also holds memberships in Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 1992-1995, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging from 2000-2004 and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Medical Image Analysis. Dr. Prince received a 1993 National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellows Award and was Maryland's 1997 Outstanding Young Engineer. He is also co-founder of Diagnosoft, Inc., a medical imaging software company. His current research interests are in image processing and computer vision with primary application to medical imaging and has published over 200 articles and abstracts on these subjects.Host: Prof. Richard Leahy, x04659Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - ontology Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Rosine Sarafian
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Materials Science Seminar- Protein Dynamics At Atomic Scale
Fri, Feb 03, 2006 @ 02:45 PM - 03:30 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Joint Seminar between the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials
Science and the
Department of Physics and AstronomyDongping ZhongDepartments of Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Programs of Biophysics, Chemical Physics and Biochemistry,
The Ohio State University, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USAProtein dynamics is a complex process and the current challenge is to break down its complexity into elementary processes which act on different time scales and length scales. We integrate femtosecond spectroscopy, molecular biology techniques, and computational simulations to study functional evolution in real time and thus elucidate the complex dynamics with unprecedented detail. Here, two important biological systems, protein surface hydration and light-driven DNA repair, will be reported. With femtosecond temporal and single-residue spatial resolution, we mapped out the global water motion in the hydration layer using intrinsic tryptophan residue to scan the protein surface with site-directed mutagenesis. The results reveal the ultrafast nature of surface hydration dynamics and provide a molecular basis for protein conformational flexibility, an essential determinant of protein function. For DNA repair, we followed the entire functional evolution through femtosecond synchronization. We resolved a series of ultrafast processes including active-site solvation, energy harvesting and transfer, and electron hopping and tunneling. These results elucidate the crucial role of ultrafast dynamics in control of biological function efficiency and lay bare the molecular mechanism of DNA repair at atomic scale.
Location: Vivian Hall of Engineering (VHE) - 217
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
