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Events for February 05, 2010
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Feb 05, 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
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Science Diplomacy and the Prevention of Conflict
Fri, Feb 05, 2010 @ 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Scientists and engineers including Viterbi School Dean Yannis C. Yortsos will join diplomats and policy experts to discuss the role of their profession in international relations -- past, present and future.The conference will feature presentations on a wide range of such interactions, according to Yortsos, who will chair a panel on "Science, Development, and Security."The United States Institute of Peace and its Center of Innovation for Science, Technology and Peacebuilding is co-sponsoring the conference.Schedule is at http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php/events/events_detail/8763/The conference is open to the public, but seating is limited. RSVP to cpdevent@usc.edu.
Location: Davidson Conference Center; Board Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Eric Mankin
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An I-MMSE Perspective to the Capacity of the MIMO Gaussian Wiretap Channel
Fri, Feb 05, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Shlomo Shamai,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyABSTRACT: The fundamental relationship between information theory and estimation theory in the Gaussian channel, is used for an alternative derivation of the secrecy capacity of the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Gaussian wiretap channel, under a power-covariance constraint.This approach yields closed form expressions in contrast to non-convex optimization based formulas provided by the standard different approaches (Khisti-Wornell, Oggier-Hassibi, Liu-Shamai). Furthermore, the input covariance matrix required in order to attain the capacity is specified, and the current technique provides also some insight into the concept of enhancement, and alternative expressions applied to this problem by Liu-Shamai. An alternative expression for the secrecy capacity of the MIMO Gaussian wiretap channel by Liu-Liu-Poor-Shamai is also examined via the information-estimation perspective. A short outlook will conclude the talk.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The talk is based on a joint work with R. Bustin, Technion, R. Liu and V. Poor, Princeton University.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BIOGRAPHY: Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) (S'80–M'82–SM'89–F'94) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, in 1975, 1981 and 1986 respectively. During 1975-1985 he was with the Communications Research Labs in the capacity of a Senior Research Engineer. Since 1986 he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, where he is now the William Fondiller Professor of Telecommunications. His research interests encompass a wide spectrum of topics in information theory and statistical communications. He is especially interested in theoretical limits in communication with practical constraints, multi-user information theory and spread spectrum systems, multiple-input-multiple-output communications systems, information theoretic models for wireless networks and systems, information theoretic aspects of magnetic recording, channel coding, combined modulation and coding, turbo codes and LDPC, in channel, source, and combined source-channel applications, iterative detection and decoding algorithms, coherent and noncoherent detection and information theoretic aspects of digital communication in optical channels. Dr. Shamai (Shitz) is a member of the Union Radio Scientifique 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 Information Theory Society Paper Award. He is also the recipient of the 1985 Alon Grant for distinguished young scientists and 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: Giuseppe Caire, caire@usc.edu, EEB 528, x04683
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; Sustainable Construction - A LEED Platinum Building
Fri, Feb 05, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Mr. Joseph Marfi, Director of Sustainable Design & Construction for Turner Construction Company, will present "Sustainable Construction - A LEED Platinum Building Case Study" 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
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Causal Video Coding Theory: Information Theoretic Basis for Future High Performance Real Time Video
Fri, Feb 05, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: En-hui Yang,
University of WaterlooAbstract: Video coding standards have evolved from H.120 to H.261, H.262, H.263, and H.264 in the H.26x series and from MPEG-1 to MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and MPEG-4 Part 10 in the MPEG series. The newest video coding standard, H.264 (also called MPEG-4 Part 10), offers more than 40% rate reduction over H.263 while achieving the same visual quality. With the huge success of H.264, the video coding community is now working towards issuing a call for proposal to develop a new video coding standard which will probably be called H.265 with compression performance at least 40% better than H.264.In this talk, we will look further beyond H.265 and introduce a new video coding paradigm called causal video coding. (All existing video coding standards are based on a paradigm called predictive video coding, and H.265 will likely be the same.) We will examine the compression performance of causal video coding from an information theoretic point of view and present a surprising result---for video sequences other than sequences satisfying a Markov property, the more video frames need to be encoded for transmission in causal video coding, the less amount of data after encoding has to be actually sent! We will also demonstrate that causal video coding can indeed provide better compression performance than predictive video coding. Biography: After spending around three (3) years at the University of Southern California (working with Professor Zhen Zhang and others), En-hui Yang joined the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in June 1997, where he is now a Professor and Canada Research Chair. He is a co-founder of SlipStream Data Inc. (now a subsidiary of Research In Motion). He currently also serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (IT) and is sitting on the Awards Committee for IT. Dr. Yang is a recipient of several research awards and a Fellow of IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Canada (The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada). By luck, his research has had a (positive or negative) impact on the daily life of tens of millions people worldwide.Host: Zhen Zhang, zhzhang@usc.edu, EEB 508
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Harnessing optical forces on a silicon chip nanomechanics meets nanophotonics
Fri, Feb 05, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Presented by Dr.Mo Li
Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale UniversityAbstract:
The force exerted by photons is of fundamental importance in light-matter interactions. For example, optical tweezers have been widely used to manipulate atoms and microscale dielectric particles. This optical force was theoretically expected to be greatly enhanced in nanophotonic devices in which light intensity is highly concentrated. Recently, we reported the direct detection and exploitation of transverse gradient optical force in an integrated silicon photonic circuit. We showed that an NEMS resonator embedded in a silicon waveguide can be actuated efficiently by the optical force. We further experimentally proved theoretical predictions that this optical force is bipolar – its direction can be tuned to attractive or repulsive by changing the relative optical phase of coupled lightwaves. Subsequently, we have exploited optical forces in a variety of optomechanical structures, including photonic crystal and micro-disk optical resonators. Harnessing the optical force on a silicon chip will enable new nanophotonic and nanomechanical device functions, such as all-optical switching, tunable nanophotonic, radio-frequency photonics and large-scale integration of NEMS.Biography:
Mo Li currently is a postdoctoral associate in Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. He received Ph.D. (2007) in Applied Physics from Caltech, M.S. (2003) in Physics from UC San Diego, and B.S. (2001) in Physics from Univ. of Science and Technology of China (USTC). His primary research interests are nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS), nanophotonics, nano-optomechanical systems (NOMS) and integrated quantum photonics.Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hazel Xavier
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AIAA Undergraduate Aircraft Design Team Meeting
Fri, Feb 05, 2010 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come join us in our design of a full-size commercial transport!Questions? Email aiaa@usc.edu
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: -- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
