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Events for February 06, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkWed, Feb 06, 2013
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Electrical Engineering Research Festival hosted by MHI
Wed, Feb 06, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University Calendar
3rd Annual Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering Research Festival hosted by the Ming Hsieh Institute
The Research Festival is a day-long event that showcases EE Ph.D. student research through posters, demos and oral presentations. The entire USC Viterbi community, alumni and engineering industry representatives are invited to attend the event.
Note: Event time changed to 9:00am-5:00pm
Registration required: https://mhi.usc.edu/activities/research-festival/2013-program/Location: TBD
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Danielle Hamra
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Viterbi Career Expo
Wed, Feb 06, 2013 @ 10:30 AM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Career Expo is free and open to all students in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Students do not need to register for this event, just show up! This casual, yet professional, environment allows students the opportunity to have brief conversations with recruiters about full-time employment, internships, and co-ops. Don't forget your resume!
Remember: The Spring 2013 Career Expo will take place on Trousdale!Location: Trousdale Parkway
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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USC's Homeland Security Center (CREATE) Monthly Seminar Series
Wed, Feb 06, 2013 @ 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: John Mueller, Ralph D. Mershon Senior Research Scientist at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies of Ohio State University
Talk Title: ââ¬ÅTerrorism and Counterterrorism: Threat, Capacity, Risk, Cost, Benefitââ¬Â
Series: CREATE Monthly Seminar Series
Abstract: An examination of the degree to which terrorism presents a threat and an assessment of counterterrorism measures. The key question from which analysis should spring is not "are we safer?" but "how safe are we?" Some measures do seem to be cost-effective--reducing risk at a reasonable cost--but other fail rather impressively to do so.
Biography: John Mueller is the Ralph D. Mershon Senior Research Scientist at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies of Ohio State University. He is also adjunct professor of Political Science at Ohio State and a Cato Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.
He is currently working on terrorism and particularly on the reactions (and costly over-reactions) it often inspires. His book, Terrorism, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security, written in collaboration with engineer and risk analyst Mark Stewart, applies cost-benefit analysis to issues of homeland security and was published in 2011 by Oxford University Press. Information about this book. His 2010 book, Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda (Oxford University Press), suggests that atomic terrorism is highly unlikely and that efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation frequently have damaging results. Information about this book. He has also written Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them (Free Press, 2006). The New York Times called the book "important" and "accurate, timely, and necessary." Information about this book. Another book, War and Ideas: Selected Essays was published in May 2011 by Routledge. Information about this book. He is also the editor of a set of case studies, Terrorism Since 9/11: The American Cases, published as a webbook in 2011 and 2012 by the Mershon Center. Information about this book.
Before coming to Ohio State in 2000, Mueller was on the faculty at the University of Rochester for many years. From 2000 to 2011, he held the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at Ohio Stateââ¬â¢s Mershon Center and was a professor of political science. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also received several teaching prizes, and in 2009 received the International Studies Association's Susan Strange Award that "recognizes a person whose singular intellect, assertiveness, and insight most challenge conventional wisdom and intellectual and organizational complacency in the international studies community." In 2010, he received Ohio State University's Distinguished Scholar Award. He was also selected for the Playboy Honor Roll of 20 Professors Who Are Reinventing the Classroom in the October 2010 issue of the magazine.
For a full bio please visit: http://politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller/MUELLER.BIO.htm
To ensure that I order your lunch, please RSVP no later than Friday, February 1, 2013. Please advise if you require a vegetarian option.
Hope to see you there!
Best Regards,
Erin Calicchio
Administrative Assistant
University of Southern California
U.S. Department of Homeland Security - National Center for
Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
3710 McClintock Ave, RTH 313
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2902
213-740-3863
calicchi@usc.edu
www.usc.edu/create
Host: Homeland Security Center @ USC (CREATE)
More Information: Mueller Invite_2-6-13.docx
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 306
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kelly Buccola
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AME - Department Seminar
Wed, Feb 06, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Hai Wang , Professor Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering University of Southern California
Talk Title: Nanoparticles - Transport Theory, Flame Synthesis and Selected Applications
Abstract: Synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles in premixed stagnation flames offers significant advantages over other flame methods. Particles produced usually have good crystallinity, high phase purity, and narrow and controllable size distributions. Past studies have shown that when the stagnation surface is translated relative to the flame sheet, particle synthesis and film deposition can be achieved in a single step. The technique enables high-throughput film deposition and is scalable with respect to the deposition area. The first part of this talk will be on the stagnation flame technique for preparation of phase-pure titania nanoparticle films for applications in dye sensitized solar cells and for conductometric CO sensing.
It was recognized that a fine control of the particle property requires a rather precise knowledge about the time-temperature history of the particles behind the flame. Determined by the drag and thermophoretic forces acting on the growing cluster and nanoparticles, this history dictates the particle nucleation and size growth environment and time. This motivated us to re-examine the transport theories of nanoparticles in dilute gases. Through a gas-kinetic theory analysis, we obtained mathematical formulations for these forces in two limiting models of gas-particle interactions: specular and diffuse scattering. It has been shown that our expressions are more fundamental than the earlier Epstein expressions, and they offer the possibility of a unified description of particle transport, from molecules to cluster and nanoparticles. The origin of diffuse scattering has been explained by molecular dynamics. The remaining problem lies in a missing first-principle based description for the transition from elastic specular scattering to inelastic diffuse scattering at several nanometers of particle size, as will be discussed in detail.
More Info: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/2-6-13-wang.shtml
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - Room 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/2-6-13-wang.shtml
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Gallup Information Session
Wed, Feb 06, 2013 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Please join Gallup Technology Manager, Jim Collison, and Directors of Talent Sourcing, Susan Shald and Jodi Kennedy at the Gallup Information Session, Wednesday, February 6th from 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. at Grace Ford Salvatori Hall room 106.
They will discuss Gallup’s fulltime opportunities and internship program and the wide array of tools and applications that Gallup Technology associates design and support. In addition, they will answer any questions about the Gallup application process.
Gallup does sponsor international students for internships and fulltime opportunities. To view all current openings please visit www.gallup.com/careers.
Please RSVP to Jodi Kennedy at Jodi@gallup.com by February 4th.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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SWE's Spring Evening with Industry
Wed, Feb 06, 2013 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Receptions & Special Events
Please join us at our largest networking event of the semester! Taking place the evening of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Career Expo, this is a networking opportunity you don't want to miss. Join us for an evening consisting of a cocktail hour, plated dinner, and dessert.
Location: The Radisson Grand Ballroom
Date: Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
Time: 6-8pm
Current list of companies include: Aera Energy, Boeing, Deloitte, CIA, Chevron, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp., Eaton, eBay, Halliburton, Intel, Kiewit, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Raytheon, Sandia National Labs, SAIC, and Turner Construction.
Timeline:
Mon., Jan 28th: Student registration opens. To fully register you must
(1) sign up on Google doc to be given out in next newsletter,
(2) give $20 deposit (will be returned when you attend SEWI) to Maggie in CED, and
(3) sign up for one company for dinner and one for dessert, also in CED.
Tues., Feb 5th: Student registration period is closed.
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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Creating Art: History and Society as Inspiration
Wed, Feb 06, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free.
An inspiring conversation will address womenâs voices in society and the arts with performer Haerry Kim, director Natsuko Ohama, playwright Velina Hasu Houston, performing-arts critic Meiling Cheng and visual artist Chang-Jin Lee. They will address contemporary and historical issues related to Asian and Asian American women and the power of the arts in giving voice to social issues.
About the Panelists:
Meiling Cheng has taught a variety of courses at USC in theatre history, dramatic literature, contemporary kinesthetic theatre and live art and visual and cultural studies. Cheng is a noted performance-art critic and poet and has published widely in both English and Chinese. Her first book, In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art, received a Junior Faculty Award from the Southern California Studies Center and the Zumberge Individual Research Grant from USC. She received a Guggenheim fellowship for her current book project, Beijing Xingwei. Since 2004, Cheng has published a series of groundbreaking articles in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, on performance art (translated as xingwei yishu) and installation (zhuangzhi yishu) in Chinaâs post-Mao era. She has also presented numerous talks on Chinese experimental art in Singapore, London, Boston, Providence, Chicago, Toronto and New York. (Bio)
Velina Hasu Houstonâs most popular work is her critically acclaimed play Tea. It and many of her other works have been presented internationally, garnering more than three dozen writing awards. Her other acclaimed plays include Asa Ga Kimashita, Kokoro, The Matsuyama Mirror, Hula Heart, Ikebana (Living Flowers), Shedding the Tiger and Waiting for Tadashi. She has been recognized three times by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and twice selected as a Rockefeller Foundation playwriting fellow. She was a recipient of a Japan Foundation fellowship and a Lila Wallace-Readerâs Digest Foundation grant. She was chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Remy Martin New Vision Award from Sidney Poitier and the American Film Institute. Houston is also a published poet and essayist and writes for film, radio and television. She edited the anthologies The Politics of Life: Four Plays by Asian American Women and But Still, Like Air, Iâll Rise: New Asian American Plays. She is a professor in the USC School of Dramatic Arts. (Official website)
Haerry Kim is a founding member and the artistic director of ETS Theater Company (established in 2009) and a full-time lecturer at Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea. She received an MFA in acting from Columbia University. With ETS (Eye to Soul), she has created three full-length original plays: FACE, Serve God: Sounds of Nightingales and Bathtub Play. Her one-woman play FACE has been presented at the 2011 World Festival of National Theaters at the National Theater of Korea (Seoul), HERE Arts Center (New York), the sixth soloNOVA Festival (New York), the Berkshire Fringe Festival (Massachusetts) and the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Scotland) to critical acclaim.
Chang-Jin Lee is a Korean-born conceptual artist who lives in New York City. Her recent work includes the multimedia installation Comfort Women Wanted, for which she interviewed comfort women from South Korea, China, Indonesia, Taiwan and the Netherlands. She has exhibited extensively, including at the Incheon Women Artistsâ Biennale (Korea), Bo Pi Liao Contemporary (Taiwan) and the Queens Museum of Art (New York). She is a recipient of numerous awards including the New York State Council on the Arts Grant, the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant, the Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship, the Asian Women Giving Circle Award and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fiscal Sponsorship Award. (Official website)
Natsuko Ohama is one of the premier voice teachers in the country. She is a founding member and permanent faculty of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. She has taught at numerous institutions, including New York University, the California Institute of the Arts, the Wooster Group, Columbia University, the Sundance Institute, the New Actors Workshop, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario and the National Arts Centre of Canada. She is also a Drama Desk Awardânominated actress. She is a recipient of the Playwrightsâ Arena Award for Outstanding Contribution to Los Angeles Theatre and appears in the recent publication Voice and Speech Training in the New Millennium (Conversations with Master Teachers) by Nancy Saklad. She heads the voice progression for the MFA Acting Program at USC. (Official website)
Related Events:
FACE: A Performance by Haerry Kim
Friday, February 8, 7 p.m.
24th Street Theatre
1117 24th Street, Los Angeles
For more info, click here.
Finding Voice: From Story to Performance
Saturday, February 9, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Parkside Performance Café, International Parkside Residential College
For more info, click here.
Organized by Natsuko Ohama (Dramatic Arts). Co-sponsored by Kookmin University (Seoul, South Korea).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Doheny Memorial Library 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
