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Events for February 07, 2014
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The W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquim
Fri, Feb 07, 2014 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Keith Chugg, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, TrellisWare Technologies, Inc.
Talk Title: Barrage Relay Networks
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Christine Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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Munushian Seminar - Tsu-Jae King Liu
Fri, Feb 07, 2014 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Tsu-Jae King Liu, UC Berkeley
Talk Title: Moore’s Law - What’s Next?
Abstract: Steady miniaturization of transistor has yielded continual improvements in integrated-circuit (IC) performance
and cost per function over the past four decades, resulting in the proliferation of information processing technology
with dramatic impact on virtually every aspect of life in modern society. Continued transistor scaling will not be as straightforward in the future as it has been in the past, however, as fundamental limits are approached. This is already
apparent from the slowdown in voltage scaling, which has added a new constraint for IC design and exacerbates the emerging issue of electronics energy consumption. This seminar will present a vision of the future of information processing devices and discuss alternative approaches for improving their functionality, cost per function and energy efficiency to usher in the Age of Ambient Intelligence to the benefit of our global society.
Biography: Tsu-Jae King Liu received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from Stanford University. From 1992 to 1996 she was a Member of Research Staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Palo Alto, CA). In August 1996 she joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where she is currently the Conexant Systems Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), and Associate Chair of the EECS Department.
Dr. Liu’s awards include the DARPA Significant Technical Achievement Award (2000) for development
of the FinFET, the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2010) for contributions to nanoscale MOS transistors, memory devices, and MEMs devices, and the Intel Outstanding Researcher in Nanotechnology Award (2012). She has authored or co-authored over 450 publications and holds 88 U.S. patents, and is a Fellow of the IEEE. Her research activities are presently in nanometer-scale logic and memory devices, and advanced materials, process technology and devices for energy-efficient electronics.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
More Info: ee.usc.edu/news/munushian
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 131
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
Event Link: ee.usc.edu/news/munushian
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Astani CEE Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Feb 07, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Emile A. Okal , Northwestern University, Ullinois
Talk Title: The implosive component of the 2013 Okhotsk Sea deep earthquake: Evidence from radial modes and constraints from geodetic data
Abstract: Ever since Bridgman's (1945) original suggestion, the presence of an implosive component in the source of deep earthquakes has long been a passionately debated subject, which is re-openened by the occurrence of the 2013 Sea of Okhotsk earthquake, the largest ever recorded deep event.
The analysis of the fundamental and first overtone radial modes, 0s0 and 1s0, allows the resolution of such a component without trade-off with the relevant deviatoric component. We document the presence of an implosive component valued at 2 percent of the scalar moment tensor (but 9 percent of the deviatoric component exciting radial modes). The implosive component is also resolved
by CMT inversion when the zero-trace constraint is relaxed, but with a significantly larger amplitude (8 percent of the scalar moment).
The near field of three-dimensional static deformation by the earthquake is reconstructed from data at permanent GPS stations in the epicentral area, with maximum observed deformations on the order of 1 cm (horizontal) to 2 cm (vertical). Preliminary modeling indicates that the influence of the proposed imnplosive components (especially as derived from CMT inversion) may be resolvable from this dataset at critically located GPS stations, of which a full investigation will be presented.
We further show that a small tsunami from this very deep earthquake was detected at two regional DART buoys, and that its amplitude (3 to 4 mm peak-to-peak) is well accounted for by a number of crude, back of the envelope calculations.
Host: Prof. Costas Synolakis
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
