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Events for February 08, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkFri, Feb 08, 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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FACE: A Performance by Haerry Kim
Fri, Feb 08, 2013 @ 07:00 AM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Thursday, January 17, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897845
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897845
Reception to follow.
âThe writing and performance is flawless and elegant . . . she captures the transition between ages, time periods and characters with effortless precisionââThe British Theatre Guide
âCan change your view of the world . . . superb performance . . . A must-see show at the FRINGEââThreeWeeks (Edinburgh)
âViscerally intense theatre experience, featuring an exceptional performanceââThe Epoch Times (New York)
Written and Performed by Haerry Kim
Directed by Natsuko Ohama
Based on testimonies of Korean comfort women, FACE is a powerful one-woman show about a rural girl who survived two wars. Written and performed by Haerry Kim, artistic director of ETS Theater Company in Seoul, Korea, FACE superbly and elegantly reveals suppressed histories and creates a space for reclaiming memories.
It is estimated that some 200,000 women were abducted by the Japanese military; historians and researchers have stated that the majority of these women were from Korea, China, Japan and the Philippines but also account for a number of women from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia and other Japanese-occupied territories. Young women were reportedly abducted from their homes and, in some cases, recruited with offers of work in military factories and hospitals. It is estimated that only 25 percent of âcomfort womenâ survived, most of them unable to have children as a consequence of multiple rapes (25 to 35 times per day) and/or due to the diseases they contracted. To this day, the matter is still highly political in Japan and the rest of East Asia. There have been more than 1,000 demonstrations in twenty years as Korean comfort women continue their fight to receive an official apology. The Japanese government continues to deny claims, despite having been found guilty by the UN Human Rights Commission and being urged by parliaments across the world to formally acknowledge, apologize for and accept historical and legal responsibility for their actions. There are only 61 Korean survivors today, and their number is declining rapidly due to their age.
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.
Related Events:
Creating Art: History and Society as Inspiration
Wednesday, February 6, 7 p.m.
Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library 240
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: 24th Street Theatre: 1117 24th Street, Los Angeles
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Twenty Years of Sphere Decoding
Fri, Feb 08, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Emanuele Viterbo, Monash University, Melbourne Australia
Talk Title: Twenty Years of Sphere Decoding
Abstract: The sphere decoding algorithm was first introduced in digital communications in 1993. This algorithm provides a practical solution to an otherwise NP-complete problem (ML decoding for multidimensional lattice constellations over fading channels). This work has been cited to date in over 1200 papers (source: scholar.google) and this number is steadily growing. The pioneering use of lattice decoding of codes for single antenna systems has been followed by a substantial body of research showing the use of the sphere decoder in many other applications, among which decoding of space-time codes for MIMO. More re cently, the sphere decoding algorithm has been implemented in VLSI, for high rate wireless LAN terminals. This talk will present the basic principle of sphere decoding and its historical development into communications engineering.
Biography: Emanuele Viterbo received his degree (Laurea) in Electrical Engineering in 1989 and his Ph.D. in 1995 in Electrical Engineering, both from the Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. From 1990 to 1992 he was with the European Patent Office, The Hague, The Netherlands, as a patent examiner in the field of dynamic recording and error-control coding. Between 1995 and 1997 he held a post-doctoral position in the Dipartimento di Elettronica of the Politecnico di Torino. In 1997-98 he was a post doctoral research fellow in the Information Sciences Research Center of AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA. He became first Assistant Professor (1998) then Associate Professor (2005) in Dipartimento di Elettronica at Politecnico di Torino. In 2006 he became Full Professor in DEIS at University of Calabria, Italy. From September 2010 he i s Full Professor in the ECSE Department and Associate Dean Reasearch Training for the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
In 1993 he was visiting researcher in the Communications Department of DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. In 1994 and 1995 he was visiting the cole Nationale Suprieure des Telcommunications (E.N.S.T.), Paris. In 2003 he was visiting researcher at the Maths Department of EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2004 he was visiting researcher at the Telecommunications Department of UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil. In 2005, 2006 and 2009 he was visiting researcher at the ITR of UniSA, Adelaide, Australia. In 2007 he was visiting fellow at the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland. Prof. Emanuele Viterbo is a 2011 Fellow of the IEEE, a ISI Highly Cited Researcher and Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society (2011-2013). Dr. Emanuele Viterbo was awarded a NATO Advanced Fellowship in 1997 from the Italian National Research Council and the 2012-13 Australia-India Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Science. His main research interests are in lattice codes for the Gaussian and fading channels, algebraic coding theory, algebraic space-time coding, digital terrestrial television broadcasting, and digital magnetic recording.
Host: Giuseppe Caire, x04683, caire@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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CS Colloquium: Sham Navathe (Georgia Tech)
Fri, Feb 08, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sham Navathe, Georgia Tech
Talk Title: Challenges for Developing Practical Applications of Databases in Bioinformatics and Healthcare : Some Case Studies
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: In this talk the speaker will highlight the requirements and challenges of developing applications in bioinformatics and healthcare IT. He will relate his personal experiences in working with genomic and other bioinformatics data from public databases. He was involved in developing a mitochondrial genome database and tools for interpretation of microarray data based on biomedical literature in PubMed as well as a classifier and search engine for Public Health literature. He is presently involved with some healthcare IT projects related to analysis of unstructured clinical data, matching of patients to clinical studies, and integration of clinical and genetic data for certain diseases.
Biography: Navathe holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1976, an M.S.from Ohio State in 1970 and a B.E. from Indian Institute of Science in 1968. He has over 150 refereed publications. He has been the primary advisor of 23 Ph.D. students placed in academia and industry. He has lectured in U.S., Canada, India, U.K., Germany, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore etc. on topics related to data management and information systems.
His current research interests include data and text mining, enterprise information systems, human genome data management, GIS and biological data integration , mobile databases and synchronization, engineering data management, intelligent information retrieval, and web-based database applications.
http: //www.cc.gatech.edu/~sham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamkant_Navathe
Host: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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GE Aviation Factory Tour
Fri, Feb 08, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
GE Aviation has invited USC ASME to go on a tour of their factory in Santa Anna. The tour will include opportunities to learn more about the company and network for internship/co-op opportunities.
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
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W.V.T. Rusch Honors Colloquium; USC Has Its Own Satellite?
Fri, Feb 08, 2013 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Tim Barrett, Associate Director, Space Engineering Research Center, USC Information Sciences Institute
Talk Title: USC Has Its Own Satellite?
Host: W.V.T. Rusch 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
Fri, Feb 08, 2013 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Konrad Lehnert, University of Colorado and NIST
Talk Title: “Micro-electromechanics: A New Quantum Technology”
Abstract: That an object can be in two distinct places simultaneously is a consequence of quantum theory and a fact routinely invoked to account for the behavior of electrons and atoms. Nevertheless, these superpositions are in conflict with our everyday experience. What is the largest and most tangible object that can be prepared in such a superposition? This question has motivated researchers to fabricate micron-scale mechanical resonators and coax them towards the regime of quantum behavior. Indeed micro-mechanical devices recently reached the quantum regime.
In this talk, I will describe how we use electricity to achieve the exquisite control and measurement of micro-mechanical resonators necessary to reach the quantum regime. Having entered this regime, we are now able to pursue many exciting ideas. We endeavor to use mechanical resonators as long-lived memories for the quantum states of electrical circuits. In addition, we are developing the technology to transfer quantum states between two incompatible systems via a mechanical intermediary. In the future, it may even be possible to test quantum theory itself in an unexplored region of mass and size scales.
Biography: Konrad W. Lehnert is a JILA Fellow, NIST physicist, and Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado. As a graduate student Konrad studied mesoscopic superconductivity, working with S. James Allen at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He received his Ph. D. in 1999 and went on to a post-doc at Yale. There, he worked with Robert Schoelkopf on quantum bits (qubits) built from superconducting circuits. In 2003 he joined JILA (JILA is a joint institute of the University of Colorado and NIST), as an Associate Fellow. In 2007 he was promoted to JILA Fellow. At JILA, he has established a research group studying microwave quantum circuits, mesoscopic electronics, and quantum nanomechanics.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Astani CEE Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Feb 08, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Craig Maloney, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Talk Title: Soft particle suspensions near jamming: structure, diffusion, and rheology.
Abstract: Complex fluids -- suspensions, emulsions, foams, etc. -- can exhibit many of the same behavior as conventional solids: crystallization, dynamical arrest, and development of a shear modulus and yield stress. The volume fraction, Ãâ , of the suspended particles/droplets/bubbles can play the role of temperature in conventional solids. In particular, the random close packing volume fraction, Ãâ rcp, -- very roughly speaking, the volume fraction gumballs occupy when thrown at random into a gumball machine -- plays an analogous role to the glass transition temperature in conventional glass-forming materials like molecular, polymeric, or metallic glasses. Below Ãâ rcp, the suspension is a fluid -- albeit potentially non-Newtonian with a huge viscosity -- while above Ãâ rcp, the suspension has a bonafide zero frequency shear modulus and a corresponding yield stress. This Ãâ -controlled transition from a fluid-like to a solid-like state is called a jamming transition. We will present results on properties of model suspensions of soft, deformable, particles in the jammed state near this transition. In particular, we will show that the internal stresses show anomalous long range correlations with a correlation length that grows as Ãâ approaches Ãâ rcp. We will also discuss how, during steady, quasi-static shearing, long range correlations in the local plastic rearrangements give rise to anomalous behavior in the particle-scale diffusion and how this impacts the rheology.
Host: Prof. Lucio Soibelman
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
