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Events for February 12, 2013
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Grad Fair
Tue, Feb 12, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Grad Fair is your one-stop way to get all the information you need about Commencement. All soon-to-be graduates are encouraged to stop by Grad Fair for answers to questions, or to purchase Commencement-related products.
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Ballroom
Audiences: Graduating Students
Contact: Julie Phaneuf
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The Interpreters: Technologies and Experiments at the Natural History Museum
Tue, Feb 12, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free.
From insects to dinosaurs and gems to edible gardens, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County presents a wealth of objects and environments to the public. In addition to exhibiting displays, the museum employs a team of technologists, educators and performers to animate the objects in the museumâs collection. This process of designing narrativesâthe field of gallery interpretationâwill be demonstrated by Natural History Museum staff, including experimental exhibit designers and performance artists. They will showcase the dynamic ways they are using technology to expand interpretation and education, including interactive multimedia displays, laser sensors and full-sized robotic dinosaurs, making natural history exciting and accessible for a new generation of audiences of all ages.
About the Presenters:
Ilana Turner is the program coordinator for the performing arts department at the Natural History Museum. In addition to her own performance creations, including her female clown duo, Duckbits, she has been an arts-integration educator for the past ten years.
Chris Weisbart is a senior media technician at the Natural History Museum. He has helped pioneer the institutionâs implementation of open-source technologies to add interpretive layers to exhibits.
Liam Mooney has been an exhibit technician at the Natural History Museum since 2006. With a background in experimental noisemaking, Mooney combines sound, light and electronics to enhance visitor interactions with museum collections.
Michael Wilson is an education-technology specialist at the Natural History Museum, designing, developing and maintaining media-based experiences at the museum for the past six years. He has programmed a robotic pelican to tell the story of flight, vibrated a light pen to shake the matrix off of a hologram fossil and developed an interactive Flash-based scientific journey to 2,000 feet below sea level.
Organized by Craig Dietrich (Cinematic Arts). Co-sponsored by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy.
Photo: Tim Hale
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) - School of Cinematic Arts Gallery
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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CEE Seminar Series
Tue, Feb 12, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Ricardo Taborda, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Talk Title: High-Frequency Deterministic Earthquake Simulation: Recent Efforts, Present Challenges, and Future Opportunities
Host: Astani CEE Dept
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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CS Distinguished Lecture Series: Amin Vahdat: Symbiosis in Scale Out Networking and Data Management
Tue, Feb 12, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Amin Vahdat, UC San Diego
Talk Title: Symbiosis in Scale Out Networking and Data Management
Series: CS Distinguished Lectures
Abstract: This talk highlights the symbiotic relationship between data
management and networking through a study of two seemingly independent trends in traditionally separate communities: large-scale data processing and software defined networking. First, data processing at scale increasingly runs across hundreds or thousands of servers. We show that balancing network performance with computation and storage is a prerequisite to both efficient and scalable data processing. We illustrate the need for scale out networking in support of data management through a case study of TritonSort, currently the record holder for several sorting benchmarks, including GraySort and JouleSort. Our TritonSort experience shows that disk-bound workloads require 10 Gb/s provisioned bandwidth to keep up with modern processors while emerging flash workloads require 40 Gb/s fabrics at scale.
We next argue for the need to apply data management techniques to
enable Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Scale Out Networking. SDN promises the abstraction of a single logical
network fabric rather than a collection of thousands of individual boxes. In turn, scale out networking allows network capacity (ports, bandwidth) to be expanded incrementally, rather than by wholesale fabric replacement. However, SDN requires an extensible model of both static and dynamic network properties and the ability to deliver dynamic updates to a range of network applications in a fault tolerant and low latency manner. Doing so in networking environments where updates are typically performed by timer-based broadcasts and models are specified as comma-separated text files processed by one-off scripts presents interesting challenges. For example, consider an environment where applications from routing to traffic engineering to monitoring to intrusion/anomaly detection all essentially boil down to inserting, triggering and retrieving updates to/from a shared, extensible data store.
Biography: Amin Vahdat is a Distinguished Engineer at Google working on data center and wide-area networking. He is also a Professor and holds the Science Applications International Corporation Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California San Diego. Vahdat's research focuses broadly on computer systems, including distributed systems, networks, and operating systems. He received a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley under the supervision of Thomas Anderson after spending the last year and a half as a Research Associate at the University of Washington. Vahdat is an ACM Fellow and a past recipient of the the NSF CAREER award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Duke University David and Janet Vaughn Teaching Award.
Host: Ethan Katz-Bassett
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Epstein Institute / ISE 651 Seminar Series
Tue, Feb 12, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Daniel Bienstock, Professor, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, Columbia University
Talk Title: "Robust Models of Epidemics, and Emergency Allocation"
Series: Epstein Institute Seminar Series
Abstract: In the event of an influenza pandemic, or even a severe epidemic, staff levels across many kinds of organization, will drastically be reduced, possibly impairing operations. For example, most public utilities require minimum staff levels in order to operate, at all. Police, fire and other emergency services would be severely impaired. Healthcare services, in particular, would be highly degraded. The impact of such staff shortfalls would be most severe in dense urban areas. To combat the shortfall, "surge" staff plans would be deployed, whereby emergency staff is temporarily reassigned from less densely settled areas, so as to manage the shortfall. Surge staff, however, would only be available in limited quantities and during limited time periods. Moreover, surge staff deployment levels would have to be carefully preplanned, for the simple reason that the logistics of large staff movements would likely make it very difficult to make large changes "on the fly".
The quantitative modeling of epidemics is traditionally carried out using "SEIR" or "SIR" models, which track the evolution of different population categories (in particular, infected individuals) as a function of time. SEIR models are rich in parameters, in particular the infectivity rate, p, which (broadly speaking) describes the probability that a contact between a sick and an healthy individual will result in contagion. In the epidemics literature, such parameters are treated as fixed (and known) quantities. However, many of these parameters are either difficult to actually observe, difficult to measure (post-epidemic) and in fact may represent quantities that are modeling tools rather than meaningful, "true" parameters. At the same time, SEIR models are highly nonlinear -- so changes in the parameters can drastically affect the evolution of an epidemic.
In this talk we will describe ongoing work using a variety of models so as to address, from a robust perspective, the evolution of an epidemic, and the resulting "optimal" deployment of surge staff. This is joint work with Cecilia Zenteno (MIT).
Biography: Professor Daniel Bienstock first joined Columbia University's Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department in 1989. Professor Bienstock teaches courses on integer programming and optimization.
Before joining Columbia University, Professor Bienstock was involved in combinatorics and optimization research at Bellcore. He has also participated in collaborative research with Bell Laboratories (Lucent), AT&T Laboratories, Tellium, and Lincoln Laboratory on various network design problems.
Professor Bienstock's teaching and research interests include combinatorial optimization and integer programming, parallel computing and applications to networking. Professor Bienstock has published in journals such as Math Programming, SIAM, and Math of OR.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: Seminar-Bienstock.doc
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - Room 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Samsung Information Session
Tue, Feb 12, 2013 @ 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Samsung Digital Media Solutions Lab will be presenting "TV as a Platform". Join us to hear about the past, present and future of the TV and the advancements in the Smart TV industry.
Oriented for Computer Science and related majors.Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: BS, MS, PhD
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Spotlight on Biomedical Engineering for Undergraduates
Tue, Feb 12, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Undergraduate Students: Come hear Viterbi Alumni share about the many ways they are using their degrees in Biomedical Engineering! This is your opportunity to connect with alumni and industry professionals, ask questions about their experiences, and learn about the work they do.
RSVP at:
https://uscviterbi.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6y4KjBhbFFbP7WB
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Undergraduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Chevron Design Engineer Guest Speaker!
Tue, Feb 12, 2013 @ 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
Come listen to Chevron's Design Engineer, Cory Filek, talk about his job on February 8th at 8pm! Cory Filek is a mechanical engineer with 15 years experience in the refining industry. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Cory is currently the Manager of Designs Engineering at the Chevron El Segundo Refinery. He has worked in various engineering and leadership roles in his career including designs engineering, project engineering and project management, turnaround leadership, reliability engineering and operations. He has worked at three different locations with Chevron including Burnaby, BC, Canada, Pascagoula, MS and El Segundo, CA.
Location: Waite Phillips Hall Of Education (WPH) - B27
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
