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Distributed MIMO: Theory, Architecture and Implementation
Fri, Feb 01, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: François Quitin, University of California, Santa Barbara
Talk Title: Distributed MIMO: Theory, Architecture and Implementation
Abstract: MIMO systems have received tremendous attention from the research community in the last decade. By increasing the number of antennas at the transmitter and/or receiver, it is possible to increase communication range, link quality, reduce interference etc. The idea of Distributed MIMO (D-MIMO) is to exploit the potential benefits of MIMO with SISO terminals: different single-antenna terminals can be combined to create a “virtual” antenna array. In this talk, two particular sub-problems of D-MIMO will be investigated: distributed transmit (D-Tx) beamforming and distributed receive (D-Rx) beamforming.
The biggest challenges of D-MIMO systems are the different levels of synchronization that must be achieved among the different terminals to operate a virtual array, and the scalability to larger network sizes. Three types of synchronization are required: frequency, phase and timing. The frequency offset results from the fact that each node has its own local oscillator (LO), and small LO offsets between nodes may result in large LO frequency offsets. The phase synchronization is needed because the path lengths between the different nodes are unknown. The timing offset is due to the fact that each node has its own clock, and common time references are needed to align the clocks of all the nodes. Solutions for these problems must always take scalability into account: for larger networks, it is important not to drown the network with control messages.
For both the D-Tx and D-Rx beamforming, we will present architectures that are able to tackle the synchronization issues while maintaining scalability to larger networks. Synchronization is achieved with feedback-based strategies that are able to synchronize the nodes of the virtual array; even with low-quality local oscillators typically used for software-defined radios. The proposed architectures are investigated theoretically, and closed-form expressions for the limits of our architecture are deduced. Finally, for both D-Tx and D-Rx beamforming, the proposed architecture is implemented on our software-defined radio testbed. Our experiments show with appropriate design, the potential benefits of D-MIMO can be achieved with low-cost radios.
Biography: François Quitin received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 2011. He is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He received the Alcatel-Bell Lucent 2012 award, the WoWMoM 2012 best demo award and the EuCAP 2009 best propagation poster award.
His research interests focus on the interplay between propagation channel and RF hardware for advanced wireless systems, like distributed MIMO, UAV-based communication networks and 60 GHz wireless systems.
Host: Andreas Molisch, x04670, molisch@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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W.V.T. Rusch Honors Colloquium; Space Shuttle Engineering from a Korean Perspective
Fri, Feb 01, 2013 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Jay Chung, President & CEO of Tayco Engineering
Talk Title: Space Shuttle Engineering from a Korean Perspective
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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Refractive Index Engineering by Fast Ion Implantations: A Generic Method for Constructing Multi-components Electrooptical Circuits
Fri, Feb 01, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Aharon J. Agranat, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Talk Title: Refractive Index Engineering by Fast Ion Implantations: A Generic Method for Constructing Multi-components Electrooptical Circuits
Abstract: Refractive index engineering (RIEng) by ion implantations in electrooptical substrates is a generic methodology for constructing multi-component integrated circuits of electrooptic and nanophotonic devices with sub-wavelength features operating in the visible - near IR wavelengths. RIEng exploits the fact that ions that are incident at high energies on a substrate of oxygen Perovskites form within the depth of the substrate a well confined layer of Frenkel defects which cause the layer to be partially amorphized. The refractive index in this layer differs significantly from that of the crystalline substrate. It was also found that the waveguiding structures are thermally stable after being subjected to an annealing process, and exhibit a propagation loss of 0.1 dB/cm.
The essence of the method is to perform spatially selective implantations for sculpting complex 3D pre-designed patterns with reduced refractive index within the volume of the substrate. Sculpting 3D structures is enabled by combining three techniques that form a complete toolbox for constructing the circuits: (i) Lateral patterning: defining the lateral distribution of the amorphization by performing the implantation through a “stopping mask” which causes the amorphized region to replicate the contour of the topography of the mask; (ii) Longitudinal patterning: determining the depth of the amorphized region by controlling the energy of the implanted ions; and (iii) Selective etching: selective etching of the amorphized material that were created by the implantation process. In addition to these, the 3D structures can be made to be electrically conductive and photoconductive by using high fluence of protons as the implanted species. RI Eng was also combined with laser ablation to form structures with high contrast of the difference in the refractive index between the core and the cladding.
A number of devices that were constructed in a substrate of potassium lithium tantalate niobate will be described, including an optical wire, a channel waveguide array, a protons grating, and a waveguide constructed by a combination of laser ablation and implantation of alpha particles.
Biography: Professor Ronny Agranat is the director of the Brojde center for innovative engineering and computer science, and the incumbent of the Nahman Jaller chair of Applied Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Agranat holds a B.Sc degree in physics and mathematics (1977), an M.Sc degree in Applied Physics (1980), and a PhD degree in physics (1986) all from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His Ph.D thesis was on the subject of the dielectric mechanism of the photorefractive effect which he discovered. From 1986 to 1997 he was a senior research fellow and a visiting senior research associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he worked on the development of microelectronic artificial neural networks based on charge transfer devices which he invented, and the growth and investigation of paraelectric photorefractive crystals. In 1991 he joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founded the optoelectronic computing laboratory. The laboratory mission is to conceive and develop optoelectronic devices and systems that will expand the capabilities of the computing and communication technologies that are the physical basis of the cyberspace. One of the main themes pursued by Agranat is to exploit the special features of the quadratic electrooptic effect at the paraelectric phase for the purpose of constructing various optoelectronic device, in particular for wavelength selective switching applications. To that end Agranat invented and developed a new electrooptic crystal: potassium lithium tantalate niobate (KLTN). Agranat is the inventor of Electroholography which is a generic optical switching method based on governing the reconstruction process of volume holograms by the applications of electric fields. Electroholography was invented for the purpose of interconnecting electronic processors by holographic devices. In particular it has been identified as the leading concept for dynamic wavelength selective routing in WDM optical fiber communication networks. For the invention of Electroholography and the KLTN crystal Agranat was awarded the Discover Innovation Award (awarded by the Discover magazine and the Christopher Columbus Society) for the leading invention in the area of communication for the year 2001. Agranat is a member of the Hebrew University Interdisciplinary Center of Neuro-Computing, and a fellow of the Optical Society of America. Agranat was also a cofounder and director of TrellisâPhotonics that was founded for exploiting Electroholography in telecommunication applications. Agranat is the author of many scientific papers, and holds 24 patents in the areas of microelectronics, optoelectronics and materials science.
Host: Alan Willner, x04664, willner@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Integrated Systems Seminar SeriesFri, Feb 01, 2013 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. John Wood, Maxim Integrated Products
Talk Title: Behavioural Modeling & Linearization of RF Power Amplifiers
Abstract: In cellular wireless communications systems, the RF power amplifier (PA) in the transmitter must be as efficient as possible, to minimize energy costs, to prolong battery life, and for âgreen’ considerations. Modern spectrally-efficient, digitally-modulated signals such as LTE and UMTS present a challenge for efficient RF PA design, and the power amplifier architectures that are adopted to achieve this goal are generally very nonlinear, and so some form of linearization technique is necessary.
The increasing use of linearization techniques, and especially the emergence of high speed digital processing as an enabling technology to implement digital pre-distortion (DPD) of the PA input signal, represent an important paradigm shift in PA design. The PA component can now be designed with more emphasis on power and efficiency, without the traditional constraints of meeting stringent linearity specs simultaneously. Understanding the utility of a linearizer to obtain optimum efficiency has thus become a new subject area in modern RF PA design.
The system-level design of linearized PA transmitters requires accurate models to achieve the optimal performance. Behavioural modeling is used to describe the PA and linearizer at this level of the design. In this tutorial, we shall present some approaches to the behavioral modeling of nonlinear dynamical systems that can be used to model RF PAs; particular emphasis will be given to the treatment of memory effects. Some common mathematical and systematic approaches to model generation will be presented, to obtain accurate but compact nonlinear dynamical models. A brief description of some characterization techniques will be included. These same nonlinear modeling techniques can be applied to the design of successful pre-distortion algorithms. We shall illustrate the overall structure of a linearized transmitter using several DPD architectures, and we shall present various approaches to adaptive pre-distortion, considering such features as convergence, signal bandwidth, accuracy, and cost.
Biography: Dr. John Wood (M’87, SM’03, F’07) received B. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds, in 1976 and 1980, respectively. He is currently Senior Principal Member of Technical Staff with Maxim Integrated Products, working on the modeling and design of envelope-tracking solutions for mobile phones. He was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the RF Division of Freescale Semiconductor, where he worked from 2005--2011. His areas of expertise include the development of nonlinear compact device models and behavioral models for RF power transistors and ICs, the understanding of the impact, characterization, & control using digital pre-distortion (DPD) of nonlinearities and memory effects in high-efficiency PAs. From 1997--2005 he worked in the Microwave Technology Center of Agilent Technologies, developing large-signal and bias-dependent linear FET models for mm-wave applications, and nonlinear behavioral models using LSNA measurements and nonlinear system identification techniques. He is author or co-author of over 120 papers and articles. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Electron Devices Societies, and is a member of ARFTG Executive Committee. He is a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer for MTT Society. He is currently Editor-in Chief of the IEEE âMicrowave’ magazine.
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Feb 04, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Megan L. McCain, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Talk Title: From Womb to Doom: Mechanical Regulation of Cardiac Tissue Assembly in Morphogenesis and Pathogenesis
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Astani CEE Seminar
Mon, Feb 04, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Kelly T. Sanders, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering , The University of Texas at Austin
Talk Title: The Energy â⬓ Water Nexus: Achieving Cross-cutting Efficiencies Through Better Resource Management
Abstract: Energy and water are vital to economic security and quality of life. Together they enable an ample food supply, electricity production, and safe drinking water. They are also interrelated: energy is required to pump, treat, pressurize, and heat water, and water is critical to producing fuels and cooling power plants. Building on Sandersââ¬â¢ research, this seminar will address both sides of the energy-water nexus to quantify the scale of the relationship and identify synergistic conservation strategies for both resources. The first part of the seminar will discuss research findings that quantified primary energy consumption for water services at the national level. Using a combination of top-down sectoral assessments of energy use together with a bottom-up allocation of energy-for-water on a component-wise and service-specific level, energy use for direct water and steam services was estimated to be 12.3ñ0.3 quadrillion BTUs or 12.6% of 2010 annual primary energy consumption in the United States. The second part of the seminar describes research evaluating the technical and economic feasibility of water conservation schemes through changes to grid-scale power plant dispatch operations in water-scarce regions. Results suggest that shifting the merit order by which power plants are dispatched within the Electric Reliability Council of Texasââ¬â¢ (ERCOT) electric grid can reduce the power sectorââ¬â¢s water withdrawals and water consumption by as much as 90% and 40%, respectively, with an increase in operational costs of about 25-40% based on baseline operating characteristics in 2011. The results of these studies reveal interesting and non-intuitive insights about cross-sectoral conservation benefits. Namely, water conservation in the residential and commercial sectors can yield large energy savings, and changes to the power sector can yield large water savings.
Biography: Kelly T. Sanders received her Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2007 and a Masterââ¬â¢s Degree from The University of Texas at Austinââ¬â¢s Department of Mechanical Engineering Thermal/Fluids Systems program in 2010. She is currently pursuing a PhD from the University of Texasââ¬â¢ Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. In 2012, Kelly was featured in Forbesââ¬â¢ magazine in its 30 under 30 feature for her research achievements in energy. Her research interests include the nexus of energy, food and water.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 Conference Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Epstein ISE Faculty Candidate Seminar
Tue, Feb 05, 2013 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Pengyi Shi, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk Title: "Data-driven Modeling and Decisions for Hospital Inpatient Flow Management"
Abstract: Emergency department (ED) overcrowding negatively impacts patient safety and public health, and hence, has become one of the most challenging problems facing healthcare delivery systems worldwide. It is known that prolonged waiting time for admitted patients to be transferred from ED to inpatient beds (i.e., ED boarding) is a key contributor to ED overcrowding. Our research focuses on gaining insights into effective inpatient flow management to reduce this waiting time, and eventually, to reduce ED overcrowding.
Based on an extensive empirical study of a Singaporean hospital, we build a new stochastic network model of inpatient flow. The model contains several novel features including the service times being endogenous, and these features are critical for the model to predict the time-dependent empirical performance measures such as the hourly average waiting time and the fraction of patients waiting more than 6 hours. By simulating the stochastic model, we identify certain operational policies that can reduce ED boarding and eliminate the excessively long waiting times for patients requesting beds in the morning. These policies focus on discharging patients at an earlier time of the day. The model also allows one to study the impact of other operational policies including staffing and expanding step-down-care facilities on ED boarding. To obtain structural insights, we further develop a novel ââ¬Åtwo-time-scaleââ¬Â analytical framework to analyze the model. This framework overcomes many challenges, including the service times being extremely long compared to the time-variations of the arrival rate, faced by existing methods for large-scale queuing systems. In addition to exact analysis, we employ a heavy-traffic approximation. Finally, we discuss future directions for research and practice.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: Seminar-Shi_Pengyi.doc
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - Room 526
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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CS Colloquium: Jeff Mogul (HP Labs): Corybantic: Towards the Modular Composition of SDN Controllers
Tue, Feb 05, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jeff Mogul, HP Labs
Talk Title: CS Colloquium: Jeff Mogul (HP Labs)
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to enable vigorous innovation, through separation of the control plane from the data plane, and to enable novel forms of network management, through a controller that uses a global view to make globally-valid decisions. The design of SDN controllers creates novel challenges; much previous work has focused on making them scalable, reliable, and efficient.
We argue that, to control a realistic network, we do not want one monolithic SDN controller. Instead, we want to compose the effects of many controller modules managing different aspects of the network, which may be competing for resources. Each module will try to optimize one or more objectives; we address the challenge of how to coordinate between these modules to optimize an overall objective function. Our framework design, Corybantic, focuses on achieving both modular decomposition and maximizing the overall value delivered by the controller's decisions.
Biography: Jeff Mogul is a Fellow at HP Labs, doing research primarily on computer networks and operating systems issues for enterprise and cloud computer systems; previously, he worked at the DEC/Compaq Western Research Lab. He received his PhD from Stanford in 1979, and is an ACM Fellow. Jeff is the author or co-author of several Internet Standards; he contributed extensively to the HTTP/1.1 specification. He has been the chair or co-chair of a variety of conferences and workshops, including SIGCOMM, OSDI, and ANCS. He is currently co-chairing NSDI 2013.
Host: Ethan Katz-Bassett
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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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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Algebraic Symmetries of Digital Signal Processing
Thu, Feb 07, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Shamgar Gurevich, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Talk Title: Algebraic Symmetries of Digital Signal Processing
Abstract: We will explore basic algebraic symmetries of spaces of sequences that are used in digital signal processing (DSP). There are two types of symmetries: (1) The Heisenberg (after Werner Heisenberg) symmetries, which generalize the time-shift and frequency-shift operators. (2) The Weil (after Andrei Weil) operators which generalize the discrete Fourier transform (DFT). We will look on two applications: (I) Construction of the Heisenberg (Chirp) sequences---which are commonly used in radar systems---and relations among them. (II) Efficient calculation of the Radar Ambiguity Function on a general line in the discrete time-frequency plane. These applications will be used by Alexander Fish in his lecture "The Cross Method for Multi-Target Radar Detection".
The lecture is part from a joint work with: Alexander Fish (Sydney), Akbar Sayeed (EE, Madison), Oded Schwartz (EECS, Berkeley).
Biography: Shamgar Gurevich is a faculty in the mathematics department of the University of Wisconsin Madison. He is doing research in topics of algebra which are related to sequences design for wireless communication and related algorithms for GPS, Radar, and Communication. He would like to interact with students and researchers in electrical engineering.
Host: Urbashi Mitra, x04667, ubli@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Epstein ISE Faculty Candidate Seminar
Thu, Feb 07, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Elisa F. Long, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Yale School of Management
Talk Title: "Patients without Patience: A Priority Queuing Simulation Model of the Intensive Care Unit"
Abstract: Patients admitted to a hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) often endure excessive wait times for bed assignment due to capacity shortages, and prolonged transfer times following receipt of ICU care. Many admitted ICU patients should instead be treated in an intermediate care unit, or step-down unit (SDU), to free up acute-care beds for more critically ill patients. When ICU utilization levels are high, patients experience shorter lengths of stay (LOS), as staff accelerate patient transfers to other areas of the hospital. In this paper, we propose an econometric model to investigate the impact of patient census levels on ICU LOS, which is divided into two components: active care ("service" time) and inactive care prior to transfer ("non-service" time). Using a logistic regression, we test whether bed transfer during higher census levels impacts 30-day readmission rates. We use nine months of patient-level data for Yale-New Haven Hospital, a tertiary care hospital with a large (51-bed) Medicine ICU. We also develop a four-class priority queuing model with multiple-server types and state-dependent service times, which we simulate using our empirical data. We consider alternative bed allocation policies that are presently under consideration, and examine their impact on projected wait times.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: Seminar-Long_Elisa.doc
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - Room 526
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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The Cross Method for Multi-Target Radar Detection
Thu, Feb 07, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Alexander Fish, University of Sydney
Talk Title: The Cross Method for Multi-Target Radar Detection
Abstract: We would like to know the distances to moving objects and their velocities. The radar system is built to fulfill this task. The radar transmits a waveform S which bounds back from the objects and the echo R is received. In practice we can work in the digital model, namely S and R are sequences of N complex numbers.
THE RADAR PROBLEM IS: Design S, and an effective method of extracting, using S and R, the distances and velocities of all targets.
In many applications the current sequences S which are used are pseudo-random and the algorithm they support takes O(N2logN) arithmetic operations. In the lecture we will introduce the Heisenberg sequences, and a much faster detection algorithm called the Cross Method. It solves the Radar Problem in O(NlogN+m2) operations for m objects.
This is a joint work with Shamgar Gurevich (Math, Madison), Akbar Sayeed (EE, Madison), Kobi Scheim (General Motors, Israel), Oded Schwartz (EECS, Berkeley)
Biography: Ph.D. from Hebrew University in Israel from 2007, conducts research in ergodic theory, and wireless communication. He has hold postdoc positions in Ohio State University, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. From July 2012 he is a faculty member of University of Sydney, in the School of Mathematics and Statistics.
Host: Urbashi Mitra, x04667, ubli@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Lunch with Steven Fraser, Director of the Cisco Research Center (RSVP Required)
Thu, Feb 07, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Steven Fraser, Director of the Cisco Research Center
Talk Title: Software Best Practices: Tales of Adoption and Agility through Iteration and Innovation
Abstract: The Lab is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a talk by Steven Fraser, Director of the Cisco Research Center, on Tales of Adoption and Agility through Iteration and Innovation.
This talk will explore the intersection of agility and software development in a world of legacies and distributed teams. Organizations seek new and effective ways to expedite development while innovating to foster customer delight. This talk has evolved based on experience gleaned from multinational organizations developing and deploying large software systems - revealing in some cases - that what was once "old" is "new" again.
Date: February 7th (Thursday)
Time: 12:15-1:30pm - Lunch will be served
Location: Annenberg Innovation Lab - ASC 104
RSVP Link: http://rsvp.uscannenberg.org/rsvp-page/lunch-steven-fraser-director-cisco-research-center
RSVP Deadline: February 4th (Monday)
*limited RSVP available on a first come first serve basis.*
Biography: Dr. Steven Fraser is the Director of the Cisco Research Center and responsible for managing Cisco's external research program (gifts, contracts, consortia, fellowships, and equipment donations) and tech transfer - including the recruitment of PhDs and Post-Docs. From 2005 to 2007, Fraser was a member of Qualcomm's Learning Center, with responsibilities for technical learning. Previously, Fraser held a variety of software engineering roles at Nortel including: Process Architect, Senior Manager (Disruptive Technology and Global External Research) and Software Reuse Program Prime at BNR's CRL (Computing Research Lab). In 1994 he spent a year as a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Fraser holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor's in Physics with a Minor in Computer Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. In addition to holding leadership positions for the ACM's OOPSLA/SPLASH, the IEEE's ICSE and the XP20xx series of software conferences, he is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the ACM.
Host: The Annenberg Innovation Lab
Location: Annenberg School For Communication (ASC) - 104
Audiences: Viterbi CS and EE students
Contact: Sophie Madej
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An assessment of offshore and unconventional hydrocarbon production in the U.S
Thu, Feb 07, 2013 @ 12:45 PM - 02:30 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Tadeusz Patzek, University of Texas at Austin
Talk Title: An assessment of offshore and unconventional hydrocarbon production in the U.S
Series: Distinguished Lectures Series
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ryan Choi
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Focused on parallel and distributed computing
Thu, Feb 07, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Weekly seminars given by researchers in academia and industry including senior doctoral students in EE, CS and ISI covering current research related to parallel and distributed computation including parallel algorithms, high performance computing, scientific computation, application specific architectures, multi-core and many-core architectures and algorithms, application acceleration, reconfigurable computing systems, data intensive systems, Big Data and cloud computing.
Biography: Prerequisite: Students are expected to be familiar with basic concepts at the level of graduate level courses in Computer Engineering and Computer Science in some of these topic areas above. Ph.D. students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science can automatically enroll. M.S. students can enroll only with permission of the instructor. To request permission send a brief mail to the instructor in text format with the subject field ââ¬ÅEE 598ââ¬Â. The body of the mail (in text format) should include name, degree objective, courses taken at USC and grades obtained, prior educational background, and relevant research background, if any.
Requirements for CR:
1. Attending at least 10 seminars during the semester
There will be a sign-in sheet and a sign-out sheet at every seminar. All students must sign-in (before 2:00pm) and sign-out (after 3:00pm). The sign-in sheet will not be available after 2:00pm, and the sign-out sheet will not be available before 3:00pm.
2. Submitting a written report for at least 5 seminars
The written report for each seminar must be 1-page single line spaced format with font size of 12 (Times) or 11 (Arial) without any figures, tables, or graphs. The report must be submitted no later than 1 week after the corresponding seminar, and must be handed only to the instructor either on the seminar times or during office hours. Late reports will not be considered.
The report must summarize studentââ¬â¢s own understanding of the seminar, and should contain the following:
- Your name and submission date [1 line]
- Title of the seminar, name of the speaker, and seminar date [1 line]
- Background of the work (e.g., applications, prior research, etc.) [1 paragraph]
- Highlights of the approaches presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Main results presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Conclusion (your own conclusion and not what was given by the speaker) [1 paragraph]
Reviewing papers related to the topic of the seminar, and incorporating relevant findings in the
reports (e.g., in the conclusion section) is encouraged. In such cases, make sure to clearly indicate
the reference(s) used to derive these conclusions.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR 4
Thu, Feb 07, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jong-Kook Kim, Associate Professor, Korea University - School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Talk Title: Energy Aware High Performance Computing
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Power or Energy usage for various systems became an issue because of cost and efficiency. As the goal of advancing or enhancing a computing system is to increase or enhance the performance, it is not enough just to decrease the power or energy usage. Therefore, while trying to minimize the power usage the performance of the system must be upgraded. There are many environments or systems that must consider both energy and performance for enhancement at the same time. Distributed mobile computing is one such environment where computing resources are mobile, connected wirelessly, have limited battery power, and may be heterogeneous from one another. A multi-core chip multiprocessor can be another such system that may need an intelligent method to reduce the energy usage while also trying to enhance performance.
Biography: Jong-Kook Kim is currently an Associate Professor at Korea University, Seoul Korea. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in May 2000 and August 2004, respectively. He received his B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Korea University, Seoul, Korea in 1998. His research interests include heterogeneous distributed computing, real-time mobile computing, computer architecture, performance measures, resource management, evolutionary heuristics, energy-aware computing, and distributed compilers. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and ACM.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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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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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
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Feb 11, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Stacey D. Finley, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Talk Title: Of Mice and Men: Computational Models to Investigate Anti-angiogenic Cancer Therapies Targeting the VEGF Pathway
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Epstein ISE Seminar
Mon, Feb 11, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: For Speaker Name, Contact Georgia Lum at glum@usc.edu, For Affiliation, Contact Georgia Lum at glum@usc.edu
Talk Title: "Cancer Therapy in the Presence of Data Uncertainty"
Abstract: In radiation therapy, high energy ionizing radiation is used to treat cancerous tumors. Based on the initial set of patient data, treatment variables can be optimized to attain desired dose distributions of geometrically complex shapes while satisfying clinical constraints on tumors and other organs at risk. However, uncertainties can degrade the quality of treatments, so much so that an otherwise optimal plan may turn out clinically unacceptable. We investigate different sources of uncertainty, such as imperfect setup during the treatment, imaging and dosimetric data errors, organ motion and regression, and discuss the corresponding robust convex or non-convex methods.
Based on clinical cases, we show that the proposed plans are intrinsically immune to the respective uncertainties and meet all clinical criteria. Furthermore, an extension to multi-modal treatments is motivated in conjunction with the concurrent application of chemotherapeutic agents. We show that data on spatiotemporal biological changes can be incorporated for individualized treatment.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - Room 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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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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USC's Homeland Security Center (CREATE) Lecture Forum
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: LT. BRIAN BANNING (RET), CALIFORNIA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Talk Title: Understanding Homegrown Violent Extremists
Series: CREATE Lecture Forum
Abstract: Terrorist attacks in the United States have been in the spotlight since the shocking events of September 11, 2001. Most of Americaââ¬â¢s attention and focus have been on Al Qaeda and affiliated groups. While the internationally based terrorist groups have continued to attempt attacks in the continental United States, such as the Christmas Day attempt by the ââ¬ÅUnderwear Bomberââ¬Â Umar Abdulmutallab, there is a growing awareness of the danger posed by Home Grown Violent Extremists (HVEââ¬â¢s). This is principally due to the fact that the internationally based attacks have all failed since September 11. By contrast, American born ââ¬Åactorsââ¬Â have killed dozens and their plots that could have kill hundreds more were disrupted.
Americans turn to violence for several different philosophies. Some develop sympathies with international movements. Some are affiliated with global hotspots with ongoing struggles. And some are related to movements that have been present for decades such as militias or sovereign citizens. All of these groups have unique characteristics that give us some insight into possible operations they may undertake. However, despite the philosophical uniqueness of the groups, there is a similarity in the psychological radicalization process each of these ââ¬Åactorsââ¬Â undergoes on their path to violence.
Hostage Negotiation as practiced by Law Enforcement is a unique analytical discipline. It involves the analyses of the origins of the human ââ¬Åactorââ¬Â, then considers situational factors which have occurred to cause the ââ¬Åactorââ¬Â to behave in the manner in which they have. Brian has interviewed dozens of these Homegrown Violent Extremists using the exclusive mindset of a Hostage Negotiator and will discuss these behaviors and characteristics.
Biography: Prior to his retirement with the Sacramento County (CA) Sheriffââ¬â¢s Department, Lt. Brian Banning was the founding Assistant Commander of the Sacramento Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center, a multi-agency intelligence fusion center that supports the FBI led Joint Terrorism Task Force at the Top Secret level.
During his law enforcement career, Brian developed and supervised the jail intelligence unit and operated in Hostage Negotiations for 16 years participating in over 275 critical incidents, 100 at command rank as the team leader. He worked numerous cases involving Homegrown Violent Extremists and in the jail system came to know dozens more on a personal level. As a negotiator, getting to know the actual person and motivations behind the criminal behavior has always been his focus. His personal conversations with extremists from various belief systems developed his unique insights into the understanding of extremist behaviors.
A trained Intelligence Analyst, Lt. Banning holds a B.A. in Police Science. He was an elected member of the California Association of Hostage Negotiatorsââ¬â¢ Executive Board for 8 years, now an Honorary Life Member, ex president.
Brian currently supports the California Emergency Management Agency on statewide counterterrorism issues as an employee of SRA International. He also frequently teaches negotiations for D Prep, LLC.
In order to RSVP for this event, please email calicchi@usc.edu by February 6, 2013.
Host: Homeland Security Center @ USC (CREATE)
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 227
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Erin Calicchio
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AME - Department Seminar
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Janna Nawroth, Postdoctoral Researcher at the California Institute of Technology
Talk Title: How to Build a Jellyfish: Translating Biological Mechanisms for Fluid Transport to Engineered Materials
Abstract: Insights into biological mechanisms for fluid transport have the potential to advance technology for robotics and medical implants. A major challenge is to link structure to function, i.e., to understand and replicate the dynamic interactions between living cells, elastic substrates, and the fluid environment. My approach is to learn from the design of simple aquatic invertebrates that pump, filter, and mix fluid across a wide range flow regimes. In a proof-of-concept study I have reverse-engineered a juvenile jellyfish, a model system for muscle powered pumps at intermediate Reynolds numbers. Using an iterative optimization strategy, I identified key determinants of propulsive and feeding performance in jellyfish, including actuator layout, substrate elasticity, and body geometry, and translated them to tissue-engineered materials. Constructs were assembled by seeding rat cardiac muscle cells onto flow-optimized silicone bodies. Guided by microfabricated surface cues, the cells self-organized into a swimming muscle capable of synchronous contraction. Optimally designed constructs achieved propulsion and generated "feeding" currents quantitatively and qualitatively comparable to real jellyfish. I will summarize the design lessons learned in the process and discuss general implications for tissue-engineering and soft robotics.
Biography: Janna Nawroth completed her undergraduate studies in Molecular Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Prior to joining the PhD program in biology at Caltech, she spent two years at the Yale school of Medicine conducting master's degree research in neuroscience. She received her PhD degree in 2012 from Caltech where she was co-advised by both John Dabiri at Caltech and Kit Parker at Harvard University while conducting cross-disciplinary research on design and fabrication of muscle-powered fluid pumps. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Dabiri lab, working on neuronal control and fluid transport in marine invertebrates such as squid and jellyfish.
More Info: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/2-13-13-Nawroth.shtml
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - Room 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jorge Castilla
Event Link: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/2-13-13-Nawroth.shtml
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EE-EP Seminar
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Arka Majumdar, Postdoctoral Scholar, U C Berkeley
Talk Title: Light Matter Interaction at the Nano-scale: Towards Attojoule Optoelectronics
Abstract: Understanding and engineering light-matter interactions hold the key to solving several important problems in modern society, including but not limited to high performance computing and communication. To enable optical interconnects over short distances between electrical components, and in the future even performing the whole computing process in the optical domain, the energy consumption must be decreased to several attojoules per bit. In my talk, I will describe how such attojoule optoelectronic technologies can be developed by engineering light-matter interactions at the nano-scale.
First, I will describe the coupled quantum dot (QD)-cavity system. Very strong interaction between light and matter can be achieved in this system as a result of the field localization inside sub-cubic wavelength volumes. Such strong light-matter interaction produces an optical nonlinearity that is present even at the single-photon level and is tunable at a very fast time-scale (~few picoseconds). We use this effect to perform very low power optical and electro-optical modulation. Although this system provides us with light-matter interaction at the most fundamental level and the cavities can be scaled very easily, the growth of self-assembled QDs ultimately limits the scalability of this coupled system. As a route to overcome this problem, I will describe another system: the graphene-clad photonic crystal cavity, where we have also demonstrated electro-optic modulation. With the light-matter interactions controlled at a very low energy level, these nano-photonic devices pave the way towards reaching attojoule optoelectronics.
Biography: Arka Majumdar received his B.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2007, and PhD (in Electrical Engineering) from Stanford University in 2012. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Physics department, University of California, Berkley. In 2008, he held an internship in Sun Microsystems. His research interests include devices in nanophotonics, nanometallics and quantum optoelectronics with a goal to explore the fundamentals and applications of photonics in information processing. He has published more than 30 scientific papers in distinguished journals, cited more than 300 times. He is a recipient of the Gold Medal from the President of India and Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
Host: EE-EP
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Focused on parallel and distributed computing
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Weekly seminars given by researchers in academia and industry including senior doctoral students in EE, CS and ISI covering current research related to parallel and distributed computation including parallel algorithms, high performance computing, scientific computation, application specific architectures, multi-core and many-core architectures and algorithms, application acceleration, reconfigurable computing systems, data intensive systems, Big Data and cloud computing.
Biography: Prerequisite: Students are expected to be familiar with basic concepts at the level of graduate level courses in Computer Engineering and Computer Science in some of these topic areas above. Ph.D. students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science can automatically enroll. M.S. students can enroll only with permission of the instructor. To request permission send a brief mail to the instructor in text format with the subject field ââ¬ÅEE 598ââ¬Â. The body of the mail (in text format) should include name, degree objective, courses taken at USC and grades obtained, prior educational background, and relevant research background, if any.
Requirements for CR:
1. Attending at least 10 seminars during the semester
There will be a sign-in sheet and a sign-out sheet at every seminar. All students must sign-in (before 2:00pm) and sign-out (after 3:00pm). The sign-in sheet will not be available after 2:00pm, and the sign-out sheet will not be available before 3:00pm.
2. Submitting a written report for at least 5 seminars
The written report for each seminar must be 1-page single line spaced format with font size of 12 (Times) or 11 (Arial) without any figures, tables, or graphs. The report must be submitted no later than 1 week after the corresponding seminar, and must be handed only to the instructor either on the seminar times or during office hours. Late reports will not be considered.
The report must summarize studentââ¬â¢s own understanding of the seminar, and should contain the following:
- Your name and submission date [1 line]
- Title of the seminar, name of the speaker, and seminar date [1 line]
- Background of the work (e.g., applications, prior research, etc.) [1 paragraph]
- Highlights of the approaches presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Main results presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Conclusion (your own conclusion and not what was given by the speaker) [1 paragraph]
Reviewing papers related to the topic of the seminar, and incorporating relevant findings in the
reports (e.g., in the conclusion section) is encouraged. In such cases, make sure to clearly indicate
the reference(s) used to derive these conclusions.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR COURSE #5
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Thilan Ganegedara, PhD Student, Electrical Engineering USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: High-Performance Networking on Reconfigurable Fabric
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: The Internet is growing at a rapid pace with the proliferation of multimedia applications such as VoIP, video streaming and gaming. This rapid growth is facilitated by the underlying networking hardware, which is responsible for meeting Quality of Service (QoS) requirements while guaranteeing the throughput demands of a network. In this talk, we discuss how such time-critical tasks can be algorithmically mapped on to reconfigurable hardware platforms such as Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), exploiting the massive parallelism offered in these devices. Methodologies to device 100+ Gbps hardware firewalls that consume orders of magnitude lower power than state-of-the-art solutions will be presented.
Biography: Thilan Ganegedara is a PhD student in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on developing algorithms and architectures for high-performance IP lookup and packet classification engines, which includes solutions for large-scale router virtualization, IPv6 forwarding in backbone networks, and packet classification for hardware firewalls. He earned his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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Grodins Keynote Lecture
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dennis Discher , University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: ââ¬ËSelfââ¬â¢ versus ââ¬ËForeignââ¬â¢ and Soft versus Stiff: Cell-cell and Cell-Matrix-Nuclear mechanisms in survival and differentiation
Biography: Dennis E. Discher is the Robert D. Bent chaired Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering--Bioengineering Section. He received a Ph.D. jointly from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco in 1993 for studies in cell and molecular biophysics, and was a US National Science Foundation International Fellow at the University of British Columbia until 1996. He has coauthored more than 150 publications with over 12,000 citations that range in topic from matrix effects on stem cells and biochemical physics of protein folding to self-assembling polymers applied to disease, with papers appearing in Cell, Science, Journal of Cell Biology, and Nature Physics. Additional Honors and Service include a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the US National Science Foundation, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award from the Humboldt Foundation of Germany, and membership on the Editorial Board for Science.
Current web page: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/directory/profile.php?ID=25
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering
More Information: BME Grodins Keynote Lecture FLYER 2013.pdf
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Coding Over Interference Channels: An Information-Estimation View
Fri, Feb 15, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Shlomo Shamai, Technion â Israel Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Coding Over Interference Channels: An Information-Estimation View
Abstract: The information-estimation relation is used to gain insight into useful coding schemes operating over the Gaussian interference channel. After reviewing basic I-MMSE relations and their implications on point-to-point coding over the Gaussian channel, we focus on the Gaussian interference channel. Here the inflicted interference is measured by the associated minimum mean square error (MMSE). Structure of codes achieving reliable communication at some specific signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and constrained by the permitted MMSE at a lower SNR values, modeling the interference, are discussed. It is shown that layered superposition codes attain optimal performance, providing thus some engineering insight to the relative efficiency of the Han-Kobayashi coding strategy. The Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) behavior of the multi-user Gaussian interference channel is captured by considering the MMSE-Dimension concept, providing a general expression for the DoF. A short outlook concludes the presentation, addressing related research challenges, and also recent results, where interference is measured by the corresponding mutual information.
Joint work with Ronit Bustin, Technion.
Biography: Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) (S'80âM'82âSM'89âF'94) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the TechnionâIsrael 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, TechnionâIsrael 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: Guiseppe Caire, caire@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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W.V.T. Rusch Honors Colloquium; Software Engineering and Crucial Career Advice
Fri, Feb 15, 2013 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Aaron Crow, Software Engineer, Factual
Talk Title: Software Engineering and Crucial Career Advice
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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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Feb 15, 2013 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Zoya Popovic, University of Colorado â Boulder
Talk Title: Microwave GaN Power Amplifiers for Efficient Communication and Radar Transmitters
Abstract: This talk will present an overview of the activities in the microwave and antennas group at the University of Colorado, Boulder, followed by a more detailed discussion of various techniques for obtaining high-efficiency transmitters for non-constant envelope communication and radar signals. Several efficient amplifiers will be presented, for applications such as wind-profiling radar with 3-kW LDMOS pulsed 449-MHz PAs with power added efficiencies (PAE) greater than 65%, to S-band hybrid GaN PAs with 10W output power and PAE>80% and X-band 10-W MMIC GaN PAs with PAE>60%. These amplifiers are integrated into transmitters that use several architectures to maintain efficiency for varying amplitude signals, such as supply modulation, outphasing and harmonic injection at the output. Several transmitters for envelope signal bandwidths exceeding 100MHz, over 6dB peak-to-average ratios, and total system efficiencies greater than 50% will be presented. Since high efficiency is accompanied with high nonlinearity, techniques for linearization will also be discussed.
Biography: Zoya Popovic is a Distinguished Professor and the Hudson Moore Jr. Endowed Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado. She obtained her Dipl.Ing. degree at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and her Ph.D. at Caltech. She has graduated 46 PhDs and currently advises 16 doctoral students in various areas of microwave engineering. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of two IEEE MTT Microwave Prizes for best journal papers, the White House NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow award, the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal, the ASEE/HP Terman Medal and the German Humboldt Research Award. She has a husband physicist and three daughters.
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
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Astani CEE Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Feb 15, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Reza Jafarkhani and Daniel Lakeland, CE Ph.D. Candidates
Talk Title: Use of Stochastic Optimization Techniques for Damage Detection in Complex Nonlinear Systems / Philosophy of Science, Continuum Models, and the Molecular Bar
Abstract:
Social-Immediately Following the Seminar in KAP 209
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Feb 18, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: NO SEMINAR, President's Day (Holiday)
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Epstein Institute / ISE 651 Seminar Series
Tue, Feb 19, 2013 @ 03:45 AM - 05:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Satish T.S. Bukkapatnam, AT&T Professor of Engineering, School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University
Talk Title: "Prediction of Complex Systems Evolution Using Wireless Multi-Sensor Platforms: An Application to Sleep Apnea Mitigation"
Series: Epstein Institute Seminar Series
Abstract: Recent advances in wireless communications and sensing technologies are transforming quality and integrity assurance in real-world complex systemsâ⬔such as ultraprecision manufacturing and human cardiorespiratory processesâ⬔from a reactive detect-diagnose, to a proactive predict-prognose paradigm. Since much of the complexity in these real-world processes emerges from the underlying nonlinear nonstationary dynamics, approaches based on capturing this complexity from sensor signals are essential for their effective prediction and prognosis. Development of such approaches has been identified recently to be one of the ten modern scientific challenges.
This talk introduces a nonparametric Dirichlet process-Gaussian Mixture (DPGM) modeling approach to predict the evolution of process states based on tracking the local nonlinear dynamic topological characteristics underlying the measured signals. The approach is applied for real-time monitoring of a common cardiorespiratory disorder known as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), which is found in 24% of adult males and 9% of adult females, and is considered a major risk factor for stroke and acute cardiorespiratory disorders. The current treatment methods, such as continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) are not suitable to a majority of OSA patients. We developed a wearable wireless multisensory platform to continuously and noninvasively acquire physiological signals, and predict the nonlinear and nonstationary evolution of the coupled cardiorespiratory dynamics from the measured signal features using the DPGM model. Extensive tests employing recordings from the Physionet database and the wearable multisensory unit suggest that the present approach can predict an OSA episode 1 min ahead with an accuracy of 83%, and 3 min ahead with 77% accuracy. Such early detection can be used to adaptively adjust CPAP device airflow or the torso posture to avert major OSA episodes.
Biography: Satish T. S. Bukkapatnam serves as an AT&T Professor of Engineering at Oklahoma State University (OSU). His research addresses the harnessing of high-resolution nonlinear dynamic information, especially from wireless MEMS sensors, to improve the monitoring and prognostics of ultraprecision and nanomanufacturing processes and machines, cardiorespiratory processes, and other complex infrastructure and lifeline systems. His research has led to 122 peer-reviewed publications (70 published/ accepted in journals and 52 in conference proceedings), 5 pending patents, $4.5 million in grants as PI/Co-PI from NSF, DoD and the private sector, and ten best-paper/poster recognitions. He was a recipient of OSU Regents distinguished research award (2011), Halliburton outstanding college of engineering faculty awards (2011 and 2012), IIE Eldin outstanding young industrial engineer award (2012) and SME Dougherty outstanding young manufacturing engineer (2005) award. He received his MS and PhD degrees from the Pennsylvania State University.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: Seminar-Bukkapatnam.doc
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - Room 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Mark Riedl (Georgia Tech): Intelligent Narrative Generation: Creativity, Engagement, and Cognition
Tue, Feb 19, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mark Riedl , Georgia Tech
Talk Title: Intelligent Narrative Generation: Creativity, Engagement, and Cognition
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Storytelling is a pervasive part of the human experience--we as humans tell stories to communicate, inform, entertain, and educate. Indeed there is evidence to suggest that narrative is a fundamental means by which we organize, understand, and explain the world. In this talk, I present research on artificial intelligence approaches to the generation of narrative structures using planning and case-based reasoning. I discuss how computational story generation capabilities facilitate the creation of engaging, interactive user experiences in virtual worlds, computer games, and training simulations. I conclude with an ongoing research effort toward generalized computational narrative intelligence in which a system learns from experiences mediated through crowdsourcing platforms.
Biography: Mark Riedl is an Assistant Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing and director of the Entertainment Intelligence Lab. Dr. Riedl's research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, and storytelling. The principle research question Dr. Riedl addresses through his research is: how can intelligent computational systems reason about and autonomously create engaging experiences for users of virtual worlds and computer games. Dr. Riedl earned a PhD degree in 2004 from North Carolina State University, where he developed intelligent systems for generating stories and managing interactive user experiences in computer games. From 2004 to 2007, Dr. Riedl was a Research Scientist at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies where he researched and developed interactive, narrative-based training systems. Dr. Riedl joined the Georgia Tech College of Computing in 2007 and in 2011 he received a DARPA Young Faculty Award for his work on artificial intelligence, narrative, and virtual worlds. His research is supported by the NSF, DARPA, the U.S. Army, and Disney.
Host: Dr. Michael Zyda
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 321
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Dr. Vangelis Lympouridis: Design and prototyping in Whole Body Interaction
Tue, Feb 19, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Vangelis Lympouridis, USC School of Cinematic Arts
Talk Title: Design and prototyping in Whole Body Interaction
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: The increasing interest in Whole Body Interaction (WBI) emerges in parallel with the development of new technologies for motion tracking, such as Microsoft's Kinect and a wide range of miniature inertial sensors, as well as a broader discussion on the design methodologies and the application of interactive systems in various contexts. WBI systems are expected to deliver meaningful digital responses based on the tracking and analysis of human actions. Body controlled applications need to be realized within a multidimensional design space and must operate through a wide spectrum of contexts. Artistic applications require a different design approach and an open ended collaboration schema for their realization. This presentation discusses various approaches and technologies for WBI design and prototyping in artistic, interactive entertainment and health application contexts.
Biography: Dr. Vangelis Lympouridis is a visiting scholar at USC's School of Cinematic Arts and works for the Creative Media & Behavioral Health Center within the Interactive Media Division. He was awarded his PhD on "Design Strategies for Whole Body Interactive Performance Systems" from the University of Edinburgh and holds an MSc in Sound Design from the same university and a BFA(Hons) in Sculpture and Environmental Art from the Glasgow School of Art. He is interested in technologies for body tracking and the design of whole body interactions primarily for music, dance, theater, interactive entertainment and rehabilitation applications. He has published and participated to various conferences such as NIME, SMC, ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE VR, The Bodycomputing conference and selected papers and his academic profile can be found at his academia.edu page. Vangelis has presented and exhibited personal and site-specific work during workshops and residencies in the UK, US, Canada, Greece, Portugal and Italy, and was a member of the team representing Greece at the 11th Venice Biennial of Architecture in 2008,with the interactive installation ââ¬ÅAthens by Soundââ¬Â.
A copy of his PhD thesis can be downloaded here.
Host: Gerard Medioni
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 107
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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CEE Seminar
Tue, Feb 19, 2013 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Zhen (Jason) He, Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Talk Title: Novel Bioelectrochemical Systems for Water and Wastewater Treatment
Abstract: As an emerging concept, bioelectrochemical systems (BES) have gained significant attention because of their integrated wastewater treatment and bioenergy recovery. The representatives of BES include microbial fuel cells (MFCs), microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) and microbial desalination cells (MDCs). BES takes advantage of microbial metabolism and electrochemical reactions to oxidize organic compounds and generate electrons that can be extracted as electric energy. This energy can be used either to offset the energy consumption by wastewater treatment, or to drive desalination through integrating drinking water treatment with wastewater treatment. The potential for BES to disrupt current water/wastewater treatment processes is significantâ⬔the treatment plants in the U.S. currently consume a large amount of electricity, whose production requires coal and other heavy-polluting fossil fuels. As a result, the negative effects of energy production on the environment combined with ever-increasing demands for clean water and energy are depleting natureââ¬â¢s resources and ultimately affecting human health. BES offer great promise for treating wastewater and/or desalinating saline water in a more energy-efficient way, and can potentially function as an alternative to todayââ¬â¢s treatment processes. However, the current state of BES for practical application is far from readyâ⬔they still possess challenges that limit their application in treating wastewater/water and producing bioenergy, which require intensive and strategic exploration. This presentation will introduce and discuss two potential applications of BES, bioelectrochemical wastewater treatment and bioelectrochemical desalination, and the key issues/challenges of their research and development. The section ââ¬Åbioelectrochemical wastewater treatmentââ¬Â will focus on MFC configuration, system scaling up, electrochemical limitation, microbial community on electrodes, and electrode modification using carbon nanomaterials. Bioelectrochemical desalination will introduce MDC development. Analysis of energy production, transfer and use in MDCs suggests that MDCs should be operated under a high-current condition. To reduce salinity through dilution by extracting useful water from wastewater, forward osmosis is integrated into MFCs to form osmotic MFCs (OsMFCs). We have hydraulically coupled OsMFCs with MDCs and achieved improved treatment of both wastewater and seawater.
Host: Astani CEE Dept.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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CS Colloquium: Michael Kaess (CSAIL, MIT)
Tue, Feb 19, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael Kaess, CSAIL, MIT
Talk Title: Robust and Efficient Real-time Mapping for Autonomous Robots
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: We are starting to see the emergence of autonomous robots that operate outside of controlled factory environments in various applications ranging from driverless cars, space and underwater exploration to service robots for businesses and homes. One of the very first challenges encountered on the way to autonomy is perception: obtaining information about the environment that allows the robot to efficiently navigate through, interact with and manipulate it. Moreover, in many such applications, models of the environment are either unavailable or outdated, thus necessitating real-time robotic mapping using onboard sensors.
In this talk I will present my recent research on efficient optimization techniques for robotic mapping, and in particular focus on the recently developed incremental nonlinear least-squares solver, termed incremental smoothing and mapping (iSAM2). Based on our new probabilistic model called the Bayes tree, iSAM2 efficiently updates an existing solution to a least-squares problem after new measurements are added. I will describe some of the key aspects of my work and also address robustness in optimization. Lastly, I will present applications enabled by iSAM2 including our long-term visual mapping and Kintinuous -- our recent work on dense mapping with RGB-D cameras.
Biography: Michael Kaess is a Research Scientist in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he previously also was a Postdoctoral Associate. He received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008 and 2002, respectively. His research focuses on probabilistic methods for robot perception. He was one of the two runner-ups for the 2012 Volz dissertation award for the best U.S. Ph.D. thesis in robotics and automation that takes into account impact four years after publication.
Host: Fei Sha
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Interviewing for Industry Jobs and Internships: from Preparing Your Resume to Negotiating Your Offer
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Debbie Lewis, Andrea Armani, Ehsan Tajer, Frank He, USC Alumni
Talk Title: Interviewing for Industry Jobs and Internships: from Preparing Your Resume to Negotiating Your Offer
Series: Graduate Students Practical Seminar
Abstract: This practical seminar is organized to introduce the graduate students in Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science to the Viterbi Career Services (VCS) and to hear first-hand from the department alumni about their job search experience and any tips to increase their chance of success. The seminar begins with a brief introduction to the resources available to graduate students at the VCS by Debbie Lewis, the director of VCS. After this presentation, each panelist will introduce themselves and share their job search experience and provide important tips on effective strategies in searching and interviewing for jobs. The panelists will then answer studentsââ¬â¢ questions on the job search process and the dosââ¬â¢ and donââ¬â¢ts at different stages of the process from preparing resumes to negotiating offers.
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Behnam Jafarpour
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Focused on parallel and distributed computing
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Weekly seminars given by researchers in academia and industry including senior doctoral students in EE, CS and ISI covering current research related to parallel and distributed computation including parallel algorithms, high performance computing, scientific computation, application specific architectures, multi-core and many-core architectures and algorithms, application acceleration, reconfigurable computing systems, data intensive systems, Big Data and cloud computing.
Biography: Prerequisite: Students are expected to be familiar with basic concepts at the level of graduate level courses in Computer Engineering and Computer Science in some of these topic areas above. Ph.D. students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science can automatically enroll. M.S. students can enroll only with permission of the instructor. To request permission send a brief mail to the instructor in text format with the subject field ââ¬ÅEE 598ââ¬Â. The body of the mail (in text format) should include name, degree objective, courses taken at USC and grades obtained, prior educational background, and relevant research background, if any.
Requirements for CR:
1. Attending at least 10 seminars during the semester
There will be a sign-in sheet and a sign-out sheet at every seminar. All students must sign-in (before 2:00pm) and sign-out (after 3:00pm). The sign-in sheet will not be available after 2:00pm, and the sign-out sheet will not be available before 3:00pm.
2. Submitting a written report for at least 5 seminars
The written report for each seminar must be 1-page single line spaced format with font size of 12 (Times) or 11 (Arial) without any figures, tables, or graphs. The report must be submitted no later than 1 week after the corresponding seminar, and must be handed only to the instructor either on the seminar times or during office hours. Late reports will not be considered.
The report must summarize studentââ¬â¢s own understanding of the seminar, and should contain the following:
- Your name and submission date [1 line]
- Title of the seminar, name of the speaker, and seminar date [1 line]
- Background of the work (e.g., applications, prior research, etc.) [1 paragraph]
- Highlights of the approaches presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Main results presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Conclusion (your own conclusion and not what was given by the speaker) [1 paragraph]
Reviewing papers related to the topic of the seminar, and incorporating relevant findings in the
reports (e.g., in the conclusion section) is encouraged. In such cases, make sure to clearly indicate
the reference(s) used to derive these conclusions.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR 6
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mohammad Abdel-Majeed and Hyeran Jeon, PhD Students, Electrical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: Energy Efficient and Reliable GPGPU Architecture
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are initially designed to provide a high performance computing for multimedia applications. Due to the efficiency of their execution model, nowadays GPUs are used to run scientific, medical and financial workloads in addition to the multimedia workloads. In this talk we will explore the opportunities in current GPUs that can be used to support a reliable and power efficient execution without affecting the overall performance of GPUs.
In the first part of the talk we will go through some workloads characterization experiments to explore the available opportunities for reliable and power efficient solutions. In the second part we will introduce two mechanisms based on the explored opportunities. The first mechanism is warped DMR that focuses on designing a reliable execution model in GPUs in order to match with the reliability requirements for the new set of application domains. The second mechanism is warped register file that targets designing a power efficient register file for GPUs in order to mitigate the wasted leakage and the dynamic power caused by the mismatch in applications requirements.
Biography: Mohammad Abdel-Majeed is a 3rd year PhD student in Electrical Engineering department at University of Southern California. He is working under the supervision of Professor Murali Annavaram and his research focuses on the power efficiency in the modern high throughput processors.
Hyeran Jeon is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering department of University of Southern California. She is also a member of SCIP lab led by Professor Murali Annavaram. Her research interest is in architectural support for reliable computing.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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CS Colloquium: Christoph Dorn (TU Vienna)
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Christoph Dorn, Technical University of Vienna
Talk Title: Models and Techniques for the Design and Self-Adaptation of Socio-Technical Systems
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: The emergence of socio-technical systems characterized by significant user collaboration poses a new challenge for system adaptation. People are no longer just the óusersò of a system but an integral part. Traditional self-adaptation mechanisms, however, consider only the software system and remain unaware of the ramifications arising from collaboration interdependencies. By neglecting collective user behavior, an adaptation mechanism is unfit to appropriately adapt to evolution of user activities, consider side-effects on collaborations during the adaptation process, or anticipate negative consequence upon reconfiguration completion. Inspired by existing architecture-centric system adaptation approaches, I will make the case for a human architecture model and linking it to the runtime software architecture.
I will introduce a mapping mechanism and corresponding framework that enables a system adaptation manager to reason upon the effect of software-level changes on human interactions and vice versa.
Biography: Christoph Dorn, PhD, worked since 2006 as a research assistant at the Technical University of Vienna. He received his Degree in Business Informatic MSocEcSc in 2004 and his PhD in Computer Science in 2009. His research interest is focused on Collaborative Working Environments, Adaptive Collaboration Patterns, Software Architecture, Team formation heuristics, and Self-adaptive Ad-hoc Workflows. Recently awarded an Austrian Science Fond Schroedinger Mobility Fellowship (Marie Curie Co-funded), Christoph was a visiting researcher with Prof. Richard Taylor at U.C. Irvine from March 2011 to August 2012. He is currently spending his fellowship return phase at the Distributed Systems Group (TU Vienna).
Host: Nenad Medvidovic
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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USC Physical Sciences and Oncology Center Monthly Seminar Series
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 @ 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Donald Ingber M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School, Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Founding Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Talk Title: Can Cancer Be Reversed by Engineering the Tumor Microenvironment?ââ¬Â
Abstract: This presentation will summarize studies carried out by my research group over the past thirty years that are based on the belief that cancer is a disease of developmental control, and that the production of cancer stem cells, epithelial-mesenchymal transitions, angiogenesis and unrestrained cell growth that drive tumor formation and metastatic progression result from abnormal alterations of the tissue microenvironment that feed back to influence gene expression. This view is supported by the finding that cancer cell growth, differentiation and apoptosis can be influenced by altering non-genetic environmental factors, such as extracellular matrix and mechanical forces, and by theoretical and experimental studies which suggest that regulatory stimuli must simultaneously perturb multiple genes in the genome-wide gene regulatory network to induce cell fate switching. The lecture will review this work, and present more recent experimental findings that support the possibility of developing cancer-normalizing therapeutics.
Biography: USC was selected to establish a $16 million cancer research center as part of a new strategy against the disease by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and its National Cancer Institute. The new center is one of 12 in the nation to receive the designation. During the five-year initiative, the Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers will take new, nontraditional approaches to cancer research by studying the physical laws and principles of cancer; evolution and the evolutionary theory of cancer; information coding, decoding, transfer and translation in cancer; and ways to de-convolute cancer's complexity. As part of the outreach component of this grant, the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine is hosting a monthly seminar series.
Host: USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center
Location: Clinical Science Center (CSC) - Harkness Auditorium #250
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kristina Gerber
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BME
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Anita Shukla, NIH Ruth Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Bioengineering, Rice University
Talk Title: Designer Surfaces: From Treating Traumatic Injury to Directing Cell Behavior
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 100C
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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W.V.T. Rusch Honors Program; Hitchhikers Guide to Particle Physics
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Gene Bickers, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Programs
Talk Title: Hitchhikers Guide to Particle Physics
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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Guest Lecture in ISE 576 (Industrial Ecology)
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Sangwon Suh, Associate Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science, UC Santa Barbara
Talk Title: Life Cycle Assessment Tools for Green Buildings and Construction
Biography: Dr. Suh's research concerns understanding how industries utilize natural resources and energy while producing goods and services, wastes, and pollution -- also called "industrial metabolism". In particular, he has been studying the methods and applications of life cycle assessment (LCA), a tool to evaluate a product's environmental impacts from raw material extraction to manufacturing, use and recycling in a closed loop system. Dr. Suh's research has been supported by a number of funding sources including government agencies (NSF and USDA/DOE) as well as industries such as ExxonMobil Corp. and Xcel Energy.
Host: Dr. Bob Vos and Dr. Mansour Rahimi
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 120
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mansour Rahimi
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Friedman, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Talk Title: High Data Rate Communications: Solutions and Challenges
Abstract: Bandwidth growth is a key driver for performance growth in a wide range of arenas, especially including servers and high performance ASICs. Yet while mixed-signal circuits do not accrue nearly the scaling-derived improvements in power-per-operation as do digital processing circuits, desired bandwidth growth must nevertheless be delivered in the context of power constraints that are increasingly inflexible. This presentation will first provide an overview of work underway in the Communication and Computation Subsystems department within IBM Research, and will then focus on key solutions and challenges regarding high data rate communications for future systems applications. Example designs discussed will illustrate the continuing interplay and evolution of the roles of architecture, packaging, mixed-signal design, and technology in addressing the bandwidth needs of future computing systems.
Biography: Daniel Friedman received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from Harvard University. After completing post-doctoral work in image sensor design, he joined IBM Research, initially to work on analog circuits and air interface protocols for field-powered RFID tags. In 1999, he began working on analog circuit design for high-speed SerDes macros and became manager of a team focused on I/O and PLL designs shortly thereafter. He is now senior manager of the communication circuits and systems department, which includes groups working on mixed high speed analog/digital design, mmWave design, and FPGA designs; he also chairs the wireline sub-committee of ISSCC.
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi and Prof. Mike Chen
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
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Astani CEE Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Armen Derkevorkian , CE Ph.D. Candidates
Talk Title: Computational Models for Response Prediction and Change Detection in Nonlinear Soil-Foundation-Superstructure Systems
Abstract: Data-driven reduced-order computational models are proposed to predict the response of complex linear and nonlinear soil-foundation-superstructure (SFS) systems to various non-stationary random excitations. The proposed models are further investigated to establish a general change detection scheme that can be applied on broad range of structural systems. The reduced-order models are developed by incorporating trained neural networks within an ordinary differential equation (ODE) solver and dynamically predicting the response (i.e., displacement and velocity) of the SFS systems to various earthquake records. Then, the models are used for system identification and change detection in the SFS systems. Effects of input delays are investigated in improving the fidelity of the trained networks. The detected changes in the systems are quantified through a measure of a normalized error index. The developed models are tested and validated using experimental data from three relatively large-scale SFS systems. The three systems under consideration consist of identical superstructures with: (a) fixed base; (b) box foundation; and (c) pile foundation. The three SFS systems were developed and experimentally tested at Tongji University. Excitations with various intensity levels were applied on each system to obtain both linear and nonlinear response. It is shown that the general neural network procedure adopted in this paper provides a robust nonlinear model that is reliable for computational studies, as well as furnishing a robust tool for detecting and quantifying inherent change in the target structure.
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Feb 25, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ian Y. Wong, Ph.D., Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow Center for Engineering in Medicine, Department of Surgery Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Talk Title: Biosystems Engineering and the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Cancer
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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EE-Electrophysics Seminar
Mon, Feb 25, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Rehen Kapadia, University of California, Berkeley
Talk Title: Electronics Without Borders: Moving Towards Any Semiconductor âX’ on Any Substrate âY’
Abstract: Pushing the boundaries of electron devicesâfrom transistors to photovoltaicsâdemands complete control over device architectures and material systems. However, traditional growth and fabrication techniques often fall short when optimal design calls for non-planar geometries or integration of non-epitaxial material systems.
Thus, development of techniques for X-on-Y growth and integration, such as: (i) bottom-up growth of geometry and shape-controlled nanowires, (ii) integration of dissimilar material systems such as III-V’s and Si, and (iii) direct growth of high-quality semiconductors on metals are critical. In this talk, I discuss how semiconductor layer transfer techniques can be used to fabricate high-mobility III-V transistors on Si substrates, and the vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth mode can be used to grow templated nanowires and high-quality InP thin films directly on metal foils.
Specifically, I will cover three methods that move towards enabling X-on-Y. First, I will show a compound semiconductor on insulator (XOI) layer transfer technique that enables integration of free-standing, ultra-thin III-V membranes on Si substrates. The second method is a templated VLS nanowire growth technique for 3-D semiconductor structures on metal substrates. The last technique I illustrate is a thin-film vapor-liquid-solid growth technique for the direct growth of large grain (10-100 micron) polycrystalline InP on metal substrates.
Biography: Rehan Kapadia is currently a graduate researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellow, and has published 24 journal articles, in journals such as Nature, Applied Physics Letters, Nano Letters, and Advanced Materials. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University at Texas at Austin, M.S from UC Berkeley and will receive his Ph.D from UC Berkeley May 2013. His research interests center on material growth techniques that enable high-performance, scalable electronics, with a focus on energy devices.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 324
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Astani CEE Seminar
Mon, Feb 25, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Christian Hellmich, Ph.D., Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria
Talk Title: Engineering Science and Mechanics as Key to the Mathematical Identification of "Universal" Patterns Pervading Mineralized Biological Tissues, and Beyond
Abstract:
According to the eminent Austro-American zoologist Rupert Riedl (1925-2005), "ââ¬Â¦ the living world happens to be crowded by universal patterns of organization ââ¬Â¦Ã¢â¬Â. While Riedl, as ââ¬Åclassicalââ¬Â biologist, typically took a descriptive approach to this issue, we ventured, over the last decade and in particular during the last few years, into an engineering science approach of mathematical nature, where we have indeed been successful in identifying ââ¬Å¾universalââ¬Å rules/patterns in structural biology and their mechanical consequences. A majority of our investigations concerned mineralized biological tissues such as bones, for which we identified the following mathematically cast rules: (I) In extracellular bone tissues across different organs from different animals/humans at different ages, mineral (hydroxyapatite) and collagen contents are not randomly assgined to each other, but fulfill astonishingly precise bilinear relations1, which follow from rigorous evaluation of dehydration, demineralization, ashing, and de-organifying test data collected over a time period of more than 80 years of experimental research. Furthermore, (II) the distribution of mineral throughout the extracellular bone matrix or ultrastructure, i.e. its partitioning into the fibrillar and extrafibrillar spaces is governed by the on-average uniformity of hydroxyapatite concentration in the extracollageneous space2, as was evidenced from chemical tests like the ones mentioned before, in combination with transmission electron micrographs. Before mineralization (as well as in unmineralized collageneous tissues such as tendon or cartilage), the fibrillar and extrafibrillar spaces again obey another general rule: (III) Upon hydration, the extrafibrillar space grows propertional to the fibrillar volume gain due to accomodation of water in the intermolecular spaces3, as evidenced from dehydration and neutron diffraction tests. Finally, (IV) mineralization of such tissues is driven by fluid-to-solid phase transformations in the extracollageneous space under closed thermodynamic conditions4, predicting precisely the volume losses which the tissues undergo during mineralization. All these compositional and structural rules may serve as ideal input for multiscale mechanics models for the elasticity5, strength6, and creep7 of bone tissues; enabling various clinical applications, such as Computed Tomography (CT)-based Finite Element (FE) analysis for biomaterial design8.
The knowledge we gained in studying biological tissue, was also instrumental in driving forward the multiscale mechanics of wood9, ceramics10, and concrete11, materials that share quite some microstructural, chemical, and mechanical features with bone.
Biography: Dr. Christian Hellmich is Full Professor for Strength of Materials and Computational Mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). At this university, he received his engineering degree in 1995, his Ph.D. Degree in 1999, and his Habilitation degree in 2004. Between 2000 and 2002, he was a Max Kade Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work is strongly focussed on well-validated material and (micro)structural models, both for materials such as concrete, soil, rock, wood, or bone as well as man-made biomaterials, and for structures such as tunnels, pipelines, bridges, or the vertebrate skeleton including implants and tissue engineering scaffolds - with complementary experimental activities if necessary. He has held several leadership positions in projects with the tunnel and pipeline industry, as well as in the interdisciplinary and international material research activities sponsored by the European Commission, including his role as the coordinator of the mixed industry-academia consortium ââ¬ÅBIO-CT-EXPLOITââ¬Â, merging computer tomography with continuum micromechanics. He has published 85 papers in international refereed scientific journals in the fields of engineering mechanics, materials science, and theoretical biology, 19 book chapters, and more than 100 papers in refereed conference proceedings. Dr. Hellmich has served as the Chairman of both the Properties of Materials Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Poromechanics Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Institute, as associate editor of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), and in the editorial board for six other journals. As community service, he has (co-)chaired and/or supported more than 50 international conferences, and reviewed for 71 scientific journals and 11 science foundations. He was awarded the Kardinal Innitzer Science Award of the Archbishopry of Vienna in 2004 (for his habilitation thesis), the Science Award of the State of Lower Austria in 2005 (for his achievements in the micromechanics of hierarchical composites), and he was the recipient of the 2008 Zienkiewicz Award for Young Scientists in Computational Engineering Sciences, sponsored by the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS). For further activities in the multiscale poro-micromechanics of bone materials, he received one of the highly prestigious ERC Grants of the European Research Council in 2010: and he was elected member the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2011. In 2012, he was rewarded the prestigious Walter L. Huber Research Prize of the ASCE, for his contributions to the microporomechanics of hierarchical geomaterials and biomaterials.
Host: Prof. Roger Ghanem
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 Conference Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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CS Colloquium: Michael Carey (UCI)
Mon, Feb 25, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael Carey, University of California, Irvine
Talk Title: One Size Fits A Bunch: The ASTERIX Approach to Big Data Management
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Like most fields, the database field has gone through various eras - a.k.a. pendulum swings - and we are currently in the era of "One Size Fits All: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone". This is great news for industry sectors such as the Bubble Gum industry and the international consortium of Baling Wire manufacturers, and it is also very good news for Information Integration enthusiasts. Why? Because the current state of practice related to "Big Data" involves somehow piecing together many systems whose target sizes fit different use cases. This talk will provide an overview of the ASTERIX project at UC Irvine, a counter-cultural systems project in SoCal in which we are building a new, coherent, scalable, open-source "Big Data" software stack that we hope will solve a range of problems that today require too many piece parts to solve.
Biography: Michael J. Carey is an ex-long-time member of the NorCal database community. Carey defected to SoCal in 2008, where he is currently a Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine. Prior to his defection, he worked at BEA Systems in NorCal as the chief architect of (and an engineering director for) BEA's AquaLogic Data Services Platform. Carey also did time as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, at IBM Almaden as a database researcher/manager, and as a Fellow (and briefly VP of Software) at e-commerce software startup Propel Software during the 2000-2001 Internet bubble. He is an ACM Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the ACM SIGMOD E. F. Codd Innovations Award. His current research interests are centered around data-intensive computing and scalable data management.
Host: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 @ 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you'll need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what you�ve learned. This course is presented in the classroom in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIE�s Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
NOTE: Participants must bring a laptop computer running Microsoft Office� to the seminar.
Course Topics
* Business process management
* Computer applications
* Design of experiments (DOE)
* Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
* DMAIIC
* Enterprisewide deployment
* Lean enterprise
* Project management
* Regression and correlation modeling
* Statistical methods and sampling
* Statistical process control
* Team processes
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Analyze process data using comprehensive statistical methods
* Control the process to assure that improvements are used and the benefits verified
* Define an opportunity for improving customer satisfaction
* Implement the recommended improvements
* Improve existing processes by reducing variation
* Measure process characteristics that are critical to quality
Who Should Attend
* VPs, COOs, CEOs
* Employees new to a managerial position
* Employees preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
* Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
* Anyone interested in implementing Lean or Six Sigma in their organization
Program Fees
On-Campus Participants: $6095
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $6095
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Reduced Pricing:
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): Reduced pricing is available for members of IIE. Please contact professional@mapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, current students, faculty, and staff receive 10% reduced pricing on registration.
Boeing: Boeing employees receive 20% off registration fees (please use Boeing email address when registering).
Location
Two course delivery options are available for participants, on-campus and online with interactivity:
On-Campus Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on-campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area. For travel information, please visit our Travel section.
Overview of on-campus option:
* The ability to interact with faculty and peers in-person.
* Access to hard copy course materials.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
* If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
* Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants � unless otherwise specified.
Online (Interactivity) Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
* Virtually participate in the course live � with the ability to either ask questions or chat questions to the entire class.
* WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 10.5 (CEUs provided by request only)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of course.
Upon completion, participants will also receive their Institute of Industrial Engineers certification in SIx Sigma Black Belt.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
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CS Colloquium: Alberto Rodriguez: Contacting the World with Mechanical and Data-Driven Intelligence
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Alberto Rodriguez, Carnegie Mellon
Talk Title: Contacting the World with Mechanical and Data-Driven Intelligence
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: In the next 10 to 20 years, society will look towards robotics to solve some of its biggest challenges: from improving the self-sufficiency of an aging population, to enabling more efficient and intelligent manufacturing processes; from assisting in dangerous environmental cleanup operations, to providing immediate support in search and rescue emergencies. Reliable physical interaction is central to all these challenges, and robots must master it to become part of the solution.
End effectors such as robotic hands play a privileged role in the manipulation chain. They contact the world, and both their designs and their actions can contribute to more intelligent and reliable physical interaction. In my research I explore both. The central idea is to combine the simplicity and reliability of end effectors and control strategies designed to exhibit mechanical intelligence with the realism of data-driven models to give robots the necessary skills to expect, understand, and control contact.
In the first part of the talk I will discuss the role of the design of a mechanism in producing intelligent behavior. I will show how mechanical attributes such as shape, actuation, or compliance, can be instrumental in the design of effectors that are simpler, cheaper, lighter, and more reliable, and how exploring their design tradeoffs has the potential to impact a very broad set of applications, from automating the design of specialized grippers to the design of feet and locomotion gaits that take into consideration the statistics of the terrain.
In the second part of the talk I will address the problem of getting robots to control physical interaction through their actions. Contact leaves a trace of sensor readings that a skilled manipulator should be able to understand to direct its actions. I will show how we can build accurate probabilistic data-driven models for perception, planning, prediction, and failure detection, to direct and monitor the execution of manipulation tasks, with example applications to general-purpose in-hand manipulation and automated assembly.
Biography: Alberto Rodriguez is a Ph.D. candidate at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His main research interests are in robotic manipulation, including mechanical design, data-driven manipulation, grasping, caging, and automated assembly. His long-term research goal is to provide robots with enough sensing, reasoning and acting capabilities to reliably manipulate the environment. Alberto Rodriguez received the degrees of Mathematics ('05) and Telecommunication Engineering ('06 with honors) from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain. He is the recipient of "La Caixa" and "Caja Madrid" fellowships for graduate studies in the US, and the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the conference Robotics: Science and Systems 2011.
Host: Fei Sha
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Astani CEE Seminar
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Mardavij Roozbehani , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Talk Title: Efficiency and Risk Tradeoffs in Dynamic Multi-Agent Networked Systems
Abstract: In this talk, we first introduce a few problems that arise in the context of modeling, analysis, and design of future power networks, and in characterization of the trade-offs that exist among different performance and robustness objectives in such networks. We will then introduce a specific model of a dynamic oligopolistic energy market, in which, a set of distributed agents with market power dynamically update their output (consumption or production) decisions. In this model, the agents have complete knowledge of how their decisions affect the market price, and are fully rational in strategizing their decisions to minimize their expected cost. By characterizing the statistics of the stationary aggregate output process across a spectrum of networks from fully cooperative to fully non-cooperative, we show that a tradeoff exists between efficiency (aggregate system cost) and risk (tail probability of aggregate output). Although the non-cooperative network leads to an efficiency loss - widely known as the "price of anarchy" - the stationary distribution of the corresponding aggregate output process has a smaller tail, whereas, the cooperative network achieves higher efficiency at the cost of a higher probability of output spikes. Furthermore, the cooperative network has a smaller output variance, which can be interpreted as higher robustness to disturbances, but it also has a higher probability of large output spikes, which can be interpreted as higher fragility to certain disturbances. We then establish the connection between these tradeoffs and some results from the classical control literature, and conclude with suggestions for future research directions.
Biography: Mardavij Roozbehani is a principal research scientist at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received the Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 2008. His Ph.D. research focused on developing a control theoretic framework for verification and implementation of software systems. Between 2008 and 2011 he held postdoctoral and research scientist positions at MIT, LIDS, focusing on applications of control and optimization in power systems and energy networks. His current research interests and activities include distributed and networked control systems, software and finite-state control systems, and dynamics and economics of energy networks with an emphasis on robustness and risk. Dr Roozbehani is the recipient of the 2007 AIAA graduate award for safety verification of real-time software systems.
Host: Dr. Ketan Savla
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Epstein Institute / ISE 651 Seminar Series
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 @ 03:45 PM - 05:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: John Slaughter, Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering and the Rossier School of Education
Talk Title: "The Changing Face of Engineering"
Abstract: America is a nation embroiled in a global contest for scientific and technological leadership. In todayââ¬â¢s flat world, we must act quickly on a number of fronts to maintain a strong position of competitiveness in science and technology in order to ensure a future of prosperity and security. Failure to act will guarantee that preeminence in innovation and entrepreneurship will reside in the hands of those nations that are most adept at developing and retaining talent. As Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said, ââ¬ÅIf we fail to act, the looming gap in the U.S. science and engineering workforce is a quiet crisis that will grow in intensity and quickly undermine the ability of our nation to continue as the preeminent leader in science and engineering.ââ¬Â
Given the demographic changes occurring in America, the deficiencies in many of our elementary and secondary schools, the tremendous progress in science and technology occurring in developing countries, and tightening immigration policies, we can no longer depend upon an endless supply of foreign talent, nor continue to afford the historic underrepresentation of women and minorities in the STEM disciplines. Confronting the Grand Challenges of Engineering will require that we improve opportunities for all Americans to receive rigorous and high quality educations in science and engineering. In short, the engineering profession must shed itself of the myopia that has limited its ability to benefit from the remarkable diversity of America. As Dean Yortsos stated in the concluding paragraph of his editorial, ââ¬Å . . . the realization is urgently emerging of the need to engage all of our talent pool.ââ¬Â
Diversity is not an issue that was on the radar screen of the engineering profession in America until the latter decades of the 20th Century. It was not until 1974 that an industry-inspired national program was initiated to increase the number of underrepresented minority baccalaureate graduates. In that year, the proportion of African Americans, Latinos and American Indians reached one percent of the cohort of approximately 44,000 B.S. engineering graduates. The number of women engineering graduates was similarly miniscule. While it is true that progress has been made since that time, especially with the presence of women, the representation of members of these minority groups among engineering students as well as practitioners still lags far behind their presence in the population. It is important, though dismaying, to note that industry and government have done a better job of diversifying their senior technical and management-level engineering positions than have our research universities with their engineering faculties.
Biography: Dr. John Brooks Slaughter joined the Rossier School of Education in January, 2010 as Professor of Education, with a joint appointment at the Viterbi School of Engineering. Slaughter has had remarkably distinguished career, which began as an electrical engineer and includes leading two universities and heading the National Science Foundation (NSF) as its first African American director, among many other accomplishments.
In 1956, Slaughter began his career as an engineer at General Dynamics Convair, which he left in 1960 to work as a civilian at the United States Naval Electronics Laboratory Center in San Diego. He worked for the Navy for 15 years, becoming director of the Information Systems Technology Department. Slaughter went on to become director of the Applied Physics Laboratory, a research and development facility at the University of Washington in Seattle, until his appointment as assistant director of the Astronomical, Atmospheric, Earth and Ocean Sciences directorate of the NSF in Washington, D.C. in 1977.
In 1979, Slaughter became academic vice president and provost of Washington State University, but left for his historic appointment in 1980 as the first African American to direct the National Science Foundation (NSF). He returned to higher education in 1982 as chancellor of the University of Maryland, where he made major advancements in the recruitment and retention of African American students and faculty.
Slaughter took the job of president of Occidental College in 1988, and transformed the school during his 11-year tenure into the most diverse liberal arts college in America. He taught courses in diversity and leadership for one year as Irving R. Melbo Professor of Leadership Education at USC before accepting the position of president and CEO of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), whose mission is to increase the number of engineers of color, in 2000.
Slaughter holds honorary degrees from more than 25 institutions, and has received numerous awards, including the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Award in 1997; UCLA Medal of Excellence in 1989; the first U.S. Black Engineer of the Year award in 1987; the NAE Arthur M. Bueche Award in 2004; UCLA Distinguished Alumnus of the Year in 1978; NSF Distinguished Service Award in 1979, among many others.
Slaughter holds a Ph.D. in engineering science from the University of California, San Diego (1971), a M.S. in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (1961), and a B.S. in Computer Sciences from Kansas State University (1956).
More Information: Seminar-Slaughter.doc
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - Room 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Wed, Feb 27, 2013 @ 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you'll need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what you�ve learned. This course is presented in the classroom in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIE�s Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
NOTE: Participants must bring a laptop computer running Microsoft Office� to the seminar.
Course Topics
* Business process management
* Computer applications
* Design of experiments (DOE)
* Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
* DMAIIC
* Enterprisewide deployment
* Lean enterprise
* Project management
* Regression and correlation modeling
* Statistical methods and sampling
* Statistical process control
* Team processes
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Analyze process data using comprehensive statistical methods
* Control the process to assure that improvements are used and the benefits verified
* Define an opportunity for improving customer satisfaction
* Implement the recommended improvements
* Improve existing processes by reducing variation
* Measure process characteristics that are critical to quality
Who Should Attend
* VPs, COOs, CEOs
* Employees new to a managerial position
* Employees preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
* Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
* Anyone interested in implementing Lean or Six Sigma in their organization
Program Fees
On-Campus Participants: $6095
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $6095
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Reduced Pricing:
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): Reduced pricing is available for members of IIE. Please contact professional@mapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, current students, faculty, and staff receive 10% reduced pricing on registration.
Boeing: Boeing employees receive 20% off registration fees (please use Boeing email address when registering).
Location
Two course delivery options are available for participants, on-campus and online with interactivity:
On-Campus Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on-campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area. For travel information, please visit our Travel section.
Overview of on-campus option:
* The ability to interact with faculty and peers in-person.
* Access to hard copy course materials.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
* If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
* Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants � unless otherwise specified.
Online (Interactivity) Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
* Virtually participate in the course live � with the ability to either ask questions or chat questions to the entire class.
* WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 10.5 (CEUs provided by request only)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of course.
Upon completion, participants will also receive their Institute of Industrial Engineers certification in SIx Sigma Black Belt.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
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AME - Department Seminar
Wed, Feb 27, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Eric Lauga , Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Talk Title: Micron-Scale Carpets: The Optimal Hydrodynamics of Cilia
Abstract: The world of self-propelled low-Reynolds number swimmers is inhabited by a myriad of microorganisms such as bacteria, spermatozoa, ciliates, and plankton. In this talk, we focus on the locomotion of ciliated cells. Cilia are short slender whiplike appendages (a few microns long, one tenth of a micron wide) internally actuated by molecular motors (dyneins) which generate a distribution of bending moments along the cilium length and produce time-varying shape deformations. In most cases cilia are not found individually but instead in densely packed arrays on surfaces. In this talk we will ask the question: can the individual and collective dynamics of cilia on the surface of an individual microorganism be rationalized as the solution to an optimization problem? We first address the deformation of individual cilia anchored on surfaces before characterizing the locomotion and feeding by surface distortions of swimmers covered by cilia array. We demonstrate, as solution to the optimization procedure, the appearance of the well-known two-stroke kinematics of an individual cilium, as well as waves in cilia array reminiscent of experimentally-observed metachronal waves.
Host: Professor Kanso
More Info: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/2-27-13-lauga.shtml
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - Room 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/2-27-13-lauga.shtml
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 @ 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you'll need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what you�ve learned. This course is presented in the classroom in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIE�s Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
NOTE: Participants must bring a laptop computer running Microsoft Office� to the seminar.
Course Topics
* Business process management
* Computer applications
* Design of experiments (DOE)
* Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
* DMAIIC
* Enterprisewide deployment
* Lean enterprise
* Project management
* Regression and correlation modeling
* Statistical methods and sampling
* Statistical process control
* Team processes
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Analyze process data using comprehensive statistical methods
* Control the process to assure that improvements are used and the benefits verified
* Define an opportunity for improving customer satisfaction
* Implement the recommended improvements
* Improve existing processes by reducing variation
* Measure process characteristics that are critical to quality
Who Should Attend
* VPs, COOs, CEOs
* Employees new to a managerial position
* Employees preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
* Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
* Anyone interested in implementing Lean or Six Sigma in their organization
Program Fees
On-Campus Participants: $6095
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $6095
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Reduced Pricing:
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): Reduced pricing is available for members of IIE. Please contact professional@mapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, current students, faculty, and staff receive 10% reduced pricing on registration.
Boeing: Boeing employees receive 20% off registration fees (please use Boeing email address when registering).
Location
Two course delivery options are available for participants, on-campus and online with interactivity:
On-Campus Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on-campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area. For travel information, please visit our Travel section.
Overview of on-campus option:
* The ability to interact with faculty and peers in-person.
* Access to hard copy course materials.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
* If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
* Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants � unless otherwise specified.
Online (Interactivity) Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
* Virtually participate in the course live � with the ability to either ask questions or chat questions to the entire class.
* WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 10.5 (CEUs provided by request only)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of course.
Upon completion, participants will also receive their Institute of Industrial Engineers certification in SIx Sigma Black Belt.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
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USC's Homeland Security Center (CREATE) Monthly Seminar Series
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Jun Zhuang , Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (UB, or SUNY-Buffalo)
Talk Title: ââ¬ÅBalancing Congestion and Security in the Presence of Strategic Applicants with Private Informationââ¬Â
Series: CREATE Monthly Seminar Series
Abstract: Concerns on security and congestion appear in security screening which is used to identify and deter potential threats (e.g., attackers, terrorists, smugglers, spies) among normal applicants wishing to enter an organization, location, or facility. Generally, in-depth screening reduces the risk of being attacked, but creates delays that may deter normal applicants and thus, decrease the welfare of the approver (authority, manager, screener). In this research, we develop a model to determine the optimal screening policy to maximize the reward from admitting normal applicants net of the penalty from admitting bad applicants. We use an M/M/n queueing system to capture the impact of security screening policies on system congestion and use game theory to model strategic behavior, in which potential applicants with private information can decide whether to apply based on the observed approver's screening policy and the submission behavior of other potential applicants. We provide analytical solutions for the optimal non-discriminatory screening policy and numerical illustrations for both the discriminatory and non-discriminatory policies. In addition, we discuss more complex scenarios including robust screening, imperfect screening, abandonment behavior, and complex server networks.
Biography: Presenter: Dr. Jun Zhuang has been an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (UB, or SUNY-Buffalo), since he obtained his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering in 2008 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Zhuang has a M.S. in Agricultural Economics in 2004 from the University of Kentucky, and a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering in 2002 from Southeast University, China. Dr. Zhuang's long-term research goal is to integrate operations research, game theory, and decision analysis to improve mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery for natural and man-made disasters. Other areas of interest include health care, sports, transportation, supply chain management, and sustainability. Dr. Zhuang's research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) and the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) through the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Dr. Zhuang is a fellow of the 2011 U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (AF SFFP), sponsored by the AFOSR. Dr. Zhuang is also a fellow of the 2009-2010 Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers Program, sponsored by the NSF. Dr. Zhuang has published 30 peer-reviewed journal articles in Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Military Operations Research, Risk Analysis, Decision Analysis, among others. His research and educational activities have been highlighted in The Wall Street Journal, Industrial Engineer, Stanford GSB News, The Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, The Pre-Engineering Times, among others. He is on Editorial Board of Decision Analysis, is the co-Editor of Decision Analysis Today, and has reviewed proposals for NSF/ASEE/DOD/NASA, book chapters for Springer, and articles for 50+ academic journals and conferences for 180+ times. Dr. Zhuang dedicates to mentoring high school, undergraduate, and graduate students in research. Dr. Zhuang's mentoring effort has been recognized by the 2008 Graduate Student Mentor Award from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the 2012 President Emeritus and Mrs. Martin Meyerson Award for Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring from University at Buffalo.
To ensure that I order your lunch, please RSVP to calicchi@usc.edu no later than Monday, February 25, 2013.
Please advise if you require a vegetarian option. Hope to see you there!
Best Regards,
Erin
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)
Location: Charles Lee Powell Hall (PHE) - 223
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kelly Buccola
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Focused on parallel and distributed computing
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Weekly seminars given by researchers in academia and industry including senior doctoral students in EE, CS and ISI covering current research related to parallel and distributed computation including parallel algorithms, high performance computing, scientific computation, application specific architectures, multi-core and many-core architectures and algorithms, application acceleration, reconfigurable computing systems, data intensive systems, Big Data and cloud computing.
Biography: Prerequisite: Students are expected to be familiar with basic concepts at the level of graduate level courses in Computer Engineering and Computer Science in some of these topic areas above. Ph.D. students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science can automatically enroll. M.S. students can enroll only with permission of the instructor. To request permission send a brief mail to the instructor in text format with the subject field ââ¬ÅEE 598ââ¬Â. The body of the mail (in text format) should include name, degree objective, courses taken at USC and grades obtained, prior educational background, and relevant research background, if any.
Requirements for CR:
1. Attending at least 10 seminars during the semester
There will be a sign-in sheet and a sign-out sheet at every seminar. All students must sign-in (before 2:00pm) and sign-out (after 3:00pm). The sign-in sheet will not be available after 2:00pm, and the sign-out sheet will not be available before 3:00pm.
2. Submitting a written report for at least 5 seminars
The written report for each seminar must be 1-page single line spaced format with font size of 12 (Times) or 11 (Arial) without any figures, tables, or graphs. The report must be submitted no later than 1 week after the corresponding seminar, and must be handed only to the instructor either on the seminar times or during office hours. Late reports will not be considered.
The report must summarize studentââ¬â¢s own understanding of the seminar, and should contain the following:
- Your name and submission date [1 line]
- Title of the seminar, name of the speaker, and seminar date [1 line]
- Background of the work (e.g., applications, prior research, etc.) [1 paragraph]
- Highlights of the approaches presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Main results presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Conclusion (your own conclusion and not what was given by the speaker) [1 paragraph]
Reviewing papers related to the topic of the seminar, and incorporating relevant findings in the
reports (e.g., in the conclusion section) is encouraged. In such cases, make sure to clearly indicate
the reference(s) used to derive these conclusions.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR COURSE #7
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Daniel Wong, PhD Student, Electrical Engineerin, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: Energy Proportional Datacenter Servers
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Energy proportionality (EP), the notion where power consumption should be proportional to utilization, is becoming an increasingly important concept in datacenter servers. In this talk, we introduce metrics to accurately quantify energy proportionality and analyze historical EP trends to identify opportunities to improve EP. We find that there exists large energy proportionality gap at low utilization and we present KnightShift, a server-level heterogeneous server that introduces an active low-power mode through the addition of a tightly-coupled compute node called the Knight. We evaluated KnightShift against a variety of real-world datacenter workloads using a combination of prototyping and simulation, showing up to 75% energy savings with tail latency bounded by the latency of the Knight and up to 14% improvement to Performance per TCO dollar spent.
Biography: Daniel Wong is a PhD student working with Prof. Murali Annavaram in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on novel energy efficient architectures spanning from datacenter servers to GPGPUs. His research has been recognized as one of IEEE Microââ¬â¢s Top Picks in Computer Architecture for 2013. He earned his BS degree in Computer Engineering/Computer Science and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from USC in 2009 and 2011, respectively.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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Viterbi Keynote Lecture
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: John M. Cioffi, Ph.D., Hitachi Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Talk Title: Ubiquitous Cost-Effective Gigabit per Second Broadband Access: It's Coming, and Not The Way You Think!
Series: Distinguished Lecturer Series
Abstract: Billions of people worldwide regularly use and depend upon the Internet in their daily lives. The volume of both mobile data and fixed-line data broadband access consequently grows rapidly along with the need for higher speeds. This talk investigates an evolution of broadband access speeds and technology that addresses the demand cost effectively and in a timely manner, posing a solution that enables 100 Mbps to Gbps broadband access to all for realistic costs. Contributions to various methods within the technology by A. Viterbi will also be noted.
Biography: John M. Cioffi is Chairman and CEO of ASSIA, Inc, a Redwood City, CA based company. ASSIA is known for pioneering DSL management software sold to DSL service providers, and specifically for introducing Dynamic Spectrum Management or DSM. Cioffi is also the Hitachi Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, where he held a tenured endowed professorship before retiring after 22 full-time years. Cioffi received his BSEE from the University of Illinois, 1978; PhDEE from Stanford, 1984; and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 2010. He worked for Bell Laboratories, 1978-1984; IBM Research, 1984-1986; and as a professor at Stanford University, 1986-2008. Cioffi also founded Amati Communications Corp. in 1991 (purchased by TI in 1997 for its DSL technology) and was officer/director from 1991-1997. Cioffi designed the world's first ADSL and VDSL modems, which today account for roughly 98% of the 400 million DSL connections worldwide.
Cioffi currently also serves on the Board of Directors of Alto Beam and the Marconi Foundation, and has previously served on the boards of eight other public and private companies. He has received various awards, including the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell, Kobayashi, and Millennium Medals/Awards (2010, 2001, 2000), The Economist's 2010 Innovation Award, International Marconi Fellow (2006), Member, United States National and UK Royal Academies of Engineering (2001, 2009), IEEE Fellow (1996), IEE JJ Tomson Medal (2000), University of Illinois Outstanding Alumnus (2009) and Distinguished Alumnus (2010). Cioffi has published several hundred technical papers and is the inventor named on more than 100 additional patents, many of which are heavily licensed in the communication industry.
Host: Drs. Sandeep Gupta and Alexander Sawchuk
More Info: http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/events/keynote/viterbi/john-cioffi.htm
Webcast: http://geromedia.usc.edu/Gerontology/Play/c66d78ed8e22483599c47f84a63849411dMore Information: 20130228 Cioffi Print.pdf
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 124
WebCast Link: http://geromedia.usc.edu/Gerontology/Play/c66d78ed8e22483599c47f84a63849411d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
Event Link: http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/events/keynote/viterbi/john-cioffi.htm
