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Events for February 14, 2013
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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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Grad Fair
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Grad Fair is your one-stop way to get all the information you need about Commencement. All soon-to-be graduates are encouraged to stop by Grad Fair for answers to questions, or to purchase Commencement-related products.
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Ballroom
Audiences: Graduating Students
Contact: Julie Phaneuf
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Focused on parallel and distributed computingThu, 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
