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Events for February 15, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkFri, Feb 15, 2013
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid. Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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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
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Social-Immediately Following the Seminar in KAP 209
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
