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Events for February 18, 2010
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Viterbi Career Expo
Thu, Feb 18, 2010 @ 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Career Expo is free and open to all students in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.Students do not need to register for this event, just show up!This casual, yet professional, environment allows students the opportunity to have brief conversations with recruiters about full-time employment, internships, and co-ops. Don't forget your resume!
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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On Feasibility of Interference Alignment in MIMO Interference Networks...
Thu, Feb 18, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
and A New Training Protocol for Channel State Estimation in Wireless Relay NetworksSpeaker: Cenk M. Yetis,
Satellite Communications and Remote Sensing
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul, TurkeyAbstract: In the first part of the talk, we explore the conditions required for interference alignment to be applied in a K-user MIMO interference network. Interference alignment is a recent popular scheme not only due to its ability to allocate 1/2 of the bandwidth for each user simultaneously (conventional schemes, e.g., TDMA and FDMA, can allocate 1/K of the bandwidth) but also due to its linearity (requires a simple design of transmit and receive beamforming vectors).
Cross-layer design with interference alignment by using the results of this work is an interesting future work. In addition, an extension of this work to X networks (every transmitter transmits to every receiver) and flexible X networks (every transmitter does not necessarily transmit to every receiver) is not trivial and more questions rise from cross-layer design aspect. In fact, bandwidth limit per user for flexible X networks is also an interesting future work from information theoretic aspect. Finally, an iterative algorithm for interference alignment in these networks is still an open problem. Approximate talk length is 30 minutes.
In the second part of the talk, we introduce a new training protocol for channel state estimation in wireless relay networks that provides a higher network capacity and a faster transfer of channel state information (CSI) than the existing training protocols.
Our approach enables us to obtain the effective SNR (eSNR) of a MIMO wireless relay network as a function of important parameters including the number of relays, antennas, and channel estimation errors. An interesting future work is the optimization of these and other important parameters for wireless relay networks including the training time, power, and structure in order to maximize the eSNR (thus the capacity). Approximate talk length is 20 minutes.Biography: Cenk M. Yetis received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2001. He received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Istanbul Technical Univer-sity (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey in 2004. He expects to receive his Ph.D. degree in Satellite Remote Sensing and Communication from ITU in 2010. He received The Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) scholarship from 2005 to 2009. From 2003 to 2007, he was full-time employed by Avea, one of the top three wireless services providers in Turkey, where he held rotational responsibilities in operation and planning groups. Since 2007, he has been a visiting researcher abroad including Ohio State University and University of California Irvine. His research interests include signal processing, information theory, and communication theory for wireless communications. His detailed CV is available online at http://sites.google.com/site/cenkmyetis/.Host: Gerhard Kramer, gkramer@usc.edu, EEB 536, x07229
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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KIUEL SHOWCASE: Open House
Thu, Feb 18, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Have a talent for music, film, dance, or art? SHOWCASE offers an opportunity for Viterbi's undergraduate students and faculty to display their artistic talents to the Viterbi community. Film screenings, music performances, art displays, and dance performances are presented during this event and attendees vote for their favorites. To learn more about KIUEL, visit viterbi.usc.edu/kiuel. Also, view previous SHOWCASE winners on the KIUEL website.
Location: Viterbi Museum
Audiences: All students, faculty, staff
Contact: KIUEL
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CS Colloq: Prof. Stella Yu
Thu, Feb 18, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: Art and Vision: A Quest for A Few Simple Right Strokes
Speaker: Prof. Stella Yu (Boston College)
Host: Prof. Shang-Hua TengAbstract:
A Chinese manual of painting instructs art students as follows:
"Figures, even though painted without eyes, must seem to look; without ears, must seem to listen... There are things which ten hundred brushstrokes cannot depict but which can be captured by a few simple strokes if they are right. That is truly giving expression to the invisible."While computer vision research has made fruitful progress with the help of massive data and computing power, I am more interested in an alternative approach: studying art techniques and human vision to discover those few simple right strokes that are essential for visual expression.In this light, visual computation on images needs to address 3 key questions: What are these few simple strokes? Why are they the right ones? How to find them in an image? I have been pursuing answers to these questions in the computation of brightness, space, and attention with simple features, powerful integration, and active selection. In this talk, I will present my progress on these frontiers as well as new ones explored with an artist in an interdisciplinary course on Art and Vision.Bio:
Stella X. Yu got her Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied robotics at the Robotics Institute and vision science at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. She continued her computer vision research as a postdoc at the Computer Science Department of UC Berkeley. Since she joined the faculty of Boston College, Dr. Yu has been developing an interdisciplinary curriculum and research agenda on Art and Vision, for which she received an NSF CAREER award in 2007. Dr. Yu is currently the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston College.Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Front Desk
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Engineering Date Auction
Thu, Feb 18, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
The 6th Annual Engineering Date Auction will have some of Viterbi's finest undergraduate engineers up for auction as dates for Viterbi Ball. The winning bidder gets a free ticket to the ball, and all proceeds will benefit Aviva, a non-profit organization that provides various programs to help at-risk, emotionally distressed, abused, and neglected youth (and their families).Only current USC students may bid in the auction.
Food will be served.
We hope to see you there!Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Graduate/Undergrad Students
Contact: Society of Women Engineers
