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Events for February 23, 2018
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Withdrawal Deadline
Fri, Feb 23, 2018
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
University Calendar
Last day to change a Pass/No Pass course to Letter Grade for Spring 2018.
Last day to drop a course without a mark of "W" on the transcript for Spring 2018.
https://arr.usc.edu/calendar/Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Sheryl Koutsis
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Last day to change P/NP Grade to a Letter Grade
Fri, Feb 23, 2018
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
University Calendar
Feb 23rd is the last day to change your grading option from Pass/No Pass to a letter grade.
All Engineering related courses must be taken for a letter grade.
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Taylor Relich
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Viterbi E-Week: Discover Engineering
Fri, Feb 23, 2018 @ 09:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers bring local high school students to talk about careers in engineering, talk about college preparation, and explore the various industries of STEM education.
For questions, please reach out to the KIUEL Programming Committee at vkiuel@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you at our E-Week events next week!Location: Epstein Family Plaza (E-Quad)
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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ASBME: Makeathon
Fri, Feb 23, 2018 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
SIGN UP NOW! ASBME is hosting the 3rd Annual Makeathon February 23-25! Visit www.uscmakeathon.com for more extensive information about this competition, rules, schedule, registration, and more.
The Makeathon is a medical device design competition. In 30 hours, 18 teams of 4-5 people will brainstorm, design, and CAD a device under material and functional constraints. Five teams will utilize USC Fabrication Lab to construct their designs from a variety of materials and methods. All teams will prepare a final presentation to be delivered to a panel of judges as well as the rest of the participants that will cover design motivations, device functionality, impact on the field or on client needs, as well as other device- and field-related information.
Registration is now live - build your team today. Teams must have at least 2 underclassmen and 2 upperclassmen. Due to time constraints we will be limiting the number of attendees so sign up now! You can also attend the Facebook Event now! This event page can be used to find other participants to complete your team. Participants are not limited to BME, other majors are welcome!
Registration: http://www.uscmakeathon.com/registration
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/326838397820054/
Location: 433
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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W.V.T. RUSCH ENGINEERING HONORS COLLOQUIUM
Fri, Feb 23, 2018 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Shivaji Deshmukh, Assistant General Manager, West Basin Municipal Water District
Talk Title: Local Water Resources Development in Coastal Los Angeles County
Host: Dr. Prata & EHP
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Su Stevens
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Dr. Julia Greer - Munushian Seminar Speaker, Friday, February 23rd at 2:00pm in EEB 132
Fri, Feb 23, 2018 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Julia Greer, California Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Materials by Design: 3-Dimensional Nano-Architected Meta-Materials
Abstract: Creation of extremely strong and simultaneously ultra lightweight materials can be
achieved by incorporating architecture into material design. We fabricate threedimensional
(3D) nano-architectures, i.e. nanolattices, whose constituents vary in size
from several nanometers to tens of microns to centimeters. These nanolattices can
exhibit superior thermal, photonic, electrochemical, and mechanical properties at extremely
low mass densities (lighter than aerogels), which renders them ideal for many
scientific pursuits and technological applications. The dominant properties of such
meta-materials, where individual constituent size at each relevant scale (atoms to
nanometers to microns) is comparable to the characteristic microstructural length
scale of the constituent solid, are largely unknown because of their multi-scale nature.
To harness the beneficial properties of 3D nano-architected meta-materials, it is
critical to assess properties at each relevant scale while capturing the overall structural
complexity.
We describe the deformation, as well as the mechanical, biochemical,
electrochemical, thermal, and photonic properties of nanolattices made of different
materials with varying microstructural detail. Attention is focused on uncovering the
synergy between the internal atomic-level microstructure and the nano-sized external
dimensionality, where competing material- and structure-induced size effects drive
overall response and govern these properties. Specific discussion topics include the
nanofabrication and characterization of (often hierarchical) three-dimensional nanoarchitected
meta-materials and their applications in chemical and biological devices,
ultra lightweight energy storage systems, damage-tolerant fabrics, and photonic
crystals.
Biography: Greer's research focuses on creating and characterizing classes of materials with multiscale
microstructural hierarchy, that utilize the combination of three-dimensional (3D)
architectures with nanoscale-induced material properties. These include nature-made
materials, i.e. bone and hard biological systems, as well as synthetic ones that can be
comprised of a broad range of materials: from ceramics and metals to glasses, polymers,
organics, organic/inorganic hybrids, and multi-functional smart materials. These nanoarchitected
meta-materials not only provide a rich "playground" for fundamental
science but also have the potential to enable new technological advances in biomedical
devices, battery electrodes, lightweight structural materials, and
Greer obtained her S.B. in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Advanced Music
Performance from MIT in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Stanford, worked
at Intel (2000-03) and was a post-doc at PARC (2005-07). Julia joined Caltech in 2007
and currently is a full professor with appointments in Materials Science, Mechanical
Engineering, and Medical Engineering.
Greer has more than 130 publications and has delivered over 100 invited lectures, which
include 2 TEDx talks, multiple named seminars at universities, the Watson lecture at
Caltech, the Gilbreth Lecture at the National Academy of Engineering, the Midwest
Mechanics Lecture series, and a "IdeasLab" at the World Economic Forum. She was
named a Vannevar-Bush Faculty Fellow by the US Department of Defence (2016) and
CNN's 20/20 Visionary (2016). Her work was recognized among Top-10 Breakthrough
Technologies by MIT's Technology Review (2015). Greer was named as one of "100
Most Creative People" by Fast Company and a Young Global Leader by World
Economic Forum (2014) and received multiple career awards: Kavli (2014), Nano
Letters, SES, and TMS (2013); NASA, ASME (2012), Popular Mechanics
Breakthrough Award (2012), DOE (2011), DARPA (2009), and Technology Review's
TR-35, (2008).
Greer serves as an Associated Editor for Nano Letters and Extreme Mechanics Letters.
She is also a concert pianist, with recent performances of "nanomechanics rap" with
MUSE/IQUE, solo piano recitals and chamber concerts (2007-present), and as a soloist
of Brahms Concerto No. 2 with Redwood Symphony (2006).
Host: EE-Electrophysics
More Info: minghsiehee.usc.edu/about/lectures/munushian
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
Event Link: minghsiehee.usc.edu/about/lectures/munushian
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NL Seminar Digital Humanities Lots of Text Based Corpora Lots of Questions
Fri, Feb 23, 2018 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Miriam Posner Dave Shepard and Andrew Wallace , UCLA
Talk Title: Digital Humanities Lots of Text Based Corpora Lots of Questions
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Digital humanities is a field that uses digital tools to explore humanities questions. That work can take many different forms, from maps to data visualization to video based projects. In this talk, we will discuss humanities approaches to large scale text analysis, with a focus on corpora that may be of interest to computer scientists. We will also talk about the distinctive ways that humanists approach text analysis, and some of the live questions in the field that might interest NLP researchers.
Biography: Bio: Miriam Posner is an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Information. She is also a digital humanist with interests in labor, race, feminism, and the history and philosophy of data. As a digital humanist, she is particularly interested in the visualization of large bodies of data from cultural heritage institutions, and the application of digital methods to the analysis of images and video. She is at work on two projects the first on what data might mean for humanistic research and the second on how multinational corporations are making use of data in their supply chains.
Bio: David Shepard UCLA is Lead Academic Developer at UCLAs Center for Digital Humanities. After receiving his PhD in English from UCLA in 2012, he coauthored the book HyperCities Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities and has worked on social media and text mining. His work focuses on large scale analysis of social media in disasters.
Bio: Andrew Wallace is a software developer in the UCLA digital library. He received his PhD in Cognitive Science from Brown University in 2011.
Host: Nanyun Peng
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm 1135 Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Viterbi E-Week Talent Show
Fri, Feb 23, 2018 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Watch your talented fellow engineers perform while enjoying coffee and donuts!
For more info: http://bit.ly/2BY02PY
For questions, please reach out to the KIUEL Programming Committee at vkiuel@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you at our E-Week events next week!Location: Tommy's Place
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
