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Events for February 24, 2006
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Viterbi Student Council Funding Board Meeting
Fri, Feb 24, 2006
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Viterbi Student Council's Funding Board weekly meeting to discuss applications for funding.
Audiences: Funding Board only
Contact: Viterbi Student Council Funding Board
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National Engineering Week (E-Week)
Fri, Feb 24, 2006
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Audiences: Graduate/Undergrad/Department Only
Contact: Monica De Los Santos
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ISMRM Workshop on Real-Time MRI
Fri, Feb 24, 2006 @ 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
With the advent of high-speed gradients, coil arrays, novel pulse sequence designs and reconstruction techniques, modern MR systems are capable of interactively acquiring and reconstructing images in real-time which has led to major advances in cardiac imaging, imaging during interventions, and imaging of dynamic processes such as joint motion and functional activation. Real-time imaging has unique needs in terms of system infrastructure, pulse sequence design, reconstruction, and careful examination of applications. The planned sessions will cover the latest clinical and research applications of real-time MRI, along with the latest technical developments including new system infrastructures, contrast mechanisms, artifact avoidance and correction, and methods for extending the limits of spatial resolution, temporal resolution and SNR. This format naturally includes educational presentations and presentations describing the current state-of-the-art. Submitted papers will be considered for presentation as short talks or posters. In addition, we will have a session showcasing hot topics and future trends. Invited presenters will include young scientists and scientists from inside and outside North America. This will also be the first multi-vendor workshop on real-time MRI.In this workshop, "real-time" MRI is defined as having an end-to-end system latency of less than 1 second (which includes acquisition, reconstruction, and display).http://www.ismrm.org/workshops/RealTime_MRI/
Location: Doubletree Guest Suites, Santa Monica
Audiences: Medical Imaging Researchers
Contact: Krishna Nayak
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Rapid Development of Efficient Codes for PDE Simulation and PDE-Constrained Optimization
Fri, Feb 24, 2006 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
http://venus.usc.edu/seminars/CAM/Long.html High-performance algorithms for PDE-constrained optimization have been adopted slowly in practice because of the need to make intrusive changes to existing simulation codes. To overcome this barrier to entry, we have developed Sundance, a set of symbolic software tools enabling rapid development of efficient, differentiable, parallel simulation codes. Despite the high level of abstraction and generality, and the convenience of the user interface, simulators developed with Sundance prove to outperform special-purpose hand-tuned codes (even for forward problems, before we see the additional gains enabled through superior optimization algorithms). In this talk we will describe the design of Sundance and its software interface for interoperability with other codes, and discuss how, far from seeing an "abstraction penalty", we exploit abstraction and generality to achieve very high performance.
Location: 203 KAP
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Roger Ghanem
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Oceans---Todays View From Space with Supercomputers
Fri, Feb 24, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Engineering Honors Colloquium Lecture
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Erika Chua
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Oceans---Todays View From Space with Supercomputers
Fri, Feb 24, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Engineering Honors Colloquium Lecture
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Erika Chua
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Regulatory Remediation Program at the Los Angeles Regional Board
Fri, Feb 24, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:Yue Rong, Ph. D.
Manager, Underground Storage Tank Program
California Regional Water Quality Control Board
Los Angeles Region
California Environmental Protection AgencyAbstractCalifornia Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region has a Underground Storage Tanks Program that primarily oversees groundwater remediation at leaking underground storage tank sites. The presentation will provide information on the program regulatory framework, board function, and requirements on site assessment, laboratory testing, and modeling. Water Board programs such as NPDES, TMDL, superfund sites, etc.will be introduced. A case study for environmental liability issue will be discussed. At leaking underground storage tank sites, the primary contaminant now is methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE). Santa Monica Charnock and Arcadia wellfields MTBE contamination problem will be discussed as a case study.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall, Room 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Rapid Development of Efficient Codes for PDE Simulation and PDE-Constrained
Fri, Feb 24, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
http://venus.usc.edu/seminars/CAM/Long.html
Location: 203 KAP
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Roger Ghanem
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Viterbi Transfer Workshop
Fri, Feb 24, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi Transfer Workshops are one-hour presentations covering topics about the engineering curriculum, student services, research opportunities, transfer requirements and the application process. Viterbi transfer counselors will be available for individual coursework advisement on a first-come, first-serve basis in the afternoon following the program (transcripts required for advisement).RSVP: Please email us or call (800) 526-3347
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH) 110
Audiences: Prospective engineering transfer students
Contact: Undergraduate Admission
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Opportunities with Intel Malaysia
Fri, Feb 24, 2006 @ 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Intel information session for anyone with the legal unrestricted right to work in Malaysia.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Carbon Nanotubes: The Tall Order
Fri, Feb 24, 2006 @ 02:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
A JOINT SEMINAR
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
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MORK FAMILY DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE PRESENTS
Professor P. M. Ajayan
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, N.Y.Carbon Nanotubes: The Tall Order
Carbon nanotubes are fascinating materials from the point of view of structure, form, growth and properties. The biggest challenge however is to assemble nanotubes into various architectures useful for specific applications. The talk will focus on the recent developments in our laboratory on the fabrication of carbon nanotube based architectures tailored for various applications. Various organized architectures of multiwalled and singlewalled carbon nanotubes can be fabricated using relatively simple vapor deposition techniques. The work in attaining control on the directed assembly of nanotubes on various platforms will be highlighted. Our efforts on the strategies of growth and manipulation of nanotube-based structures and in controllably fabricating hierarchically branched nanotube and nanotube-hybrid structures will be discussed. We have pursued several novel applications for these structures, for example, as nanostructured electrodes for sensors, electrical interconnects, unique filters for separation technologies, thermal management systems, multifunctional brushes, and polymer infiltrated thin film and bulk composites. A perspective of the field based on the work done by the author over a period of more than decade will be presented here with highlights from recent work and thoughts on future implications of the field.Friday, February 24, 2006, 3:00-4:00 PM
(Refreshments will be served at 2:45)
Location: SSL 150
**All first year materials science majors are required to attend**
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
