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Events for February 24, 2010
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
University Calendar
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 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Admission Intern
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University Graduation Fair
Wed, Feb 24, 2010 @ 09:00 AM - 04:00 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. Booths will be set up across from the University Bookstore. All soon-to-be graduates are encouraged to stop by Grad Fair for answers to questions, or to purchase Commencement-related products.
Location: University Bookstore
Audiences: Undergrad/Graduate Degree Candidates
Contact: VSoE
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The Alfred E. Mann Fellows Colloquium
Wed, Feb 24, 2010 @ 01:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Alfred E Mann Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
HEDCO Neurosciences Building Auditorium (HNB 100)1:30-2:30 Restoring Movement Using Brain-Computer Interfaces: Highly Suitable Command Signals Found in Parietal Cortex Offer New Perspectives for the Field of Neural Prosthetics - Markus Hauschild - Mann Fellow - Biomedical Engineering(2005-2007)2:35-3:10 Computational Methods for Fluorescence Tomography - Joyita Dutta - Mann Innovation Fellow – Electrical Engineering3:15-3:40 Rare-Earth Lasers for Biodetection - Hsiusheng Hsu - Mann Innovation Fellow – Chemical Engineering and Materials Science3:45-4:10 - Hyperspectral Pathology: Advanced Image Acquisition, Analysis and Visualization for a New Quantitative Gold Standard - Anika Joseph - Mann Fellow – Biomedical Engineering4:15-4:40 - Using Ultrasound Signals to Localize a Catheter - Jay Mung - Mann Innovation Fellow – Biomedical Engineering
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Susan Cooper
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Ports 101: How the Port Operates and Its Relationship to the Regional, National ...
Wed, Feb 24, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
SONNY ASTANI DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR*Title: "Port's 101: How the Port Operates and Its Relationship to the Regional, National and International Economy"Speaker: Robert Kanter, Ph.D., Managing Director of Environmental Affairs & Planning Port of Long Beach, California Date/Time/Location: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 2:00 PM, KAP 209 (Kaprielian Hall) Abstract: The Port of Long Beach is the second largest Port in North America. Combined with its neighbor, Los Angeles, the San Pedro Bay Port complex is the fifth largest Port complex in the world. The value of commodities passing through the Long Beach Port is in excess of $140 billion. The Port supports over 300 thousand jobs in the greater five County region including Los Angeles. The presentation will cover the governance structure of the Port, land use planning, and operational features, as well as environmental initiatives. *3620 South Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90089 Tel: (213) 740-0603
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Ports 101: How the Port Operates and its Relationship to the...
Wed, Feb 24, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
... Regional, National and International EconomySpeaker: Dr. Robert G. Kanter, Managing Director of Environmental Affairs and Planning for the Port of Long Beach, California. Abstract:The Port of Long Beach is the second largest Port in North America. Combined with its neighbor, Los Angeles, the San Pedro Bay Port complex is the fifth largest Port complex in the world. The value of commodities passing through the Long Beach Port is in excess of $140 billion. The Port supports over 300 thousand jobs in the greater five County region including Los Angeles. The presentation will cover the governance structure of the Port, land use planning, and operational features, as well as environmental initiatives.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 ( available on Webex upon request)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Graphene and Carbon Nanotube Electronics: Device Physics and Simulation
Wed, Feb 24, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Presented by Jing Guo, University of FloridaAbstract: In recent years, significant progress has been achieved in graphene and carbon nanotube (CNT) electronics. In a graphene or carbon nanotube, low bias transport can be nearly ballistic. Deposition of high- gate insulators does not degrade the carrier mobility because of an absence of dangling bonds. The conduction and valence bands are symmetric, which is advantageous for complementary applications. The Excellent transport property promises high-speed transistor applications. Carbon-based nanostructures are receiving much attention for possible device applications. We have developed a self-consistent atomistic simulator for graphene and CNT field-effect transistors (FETs) based on the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism, and applied it to understand and explain experiments. The simulator provides an atomistic scale description for quantum transport in the presence of inelastic scattering and electron-photon interaction. We show that CNTFET is capable of delivering a near ballistic DC on-current even under high source-drain bias conditions. The radio frequency (RF) characteristics of CNTFETs are simulated for understanding potential high-speed transistor applications. On graphene electronics, we show that edge chemistry of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) provides promising opportunities to engineer the device properties. Device physics and design options of GNR-based tunneling transistors are also examined by atomistic device simulations. Biography: Jing Guo received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and subsequently joined University of Florida as an assistant professor in Aug. 2004. His research interests focus on modeling and simulation of nanoscale devices with applications in electronics and optoelectronics, in close collaboration with experimentalists. He has published over sixty peer-reviewed journal papers on prestigious journals including Science, Nature, Phys. Rev. Lett., Nano Lett., Appl. Phys. Lett., Nature Nanotechnology, and IEEE Transactions. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early CAREER Award, and served in the technical program committee of International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) and Device Research Conference (DRC). He is the coauthor of the book, "Nanoscale Transistors: Device Physics, Modeling, and Simulation" published by Springer.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hazel Xavier
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Self-Assembly of Hierarchical Materials for Medicine and Energy
Wed, Feb 24, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Samuel Stupp SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LECTURE SERIESWinter Quarter 2010JOINTLY SPONSORED BY USC, UCSD, UCLA AND CALTECHBoard of Trustees Professor of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Medicine and Director, Institute for BioNantechnology in Medicine (IBNAM)Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Department of Medicine and Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine Northwestern University Evanston, Il 60208 One of the grand challenges in materials science is the development of self-assembly pathways to highly functional structures across scales. Based on biological systems, soft matter and hybrid materials are natural targets in this context. Highly designed small molecules, polymers, biomacromolecules, ionic solutions, and nanoparticles are all potential building blocks for the development of these self-assembling functional materials. In addition to materials with useful combinations of physical properties and controllable shapes, it is also interesting to develop structures that have adaptable and self-repair capabilities. In this lecture I will review self-assembly pathways developed in our laboratory for supramolecular materials using designed molecules. One of the pathways to be described generates a large diversity of bioactive one-dimensional nanostructures and networks that can signal cells to create new materials for regenerative medicine. The driving force for self-assembly in these systems includes hydrogen bond formation, hydrophobic collapse of molecular segments in aqueous environments, and both attractive and repulsive electrostatic forces. A second system to be described involves the self-assembly of polymers and small molecules into membranes or cell-like capsules with hierarchical structures that may find biomedical and energy applications. In these systems, self-repair of large defects occurs readily by re-exposure to building blocks and diffusion barriers can form by contact of two liquids in millisecond time scales. Other systems to be described include the formation of oriented structures with minimal mechanical force, and the formation of hierarchical hybrid materials with electronic properties of interest in energy targets.
Location: Seaver Science Library, (SSL) Rm 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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AGC -Sparks Reception
Wed, Feb 24, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Reception to honor the AGC-Sparks Competition held in Reno Nevada on Feb. 11-13, 2010 for their marvelous achievements.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: /Department Only/
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
