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Events for February 24, 2012
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Redesigning Reality
Fri, Feb 24, 2012
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Workshops & Infosessions
Admission is free. Reservations required for the workshops. To RSVP, see the workshop schedule and reservation links below.
Reuse. Recycle. Reconfigure. A week-long series will feature two hands-on workshops where participants can remix and remake everyday objects and software and alter the ways we think about technology, culture and the environment. Throughout the week, artifacts from the workshops will be featured in a gallery show that is part art exhibition and part interactive junkyard. The series will foreground reuse and sharing as fundamental to the design and creation of hybrid media work.
Even if you are unable to attend the workshops, please come by the gallery during the week to see the residuals of the first workshop or join us for a reception and presentation by participants following each workshop.
Workshop Schedule:
Scrapyard Challenge
Friday, February 24, 12 to 4 p.m.
Reception to follow.
Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki of Scrapyard Challenge will guide an afternoon of repurposing junk and refurbished electronics to create machines and robots.
To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=196 beginning Wednesday, February 1, at 9 a.m.
Still Water: What Networks Need to Thrive
Friday, March 2, 2 to 4 p.m.
Closing reception to follow.
Still Water cofounders Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais from the University of Maine will demonstrate how to hack software into unique virtual environments.
To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=198 beginning Tuesday, February 7, at 9 a.m.
Organized by Craig Dietrich (Cinematic Arts) and Steve Anderson (Cinematic Arts). Co-sponsored by iMAP (PhD Program in Media Arts and Practice) and the Institute for Multimedia Literacy.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Discover Engineering Day
Fri, Feb 24, 2012 @ 08:30 AM - 02:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
AN E-WEEK SIGNATURE EVENT:
Come out for a day of inspiration as we work with local young high school students to teach them about the exciting and rewarding field of engineering! Shifts begin at 8:30 AM - make sure to sign up to do your part ASAP:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGNTYjRSTjF2RlVzZlFyeks0NjRmS3c6MQ#gid=0Location: E-Quad
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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Volunteer with ASBME for Discover Engineering
Fri, Feb 24, 2012 @ 08:30 AM - 02:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Volunteer with ASBME for Discover Engineering
When: February 24th, 2012 â 8:30am-2:30pm
Want to have a ton of fun and teach local middle schoolers about engineering through interactive activities? Volunteer for an hour with ASBME! This year we're expecting hundreds of participants and Viterbi would like to have a combined 50 volunteers for every hour-long shift! Don't forget to mention you're with ASBME when you check in so we get points towards the most Spirited Viterbi Org competition! Register here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGNTYjRSTjF2RlVzZlFyeks0NjRmS3c6MQ#gid=0
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Discover Engineering Day
Fri, Feb 24, 2012 @ 08:30 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
We will be bringing 250 high school students from local high schools onto campus for a full day of hands on activities and workshops geared to spark their interest in engineering. Any USC students is welcome to volunteer, the sign up and schedule of events is located here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGNTYjRSTjF2RlVzZlFyeks0NjRmS3c6MQ#gid=0
DO IT FOR THE KIDS!
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
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Unique Word Prefix OFDM: An Overview
Fri, Feb 24, 2012 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Johannes Huber, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Talk Title: Unique Word Prefix OFDM: An Overview
Abstract: In unique word OFDM (UW-OFDM), cyclic prefixes (CP) of usual OFDM are replaced by a deterministic sequence, the unique word (UW), for conversion of linear convolution due to a dispersive channel into cyclic convolution. This fixed UW may be employed for synchronization and/or channel estimation purposes etc. at the receiver side. In order to generate space for the UW, a block of zeros is created in time domain by means of appropriately loading of redundant subcarriers. By this, a systematic complex number Reed Solomon (RS) code construction is inherently introduced along the subcarriers which additionally can be exploited at the receiver by means of Bayesian linear data estimation (LMMSE) or decision-directed methods (SIC, Noise Prediction). A remaining problem in the UW-OFDM concept is the fact that the energy on the redundant subcarrier symbols contributes disproportionately to average symbol energy. Two methods for a reduction of this redundant energy are proposed, i.e. allowing some small systematic noise in the guard interval and spreading of redundant energy over all subcarrier symbols by which a nonsystematic complex number RS code construction is introduced. Numerical results and comparisons to usual CP-OFDM are presented for the example 802.11a WLAN standard which illustrate benefits of UW-OFDM.
Biography: Johannes Huber received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany in 1977. From 1977 to 1982 he was research assistant at the Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik of the Universität der Bundeswehr München, Munich, from which he received the Dr.-Ing. degree with a thesis on coding for channels with memory. From 1982 to 1990, he was an Akademischer Oberrat at the Universität der Bundeswehr München, Munich and received the Dr.-Ing. habil. degree with a thesis on trellis coded modulation. In 1991 he joined the IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland. He is currently a Professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is a former: dean for student affairs, chairman of the department of electrical, electronic, and communication engineering and dean of the Technical Faculty. Dr. Huber is a Fellow of the IEEE, has served two terms on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Information Theory Society (1999-2001,2004-2006. In 2008, he was appointed a corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Since 2009, Dr. Huber is an ordinary fellow of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Dr. Huber has held editorial positions for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the International Journal on Electronics and Communications for which he has also served as editor-in-chief. Johannes Huber is author and co-author of textbooks on trellis coding and information combining. He has published more than 220 papers in international journals or conference records. Papers authored or co-authored by Johannes Huber were awarded the best paper award of the German Society of Information Technology (ITG) in 1988, 2000, and 2006. He received the Vodafone award for innovations in mobile communications 2004.
Host: Prof. Urbashi Mitra, ubli@usc.edu, x04667
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 222
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Advances in Clouds and Their Application to Data Intensive Problems
Fri, Feb 24, 2012 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Geoffrey Fox, Distinguished Chair Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Talk Title: Advances in Clouds and Their Application to Data Intensive Problems
Abstract: We introduce clouds and discuss the characteristics of problems that run well on them. We try to answer when you need your own cluster; when you need a Grid; when a national supercomputer; and when a cloud. We compare "academic" and commercial clouds and the experience on FutureGrid with Nimbus, Eucalyptus, OpenStack and OpenNebula. We look at programming models especially MapReduce and Iterative Mapreduce and their use on data analytics. We compare with an Internet of Things application with a Sensor Grid controlled by a cloud infrastructure.
Biography: Fox received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University and is now distinguished professor of Informatics and Computing, and Physics at Indiana University where he is director of the Digital Science Center and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the School of Informatics and Computing. He previously held positions at Caltech, Syracuse University and Florida State University. He has supervised the PhD of 62 students and published over 600 papers in physics and computer science with a hindex of 61 and over 18700 citations. He currently works in applying computer science to Bioinformatics, Defense, Earthquake and Ice-sheet Science, Particle Physics and Chemical Informatics. He is principal investigator of FutureGrid â a facility to enable development of new approaches to computing. He is involved in several projects to enhance the capabilities of Minority Serving Institutions.
Host: Professor Kai Hwang
Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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USC PSOC Monthly Seminar Series
Fri, Feb 24, 2012 @ 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Andreas Matouschek, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Talk Title: How the Proteasome Picks its Substrates for Degradation
Abstract: The proteasome controls the concentrations of most proteins in the cytosol and nucleus of eukaryotic cells. The degradation signal or degron that targets proteins for proteolysis has two components, a proteasome binding tag, usually a poly-ubiquitin chain, and an initiation site in the form of an unstructured region in the substrate. The two degron components can function in trans when separated onto two different polypeptide chains so that a ubiquitinated adaptor can target a binding partner for proteolysis. Surprisingly, the initiation region contributes significantly to the specificity of Ubiquitin-Proteasome System. The length, location and amino acid sequence of initiation sites all affect whether a protein can be degraded or not. We define these rules in model systems and show how they apply to natural proteins. Once degradation has initiated, the proteasome normally digests its substrates processively to avoid the formation of fragments with undesirable activities. Interestingly, there are a few instances where this processivity breaks down and the proteasome generates partially degraded proteins. The partial degradation is caused by stop signals in the substrate proteins and we propose that this mechanism can explain steps in some signaling pathways and may involved in some neurodegenerative diseases.
Biography: Andreas Matouschek is a biologist at Northwestern University, where he is professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, and cell biology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. His graduate work with Alan Fersht resulted in the seminal application of phi-value analysis to the study of barnase, a bacterial RNAse used in many protein folding studies.Development of phi value analysis in combination with extensive protein engineering enabled an understanding of the kinetic intermediates during protein folding of barnase. In subsequent postdoctoral work at the University of Basel, he applied the protein engineering approach to studying unfolding of proteins as they pass through mitochondrial translocons.
Matouschek currently studies the proteasome, the degradation machinery of eukaryotic cells, and the mechanisms by which the proteasome is able to unfold and translocate proteins.
Host: USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center
Location: CSC Harkness Auditorium #250
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Yvonne Suarez
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; An Overview of Advanced Concepts for Rocket Launches
Fri, Feb 24, 2012 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Marcus Young, Director of Advanced Concepts, Edwards Air Force Research Laboratory
Talk Title: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; An Overview of Advanced Concepts for Rocket Launches
Abstract: Dr. Marcus Young, Director of Advanced Concepts at Edwards Air Force Research Laboratory, will present "An Overview of Advanced Concepts for Rocket Launches" as part of the W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium.
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
More Info: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/honors/schedules/Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Amanda Atkinson
Event Link: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/honors/schedules/
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Astani CEE Department Seminar
Fri, Feb 24, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Wing Kam Liu, Walter P. Murphy Professor, Director of NSF Summer Institute of Nano Mechanics and Materials Northwestern University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Talk Title: Multiresolution Mechanics for Materials Design
Abstract: Nanomechanics and nanomaterials have an overall potential for the betterment of our society, for example in national defense, homeland security and private industry. These fields can make our manufacturing technologies and infrastructure more sustainable in terms of reduced energy usage and environmental pollution.
Optimized material performance and lower material design cycle times can be achieved by establishing a clear link between a materialâs underlying microstructure and the resulting material properties such as strength and toughness. Material properties are inherently a function of the microscale interactions at each distinct scale of deformation. We are developing the next generation of computer-aided design (CAE) simulation software that integrates nano and micro mechanisms into CAE capabilities for life-cycle design and manufacturing of products.
The multiscale method starts at the most fundamental level of material behavior, the strength of the bonds between atoms which is used to determine sub micro-scale behavior in important regions. Progressively coarser and larger domains are concurrently solved by performing in-situ atomic scale homogenization or by using a preformulated homogenized constitutive relation. In this manner, the deformation and constitutive behavior become more highly resolved as more scales of analysis are included. This facilities a smooth transition between a purely continuum treatment at coarser scales and an atomic scale resolution at finer scales. Hence, the estimation of the overall strength and toughness of the material is performed in terms of the important microstructural features and mechanisms.
Biography: Dr. Wing Kam Liu, Walter P. Murphy Professor at Northwestern University and Director of NSF Summer Institute on Nano Mechanics and Materials, received his Ph.D. from Caltech. His research activities include bridging scale computational mechanics and materials, multi-scale analysis, and computational biology. Selected Liu's honors include the Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award, the Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal and the Melville Medal, all from ASME; the Thomas J. Jaeger Prize by the International Association for Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology; the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award; the Computational Structural Mechanics Award and Computational Mechanics Award from USACM and IACM, respectively; and the JSME Computational Mechanics Award. Liu serves on both the executive committee of the ASME applied mechanics division (Chair 2005-2006) and the International Association for Computational Mechanics. He was the past president of USACM. Liu is cited by Institute for Scientific Information as one of the most highly cited, influential researchers in Engineering, and an original member, highly cited researchers database. He is the editor and honorary editors of many Journals. Dr. Liu has acted as a consultant to many organizations.
Host: Prof. Roger Ghanem
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 Conference Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Feb 24, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 03:50 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ramesh Harjani, University of Minnesota
Talk Title: Analog Circuits for Digital Systems
Host: Hossein Hashemi
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 112
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
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The Viterbi Ball 2012
Fri, Feb 24, 2012 @ 09:00 PM - 01:00 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
AN E-WEEK 2012 SIGNATURE EVENT:
This year's most anticipated event is taking place on February 24th, 2012! Check in begins at 8:15 PM, buses leave at 9 PM and we celebrate from 10 PM to 1 AM!
Viterbi is #winnovating all E-week long, and we're going to continue into the Age of Innovation as we party into the 1920's! Come dressed in your best roarin' 20s attire (costume is NOT required).
Light appetizers and desserts will be served at the venue, a great dance floor, and a short awards ceremony to announce the most involved and spirited Viterbi student organization as well as Viterbi Queen and King!
This is an event you don't want to miss so get your ticket ASAP as they're selling out fast.
Sold from M-Th until 2/23 from 11-2PM in the RTH lobby and at all E-week Events1
#winnovateLocation: Mystery Venue
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
