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Events for February 25, 2009
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Meet USC
Wed, Feb 25, 2009
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
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: Viterbi Admission
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Contrasting Views of Complexity and Their Implications for Critical Infrastructures
Wed, Feb 25, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:
Dr. David L. Alderson,
Operations Research Department,
Naval Postgraduate School,
Monterey, CAAbstract:Considerable attention is now being devoted to "new sciences" of "complexity" and "networks" with the intent of discovering and applying universal laws of highly interconnected and evolved systems. In this talk, I will discuss several issues related to the use of these theories in the context of critical infrastructures, particularly those involving networks. Specifically, we revisit the notion of "organized complexity" and suggest that it is fundamental to our ability to understand, operate, and design next-generation infrastructure networks. We comment on the role of engineering in defining an architecture to support networked infrastructures and highlight recent advances in the theory of distributed control driven by network technologies. This talk represents joint work with John Doyle (Caltech).Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Microstructure as Derived from X-Ray Line Broadening
Wed, Feb 25, 2009 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Tamás Ungár Professor Department Materials Physics Eötvös University Budapest, Hungary X-ray diffraction peaks broaden either when crystallites become small or if the crystal is distorted by lattice defects. Size broadening is independent of diffraction order, however, strain broadening increases with diffraction order. Planar defects, especially stacking faults or twin boundaries produce a mixture of size and strain. hkl dependence of the different microstructure features can be very different allowing separation. A brief summary of the principles and specific case studies will be presented for nanomaterials and conventional grain size structural materials, including the effect of twinning in hexagonal metals.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - Rm 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Alcon Information Session
Wed, Feb 25, 2009 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori (GFS) 106
Audiences: Current Engineering Undergraduate/Graduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
