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Events for February 25, 2013
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Computer Vision: State of the Art
Mon, Feb 25, 2013 @ 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
24 world class speakers will present the state of the art in a number of areas in Computer Vision, including Image and Video Analysis, Object Recognition.
This event is sponsored by the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the IEEE-TPAMI Technical Committee, and organized by Prof. Gerard Medioni
Registration is free but required.
http://cvpr-sota.appspot.com/
RSVP Password: cvpr13Location: Charlotte S. & Davre R. Davidson Continuing Education Conference Center (DCC) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Feb 25, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ian Y. Wong, Ph.D., Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow Center for Engineering in Medicine, Department of Surgery Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Talk Title: Biosystems Engineering and the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Cancer
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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EE-Electrophysics Seminar
Mon, Feb 25, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Rehen Kapadia, University of California, Berkeley
Talk Title: Electronics Without Borders: Moving Towards Any Semiconductor âX’ on Any Substrate âY’
Abstract: Pushing the boundaries of electron devicesâfrom transistors to photovoltaicsâdemands complete control over device architectures and material systems. However, traditional growth and fabrication techniques often fall short when optimal design calls for non-planar geometries or integration of non-epitaxial material systems.
Thus, development of techniques for X-on-Y growth and integration, such as: (i) bottom-up growth of geometry and shape-controlled nanowires, (ii) integration of dissimilar material systems such as III-V’s and Si, and (iii) direct growth of high-quality semiconductors on metals are critical. In this talk, I discuss how semiconductor layer transfer techniques can be used to fabricate high-mobility III-V transistors on Si substrates, and the vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth mode can be used to grow templated nanowires and high-quality InP thin films directly on metal foils.
Specifically, I will cover three methods that move towards enabling X-on-Y. First, I will show a compound semiconductor on insulator (XOI) layer transfer technique that enables integration of free-standing, ultra-thin III-V membranes on Si substrates. The second method is a templated VLS nanowire growth technique for 3-D semiconductor structures on metal substrates. The last technique I illustrate is a thin-film vapor-liquid-solid growth technique for the direct growth of large grain (10-100 micron) polycrystalline InP on metal substrates.
Biography: Rehan Kapadia is currently a graduate researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellow, and has published 24 journal articles, in journals such as Nature, Applied Physics Letters, Nano Letters, and Advanced Materials. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University at Texas at Austin, M.S from UC Berkeley and will receive his Ph.D from UC Berkeley May 2013. His research interests center on material growth techniques that enable high-performance, scalable electronics, with a focus on energy devices.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 324
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Astani CEE Seminar
Mon, Feb 25, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Christian Hellmich, Ph.D., Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria
Talk Title: Engineering Science and Mechanics as Key to the Mathematical Identification of "Universal" Patterns Pervading Mineralized Biological Tissues, and Beyond
Abstract:
According to the eminent Austro-American zoologist Rupert Riedl (1925-2005), "ââ¬Â¦ the living world happens to be crowded by universal patterns of organization ââ¬Â¦Ã¢â¬Â. While Riedl, as ââ¬Åclassicalââ¬Â biologist, typically took a descriptive approach to this issue, we ventured, over the last decade and in particular during the last few years, into an engineering science approach of mathematical nature, where we have indeed been successful in identifying ââ¬Å¾universalââ¬Å rules/patterns in structural biology and their mechanical consequences. A majority of our investigations concerned mineralized biological tissues such as bones, for which we identified the following mathematically cast rules: (I) In extracellular bone tissues across different organs from different animals/humans at different ages, mineral (hydroxyapatite) and collagen contents are not randomly assgined to each other, but fulfill astonishingly precise bilinear relations1, which follow from rigorous evaluation of dehydration, demineralization, ashing, and de-organifying test data collected over a time period of more than 80 years of experimental research. Furthermore, (II) the distribution of mineral throughout the extracellular bone matrix or ultrastructure, i.e. its partitioning into the fibrillar and extrafibrillar spaces is governed by the on-average uniformity of hydroxyapatite concentration in the extracollageneous space2, as was evidenced from chemical tests like the ones mentioned before, in combination with transmission electron micrographs. Before mineralization (as well as in unmineralized collageneous tissues such as tendon or cartilage), the fibrillar and extrafibrillar spaces again obey another general rule: (III) Upon hydration, the extrafibrillar space grows propertional to the fibrillar volume gain due to accomodation of water in the intermolecular spaces3, as evidenced from dehydration and neutron diffraction tests. Finally, (IV) mineralization of such tissues is driven by fluid-to-solid phase transformations in the extracollageneous space under closed thermodynamic conditions4, predicting precisely the volume losses which the tissues undergo during mineralization. All these compositional and structural rules may serve as ideal input for multiscale mechanics models for the elasticity5, strength6, and creep7 of bone tissues; enabling various clinical applications, such as Computed Tomography (CT)-based Finite Element (FE) analysis for biomaterial design8.
The knowledge we gained in studying biological tissue, was also instrumental in driving forward the multiscale mechanics of wood9, ceramics10, and concrete11, materials that share quite some microstructural, chemical, and mechanical features with bone.
Biography: Dr. Christian Hellmich is Full Professor for Strength of Materials and Computational Mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). At this university, he received his engineering degree in 1995, his Ph.D. Degree in 1999, and his Habilitation degree in 2004. Between 2000 and 2002, he was a Max Kade Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work is strongly focussed on well-validated material and (micro)structural models, both for materials such as concrete, soil, rock, wood, or bone as well as man-made biomaterials, and for structures such as tunnels, pipelines, bridges, or the vertebrate skeleton including implants and tissue engineering scaffolds - with complementary experimental activities if necessary. He has held several leadership positions in projects with the tunnel and pipeline industry, as well as in the interdisciplinary and international material research activities sponsored by the European Commission, including his role as the coordinator of the mixed industry-academia consortium ââ¬ÅBIO-CT-EXPLOITââ¬Â, merging computer tomography with continuum micromechanics. He has published 85 papers in international refereed scientific journals in the fields of engineering mechanics, materials science, and theoretical biology, 19 book chapters, and more than 100 papers in refereed conference proceedings. Dr. Hellmich has served as the Chairman of both the Properties of Materials Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Poromechanics Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Institute, as associate editor of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), and in the editorial board for six other journals. As community service, he has (co-)chaired and/or supported more than 50 international conferences, and reviewed for 71 scientific journals and 11 science foundations. He was awarded the Kardinal Innitzer Science Award of the Archbishopry of Vienna in 2004 (for his habilitation thesis), the Science Award of the State of Lower Austria in 2005 (for his achievements in the micromechanics of hierarchical composites), and he was the recipient of the 2008 Zienkiewicz Award for Young Scientists in Computational Engineering Sciences, sponsored by the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS). For further activities in the multiscale poro-micromechanics of bone materials, he received one of the highly prestigious ERC Grants of the European Research Council in 2010: and he was elected member the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2011. In 2012, he was rewarded the prestigious Walter L. Huber Research Prize of the ASCE, for his contributions to the microporomechanics of hierarchical geomaterials and biomaterials.
Host: Prof. Roger Ghanem
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 Conference Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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CS Colloquium: Michael Carey (UCI)
Mon, Feb 25, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael Carey, University of California, Irvine
Talk Title: One Size Fits A Bunch: The ASTERIX Approach to Big Data Management
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Like most fields, the database field has gone through various eras - a.k.a. pendulum swings - and we are currently in the era of "One Size Fits All: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone". This is great news for industry sectors such as the Bubble Gum industry and the international consortium of Baling Wire manufacturers, and it is also very good news for Information Integration enthusiasts. Why? Because the current state of practice related to "Big Data" involves somehow piecing together many systems whose target sizes fit different use cases. This talk will provide an overview of the ASTERIX project at UC Irvine, a counter-cultural systems project in SoCal in which we are building a new, coherent, scalable, open-source "Big Data" software stack that we hope will solve a range of problems that today require too many piece parts to solve.
Biography: Michael J. Carey is an ex-long-time member of the NorCal database community. Carey defected to SoCal in 2008, where he is currently a Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine. Prior to his defection, he worked at BEA Systems in NorCal as the chief architect of (and an engineering director for) BEA's AquaLogic Data Services Platform. Carey also did time as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, at IBM Almaden as a database researcher/manager, and as a Fellow (and briefly VP of Software) at e-commerce software startup Propel Software during the 2000-2001 Internet bubble. He is an ACM Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the ACM SIGMOD E. F. Codd Innovations Award. His current research interests are centered around data-intensive computing and scalable data management.
Host: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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J.R. Abbott Construction
Mon, Feb 25, 2013 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
MCM Students! The information session is a great opportunity for us to meet students and share information about our company. We enjoy the chance to share our experience and offer valuable guidance.
Abbott is looking for students who are goal-driven, customer-focused, inquisitive, highly organized and efficient, self-motivated, have a good ability to listen and a willingness to learn.Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Viterbi MS, MCM students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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SWE 4th GM: How to get the most out of your Summer
Mon, Feb 25, 2013 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Need some advice on how to spend your summer? Come to our 4th General Meeting in VKC 156 and hear how SWE upperclassmen have spent their summers the last few years with things like research, internships, or summer school. 21Choices will be provided.
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
