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Events for February 12, 2025

  • Viterbi Career/Internship Fair

    Wed, Feb 12, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections

    Workshops & Infosessions


    For Viterbi engineering students only.Connect with employers on-campus, hiring for full-time, part-time, and paid internships at this Viterbi-specific recruitment fair!Please visit Handshake for all the companies attending.For more information, please visit: https://viterbicareers.usc.edu/careerexpo/

    Audiences: All Viterbi

    Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections

    Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/

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  • Repeating EventEiS Communications Hub - Tutoring for Engineering Ph.D. Students

    Wed, Feb 12, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs

    Workshops & Infosessions


    Viterbi Ph.D. students are invited to drop by the Hub for instruction on their writing and speaking tasks!  All tutoring is one-on-one and conducted by Viterbi faculty.

    Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A

    Audiences: Viterbi Ph.D. Students

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    Contact: Helen Choi

    Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home

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  • GPA Requirements & Calculations Workshop

    Wed, Feb 12, 2025 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    USC Viterbi School of Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Have questions about GPA? Join Viterbi Graduate Academic Services to learn about GPA requirements and how to calculate your GPA!

    Location: Online Event

    Audiences:

    Contact: Sidney Lim

    Event Link: https://engage.usc.edu/viterbi/rsvp?id=401906

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  • Computer Science General Faculty Meeting

    Wed, Feb 12, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

    Receptions & Special Events


    Bi-Weekly regular faculty meeting for invited full-time Computer Science faculty and staff only. Event details emailed directly to attendees.

    Location: Ginsburg Hall (GCS) - 107

    Audiences: Invited Faculty Only

    Contact: Julia Mittenberg-Beirao

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  • AME Seminar

    Wed, Feb 12, 2025 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

    Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Pedro Ponte Castaneda, University of Pennsylvania

    Talk Title: Soft Elastic Composites: Microstructure evolution, macroscopic multi-physics response, instabilities and associated soft modes

    Abstract: Soft elastic composite materials can undergo large deformations under normal operating conditions and, in many applications, such as in robotics and prosthetics applications, they are designed with the objective of undergoing controlled deformation by means of externally applied magnetic, electrical, pneumatic or other types of fields. They include porous, particle- and fiber-reinforced rubbers, thermoplastic and magnetorheological elastomers, dielectric elastomer composites, polymer foams, muscle and other biological tissues. As a consequence of the finite deformations involved, their microstructure evolves with the deformation and their constitutive or rheological behavior can be highly nonlinear and strongly anisotropic. This presents a challenge for the application of homogenization methods, which were originally developed to characterize the effective material parameters of composites, such as, for example, the thermal conductivity of a two-phase composite material, or the Young’s modulus of an isotropic metal polycrystal. In this presentation, I will give an overview of several methods that have been recently developed to characterize the multi-physics constitutive response of soft composites, as well as the evolution of the microstructure and the possible development of instabilities in such material systems. In addition, I will present some explicit examples, including those leading to a certain type of ‘twining’ instabilities and associated soft modes of deformation.

    Biography: Pedro Ponte Castañeda is Raymond S. Markowitz Faculty Fellow and Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, as well as Member ofthe Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics & Computational Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.A. in Mathematicsfrom Lehigh University in 1982, and an S.M. in Engineering Sciences and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1983 and 1986, respectively. Prior to joining Penn, he was Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University (1987-90). He was also Professor of Mechanics at the École Polytechnique (2004-06). He has held visiting positions at the C.N.R.S. in Marseilles, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Corpus Christi College at Cambridge University, as well as the University of Stuttgart. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids and of the Journal of Elasticity. He is an ASME Fellow and his honors include the ASME Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award (2000), the George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research from Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (2007), the Humboldt Senior Research Award (2013) and the ASME Warner T. Koiter Medal (2016).

    Host: AME Department

    More Info: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/

    Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1

    Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 252

    WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Tessa Yao

    Event Link: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/

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  • DEN@Viterbi - Online Graduate Engineering Virtual Information Session

    Wed, Feb 12, 2025 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM

    DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission

    Workshops & Infosessions


    Join USC Viterbi School of Engineering for a virtual information session via WebEx, providing an introduction to DEN@Viterbi, our top-ranked online delivery system. Discover the 40+ graduate engineering and computer science programs available entirely online. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect directly with USC Viterbi representatives during the session to discuss the admission process, program details, and the benefits of online delivery.

    WebCast Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/r54b235c41e9cb1b8524fa533ddb8d536

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs

    Event Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/r54b235c41e9cb1b8524fa533ddb8d536

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