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Inside the Port of Long Beach: Challenges and Opportunities
Wed, Mar 07, 2007 @ 11:30 AM - 01:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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GUEST SPEAKER: Richard Steinke, Executive Director Presentation Description: Port security, air quality, and aging transportation infrastructure are all issues at the forefront of public policy debate in California. Nowhere do these and other hot button issues related to goods movement and international trade converge more than at Southern California's Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex. On March 7, Port of Long Beach Executive Director Richard D. Steinke will be at School of Policy, Planning, and Development to share his insights into both the external and internal challenges and opportunities of managing the nation's second busiest seaport. A brief information session on the Port's Executive Internship Program will follow Mr. Steinke's presentation.Employment: While thousands of jobs and billions of dollars worth of goods are associated with Port operations, the Port itself is a relatively small organization, employing only 350 full-time staff in 16 divisions. Because of this, working at the Port offers a tremendous opportunity to gain exposure to, and valuable experience in a wide range of areas including International Trade and Commerce, Public Policy and Administration, Environmental, Transportation and Land Use Planning, Homeland Security, Financial Management, Engineering, Communications and Marketing, and Intergovernmental Relations. For information about employment opportunities at the Port of Long Beach, visit the Port's website at www.polb.com and click on the "Jobs/Employment" link. For employment opportunities in other areas of the City of Long Beach, visit the City's Civil Service Department website at www.longbeach.gov/civilservice/. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2007, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, LEWIS HALL 219Discussion on Employment Opportunities, 1:00-1:30 PMRSVP to: sbuchan@usc.edu, 213-740-7481
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 219
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Capital Group Meeting / Information Session
Wed, Mar 07, 2007 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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The Information Systems Association (ISA) will be hosting Capital Group at our next meeting!WHAT: Capital Group Meeting / Information SessionWHEN: Wednesday, March 7, 2007TIME: 6:30 PMWHERE: HOH 305You do not need to be a member to attend. This meeting is FREE and open to all USC students and majors. Don't forget: Free Catered Food!It's not too late to become a member! Come to this week's meeting for more information or visit the ISA website at www.uscisa.net. Please contact Christine at ccjacobs@usc.edu with any questions or for more information.Christine Jacobs, Director of Communication, Information Systems Association, http://www.uscisa.net
Location: H. Leslie Hoffman Hall Of Business Administration (HOH) - 305
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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The Anatomy of a Turnaround: Blue Cross ---> WellPoint
Thu, Mar 08, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 04:20 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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HEALTH MANAGEMENT & POLICY PROGRAMS: The Anatomy of a Turnaround: Blue Cross --> WellPointThis is a unique opportunity to hear four healthcare industry veterans discuss the turnaround of an ailing Blue Cross of California and its transformation into WellPoint, Inc.--one of the nation's leading managed care companies. Thursday, March 8, 2007 — Ralph & Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) Auditorium, 1:00-4:20 p.m.FEATURING: LEONARD D. SCHAEFFER, Founding Chairman and CEO, WellPoint GUEST FACULTY:TOM GEISER, JD --Senior Advisor, Texas Pacific Group and former WellPoint EVP and General CounselSUSAN MAERKI, Director, Healthcare Practice, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and former Manager of Corporate Strategy and Planning, Blue Cross of CADENNY WEINBERG: CEO, ARCUS Enterprises, Inc. and a founding director of WellPoint, Inc.Due to space limitations, please RSVP to Lois Green at greenl@usc.edu if you wish to attend. Guest Speaker Bios:Thomas C. Geiser is a Senior Advisor to Texas Pacific Group He has been an advisor and legal counsel to numerous healthcare organizations with a focus on healthcare financing. Mr. Geiser served as the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of WellPoint Health Networks Inc. and was involved with WellPoint from its inception. He was involved extensively in company mergers and acquisitions and in numerous public securities offerings. He was also responsible for WellPoint's legal, legislative and regulatory affairs in 50 states and served as its principal contact with state and federal regulators. Before to joining WellPoint, Mr. Geiser spent 15 years as an attorney in private law practice, coming to WellPoint from Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in San Francisco. Prior to that, he was a partner in Epstein, Becker, Stromberg & Green and in Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Stromberg in San Francisco. Susan Maerki is a director in the healthcare practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Her areas of expertise include health insurance, managed care and health care financing, health policy, and government public programs, particularly Medicaid. She has nearly 25 years of experience working in academic health services research, a major health plan, public programs and consulting. Ms. Maerki led the health market assessment component for the PwC teams that advised the Kansas and the Washington State Departments of Insurance on the proposed conversion of local Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans from non-profit to for-profit status. More recently, she has been involved in engagements with health plans to develop competitive bid proposals for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D Prescription Drug plans. Prior to joining PwC, Ms. Maerki was an independent consultant working on the development and implementation of Medicaid managed care in California and on international health care projects in Africa in and Southeast Asia. Previously she was at Blue Cross of California, where served as Manager of Provider Network Evaluation. As Manager of Corporate Strategy and Planning, she worked with the plan's president during a period of corporate restructuring. Ms. Maerki began her career doing research at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco. Denny Weinberg is CEO of ARCUS Enterprises, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of WellPoint, Inc. He was one of the founding directors of WellPoint in the early 1990's, and is an 18-year veteran of WellPoint or its predecessor companies. During his tenure, he helped structure one of the most publicized financial turnarounds in the managed care industry, which resulted in WellPoint's creation. Most recently as CEO of ARCUS, he has been responsible for creating and launching a long-term business diversification venture for WellPoint. Previously, Mr. Weinberg served as group president and/or founder for a number of WellPoint's key operating companies and divisions. Prior to this Mr. Weinberg was a principal with the consulting division of accounting firm Deloitte & Touche in Chicago, and he served also as general manager for the CTX Products Division of Pet, Inc., a subsidiary of I.C. Industries in St. Louis, MO. Weinberg is a general partner in FRW-I, LLC, a medical device developer and Skyview Development, LLC, a residential land development company, and is a limited partner in a half dozen other early-stage development projects.
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Flow Variability and Labor Productivity Loss for Construction Projects
Thu, Mar 08, 2007 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Civil Engineering Seminar - USC-CEE Faculty Candidate in Construction Management "Flow Variability and Labor Productivity Loss for Construction Projects"Speaker: Min LiuPh.D. Candidate, UC BerkeleyABSTRACT: Lost labor productivity loss is one of the primary contributors to the cost and schedule overruns that affect many construction projects. Quantifying lost labor productivity on construction projects is difficult and sometimes subjective. A widely accepted way to quantify losses is the measured mile approach. In this research the measured mile and a variant, the baseline method, are analyzed and compared to a new, proposed statistical clustering method. The research explored applying a statistical clustering method in the measured mile and baseline calculation to inject objectivity in the analysis. The test on real data showed that the clustering method is more objective and therefore more convincing to both owners and contractors. The research also explored the relationship between flow variation and labor productivity. Identifying and quantifying the benefit of improving flow reliability can provide guidance for project managers to focus on the root causes of productivity loss in the planning stage. The research findings can also help consultants locate the causes and quantify responsibility of productivity loss in claims. Computer simulation and case study approaches were used to explore the correlation between flow variation and labor productivity. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2007, 2:30-4:00 PM, KAPRIELIAN HALL, ROOM 203
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Spring Spotlight
Wed, Mar 21, 2007 @ 11:30 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Come learn more about engineering! Meet faculty, staff and students from different majors as well as student groups and organizations.Free food will be served!
Location: E Quad
Audiences: Freshmen & Sophomore Students
Contact: Viterbi Student Affairs
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Virtual Communities, The Grid, and Systems Oriented Science
Thu, Mar 22, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Dr. Carl KesselmanFellow, USC Information Sciences Institute; Director, USC Center for Grid Technologies at the Information Sciences Institute; and Research Professor, USC Computer Science Department ASTRACT: Increasingly, significant activities in science, business and society at large take place within the context of distributed, computationally enabled collaborations. Large-scale science collaborations such as those found in astrophysics, astronomy, geophysics, and particle physics are typical of this new type of collaboration. Driven by requirements for a broad range of skill sets, participants and resources, the concept of community becomes central organizing principal for these emerging computationally empowered explorations. However, unlike traditional communities, which tend to have well defined members and boundaries, today's scientific communities are dynamic, distributed, and span institutional boundaries. This has lead to the description of these structures as virtual organizations. Virtual organizations more then just the people, but encompasses the services, resources and capabilities that are shared to achieve the goals of the shared endeavor. This leads to the inevitable question of how these distributed are communities formed, how are they maintained, how to they create new services and capabilities for their members, how do they get work done. Technologies such as service oriented architectures and Grids provide underlying foundation, but now need have mechanisms for identifying, creating and operating distributed virtual communities. In this talk, I will explore the question of how to create and empower virtual communities and how we can support community formation within the context of our information technology infrastructure. BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Carl Kesselman is Fellow in the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. He is the Director of the Center for Grid Technologies at the Information Sciences Institute and a Research Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University at Buffalo. Dr. Kesselman also serves as Chief Scientist of Univa Corporation, a company he founded with Globus co-founders Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke.Dr. Kesselman's current research interests are all aspects of Grid computing, including basic infrastructure, security, resource management, high-level services and Grid applications. He is the author of many significant papers in the field. Together with Dr. Ian Foster, he initiated the Globus Project™, one of the leading Grid research projects. The Globus project has developed the Globus Toolkit®, the de facto standard for Grid computing. Dr. Kesselman received the 1997 Global Information Infrastructure Next Generation Internet award, the 2002 R&D 100 award, the 2002 R&D Editors choice award, the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer and the 2002 Ada Lovelace Medal from the British Computing Society for significant contributions to information technology. Along with his colleagues Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke, he was named one of the top 10 innovators of 2002 by InfoWorld Magazine. In 2003, he and Dr. Foster were named by MIT Technology Review as the creators of one of the "10 technologies that will change the world." In 2006 Dr. Kesselman received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam.THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007, 1:00-2:00 PM, GERONTOLOGY BLDG (GER) 309
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Lean and Six Sigma in Healthcare Industry
Tue, Mar 27, 2007 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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The American Society for Quality (ASQ) presents: LEAN AND SIX SIGMA IN HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY with Mr. Imran ChaudhryRegional Director of Operational Excellence for Providence HealthcareTopics covered: - How Providence Healthcare identifies Process Improvement projects - How projects are prioritized and the importance of scoping a project - The attribute required for a successful project - Challenges with data collection - Examples of how processes are analyzed using lean & six sigma toolsTUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2007, 6:00 - 7:30 PM, GRACE FORD SALVATORI (GFS) 116Contact Feicia Fnu, fnu@usc.edu, for more information.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Essays on Economic Modeling: Spatial-Temporal Extensions and Verification
Wed, Mar 28, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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METRANS PhD Candidates Dissertation Presentation Seminar: "Essays on Economic Modeling: Spatial-Temporal Extensions and Verification" JiYoung ParkPhD, Urban Planning, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California Abstract: Ever since the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., several studies have evaluated the socioeconomic impacts on the U.S. economy from these and also various hypothetical attacks. Although recent studies (see for example, Planning Scenarios; Howe, 2004) illustrate preliminary estimates of the losses from various hypothetical terrorist attacks on selected major targets, such reports typically contain no spatial information. However, economic impacts from man-made or natural disasters would not be restricted to a just the immediate impact area; rather, they involve spatial incidence, spreading via social and economic linkages. Clearly, spatial impact information is important for at least two reasons in discussions of homeland security. First, political representatives have an obvious interest in their own constituency and jurisdiction. Second, sub-national impacts can cancel each other in the aggregate, causing national measures to obscure key dimensions of events. Therefore, to be useful for policy makers, impact analyses should include information on the nature of spatially distributed impacts throughout the national economy, especially for alternate defensive and mitigation measures. To estimate such spatial impacts, they should be determined by tracing impulses through inter-related industries as well as via inter-regional commodity flows. In this sense, the usefulness of interstate multiregional input-output (MRIO) type models is clear. Many mitigation and precautionary approaches to disasters are conducted at the local level, and therefore, those various hypothetical impacts cannot easily be evaluated unless sub-national effects can be estimated. It is also well known, as the various studies using IO-type models have noted, that a key limitation of IO models is that all coefficients in the models are fixed. The constant coefficients in the IO matrix ignore substitution opportunities and/or different relations between industries that might be prompted by market signals. Therefore, IO model applications are only useful for impact analyses relevant to very short periods, where we assume that most market behaviors do not change. If some of the assumptions of IO models can be relaxed so that they are relevant beyond the short-run, their usefulness and application would increase tremendously.
In the sense, this dissertation suggests new methodologies on temporal extensions. Therefore, this dissertation addresses methodologies on spatial and/or temporal economic IO models extended from the classic IO model, as well as temporally extended national IO model (USIO). Also, this dissertation includes an essay to support supply-driven IO model theoretically, which includes some problem applying to an empirical disasters due to interpretation problem. Based on spatially extended IO model at the state level, called National Interstate Economic Model (NIEMO), a supply-driven NIEMO with price elasticity of demand and temporally extended supply-driven NIEMOs (FlexNIEMOs) are introduced. Hence, this dissertation includes three essays on extension of supply-driven IO and spatial expansions from the classic demand-driven IO: 'The Supply-Driven Input-Output Model: A New Reinterpretation and Extension', 'A Two-Step Approach Estimating State-by-State Commodity Trade Flows', 'Estimation of Interstate Trade Flows for Service Industries'. Then, a fourth essay in this dissertation is 'An Evaluation of Input-Output Aggregation Error Using a New MRIO Model', which provides information on the accuracy of NIEMO. Finally, because theoretical suggestion of temporal extension is based on the demand- and supply-driven IO or NIEMO, the last essay of 'Constructing a Flexible National Interstate Economic Model (FlexNIEMO)' deals with the expansion of all types of IO models. Several papers applying those models to terrorist attacks or natural disasters are expecting to publish academically, as well as those essays.Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm at USC University Park Campus, Lewis Hall (RGL) Room 215** Feel free to bring your lunch. Drinks and dessert will be served. **Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 215
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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The Robust Vehicle Routing Problem
Wed, Mar 28, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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METRANS PhD Candidates Dissertation Presentation Seminar: "The Robust Vehicle Routing Problem"Ilgaz SungurPhD Candidate, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California Abstract: We apply robust optimization methodology on the Vehicle Routing Problem to address the uncertainty in demand and cost. We develop robust counterparts and use performance measures to compare the robust and deterministic solutions. We experimentally analyze demand uncertainty using an open source solver. Our results on both literature and random instances show that for certain network structures, robust solution benefits from strategic allocation of the slack in vehicles with little extra cost.Wednesday, Mar. 28, 2007, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Lewis Hall (RGL)Room RGL 215** Feel free to bring your lunch. Drinks and dessert will be served. **
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 215
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Trends in the U.S. Healthcare System
Thu, Mar 29, 2007 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Student Health Council Speaker SeriesJeffry Huffman, MD, MHAPresident and CEO of USC Care Medical GroupDate: Thursday, March 29Time: 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Location: Taper Hall (THH) Room 114Please RSVP – Seating will be limitedIn addition to his role as CEO of the USC Care organization, Dr. Huffman serves as a Professor and Associate Senior Vice President for medical care at USC Keck Medical School . He is a respected speaker on healthcare management and has authored numerous research studies.Dr. Huffman received his Master of Health Administration from USC's School of Policy, Planning and Development and will speak on trends in the U.S. healthcare system and the role of healthcare leaders in administration and policy. Don't miss this chance to meet one of the most influential health professionals talk about his experience in the healthcare industry.Refreshments will be served.Please RSVP with your full name and email to eraff@usc.edu. Seating will be limited.
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 114
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
