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Meet USC (AM session)
Wed, Mar 08, 2006 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Mike Eldred, Sandia National Labs: Overview of Optimization Under Uncertainty Capabilities in DAKOTA
Wed, Mar 08, 2006 @ 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Uncertainties must be properly modeled in order to quantify risk and enable the design of systems that are both robust and reliable. A number of capabilities for optimization under uncertainty (OUU) have been developed at Sandia National Laboratories and deployed to users through the DAKOTA software toolkit. This talk will overview these capabilities, as well as describe the uncertainty quantification and optimization foundations on which they are based. Of particular interest are surrogate-based OUU and reliability-based design optimization methods. Application of these techniques to robust design of inertial confinement fusion capsules and reliability-based design of micro-electro-mechanical systems will be presented.Mike Eldred is Principal Member of Technical Staff, Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation Dept., at Sandia National Laboratories.http://venus.usc.edu/seminars/CAM/
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Roger Ghanem
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Ensemble Kalman Filter For History Matching
Wed, Mar 08, 2006 @ 11:30 AM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Dean Oliver, Professor and Director,
Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geology Engineering
The University of OklahomaThe problem of reservoir characterization through automatic history matching has been extensively studied in recent years. Efficient applications have, however, required either an adjoint or a gradient simulator method to compute the gradient of the objective function or a sensitivity coefficient matrix for the minimization. Both computations are expensive when the number of model parameters or the number of observation data is large. The codes for gradient-based history matching methods are also complex and time-consuming to write.This talk reports the use of the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) for automatic history matching. EnKF is a Monte Carlo method, in which a collection of reservoir models is used to estimate various relationships for history matching. An estimate of uncertainty in future reservoir performance can also be obtained from the ensemble.Unlike traditional history matching, the source code of the reservoir simulator is not required, which allows this method to be used with any reservoir simulator. Also, the assimilation of the data in EnKF is done sequentially rather than simultaneously as in traditional history matching. By so doing the reservoir models are always kept up-to-date, which may be important when the frequency of data is fairy high.In this talk, the application of the EnKF to the problem of history matching the PUNQ-S3 test modelwill be described. It is a small (19x28x5) three-phase reservoir engineering model that was developed by research units in the European Union to compare methods for quantifying uncertainty assessment in history matching. The model is also tested on a synthetic problem in which the locations of geologic facies must be determined. In both cases, the EnKF provided satisfactory history matching results while requiring less computation than traditional methods.
Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - CO 116
Audiences: The Scientific Community is Cordially Invited
Contact: Takimoto Idania
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Before You Sign on the Dotted Line - Lockheed Martin Career Workshop
Wed, Mar 08, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
" Before You Sign on the Dotted Line" a 1 hour workshop presented by Lockheed Martin -- When faced with multiple job offers, how do you choose the best one for you? Or before you even start to job-hunt, how do you narrow down your targets? Learn about "Total Compensation" and why it's NOT all about the salary!Food will be served!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Meet USC (PM session)
Wed, Mar 08, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Viterbi Career Services Walk-In Hours
Wed, Mar 08, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, to salary negotiations!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Undergraduate/Graduate Engineering Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Towards Verification and Validation of Adaptive Systems for Safety Critical Applications
Wed, Mar 08, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Naira Hovakimyan, Associate Professor
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UnivFor more information, go to:http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - Rm, 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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How do I transfer summer courses (Workshop)
Wed, Mar 08, 2006 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergraduate Students
Contact: Monica De Los Santos
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Lockheed Martin Information Session
Wed, Mar 08, 2006 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 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 Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Undergraduate/Graduate Engineering Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
