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Events for March 21, 2011
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Human Factors in Aviation Safety (HFH)
Mon, Mar 21, 2011 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course presents human factors information in a manner that can be readily understood and applied by aviation practitioners. Emphasis is placed on identifying the causes of human error, predicting how human error can affect performance, and applying countermeasures to reduce or eliminate its effects.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Mar 21, 2011 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Francisco Valero-Cuevas, USC BME
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering, USC
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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CS Colloquium
Mon, Mar 21, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Roger Dingledine, Project Leader - the Tor Project
Talk Title: Tor and the Censorship Arms Race: Lessons Learned
Abstract: Tor is a free-software anonymizing network that helps people around the world use the Internet in safety. Tor's 2200 volunteer relays carry traffic for several hundred thousand users including ordinary citizens who want protection from identity theft and prying corporations, corporations who want to look at a competitor's website in private, and soldiers and aid workers in the Middle East who need to contact their home servers without fear of physical harm.
Tor was originally designed as a civil liberties tool for people in the West. But if governments or others can block connections *to* the Tor network, who cares that it provides great anonymity? A few years ago we started adapting Tor to be more robust in situations where authorities or operators actively attempt to impede its use. We streamlined its network communications to look more like ordinary SSL, and we introduced "bridge relays" that are harder for an attacker to find and block than Tor's public relays.
Through the Iranian elections in June 2009, the periodic blockings in China, the demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt, and whatever's coming next, we're learning a lot about how circumvention tools work in reality for activists in tough situations. This talk will assume some familiarity with Tor already, and jump quickly into the technical and social problems we're encountering, what technical approaches we've tried so far (and how they went), and what approaches I think we're going to need to try next.
Biography: Roger Dingledine is project leader for The Tor Project, a US non-profit working on anonymity research and development for such diverse organizations as Voice of America, the U.S. Navy, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to all the hats he wears for Tor, Roger organizes academic conferences on anonymity, speaks at a wide variety of industry and hacker conferences, and also does tutorials on anonymity for national and foreign law enforcement.
Host: Terry Benzel and John Wroclawski - USC/ISI
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 210
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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Quantum Computers: Algorithms and Implementations
Mon, Mar 21, 2011 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ben Reichardt, University of Waterloo
Talk Title: Quantum Computers: Algorithms and Implementations
Abstract: Quantum computers have the potential to deliver exponential speedups. To realize this potential, we need new quantum algorithms and new ways of implementing scalable quantum devices.
A difficulty in designing quantum algorithms is that quantum mechanics is often counterintuitive. We show that quantum computers are equivalent to a simpler model, known as span programs, that does not use quantum mechanics. Based on this equivalence, we find new algorithms, and also determine general structural properties of quantum algorithms. For example, we find a better way of composing quantum algorithms than standard classical recursion.
The main problem for implementing quantum computers is noise. We study several proposed fault-tolerant quantum computer architectures in order to maximize the tolerable noise rate and minimize the overhead, while satisfying chip locality constraints. For example, by studying the propagation of errors, we modify an error-correction method to reduce its overhead by at least a factor of four. We also introduce a family of quantum error-correcting codes with useful locality and universality properties.
Biography: Ben Reichardt is an assistant professor at the Institute for Quantum Computing in the University of Waterloo. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2006, advised by Umesh Vazirani, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology until 2008.
Host: Todd Brun
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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ENH Seminar Series
Mon, Mar 21, 2011 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Christine Raasch, Ph.D, Principal, Biomechanics Practice, Exponent Test & Engineering Center, Phoenix AZ
Talk Title: Biomechanics for (crash test) dummies- a lot happens in the blink of an eye
Abstract: During vehicle crashes, the laws of physics and mechanics hold sway, but those of us accustomed to âreal timeâ dynamics may have difficulty intuitively predicting the complex accelerations and forces that determine occupant motions and injury mechanisms for events that happen in the blink of an eye. Biomechanical accident reconstructionists and safety engineers use tools such as computer simulation and full-scale testing with instrumented anthropomorphic test dummies to open a window onto this fast and furious world. They also rely on careful evaluation of physical evidence left on structures, roadways, vehicle bodies/interiors and occupants themselves in real-world accidents to characterize the vehicle motions and occupant environment, and evaluate potential effectiveness of various safety systems in mitigating injury. We will review examples of research crash tests and accident investigations to see how biomechanical engineers analyze these loading scenarios to determine injury outcome.
Host: Francisco Valero-Cuevas
More Info: http://bbdl.usc.edu/ENH-Schedule_1011.phpLocation: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Adriana Cisneros
Event Link: http://bbdl.usc.edu/ENH-Schedule_1011.php
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Qualcomm Information Session
Mon, Mar 21, 2011 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Qualcomm is on campus and wants your resume. Note: The start date for these positions is Summer 2012.
Qualcomm has hundreds of openings for new grads and interns starting the summer of 2012 and they are looking for your resume. Join us for an Information Session where you will learn what it is like to be an Engineer at Qualcomm and how to get an interview. Come grab a couple slices of pizza and all weâll ask for in return is your resume. Sound like a fair trade?
Free food will be served and we look forward to seeing you there. This is a great opportunity for undergraduates - This information session is targeted at you!Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Life After Man: Art in the Age of the Post-Human: An Evening with Michael Ondaatje
Mon, Mar 21, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Join us for an evening with one of the worldâs foremost writers, Michael Ondaatje, author of Anilâs Ghost and The English Patient. Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje also writes memoir, poetry and film, revealing a passion for defying conventional form. In his transcendent novel The English Patientâlater made into the Academy Awardâwinning filmâhe explores the stories of people history fails to reveal, intersecting four diverse lives at the end of World War II. From the memoir of his childhood, Running in the Family, to his Governor Generalâs Awardâwinning book of poetry, Thereâs a Trick with a Knife Iâm Learning to Do, to his novel The English Patient, Ondaatje casts a spell over his readers. And having won the British Commonwealthâs highest honor, the Booker Prize, he has taken his rightful place as a contemporary literary treasure.
âEach of [Ondaatjeâs] books is filled with passages of such finesse and vividness that they become part of us. He is a writer whose best paragraphs hover just over the page, then fly into the mind.ââThe New Yorker
Organized by the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Co-sponsored by the College Commons.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
