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Events for March 22, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkFri, Mar 22, 2013
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center Monthly Seminar Series
Fri, Mar 22, 2013 @ 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dino Di Carlo, PH.D., Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering at University of California, Los Angeles
Talk Title: Manipulating and Measuring Cell Mechanics for Medicine
Abstract: Cell deformability (i.e., the ability to change shape under an applied force) is a promising physical marker indicative of underlying structural changes associated with various disease processes and changes in cell state. We are combining precision microfluidic control of cells with automated high-speed image analysis for high-throughput cell classification based on intrinsic biomechanical properties. I will first discuss general strategies we are developing to passively manipulate particles and fluids using simple geometric modifications within microchannels. Our approaches make use of fluid inertia, generally neglected in microfluidic systems, to create well-defined directional forces and fluid deformations that can be combined in a sequential and hierarchical manner to program complex particle and fluid motions. Low complexity modular components to manipulate cells, particles, and fluid streams in which inertial fluid physics is abstracted from the designer has the capability transform biological, chemical, and materials automation in a similar fashion to how modular control of electrons and abstraction of semiconductor physics transformed computation. We apply these fundamental techniques to position cells for high-speed fluid-based deformation and optical analysis. The ââ¬Ådeformability cytometerââ¬Â instrument shows promise in identifying cancer cells, activated white blood cells, and stem cells in mixed populations â⬓ without labels - for a variety of clinical and regenerative medicine applications.
Biography: USC was selected to establish a $16 million cancer research center as part of a new strategy against the disease by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and its National Cancer Institute. The new center is one of 12 in the nation to receive the designation. During the five-year initiative, the Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers will take new, nontraditional approaches to cancer research by studying the physical laws and principles of cancer; evolution and the evolutionary theory of cancer; information coding, decoding, transfer and translation in cancer; and ways to de-convolute cancer's complexity. As part of the outreach component of this grant, the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine is hosting a monthly seminar series.
Host: USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center
Location: Clinical Science Center (CSC) - #250 Harkness Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kristina Gerber
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AI Seminar- Monica Lam:
Fri, Mar 22, 2013 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Monica Lam, Stanford University
Series: Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Abstract: Every computer revolution changes our lives dramatically; so will mobile devices. Mobile devices enable billions of people to capture, share, interact, and consume real-time personal media in new and creative ways. In addition, being devices owned by individuals, they can form an autonomous computing fabric that frees us from the domination of existing centralized proprietary social networking services.
This talk presents an open social mobile (OSM) architecture that combines a novel and natural mobile social experience with a clean architecture that lets users choose different cloud backup services. In addition, OSM is an app platform that makes it easy to create privacy-honoring social apps. This can open up new markets for social and collaborative apps in fields like education, health and businesses, where centralized proprietary services are inappropriate.
Biography: Monica S. Lam has been a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University since 1988, and the Faculty Director of the Stanford MobiSocial Computing Laboratory. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Her current research interest is in creating open social computing platforms. She has worked in the areas of high-performance computing, computer architecture, compiler optimizations, security analysis, virtualization-based computer management, and mobile/social software architectures. She is a co-author of the "Dragon Book". Together with her students, she founded MokaFive Inc. in 2005 and MobiSocial Inc. in 2012. Monica is an ACM Fellow.
Home Page:
http://suif.stanford.edu/~lam/
Host: David Chiang
More Info: http://drop.isi.edu/technology_groups/insy/events/ai_seminar-_monica_lam_how_mobile_disrupts_social_we_know_it
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=1e1e57c525184757b19a436e2c0b3eeb1dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=1e1e57c525184757b19a436e2c0b3eeb1d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
