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Events for March 23, 2011
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkWed, Mar 23, 2011
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 http://usconnect.usc.edu/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Mar 23, 2011
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 http://usconnect.usc.edu/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Transfer Credit Workshop
Wed, Mar 23, 2011 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Planning on taking classes over the summer at a school closer to home? Come to this workshop to learn about how to submit the courses for approval and to make sure that the courses you want to take are equivalent to what's offered at USC.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES IN GEOTHERMAL STUDIES
Wed, Mar 23, 2011 @ 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University Calendar
Location: RTH-324. The scientific community is cordially invited to Senior Geologist Brigette Martini's (Ormat Technologies, Inc.) brief talk on her current research. For more information visit: http://cgs.usc.edu/
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Aimee Barnard
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Seminar: Dr. Nasser Karam
Wed, Mar 23, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Receptions & Special Events
Seminar Title:
High Efficiency Multijunction Solar Cells for Low-Cost Energy Generation
Speaker:
Dr. Nasser H. Karam
Vice President, Advanced Technology Products
BOEING - SPECTROLAB, Inc.
Location: HNB100
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 2:00 PM
Dr. Karam and his Advanced Technology Products (ATP) team are world recognized in the development of advanced space solar cells for satellites, as well as terrestrial concentrating solar cells, and other optoelectronic devices.
For the last decade, his team has developed, demonstrated and held nearly all the world records for high efficiency concentrating multijunction PV solar cells under concentration. In 2001-2002, Dr. Karam and his ATP Team won the âR&D 100â and the âScientific American 50â awards for contributions in the field of terrestrial energy generation and demonstration of concentrating multijunction terrestrial photovoltaic cell with 34% efficiency. In 2007, Dr. Karamâs group at Boeing Spectrolab demonstrated a world record of 40.7% efficient metamorphic
terrestrial solar cell under concentration; the team has been recognized with âR&D 100â award for this accomplishment. In 2009, his team asserted the US leadership as the current world record holder of the highest efficiency concentrator
solar cell at 41.6% under concentration. Spectrolab is currently in production of terrestrial concentrator solar cells with average efficiency of 38.5% at 500x concentration, and is gearing up to introduce a 40% efficient cell in 2011.
Today, Boeing - Spectrolab is in production with the most efficient space solar cell in the world at an average efficiency of 28.3% AM0 and recently introduced a 30% average AM0 efficiency space solar cell in 2011.
Host: PEEEPS (Phd Electrical Engineering ElectroPhysics Students organization) and CENT (Center for Energy Nanoscience and Technlogy)Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Satsuki Takahashi
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Variable origin-destination trip matrix estimation: A maximum entropy-least squares estimator
Wed, Mar 23, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Chi Xie, The University of Texas at Austin
Talk Title: Variable origin-destination trip matrix estimation: A maximum entropy-least squares estimator
Abstract: In transportation subnetwork-supernetwork analysis, it is well known that the origin-destination (O-D) flow table of a subnetwork is not only determined by trip generation and distribution, but also by traffic routing and diversion, due to the existence of internal-external, external-internal and external-external flows. This result indicates the variable nature of subnetwork O-D flows. This talk presents a variable O-D flow table estimation problem for subnetwork analysis. The underlying assumption is that each cell of the subnetwork O-D flow table contains an elastic demand function rather than a fixed demand rate and the demand function can properly capture traffic diversion effects under various network changes.
An integrated maximum entropy-least squares (ME-LS) estimator is proposed, by which O-D flows are distributed over the subnetwork so as to maximize the trip distribution entropy, while demand function parameters are estimated for achieving the least sum of squared estimation errors. While the estimator is powered by the classic convex combination algorithm, computational difficulties emerge within the algorithm implementation until partial optimality conditions and a column generation procedure are incorporated into the algorithmic framework. Numerical results from applying the integrated estimator to a couple of subnetwork examples show that a variable O-D flow table, when used as input for subnetwork flow evaluations, reflects network flow changes significantly better than its fixed counterpart.
Host: Sonny Astani Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Erin Sigman
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AME Department Seminar
Wed, Mar 23, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Barnaby Wainfan , Technical Fellow, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Talk Title: The Seven Deadly Sins of Aircraft Design
Abstract: This presentation examines mistakes that occur regularly in airplane design. The designs that result from these missteps fail. The failures can be technical, leading to machines that refuse to fly or are never completed. The failure can also be one of effectiveness; the aircraft is technically successful as a flying machine, but is economically unviable or unable to perform its mission. The goal of the presentation is to describe the most common of these failure types and to provide, through historical example, insight enabling recognition and avoidance of the most common traps early in the design process.
Biography: Mr. Barnaby Wainfan is Technical Fellow for Aerodynamics Design at Northrop Grumman Corporation.
Host: Prof. G. Spedding
More Info: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcomingLocation: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming
