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Events for March 23, 2015
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkMon, Mar 23, 2015
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. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering 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 make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Prospective Undergrads and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Information, Inference, and Privacy
Mon, Mar 23, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Flavio du Pin Calmon, MIT
Talk Title: Information, Inference, and Privacy
Abstract: Widespread collection of data has led to new and challenging privacy and security risks. There is a need to engineer mechanisms that allow users to selectively disclose their data to a third party in order to achieve a utility goal (e.g. receive high quality product recommendations), while restricting the release of private information (e.g. not revealing a given medical condition). In this talk, we use tools from information theory, statistics and estimation theory to characterize the fundamental limits of estimation when only partial statistics of the data are known. We then apply the insight gained by characterizing these limits to quantify the fundamental privacy-utility tradeoff and to design privacy-assuring mechanisms.
In addition, we introduce security metrics and associated results based on the spectrum of the conditional expectation operator, called the principal inertia components. The principal inertia components allow a fine-grained decomposition of the dependence between a hidden and an observed variable which, in turn, is useful for deriving fundamental bounds for estimation problems, and for measuring information leakage in secure communication models. Finally, we illustrate how our results can be used as a design driver for applications in security, noisy computation and distributed systems.
Biography: Flavio du Pin Calmon is a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (with a minor in Mathematics) at MIT, and a member of the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group at the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). His research interests include information theory, statistics, estimation theory, security and privacy. In addition to his work at MIT, Flavio has ongoing collaborations with the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Technicolor SA and NetApp. Before coming to MIT, he received an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, and a B.Sc. in Communications Engineering from the Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil.
Host: Andreas Molisch
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Mar 23, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Xuefeng Wang, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Genomic BIology & Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Talk Title: CANCELLED
Abstract: tba
Host: Stanley Yamashiro
Location: OHE 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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RASC Seminar Event: Prof. Carrick Detweiler (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) - Bringing Aerial Robots Closer to the Water: Sensing, Sampling, and Safety
Mon, Mar 23, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Carrick Detweiler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Talk Title: Bringing Aerial Robots Closer to the Water: Sensing, Sampling, and Safety
Series: RASC Seminar Series
Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being used for everything from crop surveying to pipeline monitoring. They are significantly cheaper than the traditional manned airplane or helicopter approaches to obtaining aerial imagery and sensor data. The next generation of UAVs, however, will do more than simply observe. In this talk, I will discuss the challenges of using aerial robots very close to the water to obtain aerial water samples and sensor data from remote waters locations without needing to bring a boat to each location. When flying close to water, there is little time to react to errors and among obstacles. I will discuss automated software analysis techniques we are developing to detect and correct system errors to reduce risk and increase safety. I will focus on our recent work on the UAV-based water sampler system, but also discuss other applications we are pursuing, including using UAVs to recharge remotely deployed sensors and how we are using very low flying UAVs to monitor the growth of crops.
Biography: Dr. Carrick Detweiler is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He co-directs and co-founded the Nebraska Intelligent MoBile Unmanned Systems (NIMBUS) Lab at UNL, which focuses on developing software and systems for small aerial robots and sensor systems. Carrick obtained his B.A. in 2004 from Middlebury College and his Ph.D. in 2010 from MIT CSAIL. He is a Faculty Fellow at the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at UNL and recently received the 2014 College of Engineering Henry Y. Kleinkauf Family Distinguished New Faculty Teaching Award. He is currently lead PI on NSF and USDA grants, including a National Robotics Initiative Grant. In addition to research activities, Carrick actively promotes the use of robotics in the arts through workshops and collaborations with the international dance companies Pilobolus and STREB.
Host: RASC
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 406
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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EE-Electrophysics
Mon, Mar 23, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jesse Maassen, Purdue University
Talk Title: Heat transport on the nanoscale: lessons from electron transport
Abstract: Electronics has shaped our modern world. The downscaling of device dimensions that made this possible not only presented enormous technological challenges, it also raised many fundamental questions. Over the past two decades a deep understanding of electronic transport at the nanoscale has been developed, along with the computational tools that accurately capture the relevant physics. However, electron transport cannot be separated from phonon transport. Self-heating in nanoscale devices critically limits their performance, and coupled electron-phonon transport in nanostructures provides a route to increase the performance of thermoelectric energy conversion. Further progress in electronics will require a deeper understanding of thermal transport at the nanoscale along with the development of new computational tools that address challenges from the nano- to macro-scale. I have begun to tackle these issues in a unique way - by unifying the concepts and techniques for electron and phonon transport.
In this talk I will discuss our recent findings on nanoscale heat transport
- highlighting the similarities of electron and phonon transport. Work on the fundamental limits of thermal interface resistance and transport in 2D materials will be presented. In addition, I will describe a new approach to treat heat transport on all length and time scales. This technique is not only simple, computationally efficient and able to reproduce results of detailed modeling with high accuracy, but is also physically transparent thus providing new fundamental (and still controversial!) insights such as the fact that Fourier's Law often works very well at the nanoscale. Results of this method combined with detailed first principles modeling of nanomaterials will be presented.
We envision using this framework to analyze recent unresolved experiments, to help understand the results of detailed simulations, and to explore coupled electro-thermal transport in a variety nanoscale materials and devices.
Biography: Jesse Maassen received B.Eng. and M.A.Sc. degrees in engineering physics from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in 2006. He obtained a Ph.D. in physics from McGill University in 2011 by working on first principles simulations of nanoelectronic devices. Since 2012 Dr. Maassen has been a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University working with Prof.
Mark Lundstrom. His research interests focus on exploring novel materials and devices, using predictive first principles modeling, with an emphasis on electro-thermal transport.
Jesse Maassen was awarded a Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council
(NSERC) of Canada, as well as a Postdoctoral Fellowship from NSERC. He won best doctoral thesis from McGill Physics Department in 2011, and received the Keren Prize for best theoretical work at the Trends in Nanotechnology conference.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Seminar with Ermah Ergelen
Mon, Mar 23, 2015 @ 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Emrah Ergelen, Vice President of Arge Construction
Talk Title: Strategic Alliances in Emerging Markets: A Perspective from International Construction Industry
Abstract: The presentation discusses strategic alliances used in the international construction industry, while focusing on reasons, processes, types, success factors and pitfalls in relation to such alliances. The speaker illustrates these topics with specific project examples from his experience in the emerging markets.
Biography: Mr. Emrah Ergelen is an entrepreneur and a professional with a 20-years experience in the international construction industry in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa. He is currently the Vice President of Arge Construction, co-founded by him in 2005 as a spin-off from his family firm Hazinedaroglu, for which he has worked between 1995-2005. During his career Emrah managed 19 strategic alliances, all of which were international. He holds a MBA from Bocconi, a MS in Construction Engineering and Management from MIT and a BEng with Honours in Civil Engineering from Nottingham.
Host: Hank Koffman
More Information: Ermah Poster.pdf
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kaela Berry
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Learn How to Build a Hardware Startup
Mon, Mar 23, 2015 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
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At the Viterbi Hacker House, VSi2 is hosting Nate Deschaine. Nate Deschaine is Dragon’s Senior Mechanical Engineer and heads up the Dragon Certified program, working closely with hardware startups as they prepare to raise a round or launch a crowdfunding campaign.
Formally a Mechnical Engineer at iRobot, Nate focused on consumer products and spent an extensive amount of time in China over the course of six years. Nate holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Dragon Innovation helps growing companies navigate the manufacturing process. It has worked with the top hardware startups / companies including MakerBot, Pebble, Jibo, Coin, Sifteo, Vinli, Lifx, Remotive, Formlabs, Ideo, Kinsa, Leap, and many more.
Dragon Innovation understands the process of building a hardware startup inside and out. If you are building a hardware startup, you definitely can’t afford to miss this event.
Nate has also suggested if you are working on a hardware startup, you should bring prototypes, renderings, sketches, etc. to get some personal feedback and guidance.
Hope to see you all there!Location: Kerckhoff Hall (KER) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Student Innovation Institute
