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Events for March 24, 2010
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Mar 24, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
University Calendar
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 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html 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: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Admission Intern
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Engineering Kidz Design Challenge
Wed, Mar 24, 2010 @ 10:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Receptions & Special Events
Do you like to design cool solutions? Build neat contraptions? Tinker?Compete in the Engineering Kidz Design Challenge! Team up with inner-city 5th grade students and participate in unique challenges where you design working heart models, flapping birds or light weight vehicles. You will get a chance to mentor and work with children and inspire them to pursue a career in engineering or science.Register online at www.IridescentLearning.orgLunch will be provided (and free t-shirts for early registrants!)
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Iridescent Learning
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Electrospray and Its Applications
Wed, Mar 24, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Daren Chen Associate Professor Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO 63130 ABSTRACT:Electrospray technique (i.e., electrohydrodynamic atomization), has been proposed for many modern applications. Examples of the applications include the surface coating, agricultural treatments, emulsion, fuel spraying, micro-or nano- encapsulation, ink-jet printers, colloid micro-thrusters, electrospray mass spectrometry (ES MS) for macromolecular detection in biochemical applications, monodisperse super micro-and nono- particle generation, enhancement of droplet mixing, targeted drug delivery by inhalation, power production, and electrospray gene transfection. Among all the operational modes involved in electrospray process the cone-jet mode has been investigated and applied for the majority of above-described applications. It is because of its capability to produce un-agglomerated, monodisperse particles in the sub-micrometer and nanometer diameter ranges. Among different setups, single-capillary electrospray systems were often used in various applications. However, limitation of single-capillary electrospray is encountered in modern electrospray applications, especially in the biomedical and pharmaceutical areas. Dual-capillary electrospray (ES) technique was thus proposed to overcome the limit of a single-capillary electrospray system, thereby broadening the applications of electrospray technique. In this presentation we will first review the electrospray history and its fundamental principles, then present its modern applications in biomedical and pharmaceutical areas.
Location: Seaver Science Library SSL, Room 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Taming the Scale and Costs of (Really) Large Distributed Systems
Wed, Mar 24, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: Taming the Scale and Costs of (Really) Large Distributed SystemsSpeaker: Dr. Harsha V. MadhyasthaHost: Prof. Ramesh GovindanAbstract: Over the last decade, the penetration of broadband Internet access and the commoditization of server hardware have dramatically increased. These trends have resulted in planetary-scale distributed applications that span millions of end-hosts and data centers that house hundreds of thousands of servers. Such large scales make it hard to build and deploy applications. In this talk, I will present simple models of these complex environments that help significantly improve the performance and cost-effectiveness of application deployments.First, I will present iPlane, an information plane designed to serve as the source of path information for all applications on the Internet. iPlane continually measures the Internet from several hundred geographically distributed vantage points to maintain an up-to-date map of the Internet's structure. By applying a structural model of the Internet on the data it gathers, iPlane can accurately predict properties such as latency, loss rate, and bandwidth along the path between arbitrary end-hosts in the Internet thus eliminating the need for measurement by any application. Over 3.5 years of deployment, iPlane has been used at more than 40 institutions, including to improve Google's content distribution network.Second, I will talk about BICMIC, a model that automates the process of determining the cluster configuration best suited to any particular data center application. BICMIC combines abstract representations of the application being deployed and the resources that can be used to construct the cluster to identify how various cluster configuration decisions should be combined to make the deployment cost-effective. Examples of configuration decisions include under-utilization of storage devices, caching of data in SSDs or DRAM, use of low-power CPUs, and separation of storage and compute into separate server farms. Bio: Harsha V. Madhyastha is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California San Diego. He previously received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from theUniversity of Washington and his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, all in Computer Science and Engineering. He has been a
recipient of the Best Paper Award at the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference. His research interests span all aspects of distributed and networked systems.
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Front Desk
