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AIAA: Tour of Lockheed Martin Skunkworks Facility
Fri, Mar 30, 2007 @ 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
AIAA, CED, and the AeroDesign Team will be touring Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks facility in Palmdale, CA. If interested please contact Lucy at aiaa@usc.edu.
Location: Meet at OHE for Bus
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: AIAA
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IEEE: DDi Corporate Lab Tour and Lunch
Fri, Mar 30, 2007 @ 09:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join us in visiting DDi, a leading manufacturer of printed circuit boards (PCBs), at their headquarters in Anaheim. The morning will consist of an extensive lab tour of DDi's technologically-advanced fabrication facility followed by a catered lunch, all for free.
Location: DDi Corporate Headquarters, Anaheim
Audiences: Graduate/Undergrad
Contact: IEEE
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Life in an Industrial Central Research Laboratory: An Insiders View
Fri, Mar 30, 2007 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Dr. Douglas Baney, Agilent LaboratoriesAbstract: The industrial central research laboratory has undergone major transformations in the past couple of years. Labs that have successfully managed technology creation and its transition to commercialization continue to flourish. Doug will talk about his experiences in Agilent Labs, the central research arm of Agilent Technologies, and characteristics of a successful industrial research laboratory. He will provide examples of some of the projects that the Labs have investigated, and comment on attributes of projects and of researchers who have excelled in this environment. Questions are definitely welcome.Biography: Doug Baney has 25 years of industrial experience in both central research laboratories and in R&D centers directly tied to product development. He has worked as an R&D microwave engineer in Hewlett-Packard's signal analysis business unit where he designed millimeter wave down converters for spectrum analyzers. In the late 1980s, he helped launch Hewlett-Packard's lightwave instruments business in his role as a photonics instrument R&D engineer within a product business unit. In 1991 he joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, the central research laboratory for Hewlett-Packard, where he conducted research in various optical and opto-electronic technologies including laser displays, low-coherence optical reflectometry, optical amplifier characterization, ZBLAN rare-earth doped fiber upconversion lasers and optical components. Since then he has been promoted to Project Manager, and now Manager of the Measurements & Sensors Department of Agilent Laboratories, the central research laboratory of Agilent Technologies, Inc. Doug holds the BSEE, MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Cal Poly, UCSB, and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France respectively. He has chaired major international conferences such as OFC and OAA, he has published widely in the area of photonics measurements, and he is a Senior Member of the IEEE.Host: Alan Willner, willner@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -108
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Cache Architecture and Mapping for Packet Forwarding Applications
Fri, Mar 30, 2007 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
CENG SEMINAR SERIES"Cache Architecture and Mapping for Packet Forwarding Applications"Prof. Govind RamaswamySupercomputer Education and Research CentreIndian Institute of ScienceAbstract:Packet forwarding is a memory-intensive application requiring multiple accesses through a trie structure. With the requirement to process packets at line rates high performance routers need to forward millions of packets every second. Even with an efficient lookup algorithm like the LC-trie, each packet needs up to 5 memory accesses. Earlier work shows that a single cache for the nodes of an LC-trie can reduce the number of external memory accesses. We propose a Heterogeneous Segmented Cache Architecture (HSCA) for packet forwarding application that exploits the significantly different locality characteristics of accesses to level-one and the lower-level nodes of an LC-trie. Further, we improve the hit rate of the cache for level-one nodes, which are accessed more than 80% of the time, by introducing a novel two-level mapping based cache placement scheme to reduce conflict misses.Performance results reveal that our base HSCA scheme reduces the number of misses incurred with a unified scheme by as much as 25%, leading to a 32% speedup in average memory access time. Two-level mapping further enhances the performance of the base HSCA by up to 13% leading to an overall improvement of up to 40% over the unified scheme.Bio:Govindarajan Ramaswamy received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Madras University in 1981 and B.E. (Electronics and Communication) and Ph.D. (Computer Science) degrees from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1984 and 1989 respectively. He has held post-doctoral and faculty positions in Canadian Universities between 1989-95. Since 1995 he has been a faculty in the Supercomputer Education and Research Centre and the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. His research interests are in the areas of High Performance Computing, compilation techniques for instruction-level parallelism, and computer architecture.Host: Prof. Viktor Prasanna, Ext. 04483
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Rosine Sarafian
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ALL-OPTICAL CONTROL ON A CHIP
Fri, Mar 30, 2007 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Prof. Benjamin J. Eggleton, ARC Federation Fellow, CUDOS Director, University of Sydney, AustraliaAbstract: My talk will overview the research highlights of CUDOS, an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence. CUDOS is a research consortium between five Australian Universities: The University of Sydney, Macquarie University, University of Technology Sydney, Australian National University and Swinburne University of Technology. The CUDOS research program has two central themes: nanophotonics and nonlinear photonics. Our goal of achieving ultra-high-speed, all-optical signal processing on a single photonic chip is addressed by combining these two themes to develop micron-scale photonic components incorporating nonlinear photonics processes. This talk will review progress on CUDOS flagship projects that represent ambitious cross-node collaborations toward this goal: i) Dispersionless slow light in photonic crystals; (ii) Chalcogenide-based all-optical switching and regeneration schemes based on low-loss waveguides and photonic crystals; and (iii) optofluidic tunable photonic components.Biography: Benjamin Eggleton is currently an ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney. He is Director of the Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), an ARC Centre of Excellence. He studied at the University of Sydney, obtaining his BSc (Hons 1) in 1992 and his PhD in Physics in 1996. After graduation, he went to the United States to join Bell Laboratories, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Optical Physics Department. He then transferred to the Optical Fiber Research Department as a Member of Technical Staff and was subsequently promoted to Technical Manager of the Optical Fibre Grating group. Soon after this, he became the Research Director of the Specialty Fiber Business Division of Bell Lab's parent company, Lucent Technologies; here, he drove Lucent's research program in optical fibre devices. He has co-authored more than 180 journal papers, has presented more than 40 invited and plenary presentations at international conferences, and has filed 35 patents. He has received several significant awards. Most notably, in 2004 he received the Prime Minister's Malcolm McIntosh Science Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year, in 2003 the ICO Prize (International Commission for Optics), and in 1998 was awarded the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America. Prof Eggleton will be presented with the 2007 Pawsey Medal from the Australian Academy of Sciences. Other achievements include the award of the distinguished lecturer award from the IEEE/LEOS, an R&D100 award, and being made an OSA fellow in 2003. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Photonic Technology Letters, a member of the editorial advisory board for Optics Communications and serves as Vice-President of the Australian Optical Society.Host: Alan Willner, willner@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -108
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Honors Program Colloquium: Design of the Martin X-Braced Steel-String Guitar
Fri, Mar 30, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Lecture offered by Mr. Will Rusch, Senior Software Engineer at Google, Inc.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Faculty and Honors Program Students
Contact: Erika Chua
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Advancing the field of conservation of the worlds H,eritage ...
Fri, Mar 30, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Francois LeBlanc,
Head, Field Project,
Getty Conservation Institute,
Los Angeles, CAAdvancing the field of conservation of the world's heritage - The international work of the
Getty Conservation InstituteAbstractThe Getty Conservation Institute is one of four J. Paul Getty Trust programs. It works internationally to advance the field of conservation. It focuses on important conservation issues that most other international institutions do not cover. It has activities in more than 25 countries. The seminar will give a brief overview of some of these activities and describe the scientific research work being carried out in the GCI's science laboratories.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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High Speed Polarization Independent Signal Processing using Nonlinear Optics
Fri, Mar 30, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Professor Thomas E. Murphy, University of MarylandAbstract: In present-day optical networks, signal processing is performed with high-speed electrical circuits. Although electronic circuits perform well at speeds up to 40 Gb/s, in future networks the data rate could exceed the speed of conventional electronics. One solution to this problem is to replace costly high-speed electronic functions with ultrafast nonlinear optical processes.While many nonlinear effects have been exploited for optical signal processing, most have the disadvantage that they depend on the incoming polarization state, which cannot be easily controlled in fiber-optic networks. This polarization dependence is an obstacle that stands in the way of replacing electronic signal processing with optical rocessing. In this talk, I will discuss ongoing research at the University of Maryland to develop polarization insensitive nonlinear optical processing techniques for use in high-speed networks.Biography: Thomas Murphy studied physics and electrical engineering at Rice University, graduating with joint degrees in 1994. He then joined the NanoStructures Laboratory at MIT, where he pursued research in integrated optics and nanotechnology. He completed his M.S. degree in 1997 and his Ph.D. in 2000, both in Electrical Engineering. In 2000, he joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a staff member in the Optical Communications Technology Group where he studied ultrafast optical communications systems. In August 2002, he joined the faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Thomas is a member of the Optical Society of America, the IEEE, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi, and a recent recipient of the NSF CAREER award. His research interests include optical communications, short-pulse phenomena, numerical simulation, optical pulse propagation, nanotechnology, terahertz and microwave photonics, and integrated optics.Host: Alan Willner, willner@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -108
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Film across Borders: Dialogues between Mexican and Latino Cinemas
Fri, Mar 30, 2007 @ 07:00 PM - 11:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Visions and Voices presents: A Transborder Film Festival. This two-day festival will feature a dynamic selection of Mexican and Latino films that are at once popular and political.Science Fiction, Fantasy and Immigration
Friday, March 30
7-11 p.m.:
The works of independent filmmaker Alex Rivera will be featured, including Why Cybraceros, The Borders Trilogy, Día de la Independencia, Las Papas del Papa and The Sixth Section. In addition, we hope to preview his new feature film The Sleep Dealer. Rivera will attend the screenings and take audience questions afterwards. For more information, please visit:
http://www.usc.edu/webapps/events_calendar/custom/113/index.php?category=Item&item=0.861530&active_category=DayLocation: Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital Research Institute (NOR) - ris Cinema Theatre
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Film across Borders: Dialogues between Mexican and Latino Cinemas
Fri, Mar 30, 2007 @ 07:00 PM - 11:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Visions and Voices presents: A Transborder Film Festival. This two-day festival will feature a dynamic selection of Mexican and Latino films that are at once popular and political.Science Fiction, Fantasy and Immigration
On Friday, March 30, the works of independent filmmaker Alex Rivera will be featured, including Why Cybraceros, The Borders Trilogy, Día de la Independencia, Las Papas del Papa and The Sixth Section. In addition, we hope to preview his new feature film The Sleep Dealer. Rivera will attend the screenings and take audience questions afterwards. For more information, please visit:
http://www.usc.edu/webapps/events_calendar/custom/113/index.php?category=Item&item=0.861530&active_category=DayLocation: Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital Research Institute (NOR) - ris Cinema Theatre
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Film across Borders: Dialogues between Mexican and Latino Cinemas
Fri, Mar 30, 2007 @ 07:00 PM - 11:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Visions and Voices presents: A Transborder Film Festival. This two-day festival will feature a dynamic selection of Mexican and Latino films that are at once popular and political.Science Fiction, Fantasy and Immigration:On Friday, March 30, the works of independent filmmaker Alex Rivera will be featured, including Why Cybraceros, The Borders Trilogy, Día de la Independencia, Las Papas del Papa and The Sixth Section. In addition, we hope to preview his new feature film The Sleep Dealer. Rivera will attend the screenings and take audience questions afterwards. For more information, please visit:
http://www.usc.edu/webapps/events_calendar/custom/113/index.php?category=Item&item=0.861530&active_category=DayLocation: Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital Research Institute (NOR) - ris Cinema Theatre
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
