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Preview USC - Admitted Students Only
Fri, Apr 03, 2009
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half-day program includes an information session about housing, campus life and the transition to college, a tour of campus and special activities with the Viterbi School including facility tours and meeting Administrators and several of our current students. There are six Preview USC sessions throughout April.Reserve a space for Preview USC online at http://usc.edu/experienceusc/ if you cannot make one of our Explore USC programs.
Location: USC Main Campus
Audiences: Admitted Freshmen & Family Members
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Engineering and Epilepsy: Sensing, Analyzing and Intervening to Control the Expression of an Inter
Fri, Apr 03, 2009 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Hitten Zaveri, Ph.D.Associate Research Scientist
Department of Neurology
Yale UniversityAbstract: There has been considerable progress in recent years by an interdisciplinary effort composed of engineers, mathematicians and physicists working in close collaboration with neurologists, neurosurgeons and neuroscientists to understand epilepsy. These advances have improved our ability to capture normal and aberrant brain activity, analyze it and intervene to control the expression of seizures and led to the development of brain implantable devices as a therapeutic option. This talk covers several aspects of this effort with particular attention to the time-series analysis of intracranial EEGs to: (1) understand the process of seizure generation, (2) to localize areas of seizure onset and (3) to predict the onset of seizures.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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EE Practical Guide Seminar - Perspective on Screening, Quals, Defense
Fri, Apr 03, 2009 @ 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Seminar Leaders: Profs. Eun Sok Kim Michael G. Safonov
Invitees: All EE students
Organizer: Prof. Alan Willner
Website: http://ee.usc.edu/news/practical-guide/* Pizza will be provided by the EE Department.*Abstract: This seminar is to present the policies of Ph.D. screening
process, qualifying exam and thesis defense in USC's Ming Hsieh EE
Department. While the qualifying exam and thesis defense are conducted
according to the rules set by the graduate division, the screening
process is different for EE-Systems and EE-Electrophysics. That
difference as well as how a Ph.D. student can successfully complete the
three major steps will be discussed.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium: Intraocular Camera for Retinal Prostheses
Fri, Apr 03, 2009 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Lecture entitled Intraocular Camera for Retinal Prostheses: Optical Design offered by Michelle Hauer, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Loyola Marymount University.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admissions & Student Affairs
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Open-Path FTIR Monitoring Technology in Environmental Applications
Fri, Apr 03, 2009 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Chia-Yu (Iris) Yang, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern CaliforniaAbstract:Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) is a powerful real-time monitoring technique for both detection and quantification of multiple compounds simultaneously even in harsh industrial environments. Several ASTM and EPA measurement protocols using FTIR in industrial or regulatory monitoring have been published in US or in Taiwan.FTIR systems can operate with telescopes transmitting and receiving the IR beam so monitoring of long outdoor paths becomes possible. Such telescope systems are so called "open-path" instruments. Typical environmental applications of open-path monitoring include urban air monitoring in metropolitan areas and fence-line monitoring of industrial sites, other examples such as accidental release detection/identification, and homeland security applications are also seen often. Several cases using open-path FTIR monitoring technology in environmental applications in US and Taiwan will be discussed.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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MIMO Interference: Dont Forget the Spatial Structure!
Fri, Apr 03, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Nicolai Czink
Stanford UniversityAbstract: The capacity of MIMO links under interference is already well known for spatially white channels. However, most channels show a specific spatial structure. In this talk, I will discuss the spatial properties of best-case and worst-case interference (maximizing or minimizing the mutual information), and will present results from a recent measurement campaign supporting our analytic results.Biography: Nicolai Czink received his MSc and PhD degrees from Vienna University of Technology in 2004 and 2008, respectively, both with distinction. Since 2005, he is with the ftw. Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, where he is Senior Researcher in the area of wireless communications at present. In April 2008, he joined the Smart Antennas Research Group at Stanford University as a Postdoctoral Scholar, working on MIMO interference measurements an modeling.Host: Andreas Molisch, 04670, EEB 530, molisch@usc.eduLocation: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
