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Events for April 06, 2011
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkWed, Apr 06, 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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Ninth Annual USC Vision Symposium
Wed, Apr 06, 2011 @ 08:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Bartlett Mel, Bosco Tjan, and Norberto Grzywacz would like to invite you to attend the Ninth Annual USC Vision Symposium. The Symposium will take place in the morning of Wednesday, 4/6, at UPC (in OHE 122). Because of a variety of constraints, we have decided to hold a smaller Symposium this year as compared to previous years. This time, we will have only talks and only USC speakers. This way, we will be able to hold the entire event in a morning. We prefer to hold a Symposium in such a smaller format than not to hold it at all. By holding the symposium, we will continue to facilitate the communication and interactions across vision-research labs at USC. But this symposium is not only open to vision researchers: all interested parties in the USC community may attend.
The talks this year will cover ocular imaging, fMRI, psychophysics, cortical modeling, and retinal, thalamic, and cortical physiology. The titles of the talks and more details of the symposium will be forthcoming. For now, please mark your calendars.
The schedule of the symposium will be as follows:
Wednesday, April 6
OHE 122
8:15-8:45 am Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00 am Introduction to the Symposium
9-9:30 am Talk: A. (Sam) Sampath
9:30-10 am Talk: Shuliang Jiao
10-10:30 am Talk: Huizhong (Whit) Tao
10:30-1045 Coffee break
10:45-11:15 am Talk: Bosco Tjan
11:15-11:45 am Talk: Bartlett Mel
11:45-12:15 pm Talk: Zhong-Lin Lu
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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The Struggle for Human Rights in Contemporary Mexico: A Lecture by Lydia Cacho
Wed, Apr 06, 2011 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Lydia Cacho is a Mexican journalist, feminist and human-rights activist who has fought extensively against child abuse, violence against women and political corruption and impunity. Among her journalistic achievements are a series of articles and books exposing Mexican rings of child pornography and prostitution, and, more recently, writings on the unsolved murders of women in Ciudad Juárez that condemn the failure of the Mexican government and society in general to stop the killings. She has received several awards for her courage and social and political efforts, including the International Womenâs Media Foundationâs Courage Award, the Amnesty International Ginetta Sagan Award for Womenâs and Childrenâs Rights and the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
Cacho will talk about her experience of being a journalist in Mexico and her struggle for freedom of expression in a country where the media is tightly controlled by political parties and where human rights, freedom and democracy continue to be fragile.
Organized by MarÃa-Elena MartÃnez (History and American Studies and Ethnicity) and Carol Wise (International Relations).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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AME Department Seminar
Wed, Apr 06, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Veronica Eliasson, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
Talk Title: Shock Wave Adventures
Abstract: A shock wave is a useful tool to generate very high pressures and temperatures. In particular, the energy from a shock wave can be focused and then generate even more extreme conditions. Applications on shock wave focusing range from medical treatment of kidney stones to supernovae collapse, and in this talk I will present some of the projects my group is working on. In particular we are interested in impact events where a strong fluid-structure coupling is present and has to be taken into account. In particular, we are interested in shock focusing in water and material effects with applications to marine structures, understanding the cause and how to prevent traumatic brain injury caused by blast waves, and effects of cavitation due to pulses propagating through fluid-filled cracks.
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
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Electrical Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series
Wed, Apr 06, 2011 @ 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Kathy Yelick, University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Talk Title: Exascale Computing: More and Moore?
Abstract: With petascale systems becoming broadly available in high end computing, attention is now focused on the challenges associated with the next major performance milestone: exascale computing. Demand for computational capability grows unabated, with areas of national and commercial interest including global climate change, alternative energy sources, defense and medicine, as well as basic science. Past growth in the high end has relied on a combination of faster clock speeds and larger systems, but the clock speed benefits of Mooreâs Law have ended, and 200-cabinet petascale machines are near a practical limit. Future system designs will instead be constrained by power density and total system power demand, resulting in radically different architectures. The challenges associated with exascale computing will require broad research activities across computer science, including the development of new algorithms, programming models, system software and computer architecture. While these problems are most evident at the high end, they limit the growth in computing performance across scales, from hand-held client devices to personal clusters and computational clouds.
In future computing systems, performance and energy optimization will be the combined responsibility of hardware and software developers. Since data movement dominates energy use in a computing system, minimizing the movement of data throughout the memory and communication fabric are essential. In this talk I will describe some of the open problems in programming models and algorithms design and promising approaches used so far. These will build on the ideas of Partitioned Global Address Space languages and Communication Avoiding algorithms, but extended to more complex memory hierarchies. In addition to these universal problems, fault resilience is a problem at the high end that will require novel system support, possibly propagating up the software stack to user level software and algorithms. Overall, the trends in hardware demand that the community undertake a broad set of research activities to sustain the growth in computing performance that users have come to expect.
Biography: Kathy Yelick is the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences and the Director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). She is also a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author or co-author of two books and more than 100 refereed technical papers on parallel languages, compilers, algorithms, libraries, architecture, and storage. She co-invented the UPC and Titanium languages and she co-developed techniques for self-tuning numerical libraries, including the first self-tuned library for sparse matrix kernels. Her work includes performance analysis and modeling as well as optimization techniques for memory hierarchies, multicore processors, communication libraries, and processor accelerators. She earned her Ph.D. in EECS from MIT and has been a professor at UC Berkeley since 1991 with a joint appointment at LBNL since 1996
Host: Viktor Prasanna
More Info: http://ee.usc.edu/news/dls/Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
Event Link: http://ee.usc.edu/news/dls/
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Viterbi Internship Panel - Dinner Included
Wed, Apr 06, 2011 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Are you interested in obtaining an internship? Attend this popular panel event and hear from fellow Viterbi students on how they found their internships. Learn the benefits of the program and how you can begin your quest for engineering industry experience.
Companies represented by students:
Quanco
Halliburton/ConocoPhillips
Arden Realty, GE Capital
Space is limited; RSVP is required!
Dinner will be provided
Please RSVP by Monday April 4th
https://uscviterbi.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5bwVQOfkgfHWClmLocation: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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ASBME General Meeting 5: Half Way Between Med School and Engineering
Wed, Apr 06, 2011 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
eneral Meeting 5: Half Way Between Med School and Engineering
Wednesday, April 6th, 6-7PM
TCC 450
Join ASBME on Wednesday, April 6th, to listen to special guest speaker Anton Barnett! Originally a biomedical engineering in undergrad, his focus was on the design of artificial lungs, hearts and kidneys. With the initial intent to go to med school, he diverted from his plan to explore engineering applications in the medical operating room. Attend this event on Apr. 6th to him with talk about his journey, life decisions, and career advice that helped him find his current passion. As a perfusionist, he is able to work in the OR during cardiac surgery. He regularly employs his engineering knowledge to stop the heart during the procedure so the surgeon can preform the procedure. He has found it to be a rewarding solution for working in between engineering and medicine.
For anyone on the fence about medicine, on the fence about engineering, or you just want the best of both worlds, this is a fantastic opportunity for you to figure out what other options are available!
If you are interested in attending this discussion, please fill out this form: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDRCQngteEhrV2dRNHpQalgxWDNpQmc6MQLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 450
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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A Conversation with Eran Egozy
Wed, Apr 06, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Integrated Media Systems Center, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Eran Egozy, CTO Harmonix Music Systems
Talk Title: A Conversation with Eran Egozy
Series: Music Computation and Cognition Laboratory
Biography: Eran Egozy, is the co-founder and chief technical officer of Harmonix Music Systems, one of the pre-eminent game development studios in the world, having developed more than a dozen critically acclaimed music-based video games. Harmonix was founded in 1995 on the principle that non-musicians should be able to experience the sheer joy of music creation â normally something only afforded to accomplished musicians. Beginning in 2005, Harmonix developed Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero 2, fueling the explosive growth of the music games category to over $1 billion in sales. In 2006, Harmonix was acquired by MTV/Viacom, and shortly after, Harmonix launched the innovative, award-winning franchise titles Rock Band and Rock Band 2. In 2009, Harmonix followed with the critically acclaimed The Beatles: Rock Band, and this year, the studio is releasing Rock Band 3, which introduces a keyboard and the ability to learn real instruments, and Dance Central, the first fully immersive, no-controller dance game. Eran and Alex Rigopulos were named in Time Magazineâs 2008 list of The 100 Most Influential People in the World, Fortune Magazineâs 2009 Top 40 Under 40 and given a 2010 USA Networkâs Character Award.
Eran brings extensive technical and musical expertise to the Harmonixâs management team. He manages the company's engineering staff, directs intellectual property development, contributes to game design and helps drive corporate strategy. Prior to co-founding Harmonix, Eran conducted research on combining music and technology at the MIT Media Lab. He performed frequently in MIT's Balinese Gamelan, Chamber Music Society, and Symphony Orchestra. He currently spends most of his spare time playing clarinet in Boston's Radius Ensemble. Eran earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Host: Prof. Elaine Chew
More Info: http://mucoaco.blogspot.comLocation: Parkside Residential Building (PRB) - Parkside Performance Cafe
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elaine Chew
Event Link: http://mucoaco.blogspot.com
