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Events for April 07, 2010
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Apr 07, 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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Probabilistic seismic risk assessment of infrastructure systems ...
Wed, Apr 07, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
.. Using efficient sampling and data reduction techniquesNirmal Jayaram, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford UniversityAbstract:Risk assessment of spatially-distributed building portfolios or infrastructure systems requires quantification of the joint occurrence of ground-motion intensities at several sites, during the same earthquake. This talk will present an overview of techniques to quantify the needed joint distributions using observations from past earthquakes, and describe how these distributions can be used in probabilistic seismic risk assessments of spatially-distributed lifelines. Lifeline risk assessment presents challenges related to describing ground-motion intensity over a region, and related to the computationally expensive task of repeatedly analyzing performance of a lifeline system under many damage scenarios. A simulation-based framework will be presented that develops a small but stochastically-representative catalog of earthquake ground-motion intensity maps that can be used for lifeline risk assessment. The approach dramatically reduces required computational expense, while also maintaining a set of simulations that is consistent with all conventional probabilistic seismic hazard analysis calculations. The feasibility of the proposed approach is illustrated by using it to assess the seismic risk of a simplified model of the San Francisco Bay Area transportation network. A catalog of only 150 intensity maps is generated to represent hazard at 1,038 sites from ten regional fault segments causing earthquakes with magnitudes between five and eight.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 ( Webex is available upon request)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Microchannel Acoustophoresis in Biochips
Wed, Apr 07, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Henrik Bruus Professor Department of Micro- and NanotechnologyTechnical University of DenmarkDTU Bldg. 345east DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby Denmark ABSTRACT:Within the past five years there has been a significant increase in the number of novel applications of ultrasound standing waves for particle handling in microfluidic biochips. In spite of this growing interest, detailed measurements of the resonance line shapes are lacking. We present such measureÂments, published recently in Lab Chip 10, 563 (2010), based on tracking of individual polystyrene microbeads during acoustophoretic motion in straight water-filled microchannels in silicon/glass chips subject to piezo-induced ultrasonic pressure fields. From the measured line shapes we extract the corresponding Q-values and thus gain insight in the nature of the acoustic energy dissipation in such systems. The talk will end with examples of on-chip in vivo acoustophoresis of cells.
Location: Seaver Science Library, SSL Rm 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Salary Expectations
Wed, Apr 07, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Decision Time! How do you decipher and evaluate job offers? How do you begin the negotiations phase? Attend this workshop and learn helpful tips that will help guide you through the process.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
