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Proof the Commencement Program
Tue, Apr 08, 2008 @ 09:00 AM - 04:00 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
All eligible degree candidates(students who graduated last fall as well as those with spring and summer 2008 degree dates) are invited to view their name as it will appear in the Commencement Program. Please stop by Degree Progress (JHH 010) or University Publication (STU 400) on April 8 or 9 to verify your information. The proof will not be available after this time, so please stop by as indicated below.Hours for Viewing
Degree Progress
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 pmUniversity Publications
9am -12noon and 1:00 – 4:00 pmPlease note: This final proof will not be available in RTH 110.
Location: John Hubbard Hall (formerly Sas) (JHH) - 010 or STU 400
Audiences: Undergraduate and Graduate Degree Candidates
Contact: VSoE
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Pseudospintronics for Ultra-Low Power Logic Devices
Tue, Apr 08, 2008 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Matthew J. GilbertMicroelectronics Research Center, University of Texas at AustinAbstract
As the march towards ever smaller silicon devices continues unabated, we are rapidly approaching size scales where the bulk silicon transistor can no longer deliver sufficient device performance. The main problem with using charge based devices for next generation logic devices is that their performance has basic and fundamental physical limitations. While new device designs may extend the life of CMOS for several years, concerns about the power dissipation in these future generation CMOS devices has fueled the search for new computational state variables and the tools with which to evaluate these new devices.
In this talk, we will discuss the possibility of exploiting the exotic phenomena of strongly interacting systems to produce a completely new generation of logic devices based on collective behavior. In particular, we will discuss the device and transport properties of "pseudospintronic" systems. Pseudospintronics is a variant of spintronics where we represent the layer degree of freedom in a bilayer system (e.g. coupled quantum wells) as a spin. When the layers are separated by a small distance (~1 - 10 nm), the quasiparticles in each of the layers interact with one another. This interaction can greatly enhance the interlayer transport. We will discuss the application of this interaction-enhanced interlayer transport in III-V electron doped bilayers to elucidate the cause of the interlayer currents and the decay of the enhancement with increasing bias known as the "pseudospin torque effect". We also discuss a silicon based pseudospin system consisting of one electron doped layer and one hole doped layer. In this system we find reduced interlayer currents which arise from the discrepancy in dispersion relations between the two layers. Nevertheless, at elevated temperatures, both the III-V and silicon systems lose their interaction based enhancements.
We conclude our discussion by examining separately contacted, non-bonded graphene bilayer systems. These are devices that can have output characteristics very similar to a MOSFET, but while requiring much less switching energy. Furthermore, calculations show that the performance will not degrade at room temperature. Efforts are underway at Stanford University to experimentally realize graphene bilayer nanoswitches. Biography: Matthew Gilbert received the B.S. (Honors), M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Arizona State University in 2000, 2003, and 2005 respectively all in electrical engineering. His Ph.D. research focused on novel systems for quantum computing and electron-phonon interactions in tri-gate nanowire transistors. He is currently the assistant director of the SouthWest Academy of Nanoelectronics (SWAN) and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on emergent semiconductor nanodevice technology which exploits computational state variables beyond that of charge (e.g. spin and phase) and their application to form beyond CMOS architectures. He has published over 40 conference and journal papers in the areas of spintronics, semiconductor nanowire MOS devices, graphene, computational algorithms for efficient transport calculation and correlated many-body systems and theory. Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Place: OHE 120
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 120
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ericka Lieberknecht
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CS Colloq: Fluid Simulation With Reduced Diffusion, Dissipation, and Volume Loss
Tue, Apr 08, 2008 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Title: Fluid Simulation With Reduced Diffusion, Dissipation, and Volume LossSpeaker: Dr. ByungMoon Kim (GATECH)Abstract:
Recent advances in simulation methods for three-dimensional computer animation have led to a significant increase in realism and have benefited the digital entertainment industry. We will discuss two methods for improving the realism in fluid simulations: (1) The improved BFECC advection that increases the dynamic in simulated fluid motion and (2) a volume control technique that prevent the loss of fluid volume. We will demonstrate these advances on simulations of smoke, liquid, bubbles, rigid bodies, and foam. More detailed summaries of these two methods are provided below. We will also discuss future opportunities afforded by the symbiotic relation between scientific computing and computer animations. The BFECC (Back and Forth Error Compensation and Correction) was recently developed for interface computation using a level set method. We show that BFECC can be applied to reduce dissipation and diffusion encountered in a variety of advection steps, such as velocity, smoke density, and image advections on uniform and adaptive grids and on a triangulated surface. BFECC can be implemented trivially as a small modification of the first-order upwind or semi-Lagrangian integration of advection equations. It provides second-order accuracy in both space and time. When applied to level set evolution, BFECC reduces volume loss significantly. We demonstrate the benefits of this approach on image advection and on the simulation of smoke, bubbles in water, and the highly dynamic interaction between water, a solid, and air. We also apply BFECC to dye advection to visualize vector fields. Liquid and gas interactions often contain bubbles that stay for a long time without bursting on the surface, making a dry foam structure. Such long lasting bubbles simulated by the level set method can suffer from a slow but steady volume error that accumulates to a visible amount of volume change. We propose to address this problem by using the volume control method. We trace the volume change of each connected region, and apply a carefully computed divergence that compensates undesired volume changes. To compute the divergence, we construct a mathematical model of the volume change, choose control strategies that regulate the modeled volume error, and establish methods to compute the control gains that provide robust and fast reduction of the volume error, and (if desired) the control of how the volume changes over time.Biography:
ByungMoon Kim received a Ph. D. in computer science in 2006 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At the same school, he received master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering in 1999, Computer Science in 2005, and Mathematics in 2005. He received a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering in Inha University, Inchon, Korea in 1994. After receiving the Ph. D., he worked as a temporary professor in Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology to teach a class and to research fluid simulation and image processing. After this, he joined NVIDIA Corp, where he worked on graphics device driver development, real time graphics research, and physics simulations. His research interests are in computer graphics, focusing on fluid simulation, geometry processing such as mesh filtering and editing, and haptic devices. He is an author of papers on various topics: mobile robot control, a spacecraft simulator, collision prediction, mesh editing, nonphotorealistic video processing, a mesh filter, a realtime shadow algorithm, and fluid simulations.Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Colloquia
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2-part seminar on Scientific Integrity and Research Ethice
Tue, Apr 08, 2008 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Workshops & Infosessions
Seminar on Scientific Integrity and Research Ethics
Professor Michael W. QuickThe USC Center for Excellence in Teaching and the USC College Research Office invite graduate students from all disciplines, particularly those in the sciences, to register for this two-part seminar. Professor Michael W. Quick, Executive Vice Dean for the USC College and Faculty Fellow of the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, will lead this seminar.April 8 & 10, 2008
3:30pm to 5:30pm (GFS 118)
Limited to the first 60 registrations - REGISTER NOW Most major national funding agencies now require that students conducting research have a course in Scientific Integrity as part of their graduate training. This seminar will fulfill this requirement. The majority of the class will be organized around the discussion of cases that illustrate legal or ethical aspects of conducting scientific research. Successful completion of the course is based upon attendance of both sessions and class participation. At the end of the two-part seminar, students will receive a letter stating that they have successfully completed this course. There are no prerequisites to enroll. There is no cost to participate. Purpose
If one asks most people, including scientists, about the concept of scientific integrity they will often focus on the idea of scientific misconduct related to faking data. But the greater issue of scientific integrity is the proper conduct of oneself as an academician and a scientist. This course is designed to present philosophical but also practical aspects of the following issues to up-and-coming investigators:
o What is appropriate scientific method and why is it different from other endeavors of learning about the world around us?
o What are the specific federal and state laws that govern what we do as scientists?
o What are the appropriate methods for record-keeping, authorship, and citation?
o What are our obligations to animals and humans who are part of our experiments?
o What are our obligations to our peers, colleagues, and society?Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 118
Audiences: First 60 Respondants - Graduate Students >
Contact: B.Krishnamachari
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FYE Transfer Workshop- How to Transfer Summer School Classes
Tue, Apr 08, 2008 @ 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Are you planning on taking any summer classes in transfer? If so, come and find out which courses are options for you, where you can take these and how you can get course work pre-approved for transfer.Summer 2008 Transfer Workshop Tuesday, April 8th RTH 211 5:00pmSend us a quick RSVP to viterbi.studentservices@usc.edu to ensure we have enough materials.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
