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Events for April 08, 2009
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Meet USC
Wed, Apr 08, 2009
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
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: Viterbi Admission
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Speaker Series in Lean Operations
Wed, Apr 08, 2009 @ 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
USC Marshall School of Business - Operations Management Club INNOVATIVE LEADER, EDUCATOR, AUTHORGuest Speaker: Mike Morrison, Dean (retired), University of Toyota"Lean thinking is best defined as creating organizational wealth... Lean thinking is all about managing the human difference in a companies performance."Learn the real secrets behind Toyota's incredible success from a 28-year Toyota veteran and one of the creators of lean management.Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM, JKP 210 (Popovich Hall)Lunch will be provided.
Location: Jane Hoffman Popovich & J. Kristoffer Popovich Hall (JKP) - 210
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Residence Time Distributions in Dynamically Changing Hydrologic Systems
Wed, Apr 08, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Dr. John L. Wilson, Department of Earth and Environmental Science,
New Mexico Tech,Socorro, NM 87801, USAAbstract:Spatial and temporal variability of weather and climatic forcings induce a dynamic response in hydrologic systems. Regional groundwater systems, mountain watersheds, and stream hyporheic zones are examples of hydrologic systems driven by forcings varying at several time scales, from daily to seasonal to decadal and longer. Hydrologic systems are also characterized by a suite of flow paths, with positions further along flow paths exhibiting older residence time statistics. If a hydrologic flow system is in steady state the flow paths do not change in time and water present at a given point has a stable residence time distribution. But hydrologic flow paths and residence times can change dynamically with weather and climate temporal variability. Traditionally, this dynamic response is ignored and modeled and observed residence times are evaluated as if the flow was in steady state. In dynamic systems the residence time distribution depends on the time of observation and the time at which the water entered the system; in other words, it depends on two different times. A finite element scheme is used to model the transient flow and transport of an ideal tracer into a Thóthian-like domain, and to illustrate the effect of dynamically changing systems on residence-time estimation. Further applications of these concepts to atmospheric and ocean residence times, are also discussed.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Inertial Effects in Fluid Locomotion
Wed, Apr 08, 2009 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Steve Childress Professor Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesNew York UniversityNew York, NY Inertial effects emerge in fluid locomotion as the Reynolds number reaches the range 1-10. The transition to flapping flight in a small mollusc suggests a bifurcation to thrust production at a finite Reynolds number. We describe a simple table-top experiment where this bifurcation could be observed. In order to study models at arbitrary Reynolds number we revisit the classic problem of swimming of a sheet, studied by G.I. Taylor in Stokes flow. At finite and large Reynold number Taylor's result is modified. The known results are reexamined for large Reynolds number using boundary-layer theory, and the nature of the expansions is clarified for wave-like motions of the sheet. We apply this approach to recoil swimming, a mechanism of locomotion that is known to work in a perfect fluid, thus extending the theory to a slightly viscous fluid.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - , Rm 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
