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Events for April 09, 2014

• Apr

  09

  Astani CEE Department Seminar

  Wed, Apr 09, 2014 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

  Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  Speaker: Adam Smith, University of Michigan
  
  Talk Title: Low-Temperature Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor for Energy Recovery from Domestic Wastewater
  
  Abstract: Resource recovery from used water or wastewater is a key strategy to improve the sustainability of water management. Anaerobic biotechnologies such as anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBRs) are emerging as one option to recover energy during domestic wastewater treatment. In comparison to conventional treatment, AnMBR treatment generates biogas directly from wastewater, does not require energy intensive aeration, and produces a fraction of the residuals. However, AnMBR technology is still in development and widespread implementation requires improvements in treatment performance at low temperatures, low-energy membrane fouling control, and recovery of effluent dissolved methane. This presentation will show how AnMBR treatment at low temperatures can be improved through promotion of a biologically active membrane biofilm. The presentation will further demonstrate that life cycle evaluation of AnMBRs with consideration for fouling control energy demands and global warming potential associated with effluent dissolved methane can be used to set future design and operational targets for implementation of AnMBRs in domestic wastewater treatment.
  
  Biography: Adam Smith is a Ph.D. candidate co-advised by Lutgarde Raskin and Steven Skerlos in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his M.S.E. from the University of Michigan and B.S. from Marquette University. His research interests include resource recovery during wastewater treatment, microbial syntrophy in anaerobic systems, and implications of low-temperatures on anaerobic microbial communities. Adam’s research efforts at the University of Michigan have incorporated process engineering, microbial ecology, and sustainability assessment to study the performance of anaerobic membrane bioreactors for domestic wastewater treatment at psychrophilic temperatures.
  
  Host: Astani CEE Department
  
  

  Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Cassie Cremeans

  

• Apr

  09

  2014 Spring Ph.D. Mentoring Panel

  

  Wed, Apr 09, 2014 @ 12:00 PM - 02:03 PM

  Viterbi School of Engineering Doctoral Programs

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  Speaker: Panel, USC Viterbi Faculty
  
  Talk Title: "Establishing and Building Professional Networks"
  
  Abstract: Explore the roles of conferences and professional societies. In addition to creating a strong network within your university. A mentoring panel series to encourage PhD students and Postdocs to pursue a rewarding career, in academics and research. Distinguished faculty will discuss their academic paths and those of their PhD students successfully placed in university positions in the US and abroad.
  Dr. James Moore will moderate a panel of faculty experts who will discuss effective ways to build and maintain a professional network to assist and enrich your academic or professional career.
  
  Lunch will be served. Must RSVP. Please see event website.
  
  
  Host: Dr. James Moore
  
  More Info: https://gapp.usc.edu/spring-2014-phd-mentoring-panel
  
  

  Location: Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Hall (of Philosophy) (MHP) - 101

  Audiences: Ph.D. and Postdoctoral

  Contact: Tracy Charles

  Event Link: https://gapp.usc.edu/spring-2014-phd-mentoring-panel

  

• Apr

  09

  Examples of Visual Computing Research at Disney Research Zurich

  

  Wed, Apr 09, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

  Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  Speaker: Dr. Aljoša Smolić , Disney Research, Zurich
  
  Talk Title: Examples of Visual Computing Research at Disney Research Zurich
  
  Abstract: Abstract: Disney Research Zurich is a research lab of The Walt Disney Company closely associated with the Computer Graphics Lab of ETH Zurich. It performs applied research on highest scientific level. Visual computing is one of the key research areas in this context, which will be highlighted in this talk by example projects from the past 5 years. Stereoscopic 3D and beyond was traditionally a strong focus from capture to display, including projects on computational stereo camera systems, disparity mapping, 2D-to-3D conversion, image domain warping, warp coding, and stereo-to-multiview conversion. Then approaches for video volume processing for optical flow, disparity estimation, video colorization, or in general, spatio-temporal data diffusion in video will be presented. And extension of these concepts will be spatio-temporal video compositing on video volumes. Finally, an approach for automated image aesthetics will close the talk.
  
  Biography: Dr. Aljoša Smolić joined Disney Research Zurich, Switzerland in 2009, as Senior Research Scientist and Head of the “Advanced Video Technology” group. Before he was Scientific Project Manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI), Berlin, also heading a research group. He has been involved in several national and international research projects, where he conducted research in various fields of video processing and visual computing, and published more than 100 referred papers in these fields. He received the Dipl.-Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany in 1996, and the Dr.-Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Germany, in 2001. Dr. Smolic received the “Rudolf-Urtlel-Award” of the German Society for Technology in TV and Cinema (FKTG) for his dissertation in 2002. He is Area Editor for Signal Processing: Image Communication and served as Guest Editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on CSVT, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, and other scientific journals. He chaired the MPEG ad hoc group on 3DAV pioneering standards for 3D video. In this context he also served as one of the Editors of the Multi-view Video Coding (MVC) standard. Since many years he is teaching full lecture courses on Multimedia Communications and other topics, now at ETH Zurich
  
  Host: Prof. Antonio Ortega
  
  

  Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - EEB 248

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Talyia Veal

  

• Apr

  09

  ASBME GM #22: Dr. Sarin (Kinamed, Inc.)

  Wed, Apr 09, 2014 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM

  Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

  Student Activity

  
  

  Interested in orthopedics and neurosurgery? Dr. Sarin, the president of Kinamed, Inc., will present on his company and what opportunities are open for BME students. A Q&A session will follow the talk. Students may bring hard-copy resumes.

  Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 114

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering