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Events for April 13, 2007
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Discover Engineering Day
Fri, Apr 13, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Discover Engineering Day brings high school students to the engineering side of the USC campus to engage in activities to broaden their perspective on the fields in engineering.
We will be hosting 100 students. We need Volunteers!
Email us at: shpe@usc.eduLocation: USC Campus
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
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Floppy Forensics: Why you need a Ph.D from USC 20 years later
Fri, Apr 13, 2007 @ 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Dr. Fred Cohen: On June 21, 2005, I received the one and only floppy disk purported to have been originally written in the 1980s that was the key piece of evidence in a legal matter worth at least tens of millions of dollars. The reason I got it was that nobody else could read it. This talk is about how I extracted the contents, how sure I am that what I extracted is what was originally written some 20 years earlier and not a forgery created to win millions of dollars in a legal battle, and why I am that sure. It involves a hundred floppy disk drives, aging computers and long ago software libraries, flux density, electromechanical systems, a custom version of an operating system, a spiral disk, a trip to a military base in the desert that I made when I was a graduate student, coding and finite state machines, a trip to Alaska, and more. It is the proof that 20 years later, the things you learn on the way to getting your Ph.D. are still useful.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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Hydrocarbons in Air Pollution: A Chemists View - 2007
Fri, Apr 13, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Dr. Leo Zafonte Ph.D.Staff Air Pollution Research Specialist
Haagen-Smit Laboratory of the California Air Resources Board((ABSTRACT))A primary focus of the California Air Resources Board is the measurement of those hydrocarbons which either directly or indirectly contributes to air pollution within the State.Hydrocarbons are an all-important focus for all air quality measurements in California because so much impact of its pollution is related to hydrocarbons.This talk will survey those major areas where the activities of the Air Resources Board, and specifically of the Monitoring and Laboratory Division, Southern Laboratory Branch in El Monte, California, measures hydrocarbons in support of California's effort to improve our air quality.The presentation will both focus on the facilities and instrumentation used, while giving a broader overview of the importance of this data.It will present some progress being made at El Monte on the construction of a new laboratory for being used to analyze for particulate matter. Some aspects of the new California legislation, AB32, the Greenhouse Gas Initiative that will be a part of California¹s future, will also be summarized.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - -156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Masako Okamoto
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Honors Program Colloquium: New Technologies for Feature Films
Fri, Apr 13, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Lecture offered by Dr. Richard Weinberg, Research Associate Professor in the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Faculty and Honors Program Students
Contact: Erika Chua
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Cognition, Computers, and Managing Perception - Dr. Fred Cohen
Fri, Apr 13, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
People who break into computers lie all the time in their attacks, but what happens to the attackers when the computers lie back to them? In this talk, Dr. Cohen will describe what is believed to be the largest and most complete scientific experiments ever undertaken to test out an information security approach, the methodologies developed to carry out these experiments, the laboratory facilities used to support these experiments, and of course the underlying theory, experiments, and outcomes. Along the way, magic tricks will be used to demonstrate and clarify the theoretical underpinnings of the use of deception for information protection.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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Quantized Feedback Design for MIMO Broadcast Channels
Fri, Apr 13, 2007 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Professor Mikael Skoglund, KTH, SwedenABSTRACT: Low-rate feedback design for multiple-input multiple-output broadcast channels is studied under a vector quantization framework. Iterative algorithms are proposed to design the partial feedback link, the scheduler, and the linear precoding codebook. It is demonstrated that the gain due to multi-user diversity can be significant even with heavily quantized channel state information at the transmitter. Our results highlight the potential of multi-user diversity, even with simple schemes and extremely-low-rate feedback.BIO: Mikael Skoglund received the Ph.D. degree in 1997 from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. In the same year he joined the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Here he held various positions until he was appointed Professor of Communication Theory in 2003.Dr. Skoglund's research interests are in information theory, communications, and detection and estimation. He has worked on problems in vector quantization, combined source-channel coding, coding for wireless communications, and statistical signal processing. Dr. Skoglund has authored some 100 scientific papers. Several of these have received best paper awards, and one recent journal paper ranks as 'highly cited' according to the ISI Essential Science Indicators.Dr. Skoglund is frequently serving as area expert and reviewer for research grants and publications, and he is an Associate Editor with the IEEE Transactions on Communications. Dr. Skoglund has also consulted for industry, and he holds 6 patents. He is a senior member of the IEEE.Host: Giuseppe Caire, caire@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
