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Events for April 14, 2011
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Signup Deadline - IEEE Soccer Tournament
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join us on Sunday, April 17 for a day of fun and friendly competition as teams battle it out for prizes.
$20 Amazon gift cards will be awarded to each member of the first place team and there will be free IEEE swag for all.
You may either sign up as a team captain and sign up your other team members, or you can sign up as an individual and we will place you on a team the day of the soccer tournament. Teams can be between 5-7 people.
Please sign-up no later than Thursday, April 14:
Team Signup
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFVFeEpmNS14Y2NyWVUtcWlzZnYtd2c6MQ#gid=0
Individual Signup
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dExvdXl2Y0ZiTnNxUV95SjZ2am0xZEE6MQ#gid=0
Questions? Contact us at ieee@usc.edu.Location: Cromwell Field
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Lyman L. Handy Colloquium Series
Thu, Apr 14, 2011 @ 12:45 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Joerg Lahann,
Talk Title: Engineered Biointerfaces: From Switchable Surfaces to Multifunctional Polymer Coatings
Series: Lyman L. Handy Colloquium Series
Abstract: Our improved understanding of molecular biology, microfabrication, and materials chemistry has stimulated crossfertilization of chemistry, biotechnology and materials engineering. In my presentation, I will discuss current advances in the design of multifunctional biomaterials including three distinct examples under research in the Lahann group: (i) Switchable surfaces that can reversibly alter properties in response to an external stimulus, i.e., application of a weak electric field, have been designed and synthesized based on self-assembled monolayers [1]. (ii) Reactive coatings with one or multiple functions can be synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) polymerization [2,3] as well as CVD co-polymerization and may find use in a range of different biomedical applications [4,5].
Host: Professor Gupta
More Info: http://chems.usc.edu/academics/10-11/l-04-14-11.htmLocation: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
Event Link: http://chems.usc.edu/academics/10-11/l-04-14-11.htm
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CS Colloquium
Thu, Apr 14, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Shawn Newsam, UC Merced
Talk Title: Proximate Sensing: Inferring What-Is-Where From Georeferenced Photo Collections
Abstract: In this talk, I will describe an interesting new research direction which I term Proximate Sensing that leverages ground-level georeferenced images to map what-is-where on the surface of the Earth much like the field of Remote Sensing has done for decades using overhead imagery. Enabled by the growing collections of community contributed photo collections, Proximate Sensing represents a rich framework in which to apply and evaluate current image understanding tasks such as scene classification and object recognition as well as motivate the development of novel problems. I will describe how Proximate Sensing can be considered part of the larger phenomena of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), a term coined by geographer Michael Goodchild in 2007 to refer to the growing collections of geographically relevant information provided voluntarily by individuals.
While most of my talk will focus on Proximate Sensing, I will also give an overview of UC Merced, the tenth and newest campus of the University of California system, as well as briefly describe some of the other research projects my group is working on.
Biography: Dr. Shawn Newsam is an assistant professor and founding faculty of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) at the University of California at Merced. He received a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley, an MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) from UC Davis, and a PhD in ECE from UC Santa Barbara. Prior to joining UC Merced in 2005, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (so, if you are counting, he is now at his fifth UC institution). His research interests are in image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition particularly as applied to interdisciplinary scientific problems. He is the recipient of an Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award from the Department of Energy, and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Host: Prof. Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, USC
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - 151
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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CS Colloquium
Thu, Apr 14, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke University
Talk Title: Back to the Drawing Board: Rethinking Wireless Networks with Software Radios
Abstract: Wireless networks are mostly architected on the principles of modularity and layering. Emerging software radio platforms are beginning to blur the layer-boundaries, exporting PHY layer information to the MAC. The access to such information is proving to be invaluable, empowering researchers to question long-standing assumptions, conceive disruptive ideas, and test their feasibility on actual systems.
We have been performing such exercises at Duke and the results have been promising. For instance, while traditional MAC protocols perform contention resolution in the time domain (also called backoff), we find that OFDM based systems can migrate this process into the frequency domain, thereby eliminating a long-standing source of inefficiency. In another example, we show that collision detection (implmented in wired Ethernets) may be feasible even in wireless networks, through well-understood ideas in interference cancellation. This talk will elaborate on a number of such ongoing projects in our lab, with an emphasis on the bold and disruptive nature in these approaches. We will close not only with challenges we are struggling with, but will also look into what may lie ahead under the broader umbrella of PHY layer enabled systems.
Biography: Romit Roy Choudhury is an Assistant Professor of ECE and CS at Duke University (he recently spent the summer of 2010 as a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond). He joined Duke in Fall 2006, after completing his PhD from UIUC. His research interests are in wireless networking mainly at the MAC/PHY layer, and in mobile computing at the application layer. He received the NSF CAREER Award in January 2008, and was appointed the Nortel Networks Assistant Professor in 2009. Visit Romit's Systems Networking Research Group (SyNRG), at http://synrg.ee.duke.edu
Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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Next Year in Jerusalem: Artists Respond to Testimony from the Holocaust
Thu, Apr 14, 2011 @ 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
Is it true that there can be, as philosopher Theodor Adorno declared, âno poetry after Auschwitzâ? Or can artists hold up a lens to catastrophic experience in a way that invites us to move through the heartbreak of history into a new realm in which we can help transform the present? We will consider these questions during a powerful evening of performance and conversation that will explore how artists respond to unimaginable horrors. The event will feature a performance of Next Year in Jerusalem, a collaboration of two USC faculty artists, writer-performer Stacie Chaiken (Theatre) and playwright-dramaturg Brighde Mullins (Master of Professional Writing). Chaiken and Mullins were invited to create the piece based on materials from the USC Librariesâ newly acquired Holocaust-research collection, which includes journals, photographs and firsthand testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the World War II genocide. After the performance, an initial response will be offered by novelist and Holocaust scholar R. Clifton Spargo, followed by a panel discussion about the use of testimony and trauma for creative expression. Panelists will include Chaiken, Mullins and Spargo along with USC faculty members Brent Blair (Theatre), Wolf Gruner (Jewish Studies and History) and Gabor Kalman (Cinematic Arts), as well as Stephen Smith of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
Organized by Wolf Gruner (Jewish Studies and History) and Lynn Sipe (USC Libraries).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: The Ray Stark Family Theatre, School of Cinematic Arts 108
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
