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Events for April 21, 2006
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Viterbi Student Council Funding Board Meeting
Fri, Apr 21, 2006
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Viterbi Student Council's Funding Board weekly meeting to discuss applications for funding.
Audiences: Funding Board only
Contact: Viterbi Student Council Funding Board
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Trilinos Tutorial: Overview and Basic Concepts
Fri, Apr 21, 2006 @ 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Mike Heroux
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Numerical and Applied Mathematics Department
Sandia National LaboratoriesAbstract:
The Trilinos Project is an effort to facilitate the design, development, integration and ongoing support of mathematical software libraries within an object-oriented framework for the solution of large-scale, complex multi-physics engineering and scientific problems. Trilinos addresses two fundamental issues of developing software for these problems: (i) Providing a streamlined process and set of tools for development of new algorithmic implementations and (ii) promoting interoperability of independently developed software packages to enable solution of large-scale multi-physics problems.
Trilinos uses a two-level software structure designed around collections of packages. A Trilinos package is an integral unit usually developed by a small team of experts in a particular algorithms area such as algebraic preconditioners, nonlinear solvers, etc. Packages exist underneath the Trilinos top level, which provides a common look-and-feel, including configuration, documentation, licensing, and bug-tracking. Here we present the overall Trilinos design, illustrating the value of the package architecture. We discuss the services that Trilinos provides to a prospective package and how these services are used by various packages. We discuss how to get started using Trilinos via a simple example. We also show how packages can be combined to rapidly develop new algorithms. Finally, we discuss how Trilinos facilitates high quality software engineering practices that are increasingly required from simulation software.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall, Room 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Scaffolded DNA Origami: Folding DNA to Create Nanoscale Shapes and Patterns
Fri, Apr 21, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Engineering Honors Colloquium Lecture presented by Dr. Paul Rothemund, a Senior Research Fellow in Computer Science and Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Faculty and Honors Program Students
Contact: Erika Chua
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Meet USC (PM session)
Fri, Apr 21, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Processing and Characterization of Nanocrystalline Materials with Interesting Physical Properties
Fri, Apr 21, 2006 @ 02:45 PM - 03:30 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
THE MORK FAMILY DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCEPRESENTS A SEMINAR
byAmiya K. MukherjeeDepartment of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
University of California, DavisNanocrystalline materials have been produced by severe plastic deformation, electro-deposition, magnetron sputtering, crystallization from bulk metallic glass, ball milling and powders produced from inert gas condensation. The consolidation of the powder particles in some of these processing routes was achieved by electrical field assisted sintering with capability of superimposing 2 GPa gas pressure. The nanocrystalline metallic materials demonstrated both high strain-rate superplasticity and low-temperature superplasticity with important differences in the mechanistic details from their microcrystalline counterparts. The nanomaterials derived from crystallization of bulk metallic glass demonstrated extreme strength and at elevated temperatures showed superplasticity-like ductility. A three-phase alumina based nanoceramic composite demonstrated superplasticity at a lower temperature and at a higher strain rate. An alumina-carbon nanotube-niobium nanocomposite has a fracture toughness that is five times higher than that of pure alumina and an electrical conductivity that is thirteen orders of magnitude greater than that of pure nanocrystalline alumina. It also has excellent potential for use as a thermoelectric material. An alumina-spinel nanocomposite demonstrated optical transparency in the mid infrared range. A silicon carbide/silicon nitride nanocomposite produced by pyrolysis of liquid polymer precursor has produced one of the lowest creep rates in ceramics at a referred temperature of 1400° C. These structural and functional properties will be discussed in the context of microstructural investigations and recent results from molecular dynamics simulations. This research is supported by NSF, ARO, and ONR.Friday, April 21, 2006, 2:45-3:30 PM
(Refreshments will be served at 2:30 PM)
Location: VHE 217
**ALL FIRST YEAR MATERIALS SCIENCE MAJORS ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND**
Location: Vivian Hall of Engineering (VHE) - 217
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
