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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Apr 23, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
University Calendar
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 12:00 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: Admission Intern
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CS Colloq: Jan Vondrak
Fri, Apr 23, 2010 @ 10:00 AM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: Randomized rounding in the matroid polytopeSpeaker: : Dr. Jan Vondrak, IBM AlmadenAbstract:The question how to round a fractional solution in a matroid polytope has emerged recently in various settings, ranging from welfare maximization and max-min allocation problems, to degree-bounded spanning trees and the asymmetric traveling salesman problem. In all these applications, it is useful to have a randomized rounding procedure which in expectation preserves the fractional solution, and satisfies strong concentration bounds for certain functions of the rounded solution. We propose a simple rounding procedure which has the above properties for any matroid and satisfies Chernoff-type concentration bounds for linear functions as well as monotone submodular functions. I will illustrate the usefulness of this technique on various examples.Joint work with Chandra Chekuri (UI Urbana-Champaign) and Rico Zenklusen (ETH Zurich).Bio:Jan Vondrak got his PhD from MIT in 2005, under the supervision of Michel Goemans. He spent 1 year as a postdoc at Microsoft Research and 3 years in the department of mathematics at Princeton University. Since 2009, he has been a research staff member at IBM Almaden.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Front Desk
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2010 Research Paper & Teaching Assistant Award Ceremony
Fri, Apr 23, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University Calendar
All Electrical Engineering Ph.D students are cordially invited to join us for our annual awards of excellence in teaching and research. After the awards presentation, you may join us for a special talk and socialize with fellow students over an informal lunch. Guest Speaker: Dr. Albert (Skip) Rizzo "Virtual Reality: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly!"
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Graduate/Department Only/
Contact: Kristie Rueff
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; Transcatheter Heart Valve Replacement
Fri, Apr 23, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Laksen Sirimanne, Vice President of Research & Development in Transcatheter Heart Valve Replacement at Edwards Lifesciences LLC, will present "Transcatheter Heart Valve Replacement" as part of the W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Amanda Atkinson
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Microsoft Undergrad Career Workshop
Fri, Apr 23, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
What? Career Sessions! Choose one (below). Whether you landed your dream internship and want to learn how to make the most of it,
or did not land the job this year, but want to make the most of your summer, we have got tips for you.Where? Both session will meet at RTH 211
What Time? 1-3pm (sessions will run 1:45-2:45pm with lunch before and a raffle afterwards!)
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergraduate Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Is the Current Dominant Aircraft Configuration Optimal
Fri, Apr 23, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
By RJ HuyssenNorth West University,Pretoria, South AfricaDiomedes Inc.ABSTRACT:
Given that flight efficiency is governed by the laws of nature it is reasonable to expect that a dominance would emerge in the way that aircraft designers configure aircraft for various flight objectives. Such dominance has already established itself from the early years of human aviation and indeed prevails today. One might conclude that this configuration represents the optimal configuration for the majority of design objectives. Yet, this does not seem to be the case. Is there perhaps another aircraft configuration which could offer better flight efficiency to the majority of flight objectives? In the light of the adverse environmental impact of aviation we are obliged to meet our flight objectives in the most efficient way and should therefore consider this question very seriously.In this talk, we shall place the Exploitation of flight into the general context of Possibility, Opportunity and Discovery to explain the existence of the current dominate aircraft configuration. A careful rethinking of the engineering process of Design in relation to the natural process of Evolution then allows us to analyse the observed differences in the evolved dominant configuration and that engineered today. We may then answer the question as whether this difference should exist at all.
Location: Stauffer Lecture Hall, Room 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Sending a Photon Backwards in Time
Fri, Apr 23, 2010 @ 02:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Distinguished Lecturer SeriesDr.Seth Lloyd -Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstract:
Ever since Einstein, physicists have argued about whether time travel is consistent with the laws of physics, and, if so, how it might be accomplished. This talk presents a new theory of time travel based on quantum teleportation. Unlike previous theories, the theory can be tested experimentally. I report on an experimental realization of the "grandfather paradox:" we send a photon a few billionths of a second backwards in time and have it try to "kill" its previous self.Biography:
Seth Lloyd was the first person to develop a realizable model for quantum computation and is currently working with a variety of groups to construct and operate quantum computers and quantum communication systems. Dr. Lloyd is the author of over one hundred scientific papers, and of Programming the Universe, (Knopf, 2004). He is currently the director of the W.M. Keck Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory (xQIT) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - vatori Auditorium (SAL-101)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Extreme Collaborative Engineering: Driving the Mars Exploration Rovers
Fri, Apr 23, 2010 @ 05:10 PM - 07:45 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Friday, April 23, 2010 , 5:10 – 7:45 PM, OHE 100CMembers of the ISE & AME Departments are invited to join the students of AME/ISE 567: Collaborative Engineering Principles and Practice in their class for a panel interview with members of the Mars Exploration Rover operations team. Rover Drivers Jeff Biesiadecki, Brian Cooper, Scott Maxwell and Jeng Yen will share their insights on collaborative engineering under extreme conditions on Mars – how they learned to drive on Mars time, balance science, engineering, and exploration needs, escape from hazards, and keep the rovers going six years after completion of the original 90-day mission. Seating is limited and available on a first-come basis. Moderated by Dr. Lynne Cooper, lynnecoo@usc.edu
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 100C
Audiences: ISE/AME Departments Only
Contact: Georgia Lum
