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Meet USC (AM session)
Wed, Apr 26, 2006 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 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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Meet USC (PM session)
Wed, Apr 26, 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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Viterbi Career Services Walk-In Hours
Wed, Apr 26, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, to salary negotiations!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Undergraduate/Graduate Engineering Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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THE MECHANISM OF THOUGHT: CONFABULATION
Wed, Apr 26, 2006 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
"THE MECHANISM OF THOUGHT: CONFABULATION"Dr. Robert Hecht-Nielsen
University of California at San DiegoWednesday, April 26, 20062:30 – 4:00 pmGerontology AuditoriumRefreshments will be served after the talkAbstract:The talk presents a fast parallel winner-take-all competition process called confabulation [1 – 3] as the fundamental mechanism of cognition—from vision and hearing to movement and reasoning. Confabulation theory models thinking as a process in which multiple confabulations interact and in which vast numbers of items of relevant knowledge (links between neuron clusters) apply in parallel. Such a multiconfabulation begins with billions of distinct but viable conclusions and ends with a single winning conclusion. The talk will discuss the engineering, mathematical, and neuroscientific aspects of (non-Bayesian) confabulation and suggest related next steps in the development of AI and thalamo-cortical neuroscience.1. Hecht-Nielsen, R., "Cogent Confabulation," Neural Networks 18:111–115, 2005.
2. Hecht-Nielsen, R., "Mechanization of Cognition," in Y. Bar-Cohen, ed., Biomimetics (pp. 57–128), Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
3. Hecht-Nielsen, R., "Replicator Neural Networks," Science 269:1860–1863, 1995.Bio:Dr. Robert Hecht-Nielsen is the Director of UC San Diego's Confabulation Neuroscience
Institute, an adjunct professor in UCSD's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
an IEEE Fellow, a recipient of the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Medal, a founder of UCSD's Graduate Program in Neurobiology, a member of UCSD's Institute for Neural Computation, author of the text NeuroComputing, and co-founder of HNC Software and the publicly traded Fair-Isaac Corporation.Host: Professor Bart Kosko, x06242, kosko@usc.edu
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Rosine Sarafian
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Fabrication Of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Bipolar Plates By Selective Laser Sintering
Wed, Apr 26, 2006 @ 03:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
David Bourell Temple Foundation Professor The University of Texas at Austin Presented is a new manufacturing technique involving Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) for fabrication of proton exchange membrane fuel cell bipolar plates. A material system for bipolar plate fabrication was identified to satisfy both the cell performance requirements and SLS operation restrictions. The structure of the constituent powders and the fabrication process will be described. Carbonization and liquid epoxy infiltration are necessary following the completion of the SLS green part. The finished SLS bipolar plate showed impressive surface finish and mechanical strength, and a single fuel cell was assembled with two SLS end plates and membrane electrode assembly in between. Computational modeling (FLUENT) of various bipolar plate channel designs will be compared to experimentally prepared samples. This research was funded by the State of Texas Technology Development and Transfer Program (Grant number 003658) and the U.S. Office of Naval Research (Grant number N000140010334).
Location: Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, SLH, Room 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
