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Events for April 26, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Apr 26, 2013
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkFri, Apr 26, 2013
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Seminar
Fri, Apr 26, 2013 @ 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: DEAN FELSHER M.D., PH.D. , Professor of Medicine-Oncology, Pathology and Molecular Imaging, Department of Medicine, Stanford University
Talk Title: Modeling and Predicting Oncogene Addiction
Abstract: Cancers are largely caused by the activation of oncogenes. We have developed an experimental system to model and predict the therapeutic efficacy of targeted therapy of oncogenes. Using the Tet system, we can conditionally regulate oncogene expression in vivo in a temporally controlled and tissue specific manner. We have shown that many oncogenes (MYC, RAS, BCR-ABL) induce tumorigenesis that is completely reversible upon their inactivation. We have described this phenomena as oncogene addiction. Oncogene addiction is associated with proliferative arrest, apoptosis, differentiation, cellular senescence and the shutdown of angiogenesis. The specific consequences of oncogene inactivation depend both on the genetic and cellular context. In some cases, even brief inactivation of an oncogene can result in sustained tumor regression. In other cases, oncogene inactivation is associated with tumor dormancy. Tumor cell intrinsic and host-dependent cell autonomous mechanisms are involved. Tumor cell intrinsic mechanisms appear to involve mechanisms that are dependent upon DNA repair processes, the regulation of protein synthesis and of cellular metabolism. Host-dependent mechanisms include the regulation of angiogenesis and immune cell elimination. In addition, tumor cells secrete autocrine factors critical to oncogene addiction. We have uncovered that oncogene addiction is not cell autonomous and requires an intact host immune system. Specifically, CD4+ T-cells are required for MYC or BCR-ABL inactivation to induce sustained tumor regression. We have found that in the absence of an immune system, oncogene inactivation failed to both induce cellular senescence in tumor cells as well as to shut down angiogenesis in the host. Finally, our experimental model system can be used to model Oncogene Addiction. We have shown that we can use simple mathematical model to predict the therapeutic consequences of oncogene inactivation.
Biography: USC was selected to establish a $16 million cancer research center as part of a new strategy against the disease by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and its National Cancer Institute. The new center is one of 12 in the nation to receive the designation. During the five-year initiative, the Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers will take new, nontraditional approaches to cancer research by studying the physical laws and principles of cancer; evolution and the evolutionary theory of cancer; information coding, decoding, transfer and translation in cancer; and ways to de-convolute cancer's complexity. As part of the outreach component of this grant, the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine is hosting a monthly seminar series.
Host: USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center
Location: Clinical Science Center (CSC) - #250
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kristina Gerber
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W.V.T. Rusch Honors Program; Hunting for the Dark Matter of the Universe
Fri, Apr 26, 2013 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Rene A. Ong, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
Talk Title: Hunting for the Dark Matter of the Universe
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Christine Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Apr 26, 2013 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Timothy M. Hancock, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Talk Title: Hardware Phenomenological Effects on Co-channel Full-Duplex MIMO Relay Performance
Abstract: This presentation will discuss the performance of co-channel full-duplex multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) nodes is considered in the context of models for realistic hardware characteristics. Here, co-channel full-duplex relay indicates a node that transmits and receives simultaneously in the same frequency band. It is assumed that transmit and receive phase centers are physically distinct, enabling adaptive spatial transmit and receive processing to mitigate self-interference. The use of MIMO indicates a self-interference channel with spatially diverse inputs and outputs, although multiple modes are not explored in this analysis. Rather, the focus will be on rank-1 transmit covariance matrices. In practice, the limiting issue for co-channel full-duplex nodes is the ability to mitigate self-interference. While theoretically a system with infinite dynamic range and exact channel estimation can mitigate the self-interference perfectly, in practice, transmitter and receiver dynamic range, nonlinearities, and noise, as well as channel dynamics, limit the practical performance. This presentation will investigate the self-interference mitigation limitations in the context of eigenvalue spread of spatial transmit and receive covariance matrices caused by realistic hardware models.
Biography: Timothy M. Hancock received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan where he was involved with the development of SiGe integrated microwave circuits from 6 to 77 GHz. In the past he has worked for Conexant Systems on a single chip GPS receiver and at M/A-COM on a Silicon Germanium 24 GHz automotive radar solution. For 6 years he was a staff member in the RF & Quantum Systems Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he was involved with the development of low-power, small form-factor wireless devices, reconfigurable and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems where his work focused on integrated circuit design and wireless system design. Since 2011 he has been the Assistant Leader of the same group where he continues to develop programs in the area of MIMO communications and small form-factor wireless devices as well as technology development for RADAR and ELINT systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the 2010 inaugural recipient of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Early Career Technical Achievement Award.
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi and Prof. Mike Chen
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
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CEE Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Apr 26, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Daniel Amiri and Iman Yadegaran, USC Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Students
Talk Title: Low-Cycle Fatigue Effects in RBS Moment Connections
Abstract: TBA
Second Presentor:
Iman Iman Yadegaran - "Data-based modeling and enriched-finite-elements"
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
