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Events for April 28, 2008
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Meet USC
Mon, Apr 28, 2008
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/events/meet_usc/ 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: Viterbi Admission
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Bayesian Multiscale In Situ Process Control for Nanomanufacturing
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Seminar:"Bayesian Multiscale In Situ Process Control for Nanomanufacturing"Dr. Qiang HuangAssistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University of South Florida. Tampa, FL 33620, http://www.eng.usf.edu/~huangqABSTRACT: The fast-developing nanotechnology needs breakthrough innovations in manufacturing to expedite its transfer from laboratories to industry applications at lower cost. Yet much less research and education initiatives have been undertaken in nanomanufacturing to duplicate the success of transforming quality and productivity performance of traditional manufacturing. Standard statistical quality control (SQC) methods are essential to efficient nanomanufacturing. But SQC faces new challenges of scale effects in nanomanufacturing. Particularly, process variables affecting nanostructure growth are manipulated at macroscopic length/time scales. The quality characteristics of nanostructures (e.g., nanowire diameters) would better be characterized at nanoscale. Relating macroscale process variables to nanoscale quality characteristics requires novel multiscale model integration for in situ process control. Process control in nanomanufacturing therefore demands a new paradigm for effective modeling, process change detection, and process adjustment. Using nanowire growth process as an example, this talk will present a Bayesian multiscale modeling and control scheme for in situ process control in nanomanufacturing. Other research activities in the speaker's Nanomanufacturing Quality Control Laboratory (Nano-QCLab) will be introduced too. MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2008, GERONTOLOGY BUILDING (GER) ROOM 309, 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Understanding Solute Transport in Extremely Heterogeneous Subsurface Media: A Field Perspective
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Dr.Chunmiao Zheng- Department of Geological Sciences, University of AlabamaField studies at well-instrumented sites have played a preeminent role in our efforts to better understand and characterize solute transport processes in geologic media. In particular, several field tracer tests conducted at well-known sites such as those in Borden, Canada (MacKay et al., 1986), Mobile, Alabama (Molz et al., 1986), Twin Lake, Minnesota (Killey and Moltyaner, 1988), Cape Cod, Massachusetts (LeBlanc et al., 1991) and Columbus, Mississippi (Boggs et al., 1992) have provided new insights and extensive data sets for development and testing of transport theories and mathematical models. This presentation focuses on the Columbus, Mississippi site, more commonly known as the Macrodispersion Experiment (MADE) site.
Since the 1980s, three large-scale natural-gradient tracer tests and other types of field studies have been conducted at the MADE site located inside the Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi, southeastern United States. The field data from the MADE site have been used extensively by researchers around the world to investigate and understand contaminant transport processes in highly heterogeneous aquifers. The MADE site has directly or indirectly inspired the development of a number of new and improved theories and computer models aimed at more accurate representation and prediction of contaminant transport affected by extreme aquifer heterogeneity. A great deal of recent and on-going research on contaminant transport in heterogeneous media has been motivated by the findings from the MADE site that suggest the existence of preferential flow paths resulting from small-scale heterogeneities. Since the 1980s, three large-scale natural-gradient tracer tests and other types of field studies have been conducted at the MADE site located inside the Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi, southeastern United States. The field data from the MADE site have been used extensively by researchers around the world to investigate and understand contaminant transport processes in highly heterogeneous aquifers. The MADE site has directly or indirectly inspired the development of a number of new and improved theories and computer models aimed at more accurate representation and prediction of contaminant transport affected by extreme aquifer heterogeneity. A great deal of recent and on-going research on contaminant transport in heterogeneous media has been motivated by the findings from the MADE site that suggest the existence of preferential flow paths resulting from small-scale heterogeneities. This presentation will provide an overview of the research activities at the MADE site over the past 25 years and discuss how the findings from field studies have motivated various theories and models purported to accommodate so-called non-ideal transport behavior observed at the MADE site. Of particular interest are our recent field campaigns to further test the hypothesis that solute transport at the MADE site is dominated by small-scale preferential flow paths. These field campaigns include forced-gradient tracer tests, soil coring, direct-push hydraulic profiling, and high-resolution resistivity and GPR surveys. The on-going efforts are aimed at building stronger theoretical underpinnings and useful practical tools for modeling solute transport and for designing remedial measures in extremely heterogeneous aquifers such as that encountered at the MADE site.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
