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Events for May 02, 2011
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkMon, May 02, 2011
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 http://usconnect.usc.edu/ 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: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Incident Investigation/Analysis (IIA)
Mon, May 02, 2011 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed for managers and supervisors who may be required to investigate, implement or review safety findings and recommendation resulting from aviation incidents. This course presents principles of Management, Investigation and Analysis.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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Oral Defense Dissertation: Vision-Based Studies for Structural Health Monitoring and Condition Assessment of Structures
Mon, May 02, 2011 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mohammad Jahanshahi, Civil Engineering Ph.D. Candidate
Abstract: Automated health monitoring and maintenance of civil infrastructure systems is an active yet challenging area of research. Current structure inspection standards require an inspector to visually assess structure conditions. Visual inspection of structures is a highly qualitative method. If a region is inaccessible, binoculars must be used to detect and characterize defects. A less time-consuming and inexpensive alternative to current monitoring methods is to use a robotic system that can inspect structures more frequently, and perform autonomous damage detection. Nondestructive evaluation techniques (NDE) are innovative approaches for structural health monitoring. Among several possible techniques, the use of optical instrumentation (e.g., digital cameras), image processing and computer vision are promising approaches as nondestructive testing methods for structural health monitoring to complement sensor-based approaches. The feasibility of using image processing techniques to detect deterioration in structures has been acknowledged by leading researches in the field. This study represents the efforts that have been taken place by the author to form, implement, and evaluate several vision-based approaches that are promising for robust condition assessment of structures. Several illustrative examples are presented to demonstrate the capabilities, as well as the limitations, of the proposed vision-based inspection procedures.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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USC Water Institute Seminar
Mon, May 02, 2011 @ 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Christina Tague , Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara
Talk Title: Forest Eco-hydrology in a Changing Climate: Integrating modelling and measurements
Abstract: Forests are a key provider of ecosystems services throughout the globe. Understanding and ultimately predicting how forest are likely to respond to a changing climate is an active area of interest and research. While some model and empirical studies show increased in forest growth, particularly in temperature limited environments, several recent monitoring studies suggest that forest mortality may be increasing in response to greater or more frequent drought stress. Given the importance of water-limitation and drought stress as a control on how forests will respond to a changing climate, models that explicitly link forest productivity with hydrology are essential tools. In this talk I will provide an overview of RHESSys, a coupled model of ecosystem biogeochemical cycling and spatially distributed hydrology. RHESSys is an open-source tool that integrates state-of-the art science based understanding of forest structure and function with observational data from multiple sources, including point measures such as streamflow and carbon flux tower data and spatial data from remote sensing products. I will present a number of case studies including forests in both natural and urban environments where we have used RHESSys to examine forest response to both historic and projected future climate variability and change. These case studies focus
explicitly on eco-hydrologic interactions and demonstrate critical linkages among forest water use, carbon cycling, drought stress mortality, soil moisture and streamflow. I
conclude by summarizing future directions for RHESSys as a tool for investigating the vulnerability of forest health and water resources to changing climate and land management scenarios.
Biography: Dr. Christina Tague (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at University of California , Santa Barbara). Dr. Tague investigates climate and landuse/land cover change impacts on streamflow regimes and watershed biogeochemical cycling , emphasizing the interactions between hydrology and ecosystem processes. She specializes in the development and application of spatial models. Her work seeks to design models as a flexible, adaptive framework for integrating conceptual understanding with data from a variety of sources, including intensive field-based monitoring and experimentation and remote sensing. Dr. Tague is
one of the principle developers of RHESSys, Regional hydro-ecologic simulation system, a modeling framework that provides science-based information on the spatial patterns of vulnerability in water quantity and quality, and ecosystem health. Current projects include modeling climate change impacts on snowpack and summer streamflow patterns in the mountains of the Western US, and examinin how urbanization alters drainage patterns and associated biogeochemical cycling at part of the Baltimore Long Term Ecological Research Site and in selected Southern California watersheds. Dr. Tague received her Ph.D. from the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto,
Canada and has an undergraduate degree from the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Host: Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
