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Events for August 31, 2009
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
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/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: Viterbi Admission
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Testing 802.11p WAVE on the Road: An Error-Prone Traffic Telematics Standard
Mon, Aug 31, 2009 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Nicolai Czink,
Stanford UniversityAbstract: Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) systems can make the road safer and its use more efficient, given that the data transmission from and to the road users over the wireless link is timely, accurate, and well presented. Under these conditions, a reduction in the number and severity of accidents can be expected. Furthermore, traffic can be more efficiently managed and congestions can be avoided. The IEEE 802.11p standard for Wireless Access on Vehicular Environments (WAVE) was derived from the 802.11a WiFi standard to support high-speed communications on the road for both road-to-car and car-to-car environments. Already in simulation tests, the standard turned out to fail in common scenarios like driving with high speeds, shadowing by other cars, or simply access by too many vehicles in dense traffic situations.Using the proprietary CVIS testbed, developed in a European research project, we tested the performance limits of 802.11p. This presentation will show that the standard (in its current version) fails to ensure reliable data transmission in almost all environments. The results also provide some guidance for installing WAVE equipment and suggest countermeasures to increase the reliability of the WAVE standard.Biography: Nicolai Czink received his MSc and PhD degrees from Vienna University of Technology in 2004 and 2008, respectively, both with distinction. Since 2005, he is with the ftw. Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, where he is Senior Researcher in the area of wireless communications at present. From April 2008 to April 2009, he was visiting scholar at the Smart Antennas Research Group at Stanford University working on MIMO interference measurements an modeling. His current interests are intelligent transportation systems an cooperative communications.Host: Andreas Molisch, 04670, EEB 530, molisch@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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BME 533 (Seminar in Biomedical Engineering)
Mon, Aug 31, 2009 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
BME Faculty Research Overview Presentations:1) Theodore Berger, PhD:Neurophysiology of memory and learning, nonlinear systems analysis of hippocampal network properties, neurobiology2) Noah Malmstadt, PhD:Nanoscale structure formation in model lipid membranes; microfluidic reaction control by phase-selective extraction 3) Manbir Singh, PhD: Biomedical imaging including magnetic resonance, PET, SPECT, and biomagnetic imaging
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Graduate Students/Faculty
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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BME Graduate Students Ice Cream Social
Mon, Aug 31, 2009 @ 01:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Make some new friends and meet up with some old ones! Come and join us.
Location: garden area next to DRB 140
Audiences: Graduate Students/Faculty/BME Staff
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
