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Events for September 04, 2009
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Sep 04, 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 12:00 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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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; Why Ethics is Important
Fri, Sep 04, 2009 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Dr. Douglas Sanders, Principal Ethics Advisor at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will present "Why Ethics is Important" as part of the W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admissions & Student Affairs
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History, Design and Construction of Submerged Offshore Structures for ...
Fri, Sep 04, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
... Beach Protection and Recreational AmenitySpeaker: Jose C. Borrero Ph.D.
Coastal Engineer, ASR Limited, Raglan, New Zealand;
Adjunct Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringJose C. Borrero Ph.D.1,21-Coastal Scientist/Engineer, ASR Limited, Raglan, New Zealand 2-Adjunct Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringAbstract:A successful, long-term coastal protection solution seeks to directly address and work with the natural physical processes responsible for the erosion problems, not just the effects of erosion. Time and again it has been shown that 'hard engineering' efforts such as seawalls, jetties/groynes and revetments are forms of 'land protection' – not beach protection – that can ultimately lead to increased erosion and a significant reduction in the recreational and economic value of a beach.In recent years, alternative approaches to coastal protection have proposed the use of submerged, offshore structures to dissipate and redirect wave energy in an effort to minimize beach erosion, increase the time interval between beach nourishments, reduce negative visual impacts, enhance local ecology and provide a recreational amenity in
the form of improved surfing waves or snorkeling/diving attractions.
Another class of similar structures has also been proposed for purely recreational benefits – i.e. "artificial surfing reefs" or "diving reefs" incorporated in to marine parks.This presentation will discuss the conceptualization and history of these efforts including the Narrowneck Reef located at the Gold Coast, Australia, Pratte's Reef in El Segundo California, The Mount Reef in New Zealand and the recently constructed Boscombe Reef in Boscombe, England.The presentation will also highlight the successes, failures and continuing challenges for these types of projects in terms of design, costing, construction methodology and ultimate results. The costs and sizes of such projects completed to date will also be compared to other large-scale 'traditional' coastal protection or modification works so that the projects can be seen in the proper context when direct comparisons are made.Dr. Borrero earned his Ph.D. in civil (coastal) engineering from the University of Southern California in 2002. Since 2006 he has worked with ASR Ltd., a consulting firm based in Raglan New Zealand, specializing in hydrodynamic modelling of aquatic systems, the design and implementation of innovative shore protection schemes and the design and construction of artificial surfing reefs.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209/ ON WEBEX
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Risk Assessment and Asset Allocation with Gross Exposure Constraints for Vast Portfolios
Fri, Sep 04, 2009 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Mathematical Finance ColloquiumWhen: Friday, September 4, 2009, 3:30 PMWhere: KAP 414Title: "Risk Assessment and Asset Allocation with Gross Exposure Constraints for Vast Portfolios"Speaker: Jianqing Fan Frederick L. Moore Professor of Finance, and the Director of Committee of Statistical Studies in the Department of Operation Research and Financial Engineering of Princeton UniversityABSTRACT: Markowitz (1952, 1959) laid down the ground-breaking work on the
mean-variance analysis. Under his framework, the theoretical optimal allocation
vector can be very different from the estimated one for large portfolios due to the
intrinsic difficulty of estimating a vast covariance matrix and return vector. This
can result in adverse performance in portfolio selected based on empirical data
due to the accumulation of estimation errors. We address this problem by
introducing the gross-exposure constrained mean-variance portfolio selection.
We show that with gross-exposure constraint the empirically selected optimal
portfolios based on estimated covariance matrices have similar performance
to the theoretical optimal portfolios and there is no error accumulation effect
from estimation of vast covariance matrices. This gives theoretical justification
to the empirical results in Jagannathan and Ma (2003). We also show that the
no-short-sale portfolio is not diversified enough and can be improved by
allowing some short positions. As the constraint on short sales relaxes, the
number of selected assets gradually increases and finally reaches the total
number of stocks when tracking portfolios or selecting assets. This achieves
the optimal sparse portfolio selection, which has close performance to the
theoretical optimal one. Among 1000 stocks, for example, we are able to identify
all optimal subsets of portfolios of different sizes, their associated allocation
vectors, and their estimated risks. The utility of our new approach is illustrated
by simulation and empirical studies on the 100 Fama-French industrial portfolios
and the 600 stocks randomly selected from Russell 3000.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 414
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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A Renters Guide for International Students: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
Fri, Sep 04, 2009 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Workshops & Infosessions
Renting for the first time? Then this session is for you! Learn all about what your rights and responsibilities are as a renter and how to work effectively with landlord issues.
Location: Waite Phillips Hall Of Education (WPH) - B28
Audiences: International Students
Contact: MAPP Office
