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Events for September 12, 2006
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Integrated Multi-disciplinary Systems Research for Hazard Mitigation
Tue, Sep 12, 2006 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Faculty are invited to lunch at the University Club following the presentation. Please RSVP to Georgia Lum ext. 0-4885Speaker: Dr. Vilas Mujumdar, P.E., S.E.Earthquake Engineering Research Center Cluster Leader and ERC Program Director
Division of Engineering Education and Centers
National Science FoundationVilas Mujumdar is the Program Director responsible for oversight of 3 Earthquake Engineering Research Centers, and coordination of earthquake engineering integrated multidisciplinary research with other divisions of NSF. He manages the review and recommendation process for establishing new Engineering Research Centers in Civil Infrastructure and also coordinates public policy research for various Engineering Research Centers.After 25 years in private industry serving in various executive positions including CEO, Dr. Mujumdar joined the State of California, serving for 9 years as Chief of Operations with the Division of the State Architect. He received numerous awards for his work and many of his projects have been featured in publications such as Engineering News Record.Dr. Mujumdar is a registered Civil Engineer and Structural Engineer in California and is a professional engineer in many other states. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Civil Engineering, a Master of Business Administration and a doctorate in Public Administration specializing in seismic risk. He is a Fellow of American Concrete Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, The Prestressed Concrete Institute, and The Institution of Structural Engineers (UK). He has served on and chaired numerous committees of ASCE, ACI, SEAOC, TMS and BSSC.Location: Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH) Room 306
Audiences: Epstein ISE, CE, and SPPD faculty and Graduate Students, CREATE researchers
Contact: Linda Mizushima
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Some New Variance Reduction Ideas in Simulation
Tue, Sep 12, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Prof. Sheldon Ross, University of Southern CaliforniaABSTRACT: Building on the idea of stratified sampling we present an extension that is useful in analyzing simulation problems related to 1. systems having Poisson arrivals;2. monotone systems of Bernoulli data;3. systems of conditionally Poisson data;4. computing monotone functions of random numbersBIO: Sheldon M. Ross is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of
Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University in 1968. He has published many technical
articles and textbooks in the areas of statistics and applied probability. Among his texts are A First Course in Probability,
Introduction to Probability Models, Stochastic Processes, and Introductory Statistics. Professor Ross is the founding and
continuing editor of the journal Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Institute
of Mathematical Statistics, and a recipient of the Humboldt US Senior Scientist Award.
Author of: Statistical Aspects of Quality Control, Introduction to Stochastic Dynamic Programming, Probability Models for Computer Science, Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists,
Introduction to Probability Models,
Introductory Statistics,
Introduction to Probability Models, ISE, Simulation,
Introduction to Probability Models,
Student Solutions Manual for Introductory Statistics.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Computer Science Meet the Chair-Undergraduates
Tue, Sep 12, 2006 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
Undergraduates in CSCI, CECS, CSBA and CSGM, please join us over pizza and beverages to meet the Computer Science Chair, Prof. Gerard Medioni. This is an open forum for asking questions, expressing concerns, and making suggestions. Registration will close Friday, September 8 at 4:00!Register Here
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Undergrad/Department Only
Contact: Nancy Levien
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IEEE General Meeting
Tue, Sep 12, 2006 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Digital technologies have been widely applied to speech, audio, video and graphics in various commercial applications today. Digital media offer great advantages over the traditional analog media for their ease of high accuracy computation ( e.g. compression and encryption) and great freedom in media integration and delivery (e.g. VoIP). The availability of broadband wired/wireless Internet infrastructures and new technologies such as peer-to-peer networking and grid computing has increased the impact of digital media. This lecture will provide some important lessons learned from the history of digital media revolution, and provide an outlook to future business opportunities and R&D directions for digital media integration, distribution and management. Especially, we will discuss the mergence of 4C (Computer, Communication, Consumer Electronics and Content industry segments) and the value shift from the hardware/software products to service and content industry. The successful stories of Google and Skype will be explained.
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - 158
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: IEEE
