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Events for September 16, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkMon, Sep 16, 2013
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 https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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CENG Seminar - CANCELED
Mon, Sep 16, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Rahul Mangharam, Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: “Closing-the-loop with Cyber Physical Systems”
Abstract: Cyber-Physical Systems are the next generation of embedded systems with the tight integration of computing, communication and control of “messy” plants. I will describe our recent efforts in modeling for scheduling and control of closed-loop Cyber-Physical Systems across the domains of medical devices, energy-efficient buildings, wireless control networks and programmable automotive systems.
In medical devices: the design of bug-free and safe software is challenging, especially in complex implantable devices that control and actuate organs whose response is not fully understood. Safety recalls of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators between 1990 and 2000 affected over 600,000 devices. Of these, 200,000 or 41%, were due to software issues that continue to increase in frequency. There is currently no formal methodology or open experimental platform to test and verify the correct operation of medical device software within the closed-loop context of the patient. I will describe our efforts to develop the foundations of formal modeling, synthesis and development of verified medical device software and systems from verified closed-loop models of the pacemaker and the heart (more details here.)
In buildings: heating, cooling and air quality control systems operate independently of each other and frequently result in temporally correlated energy demand surges. As peak power prices are 200-400 times that of the nominal rate, this uncoordinated activity is both expensive and operationally inefficient. While several approaches for load shifting and model predictive control have been proposed, we present an alternative approach to fine-grained coordination of energy demand by scheduling energy consuming control systems within a constrained peak power while ensuring custom climate environments are facilitated. This project includes scheduling of energy control systems, sensing-based reduced order modeling of buildings and tools for integrated modeling and controls for energy-efficient buildings.
Biography: Rahul Mangharam is the Stephen J Angello Chair and Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Electrical & Systems Engineering and Dept. of Computer & Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He directs the Real-Time and Embedded Systems Lab at Penn. His interests are in real-time scheduling algorithms for networked embedded systems with applications in automotive systems, medical devices and industrial control networks.
He received his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University where he also received his MS and BS in 2007, 2002 and 2000 respectively. In 2002, he was a member of technical staff in the Ultra-Wide Band Wireless Group at Intel Labs. He was an international scholar in the Wireless Systems Group at IMEC, Belgium in 2003. He has worked on ASIC chip design at Marconi Communications (1999) and Gigabit Ethernet at Apple Computer Inc. (2000). Rahul received the 2013 NSF CAREER Award, 2012 Intel Early Faculty Career Award and was selected by the National Academy of Engineering for the 2012 US Frontiers of Engineering.
Host: Dr. Paul Bogdan
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Sep 16, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Megan McCain, PhD; Kwang-Jin Kim, PhD; Stacey Finley, PhD, Arek Gertych, Ph.D.,
Talk Title: BME Faculty Presentations
Host: Michael Khoo
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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The Slow-down of Moore's Law and the Future of Supercomputing
Mon, Sep 16, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Marc Snir, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Talk Title: The Slow-down of Moore's Law and the Future of Supercomputing
Abstract: Supercomputing has had two "easy" decades where most of the increased performance of supercomputers came from the increase in uniprocessor performance. This period has come to an end, due to the stagnation in uniprocessor performance. The slow-down of Moore's Law implies that future performance improvements will require more innovation at the architecture level and the software layers. The talk will discuss the evidence for a slow-down; the implications for supercomputing; and the potential research directions this suggests.
Biography: Marc Snir is director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory and Michael Faiman and Saburo Muroga Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a PhD in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1979 and spent two years at New York University, where he was involved with the NYU Ultracomputer project.
At IBM Research, during 1990-2000, he led the research team that developed the software for the IBM Scalable Parallel System (IBM SP) product - the first microprocessor-based highly parallel system that was commercialized by IBM. Snir also led the research group responsible for major contributions to the IBM Blue Gene system. During this period, Snir was involved in the standardization efforts on High-Performance Fortran and MPI. Snir served as head of the Dept. of Computer Science at UIUC from 2001 to 2007, and was lead software architect for the Blue Waters system installed at NCSA. Snir has published numerous papers and given many presentations on computational complexity, parallel algorithms, parallel architectures, interconnection networks, parallel programming environments, and parallel languages and libraries.
Snir is a fellow of the AAAS, the ACM, and the IEEE. He has Erd-s number 2 and is a mathematical descendant of Jacques Salomon Hadamard.
Host: Viktor Prasanna
More Information: Marc Snir Flier.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Yogesh Simmhan
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Gallup Strengths-based Leadership Workshop
Mon, Sep 16, 2013 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This workshop will enable you to begin understanding your own strengths and how to apply them successfully to develop strong leadership skills. Three key takeaways from this workshop:
-Investing in your strengths
-Maximizing your team
-Understanding why people follow
This one and half hour workshop is designed for USC Viterbi students interested in learning more about their personal strengths and developing leadership skills.
Presented by Gallup
http://www.gallup.com/corporate/115/about-gallup.aspx?ref=f
Gallup would especially love to see CECS and CSCI students in attendance!Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Welcome to USC ACM!
Mon, Sep 16, 2013 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
USC ACM would like to welcome freshmen and new students to USC! Come hear a panel of upperclassmen from each CS major (CSCI, CECS, CSBA, CS Games) and CS professors and advisors talk about the department, classes, and opportunities here at USC. You do not need to be a CS major to attend--if you're curious about the CS minor or even just taking some classes for fun, we'd like to see you there too! View the Facebook Event here!
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Association for Computing Machinery
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USC Graduate Engineering Information Session in China(Wuhan)
Mon, Sep 16, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are cordially invited to meet William Schwerin, Assistant Director of Graduate Recruitment, and Ray Xu, Director of the USC China office for the Viterbi School of Engineering, at our upcoming information session in Wuhan, China.
Students who have earned or are in the progress of earning a Bachelor's degree in engineering, math, or a hard science (such as physics, biology, or chemistry) are welcome to attend to learn more about applying to our graduate programs.
The information session will include a presentation on: Master's & Ph.D. programs available at USC, how to apply, scholarships, student life, and more. Students will also have the chance to ask questions and receive official brochures and handout information from USC. Light refreshments will be served.
To register, visit our info sessions page.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate & Professional Programs
