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Events for September 17, 2010
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Festival de Flor y Canto: Yesterday, Today, TomorrowFri, Sep 17, 2010
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
In 1973, USC hosted the Flor y Canto literary festival, a three-day event that featured dozens of emerging Mexican American poets and writers in the nascent Chicano movement. One of the recurring themes was the contrast between great Mesoamerican civilizations of the past and the indignities suffered by those chasing the elusive âAmerican Dream.â This year, which marks the centennial of the Mexican Revolution and the bicentennial of Mexican independence, the university will reprise the event, inviting prominent participants from the previous festivalâincluding Alurista, Juan Felipe Herrera, Rolando Hinojosa, José Montoya and Ron Ariasâto share the stage with a new generation of Chicano and Latino writers.
Organized by Tyson Gaskill (USC Libraries), Barbara Robinson (USC Libraries) and MarÃa-Elena MartÃnez (History and American Studies and Ethnicity). Co-sponsored by El Centro Chicano and the Latino Student Assembly.
Admission is free.
For festival schedule, visit the event page: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873308
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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USC Transfer Day: Engineering & Admission Talk, Financial Aid Presentation, Tour and Advisement
Fri, Sep 17, 2010 @ 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Transfer Day features a Viterbi School of Engineering workshop designed to answer all your questions about admission guidelines, our admission process and more. The program also includes a campus tour and special presentations for transfer students about admission, financial aid, and transfer credit. In addition, Viterbi transfer counselors will be available for individual coursework advisement on a first-come, first-serve basis in the afternoon following the program (transcripts required for advisement). Reservations required. Please call (213) 740-6616 for more information and to make a reservation.
Location: USC University Park Campus
Audiences: Prospective transfer students and families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Letter, Word, Text, Image A Lecture and Workshop with Rebeca Méndez
Fri, Sep 17, 2010 @ 10:30 AM - 04:00 AM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Schedule of Events:
10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.:
Presentation by Rebeca Méndez
Kerckhoff Hall Living Room
734 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles
12 to 1 p.m.:
Lunch
Institute for Multimedia Literacy Patio
746 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles
1 to 4 p.m.:
Workshop with Rebeca Méndez
Institute for Multimedia Literacy Blue Lab
746 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles
In an overwhelmingly visual culture, how is the role of text and typography evolving? Artist and designer Rebeca Méndez will engage her audience in a provocative examination of how words and images intersect, drawing on works created by twentieth-century artists and designers. After the lecture, Méndez will host a hands-on workshop focused on combining words and images, with the goal of choosing images and typefaces not just for their readability, but also for their broader visual correlations. Students will create posters and compile their work into a booklet using a simple bookbinding technique.
Born in Mexico, Rebeca Méndez received her MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, and is a professor at UCLA in the Department of Design | Media Arts. Recent gallery shows include the Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, curated by Christiane Paul of the Whitney Museum; Minotti, Los Angeles; Haaz Gallery, Istanbul; AndLab Art, Los Angeles; Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Pasadena; and the Broad Art Center, Los Angeles. She has had solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Brandstater Gallery and the Laguna College of Art and Design.
Organized by Holly Willis (Cinematic Arts) and the Institute for Multimedia Literacy.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Kerckhoff Hall Living Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Low Cost – Highly Accurate Timer for Embedded and Networked Systems
Fri, Sep 17, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Young Cho, USC-Information Sciences Institute
Talk Title: Low Cost â Highly Accurate Timer for Embedded and Networked Systems
Abstract: Time synchronization is an important service for networked and embedded systems.  High quality timing information allows embedded network nodes to provide accurate time-stamps, fast localization, efficient duty cycling schedules, and other essential functions. In this presentation, I will present a new type of local clock source called Crystal Compensated Crystal based Timer (XCXT) and the novel algorithms that use the timer to (1) obtain highly stable concept of time, (2) retain low-power operation, and (3) automatically calibrate the nodes in a network.  The XCXT has timing stabilities similar to the timers based on temperature compensated crystal oscillators (TCXO) but has a lower implementation cost and requires less power. I will present the initial 8MHz prototype XCXT unit made with Tmote. Using the simplest algorithm, the XCXT achieves an effective frequency stability of ±1ppm and consumes only 1.27mW. On the other hand, commercially available TCXOs with similar stability can cost over 10 times as much and consume over 20mW. I will also describe an enhanced algorithm that improves the XCXT's power consumption up to 50% depending on the target application and environmental conditions. Then, I will describe an algorithm that will allow XCXT equipped network nodes to quickly, automatically, and adaptively calibrate the timer.  This algorithm not only ensures high timing accuracies for all the nodes, it provides resilience to other common problem seen in other types of oscillators, such as crystal aging.  Finally, I will discuss some of the recent work that seeks to apply the concept to CMOS based oscillators.  Successful transition may have significant impact on the way CMOS devices are clocked. Preliminary findings indicate promising results.
Biography: Young Cho is a research scientist at Division 7 of University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute. Â He is also research assistant professor at CS department of USC. Â Given his academic and industrial experience in high performance computer architecture and networking, he is currently leading a number several research efforts that surrounding field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) applications and wireless sensor network; especially that of underwater sensing. Â He has three patents and over 30 conference and journal publications in computer network security, FPGA based applications, and wireless sensor networks. Prior to joining USC-ISI in September of 2008, he conducted research as a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis from 2005-2007 where he led a high performance data clustering project and as a post-doctoral scholar at UCLA where he led a research in high stability timers for wireless sensor network in 2007-2008. Â He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCLA, MS in Computer Engineering from UT Austin, and BA in Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley. Â Between his BA and MS, he worked as an engineer for a start-up company, Myricom Inc., for three years to design high performance networking products as well as automatic target recognition system funded by Department of Defense.
Host: Dr. Alexander A. Sawchuk
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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USC PSOC Monthly Seminar Series
Fri, Sep 17, 2010 @ 11:30 AM - 01:15 AM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jonathan Widom, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry, Northwestern Univ
Talk Title: Nucleosome positioning and chromosome structure from archaebacteria to man
Abstract: Eukaryotic genomes are packaged into nucleosome particles that occlude the DNA from interacting with most DNA binding proteins. We have discovered that genomes care where their nucleosomes are located on average, and that genomes manifest this care by encoding an additional layer of genetic information, superimposed on top of other kinds of regulatory and coding information that were previously recognized. The physical basis of the nucleosome DNA sequences preferences lies in the sequence-dependent mechanics of DNA itself. We have an increasingly good ability to read this nucleosome positioning information and predict the in vivo locations of nucleosomes. Our results suggest that genomes utilize this nucleosome positioning code to facilitate specific chromosome functions, including to define the next higher level of chromosome structure. Comparisons across diverse organisms suggests that basic aspects of this nucleosome positioning code may be conserved from archaebacteria to man. While we now have a good theoretical and experimental understanding of the approximate locations of nucleosomes in vivo, many aspects of chromosome structure and function hinge on knowing nucleosome locations to basepair resolution; but current experiments do not come close to this resolution. I will discuss a new experimental approach to obtaining nucleosome maps at high resolution.
Location: Aresty Auditorium, LG Level, Research Tower.
For additional information contact: 323-442-2596 or 323-442-3849.
Biography: Jonathan Widom, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology; and Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University.
Host: Dr. Parag Mallick, Center for Applied Molecular Medicine
Speaker: Jonathan Widom, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry, Northwestern Univ
Talk Title: Nucleosome positioning and chromosome structure from archaebacteria to man
Abstract: Eukaryotic genomes are packaged into nucleosome particles that occlude the DNA from interacting with most DNA binding proteins. We have discovered that genomes care where their nucleosomes are located on average, and that genomes manifest this care by encoding an additional layer of genetic information, superimposed on top of other kinds of regulatory and coding information that were previously recognized. The physical basis of the nucleosome DNA sequences preferences lies in the sequence-dependent mechanics of DNA itself. We have an increasingly good ability to read this nucleosome positioning information and predict the in vivo locations of nucleosomes. Our results suggest that genomes utilize this nucleosome positioning code to facilitate specific chromosome functions, including to define the next higher level of chromosome structure. Comparisons across diverse organisms suggests that basic aspects of this nucleosome positioning code may be conserved from archaebacteria to man. While we now have a good theoretical and experimental understanding of the approximate locations of nucleosomes in vivo, many aspects of chromosome structure and function hinge on knowing nucleosome locations to basepair resolution; but current experiments do not come close to this resolution. I will discuss a new experimental approach to obtaining nucleosome maps at high resolution.
Location: Aresty Auditorium, LG Level, Research Tower.
For additional information contact: 323-442-2596 or 323-442-3849.
Biography: Jonathan Widom, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology; and Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University.
Location: Harlyne J. Norris Research Tower (NRT) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Yvonne Suarez
