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Events for September 23, 2011
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Getting Graphic: A Lecture and Workshop on the History of Graphic Design in Queer Activism
Fri, Sep 23, 2011 @ 11:00 AM - 02:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
746 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
909 West Adams Boulevard
Admission is free.
Event Schedule and Locations:
11 a.m.: Lecture by Nate Schulman, Institute for Multimedia Literacy
12 p.m.: Lunch, ONE Archives
1:30 p.m.: Workshop with Nate Schulman
A series of events will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945â1980 at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The events will foster discussions about LGBT histories, queer art and aesthetics and archival practices in contemporary art.
The Getting Graphic event will feature writer and designer Nate Schulman. He will present a lecture on graphic-design strategies in queer activism followed by a hands-on workshop inspired by archival materials at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The workshop will focus on design strategies utilized by early queer activists in the postâWorld War II era, a period of queer activism often overshadowed by AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s. Schulmanâs lecture, along with a brief introduction by an archivist from the ONE Archives, will expose students to rare archival materials and historical approaches for raising consciousness.
For more information about Cruising the Archive, go to www.onearchives.org
Organized by Joseph Hawkins, Mia Locks, David Frantz and the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy and the Gettyâs Pacific Standard Time initiative.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Institute for Multimedia Literacy and ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center Monthly Seminar Series
Fri, Sep 23, 2011 @ 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mitch Magee, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor, Biodesign Institute, ASU
Talk Title: High Throughput Functional Proteomics for Investigations of Host Response to Lymphoma
Abstract: Functional proteomics combines derivation of molecular biology tools for high-throughput cloning in combination with expression strategies for functional analyses of proteins. Our strategy focuses on the use of Nucleic Acid Programmable Protein Arrays (NAPPA) for displaying high content proteins for down-stream studies. We are utilizing NAPPA in two key strategies as it applies to the USC - Physical Sciences in Oncology Center program. We are utilizing NAPPA to create a 10,000 member set of protein production slides and utilize these proteins to characterize autoantibody production during lymphoma development in an animal model. We have also adapted NAPPA for protein-protein interaction kinetic analyses to enable relative affinity measures of proteins within the B-Cell signaling pathway. The ultimate goal is to work with mathematical modelers to outilze these measures for developing a Virtual Cancer Model to predict the host reactivitiy and response to therapy.
Biography: About the USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center Monthly Seminar Series
USC was selected to establish a $16 million cancer research center as part of a new strategy against the disease by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and its National Cancer Institute. The new center is one of 12 in the nation to receive the designation. During the five-year initiative, the Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers will take new, nontraditional approaches to cancer research by studying the physical laws and principles of cancer; evolution and the evolutionary theory of cancer; information coding, decoding, transfer and translation in cancer; and ways to de-convolute cancerâs complexity. As part of the outreach component of this grant, the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine is hosting a monthly seminar series
Host: Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. IGM, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250, Los Angeles, Ca. Information - contact Kristina Gerber at 323-442-3849. Pizza and beverages served for attendees at 11:45 a.m.
Location: Clinical Science Center (CSC) - Harkness Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kristina Gerber
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; Compliant Electrodes and Stretchable Devices
Fri, Sep 23, 2011 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Qibing Pei, Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Soft Materials Research, Department of Material Science and Engineering
Talk Title: Compliant Electrodes and Stretchable Devices
Abstract: Dr. Qibing Pei; Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Soft Materials Research, Department of Material Science and Engineering; will present "Compliant Electrodes and Stretchable Devices" as part of the W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program.
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
More Info: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/honors/schedules/Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Amanda Atkinson
Event Link: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/honors/schedules/
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series, Dr. Earl McCune, RF Communications Consulting
Fri, Sep 23, 2011 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University Calendar
Speaker: Dr. Earl McCune, RF Communications Consulting
Talk Title: Breaking the PA Energy Efficiency vs. Linearity Tradeoff, Using Polar Signal Processing Systems
Abstract:
In the century-old art of power amplifier design, the tradeoff between excellent circuit linearity vs. good energy efficiency is a well established headache. In this presentation we explore a reverse approach: instead of designing a linear circuit and then working to improve its energy efficiency, we will start from a maximally efficient circuit and make it work very well with âlinearâ signals. This reverse approach leads to switch-based RF circuit design and polar coordinate signal processing, which is quite different from linear circuit design and quadrature (Cartesian) signal processing. Extensions to the concept of circuit gain when nonlinearity is present are developed. Applicability of FET and Bipolar transistors to this approach is discussed, along with a wide range of new circuit design issues that arise. Wide dynamic range power control and wide bandwidth phase modulation are also addressed.
Biography:
Earl is a serial entrepreneur from Silicon Valley with over 35 years of experience in design of wireless circuits, modulations, and systems. In recent years he has focused on breaking the standard tradeoff between power amplifier linearity and energy efficiency, which led him to switch-based circuit design techniques and polar signal processing. He has learned across this career that a thorough understanding of physical fundamentals is essential to avoid making huge mistakes, providing an extremely useful check on mathematical derivations and computer simulations.
Earl holds over 50 US patents, and is frequently an invited speaker at conferences worldwide. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley, Stanford, and UC Davis. He has been a Silicon Valley entrepreneur since 1986, starting up two groundbreaking technology companies that both provided successful exits to the investors. His work experience includes NASA, Hewlett-Packard (now Agilent), Watkins-Johnson, Cushman Electronics, Digital
RF Solutions (start-up #1), Proxim, Tropian (start-up #2), and Panasonic. At Panasonic, he was named a Technology Fellow in 2008. Having retired from industry in 2008, he is now a consultant, instructor, and visiting professor at multiple universities.More Information: Seminar_Speaker_McCune_2011_9_23.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Danielle Hamra
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Moving Images: A Conversation with Laurie Simmons and Lena Dunham
Fri, Sep 23, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
Since the mid-1970s, internationally recognized artist Laurie Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, dummies, mannequins and, occasionally, people to create images with intensely psychological subtexts. In 2006, she produced and directed her first film, The Music of Regret starring Meryl Streep. Lena Dunham, director of the film Tiny Furniture, is one of todayâs most talented young filmmakers. Simmons and Dunham are also mother and daughter. Blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, Simmons plays Dunhamâs mother in Tiny Furniture, which is filmed in Simmonsâs real home/studio. Join us as Simmons and Dunham come together for a fun and fascinating conversation about narrative, genre and image making across generations.
About the Artists
Laurie Simmonsâs photographic-based works are collected by many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Hara Museum in Tokyo. Simmons was featured in Season 4 of the PBS series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century. Her most recent exhibition was at Salon 94 Bowery, NYC, entitled The Love Doll: Days 1â30.
Lena Dunham has quickly established herself as a formidable talent among todayâs top young filmmakers. At only 24 years old, Dunham wrote, directed and starred in her second feature film, Tiny Furniture, which won Best Narrative Feature at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival and received Independent Spirit Award nominations for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay. Dunham is currently working on the HBO comedy series Girls. She created the series and directed the pilot and three additional episodes. In addition to starring in Girls, she will serve as executive producer and writer.
Organized by Rochelle Steiner (Dean, Fine Arts) and Howard Rodman (Cinematic Arts).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) - The Ray Stark Family Theatre (SCA 108)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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USC NSBE Pre-College Initiative Event at Hillcrest Elementary School
Fri, Sep 23, 2011 @ 11:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
USC NSBE will be traveling to Hillcrest Elementary School to run their after-school program for an afternoon of fun engineering projects.
Meet at the Lyon Center at approximately 3:30 for transportation to Hillcrest. Email nsbe@usc.edu if you have any ideas for projects for the kids!
http://www.lausd.net/Hillcrest_Dr_EL/Welcome.htmlLocation: 4041 Hillcrest Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90008
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: NSBE National Society of Black Engineers
