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Events for September 24, 2009
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Hazard Effects And Control Strategies - Sep.24-25, 2009
Thu, Sep 24, 2009
Aviation Safety and Security Program
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
HAZ 10-1
For more information and to register for Aviation Safety and Security Program courses, please visit http://viterbi.usc.edu/aviation.Audiences: Registered Audiences Only
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Functional biomaterials for drug and vaccine delivery
Thu, Sep 24, 2009 @ 12:45 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Distinguished Lecture SeriesPresentsDavid A. PutnamCornell UniversityAbstract:The Putnam laboratory’s research interests focus on the application of chemical, biological and engineering principles to solve problems in medicine, particularly drug delivery. We focus our efforts in three areas. First, we work to synthesize new biomaterials derived from structures represented in natural human metabolic pathways, and attempt to understand how their molecular compositions provide functionality to the biomaterials. Second, we work to engineer new ways to entice bacteria to express, correctly fold and stabilize non-native proteins, particularly for the formulation and delivery of antigenic sequences for vaccines. Third, we work to understand how the molecular composition and architecture of water-soluble polymers collectively function to transfer nucleic acids (i.e., plasmid DNA, siRNA, microRNA) from the bloodstream to cells. This seminar will encompass two areas, showing our current work in the design and synthesis of surgical biomaterials for the treatment of postoperative seroma, and in the engineering of E. coli to enhance the immunogenicity of poorly antigenic proteins.
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce Sapir
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What Does Every Engineer Need to Know--Now
Thu, Sep 24, 2009 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Third Annual Eberhardt Rechtin Keynote Lecture"What Does Every Engineer Need to Know--Now?"Dr. Richard K. MillerPresident, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA ABSTRACT: As we engage the grand challenges of the 21st century, the role of engineering is increasingly entangled in a rapidly evolving global context of economic, social, and political issues. The solutions to the global challenges we face must transcend time zones and political boundaries and require interdisciplinary approaches as well as international cooperation. While science and engineering will remain central to many of these challenges, science and engineering alone will not provide solutions to any of them. Technology has become an amplifier on human intentions: in each generation, technology enables a smaller and smaller number of people to influence the lives of an increasing number of others--either for the better or the worse.Unintended consequences can no longer be ignored. These immense challenges are likely to require decades to solve. They are fundamentally the challenges of the next generation. In this context, what will every engineer of the next generation need to know? And what should the role of engineering be in addressing these challenges? The life's work of Dr. Rechtin may provide some insight into these important questions.THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009, ANDRUS GERONTOLOGY AUDITORIUM, 4:00 – 5:30 PM3:00 - 4:00 PM - Meet Dr. Miller / Refreshments will be served in the Gerontology CourtyardBIOGRAPHY: Richard K. Miller was appointed president and first employee of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering on February 1, 1999, where he also holds an appointment as professor of mechanical engineering.Before joining Olin College, he served as Dean of Engineering at the University of Iowa from 1992-99. He spent the previous 17 years on the engineering faculties at the University of Southern California (where he held the position of Associate Dean for Academic Affairs) and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Miller has authored or co-authored about 100 technical publications in the field of applied mechanics, and has won five awards for teaching excellence. He is a member of the governance boards for two independent colleges and The Stanley Group, an international engineering services company. He has served as Chair of the NSF Engineering Advisory Committee, chair of the Association of Independent Technological Universities, a member of the Visiting Committee for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, chair of the accreditation visiting committees of several independent institutions, a member of the Higher Education Working Group of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a consultant to the World Bank in forming new universities in developing countries.He earned his B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 1971, where he is the recipient of the 2002 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award. He received an S.M. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1972, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from Caltech in 1976.
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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CS Colloq: Dr. K L. Bellman
Thu, Sep 24, 2009 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PMLocation: SSL 150Talk title: To be announced
Speaker: Dr. Kirstie L. Bellman, Principal Scientist, The Aerospace Corporation
Host: Prof. Ari RequichaAbstract:
The purpose of this talk is to stimulate a discussion about the architectural requirements for complex adaptive systems, as well as to broaden our definitions of "architecture."
Our ability to engineer large complex systems has been greatly impacted by the open, de facto information, computational, and device architectures that are springing up (e.g. Web, Internet, GIG, GRID computing, swarms of robots or UAVs, "internet of things" etc.) These architectures are characterized by a dynamic, constant insertion of new information sources and computational or device capabilities and by diverse users, stakeholders, viewpoints and goals. One implication of the above is that it may be infeasible to design and control large-scale complex adaptive systems in the top-down, heavy-handed, developer-driven style of yesterday. Complexity and scale are now forcing on system engineering, what has always been known in space systems because of distance and time lag: One cannot control quickly or accurately enough the complex system; it must help us to monitor, control, and manage itself. Recently Organic Computing in Europe and other movements have argued that the complexity requires the help of the system to co-design and indeed co-develop itself.
In our work, a key component of enabling such abilities has been "computational reflection" or the ability of a system to explicitly reason about its own goals, resources, activities, and relationship to its operational environment. In this talk, we will introduce several important concepts in engineering complex adaptive systems, define a reflective architecture, and briefly discuss our approach to implementing reflection, based on the wrappings approach.
We then discuss how all of the above changes the concept of ?architecture? as a compact description of a fixed configuration of components and relationships to "meta-architectures". That is, given such characteristics as the ability to insert new system components, system processes, and system configurations and dynamically determine context-sensitive relationships and configurations, one may well ask: what is invariant in an architecture? In the case of Wrappings applications, the invariant is the meta-architecture: The roles and purposes of the reflective processes and system level processes remain the same, regardless of application domain, domain resources, and the implementation of the reflective processes. As time permits we will discuss some early work to develop a reflective architecture for an Organic Computing chip design application with German colleagues.BIO:
Dr. Kirstie L. Bellman is a Principal Scientist in the Computer Systems Division and head of the Aerospace Integration Sciences Center (AISC), which she started upon returning to the Aerospace Corporation after four years at DARPA. The center serves as a research and development capability for a number of DoD and government agencies. AISC's focus is on the development of advanced system and model integration methods, new analytic techniques, and evaluation tools for assessing the impacts of new technologies. Upon completion of her term at DARPA as a Program Manager for the Domain-Specific Software Architectures (DSSA) program, Prototech (rapid prototyping technology and formally-based specification languages), projects in the Formal Foundations program, the large Computer-Aided Education and Training Initiative (CAETI), and several Technology Readiness Projects (TRP), she received an award from the Office of the
Secretary of Defense for excellence in her programs.Dr. Bellman has over thirty-five years of academic, industrial, and consulting experience in both laboratory research and the development of models and information architectures for large military and government programs. Her published research spans a wide range of topics in Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. Among her awards, she recently received the 2008 Award in Technology from the Telluride Technology Festival. Other past awardees include Vint Cerf, Murray Gellman, Charles Townes, and Freeman Dyson.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Front Desk
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AIAA Undergraduate Team Aircraft Design Competition Info Session
Thu, Sep 24, 2009 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
The American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics sponsors a team aircraft competition every year. This year's proposal calls for an advanced, environmentally compatible, 150 seat commercial transport that utilizes alternative fuels. The competition is an excellent way to learn more about all aspects of aircraft design and apply the skills that you are learning in your classes. You will have the opportunity to learn and use new software, as well as observe the entire process of designing an aircraft, from start to finish. This is all in addition to a cash prize awarded to the first, second, and third place teams!If you are interested in learning more about the team, come to our info session Thursday September 24th in VHE 214 at 5:00pm. Refreshments will be served!
Location: Vivian Hall of Engineering (VHE) - 214
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: -- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Chevron
Thu, Sep 24, 2009 @ 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
