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Events for September 24, 2010
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VSC Undergraduate Engineering BBQ
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Stop by the E-Quad between 11:00am and 1:00pm on Friday, September 24th for free BBQ provided by your Viterbi Student Council. Both vegetarian and non-vegetarian burgers will be served.
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: VSC E-Board
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ASBME + Match Venue = Your Chance to Win a 4 day Trip to PARIS and BOSTON!
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
ASBME had the incredible opportunity to be contacted by the CEO of MatchVenue.com, the first Students Only Video Chat Social Network. She has offered to come share her experience as an entrepreneur in the widely-expanding field of technology, specifically online networking, with USC students on Friday, September 24th from 12-1pm (room is pending).
She has also offered a very unique experience to attendees of the event who register for a MatchVenue account prior to the meeting: a 4 day trip to BOSTON and PARIS to spend a day with the management team in each city! MatchVenue is also currently offering a couple of INTERNSHIP spots for select applicants.
If you are interested in attending this event, please note that attendance will be limited, so if you would like to reserve your spot, register at: http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asbme/get-involved/registration.htm and click on the link for the 9-24-10 Event to sign up. Students MUST SIGN UP to attend the event.
We look forward to seeing you there and sharing this experience with us!
If you have additional questions, please email asbme@usc.edu. Thanks!Location: TBA, register (below) for more info
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Sarah K. Yeomans, Professor of Archaeology, West Virginia University
Talk Title: Propulsion Laboratory 24 Medicine in Antiquity: What We Have Learned from Archaeology
Host: W.V.T Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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Three Fundamental Measures of Geometry and Their Role in Model Selection and Sparse Inverse Problems
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Waheed Bajwa , Duke University
Talk Title: Three Fundamental Measures of Geometry and Their Role in Model Selection and Sparse Inverse Problems
Abstract: In this talk, I discuss three measures of matrix geometry, namely, worst-case coherence, average coherence, and spectral norm, in the context of model selection and sparse inverse problems. These geometric measures are a better alternative to related measures such as the oft-studied restricted isometry property, since they can be explicitly computed in polynomial time. In this talk, I introduce a simple algorithm, termed one-step thresholding (OST) algorithm, and utilize the introduced geometric measures to provide an in-depth analysis of OST for both model selection and recovery of sparse signals. In particular, I show that OST has the ability to perform near-optimally for a number of generic (random or deterministic) matrices. In addition, I also talk about explicitly designing matrices with small average coherence, which is the key to guaranteeing that algorithms such as OST succeed.
Biography: Waheed U. Bajwa received BE (with Honors) degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan in 2001, and MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ from 2009 to 2010. He is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, Durham, NC. His research interests include high-dimensional inference and inverse problems, statistical signal processing, wireless communications, and applications in biological sciences, networked systems, and radar & image processing. Dr. Bajwa was affiliated with Communications Enabling Technologies, Islamabad, Pakistan - the research arm of Avaz Networks Inc., Irvine, CA (now Quartics LLC) - from 2000-2003, with the Center for Advanced Research in Engineering, Islamabad, Pakistan during 2003, and with the RF and Photonics Lab of GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY during the summer of 2006. He received the Best in Academics Gold Medal and President's Gold Medal in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in 2001, and the Morgridge Distinguished Graduate Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. He was Junior NUST Student of the Year (2000), Wisconsin Union Poker Series Champion (Spring 2008), and President of the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of Golden Key International Honor Society (2009). He currently serves as a Guest Associate Editor for Elsevier Physical Communication Journal and is a member of the IEEE, Pakistan Engineering Council, and Golden Key International Honor Society.
Host: Urbashi Mitra
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
