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Events for September 25, 2012
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Gary Snyder: Trans-Pacific Buddhism, Ecology and Poetry
Tue, Sep 25, 2012
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links in the schedule of events below.
Gary Snyder is a Pulitzer Prizeâwinning poet with a radical vision that integrates Zen Buddhism, American Indian practices and ecological thinking. He began his career as a noted member of the Beat Generation and was also a part of the San Francisco Renaissance. Join us for three events with Snyder exploring Buddhism and ecology. In an evening lecture and conversation, Snyder will discuss his experiences as a poet in the United States, his time as a Zen monk in Japan and the connections between his work and social and ecological issues in American society. On the second day of his visit, Snyder will engage with students in a poetry workshop and discuss Buddhism in a Japanese tea ceremony.
Schedule of Events:
Lecture and Conversation
Monday, September 24, 7 p.m.
Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall
Doheny Memorial Library 240
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Tuesday, September 4, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, for the lecture and conversation, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=408
General Public: To RSVP for the lecture and conversation, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=409
Poetry Workshop
Tuesday, September 25, 12:30 p.m.
East Asian Library Seminar Room
Doheny Memorial Library 110C
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Tuesday, September 4, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP for the poetry workshop, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=363
General Public: To RSVP for the poetry workshop, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=364
Japanese Tea Ceremony
Tuesday, September 25, 4 p.m.
East Asian Library Seminar Room
Doheny Memorial Library 110C
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Tuesday, September 4, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP for the tea ceremony, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=365
General Public: To RSVP for the tea ceremony, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=366
Organized by Duncan Williams (Religion and Center for Japanese Religions and Cultures) and Varun Soni (Religious Life).Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Get Connected for Maximum Job Search Success
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Attend this workshop and learn how to build relationships & connections to assist you in your academic career & in your job search. Develop the 30 Second Commercial you need to interact with employers. Discover how much networking you already do!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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The Spoken Web
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 @ 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Amit Nanavati, IBM Research India
Talk Title: The Spoken Web
Abstract: The Spoken Web is a system that leverages the pervasiveness of mobile phones in developing countries and allows the creation, deployment, and hosting of voice-driven applications called VoiceSites by any phone subscriber. It attempts to empower users by giving them the opportunity to become content creators and provides a mechanism for users to access information and content with affordable devices (just a regular telephone). Being a voice-driven system, it extends the access to ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) to illiterate users. Many users in the developing world are now creating and accessing information through the Spoken Web platform. The content ranges from information about people and events in a village to information about the crop prices in the market, to business information for the unorganized workforce in developing regions. This session will start with the need for such a technology, then focus on the technology platform that drives the Spoken Web and will finally end with some interesting field insights that were derived as a result of it being used by low-literate users for a period of more than three years.
Biography: Amit is a Senior Researcher and barely manages Telecom Solutions Research at IBM Research, India. He has been working on Telecom social network analysis (SNAzzy) since its inception in 2006. He is also a âSpoken Webâ evangelist â trying to promote the vision of a world-wide Spoken Web hosted in the Telecom network, which does not require an Internet connection or the ability to read and write. He is always interested in applying graph theory to various domains. He also dabbles with speech in mobile and pervasive environments. Along with Nitendra, he has been co-hosting the SiMPE workshop for the last 7 years at the ACM MobileHCI conference. Together they wrote a book on âSpeech in Mobile and Pervasive Environmentsâ published by Wiley in 2012. Much to his surprise and that of his friends, he was named a Master Inventor at IBM Research in 2011.
Host: Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 320
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mary Francis
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Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 @ 01:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Shuliang Jiao, Department of Ophthalmology and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California
Talk Title: "Multi-modal Retinal Imaging: Technology Development"
Abstract: Photoacoustic ophthalmoscopy (PAOM) is a new retinal imaging technology based on the photoacoustic effect. PAOM detects the ultrasonic waves induced by pulsed laser light shined onto the retina. PAOM offers the unique capability to measure optical absorption contrast in the retina, which is suitable for imaging retinal vessel oxygenation and the pigmentation of the RPE cells. Since PAOM is compatible with optical coherence tomography, scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, and autofluorescence imaging, registered multimodal images can be acquired from a single device at comparable resolution for comprehensive anatomic and functional retinal characterizations. Therefore, photoacoustic ophthalmoscopy is anticipated to have applications in both research and clinical diagnosis of many blinding diseases. This talk will cover the principles of PAOM, the integration of PAOM with OCT and auto-fluorescence for multimodal imaging, and the integration of adaptive optics in PAOM.
Biography: Shuliang Jiao, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Southern California. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2003. His research interest is bio-optical imaging. His current research focus is optical coherence tomography (OCT) and photoacoustic microscopy with the emphasis of their applications in eye imaging. He is one of the pioneers in Mueller-matrix polarization-sensitive OCT, OCT small animal ocular imaging, and photoacoustic retinal imaging. He also holds four US patents and several US patent applications.
Host: Prof. Krishna Nayak
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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Epstein Institute Seminar Series / ISE 651 Seminar
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Richard A. Wysk, Dopaco Distinguished Professor in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University
Talk Title: "Engineering Regenerative Products â An Industrial Engineering Perspective"
Series: Epstein Institute Seminar Series
Abstract: This presentation presents an exciting new topic for industrial/manufacturing â the engineering of regenerative medical products. Regenerative medical products are manufactured cells, tissue and organs and their production brings some unique challenges and opportunities to industrial engineering. The presentation focuses on engineering in a highly regulated medical environment where products are highly customized (manufactured using the customerâs DNA; processes are poorly defined; and the product is defined unlike any other consumer item. A brief overview and some very preliminary concepts that have been developed by domain experts at Wake Forestâs Institute of Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) and North Carolina State Universityâs (NCSUâs) College of Engineering is provided. The primary focus of the presentation is to show how the knowledge base developed at WFIRM to define process requirements for the creation of tissue and organs can be modeled as a non-traditional engineering system. The production system requirements will include: flow patterns, product requirements, process requirements (including FDA) and inventory and materials requirements.
The manufacturing system design for regenerative medical products must be scalable to produce lots of size one efficiently and with appropriate quality and traceability in a cost effective manner. This seminar will address some technological developments and concepts being used employed in this new area.
Biography: Richard A. Wysk is the Dopaco Distinguished Professor in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University. Prior to joining NC State University, Dr. Wysk held Chaired positions at Texas A&M University (Royce Wisenbaker Chair in Innovation) and The Pennsylvania State University (William Leonhard Chair in Engineering). He has written or contributed to more than a dozen books focused on product and process engineering. He is the author or co-author of more than 175 journal papers. He is the recipient of the IIE David Baker Outstanding Research Award and the IIE Albert Holzman Distinguished Educator Award. He is a Fellow of IIE and SME.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: Seminar-Wysk.doc
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - Room 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Enter the Dragon: The SpaceX COTS Missions
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Andrew Howard, SpaceX
Talk Title: Enter the Dragon: The SpaceX COTS Missions
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: In May 2012, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft berthed with the International Space Station, thus completing the second of two demonstrations missions for NASA and opening the door to regular commercial resupply services to the ISS. In this talk, I will describe the COTS demonstration missions and the technologies that made them possible, including the Falcon 9 launcher, Dragon spacecraft and DragonEye proximity navigation system.
Equally important, I will discuss some of the organizational, cultural and contractual changes that are allowing companies like SpaceX to deliver -- at a radically reduced cost -- services that have previously been the exclusive preserve of national governments.
Biography: Dr. Howard is Senior Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer at Space Exploration Technologies and designer of the DragonEye proximity navigation system. Previously, he was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he worked on vision-based navigation for a wide variety of projects, including Boston Dynamics' BigDog and the DARPA Crusher UGCV. Prior to joining JPL, Dr. Howard was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California Robotics Research Laboratory. Dr. Howard is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, with a degree in theoretical physics and PhD in computer science.
Host: Gaurav Sukhatme
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Google Information Session
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Information about the technical challenges Google is taking on and Google opportunities.
More Information: Google @ USC 92512.pdf
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 124
Audiences: BS, MS, PhD
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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CED & VARC Study Night
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 @ 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
All Viterbi undergrads are invited to this informal study night in the CED lounge. Tutors from the Viterbi Academic Resource Center and the Center for Engineering Diversity will be on hand to answer your questions and help you work through problems. Tutors can answer questions for most lower-division math and science classes. Bring your textbooks, assignments, and your engineering friends - plus we'll have pizza!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 210
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Academic Resource Center
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CSCI 101 Supplemental Instruction Session
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Supplemental Instruction session for students enrolled in CSCI 101.
SI offers an informal atmosphere where you and your classmates can explore important concepts, review class notes, discuss assignments, work on practice problems, and go over relevant study skills.
SI is a great study option and we encourage all students to make SI part of their study habits! Come for 30 minutes or the whole 2 hours.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 144
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Academic Resource Center
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Corporate M&M with MEIRxRS
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Interested in industry? The Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering are proud to announce that Rosemarie Christopher will be coming to speak to us about her work at MEIRxRS. An alum of USC, Ms. Christopher is the Founder of the MEIRxRS family of companies and currently serves as the President and CEO. She has a vast understand of employment and career development and will be expanding upon this as she talks to us about her work within MEIRxRS. Pizza will be provided and we look forward to seeing you there!
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 140
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
