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Events for September 27, 2013
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BMES Annual ConferenceFri, Sep 27, 2013
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Biomedical Engineering Society annually conducts a three day scientific and leadership-promotion meeting with poster presentations, industry and institutional exhibits, career services, leadership workshops, and special symposia for student chapter development. This year's conference will be held in Seattle, Washington. The attendees of these chapter development sessions will also learn key communication skills so that they can convey their experiences back to ASBME. The conference culminates in a Career Fair.
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center Monthly Seminar Series
Fri, Sep 27, 2013 @ 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Christina Curtis, PhD, University of Southern California
Talk Title: Leveraging integrative genomics and tumor evolutionary dynamics to infer mechanisms of disease progression
Abstract: Although the direct observation of human tumor progression is impractical, the ancestral relationships between cancer cells are recorded in the form of mutations acquired during somatic cell division. As such, the dynamics of tumor growth can be inferred from genomic signatures found in the present day tumor. We have developed an experimental and computational framework that leverages these principles to delineate mechanisms of disease progression. For example, by employing a multiple sampling scheme and computational genomic inference framework in colorectal cancer, we find that tumors grow predominantly as a single expansion from the initial transformed cell into a large number of heterogeneous subclones in a Big Bang fashion. In this model, rapid expansion determines that most observable intra-tumor heterogeneity originates well before the neoplasm is detectable, irrespective of microenvironmental effects or subclone fitness changes. Hence, patterns of intra-tumor heterogeneity provide a looking glass into the primordial tumor, revealing early events that influence genomic and phenotypic outputs. In related work, we have demonstrated that it is possible to measure clinically relevant patient-specific parameters, including the cancer stem cell fraction, (a) symmetric cell division rate, mutation rate, and tumor age from genomic data. We are applying these approaches to clinically annotated colorectal cancer cohorts in order to discriminate between alternate models of metastatic dissemination. Similarly, we are developing tools to model therapeutic resistance to anti-HER2 agents in breast cancer. Our findings suggest that a quantitative understanding of tumor evolutionary dynamics will have significant implications for cancer diagnosis and prognosis, and ultimately for preventing resistance.
Biography: 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 cancer's complexity. As part of the outreach component of this grant, the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine is hosting a monthly seminar series
Host: USC PSOC
More Information: USC-PSOC_MonthlySeminar.pdf
Location: Clinical Science Center (CSC) - Harkness Auditorium #240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kristina Gerber
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Viterbi Career Conference
Fri, Sep 27, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Career Conference, designed specifically for Viterbi undergraduates, takes place once each fall. The conference provides an invaluable opportunity for all students, freshmen through seniors, to develop job search skills and to connect with company representatives and alumni.
More information can be found: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/careers/students/conference.htmLocation: RTCC
Audiences: All UnViterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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NL Seminar- Andrew S. Gordon: "Heider-Simmel Interactive Theater "
Fri, Sep 27, 2013 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Andrew S. Gordon, USC/ ICT
Talk Title: "Heider-Simmel Interactive Theater "
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: In a famous 1944 paper, psychologist Fritz Heider and his student Marianne Simmel described an experiment where undergraduates were shown a short animated film depicting the movement of geometric shapes. Asked to describe what happened in the film, these students produced narratives that described the behavior of these shapes in anthropomorphic terms, ascribing to them plans, goals, emotions, and social roles that accounted for their behavior. Fritz Heider later wrote his seminal book, The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations, which articulated the role of Commonsense Psychology in the interpretation of the behavior of other people. In this talk I'll discuss our recent efforts to model the reasoning of the students in Heider and Simmel's original experiment. I'll describe our vision of a "Heider-Simmel Interactive Theater," a software application where people can create their own short movies involving geometric shapes in the style of Heider and Simmel's original film, which are then interpreted by the computer to generate a textual narrative of the author's creation. Then I'll lay out the technical plan, which involves the integration of probabilistic graphical models, weighted abduction, data-driven text generation, logical formalizations of commonsense psychology, and game-based data collection from the public at large. Before coming to the talk, please sign up and play "Triangle Charades" at the following website: http://charades.ict.usc.edu
Biography: http://people.ict.usc.edu/~gordon/
Host: Yang Gao
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Sep 27, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Oren Eliezer, CTO, Xtendwave
Talk Title: Designing RF Transceivers to be Manufacturable at Low Cost & The New Enhanced "Atomic Clock" WWVB Broadcast and Fully-Digital Multi-Mode Receivers for it.
Series: Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Abstract: Mobile devices are based on highly integrated transceiver system-on-chip (SoC) ICs, where the RF circuitry, additional analog functions, and a considerable amount of digital logic (including a processor and memory), all share the same CMOS die. Furthermore, they often include more than one radio, such as GPS, WLAN, Bluetooth and FM, thereby further increasing the potential for self-interference and necessitating careful design practices to allow satisfactory coexistence of all functions on the SoC. This seminar presents approaches for design-for-manufacturability (DfM) that lead to timely and profitable results in the design of consumer-market transceiver SoCs in advanced CMOS processes.
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been broadcasting the date and time from their accurate atomic source for many decades using a simple amplitude/pulse-width modulation scheme. In October 2012 an enhanced broadcasting system, designed by Xtendwave under a government grant, was introduced at the station, demonstrating several orders of magnitude of improvement in link margin. This seminar presents many interesting challenges associated with this modernized digital communications system, as well as novel radio architecture and antenna ideas that are being developed for it at Xtendwave. The seminar will include a real-time reception demonstration of the receiver CMOS IC designed by Xtendwave, which exhibits a 140dB dynamic range, the widest in consumer-market receiver ICs.
Biography: Dr. Oren Eliezer received his BSEE and MSEE degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Tel-Aviv University in Israel in 1988 and 1996 respectively, and his PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in 2008. He served in The Israel Defense Forces from 1988 to 1994, where he specialized in wireless communications. After his military service he cofounded Butterfly Communications in Israel and served as the company’s chief engineer. Following Butterfly’s acquisition by Texas Instruments (TI) in 1999, he was relocated to Dallas in 2002, where he took part in the development of TI’s Digital RF Processor (DRPTM) technology and was elected Senior Member of the Technical Staff. Since 2009 he is the Chief Technology Officer of Xtendwave in Dallas, and participates in the research at the Texas Analog Center of Excellence at UTD. His areas of expertise are in communications, digital transceivers, interference mitigation, and low-cost productization of transceiver SoCs. He has authored and coauthored over 50 conference and journal papers and over 45 issued and pending patents.
Host: Hossien Hashemi, Mike Chen, Mahta Moghaddam, Kunal Datta
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/
More Information: Oren Eliezer_Flyer.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - EEB 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Danielle Hamra
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/
