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Events for September 28, 2009
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Sep 28, 2009
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Computation and Communication - Two sides of one tapestry
Mon, Sep 28, 2009 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael Gastpar,
University of California at BerkeleyAbstract: Networks have been studied in depth for the past several decades, but one feature has received little attention until recently: Interference. There is, of course, a good reason for this: In classical networks such as supply chains and the wired internet, interference can be addressed in a near-optimal fashion via simple protocols that avoid it. However, in the networks of prime interest today, such as wireless ad hoc networks, interference is often the dominant bottleneck and simply avoiding it entails major performance penalties. Therefore, the next important step is a thorough understanding of the nature of interference.In this talk, we argue that interference can be understood as computation: Multiple input signals are garbled together to produce a certain output. This is nothing but a certain computation performed on the input signals, possibly subject to noise or other stochastic effects. We show how this perspective inspires novel paradigms for thinking about communication in networks, including cooperation, "wireless network coding," and interference management. In particular, the computational perspective may help resolve the nagging question concerning the nature of information in networks: We have argued earlier that the "bit", a universal currency of information in single noisy channels, is inappropriate in general networks. A more appropriate currency of information could result from computational primitives, retaining algebraic structure as a fundamental property of information.Joint work with Bobak Nazer and, in part, with Jiening Zhan.Biography: Michael Gastpar (Ph.D. EPFL, 2002, M.S. UIUC, 1999, Dipl. El-Ing, ETH, 1997) is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a visiting professor (2008/09) at the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. He was also a student in electrical engineering and philosophy at the Universities of Edinburgh and Lausanne, and a summer researcher in the Mathematics of Communications Department at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. His research interests are in network information theory and related coding and signal processing techniques, with applications to sensor networks and neuroscience. He won the 2002 EPFL Best Thesis Award, an NSF CAREER award in 2004, and an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2008.Host: Gerhard Kramer, gkramer@usc.edu, EEB 536, x07229Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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BME 533 (Seminar in Biomedical Engineering)
Mon, Sep 28, 2009 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Philip Requejo, PhD, Director, Rehabilitation Engineering Program, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, Downey,CA, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Biomedical Engineering, USC, and and Carolee Winstein, Professor & Director of Research,USC Div. of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, and Director, Rehabilitation Engineering
Research Center for Technologies for Successful Aging with Disability, USC & Rancho Los
Amigos National Rehabilitation Hospital: "Rehabilitation Engineering for Optimal Wheeled Mobility"Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Graduate Students/Faculty
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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CS Colloq: Dr. Hanumant Singh
Mon, Sep 28, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Title: Underwater Robotics and Imaging: Recent Advances in Imaging the Deep SeafloorSpeaker: Hanumant Singh, Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionHost: Gaurav SukhatmeAbstract:This talk examines the recent successes in utilizing optical and acoustic imaging from underwater vehicles in the deep sea. Using examples from a variety of application areas - including Arctic Operations, Fisheries, Deep Sea Archaeology and Coral Reef Ecology - we look at how recent advances in the technology are contributing to our understanding of the deep sea environment and use this work to motivate some of the challenges that the upcoming generation of researchers are in a position to tackle.Bio:Hanumant Singh completed his Ph.D. in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in 1995. Since then he has been on the scientific staff at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where his interests lie at the intersection of underwater robotics and imaging. He has worked on a variety of underwater vehicles including the US Navy's NR-1 submarine, the DSV Alvin, the Jason ROV, and the Abe, Odyssey, Hugin and Seabed class of AUVs.
He has been to sea on numerous expeditions across the globe. His academic awards include the 2006 King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Transactions on Robotics Paper Award of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the Ruth and Paul Fye Award for the Best paper in Oceanographic Engineering between 2000 and 2005.Links:http://www.whoi.edu/DSL/hanu
http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/expedition11/index.html
http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/expedition12/index.html
http://polardiscovery.whoi.edu/expedition2/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/story/102-icy_depths.html
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Front Desk
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Technical Interview Workshop
Mon, Sep 28, 2009 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Discover tips on how to prepare for both technical and behavioral interviews, as well as the proper steps for follow-up!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
