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Events for October 03, 2011
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Sacramento Admission Reception
Mon, Oct 03, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Hosted by the Admission Office, the reception will include a general discussion about the University. You will also be able to ask questions about your areas of academic interest, explore co-curricular options and learn more about life and opportunities at USC. A representative from our Admission and Student Affairs staff, will be there on behalf of the Viterbi School of Engineering along with other representatives from the University. RSVP online at http://www.usc.edu/admevents .
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Oct 03, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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RESCHEDULED-Intel Info Session
Mon, Oct 03, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This Event has been rescheduled to 10/31 from 5-7 pm in GFS 106
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...Mon, Oct 03, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 9, 2011. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online. http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/
Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2012
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Aircraft Accident Investigation
Mon, Oct 03, 2011 @ 08:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This is a two week course. All aspects of the investigation process are addressed, starting with preparation for the investigation through writing the final report. Investigative techniques are examined with emphasis on fixed wing investigation. Data collection, wreckage reconstruction and cause analysis are also studied.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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Sacramento City College Transfer Day
Mon, Oct 03, 2011 @ 09:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Viterbi Transfer Admission Counselor, Christine Hsieh from the USC Viterbi Office of Admission, will be attending the Sacramento City College Transfer Day. Please stop by the USC Viterbi table to learn how you can get started on your engineering courses at your current institution and more about the admission process.
Location: Sacramento City College
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfer Applicants
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 03, 2011 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Pin Wang, Ph.D., Krishna Nayak, Ph.D., Tzung Hsiai, MD, Ph.D, Ellis Meng, Ph.D., Chem E, EE and BME
Talk Title: Pin Wang, "Engineering Nanoparticles and Biomaterials for Modulating Immunity and Drug Delivery";Krishna Nayak, "Magnetic Resonance Physics";Tzung Hsiai, "Flexible microelectronics to study injured and regenerating heart tissue"; Ellis Meng,title pending
Host: BME Department
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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EE Distinguished Lecturer Series
Mon, Oct 03, 2011 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Brian Anderso, Australian National University
Talk Title: Control and Information Architectures for Formations
Abstract: Formations of robots, underwater vehicles and autonomous airborne vehicles are progressively being deployed to tackle problems of surveillance, bush fire control, and the like. Much formation behaviour mimics the behaviour of formations of living organisms, such as birds and fish.
Several prototypical problems will be considered, starting with rendezvous and consensus. The presentation will consider the types of control, communications and sensing architecture that allow scalability for formations with many individual agents, and allow preservation of the formation shape, as well as its motion as a cohesive whole. The scalability requirement imposes a need for significant decentralization of information and control structures, and, just as in a formation of birds or fish, no one bird or fish can be expected to sense all other birds or fish and compute its own trajectory using even partial knowledge of the trajectories of all other individual birds or fish, so the amount of sensing, communication and control computation by any one agent has to be limited.
Biography: Brian Anderson was born in Sydney, Australia, and received his undergraduate education at the University of Sydney, with majors in pure mathematics and electrical engineering. He subsequently obtained a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Following completion of his education, he worked in industry in Silicon Valley and served as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. He was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia from 1967 until 1981 and is now a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University and Distinguished Researcher in National ICT Australia Ltd. His interests are in control and signal processing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Royal Society London, Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, and Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering. He holds doctorates (honoris causa) from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, New South Wales and Newcastle. He served a term as President of the International Federation of Automatic Control from 1990 to 1993 and as President of the Australian Academy of Science between 1998 and 2002. His awards include the IEEE Control Systems Award of 1997, the IFAC Quazza Medal in 1999, the 2001 IEEE James H Mulligan, Jr Education Medal, and the Guillemin-Cauer Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1992 and 2001, the Bode Prize of the IEEE Control System Society in 1992 and the Senior Prize of the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in 1986.
Host: Urbashi Mitra
More Info: http://ee.usc.edu/news/dls/More Information: 20111003 Anderson Print.pdf
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
Event Link: http://ee.usc.edu/news/dls/
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ENH Seminar Series
Mon, Oct 03, 2011 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: André Fabio Kohn, Professor/ University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Talk Title: Simulation system of spinal networks and innervated muscles in the lower limb of humans
Abstract: The spinal cord is a complex neural machine that helps controlling the generation of commands to the muscles. A Web-based spinal cord simulator is being developed in our lab with the purpose of providing a tool for the researcher and the teacher who want to see details such as spike trains of spinal neurons, muscle force and EMG, spinal reflexes, in a large variety of situations. Spinal cord motoneurons were modeled mathematically on the basis of cat data, some classes of interneurons were included, synaptic dynamics were represented and electrical nerve stimulation was provided to reproduce experimental conditions when studying human spinal cord neurophysiology. The presentation will cover: an overall view of the simulator and the basic modeling involved; next some interesting simulation examples will be presented to show the capabilities of the simulator and emphasize the emergent properties that arise from the basic neural and muscular elements modeled. Next, some details of the mathematical modeling will be presented. Finally, I shall present the ongoing expansions that are being developed for the simulator. One of the goals for the near future will be to have the simulator control the standing posture of a human being, simplified as the problem of controlling an inverted pendulum.
Host: Francisco Valero-Cuevas
More Info: http://bbdl.usc.edu/ENHLocation: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Adriana Cisneros
Event Link: http://bbdl.usc.edu/ENH
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Bliss: A Play by Velina Hasu Houston
Mon, Oct 03, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
Join us for a concert reading of Bliss, an original play by Velina Hasu Houston that explores concepts of beauty, gender and identity in contemporary society. The event will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture, on display at the USC Fisher Museum of Art from September 7 through December 3.
Bliss tells the story of Schatsi Sullivan, an Afro-German woman who has struggled with her looks and identity. When her uncertain choices lead her to an unconscionably violent act, she is forced to deal with who she is and what she looks like. The reading will feature a professional cast and will be directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera.
Organized by the USC Fisher Museum of Art.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: May Ormerod Harris Hall, Quinn Wing & Fisher Gallery (HAR) - USC Fisher Museum of Art
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
