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Events for October 04, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Oct 04, 2013
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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SE@45 International Symposium
Fri, Oct 04, 2013 @ 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
Software engineering is a rare scientific discipline that has an exact birth date: October 7, 1968. On this day, the first conference on Software Engineering, sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, opened in Garmisch, Germany. In the intervening 45 years, the field has grown and matured tremendously. A remarkable number and variety of software engineering models, processes, methods, notations, techniques, and tools have been developed. At the same time, the growth in the number and variety of challenges faced by software engineers has been just astounding, constantly pulling the field forward and giving rise to an enduring stream of innovation.
The SE@45 Symposium gathers a collection of eminent software engineering researchers from around the world to mark our discipline's birthday. The Symposium will feature a number of talks that will (1) remind us what software engineering was like in its early years, (2) provide an overview of cutting-edge research, and (3) inspire us with a vision of an exciting future for he discipline.Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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AI Seminar
Fri, Oct 04, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Andreas Hart, Institute AIFB at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Talk Title: On-the-fly Integration of Static and Dynamic Linked Data
Abstract: The relevance of many types of data perishes or degrades
over time; to support timely decision-making, data integration systems
must provide access to live data and should make it easy to incorporate
new sources. We outline methods, based on web architecture that enable
(near) real-time access to data sources in a variety of formats and access
modalities. Our methods also enable rapid integration of new live sources
by modeling them with respect to a domain ontology, and by using these
models to generate a Linked Data interface to access them. Finally, we
present initial experimental results of a scenario involving several static
and dynamic sources from the web.
Biography: Dr. Andreas Harth is a post-doctoral researcher at Institute AIFB at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research interests are large-scale data interoperation on the Semantic Web, Linked Data, knowledge representation, computational logic and user interaction on web data. Andreas has published several dozen papers in these areas, and is author of a number of open source software systems. Recently, he has become interested in how to apply (RESTful) architectures and Read-Write Linked Data to cyber-physical systems (e.g., smart energy grids, surgery systems, mixed-reality systems).
Andreas was awarded his Ph.D. by the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Andreas worked as intern at Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in Wuerzburg and at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, CA. His Diplom thesis was carried out in collaboration with Centro Politenico Superior at Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. He visited USC's Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey, CA as a research assistant.
Andreas has participated in numerous EU and national projects. He served as program committee member of numerous conferences and is one of the co-organisers of the Consuming Linked Data (COLD) workshop series and of the Semantic Web Challenge.
Host: Craig Knoblock
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=cc80bc287fc54baab90d24920b47532f1dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th floor large conference room
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=cc80bc287fc54baab90d24920b47532f1d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kary LAU
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The W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Oct 04, 2013 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Peter Baxendale, Department of Mathematics, USC
Talk Title: Random Behavior in Mathematics and Engineering
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Christine Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Oct 04, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Alyssa Apsel, Cornell University
Talk Title: Firefly Radios : Biologically Inspired Low Power Radio Networks
Series: Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Abstract: Ultra-low power wireless transceivers that operate on harvested energy or use tiny batteries are a critical enabling technology for applications in biomedical (i.e. wireless ECG, EKG) and environmental monitoring (i.e. hazardous gas detection). However, inexpensive radios communicating continuously at power levels below 100uW even over short distances have been elusive for a variety of reasons. Among these reasons is a fundamental limit imposed by the power overhead required to overcome signal and receiver noise in continuous wave radios and the power required to maintain FCC compliance. In this talk I will discuss approaches to overcoming these limits through various signaling alternatives, new radio architectures, and use of effective duty cycling. I will discuss the problems associated with duty cycling and wideband communication over a wireless medium and propose a biologically inspired solution from my research based on the behavior of Southeast Asian Fireflies. I will discuss a full transceiver solution in 90nm CMOS based upon this idea and its relative merit and drawbacks compared to other traditional and state-of-the-art-approaches. Finally, I will consider emerging applications for such low power transceivers and discuss future directions for research.
Biography: Alyssa Apsel received the B.S. from Swarthmore College in 1995 and the Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, in 2002. She joined Cornell University in 2002, where she is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The focus of her research is on power-aware mixed signal circuits and design for highly scaled CMOS and modern electronic systems. She has authored or coauthored over 90 refereed publications in related fields of RF mixed signal circuit design, interconnect design and planning, photonic integration with VLSI, and process invariant circuit design techniques resulting in five patents and several pending patent applications. She received a best paper award at ASYNC 2006, had a MICRO “Top Picks” paper in 2006, received a college teaching award in 2007, received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2004, and was selected by Technology Review Magazine as one of the Top Young Innovators in 2004. She has also served as an Associate Editor of various journals including IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and II and as the chair of the Analog and Signal Processing Technical committee of ISCAS 2011.
Host: Hossien Hashemi, Mike Chen, Mahta Moghaddam, Kunal Datta
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/
More Information: Alyssa Apsel_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/
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CEE Ph. D. Seminar
Fri, Oct 04, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mohammad Alshaiji and Heather Brandow, Astani CEE Ph.D. Students Presentations
Talk Title: Reflection and Refraction of Plane Waves in Saturated Poroelastic Layered Media / Scattering and Diffraction of Seismic Waves from an Arbitrary Shape Surface Topography and an Arbitrary Shape Embedded Structure
Abstract: Understanding the ground surface response due to deep or surface vibration sources at a given site is invaluable information to many engineering professions. For instance, estimating the surface disturbance at a anticipated construction site will help structural engineers design structures more effectively overcoming such disturbance that might not only have its effects on the structural integrity of the project, but also on its serviceability. Based on the assumption that the vibration takes place in a poroelastic layered media, a model relating vibration source along with layered media properties is proposed to present displacements, rotations, and stresses as the components of surface disturbance. By relating the effects of different layers properties (such as thickness, porosity, stiffness, saturation, etc.) a better understanding, as well as an estimation tool, of the ground surface response can be obtained ensuring more effective structural designs and a better occupants comfort.
Refreshment is served in KAP 147 at 5:15PM
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
