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Events for October 07, 2010
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The Afterglow: A Tribute to Robert Frost
Thu, Oct 07, 2010 @ 06:00 AM - 08:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Join us for a festival of music and films presented in conjunction with the exhibit Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes,on display at the USC Fisher Museum of Art from August 19 through November 23. The exhibition celebrates the centenary of the birth of Yousuf Karsh, one of our greatest portrait photographers, whose portrait subjects include such political, social and literary figures as Nelson Mandela, Audrey Hepburn, Winston Churchill and Robert Frost.
The Afterglow: A Tribute to Robert Frost is a documentary narrated by Burgess Meredith that combines stunning visuals and literary criticism, breathing new life into Karshâs portrait of Frost, which will be on display. Following the screening, USC English professor and poet Mark Irwin will present a discussion and poetry reading. Irwin, a nationally acclaimed poet and four-time Pushcart Prize winner, has been described as a âdescendant of William Carlos Williams and Hart Crane.â He is the author of six collections of poetry, and he has also translated several French and Romanian works. Irwin teaches undergraduate and graduate poetry workshops at USC.
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: May Ormerod Harris Hall, Quinn Wing & Fisher Gallery (HAR) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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CS Colloquium
Thu, Oct 07, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Andrea Richa , Arizona State University
Talk Title: A Jamming-Resistant MAC Protocol for Single-Hop Wireless Networks
Abstract: In this paper we consider the problem of designing a medium access control
(MAC) protocol for single-hop wireless networks that is provably robust against adaptive adversarial jamming. The wireless network consists of a set of honest and reliable nodes that are within the transmission range of each other. In addition to these nodes there is an adversary. The adversary may know the protocol and its entire history and use this knowledge to jam the wireless channel at will at any time. It is allowed to jam a (1-epsilon)-fraction of the time steps, for an arbitrary constant epsilon>0, but it has to make a jamming decision before it knows the actions of the nodes at the current step. The nodes cannot distinguish between the adversarial jamming or a collision of two or more messages that are sent at the same time. We demonstrate, for the first time, that there is a local-control MAC protocol requiring only very limited knowledge about the adversary and the network that achieves a constant throughput for the non-jammed time steps under any adversarial strategy above. We also show that our protocol is very energy efficient and that it can be extended to obtain a robust and efficient protocol for leader election and the fair use of the wireless channel.
This is joint work with Christian Scheideler (University of Paderborn, Germany) and Baruch Awerbuch (John Hopkins University).
Biography: Prof. Andrea W. Richa is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University since August 2004. She joined this department as an Assistant Professor in August 1998. Prof. Richa received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. She also earned an M.S. degree in Computer Systems from the Graduate School in Engineering (COPPE), and a B.S. degree in Computer Science, both at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992 and 1990, respectively. Prof. Richa's main area of research is in network algorithms. For more information, please visit http://www.public.asu.edu/~aricha
Host: Prof. Shang-Hua Teng
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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Northrup Grumman Info Session hosted by IEEE and HKN
Thu, Oct 07, 2010 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
Snacks will be served from 6:30 to 7, and the talk will begin promptly at 7.
Have you ever considered the world real applications behind the courses that we take in school? Have you ever pondered how these formulas can be implemented in such technologies as UAVs and cyber security? Come to the Tech Show hosted by the experts at Communications Systems, Northrup Grumman Corporation (NGC). Do not miss an opportunity to meet the technologists of NGC one week before the Viterbi Engineering Career Expo. Good news: NGC representatives will answer all your questions regarding communications technology and NGC recruitment while you can enjoy FREE FOOD! So come on by and remember to bring your resume, because NGC is actively recruiting for internship and full time positions!Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Arup Information Session
Thu, Oct 07, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
