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Events for October 12, 2012
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkFri, Oct 12, 2012
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) -
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen Students and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Oct 12, 2012 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Associate Professor, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California
Talk Title: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Abstract: Dr. Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Associate Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, will present as part of the W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium.
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
More Info: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/honors/schedules/
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Amanda Atkinson
Event Link: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/honors/schedules/
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Workshop
Fri, Oct 12, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
The National Science Foundation (NSF) offers a prestigious fellowship to outstanding students who are studying at the graduate level in science and engineering. The fellowship is highly competitive and the Viterbi Graduate and Professional Programs Office has put together a workshop to assist you in submitting your application.
Conducted by Viterbi Faculty, these 90 minute workshops will provide you with information and tips in submitting your application that will help you stand out among the best and brightest students.
The workshops will be held on October 10th and 12th. To register for one of the workshops, please click on the link below. You only need to attend one workshop and refreshments will be served.
https://uscviterbi.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bDQWEqhoxdUPk8Z
** You must be either in the first or second year of your Ph.D. Program or an undergraduate senior, and be a US Citizen or Permanent Citizen to qualify.
For more information about the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, please visit this website:
http://www.nsfgrfp.org/about_the_program
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: 1st/2nd year Ph.D. students or Undergraduate Seniors (US Citizens/Permanent Residents only)
Contact: Jennifer Gerson
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Oct 12, 2012 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Sorin P. Voinigescu, University of Toronto
Talk Title: In the clouds: Towards 1Tb/s per carrier
Abstract: We all know that power consumption in digital circuits increases linearly with frequency and with the square of the supply voltage. Yet, instead of reducing the supply voltage of circuits to save power we are limiting speed and increasing parallelism. Why is that?
Although computation is more efficient than communication we are choosing parallel architectures to increase the amount of communication on a microprocessor chip.
We are all addicted to wireless mobile devices but wireless communication is 1-2 orders of magnitude more inefficient than wired communication.
We are migrating our data storage to the cloud, worst still, to the mobile cloud, requiring longer and less efficient communication links to store and retrieve our data.
At the current energy consumption rate, neither the datacenters nor the cloud are scalable beyond 1-2 generations.
These problems and potential solutions, at the transistor, circuit and system level, will be touched upon in this talk.
Biography: Prof. Sorin P. Voinigescu received the M.Sc. degree in electronics from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1994.
Between 1994 and 2002 he was first with Nortel Networks and later with Quake Technologies in Ottawa, Canada, where he was responsible for projects in high-frequency characterization and statistical scalable compact model development for Si, SiGe, and III-V devices. He later conducted research on wireless and optical fiber building blocks and transceivers in these technologies. In 2002 he joined the University of Toronto, where he is a full Professor. His research and teaching interests focus on nano-scale semiconductor devices and their application in integrated circuits at frequencies beyond 300 GHz. In 2008-2009 he spent a sabbatical year at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
Dr. Voinigescu is a member of the ITRS RF/AMS Committee and of the TPCs of the IEEE CSICS and BCTM. He received NORTELâs President Award for Innovation in 1996 and is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2001 IEEE CICC, the 2005 IEEE CSICS, and of the Beatrice Winner Award at the 2008 IEEE ISSCC. His students have won Student Paper Awards at the 2004 VLSI Circuits Symposium, the 2006 SiRF Meeting, RFIC Symposium and BCTM, and at the 2008 and 2012 International Microwave Symposium.
Dr. Voinigescu was the co-founder and CTO of two start-ups: Quake Technologies, which developed and commercialized the world's first 10-Gb/s SONNET and 10-Gb/s Ethernet transceivers in 2001, and of Peraso Technologies Inc, which has just announced the first antenna-in-package 60-GHz transceiver selling at 5 dollars in quantities of over 100,000. None of those products were in CMOS!
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mahta Moghaddam, Prof. Mike Chen
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/
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Astani CEE Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Oct 12, 2012 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Charles DeVore, CE Graduate Student
Talk Title: Experimental Verification of Substructure Identification for Damage Detection
Abstract:
Damage detection for civil structures is limited by several factors including, among others, poor signal to noise ratios, a large number of unknown parameters and a limited set of measured responses. Global structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques that track modal parameters often fail to detect damage because they remain insensitive to common forms of structural damage. Moreover, a high-dimensional search space of identified parameters makes global inverse problems ill-conditioned. To overcome some of these limitations, many researchers have advanced substructure identification as a methodology to directly detect local stiffness changes using the local neighborhood of measured responses, thereby improving damage detection and SHM scalability in civil structures.
Building on substructure identification methods previously developed by Zhang and Johnson (2011), this paper develops a substructure identification estimator that identifies the story stiffness and damping parameters of a four-story shear building. Concurrent with the estimator derivation, identified parameter confidence intervals are developed; identification performance is predicted through a first-order error analysis. Using the proposed estimator, experimental testing is performed on a 12 ft four-story steel structure subject to base excitation. The floors of the structure are steel masses and the columns are bolted threaded rods. While additional threaded rods can be added/removed to change the story stiffness, these tests examined several configurations in which small stiffness changes are induced by loosening floor-level connections. These changes simulate damage and are successfully detected by substructure identification within computed confidence intervals. The substructure identified parameters are compared against global modal measures and found to be more sensitive to damage. Furthermore, the estimator's performance follows predictions from the error analysis and motivates future work with identification assisted by structural control.
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
