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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Tue, Oct 18, 2005
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Admission Interviews are available to freshman applicants throughout the Fall until December 16, 2005. 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 2006
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Tue, Oct 18, 2005
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Admission Interviews are available to freshman applicants throughout the Fall until December 16, 2005. 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 2006
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Mount San Antonio College Transfer Fair
Tue, Oct 18, 2005 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Come meet Danielle Neves-Cole, Assistant Director of Transfer Admission at the Transfer Fair. She can provide more information on the USC Viterbi School's engineering curriculum, admission requirements and student life.
Location: Mt. SAC
Audiences: Prospective Transfer Students
Contact: Undergraduate Admission
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Stability Optimal Resource Allocation in Gaussian MIMO-BC: Theory and Practical Approaches
Tue, Oct 18, 2005 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Mari Kobayashi, Technical University of CatalunyaAbstract: In this talk, we address the resource allocation problem in the Gaussian MIMO broadcast channels (BC) where transmission buffer queues destined to each user are located in the transmitter.Under the random packet arrival assumption, stabilizing the transmission buffers is the single most important criterion for "fairness''. We review the well-known results on MIMO-BC and MIMO-Multiple Access Channel (MAC), stability region, and an adaptive policy achieving the largest stability policy (referred to "max-stability policy"). In the first part, we assume perfect channel state information at transmitter (CSIT). We propose a simple iterative waterfilling algorithm to implement the max-stability policy based on the capacity achieving dirty-paper coding (DPC). As a more practical signaling strategy, we consider linear beamforming because it can be generalized to the non-perfect CSIT case. The comparison in terms of average delay shows that the linear beamforming scheme achieves near DPC performance especially for the case of two transmit antennas.In the second part, we shift to more realistic scenario where CSIT is assumed non-perfect due to the fact that the channels are time-varying and the feedback link is delayed. Under non-perfect CSIT, the rate allocation should take into account the outage event, i.e. the event that the transmission rate is above the rate supported by the channel. We compare two schemes based on linear beamforming with different types of CSI feedback : a novel linear beamforming scheme with "analog feedback" and improved opportunistic beamforming with SNR feedback. In "analog feedback", each user sends back its estimated channel vector without quantizing and coding.It is found that the proposed linear beamforming scheme outperforms improved opportunistic beamforming for any channel Doppler bandwidth with a similar amount of feedback. Specifically, for moderate to fast fading channels, the proposed linear beamforming scheme tends to allocate the whole power to one user by operating in a TDMA mode while improved opportunistic beamforming becomes strongly interference-limited and thus unstable.Bio: Mari Kobayashi received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1999, the M.S. degree in Radio Communications, and the Ph.D. from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France, respectively in 2000 and 2005. Her current research interests include space-time coding, multiuser communication theory.Host: Dr. Giuseppe Caire, x.04683, caire@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -539
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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EE 101 Supplemental Instruction
Tue, Oct 18, 2005 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Center for Engineering Diversity
Workshops & Infosessions
Supplemental Instruction is four hours/week of workshops that will review lecture, homeworks, and key concepts from the material and conduct midterm review and final reviews. Our workshop leader for this semester will be Fahnmusa Jangaba, an EE graduate student who has excelled in the course and many other EE courses. This semester, workshop hours, days, and locations will be: Tuesdays 4:00-6:00pm RTH 222
Thursdays 4:00-6:00pm RTH 222Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222
Audiences: Undergraduates
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
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SWE General Meeting
Tue, Oct 18, 2005 @ 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come on out to SWE's bi-monthly meeting to network with fellow SWE members. Interested in working at Disney? We will be having Walt Disney Imagineers tell us all about what it is like to work at their company.Questions? Contact sweusc@usc.edu
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 208
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers
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BME Major of the Month
Tue, Oct 18, 2005 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Learn about the variety of career options available to students who pursue a degree in Biomedical Engineering. USC alumni and other professionals with a background in BME will be on hand to answer questions about the field. Dinner will be provided.
This event is jointly sponsored by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and the Viterbi Admission and Student Affairs Office.Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 101
Audiences: All Undergraduate Students
Contact: Erika Pratt
