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Events for October 20, 2006
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Meet USC (AM session)
Fri, Oct 20, 2006 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
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. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Inventory Performance of U.S. Retail, Wholesale, and Manufacturing Companies from 1981 to 2003
Fri, Oct 20, 2006 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Presented by Hong Chen Professor and Chair of Operations and Logistics, Sauder School of Business, University of British ColumbiaIn this talk, we examine the inventories of publicly traded American retail, wholesale and manufacturing companies between 1981 and 2003. The median of manufacturing inventory holdings was reduced from 96 days to 81 days. The greatest reduction was found for work-in-process inventory while finished-goods inventory did not decline. The median of wholesale inventory holding periods was reduced from 72 days to 52 days, while retail inventory did not start to decline until about 1995. Firms with abnormally high inventories have abnormally poor long term stock returns. Both manufacturers and wholesalers with medium-to-low inventory tend to have good stock return, but firms with the lowest inventories have only average returns. Retailers with very lower inventory tend to have good stock returns. Hong Chen first joined UBC in 1989, and is currently a professor and chair of operations and logistics at Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. During 2003-2005, Hong Chen was one of the founding faculty members and academic associate dean at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, which is funded by Li Ka Shing Foundation and the only private business school in China. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1982, and received his M.S. degree in 1983 and Ph.D. degree in 1987, both in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University during 1987-1988. Chen's research interests are primarily in operations research, operations management, supply chain management, and the analysis, design and control of stochastic systems such as manufacturing systems, service systems, and economic and financial systems. He has published over 40 refereed papers. He is a member of INFORMS, MSOM Society and Applied Probability Society. He was the president for INFORMS Society on Applied Probability (1995/96). In the last few years, he has developed more than ten teaching cases on the supply chain management in China, and has taught at several EMBA and EDP programs in China. 10/20/2006, Hoffman Hall 306, 10:30-12:00
Location: H. Leslie Hoffman Hall Of Business Administration (HOH) - 306
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Operating Point for MIMO Multiple Access Channel with Delay Sensitive Bursty Traffic
Fri, Oct 20, 2006 @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Professor Tara Javidi, UC San DiegoAbstract: Multiple antennas at the transmitters and receivers in a multiple access channel (MAC) can provide simultaneous diversity, spatial multiplexing, and space-division multiple access gains. The fundamental tradeoff in the asymptotically large SNR regime is shown by Tse et al (2004). On the other hand, MAC scheduling can provide a statistical multiplexing gain to improve the delay performance as shown by Bertsimas et al (1998).In this talk, we provide a combined analysis in an attempt to unify the gains provided by a MIMO MAC. In partiucalr, we formulate and analytically derive an order optimal operating point for MIMO-MAC channel for bursty sources with delay constraints. Our system model brings together the four types of gains: diversity, spatial multiplexing, space-division multiple-access provided at the PHY layer, and statistical multiplexing gains at the MAC scheduler. Our objective is to minimize the end-to-end performance as defined by the delay bound violation probability as well as the channel decoding error probability. We first find the order optimal diversity gain for a point-point MIMO communication and then extend the result to the case of MAC. Considering a MIMO MAC with CSI at the receiver, we find the optimal diversity gain and rate region in which the system should operate. In this, we arrive at an interesting interplay between the intensity of the traffic and resource pooling with regard to both multiple-access and statistical multiplexing gains.Bio: Tara Javidi studied electrical engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran from 1992 to 1996. She received the MS degrees in electrical engineering (systems), and in applied mathematics (stochastics) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1998 and 1999, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in May 2002. From 2002 to 2004, she was an assistant professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle. She joined University of California, San Diego, in 2005, where she is currently an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. She was a Barbour Scholar during 1999-2000 academic year and received an NSF CAREER Award in 2004.Her research interests are in communication networks, stochastic resource allocation, stochastic control theory, and wireless communications. Host: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, bkrishna@usc.edu
Location: Frank R. Seaver Science Center (SSC) - 319
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Meet USC (PM session)
Fri, Oct 20, 2006 @ 12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
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. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Viterbi Museum Open Today 12:30-2:00
Fri, Oct 20, 2006 @ 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Museum is located on the 2nd Floor of RTH near the elevators. For more information please visit: http://viterbi.usc.edu/about/viterbimuseum/
Location: 2nd Floor RTH near the elevators
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jason Dziegielewski
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Vehicle Testing at the California Air Resources Board
Fri, Oct 20, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:
Edward Sun, P.E.
Staff Air Pollution Specialist
Air Resources Board
El Monte, CAAbstractSouthern California has been known as the smog capital of the United States. With the San Gabriel Mountains blocking natural air flow, the contaminants in large amount of automobile exhaust are triggered by sunlight in a Mediterranean climate to form ozone that causes public health issues ranging from allergies, asthma attacks, difficulties in breathing, to premature deaths. After decades of efforts in new regulations, the ozone level has been significantly reduced, mostly through technologies implemented in modern automobiles. In addition to ozone, other air contaminants, such as particulate matter and greenhouse gases, are starting to receive more attention in recent years. This presentation will introduce the California Air Resources Board's Low-Emission Vehicle program, Fleet Greenhouse Gas Reduction program, and Vehicle Testing, which includes Electric Vehicle testing, Hybrid Electric Vehicle testing, Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle testing, and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle testing.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall, Room 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Engineering Honors Colloquium Lecture
Fri, Oct 20, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Engineering Honors Colloquium lecture given by Mr. George Whittinghill, Chief Technologist at Virgin Galactic.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Faculty and Honors Program Students
Contact: Erika Chua
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Material Science Seminar
Fri, Oct 20, 2006 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Research by Neutron Scattering: Tradition and Outlook Gian P. Felcher*Argonne National Laboratory,
Argonne IL 60439In the past decades neutron scattering has established itself as a primary tool to unravel the structure and dynamics of solids and liquids. In its prime, the technique opened entirely new fields in condensed matter research, by defining the role of hydrogen in organic materials, by determining the complex structures of spins in magnetic materials, by mapping the phonon spectra of crystalline solids and by defining the scaling coefficients in the neighborhood of phase transitions. Later, reaching maturity, neutron scattering become a general probe used by the wider scientific and technical community: chemistry, engineering, biology. In the same spirit, we now assist to a resurgent interest in neutron scattering, with new sources becoming ready in United States (Spallation Neutron Source), Japan (J-Park) and England (second target station of ISIS). These new sources produce neutron by a spallation process, rather than by fission as in conventional reactor, providing a brilliancy of "neutron light" up to hundredfold that presently available. These new sources will permit to unravel the issues raised by the manifacture of nanostructures, studying for instance the mechanisms of catalytic reactions, the phase transformations in biomimetic membranes and the synthesis of novel carbon nanomaterials. However, the new sources are creating a new challenge, by generating a tremendous amount of data that has to be digested and analyzed in reasonable time. It is becoming imperative (and this is a role of the computer community) to start a parallel effort to provide adequate and transparent visualization of the data, to assist with numerical analysis when the complexity of the problem prevents analytical solutions, and to generate simulated scattering patterns starting from reasonable models in real space.*work done under the auspices of the U.S. D.O.E., Office of B. E. S., under Contract W31-109-ENG-38.First year MASC students are required to attend.Refreshments will be provided.Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
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Engineering Honor Society Beach Clean-up/Bonfire at Dockweiler
Fri, Oct 20, 2006 @ 02:45 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Join the Engineering Honor Societies to help clean up Dockweiler beach! Food, bonfire and smores afterwards.
Location: Dockweiler Beach (meet outside RTH at 2:45 PM for carpool)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: TBP, HKN, XE, PTS, UPE
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Dinner at McCormick and Schmicks
Fri, Oct 20, 2006 @ 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Come get to know your fellow engineers and enjoy the fine (and inexpensive dining) of McCormick and Schmicks. If can go please RSVP to nsbe@usc.edu and designate if you can drive or not because we will be carpooling. See you there!!!
Location: Leave from outside of RTH
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: NSBE
