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Events for October 21, 2008
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Aviation Security Program Management - Oct. 21-24, 2008
Tue, Oct 21, 2008
Aviation Safety and Security Program
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
AVSEC 09-1
For more information and to register for Aviation Safety and Security Program courses, please visit http://viterbi.usc.edu/aviation.Audiences: Registered Attendees Only
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Fullerton College Transfer Fair
Tue, Oct 21, 2008 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Students interested in transferring to USC's Viterbi School of Engineering can explore Viterbi's programs and majors, learn about the application process, and speak directly with a Viterbi transfer advisor.
Location: Fullerton College
Audiences: Prospective Transfer Students
Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs Division
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COMPUTER MODELING FOR WAVE OSCILLATION PROBLEMS IN HARBORS AND COASTAL REGIONS
Tue, Oct 21, 2008 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Oral Defense byXiuying Xing, PhD CandidateSonny Astani
Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringABSTRACT:Harbors are built to provide a sheltered environment for the mooring of ships and vessels. For some wave periods the semi-enclosed harbor basin acts as a resonator to amplify the wave motions in the harbor due to the combined effects of wave diffractions, refractions and multiple reflections from the boundaries. This undesirable wave motion could induce significant ship motions, damage ships and dock facilities, and delay loading and unloading activities if the resonant wave periods are close to that of the ship mooring system. Harbor planners and engineers need to study the wave induced oscillations as new harbor layouts are contemplated.
This dissertation study presents a finite element model which could be used for predicting the response characteristics of harbors and bays of arbitrary shape and variable depth. The model incorporates the effects of wave reflection, refraction, diffraction and dissipation losses due to boundary absorption, bottom friction and energy losses due to the flow separation at the entrances. The model has been applied to three harbors (Crescent City Harbor in northern California, Pohang Harbor in Korea, and Hualien Harbor in Taiwan) and two bays (San Pedro Bay in southern California and Bay of Fundy in the east coast of Canada and US). The results from the finite element model have been shown to agree surprisingly well with the field data obtained from events such as earthquake generated tsunamis and hurricane induced wave oscillations, as well as normal day observations. The results reveal the fact that the wave oscillation condition inside a harbor or bay is determined by the local layout and bathymetry. The harbor or bay responds to the incident wave in a predictable manner irrespective to the sources of driving forces such as typhoon, tsunami, winter storms, etc. The study also explains the tremendous tide phenomena at Bay of Fundy.
Modification strategy studies for reducing the seiche problems in Pohang Harbor and Hualien Harbor have also been presented. The model is shown to be an effective engineering tool for harbor planning and design to derive ways of eliminating or altering the harbor response so that the harbor may indeed provide a sheltered environment for moored ships and vessels.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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GAMEDESK PROGRAM: A New Approach to Learning
Tue, Oct 21, 2008 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Integrated Media Systems Center
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Annenberg Research Park Colloquium Series: Victor Lacour - GAMEDESK PROGRAM: A New Approach to Learning According to the state of California, 1 out of every 4 students drop out of high school. Often, the main issue is lack of engagement, ownership, and relevance of the material. The GameDesk program (A new outreach developed by the University of Southern California) addresses these issues by providing engagement through the development of educational video games. Instead of passive learning through books and traditional lecture, students actively learn by building games around core educational standards. Working together in teams, the students learn the importance of specialization, leadership, and collaboration-skills which translate directly into successful career paths. Teams build games along side subject teachers to translate a particular area of study into a game format and, as a result, they learn by doing. Ultimately, GameDesk's overall goal is to improve student retention, engagement, and attendance, and increase standards based scores, creating more viable pathways into successful careers. Currently, a pilot of the GameDesk program is implemented at Jordon High School, for fall 08. The talk will be followed by a discussion between 12:30-1:30 over lunch.
Location: Kerckhoff Hall (KER) - ckhoff Hall
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Greg Constante
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GAMEDESK PROGRAM: A New Approach to Learning
Tue, Oct 21, 2008 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Integrated Media Systems Center
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Annenberg Research Park Colloquium Series: Victor Lacour - GAMEDESK PROGRAM: A New Approach to Learning The GameDesk program (A new outreach developed by the University of Southern California) addresses these issues by providing engagement through the development of educational video games. Instead of passive learning through books and traditional lecture, students actively learn by building games around core educational standards. GameDesk's overall goal is to improve student retention, engagement, and attendance, and increase standards based scores, creating more viable pathways into successful careers. Currently, a pilot of the GameDesk program is implemented at Jordon High School, for fall 08. The talk will be followed by a discussion between 12:30-1:30 over lunch.
Location: Kerckhoff Hall (KER) - ckhoff Hall
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Greg Constante
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Lockheed Martin Career Module
Tue, Oct 21, 2008 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Pitfalls and Paradoxes in the History of Probability Theory
Tue, Oct 21, 2008 @ 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Mike Shlesinger, Office of Naval Research
Host: Prof. Ram NevatiaAbstract:
We trace the history of probability theory from the throwing of bones, sticks, and dice to modern times. Early 18th century books, Jacob Bernouill's "The Art of Conjecture" and Abraham DeMoive's "The Doctrine of Chances" were rich with new mathematics, insight and gambling odds. Progress was often made by confronting paradoxes. The first of these confused probabilities with expectations and was explained in the Pascal-Fermat letters of 1654. The St. Petersburg Paradox involved a distribution with an infinite first moment, and Levy discovered a whole class of probabilities with infinite moments that have found a surprising utility in physics. The Bertrand paradox involved measure theory for continuous probabilities, Poisson discovered that adding random variables need not always produce the Gaussian, and Daniel Bernoulli and D'Alembert argued over the probabilities for the safety of smallpox vaccinations. Using these and other anecdotes, we discuss vignettes that have brought us to our modern understanding of probability theory.Biography:
Dr. Shlesinger holds the Kinnear Chair in Science at the US Naval Academy. At the Office of Naval Research, Dr. Shlesinger is the Research Division Director in the Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism Department. He is also the Program Manager for the Counter-IED basic research program and ONR's Chief Scientist for Nonlinear Science. Dr. Shlesinger joined ONR in 1983 and became a member of the Senior Executive Service in 1987. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has published about 200 scientific papers on topics in stochastic processes, glassy materials, proteins, neurons, and nonlinear dynamics. He is a Divisional Associate Editor of the Physical Review Letters. Dr. Shlesinger received ONR's 2006 Saalfeld Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Science, the federal government's Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Senior Professionals in 2004, U. Maryland's Distinguished Postdoc Alum award in 2004, the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award in 1991 and was the Regents' Lecturer at UCSD in 1994, and the Michelson Lecturer at the USNA in 1992. His Ph. D., in Physics, is from the U. of Rochester in 1975, and he holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from SUNY Stony Brook in 1970.Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Colloquia
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2008 Annual Transfer Dinner
Tue, Oct 21, 2008 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Receptions & Special Events
We would like to extend an invitation to all NEW Viterbi Transfer Students to attend the annual Transfer Dinner. This event is open to ALL Viterbi transfer students who started at USC this past fall 2008 or spring 2008 semester.The Viterbi Transfer Dinner gives students an opportunity to reconnect with the Viterbi Student Affairs Office, department advisors, as well as meet fellow transfer students. We will also be giving away some great prizes!Please RSVP to viterbi.studentservices@usc.edu. We look forward to seeing you there!
Audiences: Fall 2008 or Spring 2008 Viterbi Transfer Students
Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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Symantec Corp. Information Session
Tue, Oct 21, 2008 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 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 (GFS) 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
