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Events for October 23, 2012
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Seoul Admission Reception
Tue, Oct 23, 2012
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Hosted by the Admission Office, the reception will include a general discussion about the University. You will also be able to ask questions about your areas of academic interest, explore co-curricular options and learn more about life and opportunities at USC. Matthew O'Pray, Associate Dean of Admission, will be there on behalf of the Viterbi School of Engineering along with other representatives from the University.
To RSVP online please go to https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/resrsvp/Location: JW Marriott Seoul
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen Students and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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CSCI 102 Supplemental Instruction SessionTue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 07:00 AM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Supplemental Instruction session for students enrolled in CSCI 102.
SI offers an informal atmosphere where you and your classmates can explore important concepts, review class notes, discuss assignments, work on practice problems, and go over relevant study skills.
SI is a great study option and we encourage all students to make SI part of their study habits! Come for 30 minutes or the whole 2 hours.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 140
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Academic Resource Center
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Tue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Larry Aft, USC Viterbi School of Engineering,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Abstract: Learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a Six Sigma green belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
During this course you will have the opportunity to apply what you have learned to an actual issue you face in your organization. Prior seminar participants have reported significant savings from implementing their projects.
*A financial services organization saw $128,000 in cost savings per quarter when they reduced transaction processing rework
*A state agency reduced project cost over-runs by 28 percent
*A transportation company saved more than $875,000 per year in turnover costs by improving the employee communications process
*Reduced errors in a painting operation led to increased first pass acceptance and more than $197,000 in annual savings
*A Web developer increased annual profits by 10 percent by cutting cycle time
*A wave solder operation saw defects reduced by half and costs reduced by $60,000 per year
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-green-belt-process-improvement
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Astani CEE Oral Dissertation Defense
Tue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Roshanak Varjavand, CE Ph.D. Candidate
Talk Title: Numerical Simulation of Seismic Site Amplification Effects
Abstract:
The concept of substructure deletion proposed for the analysis of a rigid foundation was adapted for the analysis of site amplification effects in alluvial valleys. A major modification was made for the present application such that the boundary integration equation method was used for both the finite size interior problem and semi-infinite exterior wave radiation problem. The modification was made to reduce the possible incompatibility between the finite element method, a volume formulation, and the boundary integral equation method, a surface formulation. The substructure deletion concept allows simple, century-old, basic Green's Functions to be used to produce excellent wave scattering results for topographical irregularities as well arbitrarily shaped alluvial valleys overlying stiffer bedrock. The concept is applicable to three-dimensional geometries as well as two-dimensional problems. Results are given for incident SH, P, SV and Rayleigh waves.
Advisor: Professor Hung Leung Wong
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Epstein Institute Seminar Series / ISE 651 Seminar
Tue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: David W. Rosen, Professor and Associate Chair for Administration, The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk Title: "Controlling Localized Photopolymerization: Research in Stereolithography Manufacturing Processes"
Series: Epstein Institute Seminar Series
Abstract: Stereolithography (SL) is a type of additive manufacturing process that fabricates parts layer-by-layer in an additive manner. In conventional SL, a laser scans across the top of a vat of liquid photopolymer to form part cross-sections; the photopolymer polymerizes and solidifies when the laser energy received exceeds a threshold value. In this talk, I will introduce my research program in SL and SL-like processes. Research issues will be highlighted and results presented that demonstrate some unique capabilities enabled by novel UV energy delivery methods. New SL process models of these energy delivery methods form the basis for the âinverse designâ based process planning methods that my group has developed. Smooth surfaces that avoid the âstair steppingâ typical of layer-based additive manufacturing has been achieved. SL can be reconfigured to a mask-projection process; some unique aspects of mask-projection configurations will be highlighted. Again, new simulation models, of mask-projection SL, enable novel process planning methods. A new real-time sensing and control technology has been demonstrated to significantly improve accuracy and repeatability. Examples of micro-optics devices (e.g., microlens arrays) illustrate research results.
Biography: David Rosen is a Professor and Associate Chair for Administration in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is Director of the Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing Institute at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts in 1992 and his Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1987 and 1985, respectively, all in mechanical engineering. His research interests include computer-aided design, additive manufacturing, and design methodology. During his graduate school years, he was a software engineer at Computervision Corp. and a Visiting Research Scientist at Ford Research Laboratories. He is a Fellow of ASME, recently served on the ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Division Executive Committee, and received the 2012 ASME CIE Division Excellence in Research award.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: Seminar-Rosen.doc
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - Room 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Modeling HIV adaptation: Insights into HIV virology, immunology and vaccine design from machine learning and computational biology
Tue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jonathan Carlson, Microsoft Research
Talk Title: Modeling HIV adaptation: Insights into HIV virology, immunology and vaccine design from machine learning and computational biology
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) mutates at a startling rate, with millions of viral variants generated in each patient each day. This high rate of mutation, coupled with high mutational tolerance, provides the virus with the ability to rapidly adapt to changing environments and typically proves an insurmountable challenge to the human immune system. Viral mutation is not, however, without constraints: given large enough datasets, patterns begin to emerge. By studying these patterns, we have gained significant new insights into what is attacking the virus (immunology), what is being attacked (virology), how that attack is evaded (evolution), and how adaptation influences disease progression (pathology). In addition, we have begun to identify features of individuals who naturally control the virus, offering tantalizing hints at how an effective vaccine might work. In this talk, I will describe the statistical models we have developed for studying HIV adaptation, the insights these models have provided and the open questions we continue to pursue.
Biography: Jonathan Carlson, Ph.D., joined the Escience Group at Microsoft Research in 2008, where he studies viral evolution, immunology and vaccine design through statistical modeling. His models of viral escape have achieved broad recognition in the HIV community, where they have led to the discovery of novel viral-host interactions, insights into mechanisms of natural immune control, and the identification of vaccine candidates that are slated for clinical trials. He has authored over 50 papers in the field and has served on advisory panels and committees for the Institutes of Medicine, the Gates Foundation and the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI). In 2009, he received his Ph.D. in computer science and computational molecular biology from the University of Washington, where he studied under David Heckerman (Microsoft Research) and Larry Ruzzo (UW) and was given the universityâs Distinguished Dissertation Award. He received his B.A. in Biology and Computer Science from Dartmouth in 2003, where he studied bioinformatics and transcriptional regulation under Bob Gross.
Host: Ethan Katz-Bassett
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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The New York Times Feminist Reading Group With Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden
Tue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free.
Refreshments will be provided.
Since this project was first performed at Dispatch Bureau in New York in 2009, The New York Times Feminist Reading Group has met periodically to discuss current events and feminist issues raised by that dayâs issue of the New York Times. Participants are welcome regardless of whether they have read, skimmed or even just glanced at that dayâs paper. The discussion begins informally with news items or questions raised by participants, and ranges widely from investigations of specific articles or images, to editorial choices and ad placements, to the larger questions of the business of newspapers and contemporary media in general. The New York Times Feminist Reading Group is organized and facilitated by writer Jen Kennedy and artist Liz Linden, who have been collaborating on projects that investigate contemporary usages of the word feminism since 2008. Their projects include town-hall meetings, feminist book swaps, video and sound works and pilot press, their DIY feminist publishing house.
About the Artists:
Jen Kennedy is a Montreal-based writer. Her work has been published in a number of journals, including C Magazine, Image [&] Narrative, FUSE and the Journal of Critical Studies in Business & Society. Kennedy attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009, and is currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellow at Binghamton University. She received her BA and MA in visual arts from the University of Western Ontario.
Liz Linden also attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009. She received her BA from Yale University and studied photography at the Ãcole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France. Linden has been awarded several grants and international residencies, including a DaNY grant from the Danish Arts Council and residencies at Capacete in Rio de Janeiro, Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne and unitednationsplaza in Berlin. (Official website)
Kennedy and Linden have been collaborating since 2009 on a multidisciplinary project that explores the semantics of contemporary feminism. They have received grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs/Brooklyn Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation. Their work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum and the Brooklyn Museumâs Sackler Center for Feminist Art, as well as at numerous other venues.
Organized by the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
More Information: 2012_10_22_30_FemReadGroup_150x200.jpg
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Forum Room, 4th Floor
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Engineering at the Nanoscale: Opportunities and Challenges
Tue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Pulickel M. Ajayan , Rice University
Talk Title: Engineering at the Nanoscale: Opportunities and Challenges
Series: William Spitzer Lecture
Abstract: This talk will focus on opportunities and challenges in building nanostructured materials from nanoscale building blocks. Several nanostructures, with specific emphasis on carbon based nanostructures, will be used to demonstrate the perspective in nanoscale engineering and nanomaterials development. The last couple of decades have seen advances in nanotechnology with promises in many areas of science and technology. Several exciting developments in recent years allow us to formulate strategies to develop the next generation of nanostructured mateirals in controllable and scalable ways. The talk will focus on various aspects of this approach such as synthesis, assembly, nanoscale junctions and interfaces, and nanomanufacturing.
Biography: Professor Ajayan earned his B.Tech in metallurgical engineering from Banaras Hindu University in 1985 and Ph.D in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University in 1989. After three years of post-doctoral experience at NEC Corporation in Japan he spent two years as a research scientist at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay in France and nearly a year and a half as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung, Stuttgart in Germany. In 1997, he joined the materials science and engineering faculty at Rensselaer as an Assistant Professor and was the Henri Burlage chair Professor in Engineering until 2007. He joined the mechanical engineering and materials science department of Rice University, as the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering from July 2007. Professor Ajayan's research interests include synthesis and structure-property relations of nanostructures and materials science and applications of nanomaterials. He is one of the pioneers in nanotechnology and specifically in the field of carbon nanutubes he was involved in the early work on the topic with the NEC group. He has published one book and more than 400 journal papers, many in high impact journals, with more than 30,000 citations and an h-index of 88. He has several patents and inventions to his credit. He has given more than 300 invited talks including several keynote and plenary lectures in more than 20 countries. He is a world leader in the field of nanomaterials and their applications. Ajayan has received several awards including the Senior Humboldt Prize, 2006 MRS Medal, AAAS Fellow, Scientific American 50 recognition in 2006, RPI senior research award (2003), the Burton award from the microscopic society of America (1997) and the Hadfield medal for the outstanding metallurgist in India (1985). He also holds two Guinness world records, one for creating the smallest brush and the other for creating the darkest material. He is on the advisory editorial board of several materials science and nanotechnology journals and on the boards of several nanotech companies.
More Info: http://chems.usc.edu/academics/12-13/wspitzer2012.htm
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ryan Choi
Event Link: http://chems.usc.edu/academics/12-13/wspitzer2012.htm
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Information Session with TiVo
Tue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Founded in 1997, TiVo, a pioneer in home entertainment, created a brand-new product and service category with the development of the world's first digital video recorder (DVR). Today, the company continues to revolutionize the way consumers watch and access home entertainment, by making the TiVo DVR the focal point of the digital living room: a center for sharing and experiencing television, movies, video downloads, music, photos, and more. We are looking for Engineering students of all levels who are interested in participating in our summer internship program.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Corral de Piedras (CDP) Project Meeting
Tue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come join EWB's Corral de Piedras (CDP) Project Meetings! In CDP, we are building a rainwater catchment system on a schoolhouse for the kids to drink water during school, with plans on expanding the system further.Â
We went to Honduras over Spring Break and we want to update everyone on how the trip went and how we can continue moving forward!Â
Questions/Comments? Feel free to email us at EWB@usc.edu!
*Note: Location is listed as "KAP" and it just means to meet in the lobby and we'll find a room together! It's usually KAP 164 or the few rooms around it. See you there!
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
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Philadelphia Admission Reception
Tue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Hosted by the Admission Office, the reception will include a general discussion about the University. You will also be able to ask questions about your areas of academic interest, explore co-curricular options and learn more about life and opportunities at USC. Paul Ledesma, Director of Undergraduate Admission, will be there on behalf of the Viterbi School of Engineering along with other representatives from the University.
To RSVP online please go to https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/resrsvp/Location: Philadelphia Marriott West
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen Students and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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CSCI 101 Supplemental Instruction Session
Tue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Supplemental Instruction session for students enrolled in CSCI 101.
SI offers an informal atmosphere where you and your classmates can explore important concepts, review class notes, discuss assignments, work on practice problems, and go over relevant study skills.
SI is a great study option and we encourage all students to make SI part of their study habits! Come for 30 minutes or the whole 2 hours.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 144
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Academic Resource Center
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David Treuer- Rez Life: An Indian's Journey through Reservation Life The Provost's Writers Series
Tue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Wednesday, September 26, at 9 a.m.
To RSVP: http://bit.ly/VVTreuer
Book signing and reception to follow.
The University Club at King Stoops Hall will offer a prix-fixe dinner prior to this event. For information and to make reservations, click here: http://bit.ly/VVprixfixe
David Treuer, a professor of English at USC, is an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the author of three novels and a collection of essays. He will give a presentation on his most recent book, Rez Life: An Indianâs Journey through Reservation Life. In this powerful and illuminating book, Treuer brings his skill for storytelling and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present. USC Provost Elizabeth Garrett will introduce the evening, followed by a conversation with Treuer moderated by Peter C. Mancall, the academic domain vice dean of USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
David Treuer is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the 1996 Minnesota Book Award and fellowships from the NEH, the Bush Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. His essays and stories have appeared in Esquire, TriQuarterly, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and Slate.com. The son of Robert Treuer, an Austrian Jew and Holocaust survivor, and Margaret Seelye Treuer, a tribal-court judge, David Treuer grew up on Leech Lake Reservation. After graduating from high school he attended Princeton University, where he wrote two senior thesesâone in anthropology and one in creative writingâand where he worked with Toni Morrison, Paul Muldoon and Joanna Scott. Treuer graduated in 1992 and published his first novel, Little, in 1995. He received his PhD in anthropology and published his second novel, The Hiawatha, in 1999. His third novel, The Translation of Dr Apelles, and a book of criticism, Native American Fiction: A Userâs Manual, were published in 2006. The Translation of Dr Apelles was named Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Time Out and City Pages.
The Provostâs Writers Series highlights the extraordinary talents of USC authors. The series provides opportunities for students and the community to engage with USC authors, learn about the incredible diversity of their work and celebrate the written word.
Photo: Jean-Luc Bertini
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: University Club (KSH)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
