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Events for October 27, 2010
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Oct 27, 2010 @ 01:00 AM - 01:00 AM
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 http://usconnect.usc.edu/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Six Sigma Black BeltWed, Oct 27, 2010 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Abstract: Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIEâs Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
Host: USC VSoE Professional Programs
More Info: http://mapp.usc.edu/professionalprograms/ShortCourses/SixSigmaBlackBelt.htmAudiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://mapp.usc.edu/professionalprograms/ShortCourses/SixSigmaBlackBelt.htm
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Foothill College Transfer Fair
Wed, Oct 27, 2010 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Viterbi Transfer Admission Counselor, Becky Beiter from the USC Viterbi Office of Admission, will be attending the Foothill College Transfer Fair. Please stop by the USC Viterbi table to learn how you can get started on your engineering courses at your current institution and more about the admission process.
Location: Foothill Campus
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfer Applicants
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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Mount San Antonio College Transfer Fair
Wed, Oct 27, 2010 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Viterbi Transfer Admission Counselor, Christine Hsieh from the USC Viterbi Office of Admission, will be attending the Mount San Antonio Transfer Fair. Please stop by the USC Viterbi table to learn how you can get started on your engineering courses at your current institution and more about the admission process.
Location: Mt. SAC Campus
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfer Applicants
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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Go Global
Wed, Oct 27, 2010 @ 11:30 AM - 01:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives from Viterbi and USC departments to learn about the different opportunities and resources for undergraduate engineering students to go abroad! Whether you are interested in studying abroad, applying for an international fellowship, or want to participate in a spring break service program, Go Global will have the information for you! Visit viterbi.usc.edu/kiuel for more information.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - Lobby
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: KIUEL
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METRANS SEMINAR SERIES
Wed, Oct 27, 2010 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Konstantinos Psounis , Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, USC
Talk Title: Efficient Routing in Vehicular Networks
Abstract: Vehicular ad hoc networks have received attention in recent years for two main reasons. First, there are a number of real-life applications that become possible in the presence of such an ad-hoc infrastructure, such as increasing road safety by reducing the number of accidents as well as reducing their impact in case of non-avoidable accidents, improving local traffic flow and efficiency of road traffic, and offering comfort and business applications to drivers and passengers. Second, it is now technically possible to build such a network. Recent developments in radios, coupled with significant research work in the area of mobile ad-hoc networks, make it likely to build such applications within 5 to 10 years.
While there has been significant effort to define applications, there are still technical challenges that need to be resolved. Perhaps the hardest is how to achieve communication in an environment where network nodes (vehicles) move so fast that the very concept of a wireless link between two nodes is meaningless for time scales larger than a few seconds, and where the density of the nodes can vary drastically, making the network intermittently connected.
To address this challenge, we propose using a new approach of routing that is tailored to the needs of vehicular ad hoc networks, termed mobility-assisted routing. In this seminar, we will introduce you to this new routing.
Wed. Oct. 27| Noon Lunch | 12:20pm Seminar | Lewis Hall(RGL) Rm 209
*Lunch will be provided for RSVPs. Please arrive at 12:00 pm
for lunch. The seminar will start promptly at 12:20 pm.
RSVP*Shawn Gong, TGong@usc.edu by Noon, Tuesday. October 26
Biography: Konstantinos Psounis (PhD in Electrical Engineering, Stanford) is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at USC. He models and analyzes the performance of a variety of networks, including the Internet, mobile ad hoc networks, delay and disruptive tolerant networks, sensor networks, mesh networks, peer to peer networks, and the web. He also designs methods and algorithms to solve problems related to such systems.
Dr. Psounis is the author of more than 60 research papers on these topics and has served on the TPC of many conferences. He has received faculty awards from NSF, CISCO Systems, the METRANS transportation center, and the Zumberge foundation, was a Stanford graduate fellow throughout his graduate studies, and received the National Technical University of Athens best-student award for graduating first in his class. He is a senior member of both IEEE and ACM.
Host: METRANS
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - Room 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Wind Integration ----By All Means Available
Wed, Oct 27, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Eilyan Bitar, Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley
Abstract:
There is an increasing interest in renewable energy production both from economic, security and environmental perspectives. The State of California has set a target of thirty-three percent penetration from all renewable sources by 2020. Wind energy will play a key role in realizing such aggressive targets. At today's modest (order one percent) penetration levels, wind energy is integrated into the grid by legislative fiat. At deep penetration levels called for, integration of utility-scale wind production into the electricity grid poses serious engineering and market challenges. These are due to the variability, intermittency, and uncontrollability of wind power. In this talk we investigate ways to use a portfolio of available means to achieve deep penetration of wind generation in the current grid. This portfolio includes co-located storage, fast-acting local production, optimized contracts, novel market instruments, and improved forecasting. We introduce a linear programming formulation that enables us to study sensitivities and conduct parametric studies. We argue that co-located storage has a marginal economic utility of approximately 17 MW-hours-per-day for each MW-hour of storage. Our studies suggest that it will become necessary to waste some produced wind energy (when production is lower than thirty percent of nameplate capacity) to permit reliable servicing of electricity contracts. This is due to the difficulty associated with forecasting produced power at low wind levels. Finally, we suggest the use of risk-limiting contracts to achieve firming of wind-power. In these auditable contracts, the producer receives a short reprieve which enables them to offer power predictably by avoiding ramp times. We conclude by discussing how variability risk should be shared among participants in an electricity network while respecting security constraints.
Biography: Eilyan Bitar is a fifth-year doctoral student at U.C. Berkeley working towards the completion of a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Statistics. He received his B.S. from U.C. Berkeley in 2006, where his research focused primarily on the control of reacting flow fields. Currently, his research interests include complex networks, stochastic optimal control and optimization, sequential Monte-Carlo methods, and game theory with applications in renewable energy systems, the electric power grid, electricity markets, energy storage, and wind power forecasting.
Host: Dr. Roger Ghanem
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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AME Department Seminar
Wed, Oct 27, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Anita Penkova , Postdoctoral Research Associate
Talk Title: Fluid Dynamics and Transport in the Posterior Segment of the Eye
Abstract: The fluid and solute transport in the posterior segment of the eye (vitreous humor and retina) takes place by complex transport mechanisms and processes which have not been fully examined and quantitatively explained in either healthy or diseased eyes. Among the goals of the ongoing research is to develop mathematical models based on experimental data for ocular fluid flow with twofold objectives: (1) to understand the fluid dynamics and transport in healthy and diseased eyes; and (2) to effectively deliver drug-based treatment for the latter. To effectively transport drugs to the retinal area, the transport mechanisms need to be understood and the relevant transport parameters (such as permeabilities and diffusion constants) in the various components of this highly complex structure need to be measured and quantified. To fully model the transport processes, the permeability of the RPE (retinal pigment epithelium) under various circumstances needs to be measured. While a healthy eye maintains a steady and well-regulated flow of fluids throughout the system, diseases can cause disruption to this process. Diseases such as diabetic retinopathy (DR) can cause partial blockage of the RPE and subsequent swelling due to fluid accumulation in the affected regions accompanied by vision impairment. The ongoing research includes the creation of DR conditions by exposing a bovine eye to 25 mM glucose for 24 hours, and measuring the permeability of the RPE together with an eye treated in 5.5 mM glucose as a control. With current experiments, it has been observed that exposure to glucose increases the transepithelial resistance, indicating some suppression of ionic pumping. These procedures are also being conducted for based experimentally grown fetal RPE cells (in-vitro).
Other interesting areas, particularly for drug delivery, include the transport in an aged human eye for which the vitreous humor has a heterogeneous character (gel and liquid) that complicates the mathematical modeling. While the gel may be treated as a porous medium described by Darcy flow, the remaining portion has to be modeled as Stokes flow. The current research on ocular drug delivery includes the modeling of transport through this complex structure and an experimentally-based development of the boundary conditions where the vitreous humor contacts the retina, the lens and the hyaloid, together with continuity conditions at the gel-liquid interfac
Host: Professor Satwindar Sadhal
More Info: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/10-27-10-penkova.shtmlLocation: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - Room 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/10-27-10-penkova.shtml
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Acquity Group Information Session
Wed, Oct 27, 2010 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 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 Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Fall Spotlight - Civil and Environmental Engineering
Wed, Oct 27, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
A panel discussion featuring industry representatives, alumni, faculty and current student discussing opportunities in Civil and Environmental Engineering. For more detailed information please visit the Spotlight website at - http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/fye/spotlight.htm
Dinner is provided. RSVP to viterbi.studentservices@usc.edu with subject line: "RSVP for Spotlight on 10/27".Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Viterbi Undergraduate Students
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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Calendar Oddities
Wed, Oct 27, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
When is it, anyway? Not easy to say when reckoning time has always been a strange mix of astronomy, culture, math and magic. K.C. Cole, science writer, Annenberg professor and creator of the art/science/whatnot series Categorically Not!, will lead a panel of experts in exploring the inevitable oddities that make calendars so unreasonably interesting.
University professor Solomon Wolf Golomb of the USC Viterbi School and math department will explain, among other things, how Shakespeare and Cervantes could both die on the same dateâyet also ten days apart. Noel Swerdlow, professor of the history of science and astronomy at Caltech, will share some cosmic thoughts on the astronomical origins of calendars and their creators. And âmathemagicianâ Arthur Benjamin, a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and a regular performer at Hollywoodâs famed Magic Castle (and on The Colbert Report), will work calendar magic to the amazement of the audience.
Organized by K.C. Cole (Journalism).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Forum Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
