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Go Global
Wed, Nov 02, 2011 @ 11:30 AM - 01:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Viterbi Undergraduates, are you looking for information about overseas studies, international internships, or other international opportunities?
Stop by Go Global.
Whether it is studying abroad or participating in international internships, there are a variety of ways you can embrace globalization and Go Global will provide easy access to this information.
Meet representatives and learn about:
Viterbi Overseas Programs
USC Office of Overseas Studies
USC Global Fellows Internship Programs
USC East Asian Studies Center
Donât miss the opportunity to win $100 travel voucher!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - Lobby
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Traci Thomas Navarro
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Seminar in Astronautical Engineering
Wed, Nov 02, 2011 @ 12:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Astronautical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Michael E. Lisano, Technical Manager & Senior Engineer at JPL
Talk Title: In-Flight Thruster Calibration for the 2007 Mars Phoenix Lander
Abstract: After the Phoenix spacecraft was launched on its way to Mars in August 2007, the mission team worked feverishly to create, validate and use an all-new Kalman filter tool that could process a combination of deep-space tracking Doppler data and spacecraft IMU data to precisely characterize the thrust of the individual reaction-control thrusters, which were not coupled in all axes (with interesting implications), to enable pinpoint navigation to the entry point at the top of the Martian atmosphere. Come hear how this novel âSigma-Point Consider Filterâ tool was created, tested and used on Phoenix, as the spacecraft was en route to the Red Planet!
Host: Department of Astronautical Engineering
More Information: ASTE Seminar (Dr. Lisano) 11.2.pdf
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ana Olivares
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Communications, Networks and Systems (CommNetS) Seminar: Decision-making in Decentralized Systems
Wed, Nov 02, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ashutosh Nayyar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Talk Title: Decision-making in Decentralized Systems
Series: Communications, Networks & Systems (CommNetS) Seminar
Abstract: Decentralized systems are ubiquitous in the modern world. Communication systems, sensor networks, power generation and transmission systems, supply chain networks, economic systems like markets and auctions are all examples of decentralized systems. Such systems are characterized by the presence of multiple decision-making agents with different information. In this talk, I focus on the problem of finding optimal decision-strategies for co-operative agents in a decentralized system. In particular, I consider a decentralized stochastic decision-making problem with multiple decision-makers that share information with each other with a fixed time delay. Such decision problems arise in queuing networks, wired communication networks, distributed control systems, surveillance systems etc. In spite of initial conjectures as early as 1971, finding the general structure of agents' optimal decision-strategies with delayed information sharing had remained an open problem for 40 years. My research provides a conceptual framework that not only identifies the structure of optimal decision strategies but also provides a sequential decomposition of the optimization problem. Moreover, the conceptual methodology developed here is shown to be applicable to a broader class of decentralized decision making problems as well.
Biography: Ashutosh Nayyar received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India and M.S. and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois. His research interests include decentralized stochastic control, stochastic scheduling and resource allocation, controlled sensing in sensor networks, game theory and mechanism design.
Host: Rahul Jain
More Info: http://csi.usc.edu/~dimakis/CommNetS/doku.php?id=decision-making_in_decentralized_systemsLocation: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Rahul Jain
Event Link: http://csi.usc.edu/~dimakis/CommNetS/doku.php?id=decision-making_in_decentralized_systems
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AME Department Seminar
Wed, Nov 02, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Rich Axelbaum, Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science. Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering. Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO.
Talk Title: The Global Dependence on Coal and How Oxy-Combustion Can Help
Abstract: The global demand for energy is rapidly rising, while at the same time there is growing concern that the continued use of fossil fuels, specifically coal, is irreversibly damaging our environment. Coal accounts for 50% of electricity production in the U.S., 80% in China and 75% in India. Why has coal become such an integral part of our energy mix? Does it need to be? Are there ways to utilize coal while having minimal impact on the environment? The first part of this talk will address these questions and give the audience an appreciation of the global challenges and possible solutions to our demand for clean, affordable energy. In the second part of the talk, one of the more promising solutions, Oxyfuel combustion with carbon capture and storage (CCS), will be described. Then the characteristics of oxy-fuel combustion will be addressed from a fundamental sense, and will be shown to have the potential to produce soot-free, stable flames provided the stoichiometric mixture fraction is sufficiently high. The reason for the suppression of soot chemistry under conditions of high stoichiometric-mixture-fraction will be discussed.
Host: Prof. P. Ronney
More Info: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcomingLocation: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming
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USC Libraries Discovery Fellows Event
Wed, Nov 02, 2011 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, Information Sciences Institute, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Margaret Wertheim, USC Libraries Inaugual Discovery Fellow
Talk Title: The Marine Sublime
Abstract: Art and science come together in the library as Margaret Wertheim curates The Marine Sublime, her first event as the USC Libraries' inaugural Discovery Fellow.
The event starts at 4:00 p.m. in Doheny Memorial Library's Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall. Wertheim, a science writer, curator, and director of the Institute For Figuring, will moderate a discussion about the intersections of art, science, nature, and culture with filmmaker David Lebrun and independent curator Marina McDougall.
An adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts, McDougall co-edited "Science is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé" and organized the first retrospective of the French directorâs pioneering underwater films in the United States.
The program will include a viewing of rare editions of Ernst Haeckelâs writings and illustrations from the librariesâ special collections and an introduction by a USC marine biologist. A reception with refreshments will immediately follow the event. RSVP by calling (213) 740-1744
Faculty members are encouraged to invite their students to this unique multidisciplinary event.
Host: USC Libraries
More Info: http://dotsx.usc.edu/newsblog/index.php/main/comments/art_and_science_come_together_in_the_library_for_the_marine_sublime_onLocation: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Doheny Lecture Hall
Audiences: Everyon invited but RSVP to (213) 740-1744
Contact: Patty Johnson
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Motopia: A New Age for Modular Construction
Wed, Nov 02, 2011 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
âThe language of design, architecture and urbanism in Los Angeles is the language of movement.ââReyner Banham
Architecture today rolls, flows, inflates, breathes, expands, multiplies, contracts and searches for its next user. And yet, such architecture is not merely building or product design, but rather recognition of the fluidity of circumstancesâthe mobility of demographics and information. This event will feature real-world practitioners and multidisciplinary scholars who are preparing for a future continuously on the move.
A range of creative forces behind mobile architecture will come together to examine solutions to current economic, social and environmental concerns in the housing industry; identify emerging technologies and trends; and synthesize recent advancements in design, manufacturing, materials and systems. We will host five eminent practitioners who will discuss strategies that can be adopted or adapted into our own larger communities and lives. Participants will include Allison Arieff, editor at large at GOOD and contributing columnist at the New York Times; Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art; Stephen Kieran, partner at KieranTimberlake; Robert Kronenburg, architect, author and Roscoe Chair of Architecture at the University of Liverpool; and Michael Webb, founding member of Archigram and professor at Cooper Union.
Speaker Bios:
From 2002 to 2006, Allison Arieff was editor in chief of Dwell, and was the magazineâs founding senior editor. She is author of the books Prefab and Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America. She has been featured as an expert on sustainable design for two seasons of the Sundance Channel series Big Ideas for a Small Planet, as well on CNN, NBC News, NPR and KCRWâs DnA: Design and Architecture.
Barry Bergdoll joined the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2007 as the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design. Bergdoll was formerly chair of art history at Columbia University, where he taught nineteenth- and twentieth-century architectural history. He has organized, curated and consulted on many exhibitions, including Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. He recently organized MoMAâs Rising Currents: Projects for New Yorkâs Waterfront, an eight-week architects-in-residence workshop and exhibition that addresses the effects of climate change on New Yorkâs waterfront. He has written for numerous books and magazines, including Architecture, Architectural Record and Artforum.
Stephen Kieran, FAIA, is partner and cofounder of KieranTimberlake, an award-winning and internationally published architecture firm noted for its research and innovative design and planning services. The firm has received over 100 design citations, including the 2008 Architecture Firm Award, the highest honor bestowed on a firm by the American Institute of Architects. KieranTimberlakeâs projects include the programming, planning and design of all types of new structures and their interiors, and the renovation, reuse and conservation of existing structures. KieranTimberlake authored Manual: The Architecture of KieranTimberlake, refabricating Architecture and Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture.
Robert Kronenburg, RIBA, is an architect and the Roscoe Chair of Architecture at the Liverpool School of Architecture, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. His research examines portable, ephemeral and flexible architecture. His books include Flexible: Architecture that Responds to Change, Portable Architecture: Design and Technology and Houses in Motion: The Genesis. He is an editor of the Transportable Environments book series. He curated the major exhibition Portable Architecture at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, and the touring exhibition Spontaneous Construction.
Michael Webb studied architecture in London, taking seventeen years to graduate from a curriculum that is supposed to take but five. However, a project he designed in the fourth year of his studies found its way into Visionary Architecture, a 1962 exhibition at MoMA in New York. In 1963, he cofounded the Archigram Group, a collection of six young architects rebelling against what they saw as an English architectural scene on life support. For eleven years, an exhibition of the groupâs work toured the world. In 1965, Webb came to the United States and has since taught architecture at the Cooper Union, Columbia University and a number of other schools.
Organized by Jennifer Siegal (Architecture).
Background Image: Michael Webb
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Speaker Series with Oleg Khaykin
Wed, Nov 02, 2011 @ 06:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Receptions & Special Events
The CEO and President of International Rectifier--a global leader in power management technology--will be joining us to give an informative talk. Anyone interested in upper management at a large technology company will hopefully find Mr. Khaykin's story to be interesting, and foretelling.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC NOBE
