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Events for November 04, 2011

  • Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk

    Fri, Nov 04, 2011

    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 https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!

    Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Viterbi Admission

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  • CSI Feedback Allocation in Multicell MIMO Channels

    Fri, Nov 04, 2011 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Paul de Kerret, Eurecom Institute

    Talk Title: CSI Feedback Allocation in Multicell MIMO Channels

    Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss the joint precoding across K transmitters (TXs), sharing the knowledge of the user's data symbols to be transmitted towards K single-antenna receivers (RXs). We consider a distributed channel state information (DCSI) configuration where each TX has its own local estimate of the overall multiuser MIMO channel. The focus of this work is on the optimization of the allocation of the CSI feedback subject to a constraint on the total sharing through the backhaul network. Building upon the Wyner model, we derive a new approach to allocate the CSI feedback while making efficient use of the pathloss structure to reduce the amount of feedback necessary. We show that the proposed CSI allocation achieves good performance with only a linear scaling in the number of cooperating TXs instead of a quadratic scaling when the CSI is shared to all the TXs, thus making the joint transmission from a large number of TXs more practical than previously thought.



    Biography: Paul de Kerret was born in 1987 in Paris, France. In 2009, he graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France. Via a double degree program, he continued his studies in Munich and obtained a diploma degree in electrical engineering from Munich University of Technology (TUM), Germany. Furthermore, he also earned a four year degree in mathematics at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France in 2008. From January 2010 to September 2010, he has been a research assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Information Technology, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Since October 2010, he is pursuing a doctorate at Eurecom Institute under the supervision of David Gesbert. The thesis is focused on the cooperation of transmitters in interference limited wireless networks. Some of his research interest are MIMO networks, multiuser information theory, and distributed optimization.

    Host: Prof. Urbashi Mitra, ubli@usc.edu, x04667

    Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos

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  • W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; Nuclear Safety Engineering and the Fukushima Disaster

    W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; Nuclear Safety Engineering and the Fukushima Disaster

    Fri, Nov 04, 2011 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM

    USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Prof. Joseph E. Shepherd, Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Aeronautics

    Talk Title: Nuclear Safety Engineering and the Fukushima Disaster

    Abstract: Prof. Joseph E. Shepherd; Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Aeronautics; will present "Nuclear Safety Engineering and the Fukushima Disaster" as part of the W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors program.

    Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium

    More Info: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/honors/schedules/

    Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Amanda Atkinson

    Event Link: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/honors/schedules/

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  • Integrated Systems Seminar Series

    Fri, Nov 04, 2011 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Dr. David Su, Qualcomm Atheros

    Talk Title: Challenges in designing CMOS Systems-on-a-Chip for Wireless Communications

    Host: Hossein Hashemi

    More Information: Seminar_Speaker_Sue_2011_11_4.pdf

    Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Hossein Hashemi

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  • Measures of Humanity: An Evening with Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire
    A Visions and Voices Signature Event

    Measures of Humanity: An Evening with Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire <br />A Visions and Voices Signature Event

    Fri, Nov 04, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM

    USC Viterbi School of Engineering

    Receptions & Special Events


    Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Thursday, October 6, at 9 a.m.

    USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=186
    General Public: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=186

    Reception to follow.

    On April 7, 1994, following four years of civil war and internal strife, the tiny African country of Rwanda erupted in carnage of almost unimaginable proportions. Over the next three months, while the developed world turned its back, nearly one million of Rwanda’s citizens would be murdered. Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, refused to abandon the people he had crossed the globe to serve. His individual efforts on the ground are credited with saving at least 32,000 lives. His book on his experiences in Rwanda, entitled Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, was awarded the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction in 2004.

    Join us for an evening of rare emotion and insight with Lieutenant-General Dallaire, now a Canadian senator and widely recognized as a humanitarian of the highest order. He will recount his experiences from one of the darkest chapters in human history; discuss his recent efforts to bolster human rights in countries like Sudan and Sierra Leone; and illuminate the dangers of a world that values political and economic interests over its own potential humanity.

    For further information on this event:
    visionsandvoices@usc.edu

    Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) - Bovard Auditorium

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Daria Yudacufski

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