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Events for November 06, 2012
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IMSC-PNU Joint Workshop on Big Data
Tue, Nov 06, 2012
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
Please visit http://imsc.usc.edu/news-and-events/events/item/271-imsc-pnu.html for Details and full Agenda.
More Information: IMSC-PNU-Workshop-2012_1029.pdf
Location: Champions Room, Radisson Hotel
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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CSCI 102 Supplemental Instruction SessionTue, Nov 06, 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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Discover Viterbi: Astronautical Engineering
Tue, Nov 06, 2012 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Join us for an online information session about Astronautical Engineering to learn about the exciting opportunities available. Professor of Astronautics, Mike Gruntman, will be joining the session to highlight important information about the graduate program.
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: William Schwerin
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CED WIE Lunch "I want to go to graduate school. Now what?"
Tue, Nov 06, 2012 @ 12:15 PM - 01:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
This lunch series is designed for you to hear firsthand information from the Assistant Director of Viterbi Graduate Admission about different graduate programs, admission process, and helpful tips on how to plan ahead. We will talk about Progressive Degree Programs, Masters, and PhD in Engineering. Bring your questions!
Everyone is invited!
Lunch will be served.
RSVP here: http://bit.ly/XiT26O
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Women in Engineering
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Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Tue, Nov 06, 2012 @ 01:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Philip Zhe Sun, Harvard University & Massachusetts General Hospital
Talk Title: "Quantitative Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) MRI for Tissue pH Imagingâ
Abstract: Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) imaging is an emerging MRI contrast that is sensitive to dilute CEST agents and micro-environment properties such as pH and temperature. CEST MRI contrast, however, is complex. The experimentally obtainable CEST effect varies with labile proton concentration, exchange rate, T1 and T2. It also strongly depends on the experimental conditions such as RF irradiation power, duration, scheme and magnetic field strength. Recent development of quantitative CEST (qCEST) MRI has enabled improved characterization of the underlying CEST system. Specifically, we have developed empirical solution to quantify CEST MRI, and have optimized/translated endogenous amide proton CEST MRI to image tissue acidosis. We recently demonstrated absolute cerebral tissue pH mapping, which captures heterogeneous ischemic acidosis during acute stroke and the dynamic pH response to normobaric oxygen (NBO) treatment. In summary, CEST MRI is a versatile imaging technique that, once fully developed, will tremendously augment the conventional MRI exams for improved characterization of molecular/cellular changes in a host of diseases including stroke, cancer and multiple sclerosis.
Biography: Phillip Zhe Sun, Ph.D.*Dr. Sun received his Bachelor of Science degree in technical physics from Peking University in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Radiological Sciences from Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Harvard and MIT in 2003. His Ph.D. research was in the field of MR diffusion and microscopy, under the mentorship of Professor David Cory. Upon his graduation, he went on to Johns Hopkins University, working with Professor Peter van Zijl, as a Postdoctoral Fellow and then a Research Associate. Dr. Sun joined Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH and Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor in 2007. His research focuses on development of novel MRI techniques for assessing neurological diseases including acute stroke, multiple sclerosis and tumor. Specifically, Dr. Sun has been studying tissue acidosis using quantitative chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI. He is also interested in numerous techniques including tissue glucose and oxygen metabolism, myelin quantification, diffusion/kurtosis, blood oxygen level dependent and magnetization transfer MRI. Dr. Sun has authored/co-authored over thirty peer-reviewed articles and fifty conference proceedings/abstracts.
Host: Prof. Krishna Nayak
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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Epstein Institute Seminar Series / ISE 651 Seminar
Tue, Nov 06, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Jingshan Li, Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Talk Title: "From Manufacturing to Health Care: Lessons and Results"
Series: Epstein Institute Seminar Series
Abstract: Both manufacturing and health care have significant importance. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in healthcare systems research worldwide to improve efficiency, safety and quality to achieve better patient outcome. In this talk, we will present lessons we learned and results we obtained during our journey from manufacturing system research to health care system study. We will start with a brief overview of Production System Engineering. Then, we will discuss the similarities and differences between production systems and health care systems based on our experience. Next we will describe two recent studies in health care delivery systems: modeling and analysis of rapid response operations in acute care to improve patient safety, and improvement of work flow and staff utilization in CT test center. In addition, we plan to address some difficulties and challenges in health care systems research.
Biography: Dr. Jingshan Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY from 2006 to 2010, and a Staff Researcher in Manufacturing Systems Research Lab, General Motors Research & Development Center, Warren, MI from 2000 to 2006. He received the BS from Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, the MS from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and PhD in Electrical Engineering â Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI in 1989, 1992 and 2000, respectively.
Dr. Li is the co-author of the textbook Production Systems Engineering (Springer, 2009; Chinese edition by BIT Press, 2012), and he co-edited the book Advances in Systems Theory: Control, Communication Networks, Production Systems and Rational Behavior (WingSpan Press, 2009). Up-to-date, he has published more than 50 refereed journal articles, 6 book chapters and 70 peer reviewed conference proceedings. He is the Department Editor of IIE Transactions â Design and Manufacturing, the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and International Journal of Production Research, and was an Associate Editor of Mathematical Problems in Engineering. He has served as the Lead Guest Editor of special issues on âAutomation in Green Manufacturingâ and âAutomation in Automotive Manufacturingâ in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and special issue on âIntegration of Production System Design and Quality Managementâ in IIE Transactions. He is also the General Co-Chair of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (Madison, WI, August 17-21) and Co-Chair of 2013 International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering (Milan, Italy, May 22-25)
He received the NSF CAREER Award (2010-2015), the 2009 IIE Transactions Best Application Paper Award, 2005 IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award, 2006 IEEE Early Industry/Government Career Award in Robotics and Automation, and he was in the Finalists of Best Paper Awards of 2009 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering and 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. His paper on simulation of emergency department was among the âTop 25 Hottest Articles in Journal of Emergency Nursingâ (July-September, 2010). His primary research interests are in design, analysis and improvement of production and health care systems.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: Seminar-Li, Jingshan.doc
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - Room 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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CS Colloquium: Adam Wierman (Caltech): Algorithmic challenges for greening data centers
Tue, Nov 06, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Adam Weirman, Caltech
Talk Title: Algorithmic challenges for greening data centers
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Given the significant energy consumption of data centers, improving their energy efficiency is an important social problem.
However, energy efficiency is necessary but not sufficient for sustainability, which demands reduced usage of energy from fossil fuels. In this talk, I will describe some recent work highlighting the algorithmic challenges associated with "greening" data centers. We will focus on two applications:(i) dynamic resizing within a data center; and (ii) geographical load balancing across an Internet-scale system. In both contexts I will present our new algorithms, which provide significantly improved performance guarantees when compared with the "standard" approaches using Receding Horizon Control.
Additionally, if time allows, I will briefly discuss the our recent progress toward the implementation and evaluation of these algorithms in HP data centers.
Biography: Adam Wierman is a Professor in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, where he is a member of the Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG). His research interests center around resource allocation and scheduling decisions in computer systems and services. He received the ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star award in 2011, and has been co-recipient of best paper awards at ACM SIGMETRICS, IEEE INFOCOM, IFIP Performance, the IEEE Green Computing Conference, and ACM GREENMETRICS. He was named a Seibel Scholar, received an Okawa Foundation grant, and received an NSF CAREER grant. Additionally, he has received multiple teaching awards, including the Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology (ASCIT) Teaching Award.
Host: Minlan Yu
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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USC Graduate Engineering Information Session at Harvey Mudd College
Tue, Nov 06, 2012 @ 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
The University of Southern California offers a wide range of Master's and Doctoral programs in engineering in both broad and specialized disciplines.
The information session topics will include: a brief overview of USC and the Viterbi School, an overview of MS and PhD programs, the application process, admission criteria, and scholarships/funding.
In addition, you will learn about our Summer Undergraduate Research Program, an exciting opportunity to work with USC faculty this summer in Los Angeles!
Students with a background in engineering, math or a hard science are welcome to attend.
Event location:
Harvey Mudd College
Location to be determined
Claremont, CAAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate & Professional Programs
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CED & VARC Study Night
Tue, Nov 06, 2012 @ 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
All Viterbi undergrads are invited to this informal study night in the CED lounge. Tutors from the Viterbi Academic Resource Center and the Center for Engineering Diversity will be on hand to answer your questions and help you work through problems. Tutors can answer questions for most lower-division math and science classes. Bring your textbooks, assignments, and your engineering friends - plus we'll have pizza!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 210
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Academic Resource Center
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CSCI 101 Supplemental Instruction Session
Tue, Nov 06, 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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ASME Super SolidWorks Month
Tue, Nov 06, 2012 @ 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
We will be hosting a series of Solidworks workshops in the month of November. Join us for our first event and strengthen your modeling skills while learning how to make a watch! This will be a great introduction and review for those of you interested in getting more comfortable with this software. Anyone, from incoming freshman to graduating senior or grad student, is invited to join us!
*Food provided*
You can use what you learned in these workshops for personal projects or our upcoming projects including the Human Powered Vehicle, Van De Graaf generator, and a Hovercraft!Location: Waite Phillips Hall Of Education (WPH) - B36
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
