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Canstruction
Fri, Nov 06, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Help out people in need by donating canned food!! Students and faculty come together for this annual event to collect cans and donate them to the LA Food Bank. On the last day of the drive, we bring all the cans together to make a Canstruction. Collection is from 10/14 - 11/20.
Collection Bin Locations:
ACCT 101 Office
Crocker Library (in HOH)
Popovich Hall Rm 200
Deans Office BRI 100
Advising Office BRI 104Location: Various Locations (look at description)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC NOBE
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6th Annual Electrical Engineering Research Festival
Fri, Nov 06, 2015 @ 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
The Ming Hsieh Institute annually hosts the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering Research Festival. Over 100 undergraduate and graduate students present their research through poster sessions, demonstrations and oral presentations at the event. The Research Festival is a day-long festival that welcomes the entire USC Viterbi community, alumni and engineering industry representatives.
See the Festival Event Schedule and Registered Participants: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/research-festival/6th-annual/
RSVP: https://mhiee.wufoo.com/forms/z1t0ephy0cn2qs6/
Deadline to RSVP: November 4, 2015Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - EEB 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elise Herrera-Green
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11th Annual MFD Student Research Symposium
Fri, Nov 06, 2015 @ 09:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Student Activity
More Information: USC_11th_Symposium_digital.pdf
Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jason Ordonez
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Computer Engineering Seminar
Fri, Nov 06, 2015 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Yusuke Sakumoto and Dr. Ittetsu Taniguchi, Osaka University
Talk Title: System Level Design Approach of Autonomous Decentralized Energy Network
Abstract: Effective utilization of the renewable energy is a big motivation for the renovation of the conventional power systems. This seminar focuses on the design of autonomous decentralized energy network supporting energy interchanges among the nodes, and fundamental mechanisms to support effective energy interchanges. This seminar has two talks:
In the first talk, Prof. Taniguchi explains the project overview, and introduces the experimental study of DC microgrid systems.
In the second talk, Prof. Sakumoto explains an autonomous decentralized mechanism (ADM) for energy interchange in large-scale microgrids. Each node using this ADM autonomously performs energy interchange to adjacent nodes to realize energy supply appropriately for energy demand. He also explains an advanced method of his ADM toward resilient microgrids, and shows simulation experiment considering energy shortage and emergency situations.
Biography: Yusuke Sakumoto received M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in the Information and Computer Sciences from Osaka University in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He is currently an assistant professor at Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. His research interests are microgrid, communication network, and social network.
Ittetsu Taniguchi received M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in the Information and Computer Sciences from Osaka University in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He is currently a lecturer at Graduate School of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
From 2007 till 2008, he was a Ph.D. researcher at IMEC, Belgium.
His research interests are system level design methodology of CPS, and combinatorial optimization problems.
Host: Prof. Massoud Pedram
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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Online Information Session - Masters in Construction Management
Fri, Nov 06, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Discover Viterbi: Construction Management with Prof. Hank Koffman
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering is a top ranked graduate engineering program by U.S. News and World Report.
Join us for an online information session to learn about the exciting opportunities in Construction Management. Professor Hank Koffman will be joining the session to highlight important information about the program.
Register NowAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Nov 06, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
University Calendar
Join us for a presentation by Mark Pestana, Senior Research Pilot at Flight Research Associates, Inc., titled "Flying Unmanned Aircraft: A Pilot's Perspective."
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
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NL Seminar- TEXT GENERATION FROM ABDUCTIVE INTERPRETATIONS
Fri, Nov 06, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Fabrizio Morbini, USC/ICT
Talk Title: Text generation from abductive interpretations
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Abduction is an inference method often used to formalize what the process of interpretation is. In this talk i'll describe a system that generates a textual description of an abductive proof and its evaluation when applied to the interpretations generated for a set of 100 movies from the Heider-Simmel Interactive Theater project. The goal of the system is to generate text that explains the system's interpretation fluently without having to read or understand a proof graph and first order logic.
Biography: http://nld.ict.usc.edu/group/people/fabrizio-morbini
Host: Nima Pourdamghani and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 6th Flr Conf Rm # 689, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Nov 06, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Nima Jabbari and Qin Ba, Astani CEE Ph.D. Students
Talk Title: Groundwater contamination potential from well-casing failure during a hydraulic fracturing operation
Abstract: By: Nima Jabbari
Title: Groundwater contamination potential from well-casing failure during a hydraulic fracturing operation
Abstract:
The introduction of hydraulic fracturing as a new technology for hydrocarbon production from low-permeability geologic formations has revitalized natural gas as an abundant, economic, and cleaner source of energy. Despite the benefits, hydraulic fracturing has raised several environmental concerns, from air pollution and water contamination to potential seismic activities induced by the subsurface fluid injection. Incidents and accidents attributed to this technology could be mitigated by setting more stringent regulations and adding more precautions to the operation steps. This research is aimed to investigate one of the potential risk-pathways of the chemicals used in fracturing slurry toward shallow groundwater. Well-casing failure and leakage near the bottom of fresh aquifer during the high-pressure injection process is selected as the hypothetical scenario of concern. A framework is proposed to characterize the human health risk from ingestion of contaminated water. In this model, hydrogeological and operational parameters are altered stochastically in a way to cover a range of possible worst-case scenarios. The results show that if the well integrity is compromised, high risks to human health are achievable. This work can help the site-managers make appropriate decisions once an underground leakage is detected.
Presenter: Qin Ba
Title: Robustness and optimal control of power grid
Abstract:
For infrastructural network systems (e.g. transportation networks, power grid, water networks, and data networks) small fraction of link failure can cascade and lead to system failure. We study the influence of cascading failure and try to develop decentralized control policies to improve the robustness of power grid. Due to the different underlying physics, cascading failures have different effects on power grid and transportation systems. Firstly, while failure always decreases the throughput of transportation networks, it can increase the performance of power grid. This motivates an optimal control problem in which load shedding is considered as the control action to stop cascading failure in power grid. An finite horizon dynamic program formulation is hence proposed. Secondly, while decentralized control policy can never render maximal robustness of transportation system, it can be maximally robust in certain power grids. For this, we consider control on susceptance of links to maximize robustness of power grid, where the the margin of robustness for a given control policy is defined as maximal perturbations under which the link flows can be asymptotically contained within their specified limits. We proposed decentralized control policies to achieve the maximal robustness of a class of networks with simple topologies. The optimality is proved and shown through simulation results based on a benchmark IEEE network.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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MFD Alumni Dinner and Reception
Fri, Nov 06, 2015 @ 05:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Receptions & Special Events
Celebrating MFD's 10th Year Anniversary
Remembering Major General Harold Greene
Honoring Professor Christina Smolke
Friday, November 6, 2015
University of Southern California
Tutor Campus Center Ballroom
3607 Trousdale ParkwayLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Ballroom
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jason Ordonez
