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Events for November 07, 2007
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Meet USC (AM session)
Wed, Nov 07, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
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. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/events/meet_usc/ 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: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Cooperative and Competitive Coalitions in Wireless Interference Channels
Wed, Nov 07, 2007 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Dr. Lalitha Sankar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton UniversityABSTRACT: Cooperation in multi-terminal networks can be induced in many ways. In this talk we investigate the formation of cooperative coalitions among rational users (transmit-receive links) in a K-link interference channel (IC) using coalitional game theory. Modeling the rate achieved by a user as its utility, we show that the stable coalition structure, i.e., set of coalitions from which users have no incentives to defect, depends on the manner in which the rate gains are apportioned among the cooperating users. We study transmitter and receiver cooperation in an IC as two distinct cooperative models and in each case focus on the stability of the grand coalition (GC) of all users for both flexible (transferable) and fixed (non-transferable) apportioning schemes. We show that the GC is the stable sum-rate optimal coalition when only receivers cooperate by jointly decoding (transferable). However the stability of the GC depends on the detector when receivers cooperate using linear multiuser detectors (non-transferable). For transmitter cooperation it is assumed that all receivers cooperate perfectly and that users outside a coalition act as jammers. We present results on the stability of the GC for both the case of perfectly cooperating transmitters (transferrable) and under a partial decode-and-forward strategy (non-transferable). We show that the stability depends on the channel gains for the former and the transmitter jamming strengths for the latter.BIO: Lalitha Sankar received the B.Tech degree in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1992, the MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 1994, and the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University in June 2005. She is presently a Science and Technology postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. After her masters, Lalitha worked for a year at Polaroid Corporation's Engineering R&D, following which she was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Shannon Labs until March 2002.Host: Prof. Urbashi Mitra, ubli@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Evaluating and Negotiating Job Offers
Wed, Nov 07, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Decision Time! How do you decipher and evaluate job offers? How do you begin the negotiations phase? Attend this workshop and learn helpful tips that will help guide you through the process.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 109
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Networking Luncheon with Disney
Wed, Nov 07, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Ever wondered what it is like to work at the happiest place on earth? Take this opportunity to network with Disneyland Resort Industrial Engineers who want to meet you! Don't forget your resumes! Food/refreshments will be served!
RSVP to iie@usc.eduLocation: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 206 (Baum Student Center)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
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Meet USC (PM session)
Wed, Nov 07, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
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. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/events/meet_usc/ 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: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Sonochemical Destruction of Persistent Organic Pollutants
Wed, Nov 07, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Chad Vecitis, Graduate Student, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CAAbstractPerfluorinated chemicals are recognized as widespread in the environment and are bio-accumulative, persistent, and recalcitrant towards conventional treatment technologies. Acoustic cavitation as driven by high-frequency ultrasound can be employed for the remediation of dilute, aqueous perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) solutions. Complete sonochemical conversion of PFOS and PFOA to their inorganic constituents; CO, CO2, SO42- and F-, occurs shortly after the initial pyrolytic reaction at the surface of cavitating bubbles. PFOS and PFOA concentration-dependent sonochemical degradation kinetics are correlated to their initial concentrations which determine relative partitioning to the bubble-water interface and are modeled well by saturation kinetics. Maximum degradation rates were obtained at an ultrasonic frequency of 350 kHz where the rate of degradation is observed to increase with increasing power density. Landfill leachate and groundwater matrices were determined to have negative effects on sonochemical PFOX destruction kinetics. The major chemical factors such as co-contaminants, NOM and bicarbonate as well as possible solutions were evaluated.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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To Be Announced
Wed, Nov 07, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
DANIEL J. EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING ISE 650 SEMINAR:Title to be AnnouncedSamim GhamamiPhD Student, USC Epstein ISE DepartmentWednesday, October 10, 2007
3:30 - 4:30 PM, KAP 158Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 158
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Distinguished Lecture Series: Information Theory of Wireless Networks: A Deterministic Approach
Wed, Nov 07, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: David Tse, University of California BerkeleyABSTRACT: Gaussian channels are commonly used models for multiuser wireless communication. Unfortunately, the capacity of multiuser Gaussian channels is unknown even for simple networks such as the single-relay channel and the two-user interference channel. To make further progress in understanding how to optimally communicate over these and more general networks, we propose a deterministic channel model which focuses on the interaction between the users rather than the noise in the system. We show: 1) the analytical simplicity of this model by computing the capacities of several interference and relay networks based on this deterministic model; 2) how the insights from the deterministic model can be translated into finding near-optimal strategies for the Gaussian counterpart.BIO: David Tse received the B.A.Sc. degree in systems design engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 and 1994 respectively. From 1994 to 1995, he was a postdoctoral member of technical staff at A.T. & T. Bell Laboratories. Since 1995, he has been at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in the University of California at Berkeley, where he is currently a Professor.
He received a 1967 NSERC 4-year graduate fellowship from the government of Canada in 1989, a NSF CAREER award in 1998, the Best Paper Awards at the Infocom 1998 and Infocom 2001 conferences, the Erlang Prize in 2000 from the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, the IEEE Communications and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2001, and the Information Theory Society Paper Award in 2003. He was the Technical Program co-chair of the International Symposium on Information Theory in 2004, and was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2001 to 2003. He is a coauthor, with Pramod Viswanath, of the text "Fundamentals of Wireless Communication". His research interests are in information theory, wireless communications and networking.HOST: Prof. Caire GiuseppeAudiences: Graduate/Department /Faculty
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Modeling Combustion with Detailed Chemistry
Wed, Nov 07, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Zhuyin Ren Ph.D.Cornell UniversitySibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace EngineeringAbstractCombustion modeling is now playing an important role in the design and optimization of
advanced combustion devices such as internal combustion engines and gas turbine
combustors. For high-fidelity combustion modeling, it is essential, though challenging, to
resolve the highly nonlinear turbulence-chemistry interaction and to predict the emissions
of pollutants such as NOx and particulates. This requires the accurate description of
turbulent mixing as well as the use of detailed chemistry.In this talk, recent progresses in PDF methods for turbulent reactive flows, particularly
the sensitivity analysis, will be described and demonstrated. Then the talk will focus on
presenting the ICE-PIC dimension-reduction method and the ISAT storage-retrieval
method for the efficient implementation of detailed chemistry in combustion modeling.
The theoretical basis, validation, and computational efficiency of these methods will be
described. This talk will also describe the x2f_mpi software for efficient chemistry
calculations in large-scale parallel simulations. It will conclude with a discussion on
applying the ICE-PIC, ISAT, x2f_mpi algorithms to incorporate detailed chemistry in
combustion simulations.Location: Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, Rm 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Deloitte Financial Advisory Services Information Session
Wed, Nov 07, 2007 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available work opportunities.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd (SGM) 124
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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UPE Tech Talk: Avanade Technology Showcase
Wed, Nov 07, 2007 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
USC's chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon is hosting a tech talk by John Reynolds at Avanade this Wednesday, November 7, 2007 from 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM in KAP 146.Mr. Reynolds will be discussing upcoming technologies by Microsoft for creating and managing online content. Topics covered will include .NET integration with Facebook, the Windows Presentation Foundation, and creating sidebar gadgets for Vista.All members of the public are welcome to attend. More information on this event is available at the following URL:http://upe.usc.edu/pdf/avanade_20071107.pdf
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 146
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE)
