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Helicopter Accident Investigation - Nov.2-6, 2009
Mon, Nov 02, 2009
Aviation Safety and Security Program
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
HAI 10-1
For more information and to register for Aviation Safety and Security Program courses, please visit http://viterbi.usc.edu/aviation.Audiences: Registered Audiences Only
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Technology Challenges and Opportunities in Africa
Mon, Nov 02, 2009 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Guy Berger,
Head of School of Journalism & Media Studies Rhodes
University, South AfricaAbstract: Ubiquitous computing is coming to Africa in the guise of the cellphone. There is some
truth in the notion that this has entailed some 'leapfrogging' over stages seen in more developed
parts of the world, as evident in a range of adoption and innovative uses of ICT. Yet, at the same
time, there is also a degree of insulation from the technology-implicated disruptions of institutions
such as the mass media industry. Meanwhile, the huge potential of the digital revolution in Africa is
nevertheless constrained in many places by a poor and fragmented policy environment and limited
public understanding of what's needed to build an African Information SocietyIn this context, the Highway Africa project at Rhodes University is an intervention that seeks to enlist
journalists into making a positive difference around technology around the continent Africa. Over 13
years, this multi-faceted initiative has worked to ensure that mass communicators around the
continent understand, use and report on ICT issues. As such, it operates a conference every
September that has become the world's largest annual gathering of African journalists. This event
exposes the cohort to debates around open source and proprietary software, broadcast digital
migration, blogging and citizen journalism, etc., as well as to hands-on training workshops in the
use of technologies like Twitter and cutting-edge Content Management Systems. Highway Africa
also operates further training programs outside of the conference, and its activities further include a
news-agency and a research arm. The staging of the Soccer World Cup in South Africa in 2010
provides an opportunity to intensify and amplify the impact of Highway Africa.Bio: Prof. Berger is one of the leading figures in African media and media studies. For a decade, he
has directed Rhodes University's journalism and media studies program, and he has been a leading
figure in journalism and technology on the African continent. His visit is part of the Provost
Distinguished Visitor program for the fall. His programs at USC are being coordinated by USC
Annenberg's Geneva Overholser and Erna Smith.VSoE Host: Professor Shrikanth Narayanan, (213) 740-6432Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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BME 533 (Seminar in Biomedical Engineering)
Mon, Nov 02, 2009 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Robert Shannon, PhD, Head, Auditory Implants and Perception Research, House Ear Institute,
and Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering, USC:
"Auditory prostheses for the cochlear, brainstem and midbrain"Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Graduate Students/Faculty
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Software Safety - Nov.3-6, 2009
Tue, Nov 03, 2009
Aviation Safety and Security Program
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SFT 10-1
For more information and to register for Aviation Safety and Security Program courses, please visit http://viterbi.usc.edu/aviation.Audiences: Reigstered Audiences Only
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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FPGA On-Chip Debugging Tools and Methodologies
Wed, Nov 04, 2009 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract:
State-of-the-art field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) contain multi-million gates of configurable logic. The integration of hard and soft processor cores has turned FPGAs into configurable System-on-Chip (SoC) platforms, an attractive choice for implementing many embedded and high-performance computing systems. This challenges the on-chip debugging tools and methodologies to keep up with the increasing design complexity.
We begin the talk with a brief review of current on-chip hardware and software debugging tools. The limitations of these tools are also discussed. To address these limitations, a run-time reconfigurable signal probing technique and a common debugging framework are presented. We conclude the talk with some ongoing and future work regarding on-chip debugging tools and methodologies.Short Bio:
Jingzhao Ou joined Xilinx in 2006 after obtaining his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineer at the University of Southern California. He actively performs research and development in the area of hardware/software codesign and co-debugging. Recently, he is heavily involved in the design of Xilinx next generation hardware platforms and software development tools.Host: Prof. Viktor K. PrasannaLocation: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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Engineering E. coli to Produce a Blockbuster Cholesterol-Lowering Drug
Thu, Nov 05, 2009
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Lyman Handy Colloquium SeriesPresentsYi TangUniversity of California,Los AngelesAbstract:TBA
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce Sapir
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Nanocomposites for Distributed Structural Monitoring and Damage Detection
Thu, Nov 05, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth J. Loh,
Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, One Shields Avenue, 2001 Engineering III, Davis, CA 95616, USA Abstract: Structural deterioration, excessive loading, impact damage, and corrosion have been identified as critical and long-term problems that constantly threaten the integrity and reliability of structural systems (e.g., civil infrastructures, aircrafts, and naval vessels). In particular, the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and damage detection provides quantitative global- and component-scale structural response data for monitoring the performance of these structures; however, most sensors are subjected to performance limitations (e.g., sensitivity, dynamic range, bandwidth, and form factor) and only offer measurement of structural behavior at discrete locations. In this regard, nanotechnology offers a plethora of nanomaterial fabrication techniques for the design of next-generation multifunctional nanostructured systems to solve complex engineering problems. Multifunctional systems are defined to possess a diverse suite of engineering functionalities including self-sensing, actuation, self-healing, power harvesting, among many others. Here, carbon nanotubes are employed and encoded with a variety of electrochemical and electromechanical sensing transduction mechanisms for structural health monitoring and damage identification. First, using a layer-by-layer nanocomposite assembly technique, the films' electrical properties change linearly in response to applied external stimuli (e.g., tensile-compressive cyclic loading and pH). When coupled with radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies, a low cost and high performance passive wireless sensor is fabricated for densely-distributed SHM. Laboratory validation studies demonstrate that these sensors can measure strain and pH/corrosion at its instrumented locations, but damage localization requires interpolation between sensors. Alternatively, the proposed carbon nanotube-based films are paired with an electrical impedance tomographic conductivity image reconstruction algorithm. Specifically, the nanocomposite "sensing skins" are validated for spatial strain, pH, corrosion, and impact damage sensing and is shown to be capable of accurately identifying damage (i.e., strain, impact, and corrosion) location and magnitude. Biography Dr. Kenneth J. Loh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2004. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Michigan where he completed his M.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 2005, a second M.S. degree in Materials Science & Engineering in 2008, and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering in 2008. His research interests include the development of multifunctional nanocomposites, biologically-inspired materials for sensing, actuation, and power harvesting applications, and wireless sensing.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall 209- On Webex. Please call department for more infomation
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; Effect of Plasma Discharges on Spacecraft
Fri, Nov 06, 2009 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Mr. Timothy P. Graves of The Aerospace Corporation will present "Effect of Plasma Discharges on Spacecraft" as part of the W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admissions & Student Affairs
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Future (and Direction of ) Wireless Technologies
Fri, Nov 06, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Future (and Direction of ) Wireless Technologies by Upkar Dhaliwal (CEO/Founder - Future Wireless Technologies)Everything You Know About Wireless Is About to Change.
Everything beyond and around us in old Wired World is undergoing a rapid
change in terms of networks, devices/boxes and in terms of technologies.The Talk covers the following topics relating to the evolution of our Wired
and Wireless World:• Quick Introduction into exiting Radio Uses
– Quick update of our Radios & Cellular Wireless - 4G
• Overview of Consumer World - Wireless Electronics Evolution
– 7 New Worlds of RF-Wireless with the Internet & the Screen
• Overview of Wireless Connected Power Networks
– IEEE, NIST, DoE and Other Groups
• Overview of Wireless Health Connected Devices
– IEEE, Alliance Groups and NIST
• Overview of Broadband Wireless Stimulus Plan – DoE, NIST, IEEE
• A Brief look beyond to the Cognitive Radio World uses as being
envisioned by ITU - 5GLocation: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 200
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
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Performance of MIMO Radar with Angular Diversity under Swerling Scattering Models
Fri, Nov 06, 2009 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Visa Koivunen,
Helsinki Univ. of Technology, FinlandAbstract: A brief overview of different MIMO radar concepts is provided. The performance of statistical MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) radar configurations that use distributed antennas is analyzed in detail. Statistical MIMO radars exploit angular diversity to mitigate the impact of radar cross section (RCS) fluctuations. The fluctuations can be modeled with the Swerling scattering model consisting of four different cases with either fast or slow target RCS fluctuations. In this paper, the performance of different statistical MIMO radar configurations is compared in the different Swerling cases. Both target detection and direction of arrival estimation tasks are considered.We derive the optimal test statistics for target detection for non-orthogonal waveforms in all the Swerling cases in single-pulse as well as multi-pulse scenarios. In the direction finding task, confidence bounds of the squared estimation error of the different configurations are compared. The comparison is done in terms of the confidence bounds as the Cramer-Rao bounds are not defined for all the cases and configurations. The pros and cons of the angular diversity and each radar configuration are pointed out in different fluctuation scenarios.If time allows, beampattern optimization in MIMO radar will be considered as well.This is joint work with my student Tuomas AittomäkiBiography: Visa Koivunen (Senior Member, IEEE) received his D.Sc. (Tech) degree with honors from the University of Oulu, Dept. of Electrical Engineering. He received the primus doctor (best graduate) award among the doctoral graduates in years 1989-1994. From 1992 to 1995 he was a visiting researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Since 1999 he has been a Professor of Signal Processing at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Finland. He is one of the Principal Investigators in SMARAD (Smart Radios and Wireless Systems) Center of Excellence in Radio and Communications Engineering nominated by the Academy of Finland. Years 2003-2007 he was also adjunct full professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. During his sabbatical leave in 2006-2007 he was Visiting Fellow at Nokia Research Center as well as visiting fellow at Princeton University. Year 2009 he was appointed to Academy of Finland distinguished professor position until year 2014.Dr. Koivunen's research interest include statistical, communications and sensor array signal processing. He has published about 300 papers in international scientific conferences and journals. He co-authored the several papers receiving the best papers in conferences. He has been awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society best paper award for the year 2007 (co-authored with J. Eriksson). He is member of the IEEE SAM and SPCOM technical committees.Host: Andreas Molisch, 04670, EEB 530, molisch@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Advanced System Safety Analysis - Nov.9-13, 2009
Mon, Nov 09, 2009
Aviation Safety and Security Program
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
ADVSS 10-1
For more information and to register for Aviation Safety and Security Program courses, please visit http://viterbi.usc.edu/aviation.Audiences: Registered Audiences Only
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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BME 533 (Seminar in Biomedical Engineering)
Mon, Nov 09, 2009 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Leonid Litvak, PhD, Scientist Fellow, Auditory R&D, Advanced Bionics Corporation, Sylmar, and
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, USC:
"Novel signal-processing strategies for cochlear implants"Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Graduate Students/Faculty
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Greedy Routing with Guaranteed Delivery Using Ricci Flows
Mon, Nov 09, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Dr. Jie Gao
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science,
Stony Brook UniversityAbstract: Greedy forwarding with geographical locations in a wireless sensor
network may fail at a local minimum. In this paper we propose to use conformal
mapping to compute a new embedding of the sensor nodes in the plane such that
greedy forwarding with the virtual coordinates guarantees delivery. In
particular, we extract a planar triangulation of the sensor network with nontriangular
faces as holes, by either using the nodes location or using a
landmark‐based scheme without node location. The conformal map is computed with
Ricci flow such that all the non‐triangular faces are mapped to perfect circles.
Thus greedy forwarding will never get stuck at an intermediate node. The
computation of the conformal map and the virtual coordinates is performed at a
preprocessing phase and can be implemented by local gossip‐style computation. The
method applies to both unit disk graph models and quasi‐unit disk graph models.
Simulation results are presented for these scenarios.
This is joint work with Rik Sarkar, Xiaotian Yin, Feng Luo and Xianfeng David Gu.
Bio: Jie Gao is currently an assistant professor at Department of Computer
Science, Stony Brook University. She received Ph.D from Computer Science
department, Stanford University in 2004 and B.S. from the special class for the
gifted young, University of Science and Technology of China in 1999. She works on
algorithms, sensor networks, and computational geometry. She received NSF CAREER
award in 2006 and she is an associate editor of ACM Transaction on Sensor
Networks.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Shane Goodoff
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Threat And Error Management Development - Nov.10-12, 2009
Tue, Nov 10, 2009
Aviation Safety and Security Program
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
TEM 10-1
For more information and to register for Aviation Safety and Security Program courses, please visit http://viterbi.usc.edu/aviation.Audiences: Registered Audiences Only
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Control Science, Artificial Intelligence and the Use of Statistical Methods
Tue, Nov 10, 2009 @ 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Distinguished Lecturer Series
Dr. Roger Brockett, Harvard UniversityAbstract:
When first discussed by Wiener, cybernetics captured the imagination of the scientific public and served as the rallying cry for groups of scientists and engineers seeking a broadly encompassing view of what engineering and life scientists might hope to achieve by working together. Aided by the work of luminaries such as John von Neumann and Claude Shannon, a rosy picture emerged, warmed by the aura of mathematical truth. Looking back, it seems fair to say that the results achieved by this movement in the 50's and 60's are more apparent in terms of the organizations and journals that flourished, rather than the new modes of thought that emerged. When the proponents of artificial intelligence came along a bit later, cybernetics was not able to hold its ground. The same fate awaited artificial intelligence as its first summer soon fell prey to the famous A. I. winter during which it lost considerable credibility. However, today we have, for example, robots that do our work and search engines that supplement our memory, fulfilling at least part of the vision that fueled the early hopes for cybernetics. In this talk we will trace this history and peer into the future, interpreting the various stages of these developments in terms of the mathematical paradigms each stage relied on. In a nutshell, Wiener set the world down a path dominated by continuous mathematics, Fourier transforms, and stationary stochastic processes. A. I. took different path based on the expectation that loosely structured computer programs could replicate in machine form, most of what was needed. Neither was entirely successful. At the present time, data collection and data processing are important parts of many of the more impressive real time applications. It will be argued that to attain the "broadly encompassing view of information processing in engineering and life science" sought by earlier researchers we must find a suitable place for these topics as well. Some examples will be given.Biography:
Roger Brockett is the An Wang professor of electrical engineering and Computer Science at Harvard University. He has been exploring questions in engineering and applied sciences since starting graduate school in 1960, and has been teaching since his appointment as an Assistant Professor at MIT in 1963. He is one of the most influential pioneers and leaders in the field of systems and control theory with seminal contributions to differential geometric methods in nonlinear control, the geometric approach to the sufficient statistics problem in nonlinear estimation, formal languages for motion control, hybrid systems, flows for computation related to integrable systems, stabilization theory, quantum control, and, most recently, optimal control of Markov processes. He has received major awards from IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics), and AACC (American Automatic Control Council), is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and is this year recipient of the IEEE Leon Kirchmayer Award for Graduate Education. He has directed more than 60 Ph.D. theses and authored about 200 research papers.Reception to follow
SAL Lobby
4:45PM - 5:30PM
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - -101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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CS Colloq: Matt Zucker
Tue, Nov 10, 2009 @ 04:00 PM - 05:50 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Title: Combining Planning and Optimization for Rough Terrain LocomotionAbstract:Motion planning for rough-terrain legged robots is a difficult task, not only due to the high dimensionality of robot configuration spaces, but also due to the variety of kinematic, dynamic, and collision constraints which need to be met at all times. While producing optimal walking behavior is desirable, searching the space of all posible robot motions remains intractible for non-trival robotic systems. In this talk, I describe a hierarchy of planning and optimization algorithms that decomposes the planning problem into a sequence of decisions which can be efficiently solved in order to produce real-time locomotion over rough terrain. My software architecture has been successfully used over the past year to guide the LittleDog quadruped robot over a variety of terrain types. Beyond this specific software architecture, I will also discuss the ways in which machine learning and optimization techniques can increase the speed and quality of motion planning algorithms, and highlight lessons learned on how to decompose a high-level planning task into a tractable set of sub-problems.Bio:Matt Zucker is a Ph.D. candidate at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he works on motion planning for high degree-of-freedom robotic platforms. His research focuses on leveraging numerical optimization and machine learning techniques in order to improve planning speed and quality. Before graduate school, Matt worked from 2000-2005 writing software for autonomous underwater vehicles at Bluefin Robotics Corporation in Cambridge, MA. He expects to graduate from the Robotics Institute in the summer of 2010.Host: Prof. Stefan Schaal
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Front Desk
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Two Applications of Computational Electromagnetics: ...
Wed, Nov 11, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
...Moving Objects with the Force of Light and Improving Solar Cell Performance. Speaker: Dr. Michelle L. Povinelli, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California Abstract: In the first part of the talk, I will discuss how light can be used to move and reposition microscale objects. Our work has demonstrated novel applications of optical forces within integrated microphotonic devices-a type of "optical circuits" that use light rather than electrons to carry information. I will present designs for devices that rotate the polarization of light by taking advantage of light forces. In the second part of the talk, I will discuss how computational electromagnetic modeling can be used to design higher-efficiency solar cells. We calculate the optical absorption of vertically aligned silicon nanowire arrays. We optimize the ultimate efficiency of the solar cell with respect to filling ratio and lattice constant. We identify two enhancement mechanisms, an increase in field concentration within the nanowire and the excitation of guided resonance modes. Our results show that an optimized silicon nanowire array can have higher efficiency that a solid thin film. Michelle Povinelli is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and holder of the WiSE Jr. Gabilan Chair at the University of Southern California. She is a recipient of a NSF CAREER Award and an Army Young Investigator Award. She received a BA from the University of Chicago, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where she studied as a Churchill Scholar, and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in Physics. She completed postdoctoral research in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University and was selected as one of five national recipients of a L'Oreal For Women in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has co-authored over twenty-five refereed journal articles and holds two US Patents.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Gravity Currents Propagating Over an Array of Bottom Obstacles
Wed, Nov 11, 2009 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
George Contantinescu Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringIIHR-Hydroscience and EngineeringUniversity of IowaIowa City, IA 52242 Highly resolved 3-D Large Eddy Simulation (LES) is used to study the interaction between a lock-exchange gravity current with a large volume of release and an array of bottom-mounted large-scale obstacles in the form of 2-D dunes or square ribs. The study of the interaction between a gravity current and an array of obstacles is important for many practical applications. For example, arrays of obstacles are often used as protective measures on the hilly terrains and on the skirts of the mountains to stop or slow down gravity currents in the form of powder-snow avalanches. Even if they do not arrest the flow, the retarding obstacles reduce the impact of the avalanche with the buildings situated downstream of the obstacles. The temporal variation of the impact forces on the obstacles is analyzed. This information is needed for the design of the retarding obstacles. Additionally, simulation results are used to understanding how this variation is related to the passage of the backward propagating hydraulic jumps and the different flow structures that develop within the flow. The loose bed surface over which the gravity current propagates in the environment is often not flat. Bed forms, typically in the form of ripples, dunes or anti-dunes are present at the seafloor or river bed. The presence of large-scale bedforms provides an additional mechanism for energy dissipation and can substantially modify the capacity of a compositional gravity current to entrain sediment with respect to the case of a flat bed. LES is used to understand how the shape and the relative size of the large-scale obstacles (roughness elements) affect the front velocity, the structure of the current, the energy balance, the bed shear distributions and sediment entrainment capacity of the current as it propagates over a loose bed. Finally, scale effects are investigated between Reynolds numbers at which most of the laboratory studies are conducted (Re~104)
Location: Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, Rm 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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A Novel Approach to C-to-HDL Compilation for FPGA Accelerators
Wed, Nov 11, 2009 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
ABSTRACT:
While FPGA-based hardware accelerators have repeatedly been demonstrated as a viable option for faster computing with very large speed-ups, their programmability remains a major barrier to their wider acceptance by application code developers. These platforms are typically programmed in a low level hardware description language, a skill not common among application developers and a process that is often tedious and error-prone. Programming FPGAs from high-level languages would provide easier integration with software systems as well as open up hardware accelerators to a wider spectrum of application developers. SHORT BIO:
Walid A. Najjar is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California Riverside. His research interests are in the fields of computer architecture and compiler optimizations, embedded systems and sensor networks. Lately, he has been very active in the area of compilation for FPGA-based code acceleration and reconfigurable computing. NSF, DARPA and various industry sponsors have supported his research. He received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1979 and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1985 and 1988 respectively. He was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Colorado State University (from 1989 to 2000), before that he was with the USC- Information Sciences Institute. He currently serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Computer Architecture Letters. He has served on the program committees for a number of leading conferences including FPL, FPT, CASES, ISSS-CODES, DATE, Computing Frontiers, ICCD, HPCA, and MICRO. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Hosted by Prof. Viktor K. PrasannaLocation: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - -122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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CS Colloq: Prof. Vishal Misra
Thu, Nov 12, 2009 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Vishal Misra, Columbia University Title: A Shapley Value approach to Internet EconomicsHost: Prof. Leana GolubchikAbstract:Internet service providers (ISPs) depend on one another to provide global network services. However, the profit-seeking nature of the ISPs leads to selfish behaviors that result in inefficiencies and disputes in the network. From a macroscopic view, this concern is at the heart of the Network Neutrality debate, which asks for an appropriate compensation structure that satisfies all types of ISPs and content providers.In this work, we design a profit-sharing mechanism based on the Shapley value originated from Coalition Game Theory. We derive closed-form profit solutions for structured ISP topologies and develop a dynamic programming procedure to calculate solutions for general topologies. Based on these solutions, we draw some implications on the bilateral settlements between ISPs. In practice, these results provide guidelines for ISPs to solve disputes and negotiate stable and incentive settlements and for governments to establish regulatory policies for the Internet industry.We then further extend the concept of Shapley Values to the scenario of Peer to Peer systems, where the Peers get compensated for reducing the cost of content distribution In general, the drawback of the Shapley Value mechanism is its computational complexity. We prove that this it is not the case for (very) large systems. As the number of peers receiving the service becomes large, the Shapley value received by each player approaches a hybrid fluid- atomic limit, leading to a simple closed form expression for any cost function, and simplifies even further in some scenarios of interest. We apply our technique to several scenarios for wired and wireless networks, proving that it leads to stable structure providing savings for bandwidth and energy costs.Bio:Vishal Misra is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University. He has received an NSF CAREER Award, a DoE CAREER Award and IBM Faculty Awards. His research emphasis is on mathematical modeling of computer systems, bridging the gap between practice and analysis. His recent work includes the areas of Internet economics, wireless, scheduling mechanisms and peer to peer systems. He has served as the guest editor for the Journal of Performance Evaluation, was TPC co-chair of Sigmetrics 2008, and serves on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and Elsevir Journal of Performance Evaluation.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Front Desk
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; Idealab: Engineering the Innovation Process
Fri, Nov 13, 2009 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Brad Hines, Vice President of Engineering for Idealab, will present "Idealab: Engineering the Innovation Process" as part of the W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admissions & Student Affairs
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The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind
Fri, Nov 13, 2009 @ 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Professor Robert B. Laughlin (1998 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Stanford University delivers the 2009 Munushian Seminar. "There is increasing talk about the disappearance of technical knowledge from the public domain, both because it is a security danger and because it is economically valuable. I argue that this development is not anomalous at all but a great historic trend tied to our transition to the information age. We are in the process of losing a human right that all of us thought we had but actually didn't - the right to learn things as we can and better ourselves economically from what we learn. Increasingly, figuring out important things (as opposed to unimportant ones) for yourself will become theft and terrorism. Increasingly, reason itself will become a crime."Prof. Laughlin earned an AB in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1972 and a
PhD in Physics from MIT in 1981. He served two years in the US Army.
After MIT he went to the Bell Labs theory group and from there to the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he still consults. He joined
the physics faculty of Stanford in 1984. He is a member of the National
Academy of Sciences and has won many prestigious awards, including the
Oliver E. Buckley Prize, and Earnest O. Lawrence Award, the Benjamin
Franklin Medal for Physics and the Onsager Medal. He shared the 1998 Nobel
Prize in Physics for his theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 124
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Eric Mankin
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Throughput Optimal Opportunistic Scheduling in the Presence of Flow-Level Dynamics
Fri, Nov 13, 2009 @ 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract:
Multiuser scheduling is one of the core challenges in wireless communications. Due to channel
fading and wireless interference, scheduling algorithms need to dynamically allocate resources
based on both the demands of the users and the channel states to maximize network throughput.
Recently, it has been shown that the MaxWeight algorithm, which is throughput-optimal in
networks with a fixed number of users, fails to achieve the maximum throughput in the presence
of flow-level dynamics. In this talk, we introduce a new class of scheduling algorithms, called
workload-based scheduling with learning, which are provably throughput-optimal, require no
prior knowledge of channels and user demands, and perform significantly better than previously
suggested algorithms.
Dr. Lei Ying
Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
Bio:
Lei Ying received his B.E. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2001, his M.S. and
Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003 and
2007, respectively. During Fall 2007, he worked as a Postdoctoral fellow in the University of
Texas at Austin. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. His research interest is broadly in the area of
communication networks, including wireless communication networks, wireless sensor
networks, P2P networks, and distributed algorithms. He received a Young Investigator Award
from the Defense Thread Reduction Agency (DTRA) in 2009.
Host: Bhaskar KrishnamachariLocation: Frank R. Seaver Science Center (SSC) - 319
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Shane Goodoff
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Gas Turbine Engine Accident Investigation - Nov.16-20, 2009
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
Aviation Safety and Security Program
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
GTAI 10-1
For more information and to register for Aviation Safety and Security Program courses, please visit http://viterbi.usc.edu/aviation.Audiences: Registered Audiences Only
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Human Error Analysis For System Safety - Nov.16-17, 2009
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
Aviation Safety and Security Program
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
HEASS 10-1
For more information and to register for Aviation Safety and Security Program courses, please visit http://viterbi.usc.edu/aviation.Audiences: Registered Audiences Only
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Reliable Circuits and Systems
Mon, Nov 16, 2009 @ 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract: As devices become smaller, circuits and systems are more vulnerable to soft errors caused by radiation and other environmental upsets. Fault tolerance measured by mean time to failure (MTTF) is desired, especially if no extra area, power and delay and little change of the existing design flow are introduced.
Using FPGA and internet router as a testbed, this talk first presents fault tolerance techniques applying (1) logic don't care and path re-convergence (ROSE) and (2) in-place logic re-writing (IPR). Both increase MTTF by 2X with little or no overhead. Particularly, IPR does not change circuit placement and routing, and can be readily used with the existing industrial design flow. It also leads to a self evolution method to enhance fault tolerance
for FPGA based circuits and systems. Finally, I will briefly introduce other ongoing research at my group related to reliability, including circuit tuning for device aging, robust analog circuit, and system-level reliability for cyber-physical systems such as hybrid/plug-in cars and renewal energy storage.Bio: Dr. Lei He is an associate professor at UCLA’s electrical engineering department, and was a faculty member at University of Wisconsin, Madison between 1999 and 2001. He also held visiting or consulting positions with Intel, Hewlett-Package, Cadence and Synopsys, was a technical advisory board member for Rio Design Automation, and Apache Design Solutions, and is a guest professor at Fudan University at Shanghai and China National Laboratory for Optoelectronics. His research interests include electronic design automation, VLSI circuits and systems, and cyber-physical systems. He has published one book and over 200 technical papers and has been a technical program committee member for a number of conferences including Design Automation Conference, International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Array, and International Symposium on Physical Design. Dr. He was granted the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2000, UCLA Chancellor's faculty career development award in 2003, IBM Faculty Award in 2003, and Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching award in 2005. Host: Prof. Massoud Pedram, pedram@ceng.usc.eduLocation: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 349
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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BME 533 (Seminar in Biomedical Engineering)
Mon, Nov 16, 2009 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Thomas P. Keens, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology & Biophysics, USC & Chair,
Committee on Clinical Investigations, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles: "Protecting Human Research Subjects"Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Graduate Students/Faculty
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Gas-Phase Nanomaterials Synthesis and In-Situ Laser-Based Diagnostics
Wed, Nov 18, 2009 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Stephen D. Tse Associate Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Rutgers—the State University of New Jersey Piscataway, NJ sdytse@rci.rutgers.edu Gas-phase synthesis of materials has demonstrated a history of scalability and offers the potential for high-volume commercial production, at reduced costs. Flame synthesis of ceramic oxide nanoparticles and semiconducting metal-oxide nanostructures will be discussed. Plasma synthesis affords the synthesis of non-oxide materials, such as Group III-Nitride nanopowders, which will be discussed. Al2O3 and TiO2 nanoparticles are produced from corresponding organometallic vapor precursors using an axisymmetric stagnation-point premixed flat flame impinging on a cooled substrate under uniform electric field application. Other nanostructures, such as WO2.9 nanowires, ZnO nanoribbons, and MO2 nanoplates are also synthesized, whereby growth occurs by the vapor-solid mechanism, with local gas-phase temperature and chemical species strategically specified at the substrate for self-synthesis. Finally, cubic-BN and cubic-GaN nanopowders (which are especially attractive for photonic and structural applications) are synthesized using a plasma process, for subsequent consolidation into bulk nanomaterials. Laser-based spectroscopy is utilized to characterize the gas-phase flow field (e.g. temperature, species concentrations). Additionally, a novel technique of using Raman spectroscopy to diagnose nanoparticle presence and characteristics (in aerosol form) during synthesis has been applied. This technique serves as a sensitive and reliable way to characterize particle composition and crystallinity (e.g. anatase versus rutile) and delineate the phase conversion of nanoparticles as they evolve in the flow field.
Location: Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, Rm 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Academy Lecture Series
Wed, Nov 18, 2009 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Join us for the final speaker of the Academy Lecture Series!Featured Speaker: Dr. Christina D. SmolkeDr. Smolke is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. She conducted her graduate training as a National Science Foundation Fellow at UC Berkeley and conducted her postdoctoral training as a National Institutes of Health Fellow in Cell Biology. She has pioneered a research program focused on developing foundational technologies for the design and construction of engineered ligand-responsive RNA-based regulatory molecules, their integration into cellular computation and signal integration strategies, and their reliable implementation into diverse cellular engineering applications. These technologies allow regulation of targeted gene expression levels.Dr. Smolke has been recognized with the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Beckman Young Investigator Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, World Technology Network Award in Biotechnology, and has been listed as one of Technology Review's Top 100 Young Innovators in the World.She is a USC alumna of the Chemical Engineering Department!
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Freshmen Students
Contact: Freshmen Academies
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Conjugate nanostructures and their potential applications
Thu, Nov 19, 2009
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Distinguished Lecture SeriesPresentsRina TannenbaumGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAbstract:Abstract:
sciences and engineering. On the one hand, extensive research in the last two decades focused on the
chemical and physical properties of nanoscale metal and semiconductor materials and their potential
applications
recent insight into the genetic and molecular underpinnings of cellular bioprocesses, indicate an
immediate
resulting
of
component nanoscale structures that encompass the various functionalities necessary for the inâ€ï¿½situ,
simultaneous identification, mapping, targeting and destruction of cancer cells, which may afford the
opportunity of a paradigm shift in the area of cancer therapy. The lecture will be accessible to a broad
audienceBio:
Physical Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and her D.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from
ETH
Research Society (MRS), and American Physical Society (APS). Dr. Tannenbaum is the author of a book,
several book chapters and over 50 refereed journal publications. She has received the Henry Gutwirth
Prize
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 200
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce Sapir
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WiSE Breakfast Roundtable with  Professor Rina TannenbaumÂ
Thu, Nov 19, 2009 @ 09:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 107
Audiences: All interested faculty and students (undergraduate and graduate) are invited to attend
Contact: Petra Pearce Sapir
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CS Colloq: Dr. Marco Papa
Thu, Nov 19, 2009 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Title: The Radio for iPhone App ecosystem: A Case Study Speaker: Dr. Marco Papa (Intersect World LLC) Host: Prof. Ellis Horowitz Abstract:
With over 100,000 apps, 50,000 independent developers and two billion downloads, iPhone App development is one of the few job descriptions that have withstood the economy downturn. Many of the iPhone Apps make use of a number of Web Technologies: HTTP, HTML, XML, XSLT, JSON, CGI Perl, PHP, and Java. Using the Radio App for the iPhone as an example, this talk will provide a behind the scenes look at the role that these Web Technologies have had in helping develop, deliver, market, maintain and monitor one such application. Bio:
Marco Papa is currently Chief Technologist and Manager of Training and Research at the Los Angeles Superior Court, the largest Court system in the world. He is also a lecturer in Web Technologies at USC and the owner of Intersect World LLC, an IP consulting and iPhone development company. He received a BS in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. From 1994 to 2002 Dr. Papa held the positions of CTO at Luckman Interactive and CareerPath, and Vice President of Engineering at US Interactive and Xceed.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Front Desk
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National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Region VI Fall Regional Conference
Fri, Nov 20, 2009 @ 07:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
More details at http://www.wix.com/RegionVIevents/FRC-Events-PageEmail us at nsbe@usc.edu
Location: Long Beach, California
Audiences: Members of NSBE's USC chapter
Contact: National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; Airborne Laser Program
Fri, Nov 20, 2009 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Guy Renard, Airborne Laser Program Manager of Northrop Grumman, will present "Airborne Laser Program" as part of the W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admissions & Student Affairs
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AB 32 Scoping Plan Implementation
Fri, Nov 20, 2009 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Hung-Li (Robert) Chang, Ph.D., California Environmental Protection Agency, Air Resources Board, Mobile Source Control Division, Emission Research and Regulatory Development BranchAbsract:
On September 27, 2006, Governor Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Núñez, Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006). The event marked a watershed moment in California's history. By requiring in law a reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, California set the stage for its transition to a sustainable, clean energy future. This historic step also helped put climate change on the national agenda, and has spurred action by many other states. The California Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) is the lead agency for implementing AB 32, which set the major milestones for establishing the program. ARB met the first
milestones in 2007: developing a list of discrete early actions to begin reducing greenhouse gas emissions, assembling an inventory of historic emissions, establishing greenhouse gas emission reporting requirements, and setting the 2020 emissions limit.The Assembly Bill 32 Scoping Plan contains the main strategies California will use to reduce the greenhouse gases (GHG) that cause climate change. The scoping plan has a range of GHG reduction actions which include direct regulations, alternative compliance mechanisms, monetary and non-monetary incentives, voluntary actions, market-based mechanisms such as a cap-and-trade system, and an AB 32 cost of implementation fee regulation to fund the program. The proposed scoping plan was released on October 15, 2008 and approved at the Board hearing on December 12, 2008.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Intergrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Nov 20, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Information Processing for Future Healthcare SystemsProf. Dejan Markovic
UCLAAbstract: The talk will present methods for practical realization of sophisticated digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms for healthcare applications that require many-channel electrophysiological recordings. An automated architecture design framework will generate dual output: real-time solution that meets power density constraints of medical implants, and solution for accelerated processing by hardware emulation. Orders of magnitude improvements in the number of recording channels and decreased hardware cost will be demonstrated. A real-time implantable DSP chip will demonstrate simultaneous processing of 64 channels, with over 90% data compression for wireless telemetry. A DSP architecture for hardware emulation can achieve a 10,000 times speed-up in data processing compared to state-of-the-art computers. A successful integration of neural-data processing will significantly advance many applications such as visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive prosthetics. Methods for achieving faster analysis of electrophysiological data will provide neuroscientists quicker access to important research data and improve the overall quality of living for persons with neurological disorders. The methods presented here are also applicable to other emerging biomedical applications that require energy- and cost-efficient data processing.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
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National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Region VI Fall Regional Conference
Sat, Nov 21, 2009 @ 07:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
More details at http://www.wix.com/RegionVIevents/FRC-Events-PageEmail us at nsbe@usc.edu
Location: Long Beach, California
Audiences: Members of NSBE's USC chapter
Contact: National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
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National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Region VI Fall Regional Conference
Sun, Nov 22, 2009 @ 07:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
More details at http://www.wix.com/RegionVIevents/FRC-Events-PageEmail us at nsbe@usc.edu
Location: Long Beach, California
Audiences: Members of NSBE's USC chapter
Contact: National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
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BME 533 (Seminar in Biomedical Engineering)
Mon, Nov 23, 2009 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Ming Wu, PhD, Vice President Engineering, Advanced Materials Technology, Edwards
Lifesciences Corp., Irvine, CA:
"Device Innovation in The Heart Valve Industry"Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Graduate Students/Faculty
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Modeling of Multi-Scale Continuum-Atomistic System Using Homogenization Theory
Wed, Nov 25, 2009 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Oral Defense by: Karthikeyan Chockalingam, Ph.D. Candidate, USC, Astani Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringThe main objective of the dissertation is to develop multi-scale algorithms for continuum-atomistic problems. The focus is on sequential multi-scale simulations. In sequential multi-scale methods, the computations at the various scales are, in a sense, decoupled. This means, for example, that, for a continuum/atomistic simulation, large scale macroscopic continuum calculations rely on the results of fine scale computations and information obtained on an atomistic cell. While the procedures developed in this thesis could be used in conjunction with a number of sequential multi-scale methods, the focus here is on the homogenization technique. As has been the case in traditional finite element applications of homogenization, one of the principal focuses in this thesis will be on the computation of macro scale constitutive parameters; but, in this case, these constitutive representations come from the atomistic calculations.The thesis has four parts that develop various aspects of the theme of the work. The dissertation focuses on the following applications:1. Problems involving mechanical loading of solids and structures under static load at zero temperature.The focus is on creating multi-scale continuum/atomistic simulation methods which use the atomistic model to provide an improved material representation including the effects of material defects. This topic could be useful in modeling fracture and failure.2. Computation of thermo-mechanical constitutive parameters at finite temperature conditions.This procedure focuses on using the atomistic scale calculation to define constitutive parameters. It assumes that equilibrium conditions exist at the atomistic scale. It does not attempt to track, in a time history sense, the dynamics at the atomistic scale. It does require the solution of an atomistic free vibration problem with natural frequencies dependent on temperature. The procedure defines macroscopic thermo-mechanical constitutive parameters, like the specific heat and the coefficient of thermal expansion, as a function of temperature. These properties could be used directly in a macroscopic continuum finite element model which would be valid at the full range of temperatures.3. Dynamic problems involving the simulation of the thermo-mechanical behavior of systems at finite temperature, with and without heat transfer.This procedure focuses on using the atomistic scale calculation to define multi-scale, thermo-mechanical momentum and energy equations. It does attempt to track, in a time history sense, the dynamics at the atomistic scale. Energy equations are derived for both the scales based on first law of thermo-dynamics. Two types of application problems are used to demonstrate the theory. The first involves thermal stress analysis simulation in which the temperature has no time variability and, thus, no heat transfer occurs. The second involves simulations with time varying temperatures and include heat transfer effects. 4. Implicit time integrations algorithms for atomistic momentum equations that can be seamlessly coupled to macro models.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Human Factors In Aviation Safety - Nov.30-Dec.4, 2009
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
Aviation Safety and Security Program
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
HFH 10-2
For more information and to register for Aviation Safety and Security Program courses, please visit http://viterbi.usc.edu/aviation.Audiences: Registered Audiences Only
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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BME 533 (Seminar in Biomedical Engineering)
Mon, Nov 30, 2009 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Pin Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, USC:
"Engineering Viral Vectors for Genetic Modification of Immune Cells"Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Graduate Students/Faculty
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
