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  • On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...

    Wed, Nov 09, 2005

    Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission

    Receptions & Special Events


    Admission Interviews are available to freshman applicants throughout the Fall until December 16, 2005. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online.http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/

    Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2006

    Contact: Viterbi Admission

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  • On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...

    Wed, Nov 09, 2005

    Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission

    Receptions & Special Events


    Admission Interviews are available to freshman applicants throughout the Fall until December 16, 2005. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online.http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/

    Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2006

    Contact: Viterbi Admission

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  • Meet USC (AM session)

    Wed, Nov 09, 2005 @ 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 call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!

    Location: USC Admission Center

    Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

    Contact: Viterbi Admission

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  • THE FUTURE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

    Wed, Nov 09, 2005 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    THE FUTURE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
    Shop Floors to Factories to Supply Chains to EnterprisesProf. William B. Rouse, DirectorTennenbaum Institute
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    (www.ti.gatech.edu)ABSTRACTIndustrial engineering is the engineering discipline that can assure that all the pieces fit together. Our perspectives, methods, and tools enable addressing the complexity of today's enterprises – large in scale, laced with uncertainties, and dynamic in function and form. We are the multi-discipline that understands and integrates across contributing disciplines from engineering, computing, management, and economics, as well as the physical, behavioral, and policy sciences. Our practitioners need to be expert in addressing cross-cutting strategic challenges of enterprises and our students need to be educated in the fundamentals of these challenges. Enterprises ranging from private sector companies to public sector government agencies are the domain of industrial engineering – the place where we make critical contributions to value-centered enterprises.

    Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - ontology Auditorium

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: James Moore II

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  • Meet USC (PM session)

    Wed, Nov 09, 2005 @ 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 call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!

    Location: USC Admission Center

    Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

    Contact: Viterbi Admission

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  • Exact quantum circuits for measuring entanglement

    Wed, Nov 09, 2005 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Dr. Hilary Carteret, University of CalgaryAbstract: There has recently been a lot of interest in techniques for measuring the non-local properties of a density matrix as efficiently as possible. These functions are often defined in terms of unphysical maps, such as the partial transpose. Previous proposed methods for measuring these quantities relied on full state tomography (very inefficient) or the Structural Physical Approximation, which adds large amounts of noise to shift the spectrum of the partially transposed density matrix to be positive, thus incurring a corresponding loss of sensitivity. The moments of the resulting modified density operator are measured using certain sets of generalized Mach-Zehnder interferometers and the spectrum can then be determined using a little algebra.I will show how to construct a family of simple circuits that can determine the spectrum of the partial transpose of a density matrix, without the addition of noise. These circuits depend only on the dimension of the density matrix and do not need any components that are not already required to determine the eigenspectrum of the original density matrix by interferometry. They measure the minimum amount of information required to determine the PT-spectrum completely and they will be exact up to experimental errors.If we get time, I can discuss some extensions to this construction which can be used to measure the concurrence and related entanglement monotones.Bio: Hilary Carteret was born in London, England. She did her D.Phil. in Mathematics at the University of York, working for Tony Sudbery. After six months working in the QOLS group in Imperial College, she moved to Canada, where she has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Waterloo (IQC) and then the Universite de Montreal. She has just moved to the new Institute for Quantum Information Science at the University of Calgary, to work with Barry Sanders.Host: Professor Todd A. Brun, tbrun@usc.edu, x. 03503

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

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Mayumi Thrasher

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  • Celebrating 100 Years of Engineering: A Special Lecture

    Wed, Nov 09, 2005 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM

    Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Receptions & Special Events


    MOVING UP IN THE RANKINGS
    Creating and Sustaining a World-Class Research UniversityProfessor William B. Rouse, DirectorTennenbaum Institute
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    (www.ti.gatech.edu)ABSTRACTThe globalization of university-based engineering education and research is associated with the creation of national and international "brands" by leading research universities. Such branding is reflected in rankings of universities and their programs. High brand visibility appears to lead to high rankings and vice versa. This presentation explores this phenomenon for university-based engineering programs. Attributes associated with ranking systems are discussed and universities' abilities to influence these attributes are considered. Both moving up in the rankings and sustaining highly-ranked positions are discussed. These issues are addressed both in general and for the specific case of Georgia Tech.Reception at 4:00, Presentation at 5:00. This special Centennial lecture is hosted for the Viterbi School of Engineering by the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.BioBill Rouse is a professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds a joint appointment within the College of Computing. He also serves as Executive Director of the university-wide Tennenbaum Institute for Enterprise Transformation. Rouse has over thirty years of experience in research, education, management, marketing, and engineering related to individual and organizational performance, decision support systems, and information systems. In these areas, he has consulted with over one hundred large and small enterprises in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, where he has worked with several thousand executives and senior managers. His expertise includes individual and organizational decision making and problem solving, as well as design of organizations and information systems. Rouse has written hundreds of articles and book chapters, and has authored many books, including most recently Essential Challenges of Strategic Management (Wiley, 2001) and the award-winning Don't Jump to Solutions (Jossey-Bass, 1998). He is co-editor of the best-selling Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management (Wiley, 1999) and edited the eight-volume series Human/Technology Interaction in Complex Systems (Elsevier). Among many advisory roles, he has served as Chair of the Committee on Human Factors of the National Research Council and as a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.Rouse is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. He has received the Joseph Wohl Outstanding Career Award and the Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society; a Centennial Medal and a Third Millennium Medal from IEEE; and the O. Hugo Schuck Award from the American Automation Control Council. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Engineering, and other biographical literature, and has been featured in publications such as Manager's Edge, Vision, Book-Talk, The Futurist, Competitive Edge, Design News, Quality & Excellence, and IIE Solutions. Rouse has served in a variety of leadership roles in several companies and on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also has served in visiting positions on the faculties of Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands and Tufts University. He received his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island, and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    Location: University Club

    Audiences: By Invitation, others wishing to attend should contact Georgia Lum (0-4885, <A HREF="mailto:

    Contact: Prof. James E. Moore, II

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  • Viterbi Student Council General Meeting

    Wed, Nov 09, 2005 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

    Student Activity


    VSC's general meeting!

    Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Viterbi Student Council

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  • Alcon Information Session

    Wed, Nov 09, 2005 @ 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 opportunities.

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

    Audiences: Undergraduate/Graduate Engineering Students

    Contact: Viterbi Career Services RTH 218

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