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Events for November 09, 2011
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AOE Enginerd T-shirt Sales
Wed, Nov 09, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Alpha Omega Epsilon is selling Enginerd T-shirts as a fundraiser for our engineering sorority. Please support us by purchasing one of our 4 designs! Go to uscaoe.webstarts.com for more information and contact info.
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alpha Omega Epsilon USC
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Corral de Piedras (CDP) Project Meeting
Wed, Nov 09, 2011 @ 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come join EWB's Corral de Piedras (CDP) Project Meetings! In CDP, we are building a rainwater catchment system on a schoolhouse for the kids to drink water during school, with plans on expanding the system further.
Questions/Comments? Feel free to email us at EWB@usc.edu!
*Note: Original location for this project meeting was at KAP but it is changed to VKC 154! See you all there!Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - 154
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
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AME Department Seminar
Wed, Nov 09, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Matthew West. Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Urbana-Champaign, Illinois., Assistant Professor
Talk Title: Variance Reduction for Efficient Stochastic Particle Simulation and Estimation
Abstract: Stochastic particle methods are efficient numerical algorithms for the simulation and estimation of high-dimensional systems, such as population balance models for aerosol suspensions and particle filters for nonlinear filtering. While particle methods avoid the curse of dimensionality that limits grid-based numerical schemes in high dimensions, they can still be very expensive as the number of particles becomes large.
In this talk we present two new variance reduction schemes for particle methods for Markov jump systems. The first variance reduction scheme uses particle weighting functions for a single simulation to enable variable and adaptive resolution in particle space, thereby focusing computational resources on the system components contributing the greatest variance. The second variance reduction scheme couples multiple simulations in an anti-correlated ensemble by extending the classical antithetic and stratified sampling techniques to time-evolution Markov systems. Both of these variance reduction techniques are able to accelerate particle methods for stochastic jump systems by several orders of magnitude.
We apply these new reduced-variance particles methods to simulation and estimation problems in atmospheric aerosol dynamics and chemistry. By using variance reduction, we are able to simulate the largest particle-resolved models to date of ship-plume emissions and polluted urban scenarios, thus giving new insight into aerosol mixing states and their climate and health impacts.
Biography: Matthew West is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Illinois he was on the faculty of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University and the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Davis. Prof. West holds a Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology and a B.Sc. in Pure and Applied Mathematics from the University of Western Australia.
Host: Prof. E. Kanso
More Info: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcomingLocation: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming
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Discovery: A Trans-Pacific Curatorial Experiment
Wed, Nov 09, 2011 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Refreshments will be served.
In the future, will everyone be a curator for fifteen minutes? Join us for a discussion about bridging cultures, digital memory and the future of libraries, museums and interactive media. The USC Libraries collaborated with digital libraries at universities in the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance to create a crowd-sourced exhibition about exploration and discovery. At www.usc.edu/libraries/transpacific, students from USC and Asian, Australian and North American universities will be able to vote on and discuss images from digital collections that express the idea of discovery. The results will be displayed in an exhibition at Doheny Memorial Library.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a panel discussion will feature Anne Balsamo, a USC professor of interactive media whose work focuses on the relationship between culture and technology; Paolina Martin, acting head of the Li Ka Shing Library at Singapore Management University; and representatives from digital libraries across the Pacific Rim who are taking part in this curatorial experiment. The panelists will reflect on cross-cultural understanding, the nature of universal ideas like discovery, the rapidly transforming Pacific Rim media landscape and possibilities for future forms of curation and engagement with museum and library collections.
Organized by the USC Libraries.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Microsoft Tech Talk
Wed, Nov 09, 2011 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Come hear MS Program Manager Josh Phillips discuss his work and the features of the highly anticipated release of Windows Phone 7.5
More Information: USC Tech talk ad.pdf
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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General Meeting 9: Medtronics
Wed, Nov 09, 2011 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Thinking about Industry? Come to this meeting to meet and mingle with Dr. Kaufman from Medtronics. Dr. Kaufman will talk about her work in diabetes and how she got to where she is now. She will also discuss major projects and products that she has worked on at Medtronic.
Location: TCC 227
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Industry Night with HATCI (Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center Inc.)
Wed, Nov 09, 2011 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael Csakan, Senior Engineer of Vibration & Noise
Talk Title: Industry Night with HATCI (Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center Inc.)
Abstract: Are you interested in the auto industry? Love cars? Want to know what itâs like to work for one of the biggest automobile companies out there? Then be sure to bring yourself to this monthâs Industry Night presented by Pi Tau Sigma and Sigma Gamma Tau:
Michael Csakan
Senior Engineer of Vibration & Noise
HATCI (Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center Inc.)
Wednesday, November 9th 6:30-7:30 pm
SGM 101
Michael is an SC alumnus, and has worked for other major car companies in the past. He will be giving an overview of the automotive process, from styling to development to production. He will be focusing on the NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) aspect of vehicle development, and may also answer questions you have about specialties in the auto industry.
Be sure to take advantage of this great opportunity!
Host: Pi Tau Sigma
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Felipe Figueroa
