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USC Transfer Day: Engineering & Admission Talk, Financial Aid Presentation, Tour and Advisement
Fri, Nov 13, 2009 @ 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Transfer Day is a full day program that features a Viterbi School of Engineering workshop. The program also includes a campus tour and special presentations for transfer students about admission, financial aid, and transfer credit. In addition, Viterbi transfer counselors will be available for individual coursework advisement on a first-come, first-serve basis in the afternoon following the program (transcripts required for advisement). Reservations required. Please call (213) 740-6616 for more information and to make a reservation.
Location: USC University Park Campus
Audiences: Prospective transfer students and families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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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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AIAA Aircraft Design Team Meeting
Fri, Nov 13, 2009 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
This Friday is the 5th design team meeting for the AIAA Undergraduate Aircraft Design Team. Come join us in learning the intricacies involved in designing an environmentally friendly and innovative commercial transport aircraft. It's not too late to be a part of the team!If you have any questions, contact AIAA at aiaa@usc.edu
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: -- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
