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Events for November 19, 2010
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 @ 01:00 AM - 01:00 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://usconnect.usc.edu/ 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: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Discover Engineering Day
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 @ 08:30 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
SHPE will be hosting Discover Engineering Day on Friday, November 19. We need volunteers to serve as mentors for high school students. We want to motivate students to pursue higher education, math, science and engineering. Volunteers will help by guiding them through interactive hands on activities that will introduce them to the different disciplines in engineering.
Find us on facebook (type in "Discover Engineering Day") or email shpe@usc.edu.Location: E-Quad
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you'll need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what you've learned. This course is presented in the classroom in three five-day sessions over a three-month period and in 10 weeks online.Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIE's Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.NOTE: Participants must bring a laptop computer running Microsoft Office® to the seminar.
Location: USC campus or Online
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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AME Department Seminar
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ãlisabeth Guazzelli , Associate Professor, IUSTI - CNRS, Polytech'Marseille
Talk Title: Falling Clouds of Particles
Abstract: The time evolution of clouds of particles settling under the action of gravity in an otherwise pure liquid is investigated both experimentally and numerically. It is found that an initially spherical cloud containing enough particles is unstable even in the complete absence of inertia. The cloud slowly evolves into a torus which breaks up into secondary droplets which deform into tori themselves in a repeating cascade. The discrete nature of the particles is fundamental in the understanding of these instabilities. Faster breakup is observed for clouds of anisotropic particles such as fibers due to the self motion of the anisotropic particles. When inertia is finite, the cloud also deforms into a flat torus that eventually destabilizes and breaks up into a number of secondary droplets. While this behavior bears some similarity with that observed at zero-inertia, the underlying physical mechanisms differ. Moreover, the evolution of the cloud deformation is accelerated as inertia is increased. Two inertial regimes where macro-scale inertia and micro-scale inertia become successively dominant are clearly identified.
Host: Dr. E. Kanso
More Info: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcomingLocation: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming
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Computing with Stochastic Processors: Embracing Errors in Architecture and Design of Processors and Applications
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Rakesh Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Talk Title: Computing with Stochastic Processors: Embracing Errors in Architecture and Design of Processors and Applications
Abstract: All of computing today relies on an abstraction where software expects the hardware to behave flawlessly for all inputs under all conditions. While the abstraction worked historically due to the relatively small magnitude of variations in hardware and environment, computing will increasingly be done with devices and circuits which are inherently stochastic or whose behavior is stochastic due to manufacturing and environmental uncertainties. For such emerging circuits/devices, the cost of maintaining the abstraction of flawless hardware will be prohibitive and we will need to fundamentally rethink the correctness contract between hardware and software. In our group, we are exploring a vision of computing systems where a) hardware and environmental variations are fully exposed to the highest layers of software in form errors, and b) hardware and software is optimized to maximize power savings afforded by relaxed correctness. We call the under-designed processors that produce stochastically correct results even under nominal conditions, stochastic processors. We call the applications that have been implemented to be adaptively error-tolerant, stochastic applications. In this talk, I will describe our recent approaches to architect and design stochastic processors and stochastic applications.
Biography: Rakesh Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He received a B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in 2001 and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in September 2006. Prior to moving to Champaign in 2007, he was a visiting researcher with Microsoft Research at Redmond. His research interests are in computer architectures and programming models for emerging workloads, and computing in face of large scale errors. His research has been recognized by an Arnold O Beckman Research Award - 2009, FAA Creative Research Award - 2008, Intel Research Council Award - 2007-2009, UCSD CSE Best Dissertation Award - 2007, and an IBM PhD Fellowship 2005.
Host: Melvin A. Breuer
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 222
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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USC PSOC Monthly Seminar Series - Dr. Timothy Newman
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 @ 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Timothy Newman, Professor of Physics, Physical Sciences, Director of Center for Biological Physics, Arizona State University
Talk Title: Modeling Active Processes in Cancer Progression and Embryogenesis
Abstract: Our group focuses on the study of multicellular dynamics, mainly through the use of large-scale computation. Our work is split evenly between two profoundly challenging yet distinct problems: embryo development and cancer. The Subcellular Element Model (ScEM ) we have developed allows for the simulations of large numbers of deformable three-dimensional cells in a grid-free setting. Briefly, each cell is described by a few hundred "subcellular elements" which represent the nodes of a coarse-grained cytoskeleton. Elements are visco-elastically coupled with short-range interactions. Neighboring cells interact through short-ranged interactions between peripheral elements on each cell. This algorithm allows a computationally efficient means to simulate three-dimensional cell shape and deformations. Despite the simplicity of its underlying framework, the ScEM has been shown to reproduce the basic rheological properties of cells on times scales greater than ~ 0.1s (Sandersius and Newman 2008). We are developing new modules for ScEM, building on the basic biomechanical foundation of the model. In particular, we are modeling active cell dynamics (e.g. polarization, cytoskeletal rearrangement) in order to capture important features of cell movement within tissue. I will discuss our recent work on adding layers of active cell behavior to the underlying model of cell mechanics, and how this has enabled us to describe gross cell deformations under applied stress, as well as fluid-like motions which are commonly seen in embryonic epithelia. I will also address the challenges in applying this methodology to modeling multicellular systems relevant to cancer progression.
Hosted by Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. For additional information, contact: glenda.redfield@med.usc.edu or 323-442-3849. Pizza and beverages will be provided at 11:45 a.m.
Host: Center for Applied Molecular Medicine
Location: May Ormerod Harris Hall, Quinn Wing & Fisher Gallery (HAR) - -kness Auditorium IGM
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Glenda Redfield
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W.V.T. Rusch Undergraduate Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sean Carroll, Senior Research Associate in Physics, Caltech
Talk Title: The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time
Host: W.V.T Rusch Engineering Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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AIChE IGM Field Trip
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
The USC Institute for Genetic Medicine (IGM) houses a group of clinicians, scientists and engineers from multiple academic departments with a common interest in the use of genetic, molecular, and computational approaches for the study and treatment of human diseases. It it also home to an art gallery in which AIChE will be going to see as a group on Friday, November 19, 2010.
Come experience the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial Project, a multi-discipline, multi-venue project first introduced in Japan and the U.S. in 1995 during reflection on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. Then, the wounds of war and the complexities of empathy and loyalties tarnished celebration of the warâs end on the American side, while the spotlight lingered on the pain of those who paid the price for its definitive act: the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There will be a discussion about the exhibit, The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial Project, with its focus on wise use of nuclear energy and the New START treaty discussions that will then be on the senate floor.
Find out more at http://www.usc.edu/schools/medicine/research/institutes/igm/index.html and check out AIChE-USC on Facebook for more updates on this exciting event!
PLEASE RSVP by emailling aiche.usc@gmail.com with your name and USC ID.Location: Health Sciences Campus
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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USC NSBE Pre-College Initiative Event
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 @ 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join our NSBE Chapter as we lead a group of fourth and fifth-graders in an engineering project at Hillcrest Elementary School in Los Angeles.
Location: Hillcrest Drive Elementary School
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: NSBE National Society of Black Engineers
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof Elad Alon, Berkeley
Talk Title: Energy-Efficient Design: From Multi-Gb/s Wireless Communications to Nano-Electro-Mechanical Relays
Host: Prof. Hashemi
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
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CS Colloquium
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Talk Title: Reflections on being an AI System Architect
Abstract: I will share with you the intellectual intuitions and serendipities that have shaped my research career. I first discuss my early research that includes my PhD thesis work at Stanford on a reconfigurable multiprocessor and my post-doc work as the system architect for the Hearsay-II system at CMU (the first fully instantiated blackboard system) that have strongly influenced my later research. These ideas will include distribution of control, meta-level and self-aware control, managing inconsistency rather than eliminating it, the importance of learning as an integral part of a system's architecture, and recognizing that experimentation is more than gathering statistics. In discussing these ideas, I will present a number of systems that I have developed with my students that embody these ideas. I will conclude the lecture by discussing some of my recent work on organizational control that brings many of these ideas together. The basis of this lecture comes out of two papers on my web site: ftp://mas.cs.umass.edu/pub/lesser/system_architect_webdoc.pdf and ftp://mas.cs.umass.edu/pub/LabHistory_Web-Article.pdf
Biography: Victor R. Lesser received his B.A. in Mathematics from Cornell University in 1966, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1973. He then was a post-doc/research scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, working on the Hearsay-II speech understanding system. He has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 1977, and was named Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in 2009. His major research focus is on the control and organization of complex AI systems. He is considered a leading researcher in the areas of blackboard systems, multi-agent/ distributed AI, and real-time AI. He has also made contributions in the areas of computer architecture, signal understanding, diagnostics, plan recognition, and computer-supported cooperative work. He has worked in application areas such as sensor networks for vehicle tracking and weather monitoring, speech and sound understanding, information gathering on the internet, peer-to-peer information retrieval, intelligent user interfaces, distributed task allocation and scheduling, and virtual agent enterprises.
Professor Lesser is a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and an IEEE Fellow. He was General Chair of the first international conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS) in 1995, and Founding President of the International Foundation of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS) in 1998. To honor his contributions to the field of multi-agent systems, IFAAMAS established the "Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award." He received the UMass Amherst College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) Outstanding Teaching Award (2004) and Outstanding Research Award (2008), and the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity (2008). Professor Lesser was also the recipient of the IJCAI-09 Award for Research Excellence.
Host: Prof. Milind Tambe
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 124
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
