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Events for November 20, 2009
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Nov 20, 2009
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 12:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html 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: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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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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Modeling Discretion, Knowledge and Coordination in Professional Service Systems
Fri, Nov 20, 2009 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
INFORMATION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT, Marshall School of Business, Operations Management, PresentsSeyed M. R. Iravani, Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern UniversityFriday, November 20, 2009, Hoffman Hall 306, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM"Modeling Discretion, Knowledge and Coordination in Professional Service Systems"ABSTRACT: The American economy has been shifting away from traditional manufacturing activities and toward service and professional functions. In the early 1900s, only three out of ten workers in the United States were working in the service sector. By 1950, this number was five out of ten. More than forty million new jobs have been created in the service sector in the last thirty years. Today, the service sector employs eight out of every ten workers in the United States, and accounts for approximately 70 percent of U.S. national income. While in some service operations tasks are routine and well-defined, in others, which we call professional service systems, tasks are not routine; they are knowledge-intensive, they depend on worker's discretion, and they require a high level of coordination. In this talk we focus on these three features of professional service systems. We show that introducing discretion in task completion adds a fourth variability buffer, i.e., quality, to the well-known variability buffers of capacity, inventory, and time. In the second part of the talk we develop a modeling framework that includes the knowledge of the worker into the decision process and introduce a new class of networks: knowledge-based decision-flow networks. These networks allow us to evaluate the simultaneous impact of decision-making and task processing on the performance of some professional service systems. Finally, we focus on the issue of coordination in large professional service systems. Specifically, we develop a new approach to characterizing the lack of coordination between product architecture and organizational interactions in the vehicle development process of a large U.S. auto manufacturer. BIO: Seyed Iravani is an associate professor in the department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. He got his PhD from University of Toronto, and worked as postdoctoral fellow in the Industrial and Operations Engineering department at the University of Michigan. He has been working with GM, Ford, Cisco, Motorola, Feeding America, and Mobile CARE among others on several projects related to the design and control issues of manufacturing and service operation systems and non-profit supply chains. His research interests are in the applications of stochastic processes and queueing theory in production and service operations and supply chains. He has served as Associate Editor for Management Science, IIE Transactions, and Navel Research Logistics. Currently he is the Department Editor for Service Operations Engineering for IIE Transactions and Associate Editor for Operations Research.
Location: Hoffman Hall 306
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Engineering Kidz Design Challenge
Fri, Nov 20, 2009 @ 10:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Receptions & Special Events
Do you like to design cool solutions? Build neat contraptions? Tinker?Compete in the Engineering Kidz Design Challenge! Team with inner-city 5th grade students and participate in unique challenges where you design working heart models, flapping birds or light weight vehicles. You will get a chance to mentor and work with children and inspire them to pursue a career in engineering or science.Register online: www.IridescentLearning.org, under Engineering Kidz Design Challenge.
Register by November 10th to get a free t-shirt.Contact: Tara Chklovski at 310.309.0766 / tchklovs@usc.edu
Location: Engineering Quad
Audiences: Viterbi Undergraduate Students
Contact: Iridescent Learning
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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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Jump-Diffusion Risk-Sensitive Asset Management
Fri, Nov 20, 2009 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Math Finance Colloquium and Probability/Statistics Seminar "Jump-Diffusion Risk-Sensitive Asset Management"Prof. Mark H.A Davis, Imperial College LondonThis paper considers a portfolio optimization problem in which asset prices are represented by SDEs driven by Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure, with drifts that are functions of an auxiliary diffusion 'factor' process. The criterion, following earlier work by Bielecki, Pliska, Nagai and others, is risk-sensitive optimization (equivalent to maximizing the expected growth rate subject to a constraint on variance.) By using a change of measure technique introduced by Kuroda and Nagai we show that the problem reduces to solving a certain stochastic control problem in the factor process, which has no jumps.The main result of the paper is that the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for this problem has a classical solution. The proof uses Bellman's "policy improvement" method together with results on linear parabolic PDEs due to Ladyzhenskaya et al. This is joint work with Sebastien Lleo.BIO: Mark Davis is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London, specializing in stochastic analysis and financial mathematics, in particular in credit risk models, pricing in incomplete markets and stochastic volatility. He also acts as a consultant to Hanover Square Capital Partners, a newly-founded capital markets company. From
1995-1999 he was Head of Research and Product Development at Tokyo-Mitsubishi International, leading a front-office group providing pricing models and risk analysis for fixed-income, equity and credit-related products. Prof. Davis holds a PhD from the University of California Berkeley and is the author of three books on stochastic analysis and optimization. He was a founding co-editor of the journal Mathematical Finance (1990-93) and is currently an associate editor of Quantitative Finance. He was awarded the Naylor Prize in Applied Mathematics by the London Mathematical Society in 2002.FRIDAY, November 20, 2009, 3:30-4:30 PM, KAPRIELIAN HALL ROOM 414Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 414
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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AIAA Aircraft Design Team Meeting
Fri, Nov 20, 2009 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
This Friday is the 6th 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) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: -- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
