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Events for November 20, 2015
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, and Engineering Talk
Fri, Nov 20, 2015
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. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering 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 make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Nov 20, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
University Calendar
Join us for a presentation by Prof. Armand R. Tanguay, Jr., from the University of Southern California, titled "An Intraocular Camera for Retinal Prostheses: Restoring Sight to the Blind."
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
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Munushian Seminar - Asad Abidi, UCLA, Single-Chip Radios: The Next Generation
Fri, Nov 20, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Asad Abidi, UCLA
Talk Title: Single-Chip Radios: The Next Generation
Abstract: The term "integration" in microelectronics has come to mean the rapacious assimilation on to a single piece of silicon CMOS every conceivable function that makes up a complex system, stopping only where the laws of physics draw a hard line. Driven by the wireless revolution that gave us smartphones and wireless LAN which depend increasingly on elaborate uses of the available frequency bands, this is what has happened with radio transceivers. A collection of silicon chips and passive components which only a few years ago characterized a wireless transceiver is now heading towards an antenna that connects to essentially a single-chip radio of unprecedented versatility.
I will describe the unprecedented performance that is being demanded from today's radio-on-a-CMOS chip and how innovations in architecture and circuit design are coping with the pressures of lower supply voltages, poor quality on-chip passives, and the huge dynamic range of radio waveforms that are no longer conditioned by off-chip SAW filters and duplexers. This gives a glimpse into the next generation radios, and how close they are to hard limits on performance.
Biography: Asad Abidi received the BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London in 1976, and the PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982. He worked at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill until 1985, and then joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles where he is Distinguished Chancellor's Professor of Electrical Engineering. With his students he has developed many of the radio circuits and architectures that enable today's mobile devices.
Among other awards, Abidi has received the 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits and the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits in 2012. The University of California Berkeley's Electrical Engineering Department recognized him as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2015. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering and to TWAS, the world academy of sciences.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Nov 20, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Amir Eftekharian, Astani CEE Graduate Student
Talk Title: Numerical Simulations of Vortex Induced Vibrations of a Circular Cylinder under a Controlled Motion
Abstract:
Vortex induced vibration is the phenomenon of vibrating a structural system due to an asymmetric vortex shedding pattern caused by its interaction with a surrounding fluid flow regime. This vibration can be harmful to structures as it causes excessive motions, fatigue, and rupture in the system. Thus, vortex induced vibration is a design concern in many applications such as bridges, offshore structures, aerospace engineering, and power plants. This study has been focused on numerical simulation of vortex generation behind a circular cylinder in a subcritical flow when it is under a controlled oscillation. For this purpose, finite volume techniques along with different turbulence models have been used in order to solve the Navier Stokes Equations and predict the system response. A series of two and three dimensional simulations have been performed on stationary and oscillating cylinders as an attempt to reproduce the hydrodynamic forces on the cylinder resulted from the experimental studies with considering mesh refinements, time step, and computational costs. The result of this study shows the promising capabilities of numerical tools for a better understanding of complex fluid/structure interactions.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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NL Seminar- Better Bootstraps, Better Translation.
Fri, Nov 20, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jia Xu , Chinese Academy of Sciences
Talk Title: Better Bootstraps, Better Translation
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Bagging Breiman, 96 and its variants is one of the most popular methods in aggregating classifiers and regressors. Its original analysis assumes that the bootstraps are built from an unlimited, independent source of samples. In the real world this analysis fails because there is a limited number of training samples.
We analyze the effect of intersections between bootstraps to train different base predictors, which shows that the real-world bagging behaves very differently than its ideal analog [Breiman, 96]. Most importantly, we provide an alternative subsampling method called design-bagging based on a new construction of combinatorial designs. We prove that this is universally better than bagging. Our analytical results are backed up by experiments on general classification and regression settings, and significantly improved all machine translation systems we used in the NIST-15 C-E competition.
Biography: Jia Xu is an associate professor at ICT/CAS, after being an assistant professor in Tsinghua University and a senior researcher at DFKI lecturing at Saarland University in Germany. She worked at IBM Watson and MSR Redmond during her Ph.D. advised by Hermann Ney at RWTH-Aachen University. Her current research interests are in Machine Learning with a focus towards highly competitive machine translation systems, where she led and participated in teams winning first place in WMT-11, TC-Star -05-07 and NIST-08. In NIST-15 she led one more team that won 4th place, which is the 1st among academic institutions.
Host: Nima Pourdamghani and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 6th Flr Conf Rm # 689, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
