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Events for December 03, 2007
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Meet USC (AM session)
Mon, Dec 03, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/events/meet_usc/ 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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BME 533 Seminar Series: Dr. Moats, Topic: Small Animal Imaging in Disease Models
Mon, Dec 03, 2007 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Dr. Rex Moats
Topic: Small animal imaging in disease models
Affiliation: *Director of the Small Animal Imaging Resource Center in the Saban Research Institute at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles
*appointments in the Departments of Radiology and Pathology in the Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California(USC).Research Interest: Bone metastases, iron overload, and cancer models, and In Vivo Imaging
Email: rmoats@chla.usc.eduSummary of Current ResearchDr. Moats is the director of the In Vivo Small Animal Imaging Center. His area of research interest covers animal based models of disease including genetic diseases, iron overload, and various cancer models and includes the development of molecular imaging agents targeted to investigate specific biochemistry and physiology processes in these models. Special emphasis is placed on the imaging based studies with basic animal model development being done largely but not exclusively in the labs of collaborators.Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Viterbi Museum Open
Mon, Dec 03, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Museum is normally open from 1:00pm to 2:30 p.m. on Mondays, but special tours can be arranged by contacting Clint Fulton. The museum is on the second floor of Ronald Tutor Hall, next to the Baum Student Lounge on the southwest side of the building, adjacent to the elevators. For more information on the Museum please visit the website:
http://viterbi.usc.edu/about/viterbimuseum/Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 2nd Floor
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jason Dziegielewski
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Meet USC (PM session)
Mon, Dec 03, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
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. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/events/meet_usc/ 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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Lipid-Polymer Hybrid Nanoparticles for Targeted Therapeutics
Mon, Dec 03, 2007 @ 02:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Graduate SeminarDr. Liangfang Zhang Chemical Engineering Department, MITNanotechnology is the understanding and the control of matter generally in 1-100 nm dimension range. The application of nanotechnology to medicine, known as nanomedicine, concerns the use of precisely engineered materials at this length scale to develop novel therapeutic and diagnostic modalities. In the past two decades, there has been a progressive increase in the number of commercially available nanoparticle-based therapeutics products. Among these products, liposomal drugs and polymer-based drugs are two dominant classes, accounting for more than 80% of the total amounts. However, both liposomes and polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) have their own drawbacks as drug carriers that limit their application potential in many medical areas. Here I report a platform bionanotechnology that enables the formulation of targeted NPs which have merits of both lipid- and polymer-based NPs, while excluding some of their limitations. The NPs are comprised of: i) a biodegradable polymeric core which can carry bioactive drugs and release them at a sustained rate; ii) a lipid monolayer shell which can prevent the carried agents from freely diffusing out of the nanoparticle and reduce water penetration rate into the nanoparticle, thereby enhancing drug encapsulation efficiency and slowing drug release; iii) a stealth material that can allow the particles to evade recognition by immune system components and increase particle circulation half life; and iv) a targeting molecule that can bind to a unique molecular signature on cells, tissues, or organs of the body. The targeting therapeutic potential of these lipid-polymer hybrid NPs is demonstrated in treating prostate cancer and cardiovascular disease.Monday, December 3, 2007Seminar at 2:00 p.m.SAL 101The Scientific Community is Cordially Invited.
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce Sapir
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Creating a mobile network with mobile towers and limited bandwidths
Mon, Dec 03, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: General Paul J. Kern
The Cohen GroupABSTRACT: How the Army is solving the problem and what it might mean to commercial communications.BIOGRAPHY: General Paul Kern joined The Cohen Group as a Senior Counselor in January, 2005. In addition, he holds the Class of 1950 Chair for Advanced Technologies at West Point, is an Advisor to Battelle Memorial Institute and serves on the Board of Directors of iRobot Corporation, CoVant Technologies LLC and EDO Corporation.He concluded his more than 40-year career in the United States Army when he retired as Commanding General, Army Material Command (AMC). In that capacity, and earlier as Commander of the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized), General Kern left his impact on the Army's future as he led a drive to digitize and transform its warfighting capabilities. He won wide respect for his efforts to direct supply chain improvements, maintain field readiness, and modernize weapons systems throughout the Army while still controlling costs.In June 2004, General Kern undertook a vastly different responsibility when Secretary Rumsfeld tapped him to lead the military's internal investigation into the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a tough assignment that he handled with skill.General Kern's career has also had stops in the Secretary of Defense office in Washington and several field units. As the Senior Military Assistant to Secretary of Defense William Perry, General Kern was instrumental in ensuring that the Secretary's guidance was implemented throughout the Department and in handling the most sensitive decisions for the Secretary. During that tenure he traveled with Secretary Perry to more than 70 countries, meeting numerous heads of state, foreign ministers and international defense leaders. He participated in U.S. operations in Haiti, Rwanda, Zaire and the Balkans, and helped to promote military relations in Central and Eastern Europe, South America, China, and the Middle East.General Kern had three combat tours with two tours in Vietnam as a platoon leader and troop commander, and he commanded the Second Brigade of the 24th Infantry in Desert Shield/Desert Storm.HOST: Solomon Golomb, sgolomb@usc.edu, EEB 504A, x07333Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Dr. Amnon Yariv (Munushian Visiting Seminar Series)
Mon, Dec 03, 2007 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Dr. Amnon YarivCalifornia Institute of Technology"Slow Light and Dark Modes"AbstractThe talk will consider the theoretical and experimental basis for the recent interest in major slowing down of the group velocity of light (Slow Light). It will review the phenomenon in the atomic domain where it is linked intimately to that of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT). The emphasis will be on Slow Light in artificial dielectric structures such as Coupled Resonators Waveguides (CROWS) and on recent theoretical results from our group on Slow Light and Dark Modes phenomena in bi-periodic optical waveguides.BioAmnon Yariv received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1954, 1956, and 1958, respectively. In 1959, he joined Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. In 1964, he joined the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, as an Associate Professor of electrical engineering, becoming
a Professor in 1966. In 1980, he became the Thomas G. Myers Professor of electrical engineering and applied physics. In 1996, he became the Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of applied physics and Professor of electrical engineering. On the technical and scientific
sides, he took part (with various co-workers) in the discovery of a number of early solid-state laser systems, in the original formulation of the theory of nonlinear quantum optics; in proposing and explaining mode-locked ultrashort-pulse lasers, GaAs optoelectronics; in proposing and demonstrating semiconductor-based integrated optics technology; in pioneering
the field of phase conjugate optics; and in proposing and demonstrating the semiconductor
distributed feedback laser. He has published widely in the laser and optics fields and has written a number of basic texts in quantum electronics, optics, and quantum mechanics.
Dr. Yariv is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences.Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ericka Lieberknecht
