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Events for December 05, 2012
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkWed, Dec 05, 2012
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 https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) -
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen Students and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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USC Graduate Engineering Information Session
Wed, Dec 05, 2012 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering is a consistently top-ranked graduate engineering program in the nation by U.S News and World Report. Join us for an online information session to learn about the exciting opportunities available.
WebCast Link: https://den.webex.com/den/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=926808460
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Graduate & Professional Programs
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Nate Foster (Cornell): Language Abstractions for Software-Defined Networks
Wed, Dec 05, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Nate Foster , Cornell
Talk Title: Language Abstractions for Software-Defined Networks
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Modern networks provide a variety of services including routing, traffic monitoring, load balancing, and access control. Unfortunately, the languages used to program today's networks lack modern features -- they are typically defined in terms of hardware-level constructs and lack even rudimentary support for modular programming. As a result, network programs are complicated, hard to reason about, and difficult to maintain.
Frenetic is a new language designed to make it easy to program distributed collections of network routers and switches. It provides a rich collection of declarative constructs that raise the level of abstraction for programmers, allowing them to describe what they want the network to do without specifying how it should be implemented. This talk will describe the design and implementation of the language, focusing especially on support for composition (which allows complicated applications to be decomposed into simple modules) consistent updates (which allow a programmer to gracefully modify the state of the network), as well as a machine-verified compiler (which translates high-level programs down to hardware-level packet processing instructions).
Frenetic (http://www.frenetic-lang.org) is joint work with Arjun Guha (Cornell), Robert Harrison (US Military Academy), Christopher Monsanto (Princeton), Joshua Reich (Princeton), Mark Reitblatt (Cornell), Jennifer Rexford (Princeton), Cole Schlesinger (Princeton), Alec Story (Cornell), and David Walker (Princeton).
Biography: Nate Foster is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on developing language abstractions and tools for building reliable systems. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University, and a BA in Computer Science from Williams College, and was a postdoc at Princeton University. His honors include a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Yahoo! Academic Career Enhancement Award, and the Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff Award.
Host: Ethan Katz-Bassett
Location: GFS 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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AME - Department Seminar
Wed, Dec 05, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Pier Marzocca, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering at Clarkson University
Talk Title: Design and Testing of Advanced Wind Turbine Technologies
Abstract: New advanced composite blades design methodologies can significantly impact the performance and reliability of wind turbine technologies. Current approaches employed in designing composite turbine blades, resort to sophisticated multi-physics codes taking into account fluid-structure interaction. When it comes to structural health monitoring and damage progression, the practitioner needs to evaluate the integrity of the composite structure by using in situ real-time techniques, often neglecting the effect of the degradation of structure properties, particularly when addressing complex aeroelastic simulations. The prediction of damage progression in composite wind turbine blades under dynamic aeroelastic conditions is usually a cumbersome multi-step process with significant manual user intervention. The talk with discuss a novel approach where the different components of this process, the dynamical structural analysis under varying aerodynamic and deterministic loads, and damage progression, are integrated into one reduced-order model capable of predicting the occurrence and progression of damage in real time. Severe load cases and the potential for real-time predictions of damage progression will be discussed. Several aspects of current wind turbine projects including modeling and experimental investigations will be discussed.
Biography: Pier Marzocca has been a faculty member in the Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Department at Clarkson since 2003. He received his doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Assistant Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech before joining Clarkson University. Professor Marzocca has been working in the field of aerospace engineering since 1996 and specializes in multi-physics modeling and characterization of advanced materials and structures, dealing with the interactions among advanced structures and fluids, magnetic, electric, and thermal fields. His research interests reside in structural dynamics and controls of advanced aerospace systems, including active flow and aeroelastic controls of flexible structures. Dr. Marzocca has received several awards including the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from the SAE. He is currently an Associate Fellow of AIAA, the Chair of the SAE Unmanned Aircraft System Technical Committee, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences, and Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering and the Journal of Thermal Stresses.
Host: Professor Udwadia
More Info: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/12-5-12-marzocca.shtml
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - Room 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/12-5-12-marzocca.shtml
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Financial Aid Seminar
Wed, Dec 05, 2012 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi will be hosting a Financial Aid Seminar for continuing students in preparation for the 2013-2014 school year. A Financial Aid Officer from the USC Financial Aid Office will walk you through the process and answer all of your questions regarding:
-- the FAFSA
-- loans
-- scholarships
-- changes in financial circumstances
Take an hour of your day to make sure you are well-informed on your financial aid resources!
RSVP Required:
https://uscviterbi.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4ZrqfwiTUPG45KJLocation: RTH 110
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Jenny Vazquez-Akim
