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Events for December 07, 2007
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Meet USC (AM session)
Fri, Dec 07, 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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Meet USC (PM session)
Fri, Dec 07, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 03:00 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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An Air Quality Engineer in Industry
Fri, Dec 07, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:
Patricia G Menjivar,
Senior Environmental, Health and Safety Engineer,
Environmental, Health and Safety,
Space and Airborne Systems,
Raytheon Company,
El Segundo, CaliforniaAbstract:California's air pollution control program is one of the most effective in the world. California legislature is continuously in the forefront of newly created air quality regulations that affect not just California but the Nation. Industry in California must keep abreast of newly created regulations, such as AB32. Despite these improvements, California continues to face the nation's greatest air quality challenge. An Air Quality Engineer must work these challenges with Industry for efficient and feasible outcomes while keeping the mission to find and support alternatives or reduce hazards in order to protect the environment and its citizens. Ms. Patricia Menjivar will present her experiences as a Senior Air Quality Engineer.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Regional Earth System Modeling and Forecasting
Fri, Dec 07, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Yi Chao,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CAAbstract: It was March 5, 1950, the first computerized weather forecast was issued using the world's first-ever electronic computer known as ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer). It took just about 24 hours to make a 24-hour forecast. Today, a 7-day weather forecast takes only a few hours on today's supercomputers, and it becomes routine to check weather conditions before taking a vacation.In this talk, I will summarize the essential elements of a weather forecasting system. I will then review the current research and progress to apply the weather forecast technology in forecasting other Earth system components such as hurricane, ocean and climate. Our recent experiences in developing a forecasting system for the southern California coastal ocean will be described. The needs to refine these forecast systems ( e.g., increase the spatial resolutions from kilometers to meters down to the street level for air quality forecasting) and the associated information technology and computational challenge will be discussed.About the speaker (http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Chao/)
Dr. Yi Chao received his Ph.D. in 1990 from Princeton University in a joint graduate program with NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. After two years' postdoc research at UCLA, he joined Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology as a Research Scientist in 1993. He is now a Principal Scientist and the manager for the Climate, Oceans and Solid Earth Section within the science division. His research interests include satellite oceanography with a particular focus on coastal oceans, numerical modeling and data assimilation, interdisciplinary science of Earth system science, and climate variability and change.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Lessons on Structure from the Structure of Viruses
Fri, Dec 07, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
RICHARD D. JAMES Russell J. Penrose ProfessorandDistinguished McKnight University ProfessorUniversity of MinnesotaMinneapolis, MN 55455 Abstract:
As the most primitive organisms, occupying the gray area between the living and nonliving, viruses are the least complex biological system. One can begin to think about them in a quantitative way, while still being at some level faithful to biochemical processes. We make some observations about their structure, formalizing in mathematical terms some rules-of-construction discovered by Watson and Crick and Caspar and Klug. We call the resulting structures objective structures. It is then seen that objective structures include many of the most important structures studied in science today: carbon nanotubes, the capsids, necks, tails and other parts of many viruses, the cilia of some bacteria, DNA octahedra, buckyballs, actin and collagen and many other common proteins, and numerous atomic-scale rods, springs and wires now being synthesized. Objective structures also have an intriguing relation to the crystalline and noncrystalline structures adopted by elements in the Periodic Table. The rules defining them relate to the basic invariance group of quantum mechanics. We develop a methodology for computing such structures. Some of the nonperiodic structures revealed by the formulas exhibit beautifully subtle relations of symmetry. This common mathematical structure paves the way toward many interesting calculations for such structures: the likelihood of unusual electromagnetic and other collective properties, simplified schemes for exact molecular dynamics of such structures, phase transformations between them, defects and failure, new x-ray methods of determination of structure not relying on crystallization, and their growth by self-assembly.
Location: Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, Rm 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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CED Fall Semester Banquet
Fri, Dec 07, 2007 @ 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come join CED for a fun filled evening of games and great food. Dinner cost will be about $15. RSVP to viterbi.ced@usc.edu by Wednesday, December 5th to secure your spot. CED will sponsor buses for transportation departing from RTH at 5:45 pm
Location: Dave and Busters
Audiences: CED Members
Contact: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
