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Events for December 17, 2007
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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Mon, Dec 17, 2007
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 14, 2007. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online.http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/
Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2008
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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QEC07: The First International Conference on Quantum Error Correction
Mon, Dec 17, 2007
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Quantum error correction of decoherence and faulty control operations forms the backbone of all of quantum information processing. In spite of remarkable progress on this front ever since the discovery of quantum error correcting codes a decade ago, there remain important open problems in both theory and applications to real physical systems. In short, a theory of quantum error correction that is at the same time comprehensive and realistically applicable has not yet been discovered. Therefore the subject remains a very active area of research with a continuing stream of progress and breakthroughs.The First International Conference on Quantum Error Correction, hosted by the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology (CQIST), will bring together a wide group of experts to discuss all aspects of decoherence control and fault tolerance. The subject is at this point in time of a mostly theoretical nature, but the conference will include talks surveying the latest experimental progress, and will seek to promote an interaction between theoreticians and experimentalists.Topics of interest include, in random order: fault tolerance and thresholds, pulse control methods (dynamical decoupling), hybrid methods, applications to cryptography, decoherence-free subspaces and noiseless subsystems, operator quantum error correction, advanced codes (convolutional codes, catalytic, entanglement assisted, ...), topological codes, fault tolerance in the cluster model, fault tolerance in linear optics QC, fault tolerance in condensed matter systems, unification of error correction paradigms, self-correcting systems, error correction/avoidance via energy gaps, error correction in adiabatic QC, composite pulses, continuous-time QEC, error correction for specific errors (e.g., spontaneous emission), etc.Complete information at
http://qserver.usc.edu/qec07/Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: eric mankin
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Meet USC (AM session)
Mon, Dec 17, 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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Human Factors Engineering and Patient Safety
Mon, Dec 17, 2007 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
DANIEL J. EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR"Human Factors Engineering and Patient Safety"Dr. Pascale CarayonProctor & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-MadisonABSTRACT: In 1999, the Institute of Medicine issued a report on "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System" that identifies medical errors as a major problem: between 48,000 and 99,000 people die every year in the US from medical errors. Most of the medical errors involve medication, such as wrong medication, wrong dose or wrong patient. The 2004 report by the IOM on "Medication Errors" highlights the contributions of the healthcare work system to medication errors, and emphasizes various technologies as solutions for preventing or mitigating medication errors. In this presentation, research on medication safety in the inpatient care setting will be presented; emphasis will be on the human factors contributions to medication safety, such as design and implementation of medication administration technologies (e.g., bar coding medication administration, smart infusion pump technology).MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2007, 10:00 - 11:00 AM, ANDRUS GERONTOLOGY BLDG (GER) 309
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Meet USC (PM session)
Mon, Dec 17, 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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Theoretical Limits and Practical Methods in Classical and Quantum Communications
Mon, Dec 17, 2007 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Alexei Ashikhmin
Communications and Statistical Sciences Department
Bell Labs, Alcatel-LucentAbstract: The talk is in three parts covering some areas of my recent research. Information-theoretic and Coding Bounds
I will present a general method, called the polynomial method, for deriving information-theoretic and coding bounds. The method is based on results from harmonic analysis and the theory of orthogonal polynomials. Following this, I will show that an application of this method leads to an improvement of the Shannon, Gallager, and Berlekamp (1967) bound on the reliability function of the Gaussian channel. This was the first improvement of the bound to be made after a period of 30 years. Further applications of this method lead to derivations of the best currently known bounds on the minimum distance of quantum codes, probability of undetected error, and other parameters. The method of EXIT functions
EXIT functions are a powerful tool for the design and analysis of iteratively decodable codes, such as TURBO and Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes. In this part of the talk, I will give a formal definition of EXIT functions, consider applications of EXIT functions to the design of capacity achieving LDPC codes and capacity achieving communication schemes for multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) ergodic channel. Quantum Error Correction
It is well known that quantum computers have the potential to make radical improvements in performance over classical computational devices. Unfortunately, quantum computers are inherently vulnerable to environmental and control errors, which thus makes quantum error correction a very important subject. This part of the talk begins with a brief introduction into the theory of quantum computation and quantum error correction (no knowledge of quantum mechanics is required). Following this, I will present my recent results on the fidelity of a quantum automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocol. The talk concludes with a brief summary of other results I have obtained in the area of quantum error correction. Biography: Alexei Ashikhmin is a member of technical staff in the Communications and Statistical Sciences Department, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, in 1994. In 1996 he was a visiting researcher of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. From 1997 to 1999, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Modeling, Algorithms, and Informatics Group of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Since 1999 he has been with Bell Laboratories.His research interests include classical and quantum information theory and communication theory. From 2003 to 2006 Dr. Ashikhmin served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. In 2002, Dr. Ashikhmin received Bell Laboratories President's Gold Award for breakthrough research in wireless communications. In 2005 Dr. Ashikhmin was honored by the IEEE Communications S.O. Rice Prize Paper Award for work on LDPC codes for information transmission with multiple antennas. Host: Michael Neely, mjneely@usc.edu, EEB 520, x03505Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
