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2025 IISE Western Regional Conference (February 28 - March 2, 2025)
Mon, Feb 10, 2025
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract: The USC IISE Student Chapter, in partnership with the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, will be hosting the 2025 IISE Western Regional Conference from February 28 to March 2, 2025 at USC.
This is an excellent opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to connect with industry leaders, explore innovative ideas, and grow their professional networks.
USC students are eligible for a 50% discount on registration. Students can register at https://conference.usciise.org/ using the coupon code USCSTUDENT to access the discounted price. *The 50% discount code is good until Wednesday, 02/12/25*.
We hope you can attend!
More Information: IISE Western Regional Conference One-Pager Final.pdf
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Grace Owh
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EiS Communications Hub - Tutoring for Engineering Ph.D. StudentsMon, Feb 10, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi Ph.D. students are invited to drop by the Hub for instruction on their writing and speaking tasks! All tutoring is one-on-one and conducted by Viterbi faculty.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A
Audiences: Viterbi Ph.D. Students
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home
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"Keys to Life" series at USC ORSL
Mon, Feb 10, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
"Keys to Life" with Prof. Weiss is a motivational discussion series designed to promote student success and well-being. This series is for students who want to develop their "keys" in a small group setting and a peaceful, reflective environment. Finding purpose is essential to living a meaningful life and key to personal fulfillment. This series will help students identify and articulate their purpose and provide group motivation to work towards it. A unique feature of the series will be its peripatetic "Purpose Walks" through campus.
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Location: University Religious Center (URC) - courtyard
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elisabeth Arnold Weiss
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Epstein Institute, ISE 651 Seminar Class
Tue, Feb 11, 2025 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Jun Zhuang, Associate Dean for Research at the School of Engineering and Morton C. Frank Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Department Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of New York at Buffalo
Talk Title: Game Theory, Data Analytics, and Disaster Management
Host: Dr. Qiang Huang
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Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Casi Jones/ ISE
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Viterbi Career/Internship Fair
Wed, Feb 12, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
For Viterbi engineering students only.Connect with employers on-campus, hiring for full-time, part-time, and paid internships at this Viterbi-specific recruitment fair!Please visit Handshake for all the companies attending.For more information, please visit: https://viterbicareers.usc.edu/careerexpo/
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/
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EiS Communications Hub - Tutoring for Engineering Ph.D. Students
Wed, Feb 12, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi Ph.D. students are invited to drop by the Hub for instruction on their writing and speaking tasks! All tutoring is one-on-one and conducted by Viterbi faculty.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A
Audiences: Viterbi Ph.D. Students
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home
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Computer Science General Faculty Meeting
Wed, Feb 12, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
Bi-Weekly regular faculty meeting for invited full-time Computer Science faculty and staff only. Event details emailed directly to attendees.
Location: Ginsburg Hall (GCS) - 107
Audiences: Invited Faculty Only
Contact: Julia Mittenberg-Beirao
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AME Seminar - CANCELED
Wed, Feb 12, 2025 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Pedro Ponte Castaneda, University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: Soft Elastic Composites: Microstructure evolution, macroscopic multi-physics response, instabilities and associated soft modes
Abstract: Soft elastic composite materials can undergo large deformations under normal operating conditions and, in many applications, such as in robotics and prosthetics applications, they are designed with the objective of undergoing controlled deformation by means of externally applied magnetic, electrical, pneumatic or other types of fields. They include porous, particle- and fiber-reinforced rubbers, thermoplastic and magnetorheological elastomers, dielectric elastomer composites, polymer foams, muscle and other biological tissues. As a consequence of the finite deformations involved, their microstructure evolves with the deformation and their constitutive or rheological behavior can be highly nonlinear and strongly anisotropic. This presents a challenge for the application of homogenization methods, which were originally developed to characterize the effective material parameters of composites, such as, for example, the thermal conductivity of a two-phase composite material, or the Young’s modulus of an isotropic metal polycrystal. In this presentation, I will give an overview of several methods that have been recently developed to characterize the multi-physics constitutive response of soft composites, as well as the evolution of the microstructure and the possible development of instabilities in such material systems. In addition, I will present some explicit examples, including those leading to a certain type of ‘twining’ instabilities and associated soft modes of deformation.
Biography: Pedro Ponte Castañeda is Raymond S. Markowitz Faculty Fellow and Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, as well as Member ofthe Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics & Computational Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.A. in Mathematicsfrom Lehigh University in 1982, and an S.M. in Engineering Sciences and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1983 and 1986, respectively. Prior to joining Penn, he was Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University (1987-90). He was also Professor of Mechanics at the École Polytechnique (2004-06). He has held visiting positions at the C.N.R.S. in Marseilles, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Corpus Christi College at Cambridge University, as well as the University of Stuttgart. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids and of the Journal of Elasticity. He is an ASME Fellow and his honors include the ASME Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award (2000), the George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research from Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (2007), the Humboldt Senior Research Award (2013) and the ASME Warner T. Koiter Medal (2016).
Host: AME Department
More Info: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 252
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tessa Yao
Event Link: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
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DEN@Viterbi - Online Graduate Engineering Virtual Information Session
Wed, Feb 12, 2025 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Join USC Viterbi School of Engineering for a virtual information session via WebEx, providing an introduction to DEN@Viterbi, our top-ranked online delivery system. Discover the 40+ graduate engineering and computer science programs available entirely online. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect directly with USC Viterbi representatives during the session to discuss the admission process, program details, and the benefits of online delivery.
WebCast Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/r54b235c41e9cb1b8524fa533ddb8d536
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs
Event Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/r54b235c41e9cb1b8524fa533ddb8d536
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
EiS Communications Hub - Tutoring for Engineering Ph.D. Students
Fri, Feb 14, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi Ph.D. students are invited to drop by the Hub for instruction on their writing and speaking tasks! All tutoring is one-on-one and conducted by Viterbi faculty.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A
Audiences: Viterbi Ph.D. Students
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home
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Alfred E.Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering - Seminar series
Fri, Feb 14, 2025 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael S. Bienkowski , Assistant Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience Director, USC Center for Integrative Connectomics USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute Keck School of Medicine of USC
Talk Title: Hippocampal cell types in health and disease: toward targeted treatment strategies
Abstract: Neurodegeneration of the hippocampus is a key hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cognitive impairment. Previously, Dr. Bienkowski developed the mouse Hippocampus Gene Expression Atlas (HGEA), a foundational roadmap for understanding hippocampal cell types by integrating gene expression and connectivity data within the multiscale hierarchical hippocampal network. Using the HGEA as a guide, we have been investigating how hippocampal cell types change across the course of Alzheimer's disease both in humans and AD mouse models. Our data suggest that specific hippocampal cell types are more susceptible to AD and their neurodegenerative morphology changes across the disease timeline. As neuronal morphology is sensitive to electric fields and deep brain stimulation has been explored as an effective treatment for AD cognitive impairment, we are investigating how electrical stimulation treatment affects the dendritic morphology of vulnerable hippocampal cell types.
Biography: Dr. Bienkowski is Assistant Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience and the director of the USC Center for Integrative Connectomics within the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute. Dr. Bienkowski's multi-disciplinary translational research program at USC investigates neuronal cell type susceptibility to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease and retinal diseases with a focus on 3D neuronal morphology, connectomics, and spatial transcriptomics. The research team's collaborations with clinicians, engineers, and computer scientists explore how we can reliably identify vulnerable cell types within the changing diseased brain and develop targeted electrical stimulation treatment strategies to effectively slow, prevent, or reverse the neurodegenerative process.
Host: Qifa Zhou
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 109
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Carla Stanard
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CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series
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Fri, Feb 14, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Bobby Brar, President, Teledyne Scientific Company
Talk Title: Teledyne Scientific Advanced Technology Overview
Abstract: Teledyne Scientific Company is the Central R&D Lab for Teledyne Technologies. We are also a merchant supplier of advanced compound semiconductor technology for InP, GaN, MEMS and Heterogeneous Integration. The talk will review our current foundry offerings and new technologies in the pipeline, with an emphasis on what differentiates our offerings. The technologies developed and produced in our foundry are suitable for high-speed and broadband electronics for 5G/6G communication, high power RF sources, high-dynamic range sensors, electromagnetic warfare, and test and measurement applications.
Biography: Berinder “Bobby” Brar received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering at UCSB in 1995, conducting research on the lnAs/AISb/GaSb semiconductor materials for high-speed electronic and optoelectronic applications. After completing his graduate work, he joined the Nanoelectronics branch in the Central Research Labs at Texas Instruments and worked on lnP- and Si-based resonant tunneling devices and field effect transistors for high-speed mixed-signal applications. Dr. Brar joined the Teledyne Scientific Company in 1999 to manage the Advanced III-V Devices and Materials department. Dr. Brar is presently the President of Teledyne Scientific Company, a technology leader in high performance compound semiconductor devices and integrated circuits, and high-performance imaging systems for military, space, astronomy, and commercial applications. Dr. Brar has previously worked at R&D labs for Rockwell, Texas Instruments, and Raytheon. Dr. Brar has published over 100 papers in conference proceedings and technical journals and has over 35 patents pending or awarded.
Host: Dr. Steve Crago
More Info: https://www.isi.edu/events/5386/teledyne-scientific-advanced-technology-overview/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addonWebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addon
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Amy Kasmir
Event Link: https://www.isi.edu/events/5386/teledyne-scientific-advanced-technology-overview/
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
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