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Events for January 18, 2011

• Jan

  18

  Efficient Solution of Large Overdetermined Systems of Equations by a Monte Carlo Method

  Tue, Jan 18, 2011 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  Speaker: Yunsong Huang , Ph.D. student
  
  Talk Title: Efficient Solution of Large Overdetermined Systems of Equations by a Monte Carlo Method
  
  Abstract: Large overdetermined system of linear equations, expressed as A x = b, arises from applications such as seismic imaging. The rows of the matrix A can be randomly encoded and lumped up, resulting in a matrix with much fewer number of rows, thereby allowing a more efficient solution. This manipulation step can be embedded in least-squares iterative solution of the original system of equations. At each iteration, an independently encoded and lumped matrix is in effect, guiding the update of x, in the least-squares sense. Overall, this approach results in significant savings in computational cost. Experiments in seismic imaging validate the merits of the proposed method.
  
  
  
  Biography: Yunsong Huang received a B.S. degree in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, and a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Earth Science and Engineering Program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). His research interests include seismic imaging and signal processing.
  
  
  
  Host: Prof. B. Keith Jenkins
  
  

  Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - EEB 248

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Talyia Veal

  

• Jan

  18

  2011 Ming Hsieh Institute Ph.D. Scholar Finalist Competition

  Tue, Jan 18, 2011 @ 12:30 PM - 03:00 PM

  Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  Speaker: Each finalist will present a 12-minute talk about their research, Ming Hsieh Institute
  
  Talk Title: MHI Ph.D. Scholar Finalist Presentation
  
  Abstract: You are all invited to an exciting event being held for the first time in our department: talks by nine stellar Ph.D. students competing to become 2011 Ming Hsieh Institute Ph.D. Scholars. The Ph.D. Scholar Program is a venture of the newly-founded Ming Hsieh Institute, that aims to support senior Ph.D. students interested in pursuing an academic career. These finalists have been selected from nominations submitted by faculty. At the event each finalist will present a 12-minute talk about their research. It is anticipated that five MHI Scholars will be selected from this pool, based on an evaluation of their talks by a faculty panel.
  
  All Electrical Engineering students and faculty are invited. Light refreshments will be served.
  
  Please find below the list of finalists and the titles of their talks.
  
  •Firooz Aflatouni- "Electronically Assisted Phase Control of Semiconductor Lasers"
  
  •Chiranjib Choudhuri -"On the Capacity and State estimation of Networks"
  
  •Prasanta Ghosh - "A computational framework for exploring the role of speech production in speech recognition"
  
  •Longbo Huang -"Improving the Lyapunov Network Optimization Technique"
  
  •Chih-ping Li - "Delay and Power-Optimal Control in Multi-Class Queueing Systems"
  
  •Jason Sanders "Megawatts in Nanoseconds: Engineering New Pulsed Power Systems that Enable Scientific Discovery"
  
  •Samir Sharma - "Accelerated Water-Fat MRI"
  
  •Chuan Wang - "High-Performance Separated Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors for Macroelectronic Integrated Circuit and Display Electronic applications"
  
  •Omer Yilmaz - "Advanced Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing Techniques for High Speed, Reconfigurable Optical Fiber Networks"
  
  
  Host: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Co-Director - Ming Hsieh Institute
  
  

  Location: Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Hall (of Philosophy) (MHP) - 106

  Audiences: Department Only

  Contact: Danielle Hamra