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Events for March 14, 2013
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Focused on parallel and distributed computingThu, Mar 14, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Weekly seminars given by researchers in academia and industry including senior doctoral students in EE, CS and ISI covering current research related to parallel and distributed computation including parallel algorithms, high performance computing, scientific computation, application specific architectures, multi-core and many-core architectures and algorithms, application acceleration, reconfigurable computing systems, data intensive systems, Big Data and cloud computing.
Biography: Prerequisite: Students are expected to be familiar with basic concepts at the level of graduate level courses in Computer Engineering and Computer Science in some of these topic areas above. Ph.D. students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science can automatically enroll. M.S. students can enroll only with permission of the instructor. To request permission send a brief mail to the instructor in text format with the subject field ââ¬ÅEE 598ââ¬Â. The body of the mail (in text format) should include name, degree objective, courses taken at USC and grades obtained, prior educational background, and relevant research background, if any.
Requirements for CR:
1. Attending at least 10 seminars during the semester
There will be a sign-in sheet and a sign-out sheet at every seminar. All students must sign-in (before 2:00pm) and sign-out (after 3:00pm). The sign-in sheet will not be available after 2:00pm, and the sign-out sheet will not be available before 3:00pm.
2. Submitting a written report for at least 5 seminars
The written report for each seminar must be 1-page single line spaced format with font size of 12 (Times) or 11 (Arial) without any figures, tables, or graphs. The report must be submitted no later than 1 week after the corresponding seminar, and must be handed only to the instructor either on the seminar times or during office hours. Late reports will not be considered.
The report must summarize studentââ¬â¢s own understanding of the seminar, and should contain the following:
- Your name and submission date [1 line]
- Title of the seminar, name of the speaker, and seminar date [1 line]
- Background of the work (e.g., applications, prior research, etc.) [1 paragraph]
- Highlights of the approaches presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Main results presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Conclusion (your own conclusion and not what was given by the speaker) [1 paragraph]
Reviewing papers related to the topic of the seminar, and incorporating relevant findings in the
reports (e.g., in the conclusion section) is encouraged. In such cases, make sure to clearly indicate
the reference(s) used to derive these conclusions.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR COURSE #9
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Robert F. Lucas, Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: Multifrontal Factorization on Heterogeneous Multicore Systems
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: When solving the sparse linear systems that arise in mechanical computer aided engineering (MCAE), and other applications, the multifrontal method is particularly attractive as it transforms the sparse matrix factorization into an elimination tree of dense matrix factorizations. The vast majority of the floating point operations can be performed with calls to highly tuned BLAS3 routines, and near peak throughput is expected. Such computations are performed today on clusters of multicore microprocessors, often accelerated by by graphics processing units (GPUs). This talk discusses how concurrency in the multifrontal computation is processed with message passing (MPI), shared memory (OpenMP), and GPU accelerators (CUDA), exploiting the unique strengths of each.
Biography: Dr. Robert F. Lucas is the Director of Computational Sciences at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and a Research Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. At ISI he manages research in computer architecture, VLSI, compilers, and adiabatic quantum computing. Prior to joining ISI, he was the Head of the High Performance Computing Research Department in the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Prior to joining NERSC, Dr. Lucas was the Deputy Director of DARPA's Information Technology Office. He also served as DARPA's Program Manager for Scalable Computing Systems and Data-Intensive Computing. From 1988 to 1998 he was a member of the research staff of the Institute for Defense Analyses's Center for Computing Sciences. From 1979 to 1984 he was a member of the Technical Staff of the Hughes Aircraft Company. Dr. Lucas received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1980, 1983, and 1988 respectively.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013) 2.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 110
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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EE Seminar
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Sophie Schirmer, Senior Lecturer a t Swansea University
Talk Title: Controlling quantum dynamics: from physical principles to quantum engineering?
Abstract: Since its discovery a century ago, quantum theory has proved hugely important in explaining many scientific phenomena and enabling new technologies from lasers to superconductors. The new frontier for quantum science and engineering is probing and coherently manipulating quantum dynamics. Systematic control of quantum dynamics is crucial for the development of novel quantum devices and applications in many areas from quantum information processing to quantum metrology and beyond. The latter goal has proved to be considerably more challenging but â as the 2012 Nobel prize in physics for example shows â much progress has been made in this area, opening the door for the development of new tools for control of quantum dynamics and quantum device design.
In the talk I will attempt to explain in basic terms what we mean by control of quantum systems and why control of quantum dynamics is important. I will give various examples and applications in physics, chemistry and biology, and explain different paradigms for quantum control and some of the theoretical tools developed for control design. The ideas and operation will be illustrated using simulations of quantum gates, information flow in quantum networks and molecular cooling.
Biography: Sophie Schirmer is a Senior Lecturer a t Swansea University. She recently completed a five-year term as an Advanced Research Fellow of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and has held positions at the University of Cambridge, Kuopio University in Finland, the Open University, and the University of Oregon, in various capacities including as Marie Curie Fellow, Research Fellow of the Cambridge-MIT Institute and Coordinator of the Quantum Technologies Group. Her research interests include nano-science at the quantum edge and quantum engineering, especially modeling, control and characterization of quantum systems and devices.
Host: Dr. Edmond Jonckheere
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
