Events for April 03, 2009
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Engineering and Epilepsy: Sensing, Analyzing and Intervening to Control the Expression of an Inter
Fri, Apr 03, 2009 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Hitten Zaveri, Ph.D.Associate Research Scientist
Department of Neurology
Yale UniversityAbstract: There has been considerable progress in recent years by an interdisciplinary effort composed of engineers, mathematicians and physicists working in close collaboration with neurologists, neurosurgeons and neuroscientists to understand epilepsy. These advances have improved our ability to capture normal and aberrant brain activity, analyze it and intervene to control the expression of seizures and led to the development of brain implantable devices as a therapeutic option. This talk covers several aspects of this effort with particular attention to the time-series analysis of intracranial EEGs to: (1) understand the process of seizure generation, (2) to localize areas of seizure onset and (3) to predict the onset of seizures.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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EE Practical Guide Seminar - Perspective on Screening, Quals, Defense
Fri, Apr 03, 2009 @ 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Seminar Leaders: Profs. Eun Sok Kim Michael G. Safonov
Invitees: All EE students
Organizer: Prof. Alan Willner
Website: http://ee.usc.edu/news/practical-guide/* Pizza will be provided by the EE Department.*Abstract: This seminar is to present the policies of Ph.D. screening
process, qualifying exam and thesis defense in USC's Ming Hsieh EE
Department. While the qualifying exam and thesis defense are conducted
according to the rules set by the graduate division, the screening
process is different for EE-Systems and EE-Electrophysics. That
difference as well as how a Ph.D. student can successfully complete the
three major steps will be discussed.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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MIMO Interference: Dont Forget the Spatial Structure!
Fri, Apr 03, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Nicolai Czink
Stanford UniversityAbstract: The capacity of MIMO links under interference is already well known for spatially white channels. However, most channels show a specific spatial structure. In this talk, I will discuss the spatial properties of best-case and worst-case interference (maximizing or minimizing the mutual information), and will present results from a recent measurement campaign supporting our analytic results.Biography: Nicolai Czink received his MSc and PhD degrees from Vienna University of Technology in 2004 and 2008, respectively, both with distinction. Since 2005, he is with the ftw. Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, where he is Senior Researcher in the area of wireless communications at present. In April 2008, he joined the Smart Antennas Research Group at Stanford University as a Postdoctoral Scholar, working on MIMO interference measurements an modeling.Host: Andreas Molisch, 04670, EEB 530, molisch@usc.eduLocation: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
