Events for March 08, 2006
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Mike Eldred, Sandia National Labs: Overview of Optimization Under Uncertainty Capabilities in DAKOTA
Wed, Mar 08, 2006 @ 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Uncertainties must be properly modeled in order to quantify risk and enable the design of systems that are both robust and reliable. A number of capabilities for optimization under uncertainty (OUU) have been developed at Sandia National Laboratories and deployed to users through the DAKOTA software toolkit. This talk will overview these capabilities, as well as describe the uncertainty quantification and optimization foundations on which they are based. Of particular interest are surrogate-based OUU and reliability-based design optimization methods. Application of these techniques to robust design of inertial confinement fusion capsules and reliability-based design of micro-electro-mechanical systems will be presented.Mike Eldred is Principal Member of Technical Staff, Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation Dept., at Sandia National Laboratories.http://venus.usc.edu/seminars/CAM/
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Roger Ghanem
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Towards Verification and Validation of Adaptive Systems for Safety Critical Applications
Wed, Mar 08, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Naira Hovakimyan, Associate Professor
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UnivFor more information, go to:http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - Rm, 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
