Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Events for March
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Sonny Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar
Thu, Mar 05, 2020 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Francesca Boso, Stanford University
Talk Title: Data and probabilistic forecasting in environmental applications
Abstract: Mathematical models expressing conservation of certain quantities (e.g. mass) are ubiquitous in the environmental sciences. A common challenge is often the lack of enough observations to inform these models, either because data collection is costly or impractical/impossible at the required level of spatial and temporal refinement. We propose a computational tool to treat the parametric uncertainty of these models, leveraging the inherent physical constraints, and combining them with data. Specifically, we quantify the impact of parametric uncertainty by deriving model-dependent deterministic equations for the probability distribution (Probability Density Function, PDF, or Cumulative Distribution Function, CDF) of the model solution. These equations can be derived in exact form for a class of nonlinear hyperbolic governing laws (e.g. advection-dominated transport in heterogeneous flows), whereas in general they require the development of ad-hoc closures. I will be presenting an overview of strategies to obtain workable PDF-CDF equations for specific conservation problems, and some recent work on how to combine them with available data to eventually reduce uncertainty.
Biography: Francesca is a senior research scientist in the Energy Resources Engineering Department at Stanford University, following her postdoc at the University of California, San Diego. She received her PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Trento, Italy, specializing in hydrology. She has been investigating uncertainty quantification for environmental applications.
Host: Dr. Felipe de Barros
Location: Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience (MCB) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Larry Rossen, Professor Emeritus of Psychology Department, California State University, Dominguez Hill
Talk Title: WE ARE FACING AN ATTENTION CRISIS: WHAT IS DRIVING OUR DISTRACTED MINDS?
Abstract: See attached abstract.
Host: Dr. Burcin Becerik-Gerber
More Information: Larry Rossen-Abstract_3-12-2020.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Port of Los Angeles - Conflict, Commerce, and the Flight for Control - Book Launch and Lecture
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Geraldine Knatz, PhD, Professor of the Practice of Policy and Engineering at USC
Talk Title: Port of Los Angeles - Conflict, Commerce, and the Flight for Control - Book Launch and Lecture
Abstract: With years of research, 200 maps and images, Knatz shapes and insightful story of the Port of Los Angeles, from its early entrepreneurs to the city's business and political leadership, and the inevitable conflicts that arose between them. Power moves disguised as bureaucratic banalities, jurisdictional feuds, and outright warfare - it is all here.
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More Information: Knatz Book Launch and Lecture.jpg
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Salina Palacios