Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Events for October
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Oct 02, 2015 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Haeng Sik Ko, Ph.D. Student , Astani CEE
Talk Title: DEVELOPMENT OF A HYDRAULIC-CONTROL WAVE-MAKER (HCW) FOR THE STUDY
Abstract: The aim of the research presented here is to develop a new experimental device which would permit the study of multi-scale and vertically-variable oceanographic flows using a system called the Hydraulic-Control Wave-maker (HCW). Both the inlet and outlet flume boundaries are composed of an adjustable set of vertical baffles. Each baffle is connected to an individual flow control system, such that the vertical distribution of flow is entirely controllable. In such a system, any arbitrary flow can be reasonably created, and different sets of baffles can be connected to different reservoirs to create vertical density profiles. In this study, before constructing the experimental device, numerical analyses to verify the method of HCW, such as its ability to generate waves are carried out. Moreover, the prototype with one baffle connected to our own flow control system is developed. Long and short sine waves are generated by a small-scale HCW and the snapshots are presented. The large scale physical model with 3 baffles is built and wave generation by the equipment is verified.
Refreshment is served after the seminar in KAP 203 CEE Lounge
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Oct 09, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mohammad Ali Motie Share , Astani CEE Ph.D. Student
Talk Title: Horizontal Traffic Queues: From Microscopic to Macroscopic Models
Abstract: Motivated by emerging ITS technologies such as Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications, we consider a Horizontal Traffic Queue (HTQ) on a circular road, where vehicles arrive according to a spatio-temporal Poisson process, and, upon arrival move clockwise until they reach a common destination point, from which they depart the queue. When inside the queue, vehicles communicate with each other and the speed of a vehicle is a function of the distance to the vehicle in front. We analyze the stability of this queuing system and provide a tight characterization of the maximum traffic flow. We also study the evolution of the system in between the jumps to characterize finer properties of the queueing system. In the proposed HTQ, we associate the road with a server that simultaneously serves all the vehicles present on the road. This analogy suggests the relation between HTQ and processor sharing (PS) queues. We use this connection to derive the fluid limit of the proposed system that gives a macroscopic representation of the underlying microscopic queueing system.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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USC Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science PhD seminar
Fri, Oct 16, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Manish Kumar, Penn State University
Talk Title: Artificial Aquaporins
Abstract: See Attached
Biography: See Attached
Host: Amy Childress
More Information: Kumar announcement.pdf
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kaela Berry
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Oct 23, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Thang Le and Qin Ba, Astani CEE Ph.D. Students
Talk Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Le Val Lund Lecture on Lifeline Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Tue, Oct 27, 2015 @ 05:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Robert Kennedy, ASCE Le Val Lund Award Winner
Talk Title: Performance-Goal Based (Risk Informed) Seismic Design Criteria
Host: ASCE
More Info: http://www.ascemlab.org or http://ascemlab.org/index.php/event/24-second-annual-leval-lund-lecture-on-lifeline-infrastructure-and-community-resilience
More Information: ASCE Le Val Lund Lecture_Invitation Announcement_100215.pdf
Location: Town and Gown
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kaela Berry
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Oct 30, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sina-Hasheminassab and Dongbin Wang, Astani CEE Ph.D. Students
Talk Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes