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Events for September 14, 2011
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METRANS SEMINAR SERIES
Wed, Sep 14, 2011 @ 12:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Maged Dessouky, Christine Nguyen, Dr. Alejandro Toriello and Dr. James Moore, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Talk Title: "The California Cut Flower Industry: A Case for Transportation Consolidation"
Series: METRANS
Abstract: The California Cut Flower Commission is a state government agency created to promote California-grown cut flowers and foliage. CCFC is responsible for representing all of California's cut flower and green farms. California flower farmers' largest competitors are South American farmers, particularly Colombian and Ecuadorian, who have benefitted from the 1991 Andean Trade Preference Act. The law cut import tariffs from South American nations on a range of goods, resulting in Colombia capturing 75% of the U.S. flower market. Meanwhile California's market share has decreased from 64% to 20%.
This paper evaluates the California cut flower industry's current transportation practices and investigates the feasibility and cost of establishing a shipping consolidation center in Oxnard, California. The problem is formulated using a Mixed-Integer programming model. The model estimates a 34.8% shipping cost decrease, $20M, if all California farms participated in the consolidation center. Our analysis of estimated cut-flower trade flows originating from Miami shows that the magnitudes of these flows are relatively sensitive to shipping cost, controlling for market size.
*RSVP to Shawn Gong, TGong@usc.edu, by Noon, September 13, 2011 (Lunch will be provided for RSVPs)
Biography: Dr. Maged Dessouky, Professor, Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, USC, received his B.S./M.S. degrees in IE from Purdue University and his Ph.D. degree in IEOR from UC Berkeley. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, PATH, Caltrans, FTA, and Department of Defense. He was recipient of the 2007 Transportation Science & Logistics Best Paper Prize. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He is area editor of Computers & Industrial Engineering, ACM Transactions of Modeling and Computer Simulation, IIE Transactions.
Host: METRANS Transportation Center, USC/CSULB
More Information: METRANS Seminar_09142011_Dessouky.pdf
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - Room 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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CommNetS Seminar: Toward a Computational Information Theory
Wed, Sep 14, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Michelle Effros, Caltech
Talk Title: Toward a Computational Information Theory
Series: Communications, Networks & Systems (CommNetS) Seminar
Abstract: The field of Information Theory provides powerful and elegant mathematical tools for bounding the limits of communication networks. Application of these tools to real network systems requires new computational tools that enable the analysis of large networks. This talk proposes a strategy for building scalable computational tools for bounding network capacities.
Biography:
Michelle Effros received the B.S. degree with distinction in 1989, the M.S. degree in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree in 1994, all in electrical engineering from Stanford University. During the summers of 1988 and 1989 she worked at Hughes Aircraft Company, researching modulation schemes, real-time implementations of fast data rate error-correction schemes, and future applications for fiber optics in space technology.
She is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology; from 1994 - 2000 she was Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering; and from 2000 - 2005, Associate Professor. Her research interests include information theory, data compression, communications, pattern recognition, speech recognition, and image processing.
Professor Effros received Stanford's Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award (for excellence in engineering) in 1989, the Hughes Masters Full-Study Fellowship in 1989, the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in 1990, the AT&T Ph.D. Scholarship in 1993, the NSF CAREER Award in 1995, the Charles Lee Powell Foundation Award in 1997, and the Richard Feynman-Hughes Fellowship in 1997. She is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and IEEE Information Theory, Signal Processing, and Communications societies. She served as the Editor of the IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter from 1995-1998, as Co-Chair of the NSF Sponsored Workshop on Joint Source-Channel Coding in 1999, and has been a Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society since 1998.
Host: Ubli Mitra
More Info: http://csi.usc.edu/~dimakis/CommNetSLocation: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Rahul Jain
Event Link: http://csi.usc.edu/~dimakis/CommNetS
