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Events for February 13, 2009
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Meet USC
Fri, Feb 13, 2009
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 12:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Maximal Transmission Rate for Finite Blocklength
Fri, Feb 13, 2009 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sergio Verdú
Princeton UniversityAbstract: How much do we need to back off from channel capacity when the blocklength is equal to 1000?Biography: Sergio Verdú is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University where he teaches and conducts research on information theory in the Information Sciences and Systems Group. He is also affiliated with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. A native of Barcelona, Spain, Sergio Verdú received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Conducted at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, his doctoral research pioneered the field of Multiuser Detection. Sergio Verdú was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1992 and member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering in 2007. He received the 2000 Frederick E. Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. In 2005, he received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He is the recipient of the 2007 Claude E. Shannon Award, and the 2008 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book ``Multiuser Detection.'' His papers have received several awards: the 1992 IEEE Donald Fink Paper Award, the 1998 Information Theory Outstanding Paper Award, a IEEE Information Theory Golden Jubilee Paper Award, the 2000 Paper Award from the Japan Telecommunications Advancement Foundation, the 2002 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Award in the field of Communications Systems and the 2007 IEEE Joint Communications/Information Theory Paper Award. Sergio Verdú has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, and as Associate Editor for Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1997. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory. He has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and the University of Tokyo. In 1998 he was Visiting Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2002 he held the Hewlett-Packard Visiting Research Professorship at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley.Host: Giuseppe Caire, caire@usc.edu, EEB 528, x07326
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium: Present and Future of Battery Technology
Fri, Feb 13, 2009 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Lecture offered by Troy Renken, Vice President of Product Planning and Electronics of ZPower
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admissions & Student Affairs
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Astronautical Engineering Seminar
Fri, Feb 13, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Astronautical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
"Modeling Micro-Physics Effects on Macro-Systems:
Applications in Space Propulsion and Space Environments"Speaker:
Joseph Wang, University of Southern California, Astronautics and Space Technology DivisionRefreshments at 1:45Abstract:
Micro-scale plasma processes often directly determine the macroscopic behavior of space plasma environment and the outcome of spacecraft plasma interactions. Such processes also influence many aspects of electric propulsion system design and operation. Understanding and predicting the effects of micro-physics on macro-systems are often extremely challenging due to the complex nature of the physics and experimental limitations. This talk presents some recent advances in understanding and predicting the effects of micro-scale plasma processes using first-principle based simulation models. Three studies will be discussed. The first concerns ion thruster beam neutralization and propagation. The second concerns charging and charged dust particle interactions on the lunar surface. The third concerns radiation belt remediation using plasma turbulence induced by an artificial plasma cloud. A common theme in all these studies is the development of plasma particle simulation algorithms. Two new particle simulation algorithms, the immersed finite element PIC and the electromagnetic hybrid PIC with finite electron mass, will also be discussed briefly along with the application studies.Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Dan Erwin
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Joint Multiple Cell-Site Processing in Wyner-like Fading Models
Fri, Feb 13, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Shlomo Shamai
EE Dept, Technion, Haifa, IsraelAbstract: We investigate the information theoretic aspects of a simple cellular model, where users experience a soft-handoff situation under joint multicell decoding. The ultimate sum-rate limits of reliable communications in this model in non-fading and fading situations, are presented. Focus is put on the uplink in the high snr regime, with general fading statistics. In this case, adhering to a TDMA intra-cell protocol, a novel closed form expression for the per-cell sum-rate is developed. The result is based on study of the spectrum of certain large random Hermitian tri-diagonal Jacobi matrices. Specifically, since the matrices of interest are tridiagonal, their eigenvectors can be considered as sequences with second order linear recurrence. Therefore, the problem is reduced to the study of the exponential growth of products of two by two matrices. For the case where K users are simultaneously active in each cell, we obtain a series of lower and upper bounds on the high-SNR power offset of the per-cell sum-rate, which are considerably tighter than previously known bounds. The technique can be adapted to generalized Wyner-like cellular models. We examine also special cases of zero/one dependent (per user) `fading` structures to analyze in the impact of users' activity in a `soft handoff` Wyner model. In this case close form expressions are developed for respective capacities in the outage regime, addressing also ergodic case. Time permitting, duality principles that relate the uplink performance to the downlink are discussed, mentioning the results for unfaded and faded cases, and pointing out some open problems.Biography: Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) (S'80–M'82–SM'89–F'94) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, in 1975, 1981 and 1986 respectively. During 1975-1985 he was with the Communications Research Labs in the capacity of a Senior Research Engineer. Since 1986 he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, where he is now the William Fondiller Professor of Telecommunications. His research interests encompass a wide spectrum of topics in information theory and statistical communications. He is especially interested in theoretical limits in communication with practical constraints, multi-user information theory and spread spectrum systems, multiple-input-multiple-output communications systems, information theoretic models for wireless networks and systems, information theoretic aspects of magnetic recording, channel coding, combined modulation and coding, turbo codes and LDPC, in channel, source, and combined source-channel applications, iterative detection and decoding algorithms, coherent and noncoherent detection and information theoretic aspects of digital communication in optical channels. Dr. Shamai (Shitz) is a member of the Union Radio Scientifique Internationale (URSI). He is the recipient of the 1999 van der Pol Gold Medal of URSI, and a co-recipient of the 2000 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, the 2003, and the 2004 Joint IT/COM Societies Paper Award, and the 2007 Information Theory Society Paper Award. He is also the recipient of the 1985 Alon Grant for distinguished young scientists and the 2000 Technion Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research. He has served as Associate Editor for the Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and also serves on the Board of Governors of the Information Theory Society.Host: Giuseppe Caire, caire@usc.edu, EEB 528, x07326Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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BME HAPPY HOUR
Fri, Feb 13, 2009 @ 05:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Student Activity
Come to USC's beloved TRADITIONS to catch up with or meet friends old and new! Let's make this a BME tradition every other Friday.
Location: Tradition's (located in The Lot)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Society of Women Engineers - Evening with Industry
Fri, Feb 13, 2009 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2008 Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Place: Radisson Hotel Ballroom Registration deadline: February 13th, 2008 SWE's 3rd annual Evening with Industry will be held in the Radisson Ballroom on February 18, 2009 from 6pm to 8pm. This year, SWE has a wide range of company representatives attending, all of who want to talk to students This is a unique opportunity to network with representatives and learn about companies the evening before the career fair--all over a three-course dinner. The special event is open to all engineers, female or male. Companies attending: Aera Energy, AMO, Amgen, ATK, BAE Systems, Cisco, Intel, Lockheed, Microsoft, Northrop, Qualcomm, Raytheon, Xerox, Parsons Brinckerhoff, and JPL. Seating is limited and on a first-come/first-serve basis, so please register as soon as possible. Find out more about this event at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~sweusc/ewi/students.html
Location: Radisson Hotel Ballroom
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
