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Events for February 17, 2006

• Feb

  17

  Viterbi Student Council Funding Board Meeting

  Fri, Feb 17, 2006

  Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

  Student Activity

  
  

  Viterbi Student Council's Funding Board weekly meeting to discuss applications for funding.

  Audiences: Funding Board only

  Contact: Viterbi Student Council Funding Board

  

• Feb

  17

  Meet USC (AM session)

  Fri, Feb 17, 2006 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  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. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
  

  Location: USC Admission Center

  Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

  Contact: Viterbi Admission

  

• Feb

  17

  Entrepreneurial Space: An Insiders Observations

  Fri, Feb 17, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM

  Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  Engineering Honors Colloquium Lecture

  Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Erika Chua

  

• Feb

  17

  Solid phase microextraction (SPME): a multipurpose in situ ...

  Fri, Feb 17, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

  Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  Solid phase microextraction (SPME): a multipurpose in situ sampling technology for organic pollutants in coastal systemsSpeaker:Dr. Keith A. Maruya
  Principal Scientist
  Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
  Westminster, California 92683AbstractThe passive sampling technology known as solid phase microextraction (SPME) allows for cost-effective, trace measurement of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the aquatic environment. A recent large-scale survey on the areal and depth stratified distribution of DDT contamination in the coastal waters of the Southern California Bight (SCB) using a SPME-based sampler and thermal desorption GC-MS revealed dissolved phase p,p'-DDE concentrations ranging between

  Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall 156

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Evangeline Reyes

  

• Feb

  17

  Meet USC (PM session)

  Fri, Feb 17, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM

  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. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
  

  Location: USC Admission Center

  Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

  Contact: Viterbi Admission

  

• Feb

  17

  Viterbi Career Services Walk-In Hours

  Fri, Feb 17, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

  Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections

  Student Activity

  
  

  Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, to salary negotiations!

  Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218

  Audiences: Undergraduate/Graduate Engineering Students

  Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services

  

• Feb

  17

  Materials Science Seminar

  Fri, Feb 17, 2006 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM

  Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  Phase transitions in polyelectrolytes, polyampholytes and charged colloidsProf. A.Z. Panagiotopoulos
  Dept. of Chemical Engineering
  Princeton UniversityThis seminar starts with a brief historical overview of simulation studies of phase transitions in fluids dominated by coulombic interactions. It then summarizes recent work on modeling phase transitions in asymmetric ionic and charged polymer systems. The unifying characteristic of these fluids is the close interplay between microstructure and macroscopic properties and the existence of strong interactions or multiple relevant length scales. A fine-lattice discretization approach is used for the computations, combined with multihistogram reweighting. The fine-lattice approach allows close approximation of continuum systems with significant computational savings. For the size- and charge-asymmetric ionic systems we find that the critical parameters scale in a way contrary to the predictions of most integral equation theories. Systems with additional short-range interactions show a wealth of behavior including tricriticality, ionic criticality and conventional (non-ionic) criticality. Polyelectrolyte phase diagrams indicate that the existence of two separate length scales results in a finite critical density extrapolated to infinite chain length. Finally, mixtures of charged colloids and salts show non-monotonic dependence of the critical parameters on salt content and an interplay between the critical lines of the pure salt and colloid that can lead to discontinuous critical lines.

  Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 116

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Petra Pearce

  

• Feb

  17

  Centennial Lectures

  Fri, Feb 17, 2006 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM

  Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  The Future of Microprocessor ArchitectureJohn Hennessy,Ph.D. President, Stanford UniversityAbstract:From the mid-1980s until just recently, microprocessor performance grew at an amazing rate of over 50% a year. This growth was driven by basic improvements in the speed of integrated circuits and by a 20-year process of exploiting increasing levels of instruction level parallelism. A set of interrelated road blocks, including limits on available instruction level parallelism and increasing inefficiency in power and transistor use arising from attempts to exploit further instruction level parallelism, are bringing this road to an end. We document these limitations and the difficulty of overcoming them. We argue that the path ahead must rely on explicit, thread-level parallelism and demonstrate the performance advantages of that approach for server applications using data from the Sun Microsystems Niagara processor.Biography:John L. Hennessy joined Stanford's faculty in 1977. He was named the Willard and Inez Kerr Bell Endowed Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1987. From 1983 to 1993, Dr. Hennessy was director of the Computer System Laboratory, a research and teaching center operated by the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science that fosters research in computer systems design. He served as chair of computer science from 1994 to 1996 and, in 1996, was named dean of the School of Engineering. As dean, he launched a five-year plan that laid the groundwork for new activities in bioengineering and biomedical engineering. In 1999, he was named provost, the university's chief academic and financial officer. As provost, he continued his efforts to foster interdisciplinary activities in the biosciences and bioengineering and oversaw improvements in faculty and staff compensation.A pioneer in computer architecture, in 1981 Dr. Hennessy drew together researchers to focus on a computer architecture known as RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), a technology that has revolutionized the computer industry by increasing performance while reducing costs. In addition to his role in the basic research, Dr. Hennessy helped transfer this technology to industry. In 1984, he cofounded MIPS Computer Systems, now MIPS Technologies, which designs microprocessors. In recent years, his research has focused on the architecture of high-performance computers.Dr. Hennessy is a recipient of the 2000 John Von Neumann Medal, the 2000 ASEE R. Lamme Medal, the 2001 Eckert Mauchly Award and the 2001 Seymour Cray Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.He has lectured and published widely and is the co-author of two internationally used undergraduate and graduate textbooks on computer architecture design.
  Dr. Hennessy earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University and his master's and doctoral degrees in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.Refreshments will be served.
  

  Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - Auditorium

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Nancy Levien