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Events for February 27, 2006
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Summer Class Registration Begins
Mon, Feb 27, 2006
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
University Calendar
Audiences: Undergrad/Graduate Students
Contact: Monica De Los Santos
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The Upcoming Revolution in Construction
Mon, Feb 27, 2006 @ 01:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:Behrokh Khoshnevis
Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
University of Southern CaliforniaThe nature of construction has remained intensely manual throughout recorded history. Unlike in manufacturing, the growth of automation in construction has been slow. A promising new automation approach is Contour Crafting (CC). Invented by Behrokh Khoshnevis, Contour Crafting is a mega-scale fabrication process aiming at automated construction of whole structures as well as subcomponents. The potential of CC became evident from investigations and experiments with materials and geometries. Using this process, a single house or a colony of houses may be constructed automatically in a single run with all plumbing and electrical utilities imbedded in each house; yet each could be a different design. The implication is especially profound for emergency shelter construction and low income housing. NASA is exploring possible application of CC in building on other planets. This new mode of construction will be one of the very few feasible approaches for building on planets such as Moon and Mars, which are being targeted for human colonization before the end of the century. CC has received international attention and may soon revolutionize the construction industry. For more information please visit http://www.ContourCrafting.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Behrokh Khoshnevis is a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and is the Director of the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT) and the Director of Manufacturing Engineering Program. He is active in CAD/CAM, robotics, and mechatronics related research and development projects that include the development of two novel Solid Free Form (Rapid Prototyping) processes called Contour Crafting and SIS, a technology for automated construction of housing structures, development of mechatronics systems for biomedical applications (e.g., restorative dentistry, rehabilitation engineering, and tactile sensing devices), autonomous mobile and modular robots for assembly applications on earth and in space, and automated equipment for oil (petroleum) and gas industries. He has several major inventions which have been either commercialized or are in the commercialization process. He has also been closely involved in several product development processes. His educational activity at USC includes the teaching of a graduate course on Invention and Technology Development and he routinely conducts lectures and seminars on the subject of invention. He is a senior member of the Society for Computer Simulation and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and is a Fellow member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Dr. Khoshnevis' inventions have received extensive worldwide publicity in acclaimed media such as New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Business Week, Der Spiegel, New Scientist, The Age and national and international television and radio networks such as ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, Discovery channels of US, Canada, Germany and BBC WorldLocation: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Optical Coherence Tomography of the Eye - Seminar Series
Mon, Feb 27, 2006 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 AM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
David Huang, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, USC"Optical Coherence Tomography of the Eye"
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: Darryl Hwang
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High-Resolution Compositional Simulation of Multicontact Miscible Displacements
Mon, Feb 27, 2006 @ 01:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
GRADUATE SEMINARHigh-Resolution Compositional Simulation of Multicontact Miscible DisplacementsDr. Kristian Jessen
Stanford UniversityAbstract A significant portion of the existing hydrocarbon reserves are candidates for enhanced recovery processes. Miscible/near-miscible gas injection or water alternating gas injection processes hold the potential for significant improvement of recoveries relative to primary production and water flooding. The ultimate recovery of a miscible and near-miscible gas injection scheme is a complex function of the local displacement efficiency and global sweep efficiency. Successful performance evaluation of recovery processes based on numerical calculations requires, in part, high resolution in permeability heterogeneity and appropriate representation of the phase behavior and transport properties of the fluid system. Numerical simulation of these processes is challenging because the predicted displacement efficiency is very sensitive to numerical diffusion.
In this talk, I address the challenges related to compositional simulation of multicomponent multiphase flows. First, I demonstrate the shortcomings of conventional finite difference/volume (FD) simulation approaches in one dimension (1D), using a mix of analytical solutions, standard FD calculations and high order accurate FD calculations. I show that numerical artifacts have a fluid system specific impact on the prediction of the local displacement efficiency. This behavior is a direct result of the strong nonlinear coupling between flow and phase behavior. Next, I extend the analysis to 2D and 3D displacement processes. Physical dispersion is included in the model to delineate the grid resolution required to resolve the physics at a given simulation length scale. I present calculation examples for multicontact miscible gas/oil displacements and enhanced condensate recovery processes by gas injection/cycling. Finally, I conclude with a discussion of the future challenges and research directions in the field of compositional simulation.Monday, February 27, 2006
VKC 207
1:00 p.m.The Scientific Community is Cordially Invited
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - 207
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
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Computer Vision for HCI and RTC Applications
Mon, Feb 27, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Dr. Zhengyou ZhangTitle:
Computer Vision for HCI and RTC ApplicationsAbstract:
We strive to advance the state of the art of computer vision, and develop flexible and robust techniques for human-computer interaction and real-time communication and collaboration. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the research projects I have been working with my colleagues in these areas. I will cover the following topics:
* Face modeling with a webcam. We have developed a model-based face modeling system. A 3D face model is built in a few minutes, and the model can be animated immediately. We have successfully built 3D face models for Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and many others.
* Eye-gaze correction for video conferencing: The lack of eye contact in desktop video teleconferencing substantially reduces the effectiveness of video contents. We describe a novel approach: Based on stereo analysis combined with rich domain knowledge (a personalized face model), we synthesize, using graphics hardware, a virtual video that maintains eye contact.
* Whiteboard Technology: While physical whiteboards are frequently used by knowledge workers, they are not perfect. The content on the board is hard to archive or share with others who are not present in the session. We have developed a set of technologies which include automatic whiteboard note taking by scanning with a web cam and by enhancing the images, automatic audio and whiteboard meeting archiving and indexing, and live meetings with enhanced whiteboard streaming.
If time allows, I will also show two more prototype systems. The first converts an ordinary screen into a touch screen. The second converts a rectangular panel (e.g., an ordinary piece of paper) into a virtual mouse, keyboard and joystick.Bio:
Zhengyou Zhang is a Senior Researcher with Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA. He is an IEEE Fellow, an Associate Editor of the "IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence" (PAMI), an Associate Editor of the "IEEE Transactions on Multimedia", an Associate Editor of the "International Journal of Computer Vision" (IJCV) and an Associate Editor of the "International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence" (IJPRAI). He received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Zhejiang, China, in 1985, the M.S. in computer science from the University of Nancy, France, in 1987, the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Paris XI, France, in 1990, and the Doctor of Science (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) diploma from the University of Paris XI, in 1994. He has been with INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) for 11 years and was a Senior Research Scientist from 1991 until he joined Microsoft Research in March 1998. In 1996-1997, he spent one-year sabbatical as an Invited Researcher at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan. He holds guest or adjunct faculty positions at University of Southern California, Zhejiang University (China) and Institute of Automation (Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published over 100 papers in refereed international journals and conferences, and has co-authored the following books: 3D Dynamic Scene Analysis: A Stereo Based Approach (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1992); Epipolar Geometry in Stereo, Motion and Object Recognition (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996); Computer Vision (textbook in Chinese, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1998). He has been a member, an area chair or a program chair of the program committees for numerous international conferences. More information is available at http://research.microsoft.com/~zhang/.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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Jacobs Engineering
Mon, Feb 27, 2006 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
