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Events for March 01, 2012
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Redesigning Reality
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Workshops & Infosessions
Admission is free. Reservations required for the workshops. To RSVP, see the workshop schedule and reservation links below.
Reuse. Recycle. Reconfigure. A week-long series will feature two hands-on workshops where participants can remix and remake everyday objects and software and alter the ways we think about technology, culture and the environment. Throughout the week, artifacts from the workshops will be featured in a gallery show that is part art exhibition and part interactive junkyard. The series will foreground reuse and sharing as fundamental to the design and creation of hybrid media work.
Even if you are unable to attend the workshops, please come by the gallery during the week to see the residuals of the first workshop or join us for a reception and presentation by participants following each workshop.
Workshop Schedule:
Scrapyard Challenge
Friday, February 24, 12 to 4 p.m.
Reception to follow.
Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki of Scrapyard Challenge will guide an afternoon of repurposing junk and refurbished electronics to create machines and robots.
To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=196 beginning Wednesday, February 1, at 9 a.m.
Still Water: What Networks Need to Thrive
Friday, March 2, 2 to 4 p.m.
Closing reception to follow.
Still Water cofounders Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais from the University of Maine will demonstrate how to hack software into unique virtual environments.
To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=198 beginning Tuesday, February 7, at 9 a.m.
Organized by Craig Dietrich (Cinematic Arts) and Steve Anderson (Cinematic Arts). Co-sponsored by iMAP (PhD Program in Media Arts and Practice) and the Institute for Multimedia Literacy.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Rensselaer International Scholars Program Joint Event with ASBME, AABA, and NSBE
Thu, Mar 01, 2012 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Rensselaer International Scholars Program Information Session
Date: Thursday, March 1
Time: 6 p.m. PST
Location: University of Southern California, Waite Phillips Hall B27
Mr. Michael Bozzi from Rensselaer will be visiting us on March 1, and we cordially invite you to join us for a special information session for the International Scholars Program:
Go to http://apply.ewp.rpi.edu/register/?id=c484cf8b8e71472e95eae820aed0ae8a to register.
Dinner will be served, and one attendee will win a FREE Kindle Fire! Please note that you must register online and attend the event to be eligible for the drawing.
This is a great opportunity to chat with academic and admissions experts in person and learn more about the International Scholars Program. Hope to see you there!
-- a joint event with ASBME, AABA, and NSBELocation: Waite Phillips Hall Of Education (WPH) - B27
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: NSBE National Society of Black Engineers
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Intel Tech Talk for PhD Students
Thu, Mar 01, 2012 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
âProcess Technology Development at Intelâ
Speaker: Dr. Jeanne Luce is a Senior Technical Contributor in Logic Technology Development at Intel Corporation. She received her PhD in Chemistry from UC Berkeley, and has been with Intelâs Logic Technology Development (LTD) group since 1999. Jeanne leads the LTD technical development in dielectric gapfill. Jeanne and her colleagues are currently focused on transistor technology development for Intel's 22 and 14 nm CMOS logic nodes. Dr. Luceâs presentation will discuss the process technology development cycle in LTD, specific challenges going forward, and job opportunities at Intel, and use selected cases from Intelâs 32 and 22 nm technology nodes by way of example.
Refreshments provided!
Please bring your resume: Intel LTD is hiring PhD candidates with backgrounds in:
Chemistry
Chemical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Materials Science
Physics
For more Information, please see the attached flier below:More Information: Intel-USC LTD Tech Talk Mar 2012.pptx
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Viterbi PhD Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Social Networks and Health: What can Technology Do?
Thu, Mar 01, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Workshops & Infosessions
A panel on Social Networks and Health: What can Technology Do?
Thursday, March 1, 2012
2:00-3:30pm
EEB 248
Refreshments will be served
PANELISTS:
⢠Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
⢠Kristina Lerman, Information Sciences Institute
⢠Peter Monge, Communication, Annenberg School of Communication
⢠Francis Pereira, Institute for Communication Technology Management, Marshall School of Business
⢠Thomas Valente, Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine
MODERATOR:
Urbashi Mitra, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
A research advancement workshop sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Research and the Office of Research
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Viterbi Keynote Lecture
Thu, Mar 01, 2012 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Sergio Verdú, Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Talk Title: What is Information Theory
Abstract: This wide-audience talk will address the history of Claude Shannonâs theory on the fundamental limits of data compression and data transmission through noisy channels. We will review the impact of information theory on the design of various information technologies, as well as its intersections with other fields. We will also discuss the evolving perception of information theory since its inception in 1948 among the wider scientific community.
3:00pm - Reception
4:00pm - Lecture
Biography: Sergio Verdú is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, he is the recipient of the 2007 Claude E. Shannon Award, and the 2008 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. He received the 2000 Frederick E. Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education, and a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book Multiuser Detection. His papers have received several awards, including the 1992 IEEE Donald Fink Paper Award, the Information Theory Outstanding Paper Award in both 1998 and 2012, an IEEE Information Theory Golden Jubilee Paper Award, the 2002 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Award in the field of Communications Systems, the 2007 IEEE Joint Communications/Information Theory Paper Award, and the 2009 Stephen O. Rice Prize from the IEEE Communications Society. He served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1997, and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory.
Host: Dr. Alexander Sawchuk
More Info: http://ee.usc.edu/news/viterbi_lecture-verdu.htmMore Information: 20120301 Verdu Print.pdf
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - Auditorium and Patio
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
Event Link: http://ee.usc.edu/news/viterbi_lecture-verdu.htm
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Transactivation: Revealing Queer Histories in the Archive
Thu, Mar 01, 2012 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
A series of events will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945â1980 at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The events will foster discussions about LGBT histories, queer art and aesthetics and archival practices in contemporary art.
Artists Heather Cassils, Zackary Drucker, Wu Tsang and Chris Vargas will present a series of live performances and video projects inspired by the collections at ONE. These artists explore trans content in their multidisciplinary work and are interested in a discussion about LGBTQ archives and the "Ts" and "Qs" that are often missing from historical records. The performance will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dean Spade, assistant professor at the Seattle University School of Law.
Performer and Speaker Bios:
Heather Cassils is a body builder who uses her exaggerated physique to intervene in various contexts in order to interrogate systems of power, control and gender. Often employing many of the same strategies used by Fluxus and guerrilla theatre, her method is multidisciplinary and crosses a spectrum of performance, film, video and photography. She is also a founding member of the Los Angelesâbased performance group Toxic Titties.
Zackary Drucker is a Los Angelesâbased artist who is interested in obliterating language obstacles, pulverizing identity disorders and revealing dark subconscious layers of outsider agency. Drucker disarms audiences using live performance, film, video and photography.
Dean Spade is an assistant professor at the Seattle University School of Law, teaching law and social movements, poverty law and administrative law. His book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law, is forthcoming from South End Press.
Wu Tsang is a Los Angelesâbased visual artist and performer whose projects have been presented at X-Initative (New York), Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (Mexico City), Oberhausen (Germany), REDCAT (Los Angeles) and the California Biennial 2010. In 2008, his short film The Shape of a Right Statement was included in Artforumâs âBest of the Year (Film).â Tsang is currently directing his first feature documentary, Wildness, which is in post-production.
Chris Vargas is a video maker based in Oakland. With collaborator Greg Youmans he creates the sitcom series Falling in Love . . . with Chris and Greg, and with Eric Stanley he is the co-director of the movie Homotopia and the feature-length sequel Criminal Queers.
Organized by Joseph Hawkins, Mia Locks, David Frantz, Onya Hogan-Finlay and the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. Co-sponsored by LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) and the Gettyâs Pacific Standard Time Initiative.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: One National Gay & Lesbian Archives, 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
