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Events for March 04, 2009
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Meet USC
Wed, Mar 04, 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 1:00 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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Organic Computing - a Generic Approach to Controlled Self-organization in Adaptive Systems
Wed, Mar 04, 2009 @ 03:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Hartmut Schmeck, University of Karlsruhe
Host: Prof. Neno MedvidovicAbstract:
Organic Computing is a recent paradigm for the design and management of complex technical systems, addressing the need for adaptive, self-organizing systems which are capable of dealing with changing requirements and unanticipated situations in a robust and trustworthy way and which allow an external "observer" or "user" to interfere and influence the system whenever it does not show acceptable behavior by itself. Research in this area is supported by a priority program of the German Research Foundation ( www.organic-computing.de/SPP ). The talk will present the generic observer/controller architecture of Organic Computing and describe our research on organic traffic control and on smart energy systems. Furthermore, the talk will highlight the close connection to COMMputation, a newly formed focus area of research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, emphasizing the inherent combination of communication and computation in a broad range of complex application systems.Biography:
Hartmut Schmeck is a Full Professor of Applied Informatics at the University of Karlsruhe within the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT (Gernany). He is (co-)author of more than 110 publications on advanced algorithms and architectures, in particular on bio-inspired methods in optimization and algorithms for reconfigurable architectures. His current major research interest is on self-organization and adaptivity in complex technical systems. He is the principal investigator of research projects on information and communication technologies in energy and traffic systems. He has been program and conference chair for several international workshops and conferences, is a key member of the "Organic Computing Initiative" and coordinator of the DFG priority program SPP 1183 on "Organic Computing". At the KIT, he is the Scientific Spokesperson of the newly formed KIT-Focus Area "COMMputation" addressing the inherent combination of communication and computation that is a characteristic feature of smart application systems.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Colloquia
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Sea Level Rise: How the Oceans Respond to a Warming World
Wed, Mar 04, 2009 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Josh Willis Scientist Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA As the planet heats up, over 80 percent of the excess heat goes toward warming the oceans. In essence, the oceans are the Earth's heat capacitors, absorbing the heat from global warming and setting the time scale for climate change. As they warm, ocean waters expand, causing sea level rise. Rising ocean levels are one of the most serious and visible consequences of global warming. However, projections of future sea level rise remain very crude and have so far underestimated the actual rate of rise. To accurately project sea level rise, it is important to understand its causes. Since 2003, two new global ocean observing systems have begun to address this issue. The Argo array of profiling floats now provides nearly global observations of temperature and salinity in the upper ocean, and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites provide monthly estimates of the ocean's total mass. Using data from these and other instruments, the first attempts to explain the causes of present data sea level rise have been made. Results suggest that although warming and thermal expansion played a large role in sea level rise during the 1990s, the melting of glaciers and ice sheets is accelerating and may have become the dominate source in recent years.
Location: Seaver Science Library, Rm 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
