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Events for March 07, 2006
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A Review of Maximum Entropy Principles and Applications to Stochastic Estimation
Tue, Mar 07, 2006 @ 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:
Sonjoy Das
USC - CE Graduate StudentLocation: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall, Room 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Process Systems Engineering in Semiconductor Processing
Tue, Mar 07, 2006 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
GRADUATE SEMINARProfessor S. Joe Qin
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Texas, AustinAbstract:The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a technology transition from 200mm to 300mm wafers to gain manufacturing efficiency and reduce manufacturing cost per chip. These technological changes present a unique opportunity to optimally design the control systems to achieve fab-wide control.In this seminar we introduce systems engineering approaches to semiconductor manufacturing and present a hierarchical optimization and control framework for semiconductor fab control. The equipment level control involves real-time feedback control of tool parameters. The next level run-to-run control involves sharing information from multiple steps to achieve feedforward and predictive control. The top level of the hierarchy is the fab-wide control which is the highest level optimization to achieve desired electrical properties by recalculating the optimal targets for the lower level. Challenges due to multiple, different tools in each module and multiple products being processed in the same module of tools are discussed. Stability analysis results are given for single product runs and mixed product runs. Fault detection and process monitoring needs at various levels are discussed as well. In summary, various systems engineering issues and opportunities are demonstrated in the large scale but nano-sized semiconductor manufacturing processes.Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
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BIOLOGICAL CIRCUITS
Tue, Mar 07, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGDISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES"BIOLOGICAL CIRCUITS"Prof. Jehoshua (Shuki) BruckComputation and Neural Systems and Electrical EngineeringCalifornia Institute of TechnologyAbstract:Motivated by the intriguing functionality of gene regulatory networks we study chemical reactions (biological) circuits. We observe that those circuits are vastly different when compared to existing computing structures like logic circuits. In particular, the two strikingly different ingredients in biological circuits are feedback in memoryless computation and the stochastic behavior of devices in deterministic systems. Are these two biologically inspired concepts useful in improving the design of existing computing structures? I will provide a positive answer to this question and argue that progress in our understanding of biology depends on the development of new abstractions for reasoning about computation.Bio:Jehoshua (Shuki) Bruck is the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He was the founding Director of the Caltech Information Science and Technology (IST) program. His research combines work on the design of distributed information systems and the theoretical study of biological circuits and systems. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1982 and 1985, respectively and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1989. Dr. Bruck has an extensive industrial experience, including working with IBM Research for ten years where he participated in the design and implementation of the first IBM parallel computer. He was co-founder and Chairman of Rainfinity (acquired in 2005 by EMC), a spin-off company from Caltech that focused on software products for management of network information systems. Dr. Bruck is a Fellow of the IEEE, the recipient of an IBM Partnership Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, six IBM Plateau Invention Achievement Awards, an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award and an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. He published more than 200 journal and conference papers in his areas of interests and he holds 25 US patents. His papers were recognized in journals and conferences, including, winning the 2005 S. A. Schelkunoff Transactions prize paper award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation society (joint with M. Franceschetti and L. J. Schulman) and the 2003 Best Paper Award in the 2003 Design Automation Conference (joint with M. Riedel). Host: Prof. Keith Chugg, ext. 07294
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - ontology Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Rosine Sarafian
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The Moral Morass of Contemporary Life
Tue, Mar 07, 2006 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
The Dialogues series continues with a panel discussion on the moral morass of contemporary life. Panelists include Rabbi Leonard Beerman and Rev. George Regas. The series is sponsored by the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities and the USC Libraries.
Location: Estelle Doheny Eye Foundation (DOH) - eny Intellectual Commons, Room 233
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
