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Events for March 12, 2008
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Meet USC
Wed, Mar 12, 2008
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/events/meet_usc/ 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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Distinguished Lecture Series: Compressive Sensing
Wed, Mar 12, 2008 @ 02:30 AM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
BIO:
Emmanuel Candes received his B. Sc. degree from the Ecole Polytechnique (France) in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in statistics from Stanford University in 1998. He is the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Caltech, he was an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, 1998--2000. His research interests are in computational harmonic analysis, multiscale analysis, approximation theory, statistical estimation and detection with applications to the imaging sciences, signal processing, scientific computing, inverse problems. Other topics of interest include theoretical computer science, mathematical optimization, and information theory.Dr. Candes received the Third Popov Prize in Approximation Theory in 2001, and the DOE Young Investigator Award in 2002. He was selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2001. He co-authored a paper that won the Best Paper Award of the European Association for Signal,Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP) in 2003. He was selected as the main lecturer at the NSF-sponsored 29th Annual Spring Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences in 2004 and as the Aziz Lecturer in 2007. He has also given plenary and keynote addresses at major international conferences including ICIAM 2007 and ICIP 2007. In 2005, he was awarded the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing by SIAM. Finally, he is the recipient of the 2006 Alan T. Waterman Medal awarded by the US National Science Foundation.ABSTRACT:
One of the central tenets of signal processing and data acquisition is the Shannon/Nyquist sampling theory: the number of samples needed to capture a signal is dictated by its bandwidth. This talk introduces a novel sampling or sensing theory which goes against this conventional wisdom. This theory now known as Compressed Sensing or Compressive Sampling'' allows the faithful recovery of signals and images from what appear to be highly incomplete sets of data, i.e. from far fewer measurements or data bits than traditional methods use. We will present the key ideas underlying this new sampling or sensing theory, and will survey some of the most important results. We will emphasize the practicality and the broad applicability of this technique, and discuss what we believe are far reaching implications; e.g. procedures for sensing and compressing data simultaneously and much faster. Finally, there are already many ongoing efforts to build a new generation of sensing devices based on compressed sensing and we will discuss remarkable recent progress in this area as well.TIME/LOCATION:
Lecture: 2:30-3:30PM (GER Auditorium)
Reception: 3:30-4:30PM (GER Patio)Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - ontology Auditorium, Reception to follow in the Patio
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Transfer Workshop- How to Transfer Summer School Classes
Wed, Mar 12, 2008 @ 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
FYE: Transfer Workshop - How to Transfer Summer School ClassesAre you planning on taking any summer classes in transfer? If so, come and find out which courses are options for you, where you can take these and how you can get course work pre-approved for transfer. Summer 2008 Transfer Workshop
Wednesday, March 12th
RTH 211
12:00pmSend us a quick RSVP to viterbi.studentservices@usc.edu to ensure we have enough materials.
Information on additional workshops will be available shortly if you cannot attend this one.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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Interviewing Strategies and Techniques
Wed, Mar 12, 2008 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Discover tips on how to prepare for both technical and behavioral interviews, as well as the proper steps for follow-up!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 109
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Development of Upconversion Nanophosphors for Bioimaging and
Wed, Mar 12, 2008 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Yiguang JuDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace
Princeton UniversityPrinceton, USAAbstractUpconversion nanophosphors provide new opportunities for bioapplications because of their stable optical property, increased light penetration depth in tissue, low toxicity, and reduced background scattering compared to conventional markers. First, the seminar will give a review of the recent progress of synthesis of rare-earth (erbium and ytterbium) doped upconversion nanophosphors by using combustion and in-solution thermolysis methods. Second, the particle morphology and the luminescence properties with infrared excitation are investigated. The correlations between the nanoparticle fluorescence, particle crystal structure, synthesis temperature, and precursor conditions are summarized. The dynamic dependence of particle luminescence time on particle size and phonon energy will be analyzed. The kinetic mechanism of the non-linear dependence of the luminescence intensity on the excitation power is discussed. Third, the ability of specific targeting of functionalized upconversion nanophosphors on surfaces coated by biotins will be demonstrated. Finally, the efficacy of photodynamic therapy by using upconversion nanophosphors on singlet oxygen production and lung cancer tissue growth are presented.
Location: Seaver Science Library, Rm 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Teradyne Information Session
Wed, Mar 12, 2008 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 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 (GFS) 106
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
