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Events for March 12, 2009
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The Infrastructure Crisis and Private Highways
Thu, Mar 12, 2009 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
The National Center for Metropolitan Transportation Research (METRANS) is pleased to announce: Jose Gomez-Ibanez, the Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, will present a special 10th Anniversary Seminar March 12, 2009 at noon in Lewis Hall 101 at USC."The Infrastructure Crisis and Private Highways"Jose Gomez-Ibanez, Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy
Kennedy School, Harvard UniversityABSTRACT: Infrastructure policy in the US appears to be at an impasse. On the one hand, most experts agree that we need to invest more in highways and other forms of infrastructure. On the other hand, the public has been reluctant to increase gas taxes, tolls or otherwise increase infrastructure funding. Some have argued that private provision of highways can help break the impasse by tapping private financing or providing the political cover to raise tolls or taxes. But these are not very compelling reasons to have private highways. The more compelling reason is if the private operation can reduce real costs or provide a better quality of service.BIO: Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez is the Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at Harvard University, where he holds a joint appointment at the Graduate School of Design and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He teaches courses in economics, infrastructure and transportation policy in both schools. Professor Gomez-Ibanez research interests are in transportation, infrastructure, and economic development, and he has authored or edited a half dozen books including:Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts and Discretion (Harvard University Press, 2003);
Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy: A Handbook in Honor of John R. Meyer (with William Tye and Clifford Winston, Brookings Institution Press, 1999); Going Private: The International Experience with Transport Privatization (with John R. Meyer, Brookings Institution Press, 1993); Regulation for Revenue: The Political Economy of Land Use Exactions (with Alan Altshuler, Brookings Institution Press, 1993); Autos, Transit and Cities (with John R. Meyer, Harvard University Press, 1981); and
Cases in Microeconomics (with Joseph Kalt, Prentice-Hall, 1990). At Harvard, Professor Gomez-Ibanez currently serves as the faculty co-chair (with Henry Lee) of the Infrastructure in a Market Economy executive program at the Kennedy School. In the past he has been the faculty chair of the Masters in Urban Planning Program at the Design School (2001-2004), of the Masters in Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School (1996-1998), of doctoral programs at the Design School (1992-1995), and of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Design School (1984-1988).Professor Gomez-Ibanez received his A.B. in government from Harvard College in 1970 and his M.P.P. and Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard in 1972 and 1975, respectively.Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Opportunities and Challenges in the Pursuit of Energy Savings Using Membranes for Large Scale Chemic
Thu, Mar 12, 2009 @ 12:45 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Lyman Handy Colloquium SeriesPresentsWilliam KorosProfessor, Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332Abstract:
Purification and separation processes to provide commodities needed for a high standard of living are energy intensive, accounting for roughly 15% of global energy usage. This significant figure is invisible to most of society, since it is embedded in massive plants used to provide the products we all rely upon. Over the next three decades, global demands for commodities such as water, fuel and basic chemicals will escalate by three to four-fold beyond those in 2009. This demand growth will be fueled not only by population growth but also by a need to provide a high standard of living in emerging economies. Basing expanding commodity capacity on current technology to meet such a demand growth would require a huge increase in global energy consumption and create additional carbon dioxide environmental burdens. If such capacity expansions occur with current energy-inefficient technologies, economic barriers will impede decommissioning of these facilities, despite their environmental burdens. It is imperative, therefore, that alternative large scale separation and purification approaches be developed and implemented within the next decade to address this challenge. Membranes offer the best option for a 10X reduction in separation and purification process energy intensity. Emerging membrane technology involving crosslinked polymers, inorganic-polymer hybrids and pure inorganic or carbon materials have the potential to economically address this challenge in different applications. Practical approaches to enable this perfection and deployment will be outlined with a focus on novel materials, their manufacture and implementation in revolutionary large scale processes.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce Sapir
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DLS: The Internet History and its Flexible Future
Thu, Mar 12, 2009 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Leonard KleinrockAbstract:
In this presentation we discuss the history and future of the Internet. The early work on packet switching is traced and then a brief description of the critical events in the growth of the Internet is given. We will present a vision of where the Internet is heading with a focus on the edge where user participation, flexible applications and services, and innovation are appearing. We foresee a network with extreme mobility, ubiquity, personalization, adaptivity, video addiction and surprising applications as yet unimagined.Biography:
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock developed the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT. This was in the period 1960-1962, nearly a decade before the birth of the Internet which occurred in his laboratory when his Host computer at UCLA became the first node of the Internet in September 1969. He wrote the first paper and published the first book on the subject; he also directed the transmission of the first message ever to pass over the Internet. He was listed by the Los Angeles Times in 1999 as among the `50 People Who Most Influenced Business This Century'. He was also listed as among the 33 most influential living Americans in the December 2006 Atlantic Monthly. Kleinrock's work was further recognized when he received the 2007 National Medal of Science, the highest honor for achievement in science bestowed by the President of the United States. Leonard Kleinrock received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1963. He has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles since then, serving as Chairman of the department from 1991-1995. He received his BEE degree from CCNY in 1957 and his MS degree from MIT in 1959. He also received Honorary Doctorates from CCNY in 1997, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2000, from the University of Bologna in 2005, from Politecnico di Turino in 2005 and from the University of Judaism in 2007. He was the first President and Co-founder of Linkabit Corporation, the company that spawned numerous wireless spinoffs in San Diego. He is Co-founder and Chairman of Nomadix, Inc., a high-technology firm located in Southern California. He is also Founder and Chairman of TTI/Vanguard, an advanced technology forum organization based in Santa Monica, California. He has published approximately 250 papers and authored six books on a wide array of subjects including packet switching networks, packet radio networks, local area networks, broadband networks, gigabit networks, nomadic computing, performance evaluation, and peer-to-peer networks. During his tenure at UCLA, Dr. Kleinrock has supervised the research for 47 Ph.D. students and numerous M.S. students. These former students now form a core group of the world's most advanced networking experts. A number are full professors at leading universities, and many are associated with major research firms in the area of computer-communications. Dr. Kleinrock is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an IEEE fellow, an ACM fellow, an INFORMS Fellow, an IEC fellow, a Guggenheim fellow and a founding member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. Among his many honors, he is the recipient of the L.M. Ericsson Prize, the NAE Charles Stark Draper Prize, the Marconi International Fellowship Award, the Okawa Prize, the IEEE Internet Millennium Award, the ORSA Lanchester Prize, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the NEC Computer and Communcations Award, the Sigma Xi Monie A. Ferst Award, the CCNY Townsend Harris Medal, the CCNY Electrical Engineering Award, the UCLA Outstanding Faculty Member Award, the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, the UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer, the INFORMS Presidents Award, the ICC Prize Paper Award, the IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award and the IEEE Harry M. Goode Award.Lecture: 3:00-4:00PM (SAL 101)
Reception: 4:00-5:00PM (SAL lobby/courtyard)
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - Auditorium (-101)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Construction Management Symposium Kick-Off Meeting
Thu, Mar 12, 2009 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
The annual USC Construction Management Symposium is right around the corner. This year¡¦s topic is BIM & Integrated Practice and will feature Frank Gehry as the keynote speaker. The Symposium is a single night event that will attract more than 600 attendees in the AEC industry and includes a reception, dinner, and presentations. Students who help with the planning committee are eligible to attend. We will be having a kick-off meeting at 5:30 pm on Thursday March 12 in KAP 158. There is a lot of work to do and all majors are welcome to participate. For more information visit www.uscsymposium.com or contact symposium@uscagc.com. Food will be provided!
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 158
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC AGC
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Michael T. Fiore, Chairman and CEO of Vantage Oncology
Thu, Mar 12, 2009 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
The USC Health Care Business Club presents a leading Southern California entrepreneur, Michael T. Fiore, Chairman and CEO of Vantage Oncology. Vantage Oncology is a venture backed, very rapidly growing healthcare services company in a critical medical sector. Mr. Fiore joined Vantage Oncology as its Chairman and CEO in 2002 and has more than eleven years of experience in the development and operation of cancer treatment facilities including radiation therapy. He was the COO of Salick Health Care, a publicly traded cancer services company with over 30 sites, and the former president of its cancer center subsidiary. Under his direction, Salick's revenue reached approximately $200 million prior to its sale to Zeneca in 1997 for $450 million. Previously, he served as Vice President of American Medical International (now Tenet Healthcare), an owner and operator of hospitals. Mr. Fiore has an MBA from Harvard University and a BA in Economics from Amherst College. He is also a Certified Public Accountant. Vantage Oncology's corporate headquarters is located in Manhattan Beach, CA. For more information on the company please check out its website at www.vantageoncology.com.After his talk, there will be food and refreshments and an opportunity to network with the speaker. Please RSVP to uschcbc@gmail.com or join the event Facebook group
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=53080779567 if you would like to attend.Date: March 12, 2009Location: Leventhal School of Accounting Room 310Time: 7:00 pmQuestions should be directed to Trevor W. Kaufman [tkaufman@usc.edu].Location: Leventhal School of Accounting Room 310
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Special Address to the USC Health Care Business Club
Thu, Mar 12, 2009 @ 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
By Michael T. Fiore, CEO of Vantage Oncology Thursday, March 12th ACCT 310 7:30-9:00pm. Mr. Fiore joined Vantage Oncology as its Chairman and CEO in 2002 and has more than eleven years of experience in the development and operation of cancer treatment facilities including radiation therapy. He was the COO of Salick Health Care, a publicly traded cancer services company with over 30 sites, and the former president of its cancer center subsidiary. Under his direction, Salick's revenue reached approximately $200 million prior to its sale to Zeneca in 1997 for $450 million. Previously, he served as Vice President of American Medical International (now Tenet Healthcare), an owner and operator of hospitals. Mr. Fiore has an MBA from Harvard University and a BA in Economics from Amherst College. Please RSVP to uschcbc@gmail.com by Friday, March 6, 2009, 5:00 pm to attend this event. Should you have any questions, please email Tiffany at tortega@usc.eduUpcoming Events:March 26: Scott Huennekens, Chairman & CEO of Volcano Corporation April 2: Chris Van Gorder, CEO Scripps Hospital April 9: Dr. Chu, CEO Kaiser So Cal April 16: Howard P. Greenwald, Ph.D., USCWe look forward to seeing you there!
Location: Elaine & Kenneth Leventhal School Of Accounting (ACC) - T 310
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
