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Events for June 11, 2007
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Meet USC (AM session)
Mon, Jun 11, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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. 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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Meet USC (PM session)
Mon, Jun 11, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
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. 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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Application of Functional Genomics to Improve Chlorinated Ethane ....
Mon, Jun 11, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Application of Functional Genomics to Improve Chlorinated Ethene Bioremediation ProcessesSpeaker:David R. Johnson,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, BerkeleyAbstractChlorinated ethenes are among the most prevalent contaminants of groundwater resources and pose a significant threat to human and ecological health. Remediating these resources with traditional pump-and-treat strategies is both technically challenging and costly. Fortunately, strategies that utilize natural microorganisms to degrade these pollutants in situ have now been developed and applied with success. Of particular interest is to utilize members of the Dehalococcoides group of bacteria because they are the only known organisms that can completely degrade fully chlorinated ethenes to non-toxic end products. Although significant progress has been made, there is now a need for effective methods to both optimize and monitor the performance of Dehalococcoides-based bioremediation systems.
To begin to address these needs, this research applied functional genomics tools to improve our understanding of Dehalococcoides ethenogenes strain 195. Specifically, transcriptomics were analyzed by whole-genome microarrays while proteomics were analyzed by liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. These tools were applied during periods of maximal and repressed activity in order to identify factors that can potentially limit dechlorination. This approach successfully identified cobalamin (vitamin B12) as a key factor controlling dechlorination activity and revealed novel strategies for minimizing cobalamin deficiencies within bioremediation systems. In addition, these studies identified mRNA and peptide biomarkers that could be used to quantitatively assess the physiological state of strain 195 within uncharacterized systems.
The results of this research demonstrate that functional genomics can dramatically accelerate our understanding of reductive dechlorinating bacteria important for bioremediation applications. There is now a need for more collaborative efforts between the fields of genome sciences and environmental problems.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall, 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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A Methodology for Creating Application Specific Processor Architectures
Mon, Jun 11, 2007 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
*Professor Kumar will be available 4-5pm in EEB-248 to talk to PhD students from any engineering department interested in faculty positions at IIT Delhi.Abstract:
Performance improvement through datapath extensions with Application Specific Functional Units has been a subject of research for more than a decade now. However, we feel that full potential of this approach has not been exploited due to several obstacles. This talk presents techniques to get past some of these obstacles.Usually a cluster of operations identified from the application defines a new custom instruction and forms the behavior of an Application Specific Functional Unit that implements this instruction. In the techniques available for identifying such clusters, the number of register file ports constrains the number of inputs and outputs for a legal operation cluster, thus limiting the overall achievable speedup. We present a technique that circumvents the constraints imposed by register file ports and results in a significantly higher speed up. In addition, our identification algorithm runs 2 to 3 orders faster than a typical I/O constrained identification approach.The second issue we take up here is estimation of the speedup achievable for the clusters identified. In order to select the right clusters, we need to correctly estimate the speedup taking into account what we call as temporal and spatial reuse of the clusters. In absence of efficient techniques to do so, researchers compromise either on the quality of estimates or on the number of clusters examined. We propose a novel method by which each cluster’s reuse information can be derived very efficiently, making it possible to generate high quality custom instructions.Bio:
Anshul Kumar is currently a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi. He obtained his B.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from IIT Delhi in the years 1974 and 1980 respectively and was awarded the President's Gold Medal in 1974. He has been involved in teaching and research at IIT Delhi for more than 20 years in the areas of VLSI synthesis, embedded systems and high performance computer architectures and has published or presented nearly hundred papers. He has held visiting appointments at Univ of Southern California Los Angeles, University of Edinburgh, KTH Stockholm and EPFL Laussane. Along with some colleagues and graduating students of his department, he recently founded a company called Kritikal Solutions under the Technology Business Incubation Program of IIT Delhi.Host: Prof. Sandeep Gupta, Ext. 02251Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Aimee Barnard
