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Events for July 16, 2007
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Discover Engineering
Mon, Jul 16, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
An intensive introduction to the various Engineering disciplines for high school students.
Audiences: High School Students
Contact: Larry Lim
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Meet USC (AM session)
Mon, Jul 16, 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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Optimal Quantum Data Compression with Side Information at the Sender and Receiver
Mon, Jul 16, 2007 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Dr. Jon Yard, CaltechAbstract: Information theory - as introduced by Shannon almost 60 years ago - studies the asymptotic limits for the processing of statistically modeled information in such problems as data compression and coding for noisy channels. In recent years, a rich generalization of Shannon's theory has emerged which incorporates distinctly quantum mechanical resources such as qubits (quantum bits), entangled quantum states, and quantum channels. In this talk, I will present the optimal solution to a general quantum data compression problem where the sender and receiver each have quantum side information. The corresponding optimal protocol - quantum state redistribution - provides the first known operational interpretation to quantum conditional mutual information. The optimal rates satisfy certain elegant and intuitive properties, while admitting a general "thermodynamical" organizing principle that I will recall. I will conclude by sketching an existence proof for the optimal protocol, while showing how state redistribution generalizes and organizes a number of recent results in quantum information theory such as the celebrated fully quantum reverse Shannon and fully quantum Slepian-Wolf protocols.Bio Jon Yard received his Ph.D. from the Information theory group of Tom Cover at Stanford University in 2005. Since then, he has been a postdoc with Patrick Hayden at McGill University and also with the Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech. This summer, he will begin a postdoc with the Quantum Institute at Los Alamos National Laboratories.Host: Prof. Todd Brun, tbrun@usc.edu
Location: Frank R. Seaver Science Center (SSC) - 319
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Meet USC (PM session)
Mon, Jul 16, 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