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Events for September 20, 2006
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Meet USC (AM session)
Wed, Sep 20, 2006 @ 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 call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Multiuser Detection in a Dynamic Environment
Wed, Sep 20, 2006 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Professor Ezio Biglieri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, SpainABSTRACT: In mobile multiple-access communications, not only the location of active users, but also their number varies with time. In typical analyses, multiuser detection theory assumes that the number of active users is constant and known at the receiver, and coincides with the maximum number of users entitled to access the system. This assumption is often overly pessimistic, since many users might be inactive at any given time, and detection under the assumption of a number of users larger than the real one may impair performance. This talk describes a different, more general approach to the problem of identifying active users and estimating their parameters and data in a dynamic environment where users are continuously entering and leaving the system. The goal is to lay the foundation of multiuser detection theory in an environment where the number and the parameters of active users are unknown at the receiver, and in addition may change from one observation time to the next, following a known dynamic model. Using a mathematical tool known as Random Set Theory (which will be described), I shall show Bayesian-filter equations which describe the evolution with time of the a posteriori probability density of the unknown user parameters, and use this density to derive optimum detectors. Applications of the theory to the problem of neighbor discovery in wireless networks will also be briefly discussed.BIO: EZIO BIGLIERI received his training in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Italy), where he received his Dr. Engr. degree in 1967. He is presently with Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; previously, he held professorships at Universita` di Napoli, Italy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and UCLA.In 1996--1997 he served as chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Awards Committee. In 1988, 1992, and 1996 he was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society. In 1999 he was the President of the Society. He was the co-chairman of the IEEE 2000 International Symposium on Information Theory, Sorrento, Italy, and of ISITA 2004, Parma, Italy. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Information Theory Society and the IEEE Communications Society.From 1988 to 1991 he was an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and from 1991 to 1994 an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. From 1997 to 1999 he was an Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, and its Editor-in-Chief from 2003 to 2005. From 1991 to 1997 he was an Editor of the European Transactions on Telecommunications, and its Editor in Chief from 1997 to 2001. Among other honors, in 2000 he received the IEEE Third-Millennium Medal, and the "IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award." In 2001 he received the "IEEE Communications Society E. H. Armstrong Achievement Award." In 2004 he was presented the "Journal of Communications and Networks Best Paper Award."Host: Prof. Giuseppe Caire, caire@usc.edu
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 107
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Juniors and Seniors: What Next
Wed, Sep 20, 2006 @ 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Are you a 3rd or 4th year undergraduate student and want to make sure you are preparing for your career path? Check out this workshop for a timeline that will surely keep you on the professional path for your career.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 115
Audiences: Undergraduates
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Meet USC (PM session)
Wed, Sep 20, 2006 @ 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 call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Recent developments in hydrometeorologic information for hydrologic and water resources application
Wed, Sep 20, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:
Soroosh Sorooshian, Ph.D., N.A.EDistinguished Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California at IrvineAbstract:
The need for more effective management of water resources is greater than ever, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Water resources managers must utilize more sophisticated hydrologic prediction tools. Depending on the problems, the hydrologic information needed may range from hourly forecasts (i.e., in the case of flash floods) to seasonal to inter-annual (i.e., in the case of reservoir operation), and to decadal to century (i.e., in the case of water supply structural design).
Over the past 40 years and with the advent of digital computers, hydrologic models of various levels of sophistication have been developed. Furthermore, in the past two decades hydrologists, meteorologist and ecologists have teamed up to work on critical coupled land surface and atmospheric processes. One of the challenges facing the research community has been to identify and overcome some of the key bottlenecks hindering marked improvements in hydrologic forecasting in terms of extended lead time and accuracy.
In addition to a review of the above issues, this presentation will also describe the importance of improved precipitation observations and prediction for hydrologic forecasting as well as the role of large-scale initiatives such the GEWEX program in addressing hydrometeorolgical information gaps.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - riellian Hall, Room 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Walk-In Wednesdays: Career Services Advising
Wed, Sep 20, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, or general engineering career advice.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Current Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Title: Intelligent pen-based interfaces and their applications to CAD and education.
Wed, Sep 20, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
T. StahovichUniversity of California, Riverside
Mechanical Engineering DepartmentAbstractSketching with pencil and paper has always been an important means of
communication and problem-solving for designers and engineers. There are a
variety of reasons for this. For example, sketches are a convenient tool for
examining geometric, temporal, and other such relationships, which cannot be described easily in words. Similarly, the simplicity and ease of creating a
sketch allows one to focus on problem solving rather than the communication
medium. Yet, despite the importance of sketches in engineering practice,
traditional engineering software can do little with them. We are working to
change this by creating sketch understanding techniques that enable software
to work directly from the kinds of sketches engineers ordinarily draw. This
talk will present techniques for interpreting free-hand sketches and
transforming them into models suitable for use with engineering analysis
tools. The talk will also present examples of pen-based engineering tools we
have developed with our techniques. Finally, the talk will conclude with a
discussion of recent applications of this work to the development of
pen-based educational software.BIO
Dr. Stahovich received a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1988. He received an S.M. and Ph.D. from MIT in 1990 and 1995 respectively. He conducted his doctoral research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. After serving as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, Dr. Stahovich joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at UC Riverside in 2003. He also currently holds cooperative appointments in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at UC Riverside. His research interests include pen-based computing, design automation, and design rationale management.
Location: Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, Rm 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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SHPE-USC 2nd General Meeting
Wed, Sep 20, 2006 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Opportunity for potential members to meet USC and SHPE-USC alumni and pay membership dues. Cuban Food will be provided.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Anyone interested in joining SHPE-USC
Contact: SHPE-USC
