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Events for September 21, 2007
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USC Transfer Day
Fri, Sep 21, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
The program includes a campus tour and special presentations for transfer students about admission, financial aid, transfer credit, and engineering programs. Reservations are required. To make the most of the visit, students are encouraged to bring copies of their college transcripts. Please call (213) 740-6616 for more information and to make a reservation.
Location: USC University Park Campus
Audiences: Prospective transfer students and families
Contact: Admission & Student Affairs Division
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EE Students Practical Guide Seminar Series - How to Have a Successful Career in Research
Fri, Sep 21, 2007 @ 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Workshops & Infosessions
Seminar Speakers: Profs. Solomon Golomb and John O'Brien
Organizer: Prof. Alan Willner
* Pizza will be graciously provided by the EE Department.*Abstract:
Two distinguished EE professors will lead a seminar specifically for our EE students. They will give their insights on a range of practical issues relevant to creating and maintaining success in a research-related career.Exciting topics to be discussed include:
(a) choosing a graduate school, a faculty advisor, and a dissertation topic,
(b) goals in your first industry, academic, or government job,
(c) protecting your intellectual property,
(d) potential for being an entrepreneur, and
(e) when to change your path.Biographical SketchesProf. Solomon Golomb (Viterbi Chair), a University Professor in Electrical Engineering, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and was a pre-doctoral Fulbright Fellow. He worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he played a key role in formulating the design of deep-space communications. Dr. Golomb is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science, the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and received the USC Presidential Medallion, the IEEE Shannon Award, and the IEEE Hamming Medal. His research is in signal design for communications, coding theory, combinatorics, and mathematical game theory.Prof. John O'Brien, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, is responsible for the Office for Admissions and Students Affairs and the Office for Graduate Affairs. He received a B.S. in EE from Iowa State University and the Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech. Prof. O'Brien received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
and Engineers and an NSF Career Award. Prof. O'Brien's research interests are in nanophotonics and photonic crystal devices. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology.Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: All EE Students
Contact: Jason Dziegielewski
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Honors Colloquium: Designing USCs Galen Center
Fri, Sep 21, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Lecture offered by Mr. Joseph Diesko, AIA, of HNTB Architecture.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Honors Program Students and all Faculty and Staff are invited to attend
Contact: Erika Chua
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Sharing Lesson Learnt
Fri, Sep 21, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:
Pei-Chin Low, P.E.
MWH Americas, Inc.Abstract:Every project, be it an equipment replacement design project or pilot testing of a cutting-edge technology, has its own lessons to be learnt. Every project has its own challenges, warranting different technical and management approaches. There is no one-size-fits-all solution and there is so much to learn and experiment, which is probably why it is actually fun to work! This presentation will discuss the lessons learnt from various projects, including design and study of water and wastewater treatment plants, pump stations, and pilot-testing of ozone feasibility study, with different clients including but not limited to the City of Los Angeles, County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, and Orange County Sanitation District and Antelope Valley-East Kern Water District. With so much experience and lessons to learn and also to avoid re-inventing the wheels, it is important to build a network of fellow professionals for knowledge and experience sharing. The presenter will also share her personal experience on network building.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Deterministic and Probabilistic Tsunami Studies in ....
Fri, Sep 21, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Deterministic and Probabilistic Tsunami Studies in California from near and Farfield SourcesBy: Burak Uslu
Ph. D. Candidate
Oral DefenseAbstract:The state California is vulnerable to tsunamis from both local and distant sources. While there is awareness of the threat, tsunamis are infrequent and few communities have a good understanding of vulnerability. To evaluate the tsunami threat, deterministic and probabilistic methods are used to compute inundation and runup heights. For the numerical modeling of tsunamis, a two dimensional finite difference propagation and runup model is used. All known near and farfield sources of relevance to California are considered. For the farfield, the Pacific Rim is subdivided into small segments where unit ruptures are assumed. The historical records from the 1952 Kamchatka, 1960 Great Chile, 1964 Great Alaska, and 1994 and 2006 Kuril Islands Earthquakes are compared to the modeled results. A sensitivity analysis is performed on each subduction zone segment to determine the effect of the source location on wave heights off the California Coast.Earlier studies employed a time-dependent method based on a Richter and Gutenberg type relationship, and assigned probabilities on each subduction zone depending on previous surveys. Time-dependent and time-independent methods are used in this study. In the latter, the slip rates are obtained from GPS measurements of the tectonic plates and used as a basis to get the return period of each possible earthquake. The return periods of the tsunamis resulting from these events are combined with the wave height exceedance from the numerical results to provide a total probability of exceedance, for ports and harbors in California. The Cascadia Subduction Zone, a portion of which is located in the boundaries of California and is capable of producing mega-thrust earthquake rupture between Gorda and North American plate, may cause large damage north of Cape Mendocino. Northern California is likely to have the biggest damage from a Cascadia rupture. The sensitivity analysis suggests that San Francisco Bay and Central California exhibits the largest impact from the Alaska and Aleutians Subduction Zone (AASZ). An earthquake with a magnitude comparable to the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake on central AASZ could result in twice the damage as experienced by SF Bay in the 1964 event.The probabilistic approach shows that Central California and San Francisco Bay have more frequent tsunamis, as they are oriented towards the AASZ; while Southern California can be impacted from tsunamis generated on Chile and Central American Subduction Zone as well as the AASZ.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
