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Events for September 27, 2007
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The Beyond-ASCII Internet
Thu, Sep 27, 2007 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Note: this seminar will be given twice: at ISI in the morning
and on campus at SSL 150 at 4 p.m.For much of its history the Internet has been based on the Latin alphabet and its ASCII digital representation. Tina Dam of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will explain an ongoing effort aimed expanding this universe by creating new Internet realms, or top level domains, that use non-Latin/ASCII writing systems and open significant possibilities for communities worldwide to express themselves in their own languageLast month, the ICANN Board of Directors approved representing the word 'test' translated into: Arabic, Persian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil. The technical evaluations of these "internationalized domain name top level domains" (ISD TLD) and their usability in various applications will proceed following their delegation. If the evaluation is successful, the introduction will pave the way for the launch of new TLDs in 2008. Dam's presentation will explore the effort, and show how commonly used browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera) function in these environments. Tina Dam was appointed Director for ICANN's IDN Program in 2006. In this capacity she develops and manages all IDN related projects at ICANN focused at the deployment of internationalized top level domains.Location: 11th Floor Conference Room, ISI
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: eric mankin
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Viterbi Engineering Career Services Orientation
Thu, Sep 27, 2007 @ 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
In this presentation and tour, you will get to know career services and the programs provided for undergraduate and graduate students.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Dynamical Order and Complexity in Rhythmic Chemical Systems
Thu, Sep 27, 2007 @ 12:45 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
John L. Hudson
Chemical Engineering
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA The interaction and synchronization of populations of rhythmic processes is important in a variety of fields ranging including chemistry (influence on overall rate of reaction), biology (circadian rhythm of suprachiasmatic nuclei, essential tremors), and engineering (lasers and microwave systems). A feature of such systems is that the overall, or collective, behavior can be significantly different from the dynamics of the individual components. We introduce the subject of complexity and order with a brief discussion of two examples: the sudden transition to pitting corrosion through the cooperative behavior of metastable pits and patterns of synchrony associated with epileptic seizures.
The focus of the presentation is then on experiments with arrays of electrochemical oscillators. The experiments serve as a platform with which the effects of coupling, external forcing, and feedback can be studied since rates of reaction on each electrode can be obtained and elements of the array are individually addressable. Even very weak coupling among sites can produce significant changes in the collective behavior of the system including a phase transition at a critical coupling point at which the onset of synchronization occurs. We show that mutual entrainment in interacting oscillators can be characterized using phase models developed from direct experiments with a single oscillator and sets of oscillators. We show how such phase models can be used to describe and tune complex dynamic structures to desired states; weak, non-destructive signals are employed to alter interactions among nonlinear rhythmic elements. Application is made to the generation of sequentially-visited dynamic cluster patterns similar to reproducible sequences seen in biological systems and to the design of a nonlinear anti-pacemaker for the destruction of pathological synchronization of a population of interacting oscillators.Selected publications: Kiss, Zhai, Hudson, Science 296, 1676 (2002)
Kiss and Hudson, AIChEJ 49, 2234 (2003).
Mikhailov, Zanette, Zhai, Kiss, Hudson, PNAS 101 (30), 10890 (2004).
Punckt, Bölscher,Rotermund,Mikhailov,Organ,Budiansky,Scully, and Hudson, Science 305, 1133 (2004).
Kiss, Rusin, Kori, and Hudson, Science 316, 1886 (2007).Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce Sapir
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Industrial Engineering in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
Thu, Sep 27, 2007 @ 03:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Eberhardt Rechtin Inaugural Keynote Lecture"Industrial Engineering in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities"Dr. Louis Martin-VegaDean, College of Engineering,
North Carolina State University, and
President, Institute of Industrial EngineersIndustrial Engineers should be rightly proud of the many contributions that the field has made to the solution of a host of significant economic, industrial and societal problems in the 20th century. Nonetheless, the growth of industrial engineering and its continued relevance in the 21st century will require major paradigm shifts both in its academic and professional orientation. This lecture will discuss a number of challenges and opportunities faced by our profession as we move quickly into this new century. Thursday, September 27, 2007,
4:00-5:30 PM,
Andrus Gerontology Auditorium,
3715 McClintock Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA 90089-01913:00 PM - Refreshments will be served in the Gerontology Courtyard
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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The Beyond-ASCII Internet
Thu, Sep 27, 2007 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
For much of its history the Internet has been based on the Latin alphabet and its ASCII digital representation. Tina Dam of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will explain an ongoing effort aimed expanding this universe a creating new Internet realms, or top level domains, that use non-Latin/ASCII writing systems and open significant possibilities for communities worldwide to express themselves in their own languageOn 14 August 2007, the ICANN Board of Directors approved representing the word 'test' translated into: Arabic, Persian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil. The technical evaluations of these "internationalized domain name top level domains" (ISD TLD) and their usability in various applications will proceed following their delegation. If the evaluation is successful, the introduction will pave the way for the launch of new TLDs in 2008. Dam's presentation will explore the effort, and show how commonly used browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera) function in these environments. IDN director Tina Dam was appointed Director for ICANN's IDN Program in 2006. In this capacity she develops and manages all IDN related projects at ICANN focused at the deployment of internationalized top level domains.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: eric mankin
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Society of Women Engineers SWEet Ice Cream Social
Thu, Sep 27, 2007 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come and mingle with fellow SWEesters and satisfy your SWEet tooth at the same time!
For those in the Big/Lil Sib Program, this is the first chance to meet your Sibling face to face!Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - Patio
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
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Cisco Information Session
Thu, Sep 27, 2007 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available work opportunities.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 124
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
