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Events for October 05, 2007
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Special Leadership Panel on Physicians and Medical Groups
Fri, Oct 05, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
HEALTH MANAGEMENT & POLICY PROGRAMS invites you to a: SPECIAL LEADERSHIP PANEL ON PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL GROUPSFriday October 5th, 2007, 9:00 AM to Noon, Ralph & Goldy Lewis Hall 219Space is limited! RSVP to melissgg@sppd.usc.edu or 213.740.2984Don't miss this unique opportunity to meet and learn from a stellar roster of healthcare and medical experts! "CINDY"" EHNES: Director, California Department of Managed Health Care (invited), RICHARD MERKIN, MD: CEO & Founder, Heritage Provider Network, ROBERT O'KEEFE: CEO, Coastal Communities Physician Network, MARC HOFFING, MD: Med. Director, Desert Med. Group & Oasis IPA, GORDON YENOKIDA, MD: COO, Regal Medical GroupThe presentations and panel discussion will focus on: - Physicians as Healthcare Leaders- Challenges & Strategies for Medical Practice Management- Skills & Competencies Needed for Medical Group Leadership- Issues & Impact of Managed Care Policy & Regulation- Emerging Trends in Healthcare and Medical Group PracticeThis session is part of the Leadership Symposium in Health Management and Policy course led by Professor Glenn Melnick. ABOUT OUR PRESENTERSLucinda "Cindy" Ehnes: Director, CA Department of Managed Health Care - Attorney with 25 years of legal experience, much in health insurance and regulatory law. Prior to DHMC was as division manager of the CalPERS self-funded health plans unit. Previously Deputy Director for Plan and Provider Relations for DHMC and liaison to HMOs, doctors, hospitals and other providers. Substantial patients' rights background; author The Prentice Hall ADA Compliance Advisor. Nine years as Consumer Representative and Chairman of Colorado's insurance plan for uninsured, high-risk individuals. Former Enforcement Director for Consumer Affairs section of the Colorado Division of Insurance; served as legislative affairs director for the CO Commission on Family Medicine. Board member of California Regional Health Information Organization (CalRHIO) and of the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), which focuses on pay-for-performance measures for provider groups. Richard Merkin, MD: CEO & Founder, Heritage Provider Network - Physician, innovator and entrepreneur. More than 30 years developing clinically focused networks, inspiring formation of 25+ medical group models and IPA structures in California and New York. Board member, FasterCures--examines Founder Heritage Medical Research Institute. Board member of CalTech, the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, Sierra Nevada College, and United Friends of the Children. Founder of the LA Jewish Symphony; board of the LA Music Center. Advisory board for the Chairman of the Assembly Subcommittee on Health, the Health Care Delivery Council, the Society for Physicians in Administration and the American College of Physician Executives. Robert O'Keefe: CEO, Coastal Communities Physician Network - CEO of Coastal Communities Physician Network and Bakersfield Family Medical Center, where he helped develop and implement innovative programs, such as Priority Care and Choices. Founder, Boston Partners, management consultants specializing in merger and acquisition, and divestiture for nationally recognized clients and founding partner of Criterion Group. Former director, Arnold Buck Inc. advertising agency. Former broadcast journalist with the CBS network in New York.Marc Hoffing, MD: Medical Director, Desert Medical Group & Oasis IPA - As Medical Director, led Desert Medical Group expansion from a single-site medical group into an award-winning multi-site medical Serves on numerous healthcare organizations, including the Health Net Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and the Aetna Quality Management Committee. Speaker for Sanofi Aventis and Boehringer Ingelheim. Gordon Yenokida, MD: Chief Operations Officer, Regal Medical Group - More than 20 years' executive management experience, including clinical and business responsibilities in multiple healthcare sectors and settings. Former chief of respiratory and critical-care medicine at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Former COO, Straub Clinic and Hospital in Honolulu. Past president and CEO of PrimeCare. Former Western region CMO for PacifiCare, and most recently CMO of Health Net of California. Fellow, American College of Chest Medicine.
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 219
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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High School Counselor Conference
Fri, Oct 05, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Coordinated by the USC Office of Admission, the Counselor Conference aims to give High School Counselors more information relative to their students about applying to USC and the admission process.Visit the USC Admission Counselor Website for more information: http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/counselors/
Location: USC Campus
Audiences: High School Counselors
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC (AM session)
Fri, Oct 05, 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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An Overview of the Ohio Supercomputer Center, and a Discussion of Ongoing Research in Video Annotati
Fri, Oct 05, 2007 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Stanley C. Ahalt, Ph.D.
Ohio State UniversityAbstract:In this talk I will provide an overview of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), including a description of some of the ongoing development and research projects that have been initiated while I have been the Executive Director at OSC. OSC provides shared high performance computing and networking for Ohio's scientific and engineering communities. The Center effectively leverages these resources on a collaborative basis to procure significant extramural funding for the Center and a wide range of university and business collaborators in Ohio. In the past four years OSC has built a strong national reputation for providing training, scientific computing, and research services to both Ohio and national collaborators. Additionally, OSC has played a major role in bringing new research communities, such as signal and image processing, to HPC and has provided national leadership in HPC as applied to industrial applications through its Blue Collar Computing (BCC) initiative. OSC and the Third Frontier Network (OSCnet) were recently cited in a 2006 Battelle report as a key collaborative center that marks Ohio's strength in information technology. I will also provide an overview of some of my personal research that has been conducted while I have been at OSC, concentrating on work in video annotation.Biography:Stanley C. Ahalt, Ph.D., oversees high performance computing, networking, and research operations as executive director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). Since taking the leadership of OSC in 2003, Ahalt has launched several nationally recognized programs, including Blue Collar Computing, a national program to bring high performance computing to a wide spectrum of industries and applications, and OSCnet, the nation's leading high-speed research network for K-12, higher education and economic development.Ahalt's research expertise involves signal/image/video processing and object identification high performance computing, and neural networks. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 technical papers. Ahalt also serves as the academic lead in the area of signal and image processing for the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program. This initiative provides essential support for the wide variety of research and development demands that arise from the science and technology programs supporting DoD's development and support systems. Ahalt collaborates with a variety of organizations in his active research programs, including the Army Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Ahalt has been a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University since 1987, and co-founded the Information Processing Systems Laboratory at OSU. He received the OSU Lumley Research Award in 1997 and the OSU College of Engineering Research Award in 1999. Prior to joining OSU, Ahalt worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories where he developed industrial data products.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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Meet USC (PM session)
Fri, Oct 05, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 03:00 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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Honors Colloquium: Electronic Music and Objecthood
Fri, Oct 05, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Lecture offered by Dr Joanna Demers, Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Thornton School of Music.
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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Implications of Incidental and Manufactured Nanoscale Materials during Wastewater Treatment
Fri, Oct 05, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:
Ganesh Rajagopalan, Ph.D.,
Project Manager,
Kennedy/Jenks Consultants,
Irvine, CAAbstractThe efficiency of various wastewater treatment processes is significantly influenced by particle size distribution. Most studies performed in the past decades focused on the role of micron-scale particles size distribution in treatment process optimization. A huge-knowledge gap exists in the role of nanoscale suspended particles in wastewater treatment. Due to rapid growth of nanotechnology, commercial and industrial products containing nanoscale materials are exponentially increasing in the market place. The projected market for nanomaterials containing products by year 2015 is expected to exceed $1 trillion. It is reasonable to assume that, due to the growth of nanotechnology, more and more nanoscale materials may be released into the wastewater streams in the future. Hence, it is essential to understand the role of nanoscale particles to optimize wastewater treatment processes. This presentation will summarize available data on the impacts of biogenic and manufactured nanoscale particles on various unit processes, and highlight the research needs to address the data gaps.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Randomized Methods for Solving Convex Problems: Some Theory and Some Computational Experience
Fri, Oct 05, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Seminar"Randomized Methods for Solving Convex Problems: Some Theory and Some Computational Experience"Robert M. FreundTheresa Seley Professor in Management Sciences, MIT Sloan School of ManagementABSTRACT: In contrast to conventional continuous optimization algorithms whose iterates are computed and analyzed deterministically, randomized methods rely on stochastic processes and random number/vector generation as part of the algorithm and/or its analysis. Whereas randomization in algorithms has been a part of research in discrete optimization for at least the last 20 years, randomization has played at most a minor role in algorithms for continuous convex optimization, at least until recently. This talk will focus on two recent randomization-based algorithms for convex optimization: a method by Bertsimas and Vempala based on cuts at the center of mass, and a new method by Belloni and Freund that "pre-conditions" a standard interior-point algorithm using random walks. For the latter, we report very promising computational results on medium-sized conic problems. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2007, GERONTOLOGY BUILDING (GER)ROOM 309, 2:00–3:00 PMBIO: Professor Freund primarily does research on the theory and applications of continuous optimization models. Professor Freund's theoretical work includes interior-point methods for linear optimization and nonlinear optimization, complexity theory of algorithms for convex optimization and condition measures for conic and non-conic convex optimization in particular. Freund has also worked on large-scale applications of optimization in pattern classification, data mining, and adaptive conjoint analysis, among others. He has made contributions to convex analysis, combinatorics, and fixed-point theory as well. He is former Co-Editor of Mathematical Programming A and currently an Associate Editor of Mathematical Programming A, and currently Co-Director of MIT's new Program in Computation for Design and Optimization (CDO)(2004-present).
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
