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Events for October 12, 2004
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Resume Daze
Tue, Oct 12, 2004 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Is your resume ready for the upcoming Engineering Career Fair and on-campus recruiting season? Engineering Career Services will be hosting Resume Daze the week of October 11. Stop by OHE 106 anytime between 10am and noon October 11 - October 15 to have your resume reviewed.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 106
Audiences: Engineering Students
Contact: Engineering Career Services
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Information Flow Decomposition for Network Coding
Tue, Oct 12, 2004 @ 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Christina Fragouli, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFLAbstract: The famous min-cut, max-flow theorem states that a source node can send a commodity through a network to a sink node at the rate determined by the flow of the min-cut separating the source and the sink. Recently it has been shown that by linear re-encoding at nodes in communications networks, the min-cut rate can be also achieved in multicasting to several sinks. Constructing such coding schemes efficiently is the subject of current research.The main idea in this talk is a method to identify structural properties of multicast configurations, by decompositing the information flows into a minimal number of subtrees. This decomposition shows that very different networks are equivalent from the coding point of view, and offers a method to identify such equivalence classes. It also allows us to divide the network coding problem into two almost independent problems: one of graph theory and the other of classical channel coding theory. This approach to network coding enables us to derive tight bounds on the network code alphabet size, calculate the throughput improvement network coding can offer for different configurations. It also allows to develop algorithms to specify the coding operations at network nodes without the knowledge of the overall network topology. Such decentralized designs facilitate the construction of codes which can easily accommodate future changes in the network, e.g., addition of receivers and loss of links.This is joint work with Emina Soljanin.Bio: Christina Fragouli received her PhD from UCLA in Electrical Engineering in Fall 2000. Since then, she has worked at the Information Sciences Center at AT&T Labs (Florham Park, NJ) and at the National Capodistrian University of Athens, as a Research Associate. Currently she holds a postdoctoral position at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL. She visited DIMACS (Rutgers University) and Bell Labs (Math. for Communication Dept., Murray Hill, NJ) in Spring 2003.Host: Dr. Urbashi Mitra, ubli@usc.edu
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - -107
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Engineering Career Fair Workshop
Tue, Oct 12, 2004 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
A representative from Engineering Career Services will present information on the ways to approach the engineering career fair. Get tips on improving your resume, how to approach recruiters and how to ensure success at the career fair!
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Engineering Students
Contact: Engineering Career Services
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GEM Fellowship Opportunities Workshop for Prospective Engineering Graduate Students
Tue, Oct 12, 2004 @ 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
The GEM Graduate Fellowship Program, "Providing Amercian Indians, African Americans and Hispanic Americans Access to Graduate Education," will host a workshop and information session on the application process. The program provides portable fellowships for graduate study that include tuition, fees, stipend and paid summer internships at our nation's top corporations and research labs. Online applications are available now; deadline is November 1. This workshop features a GEM representative, a former GEM student currently working for the Viterbi School of Engineering and other staff from Viterbi Undergraduate & Graduate Student Affairs. Dinner will be served following the presentations!
Location: Vivian Hall of Engineering (VHE) 210
Audiences: Current Undergraduates & Graduates
Contact: Alison Groendal
