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Events for October 30, 2008
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Complex Shape Design for Direct Digital Manufacturing
Thu, Oct 30, 2008 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
ISE 650 SEMINAR IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING: "Complex Shape Design for Direct Digital Manufacturing"Guest Speaker: Dr. Yong ChenAssistant Professor, USC Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems EngineeringABSTRACT: Layer-based Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) is a direct manufacturing process that can fabricate complicated geometries cost-effectively. Recent advances in material, process and machine development have enabled the SFF processes to evolve from prototype usage to direct product manufacturing. Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) based on the SFF processes provides tremendous design freedom including the possibility of developing revolutionary new designs by utilizing complex geometry. However, a much higher degree of geometric complexity in design also poses significant challenges in modeling, analyzing, synthesizing, and optimizing shapes to meet the specified requirements. The talk provides an introduction of DDM and the related design opportunities and challenges. Some researches on DDM and design for DDM will also be highlighted including using complex shapes to achieve heterogeneous material properties and multi-functionality in a product component. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008, 12:00-1:00 PM, GER 309BIO: Dr. Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at USC. His research interests are in the areas of computer-aided design and manufacturing; especially computer-aided design tools for additive manufacturing; process development for Rapid Prototyping and Tooling; and geometric reasoning in product design, analysis and manufacturing. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001. Prior to joining the University of Southern California in 2006, he was a senior Research and Development engineer at 3D Systems, Inc. (Valencia, CA) for five years, focusing on the development of layer-based manufacturing systems and 3D printers.
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Computer-Aided Design, Geometric Reasoning and Rapid Prototyping
Thu, Oct 30, 2008 @ 12:00 PM - 01:20 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
ISE 650 SEMINAR IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERINGGuest Speaker: Dr. Yong ChenAssistant Professor, USC Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems EngineeringTopic Area: Computer-Aided Design, Geometric Reasoning and Rapid Prototyping
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Parsing Images (Distinguished Lecture)
Thu, Oct 30, 2008 @ 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Jitendra Malik, UC Berkeley
Host: Prof. Ram NevatiaAbstract:
When humans look at an image or a video clip, they start from the raw input, a collection of pixels, and infer considerable structure and semantics about the world that is projected into the image. They construct a hierarchical partition of the image into sets of pixels that correspond to "objects" or "parts" of objects, and attach concepts - "dog", "forest" etc to various levels in this hierarchy. We have considerable evidence from perception that this process is based on bottom up cues such as similarity of pixel brightness, color, texture and motion as well as top down input derived from familiar visual categories such as faces or street scenes. Constructing a computational model for this is perhaps the central problem in both human and machine vision. Various subproblems of this grand challenge include image segmentation, perceptual grouping and visual recognition.My research group and I have been studying different aspects of this problem for more than a decade, and at this stage, we feel we have the outlines of a framework for solving it. We start with a local process of marking contours in images based on local differences in brightness, color, texture etc, move on to a more global framework for extracting coherent regions, which in turn help drive a process of visual recognition, which then feedback to refine the grouping itself. We can quantify the performance of the framework on various standard datasets for the subproblems. Of course, much more work needs to be done to attain human level performance, but I feel optimistic that computer vision is on track towards closing the much-cited ``semantic gap'' between pixels and perception.Biography:
Jitendra Malik was born in Mathura, India in 1960. He received the B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1980 and the PhD degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1985. In January 1986, he joined the university of California at Berkeley, where he is currently the Arthur J. Chick Professor in the Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical Engg and Computer Sciences. He is also on the faculty of the Cognitive Science and Vision Science groups. During 2002-2004 he served as the Chair of the Computer Science Division and during 2004-2006 as the Department Chair of EECS. He serves on the advisory board of Microsoft Research India, and on the Governing Body of IIIT Bangalore.His current research interests are in computer vision, computational modeling of human vision and analysis of biological images. His work has spanned a range of topics in vision including image segmentation, perceptual grouping, texture, stereopsis and object recognition with applications to image based modeling and rendering in computer graphics, intelligent vehicle highway systems, and biological image analysis. He has authored or co-authored more than a hundred and fifty research papers on these topics, and graduated twenty-five PhD students who occupy prominent places in academia and industry.He received the gold medal for the best graduating student in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1980, a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989, and the Rosenbaum fellowship for the Computer Vision Programme at the Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge in 1993. At UC Berkeley, he was selected for the Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000, a Miller Research Professorship in 2001, and appointed to be the Arthur J. Chick Professor in 2002. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur in 2008. He was awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize for a contribution that has stood the test of time twice, in 2007 and in 2008. He is a fellow of the IEEE.Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Colloquia
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METRANS Anniversary Celebration Reception and Dinner
Thu, Oct 30, 2008 @ 05:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
The METRANS Transportation Center celebrates 10 years of research and education on urban transportation. When: Thursday, October 30, 2008 : 5:00pm to 9:00pm Location: University Park Campus, Galen Center, Founders Room Organizer: Vicki Valentine, (213) 821-1025Keynote Presentation:"Power, Speed and Form: Transportation and Innovation" by David BillingtonEngineering innovations have helped to transform America from a rural society to an urban one. We celebrate transportation research by exploring the transportation innovations of the 20th century: highways and bridges, autos and trucks, and air transport.Hear about how engineers, government agencies and private industry designed and built the public infrastructure that restructured economic activity and facilitated the emergence of today's metropolitan regions.*******************SPEAKER BIO: David Billington is Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the winner of numerous research and teaching awards. His most recent books include Power, Speed and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century and Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics.*******************Parking, $8 (reduced event fee). Individual tickets: $75 if received by October 15, $85 after October 15.To register online, see http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/events/calendar.php/event/867537.Table sponsorships: Gold table: $3,000 (speaker sponsorship opportunity); Silver table: $2,000 (reception sponsorship opportunity); Bronze table: $1,000**All table sponsorships include preferred seating for 10, logo recognition in event program, and announcement during program.For more information, please contact: Vicki Valentine, Administrator, METRANS, USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, 650 Childs Way, RGL 238, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626, (213) 821-1025, victoria.valentine@usc.edu.
Location: USC Galen Center Founders Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Institute of Industrial Engineers - Halloween Pizza Party
Thu, Oct 30, 2008 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come Join IIE for a Halloween Pizza Party on the day before Halloween. There will be lots of pizza, Halloween candies and games to play. Feel free to dress up!Also, bring your resume to be peer reviewed by experienced Seniors who are going through their own job search. You can network with other IIE members and hear about their past work experience and how those experiences have helped them in their current job search.Please RSVP on Facebook under the group "IIE - Institute of Industrial Engineers" so we can make sure to have enough goodies for everyone.
Location: TBA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC Institute of Industrial Engineers
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Hewlett Packard Information Session
Thu, Oct 30, 2008 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori (GFS) 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
