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Events for November 05, 2008
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Meet USC
Wed, Nov 05, 2008
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html 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 Undergraduate Admission
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Pierce College Transfer Fair
Wed, Nov 05, 2008 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Students interested in transferring to USC's Viterbi School of Engineering can explore Viterbi's programs and majors, learn about the application process, and speak directly with a Viterbi transfer advisor.
Location: Pierce College
Audiences: Prospective Transfer Students
Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs Division
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Geppeto: Consumers Approach to Programming
Wed, Nov 05, 2008 @ 10:30 AM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Sinisa Srbljic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Host: Prof. Nenad MedvidovicAbstract:
Contemporary society is experiencing a steady stream of new electronic gadgets, software products, and web applications. In this flood of functionality, users have adapted to rely less on manuals (if they are present at all) and shift their learning to trial and error, common paradigms, and experimentation. To accommodate this style of use . or perhaps driving this behavior - developers have successfully abstracted much of the technological complexity and transformed it into intuitive user interfaces often avoiding the need for reading lengthy manuals and formal training. Is it possible to adopt the same trial-and-error experimentation habit not only for using gadgets, but also for application development? We claim that intuitive aggregation and combination of software gadgets makes this possible.In this talk, we will show the use of current technology in building a consumer oriented development tool appropriate for individuals not formally trained in programming. We demonstrate that the complexity of existing system and scripting languages i.e.; syntax, semantics, control and data flow, data structures, data types, and programming components can be successfully replaced with analogies intuitively accessible to a much wider consumer population based exclusively on their use and understanding of user interfaces in popular web applications. We present a demo of Geppeto . a consumer tool for gadget-based application development. Composing gadgets with Geppeto does not require programming experience or reading of convoluted manuals. The presented research is sponsored by Google Inc. and the Croatian Ministry of Science.Biography:
Professor Sinisa Srbljic, Ph.D., is currently a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, and the project leader of the Geppeto project. His career also spans Silicon Valley where he worked on large-scale distributed systems at AT&T Labs. He was visiting the University of Toronto, where he worked on the NUMAchine multiprocessor project, and the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include Web computing, gadget composition, and consumer programming. In teaching, he is involved in the theory of computing, programming language translation, service-oriented computing, and network middleware systems.Location: Waite Phillips Hall Of Education (WPH) - B27
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Colloquia
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Negotiations Workshop
Wed, Nov 05, 2008 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Decision Time! How do you decipher and evaluate job offers? How do you begin the negotiations phase? Attend this workshop and learn helpful tips that will help guide you through the process.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 109
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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The Art and Science of Large-Scale Disasters
Wed, Nov 05, 2008 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University Calendar
The Art and Science of Large-Scale DisastersMohamed Gad-el-HakProfessor
The Caudill Eminent Professor of Biomedical Engineering and
Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VirginiaLarge-scale disasters adversely affect considerable number of people, devastate sizable geographical area, and tax the resources of local communities and central governments. Disasters can naturally occur, but humans can also cause their share of devastation. There is also the possibility of anthropogenic calamity: human's actions causing a natural disaster to become more damaging than it would otherwise. The art and science of large-scale disasters aim at better prepare scientists, engineers, first responders, and above all politicians to deal with manmade and natural disasters. The last annus horribilis in particular has shown the importance of being prepared for large-scale catastrophes, and how the world can get together to help clean out the consequent mess. In this talk, both the art and science of predicting, preventing and mitigating natural and manmade disasters are broadly discussed. The laws of nature govern the evolution of any disaster. In some cases, as for example weather-related disasters, those first-principles laws could be written in the form of field equations, but exact solutions of these often nonlinear differential equations are impossible to obtain particularly for turbulent flows, and heuristic models together with intensive use of supercomputers are necessary to proceed. In other cases, as for example earthquakes, the precise laws are not even known and prediction becomes more or less a black art. Management of any type of disaster is more art than science. Nevertheless, much can be done to alleviate the resulting pain and suffering.
Location: Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, Room 102 (SLH 102)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jennifer Cantwell
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Fall Spotlight on Chemical Engineering
Wed, Nov 05, 2008 @ 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Interested in learning more about Chemical Engineering? Come hear from a panel of Viterbi faculty and alumni, industry representatives, and current Viterbi student.Spotlight is a series of workshops held during the fall semester, as part of the First Year Excellence (FYE) and Sophomore Year Connections (SYC) programs. It was created specifically for engineering freshmen and sophomore students who would like to learn more about their programs of study and their departments. Spotlight is a great program for students who are in the process of deciding on a major, or those who may not be certain about the major they have chosen.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergrad, particularly freshmen and sophomores
Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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Las Vegas - Admission Reception
Wed, Nov 05, 2008 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Hosted by the Admission Office, the reception will include a general discussion about the University. You will also be able to ask questions about your areas of academic interest, explore co-curricular options and learn more about life and opportunities at USC. Christine Hsieh, Admission Coordinator, will be there on behalf of the Viterbi School of Engineering along with other representatives from the University.RSVP online at http://www.usc.edu/admevents
Location: Bishop Gorman High School, 5959 S. Hualapai Way, Las Vegas, NV 89148
Audiences: Prospective Undergraduate Students and Family Members
Contact: VSoE Undergraduate Admission
