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Events for November 09, 2007
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Meet USC (AM session)
Fri, Nov 09, 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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Inventories with Multiple Supply and Demand Sources and Networks of Queues with Overflow Bypasses
Fri, Nov 09, 2007 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
INFORMATION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT - MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PRESENTSDr. Jeannette SongProfessor of Operations Management, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University"Inventories with Multiple Supply and Demand Sources and Networks of Queues with Overflow Bypasses"Abstract: Consider an inventory system with multiple supply sources.
The replenishment leadtimes from each source are stochastic, representing congestion and disruption. We develop performance evaluation tools for a family of reasonable order policies. These policies take into account real-time supply information, which can be obtained through tracking technologies such as GPS and RFID.Performance evaluation of such state-dependent policies is generally hard. The main thrust of the paper is to show that, under these policies, the supply system becomes a network of queues with special routing mechanism called an overflow bypass. The solution has a simple product form. Thus, we obtain closed-form performance measures. These results reinterpret and extend Moinzadeh and Schmidt's analysis of a system with two sources having deterministic leadtimes. We further extend the analysis to batch ordering policies and multiple demand classes.Friday, November 9, 2007, Hoffman Hall 418, 10:30 - 12:00 PM________________________________________________________________________Professor Song received a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Beijing Normal University, a M.S. degree in Operations Research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Management Science & Operations Management from Columbia University. Before joining Duke University, she served on the faculties of University California, Irvine and Columbia University, and held a visiting position at the University of California, Berkeley.
She also worked as a research fellow in the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Location: H. Leslie Hoffman Hall Of Business Administration (HOH) - 418
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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EE Students Practical Guide Seminar Series - Elements of Successful Proposals
Fri, Nov 09, 2007 @ 11:30 AM - 01:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Seminar Speakers: Profs. Hossein Hashemi and P. Vijay Kumar.Organizer: Prof. Alan Willner* Pizza will be graciously provided by the EE Department.*Abstract: Odds are that regardless of where you choose to go after your studies at USC, you will at some point, be asked or required to write a proposal. In some professions, your livelihood may well be at stake. So what exactly is a proposal and what can you hope to gain from writing one? What goes into the making of a successful proposal? While we do not pretend to have all the answers, we will give you our take on this topic and hope at least to leave you better informed.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Meet USC (PM session)
Fri, Nov 09, 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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The fuels market is currently in a dynamic state
Fri, Nov 09, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 AM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Richarhd Ellis, EcoEnergy Solutions, Inc., Reno, NVAbstract:
There is a movement through out the world to reduce emissions from fossil fuels and simultaneously there is movement to reduce carbon consumption by replacing petroleum fuels with natural products. The base transportation fuel in California is diesel. In the 1990's the California Air Resources Board (CARB) promulgated regulation to reduce NOx and particulate generated from the combustion from diesel fuel. The use of alternative diesel fuels, especially biodiesel, increases NOx emissions. The CARB staff is currently working on programs to quantify the impact on NOx emissions from biodiesel and find ways to mitigate these emissions. In response to the CARB regulations to reduce NOx in diesel fuels, a technology was developed that used a Water-in Diesel emulsion. This emulsion technology was successful and is currently used internationally.In this seminar, we will review the technology for making emulsions of water and diesel. We will review the proposed mechanisms that enable emulsions to reduce emission and extend these ideas to biodiesel fuels. Data will be presented to show the effect of water on the emissions of diesel/biodiesel blends. We will also discuss the combustion modeling of biodiesel fuels in an effort to understand the critical physical properties of biodiesel that affect combustion. In conclusion, we will discuss the research areas that can contribute most to developing systems and processes that reduce emission from combustion engines.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Controlling the Future Internet
Fri, Nov 09, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract:
The current implementation of the Internet relies heavily on Internet Protocol (IP). IP is currently employed to provide inter-networking among heterogeneous access networks. Despite its success, today's Internet implementation has several limitations, some of which include the overloading of the IP address to simultaneously indicate network location and node identity, and the absence of a trustworthy environment for users to communicate. We propose an architecture that addresses this problem and abstracts the functions of the network from the physical network and relies on the use of persistent identifiers (PI) to communicate with every entity on the network.. This is accomplished using software agents that implement the different functions of the network (routing, DNS resolution, storage, etc.) and by viewing the hardware nodes as resource providers to be used by the agents for the completion of their tasks. The agents are then allowed to move autonomously among the nodes of the network in search of nodes that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their task completion. This then creates a distributed resource allocation problem that we formulate and solve in this talk using a hybrid systems framework and randomized algorithms. Speaker:
Chaouki T. Abdallah obtained his MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1982, and 1988 respectively. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of New Mexico where he is currently professor, and chair. Professor Abdallah conducts research and teaches courses in the general area of systems theory with focus on control, communications, and computing systems. His research has been funded by national funding agencies (NSF, AFOSR, NRL), national laboratories (SNL, LANL), and by various companies (Boeing, HP). He has also been active in designing and implementing various international graduate programs with Latin American and European countries. He was a co-founder in 1990 of the ISTEC consortium, which currently includes more than 150 universities in the US, Spain, and Latin America. He has co-authored 4 books, and more than 200 peer-reviewed papers. His IEEE professional service credits include being the program chair for IEEE Conference on Decision & Control, Hawaii, 2003, and the general chair for the IEEE Conference on Decision & Control, in 2008. Professor Abdallah is a senior member of IEEE and a recipient of the IEEE Millennium medal.Host: Petros Ioannou, ioannou@usc.edu, ext 04452Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Shane Goodoff
