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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Mon, Nov 13, 2006
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Admission Interviews are available to freshman applicants throughout the Fall until December 15, 2006. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online.http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/
Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2007
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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CED Canned Food Drive
Mon, Nov 13, 2006
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
CED is sponsoring a canned food drive starting Monday, Nov. 13, and continuing until Wednesday, Nov. 29. For every can that is brought in, a student will be receive a ticket to be entered into a drawing for prizes, including a $100 gift certificate to Best Buy.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 210
Audiences: Undergraduates
Contact: CED
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Meet USC (AM session)
Mon, Nov 13, 2006 @ 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 call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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From Universal Channel Coding to the Tracking of Stopping Times
Mon, Nov 13, 2006 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Dr. Aslan Tchamkerten, Postdoctoral Associate, MITABSTRACT: We consider point-to-point communication over discrete memoryless channels. Since early 1960's it has been known that, without feedback, the set of achievable rates strongly depends on whether the channel statistics are revealed to the communicating parties. In contrast, if noiseless feedback is available, there is no rate loss under very general assumptions. However, if we now consider the second order question "what is the optimal tradeoff between delay and error probability for universal communication?" the answer is far from clear. Are there blind feedback schemes that perform as quickly and as reliably as if the channel were revealed to the communicating parties? Except for trivial cases (e.g., binary erasure channel) this has been an open question since mid 1970's.In the first part of the talk, we first show that there exist non-trivial families of channels for which universally optimal feedback schemes exist. Maybe somewhat surprisingly, these schemes are not training based. Second, given a pair of channels, we give a simple criterion under which no universally optimal scheme exist for that pair.As part of our quest for robust communication, in the second part of the talk, we address the situation where the feedback channel is noisy. This setting leads to an important synchronization issue when encoder and decoder decide on the basis of stopping times. We provide insights into this issue by solving a new statistical problem, the tracking stopping times problem. Interestingly, this problem is a generalization of the celebrated (Bayesian) change-point problem, and it has several applications in other areas, such as detection and forecasting.This is based on joint work with U. Niesen, E. Telatar, and G. Wornell.Bio: Aslan Tchamkerten received the engineer physicist diploma from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2000. After finishing the graduate school in communication systems at EPFL in 2001, he started his Ph.D. in the Information Theory Lab., and graduated in 2005. Since 2005 he has been a postdoctoral associate at MIT (EECS).Host: Prof. Giuseppe Caire, caire@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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BME Seminar Series
Mon, Nov 13, 2006 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
"Functional Neuroimaging of Complex Animal Behaviors with Microbolus Infusion Pump"Jean-Michel Maarek, D.Ing.
Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern CaliforniaandDaniel Holdschneider, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Cell and NeurobiologyLocation: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Adam Wyatt
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Meet USC (PM session)
Mon, Nov 13, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 04:00 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 call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Design of Asynchronous Pipelined Systems
Mon, Nov 13, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
CENG SEMINAR SERIES"Design of Asynchronous Pipelined Systems"Prof. Montek SinghDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillAbstract:In this talk, I will present some of our recent work on several aspects of the design of asynchronous pipelined systems. I will begin with an overview of our asynchronous pipelined circuit styles, focusing especially on Mousetrap, which is a high-speed pipeline style suitable for efficient standard-cell implementations. Mousetrap was chosen for the industrial-strength asynchronous pipelined synthesis flow being developed under the DARPA CLASS program. I will present our recent accomplishments in and experiences with the CLASS synthesis flow. Next I will present a novel approach to "counterflow pipelining," which enables several useful architectural concepts (e.g. preemption, speculation, eager evaluation) to be efficiently implemented in asynchronous pipelined ASICs. The key idea is to send "anti-tokens" opposite to the flow of data in order to preempt computations whose results are deemed to be no longer useful. Unlike existing approaches, our approach is arbiter-free, yet correctly handles all metastability issues. Finally, I will describe a high-level synthesis approach called "loop pipelining," which alleviates performance bottlenecks in iterative specifications. We introduce a novel self-timed ring architecture and a synthesis approach, which allows multiple problem instances to be concurrently computed, thereby obtaining substantial performance improvements (1.3-9.7X).Bio:Montek Singh has been an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill since 2001. He received the PhD degree from Columbia University in 2002, and the BTech degree from IIT Delhi, India. His research interest is in the area of asynchronous circuits and systems. His work has been transfered to industry, including IBM, Boeing, and Handshake Solutions (a Philips subsidiary). He is co-Program Chair for ASYNC 2007. He has received a Best Paper award and a Best Paper Finalist nomination at the ASYNC Symposium, an IBM Faculty Award, and was awarded a contract under the prestigious DARPA CLASS program.Host: Prof. Peter Beerel, Ext. 04481
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Rosine Sarafian
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Morley Builders Information Session
Mon, Nov 13, 2006 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
