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Events for November 15, 2006
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CED Canned Food Drive
Wed, Nov 15, 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)
Wed, Nov 15, 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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The Information Lost in Erasures
Wed, Nov 15, 2006 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Professor Sergio Verdu, Princeton UniversityABSTRACT: In this talk we examine the impact of erasures on the fundamental limits of lossless data compression, lossy data compression, channel coding and denoising. Particular attention is focused on the regime of sporadic erasures.We define the erasure entropy of a collection of random variables as the sum of entropies of the individual variables conditioned on all the rest. The erasure entropy rate is shown to be the minimal amount of bits per erasure required to recover the lost information in the limit of small erasure probability.When we allow recovery of the erased symbols within a prescribed degree of distortion, the fundamental tradeoff is described by the erasure rate-distortion function which we characterize. We also examine the decrease of channel capacity due to sporadic erasures. The fundamental limits when no additional encoded information is available are also studied; in this case the erased and corrupted information is reconstructed by the denoiser solely on the basis of its context.Based on joint work with Prof. Tsachy Weissman (Stanford University).Bio: Sergio Verdu is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. His 1998 text "Multiuser Detection" earned him the 2000 Frederick E. Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. Elected IEEE Fellow in 1992 for "contributions to multiuser communications and to information theory", he received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. In 2005 he was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.He has received the 1992 IEEE D. Fink Paper Award, the 1998 Information Theory Outstanding Paper Award, a Golden Jubilee Paper Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society, the 2000 Paper Award from the Japan Telecommunications Advancement Foundation, the 2002 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Award from the IEEE Communications Society, and the 2006 Joint IEEE Communications/Information Theory Paper Award.Sergio Verdu served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1997 and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory.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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Issues of Scale, Time, and Approach to Transportation Modeling and Simulation
Wed, Nov 15, 2006 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
You are cordially invited to a METRANS Seminar by:Kostas Goulias,
Professor of Transportation at the Geography Department of the University of California Santa BarbaraWednesday, Nov. 15th 2006, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Ralph & Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) Room 215** Bring a bag lunch. Refreshments will be served. **ABSTRACT: In this presentation, an overview of changing requirements for modeling and simulation is offered. Rapid changes of these requirements emerge from a need to address travel behavior and develop procedures in facets that emerge from three sources: a) dynamic planning practice; b) sustainable and green visions, and c) new research and technology. The typical aspects of data collection, modeling, and simulation considered for transportation policy analysis and planning are in this way examined from perspectives that raise many questions about our ability to make programmatic assessments. For each of these fundamental areas questions are posed as potential candidates for research programs and topics for Ph.D. dissertations and many issues remain largely under scrutinized. They include issues of scale in time and space, content and procedures for which models are designed, and the need to revert time in simulation to address problems of strategic planning and scenario buildin g.SPEAKER BIO: Kostas Goulias, PhD, is Professor of Transportation at the Geography Department of the University of California Santa Barbara since 2004. In that department he is teaching courses in transportation modeling and simulation at the senior undergraduate level and the graduate level.
The courses contain material on regional transportation policy and planning. The bulk of the time is dedicated to the development of models from the conceptual design, to data collection, estimation and use in policy analysis. The models examined and analyzed are about land use, demographics, and activity participation and travel behavior. From 1991 to 2004, Goulias has been Professor of Civil Engineering at PennState University and the director of the Transportation Operations Program at the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute since 1997. He was also the director of the Center for Intelligent Transportation Systems, a center of excellence in the College of Engineering, and the director of a regional research and education consortium the Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center.
Dr. Goulias has been the author and co-author of more than 160 papers, book chapters, and reports to sponsors the majority of which are on new methodological developments in the area of travel behavior and new models for activity based data collection modeling and simulation. He is also the editor-in-chief and contributing author of the 2003 Transportation Systems Planning engineering handbook by CRC press and the editor of the 2007 Elsevier book Transport Science and Technology. Goulias developed estimation methods and computer code for data analysis and simulation systems for nationwide demographic simulation, travel demand forecasting, and other data management and decision support systems. His research emphasis is on forecasting the demand for transportation services and on the impact simulation and forecasting of policy actions including telecommunications and information systems with particular focus on the dynamics of travel behavior. He has also been the immediate past chair of the National Academy of Science -Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Travel Behavior and Values and he is the founder and chair of the TRB Task Force on Moving Activity-based Approaches to Practice. Dr. Goulias earned a Ph.D. in 1991 from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Davis, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering in 1987 from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a Laurea (BS and MS) in Civil Engineering in 1986 from the University of Calabria, College of Civil Engineering, Cosenza, Italy.
Dr. Goulias has worked on many projects providing transportation engineering and planning consulting services to State/Federal agencies and International organizations and firms. He has worked in the United States, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Germany, Portugal, and Australia developing new modeling techniques, simulation frameworks, and providing expert reviews of technologies and engineering practice and policies.For more information, please contact Hossein Ataei (ataei@usc.edu).
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 215
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Evaluating and Negotiating Job Offers
Wed, Nov 15, 2006 @ 12:00 PM - 12:50 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) - 115
Audiences: All Engineering Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Meet USC (PM session)
Wed, Nov 15, 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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Walk-In Wednesdays: Career Services Advising
Wed, Nov 15, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, or general engineering career advice.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Current Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Biomedical Ultrasound
Wed, Nov 15, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Kirk Shung Professor of Biomedical Engineering Medical Ultrasonic Transducer ResourceUniversity of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1111 Ultrasound has been used in medicine for many years. There are two major applications of ultrasound: diagnosis and therapy. As a diagnostic tool, its major advantages over other imaging modalities like magnetic resonance imaging, x-ray, CT and nuclear imaging lie in that it is non-invasive, capable of producing images in real-time, more cost-effective and portable. Ultrasound has been found to be of clinical value in many medical disciplines including OB/GYN and cardiology. As the frequency is further increased, applications in ophthalmology, dermatology and small animal imaging are being explored.Location: Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, Rm 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Matt Construction Information Session
Wed, Nov 15, 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: Undergraduate and Graduate Engineers
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Spotlight on Civil and Environmental Engineering
Wed, Nov 15, 2006 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
The Viterbi Spotlight Series is a NEW series of panel presentations designed specifically for first and second year engineering students. Spotlight sessions are a great way for you to explore other engineering fields, learn more about your chosen area of study or simply gain new perspectives on the various engineering majors available in Viterbi!Panelists will include faculty, industry representatives, current students and Viterbi alumni.Please RSVP: http://viterbi.usc.edu/fye
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergraduate Engineering Students
Contact: Tisha Armatys
