USC - Viterbi School of Engineering

Nov
16

CED Canned Food Drive
Thu, Nov 16, 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
Nov
16

SWE: Tea with Faculty
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity

Join SWE as we network over a FREE lunch with engineering faculty and your fellow undergraduate and graduate peers.RSVP by bringing your $20 refundable deposit (checks to SWE USC) to Maggie Achoy at the front desk of CED.Spots are limited! So sign up fast!FREE event thanks to funding by EGSA and WSA.
Location: Davidson Conference Center - California Room
Audiences: Grad/Undergrad/Faculty

Contact: SWE
Nov
16

Photons in the Bio-Nanotech Era
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES"Photons in the Bio-Nanotech Era"Prof. Sadik EsenerUniversity of California, San DiegoGerontology Auditorium (GER-124)Thursday, November 16, 20062:00-3:00p.m.[A reception will follow at 3:00p.m.]Abstract: One of the important scientific missions over the next decade will be the exploration of the "Inner Space" at the cellular and molecular levels. Indeed developing a detailed understanding of the "Intra Cellular Nanoworld" appears to be the key for fighting many major diseases including cancer. This mission to the biological Nanoworld is dictated on one hand by the desire to understand life at the molecular level and on the other hand by the need to reduce suffering, death, and the economic burden of these diseases on the society. Since the invention of the microscope optics and biology have been strongly tied together with the uncovering the cellular structure of biological tissues. However, as the research interest shifts from micro-systems to nano-systems for the exploration of the "inner space" new challenges and opportunities emerge in the use of photons. This presentation will first summarize the techniques we are developing at the NanoTumor Center at UCSD and its partner institutions established by NCI to investigate the use of Nanotechnology to fight cancer. Challenges and opportunities to photonic techniques when compared to these new techniques will be discussed. Several on going experiments and related results will be highlighted.Biography: Sadik Esener is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Sciences at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He holds a Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering from UCSD (1987). He is the Director and PI of the UCSD Cancer Nanotechnology Center funded by the National Cancer Institute. Previously he served as the Director of the Center for Heterogeneously Integrated Photonics Systems (CHIPS), a multi-university DARPA funded opto-center for biophotonics and nanophotonics. From 1997 to 2001, he has served as the director of the Opto-Electronic Stacked Processors (OESP) industry/university consortium on Free Space Optical Interconnects and on the integration of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser arrays. From 1998 to 2001, he also was the Director of the Fast Read-out Optical Storage consortium on parallel accessing optical disks, partially supported by DARPA and partially by Industry. He has authored several book chapters, and organized and chaired scientific international conferences. Esener is also a co-founder of several companies including Nanogen Inc. that relates to his work on electrically addressed gene chips, Call/Recall Inc. that relates to his work on multilayer optical disk storage, Optical Micro Machines and Ziva Inc. that relate to his work on all optical switching and free space optics, and Genoptix Inc., that relates to his more recent work in biophotonics. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America.Host: Prof. Alexander Sawchuk
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Rosine Sarafian
Nov
16

Energy Loss Mechanisms in Micromechanical Resonators
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

Dr. Julie Zhili HaoAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringOld Dominion UniversityNorfolk, VirginiaABSTRACT
Micromechanical resonators are of great interests for a wide range of applications, such as rotation rate sensors (gyroscopes), electrical filters, and physics research instruments. For their practical applications, quality factors (Q) or energy loss mechanisms of micromechanical resonators are of critical importance, as a higher Q in these devices translates to higher sensitivity, lower motional resistance, better stability, and lower power consumption. Therefore, it is desirable to design and fabricate micromechanical resonators with ultra-high Q or very little energy loss. To this end, we need to understand and analyze energy loss mechanisms in such devices, not only for improving their performance, but also for establishing the fundamental limit of the Q. In fact, arising from its own nature, each loss mechanism in a micromechanical resonator exhibits a unique phenomenon that is governed by its related theory and can be analytically expressed and experimentally characterized. In this talk, I will discuss the analytical and experimental study on support loss and thermoelastic damping (TED) in micromechanical resonators. From this study, the closed-form expressions for their quantitative evaluation are obtained, shedding significant insights into the geometrical design and choice of materials in high-Q micromechanical resonators.BIO
Julie Z. Hao received the B.S and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. She received her doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 2000. Her dissertation topic was the research and development of a MEMS-based cooling system for microelectronics. After graduation, Dr. Hao worked as a MEMS Engineer in industry for two years and was involved in the development of optical MEMS and microfluidic products. From 2002-2006, she worked in the Integrated MEMS Laboratory at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. In July 2006, Dr. Hao joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Old Dominion University. Her research focuses on the development of MEMS devices for sensory, biomedical, and communications applications. These include high precision gyroscopes, bulk-mode resonators, high-Q biosensors, as well as microfluidic devices. Also, Dr. Hao works on the analytical and experimental study of complex multidisciplinary micromechanics that is critical for the performance of MEMS devices and microsystems.

Location: Laufer Library, RRB 208
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: April Mundy
Nov
16

CS Distinguished Lecture Series
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

Dr. Peter NorvigDirector of Research
Google, Inc.Title: "Theorizing from Data: Avoiding the Capital Mistake" Abstract: "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's words from 1891 remain true today. Researchers in computational linguistics and information retrieval now have a million times more data than was available 30 years ago. This talk explores what this data can do for problems in language understanding, translation, information extraction, and inference, and extrapolates to what more data may bring in the future.Biography: Peter Norvig is the Director of Research at. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the field. Previously he was head of Computational Sciences at NASA and a faculty member at USC and Berkeley.Hosted by: Prof. Ram Nevatia
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Nancy Levien
Nov
16

ASBME: Med School Night
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

Todd Bennett, founder of the Berkeley Review, will be speaking about medical school requirements, the application process, and interviews!
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 118
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: ASBME
Nov
16

Directv Information Session
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 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
Nov
16

ASCE: General Meeting with CH2M Hill
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity

Come join us for our last general meeting of the semester with representatives from CH2M Hill. Free food!
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 146
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: ASCE
Nov
16

IIE: General Meeting w/ Disney IE Dept.
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity

Insitute of Industrial Engineers is hosting its general meeting with Disney's Industrial Engineering Department. They will speak about IE at the Disneyland park and go over some case studies to give students a better grasp of the type of work they do. FREE FOOD!!!See you there!
Location: TBD
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: IIE
Nov
16

CED and WIE GRE Workshop
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions

The Center for Engineering Diversity and Women in Engineering want to prepare you for the GRE! A Kaplan representative will: Go over the format of the exam, provide study tips, and discuss future changes to the exam. Space is limited so please RSVP by November 13th to viterbi.ced@usc.edu

Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Viterbi Undergraduate Students

Contact: Araceli Espinoza
Nov
16

First General Meeting
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity

Come meet us at our first general meeting! Microsoft student representatives will be attending and there will be a guest speaker from Symantec. Food will be provided.
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 200
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Association for Computing Machinery
Nov
16

Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth: Uncertainty
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 07:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth puts science on stage in an informal series of conversations and performances. This event focuses on uncertainty, with Annenberg's Larry Pryor and JPL senior research scientist Moustafa Chahine investigating how and why journalists failed in their efforts to understand and convey the true nature of uncertainty surrounding the global warming issue. Showing how uncertainty is a central tool in art, USC's Thornton School of Music's composer Veronika Krausas, accompanied by performers, will discuss and illustrate how uncertainty plays an essential role in music. And finally, uncertainty in engineering? You bet. USC alumni Farzad Naeim, an engineer who played a leading role in the structural engineering of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, will tell us how it works.
Location: Annenberg Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski
Nov
16

Ruby on Rails Workshop
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions

The next in UPE's Wonderful World of Web2.0 Workshop series...Ruby on Rails Workshop!Ruby4 is a scripting language, much like PHP or Perl, with a focus on simplicity. Ruby on Rails5 is a web framework that is optimized for programmer happiness. (We'll take what we can get.) It allows for the creation of database backed web applications, and it has a fun name to boot! Whether you're new to scripting, or have experience and want to learn something new, this workshop is for you.Thursday November 16, 2006 7-9 PM. KOH 208No need to RSVP, just arrive on time.Also don't miss our screening of Tron on Tuesday, Nov. 14, from 8:30-10 in SLH100. More info on UPE at: http://pollux.usc.edu/~upe/

Location: Frank L. King Olympic Hall Of Champions (KOH) - 208
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Nancy Levien
Nov
16

Ruby on Rails Workshop
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions

The next in UPE's Wonderful World of Web2.0 Workshop series...Ruby on Rails Workshop!Ruby4 is a scripting language, much like PHP or Perl, with a focus on simplicity. Ruby on Rails5 is a web framework that is optimized for programmer happiness. (We'll take what we can get.) It allows for the creation of database backed web applications, and it has a fun name to boot! Whether you're new to scripting, or have experience and want to learn something new, this workshop is for you.No need to RSVP, just arrive on time.Also don't miss our screening of Tron on Tuesday, Nov. 14, from 8:30-10 in SLH100. More info on UPE at: http://pollux.usc.edu/~upe/

Location: Frank L. King Olympic Hall Of Champions (KOH) - 208
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Nancy Levien
Nov
16

UPE: Ruby on Rails Workshop
Thu, Nov 16, 2006 @ 07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions

Location: Frank L. King Olympic Hall Of Champions (KOH) - 208
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: UPE