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Events for November 18, 2005
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Portland - Freshmen Admission Interviews
Fri, Nov 18, 2005
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
A Viterbi Admission representative will be in the area conducting Admission Interviews for those students interested.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.Learn more about Interviews:
http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/Schedule an Off-Campus Interview:
http://www.usc.edu/admissioninterviewsAudiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2006
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Funding Board Meeting
Fri, Nov 18, 2005
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Deadline to submit funding applications for the next calendar scycle! Turn in your funding applications by Tuesday of that week!
Audiences: Funding Board
Contact: VSC Funding Board
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Seminar
Fri, Nov 18, 2005 @ 02:30 AM - 03:30 AM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
THE MORK FAMILY DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCEPRESENTS A SEMINAR
BYDr. Ivan VeselyThe H. Russell Smith Foundation Endowed Chair of Cardiothoracic Research and Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery Research
The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Professor of Cardiothoracic surgery, The Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California"Bioengineering of Heart Valves"November 18, 2005
2:45-3:30 PM
(Refreshments will be served at 2:30 PM)
VHE 217**ALL FIRST YEAR MATERIALS SCIENCE MAJORS ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND**
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
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Meet USC (AM session)
Fri, Nov 18, 2005 @ 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 Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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EE 201L Supplemental Instruction
Fri, Nov 18, 2005 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Center for Engineering Diversity
Workshops & Infosessions
Supplemental Instruction is four hours/week of workshops that will review lecture, homeworks, and key concepts from the material and conduct midterm review and final reviews. Our workshop leader for this semester will be Christina Carter-Brown, a CECS major who has excelled in the course and many other EE courses. This semester, workshop hours, days, and locations will be:Mondays 3:30-5:30pm RTH 222
Wednesdays 3:30-5:30pm RTH 222
Fridays 12:00-1:00pm RTH 222 (HW review session)Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222
Audiences: Undergraduates
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
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Meet USC (PM session)
Fri, Nov 18, 2005 @ 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 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 Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Placement Exams for EE Courses
Fri, Nov 18, 2005 @ 01:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University Calendar
On Nov. 18th we will be administing the placement exams for EE 441, 450, 457, 464, 465, and 477. If you would like to sign up to take an exam please go to http://ee.usc.edu/current/grad_placement_exams2.html and scroll down till you see the link that says "Click here for Online Registration" and follow that link to register.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: Mandy Sheedy
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Honors Colloquium Seminar: The DC-3 Aircraft; Historic and Technical Perspective
Fri, Nov 18, 2005 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
This Honors Colloquium lecture will be given by Dr. John Vassberg, Boeing Technical Fellow from the Flight Sciences and Advanced Design Department of the Phantom Works Organization, The Boeing Company.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Erika Pratt
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Thermal Remediation of Creosote and Pentachlorophenol in a Heterogeneous Stratigraphy
Fri, Nov 18, 2005 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:Craig L. Eaker, Ph.D.
Southern California Edison
Rosemead,CA
craig.eaker@sce.comAbstractThe presentation is a case study of the results of the Visalia Steam Remediation Project (VSRP) conducted May 1997 through June 2000. The present laboratory data demonstrates success in achieving the project goal of restoring the groundwater quality to meet the regulatory standards. During 36 months of field operations, approximately 660,000,000 pounds of steam was injected into the formation to thermally treat 375,000 yards of contaminated material. About 1,330,000 pounds of a mixture of Creosote, Diesel, Pentachlorophenol, and Dioxins were extracted as vapors and liquids, or were chemically oxidized in the formation. Currently the groundwater at the "Point of Compliance" meets the Remediation Standards as specified by the California EPA, Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC). The groundwater assays in this vicinity have produced results which comply with the Remediation Standards for Pentachlorophenol (1 ug/L), Benzo(a)Pyrene (0.2 ug/L), and TCDDeqv (30 pg/L).The presentation will graphically represent six years of groundwater assays which clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of a thermal remedy to restore groundwater, adversely impacted by wood preservative chemicals, to a drinking water quality. Additionally, "best practices" for steam reservoir management and empirical observations of in-situ oxidation and saponification of wood preservative chemicals will be presented.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Technological Challenges in Building and Managing Utility Computing Grids
Fri, Nov 18, 2005 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
CENG SEMINAR SERIESTechnological Challenges in Building and Managing Utility Computing GridsDr. Rajkumar BuyyaGrid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) LaboratoryDept. of Computer Science and Software EngineeringUniversity of Melbourne, AustraliaAbstract:Grid computing, one of the latest buzzwords in the ICT industry, is emerging as a new paradigm for Internet-based parallel and distributing computing. It leverages existing IT infrastructure to optimize compute resources and manage data and computing workloads. The developers of Grids and Grid applications need to address numerous challenges: security, heterogeneity, dynamicity, scalability, reliability, service creation and pricing, resource discovery, resource management, application decomposition and service composition, and qualify of services. To address some these challenges, the Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne has developed grid middleware technologies that support rapid creation and deployment of eScience and eBusiness applications on enterprise and global Grids. In this seminar, we place emphasis on fundamental challenges of Grid economy, how to design and develop Grid technologies and applications capable of dynamically leasing services of distributed resources at runtime depending on their availability, capability, performance, cost, and users' quality of service requirements. We briefly present various components of the Gridbus Toolkit and then discuss, in detail, the Gridbus service broker that supports composition and deployment of applications on utility Grids. Case studies on Gridbus middleware in creation of Grid applications on international Grids will be highlighted.Biographical Sketch :Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Senior Lecturer, Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek, USA) Fellow of Grid Computing, and the Director of the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory within the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has authored/co-authored over 130 publications. The books on emerging topics that he edited include, High Performance Cluster Computing published by Prentice Hall, USA, 1999; and High Performance Mass Storage and Parallel I/O, IEEE and Wiley Press, USA, 2001. He also edited proceedings of ten international conferences and served as guest editor for major research journals. He is currently serving as Elected Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). He has organized and chaired IEEE/ACM international conferences in the area of Cluster and Grid Computing. For further information on Dr. Buyya, please browse: http://www.buyya.com.Host: Prof. Kai Hwang, x04470
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -108
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Rosine Sarafian
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Viterbi Early Career Chair Lecture Series
Fri, Nov 18, 2005 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Integrated Media Systems Center
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
CAROL KRUMHANSL: Statistics and Geometries of Music Professor of Psychology, Cornell UniversityABSTRACT: Tonality is the term that refers to the basic principles governing musical pitch. It includes descriptions of scale structure, harmony, and the relationship between musical keys. In addition to being a central topic developed in music theory, it has provided a rich source for cognitive and computational investigations. The talk will begin with a brief summary of this background, followed by a description of two recent research projects.The first project is an application of a statistical learning model of language learning (Automatic Distillation of Structure - ADIOS, Zach Solan et al.) to music. There are two main motivations for extending the model to music. First, the extension tests whether a statistical learning model of this kind can extract musically interpretable structures from a musical corpus. Second, the applications address a question that has received mixed evidence in the music cognition literature, namely, whether rhythm and pitch are independent aspects of musical structure.The second project considers a geometric approach to describing tonality, the Fourier balances proposed in Ian Quinn's (2004) dissertation. The Fourier balances are derived from Lewin's Fourier properties that were proposed to characterize chord structure. In their geometric form, they provide an intuitively accessible way to represent scale structure and key relations. It will be shown that they can also be used to account for tonal hierarchies. Finally, an application to an octatonic selection from Messian will be presented that demonstrates how the Fourier balances might account for musical tension.BIOSKETCH: Carol Krumhansl is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University, author of the seminal text Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch, and past President of the Society of Music Perception and Cognition. Her research in music cognition, spanning 25 years, began with her Ph.D. thesis at Stanford University, and focused initially on musical pitch, specifically tonality and melody. Over the years it has expanded to include studies of musical rhythm and timbre, dance, emotion, contemporary proposals in music theory, and the neuroscience of music, applied to music ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to twelve-tone serialism and atonal songs, from Javanese musical scales and Indian raga to Finnish spiritual folk hymns and Sami yoiks. The research has used a wide variety of approaches, including standard cognitive tasks such as memory and scaling, development, cross-cultural studies, psychophysiology, and most recently brain imaging. She has held visiting positions at IRCAM in Paris, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and the Montreal Neurological Institute.Host: Elaine Chew, Viterbi Early Career, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems EngineeringSupported in part by the Viterbi Early Career Chair Funds, the Integrated Media Systems Center, and the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elaine Chew
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CSCI 101 Supplemental Instruction
Fri, Nov 18, 2005 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Center for Engineering Diversity
Workshops & Infosessions
Supplemental Instruction is four hours/week of workshops that will review lecture, homeworks, and key concepts from the material and conduct midterm review and final reviews. Our workshop leader for this semester will be Jose Medrano, a CECS major who has excelled in the course and many other CSCI courses. This semester, workshop hours, days, and locations will be:Mondays 5:30-6:30pm RTH 222
Wednesdays 5:30-6:30pm RTH 222
Fridays 4:00-6:00pm RTH 222Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222
Audiences: Undergraduates
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
