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The Art and Science of Large-Scale Disasters
Wed, Nov 05, 2008 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
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The Art and Science of Large-Scale DisastersMohamed Gad-el-HakProfessor
The Caudill Eminent Professor of Biomedical Engineering and
Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VirginiaLarge-scale disasters adversely affect considerable number of people, devastate sizable geographical area, and tax the resources of local communities and central governments. Disasters can naturally occur, but humans can also cause their share of devastation. There is also the possibility of anthropogenic calamity: human's actions causing a natural disaster to become more damaging than it would otherwise. The art and science of large-scale disasters aim at better prepare scientists, engineers, first responders, and above all politicians to deal with manmade and natural disasters. The last annus horribilis in particular has shown the importance of being prepared for large-scale catastrophes, and how the world can get together to help clean out the consequent mess. In this talk, both the art and science of predicting, preventing and mitigating natural and manmade disasters are broadly discussed. The laws of nature govern the evolution of any disaster. In some cases, as for example weather-related disasters, those first-principles laws could be written in the form of field equations, but exact solutions of these often nonlinear differential equations are impossible to obtain particularly for turbulent flows, and heuristic models together with intensive use of supercomputers are necessary to proceed. In other cases, as for example earthquakes, the precise laws are not even known and prediction becomes more or less a black art. Management of any type of disaster is more art than science. Nevertheless, much can be done to alleviate the resulting pain and suffering.
Location: Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, Room 102 (SLH 102)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jennifer Cantwell
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Practical Matters: Working in Industry
Thu, Nov 06, 2008 @ 12:00 PM - 01:20 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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ISE 650 SEMINAR IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERINGGuest Speaker: Dr. Dana ShermanSenior Lecturer, USC Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems EngineeringTopic Area: Practical Matters: Working in Industry, Employment Rights, Intellectual Property, Taxes and Pension Plans, Employment Contracts
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Global IT at Chevron
Mon, Nov 10, 2008 @ 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM SEMINAR: "Global IT at Chevron"Speaker: Steve EllenburgCUA, User Experience Program Manager, Chevron ITC/Enterprise Business SolutionsSteve has over 23 years of IT industry experience starting as programmer analyst leading to senior positions as a strategist and CIO.This seminar focuses on how Chevron, a global company, positions IT in its worldwide operations. The role of SAP ERP in Chevron's IT ecosystem will be discussed. This seminar is highly recommended to students seeking to get insight into a large corporation's Enterprise Systems, Operations and range of careers.Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pmLocation: KAP 160Students should RSVP at: http://itp.usc.edu/global-it-at-chevron
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 160
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Supporting Behavior Change and Enabling Patient Self-Management Through Technology
Wed, Nov 12, 2008 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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DANIEL J. EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINARTitle: "Supporting Behavior Change and Enabling Patient Self-Management Through Technology"Speaker: Neal Kaufman, M.D., M.P.H., Founder and Chief Executive Officer, DPS Health, Los Angeles, CaliforniaABSTRACT: This seminar will give an overview of how Information Technology can help clinicians provide cost-effective approaches to enable patients to adopt and sustain health promoting behaviors. Neal Kaufman, M.D., M.P.H., UCLA Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health, will describe the key components and functionalities needed for clinically-linked Technology Enabled Behavior Change Interventions to be successful. He will describe how these approaches, based on how master clinicians support patients, fit into healthcare and public health approaches. Dr. Kaufman will describe a state-of-art internet-based platform he and his team created that when coupled with research proven behavior change protocols creates effective and scalable interventions….all designed to mimic the best approaches used by master clinicians/communicators. The approach allows web-based management and support for the patient, the coach (clinician), the administrator/quality assurance person and individuals supporting the patient (e.g. friends, family, co-workers). It also allows a complete and time based behavioral intervention to be customized based on the individual's personal characteristics, performance over time and time on the intervention.He will demonstrate an innovative approach to weight management based on the NIH's Diabetes Prevention Program, which his company created in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh.WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008, ANDRUS GERONTOLOGY ROOM 309, 12:00-1:30 PM****************************************BIO: Dr. Kaufman is Co-Founder of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, and Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2004, after a 27 year career in academic medicine and public health, Dr. Kaufman left Pediatrics and founded DPS Health to create technology solutions that enable clinicians to help their patients adopt and sustain health promoting behaviors.
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Transportation
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 @ 12:00 PM - 01:20 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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ISE 650 SEMINAR IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERINGGuest Speaker: Dr. Hanh Le GriffinAssistant Research Professor, USC Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems EngineeringTopic Area: Transportation
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Monetary Risk Measures: Representation Results and Dynamic Consistency Conditions
Mon, Nov 17, 2008 @ 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Mathematical Finance ColloquiumWhere: KAP 249When: Monday, November 17, 2008, 2:15-3:15 PMTitle: "Monetary Risk Measures: Representation Results and Dynamic Consistency Conditions"Speaker: Prof. Patrick Cheridito, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton UniversityABSTRACT: After a short introduction to monetary risk measures I present new representation results and give dual characterizations of various properties of risk measures. Then I discuss conditions for dynamic consistency. The theoretical results are applied to analyze several specific examples of risk measures. Some of them have appeared earlier,
others are new.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 249
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Potential for Inland-Port Development in Los Angeles Basin Freight Transportation
Wed, Nov 19, 2008 @ 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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METRANS SeminarTitle: "Potential for Inland-Port Development in Los Angeles Basin Freight Transportation"Speaker: Dr. Mansour Rahimi, Associate Professor, USC Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 11.30amPlace: Lewis Hall (RGL) Room 103 ABSTRACT: Inland-ports have been mentioned as key elements of logistic hubs for integration into a more efficient regional intermodal goods movement system. This presentation introduces several existing inland port developments in different US urban networks. We then identify and analyze site location methods for inland ports in five counties surrounding the Los Angeles County, and their potential for integration into a regional intermodal goods movement system served by the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The analysis includes a single facility location model to define the location of a theoretical inland port to minimize the total truck-miles traveled. Then, we extended this model to a series of location-allocation models with up to six inland port locations included. A significant truck VMT reduction is achieved with this new concept, which follows the notion of a "satellite inland port" system. Congestion and air pollution could potentially be reduced in proportion to the VMT reductions. Implementation challenges and future research needs will be discussed. Lunch will be served--please RSVP to amgardne@usc.edu to reserve a spot.
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 103
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Aerodynamic Separation and Invariant Manifolds: Recent Progress on a Century-old Problem
Wed, Nov 19, 2008 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
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Aerodynamic Separation and Invariant Manifolds: Recent Progress on a Century-old ProblemGeorge HallerMechanical Engineering Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MAFlow separation--the detachment of fluid from a boundary-- is a major cause of performance loss in engineering devices such as diffusers, airfoils and jet engines. In a landmark 1904 paper on boundary layers, Ludwig Prandtl derived a criterion for flow separation from no-slip boundaries in steady two-dimensional incompressible flows. Despite widespread effort, however, no unsteady or three-dimensional extension of Prandtl's criterion has emerged in the fluid dynamics literature. In this talk, I discuss recent success in extending Prandtl's criterion to unsteady three-dimensional compressible flows as well as to slip boundaries. This new separation theory relies on advanced dynamical systems concepts such as nonhyperbolic invariant manifold theory and aperiodic averaging. Remarkably, these techniques render exact separation criteria that cannot be obtained from first principles. I show numerical and experimental results confirming the generalized separation criteria and discuss applications to flow control and pollution tracking.
Location: Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, Room 102 (SLH 102)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jennifer Cantwell
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Ultrasonic Transducers for Biomedical Imaging Applications
Thu, Nov 20, 2008 @ 12:00 PM - 01:20 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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ISE 650 SEMINAR IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERINGGuest Speaker: Hamid ChabokPhD Student, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems EngineeringTopic Area: Ultrasonic Transducers for Biomedical Imaging Applications
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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A Sequential Stochastic Security System Design Problem for Aviation Security
Tue, Nov 25, 2008 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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DANIEL J. EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR"A Sequential Stochastic Security System Design Problem for Aviation Security"Dr. Sheldon H. JacobsonProfessor, Willett Faculty Scholar, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois - UrbanaABSTRACT: Passenger screening is a critical component of aviation security systems. This paper introduces the sequential stochastic security design problem (SSSDP), which models passenger and carry-on baggage-screening operations in an aviation security system. SSSDP is formulated as a two-stage model, where in the first stage security devices are purchased subject to budget and space constraints, and in the second stage a policy determines how passengers that arrive at a security station are screened. Passengers are assumed to check in sequentially, with passenger risk levels determined by a prescreening system. The objective of SSSDP is to maximize the total security of all passenger-screening decisions over a fixed time period, given passenger risk levels and security device parameters. SSSDP is transformed into a deterministic integer program, and an optimal policy for screening passengers is obtained. Examples are provided to illustrate these results, using data extracted from the Official Airline Guide.TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2008, ANDRUS GERONTOLOGY BUILDING (GER) ROOM 309, 10:00 – 11:00 AMSPEAKER BIO: Sheldon H. Jacobson is a Professor, Willett Faculty Scholar, and Director of the Simulation and Optimization Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. He has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. (both in Mathematics) from McGill University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. (both in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering) from Cornell University. His theoretical research interests include the stochastic analysis and design of heuristics for intractable discrete optimization problems. His applied research interests address problems in the areas of homeland security and health-care delivery systems. His research has been recognized with several awards, including the Aviation Security Research Award by Aviation Security International, the International Air Transport Association, and the Airports Council International (in 2002), a Best Paper Award in IIE Transactions Focused Issue on Operations Engineering (in 2003) and a Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (in 2003). His research has been published in a wide spectrum of journals, and he has received research funding from several government agencies and industrial partners, including the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
