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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Mon, Aug 02, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 10, 2011. 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 2011
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Aug 02, 2010
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Aug 04, 2010
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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USC Engineering Info Session in India: Bangalore
Thu, Aug 05, 2010 @ 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are invited to attend our Master's & PhD Degree Information Sessions in Bangalore, India. All students with a Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, math or science are qualified to apply for our graduate programs.Session agenda will include a presentation on the following topics: Master's & PhD degrees available at USC, How to Apply, Scholarships, and Student Life. Students will have the chance to ask questions, enjoy refreshments and mingle with fellow students and alumni.Register now: http://mapp.usc.edu/mastersprograms/prospectivestudents/IndiaInfo.htm
Location: Le Meridien, Dominion Room 28, Sankey Road, PB 174 Bangalore - 560 052, India
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate Engineering
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Aug 06, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 12:00 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Engineering Mechanics Institute 2010
Sun, Aug 08, 2010
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
This conference provides a major forum for the exchange of ideas and discussion of recent developments in all mechanics and materials research fields. The technical sessions and symposia on fundamentals, tools and applications serve to highlight and promote educational needs, emerging thrusts, novel techniques, and innovative applications in areas that span across many engineering disciplines. Researchers, engineers, industry representatives, public officials, and all others who have an interest are invited to attend and participate.
Location: USC campus
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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USC Engineering Info Session in India: Delhi
Sun, Aug 08, 2010 @ 11:00 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are invited to attend our Master's & PhD Degree Information Sessions in Delhi, India. All students with a Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, math or science are qualified to apply for our graduate programs.Session agenda will include a presentation on the following topics: Master's & PhD degrees available at USC, How to Apply, Scholarships, and Student Life. Students will have the chance to ask questions, enjoy refreshments and mingle with fellow students and alumni.Register now: http://mapp.usc.edu/mastersprograms/prospectivestudents/IndiaInfo.htm
Location: Le Meridien, Inspire Room Windsor Place, Janpath New Delhi - 110001, India
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate Engineering
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Engineering Mechanics Institute 2010
Mon, Aug 09, 2010
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
This conference provides a major forum for the exchange of ideas and discussion of recent developments in all mechanics and materials research fields. The technical sessions and symposia on fundamentals, tools and applications serve to highlight and promote educational needs, emerging thrusts, novel techniques, and innovative applications in areas that span across many engineering disciplines. Researchers, engineers, industry representatives, public officials, and all others who have an interest are invited to attend and participate.
Location: USC campus
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Aug 09, 2010
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Data Exchange in Geotechnical Engineering
Mon, Aug 09, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Oral Defense by: Nazila Mokarram, Ph.D. Candidate, Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USCAbstract:Although geotechnical information is obtained from rather costly drilling and laboratory operations, they are poorly documented and curated, due to lack of adoptable standards for data handling. This study develops a requirement list for data exchange format based on the advantages and shortcomings of past efforts and the community specific needs. After careful analysis of geotechnical data, an XML-based data organization is proposed. Then the proposed format is used in examples of data generation and modification, data validation, data exchange, and archive and distribution via World Wide Web. To show the improvements of the new data exchange format over the previous formats, the proposed data format is evaluated by comparing its capabilities with the requirement list developed early in the study. At the end, metadata modeling is proposed as an added layer over data exchange for future work.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Faculty/Graduate/Undergrad/
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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USC Engineering Info Session in India: Chennai
Mon, Aug 09, 2010 @ 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are invited to attend our Master's & PhD Degree Information Sessions in Chennai, India. All students with a Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, math or science are qualified to apply for our graduate programs.Session agenda will include a presentation on the following topics: Master's & PhD degrees available at USC, How to Apply, Scholarships, and Student Life. Students will have the chance to ask questions, enjoy refreshments and mingle with fellow students and alumni.Register now: http://mapp.usc.edu/mastersprograms/prospectivestudents/IndiaInfo.htm
Location: Le Royal Meridien, Madras I Hall No. 1 GST Road St. Thomas Mount, Chennai Tami Nadu - 600 016, I
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate Engineering
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Engineering Mechanics Institute 2010
Tue, Aug 10, 2010
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
This conference provides a major forum for the exchange of ideas and discussion of recent developments in all mechanics and materials research fields. The technical sessions and symposia on fundamentals, tools and applications serve to highlight and promote educational needs, emerging thrusts, novel techniques, and innovative applications in areas that span across many engineering disciplines. Researchers, engineers, industry representatives, public officials, and all others who have an interest are invited to attend and participate.
Location: USC campus
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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USC Engineering Info Session in India: Hyderabad
Tue, Aug 10, 2010 @ 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are invited to attend our Master's & PhD Degree Information Sessions in Hyderabad, India. All students with a Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, math or science are qualified to apply for our graduate programs.Session agenda will include a presentation on the following topics: Master's & PhD degrees available at USC, How to Apply, Scholarships, and Student Life. Students will have the chance to ask questions, enjoy refreshments and mingle with fellow students and alumni.Register now: http://mapp.usc.edu/mastersprograms/prospectivestudents/IndiaInfo.htm
Location: ITC Kakatiya, Hyder Mahal Room 63-3-1187, Begumpet Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, 500016
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate Engineering
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Engineering Mechanics Institute 2010
Wed, Aug 11, 2010
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
This conference provides a major forum for the exchange of ideas and discussion of recent developments in all mechanics and materials research fields. The technical sessions and symposia on fundamentals, tools and applications serve to highlight and promote educational needs, emerging thrusts, novel techniques, and innovative applications in areas that span across many engineering disciplines. Researchers, engineers, industry representatives, public officials, and all others who have an interest are invited to attend and participate.
Location: USC campus
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Aug 11, 2010
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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USC Engineering Info Session in India: Pune
Wed, Aug 11, 2010 @ 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are invited to attend our Master's & PhD Degree Information Sessions in Pune, India. All students with a Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, math or science are qualified to apply for our graduate programs.Session agenda will include a presentation on the following topics: Master's & PhD degrees available at USC, How to Apply, Scholarships, and Student Life. Students will have the chance to ask questions, enjoy refreshments and mingle with fellow students and alumni.Register now: http://mapp.usc.edu/mastersprograms/prospectivestudents/IndiaInfo.htm
Location: Le Meridien, Sovereign Room Raja Bahadur Mill Rd Sangamvadi, Pune Maharashtra, India
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate Engineering
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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Thu, Aug 12, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 10, 2011. 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 2011
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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USC Engineering Info Session in India: Mumbai
Thu, Aug 12, 2010 @ 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are invited to attend our Master's & PhD Degree Information Sessions in Mumbai, India. All students with a Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, math or science are qualified to apply for our graduate programs.Session agenda will include a presentation on the following topics: Master's & PhD degrees available at USC, How to Apply, Scholarships, and Student Life. Students will have the chance to ask questions, enjoy refreshments and mingle with fellow students and alumni.Register now: http://mapp.usc.edu/mastersprograms/prospectivestudents/IndiaInfo.htm
Location: JW Marriott, Kaveri Room P.O. Box 82823 Juhu Tara Road Juhu, Mumbai 40049 India
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate Engineering
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Aug 13, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 12:00 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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USC PSOC Monthly Seminar Series - Dr. Sanjay Kumar
Fri, Aug 13, 2010 @ 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Sanjay Kumar, M.D., Ph.D., UC BerkeleyAssistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley; Faculty Scientist, Physical Bios-ciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; UCSF/UCB Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, UCB Graduate Groups in Biophysics and Nanoscale Science & Engineering Physical Microenvironmental Regulation of Tumor and Stem Cell Biology in the Central Nervous System"Physical Microenvironmental Regulation of Tumor and Stem Cell Biology in the Central Nervous System"Abstract:
One of the most exciting breakthroughs in cell biology over the past decade is the recognition that micromechanical inputs to cells from the solid-state extracellular matrix (ECM), such as those encoded in ECM geometry, topography, and elasticity, can influence cell and tissue physiology and pathology in profound and specific ways. This connection between mechanics and biology (mechanobiology) bears direct relevance to the pathogenesis of diseases of the nervous system in which cells alter their structure, motility, or compliance, including neuronal and glial tumors and neurodegenerative disorders, and suggests that specific cell behaviors may be engineered by directly manipulating the underlying molecular systems. I will discuss efforts my colleagues and I have taken to harness the potential of mechanobiological crosstalk between cells and the ECM to understand and manipulate tumor and stem cell biology in the nervous system. I will describe studies in which we elucidate the role of physical cues from the ECM in driving cell structure, cytoskeletal organization, cell migration, and proliferation in malignant brain tumors. I will also discuss our efforts to engineer the differentiation trajectories of neural stem cells by manipulating the biophysical properties of the ECM and the mechanotransductive signaling pathways that enable cells to mechanically communicate with the ECM.Hosted by: Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. For additional information, contact: yvonne.suarez@usc.edu or 323 442-2596.Pizza and beverages will be provided at 11:45 a.m.
Location: May Ormerod Harris Hall, Quinn Wing & Fisher Gallery (HAR) - kness Auditorium - IGM
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Yvonne Suarez
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Parent Welcome Reception | Move-In Day
Wed, Aug 18, 2010 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Please join Viterbi School Dean, Yannis Yortsos and Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Louise Yates at a welcome reception on Move-In Day. This wine reception and program is a chance for you to meet other new parents, as well as Viterbi School staff and faculty. We hope to see you there!This event is casual attire.Please reply by Friday, August 13th by calling 213.740.2502
Location: Engineering Quad
Audiences: Parents of new Viterbi School students
Contact: Wendy Campbell
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Mobility Assisted Routing for Hybrid Ad Hoc Networks
Thu, Aug 19, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Xiaojun Wu, Associate Professor
School of Software Engineering & Department of Computer Science and Technology
Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi'an, ChinaHosted by Prof. Raghu RaghavendraAbstract:
Abstract: In hybrid ad hoc networks, most nodes are stationary, while only a few nodes move at a fast speed.
By exploiting the mobility assistance, the network performance, such as route quality and lifetime, can be
largely improved. Specially, a few fast moving nodes (FNs) collect last encounter information while they are
moving within the network. Whenever they encounter stationary nodes (SNs), they diffuse their last
encounter information to SNs. Based on the temporal-spatial correlation, both FNs and SNs can compute the
distance with other nodes, therefore the last encounter information can guide route search. Accordingly, we
develop one mobility assisted routing scheme for so-called hybrid ad hoc networks. The analytical model is
also addressed. Simulation results demonstrate that the route search cost is decreased significantly, and is
linear with the distance between source and destination nodes. Simulation results also illustrate the validation
of the analytical model. Moreover, our other related work will be briefly introduced, such as messenger
nodes based routing, mobility assisted clustering, mobility assisted service discovery, and mobility assisted
distributed certification.
Biography:
Dr. Xiaojun Wu is an associate professor in the School of Software Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University
(XJTU), Xi'an, China, where he is also an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and
Technology. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering, the M.S. degree in computer science, and
the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from XJTU in 1990, 1999, and 2002, respectively. His research
interests include broadband mobile wireless Internet, next-generation wireless communication systems,
pervasive computing (or ubiquitous networking), web science and service science. He is author (or coauthor)
of more than 40 publications. He joined XJTU in July 2005 following a postdoctoral fellowship at Tsinghua
University (THU), Beijing, China from July 2003 through June 2005. From July 1990 through October 1995,
he was an engineer and programmer in the Tenth Research Institute of Ministry of Post and Telecom, Xi'an,
China. He received the Outstanding Ph.D. Grad Award of XJTU in 2002 and the Excellent Ph.D. Degree
Dissertation Award of XJTU in 2004.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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Computational Creativity from a Model of Music Cognition
Thu, Aug 19, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
USC VSoE ISE SeminarWHAT: Computational Creativity from a Model of Music CognitionWHO: Geraint Wiggins, Professor of Computational Creativity, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths' CollegeWHEN: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 3:30PM - 4:50PMWHERE: EEB 248Abstract: This talk is about computational modeling of a process of musical composition, based on a cognitive model of human behaviour. The idea is to try to study not only the requirements for a computer system which is capable of musical composition, but also to relate it to human behaviour during the same process, so that it may, perhaps, work in the same way as a human composer, but also so that it may, more likely, help us understand how human composers work. We take a purist approach to our modeling: we are aiming, ultimately, at a computer system which we can claim to be creative. Therefore, we must address in advance the criticism that usually arises in these circumstances: "a computer can't be creative because it can only do what it has explicitly been programmed to do". This argument does not hold,because, with the advent of machine learning, it is no longer true that a computer is limited to what its programmer explicitly tells it, especially in a relatively unsupervised learning task like composition (as compared with the usually-supervised task of learning, say, the piano). Thus, a creative system based on unsupervised machine learning can, in principle, be given credit for creative output, much as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is deemed the creator of The Magic Flute, and not Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang's father, teacher and de facto agent. Because music is a very complex phenomenon, we focus on a relatively simple aspect, which is relatively easy to isolate from the many other aspects of music: tonal melody. In order to compose music, one normally needs to learn about it by hearing it, so we begin with a perceptual model, which has proven capable of simulating relevant aspects of human listening behaviour better than any other in the literature. We also consider the application of this model to a different task, musical phras segmentation, because doing so adds weight to its status as a good, if preliminary, model of human cognition. We then consider using this model to generate tonal melodies, and show how one might go about evaluating the resulting model of composition scientifically. We place the discussion in the context of current models of creative cognition.Biography: Geraint A. Wiggins has an MA from the University of Cambridge, in Mathematics and Computer Sciences, and PhDs from the University of Edinburgh, in Artificial Intelligence and in Musical Composition. He works in the Department of Computing and directs the Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he holds the Chair of Computational Creativity and leads the Intelligent Sound and MusicSystems (ISMS) research group. His research interests cover a wide range, centred around computational cognitive modeling of creative behaviour, particularly in the context of music, the aim being to understand better how human creativity arises, both in evolutionary and mechanistic terms, and to begin to understand how it works, on an individual basis. Geraint has published and co-published several practical and theoretical papers on computational creativity, and was responsible for the instigation of one of the workshop series (under the aegis of the AISB convention) which eventually merged to form the International Conference on Computational Creativity. He recently co-edited (with Irène Deliège) the first ever collection of papers dedicated to the cognitive psychology of musical creativity, Musical Creativity: Current Research in Theory and Practice (Psychology Press). He is an Associate Editor of Musicae Scientiae, the journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, and a Consulting Editor of Music Perception, its North American counterpart. From 2000-2004, he was chair of AISB, the UK learned society for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science.Host: Prof. Elaine Chew
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Spark! 5th Annual Visions and Voices Multimedia Showcase
Thu, Aug 19, 2010 @ 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Pre-show DJ set by Faust & Shortee.
Admission is free. Seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis. See below for details.
Reception to follow.
Donât miss Visions and Voicesâs annual kickoff event, an arts extravaganza featuring music, dance, performance art and spoken word. This dynamic program will include an electrifying dance performance by Luminario Ballet, the dazzling vocals of acclaimed a cappella group Sonos, the virtuosic sounds of electric violinist Peter Lee Johnson, a hilarious and evocative performance by writer/performer DâLo, captivating and powerful poetry by award-winning spoken-word artist Javon Johnson and a welcome by Elizabeth Garrett, USC Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
Attendees will also receive free Visions and Voices T-shirts and bags upon event entry! Seating and giveaways are limited. To get a seat, pick up a wristband at the event check-in starting at 4:30 p.m. on Trousdale Parkway in front of Bovard Auditorium. Wristbands will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) - Bovard Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Aug 20, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 12:00 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Sun, Aug 22, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 10, 2011. 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 2011
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Aug 23, 2010
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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First Day of Classes
Mon, Aug 23, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Monica De Los Santos
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Ph.D. Defense: Weirong Jiang, High Performance Packet Forwarding on Parallel Architectures
Mon, Aug 23, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
"High Performance Packet Forwarding on Parallel Architectures"Thesis Abstract:
Packet forwarding has long been a performance bottleneck in Internet infrastructure including routers and switches. While the throughput requirements continue to grow, power dissipation has emerged as an additional critical concern. Also, as the Internet constantly evolves, packet forwarding engines need to be flexible to enable future innovations. Although ternary content addressable memories (TCAMs) have been widely used for packet forwarding, they have high power consumption and are inflexible for adapting to new addressing and
routing protocols.This thesis studies the use of low-power memory technology such as static random access memory (SRAM)
combined with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to develop high-throughput, power-efficient and
flexible solutions for various packet forwarding problems including IP lookup, packet classification and flexible flow matching.We propose an algorithm-architecture co-design framework to map state-of-the-art packet forwarding
algorithms onto SRAM-based parallel architectures. Several challenges for such mapping are addressed. High
throughput is achieved via pipelining or multi-processing. Meanwhile, enabled by the architecture design, the algorithms are optimized to reduce the memory requirements to fit large forwarding tables in the on-chip memory. In addition to the power reduction achieved by replacing TCAMs with SRAMs, we propose
architecture- and data structure -level optimizations to further lower the power consumption. We prototype our solutions on FPGA and demonstrate that they outperform the state-of-the-art with respect to throughput, memory requirement and power consumption.Defense Committee:
Murali Annavaram
Ramesh Govindan
Viktor K. Prasanna (Chair)Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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Sigma Phi Delta Rush BBQ
Mon, Aug 23, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 10:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Student Activity
Sigma Phi Delta, the Premier Engineering Fraternity, is holding a BBQ to kick off rush week and a new school year! All undergraduate male students are invited. If you are interested in joining a fraternity, trying to find an internship, trying to find a full-time job, or even if you just want to enjoy some free food, come by! The house is located right on the corner of University and 30th St. just south of fraternity and sorority row. In addition to the BBQ on Monday, Sigma Phi Delta will be taking students to Anaheim for an Angels game, and to a shooting range and sushi on Wednesday. Check out Sigma Phi Delta's website for more information (www.spdalpha.org).
Location: Sigma Phi Delta (817 W 30th St.)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC Sigma Phi Delta
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Sigma Phi Delta Rush - Angels Baseball Game
Tue, Aug 24, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Sigma Phi Delta, Fraternity of Engineers, will be continuing rush at Angel Stadium of Anaheim. All undergraduate male engineers are invited. If you are looking for a good resource to find internships, jobs, or fun events, come check it out! Meet at the house (817 W 30th St.) at 6 PM.
Location: 817 W 30th St.
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: USC Sigma Phi Delta
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Aug 25, 2010
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Sigma Phi Delta Rush - Shooting and Sushi
Wed, Aug 25, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Sigma Phi Delta will be holding its last open rush event of the week, taking place at the LA Gun Club and Zip Fusion Sushi. We will be meeting at the house at 6 PM, going to the shooting range, and then going to enjoy sushi for the rest of the night. All undergraduate male engineers are welcome. After this, it's going to be a whole year until you can enjoy free shooting and sushi again, so come out and have fun!
Location: 817 W 30th St.
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: USC Sigma Phi Delta
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Welcome Back Karaoke BBQ
Thu, Aug 26, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join the women of SWE and AOE for the fifth annual Karaoke BBQ in the E-Quad. There will be free food, karaoke tunes, great people and lots of fun. Hope to see you there!
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Aug 27, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 12:00 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Aug 30, 2010
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. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Oral Defense Dissertation
Mon, Aug 30, 2010 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dongyu Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Talk Title: Controlled Susbstructure Identification for Shear Structures
Abstract:
Abstract:
Shear structure models are widely used to model the dynamics of building structures; therefore, developing the techniques, which can accurately identify the parameters of a shear structure, plays a vital role in establishing efficient and reliable structural health monitoring systems for building structures.
In this dissertation, applying the âdivide and conquerâ strategy of substructure identification (SI), a series of innovative SI methods for shear structure are developed. A shear structure is divided into many two-story standard substructures. An ingenious induction identification procedure is applied to identify the parameters of the whole structure from top to bottom inductively. Numerical simulation results verify that these substructure identification methods provide accurate identification results.
One of the most important features of these SI methods is that the analytical results of the identification error is obtained, which demonstrates that the identification accuracy is simply controlled by the structural responses near the substructure natural frequency. This important discovery provides the ability to easily improve the identification accuracy by accordingly changing the substructure responses via specially designed structural control systems. Several controlled substructure identification methods were proposed, using different structural control systems to improve the accuracy of the SI methods. Moreover, since the accuracy of the proposed controlled SI methods directly depends on the close-loop controlled structural responses rather than on the control systems themselves, these controlled SI methods are proved to be quite robust to possible control system errors.
To overcome the limitations of the previous SI methods, a loop substructure identification method is proposed which makes use of the dynamic equilibrium of only one standard substructure to formulate a loop identification sequence and identify all parameters of that substructure once for all. Compared with the previous SI methods, the loop SI method is able to perform the structural identification of any part of a shear structure with only three floor acceleration responses; more importantly, the loop substructure identification can be carried out with knowing the structural mass information.
Furthermore, a new approach is proposed to extend the SI methods originally developed for shear structures to more realistic but complex frame structures. The study shows that the proposed approach is able to accurately structural damage of columns in a frame structure
Host:
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Aug 30, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TZUNG HSIAI, MANBIR SINGH, MICHAEL BAUDRY, VASILIS MARMARELIS,
Talk Title: Faculty Research in Biomedical Engineering
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering
Location: Harold E. and Lillian M. Moulton Organic Chemistry Wing (OCW) - 132
Audiences: BME graduate students, Faculty, contact department if interested (213-740-7237)
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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USC Robotics Society Informational Meeting
Tue, Aug 31, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
If you are interested in becoming a member of the USC Robotics Society, please join us for an informational session and learn about what we do! The session will be held Tuesday, August 31st at 6:00pm in the Hedco Neuroscience Building (HNB) Room 100. You will have a chance to meet our members, go on a lab tour, and ask questions! We will have our robots present to showcase.
We are comprised of two primary robotics teams: the Underwater Robotics Team and the Aerial Robotics Team.
We have several new support teams this year including:
Business Management Team
Events Planning Team
Public Relations Team
Web Development Team
We are open to ALL STUDENTS FROM ALL MAJORS!
Find out more information at http://www.uscrs.orgLocation: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC Robotics Society
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SWE's First General Meeting
Tue, Aug 31, 2010 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come to SWE's first general meeting to find our more about the exciting events happening this semester, apply to become a member, meet other members and the Officer Council, and eat some FREE food. Hope to see you there!
Location: Social Sciences Building (SOS) - B46
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers
