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ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!Sun, Mar 27, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
DEADLINE: April 2nd, 1PM
E-Board Applications are now out for the 2011-2012 school year!
We hope you have enjoyed being a part of ASBME this past year, and if you would like to help improve it even more next year, we highly encourage you to run for a position by filling out this application: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/usc.edu/viewform?formkey=dHRrTnR0Z01xOC0zdnpuek5VUmZXR1E6MQ
The current E-board has put together a list of E-Board position responsibilities (on our website: http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asbme/), so that you can determine which one(s) fit you best.
The application is due Saturday, April 2nd by 1pm. We greatly look forward to the opportunity to have you be a part of next year's ASBME E-Board team, and we will be sending out election logistics in one week after applications have closed.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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IEEE Soccer Tournament
Sun, Mar 27, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 17TH
Join us on Sunday for a day of fun and friendly competition as teams battle it out for prizes.
$20 Amazon gift cards will be awarded to each member of the first place team and there will be free IEEE swag for all.
You may either sign up as a team captain and sign up your other team members, or you can sign up as an individual and we will place you on a team the day of the soccer tournament. Teams can be between 5-7 people.
Please sign-up no later than Thursday, March 24:
Team Signup
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFVFeEpmNS14Y2NyWVUtcWlzZnYtd2c6MQ#gid=0
Individual Signup
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dExvdXl2Y0ZiTnNxUV95SjZ2am0xZEE6MQ#gid=0
Questions? Contact us at ieee@usc.edu.Location: Cromwell Field
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Inciting Images: War in Film, Television and New Media
Sun, Mar 27, 2011 @ 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Makers of film, television and new media often create works that address issues of social change. Contemporary filmmakers are particularly interested in examining the subject of war. What motivates these artists and what is the impact of cinematic media? A panel of acclaimed artists and media makers will discuss their work and how they encourage dialogue and action. Panelists will include Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Awardâwinning director of The Hurt Locker; Robert Greenwald, director/producer of the acclaimed documentary Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers; Susana Ruiz, producer of the groundbreaking game Darfur: Play Your Part; and Albert âSkipâ Rizzo, associate director for medical virtual reality at the Institute for Creative Technologies.
Organized by Jeremy Kagan (Cinematic Arts), Doe Mayer (Cinematic Arts), Dave OâBrien (Cinematic Arts) and the USC Change Making Media Lab.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
Mon, Mar 28, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
DEADLINE: April 2nd, 1PM
E-Board Applications are now out for the 2011-2012 school year!
We hope you have enjoyed being a part of ASBME this past year, and if you would like to help improve it even more next year, we highly encourage you to run for a position by filling out this application: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/usc.edu/viewform?formkey=dHRrTnR0Z01xOC0zdnpuek5VUmZXR1E6MQ
The current E-board has put together a list of E-Board position responsibilities (on our website: http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asbme/), so that you can determine which one(s) fit you best.
The application is due Saturday, April 2nd by 1pm. We greatly look forward to the opportunity to have you be a part of next year's ASBME E-Board team, and we will be sending out election logistics in one week after applications have closed.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Mar 28, 2011
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 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://usconnect.usc.edu/ 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: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Accident/Incident Response Preparedness (AIP)
Mon, Mar 28, 2011 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed for individuals who are involved in either preparing for an accident or responding to one as a representative of their organization. It is based on the premise that accidents are relatively rare events and organizations may have little experience in dealing with them.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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Mathematics for System Safety Analysis (MATH)
Mon, Mar 28, 2011 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is focused on the mathematics used in system safety. The purpose of this course is to provide the trainees with a working understanding of the mathematical theories underlying system safety analysis.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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Epstein ISE Administrative Seminar - ISE Chair Candidate
Mon, Mar 28, 2011 @ 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Yuan-Shin Lee, Ph.D., P.E., Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering/North Carolina State University/Raleigh, NC
Talk Title: "Why? and Why Not?"
Abstract: Any organizationâs two most important questions are âWhy?â and âWhy not?â - the trick is knowing which one to ask. In this talk, we will discuss the important trends and future direction for the industrial and system engineersâ new role in this evolving new world. Acquiring some understanding of why we, as a living and evolving organization, do and not do things is often a prerequisite to change. We will discuss the lessons and strategies that could possibly lead to the road to translation. This talk will be focused on exploring the possible opportunities and direction within the field the Epstein Department might be able to take advantage of.
Biography: Yuan-Shin Lee is Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University, U.S.A. He received his Ph.D. and MS degrees from Purdue University, USA, both in industrial engineering, and his BS degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in mechanical engineering. His research interests include computational geometry for design and manufacturing, system automation, CAD/CAM, rapid prototyping, 5-axis sculptured surface manufacturing, computer-aided molecular design (CAMD), human-computer interface development, re-generative medicine manufacturing system, and micro-scale medical devices development. He is a registered professional engineer (PE) in mechanical engineering. He is also a certified
manufacturing engineer (CMfgE) in system integration and control. Dr. Lee is Fellow of Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). He is also Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Dr. Lee received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. He also received the 1997 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the 1998 Norman Dudley Award from the Taylor & Francis Journals, London, U.K., the 1999 Anderson Outstanding Faculty Award and the 2000 Alumni Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award from North Carolina State University, the 2001 ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award, the 2006 IIE Technical Innovation Award for Industrial Engineering, the 2007 IIE Fellow Award from Institute of Industrial Engineers and the 2008 ASME Fellow Award from American Society of Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Lee serves as the Department Editor of IIE Transactions. He also serves as an Associate Editor for several research journals, including the ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, the International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, the Journal of Manufacturing Systems, the Journal of Computer Aided Design and Applications, the International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, the Journal of Computer-Aided Drafting, Design and Manufacturing, and the Journal of Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers. He also serves as the Director of the Summer Research at NCSU Program at NCSU.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - Room 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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CENG Seminar
Mon, Mar 28, 2011 @ 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Peng Li, Texas A&M University
Talk Title: From Integrated Circuit Design to Brain Modeling: Coping with System Complexity by Leveraging Application-Specific Parallel Computing
Abstract: We are confronted with system complexity while dealing with large natural and engineered systems such as a multi-billion transistor microprocessor, or the 100 billion neuron human brain. In the meantime, the recent change in the computing landscape has rendered the use of parallel compute power critical for dealing with the complexity in a broader spectrum of engineering and healthcare applications.
The drive for higher performance has resulted in an explosion of IC design complexity. To push the envelope of design algorithms and tools, âgoing parallelâ is both a natural choice and a necessity. Nevertheless, one must rethink how compute-intensive algorithms shall be designed on disparate hardware platforms to make the best use of parallel compute power. I will present our work on highly parallel circuit simulation, where a rich set of application-specific intra- and inter-algorithm parallelisms are explored to help remove the simulation bottleneck from the IC design flow. I will describe how âsmartâ numerical algorithms can be designed to expose the âhiddenâ data parallelism to allow for efficient hybrid GPU-CPU based analysis of large power delivery networks, thereby facilitating the design of high-performance & low-power chips.
Computing also plays an increasingly vital in understanding mammalian brains. With a vast amount of data made available by neuron recording and imaging, one holy grail is to map out the circuitry of the human brain and unravel the mysteries of brain functions by computer simulation. If successful, this would have profound implications: it will enable the test of hypotheses of neurological disorders and the development of treatments; it will stimulate new bio-inspired computing and biomimetics. To examine some of the grand challenges and opportunities, I will describe a large-scale thalamocortical model that includes multicompartmental Hodgkin-Huxley neuron models capturing dynamics of ion channels and dendrites, detailed cortical microcircuitry, local/global connectivity, all modeled on a biophysical basis. While exploring the dynamic properties of the network, advanced numerical and parallel computing techniques have been developed to alleviate the significant simulation challenge. The biological realism of the model allows us to attribute network-level spike-and-wave oscillations, a characteristic of generalized absence epilepsy, to cell-level biophysical interactions and shed light on the therapeutic treatments of this brain disorder.
Biography: Peng Li received the Ph.D. degree in ECE from CMU in 2003. He is an associate professor of ECE at Texas A&M University, where he is also a member of the Faculty of Neuroscience. His research interests include integrated circuits and systems, CAD, parallel computing, biophysical modeling of nervous systems, computer-aided diagnosis and therapy of brain disorders. He has edited two books, published over 100 papers, and six book chapters. He is a recipient of two IEEE/ACM DAC Best Paper Awards and one DAC Best Paper Award nomination, four nominations for the IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award, an NSF CAREER Award, four Inventor Recognition Awards from SRC and MARCO, and an ECE Outstanding Professor Award from Texas A&M. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on CAD and IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II. He has served on the committees of DAC, ICCAD, ISQED, ISCAS, TAU and VLSI-DAT, the selection committees of ICCAD Best Paper Award and ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in EDA. He served as the program chair and general chair of the ACM TAU Workshop.
Host: Alice Parker
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Mar 28, 2011 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Tirrell, UC Berkeley
Series: Invited Chair Series
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering, USC
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Chlorinated phenol based biocides and the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Mon, Mar 28, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sudeshna Ghosh, University of Michigan
Talk Title: Chlorinated phenol based biocides and the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Abstract: Increasing resistance to antimicrobials among bacteria is a growing problem. While antimicrobials are used to treat infections, their use also selects for drug resistant bacteria that elude treatment. Understanding the ecology of antibiotic resistance has been an important part of my research. Recently, I started looking at this problem from a different angle. I am asking if certain biocides, in addition to selecting for resistant bacteria, have other roles, such as increasing the infectivity of pathogens.
My presentation concerns an opportunistic pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, that infects people with lower immunity. Infections caused by P. aeruginosa are particularly hard to treat due to its large arsenal of defense mechanisms against antimicrobials. Prominent among its antibiotic resistance mechanisms is antibiotic efflux by the MexAB-OprM efflux pump, which confers resistance to a wide spectrum of antibiotics. I have found that chlorinated phenols control the expression of the MexAB-OprM efflux pump by interacting with a protein regulator of the pump. This interaction renders P. aeruginosa more resistant to antibiotics. Additionally, it raises the possibility that chlorinated phenols may influence other microbial characteristics, including virulence. Chlorinated phenol based biocides such as triclosan and chloroxylenol are commonly used as disinfectants in household cleaners, in health-care facilities and on medical devices. Is it possible that our use of these chlorinated phenol based biocides is self-defeating? This is the question that I am addressing now.
Host: Sonny Astani Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Erin Sigman
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Privacy and Identity in the Age of Facebook
Mon, Mar 28, 2011 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Have we given up our privacy to maintain a public identity? How have the lines between our public and private lives blurred with the rise of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other social-networking sites that have made it so easy to inform the world of our every move, from daily banalities to emotional breakups? A panel discussion moderated by Johanna Blakley, deputy director of the Norman Lear Center at USCâs Annenberg School, will examine whether we can control our unique identities when the Internet makes it so easy for others to participate in how we communicate about ourselves to the world. The discussion will feature danah boyd, a
social-media researcher for Microsoft; Henry Jenkins, the provostâs professor of communications, journalism and cinematic arts at USC; and new-media artist Nathan Ruyle, an adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts.
Organized by the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Texas Instruments Info Session
Mon, Mar 28, 2011 @ 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
Tue, Mar 29, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
DEADLINE: April 2nd, 1PM
E-Board Applications are now out for the 2011-2012 school year!
We hope you have enjoyed being a part of ASBME this past year, and if you would like to help improve it even more next year, we highly encourage you to run for a position by filling out this application: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/usc.edu/viewform?formkey=dHRrTnR0Z01xOC0zdnpuek5VUmZXR1E6MQ
The current E-board has put together a list of E-Board position responsibilities (on our website: http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asbme/), so that you can determine which one(s) fit you best.
The application is due Saturday, April 2nd by 1pm. We greatly look forward to the opportunity to have you be a part of next year's ASBME E-Board team, and we will be sending out election logistics in one week after applications have closed.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Data Transmission: Non-Asymptotic Fundamental Limits
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yury Polyanskiy, Princeton University
Talk Title: Data Transmission: Non-Asymptotic Fundamental Limits
Abstract: Noise is an inalienable property of all communication systems appearing in nature. Such noise acts against the very purpose of communication, namely the delivery of data to its destination with minimal possible distortion. This creates a problem that has been addressed by various disciplines over the past century. In particular, information theory studies the question of the maximum possible rate achievable by an ideal system under certain assumptions regarding the noise generation and structural design constraints. The study of such questions, initiated by Claude Shannon in 1948, has typically been carried out in the asymptotic limit of an infinite number of signaling degrees of freedom (blocklength).
At the same time, the increasing focus on latency and delay (such as in audio and video streaming), as well as the advent of modern sparse graph codes require characterizing the fundamental limits non-asymptotically, i.e. for blocklengths of the order of 1000. A systematic study of these practically motivated questions necessitates the development of new theoretical tools and techniques, which is the subject of this work. In particular, by obtaining precise non-asymptotic results, it is demonstrated that in many engineering problems a significant back-off from the (Shannon) capacity is incurred at finite blocklengths.
Knowledge of the behavior of the fundamental limits in the non-asymptotic regime enables the analysis of many related questions, such as the assessment of the suboptimality of modern codes, energy efficiency, benefits of feedback, effects of dynamically varying channel state, fading, etc. As a result it is shown that in several instances classical (asymptotics-based) conclusions do not hold under this more refined approach.
Biography: Yury Polyanskiy received the M.S. degree (with honors) in applied mathematics and physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia in 2005 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ in 2010.
In 2000-2005, he was with the Department of Surface Oilfield Equipment, Borets Company LLC, where he rose to the position of Chief Software Designer. His research interests include information theory, coding theory and the theory of random processes.
Dr. Polyanskiy won a silver medal at the 30th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), held in Padova, Italy. He was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Awards at the 2008 and 2010 IEEE International Symposia on Information Theory (ISIT). His final year of graduate studies was supported by a Princeton University Honorific Dodds Fellowship (2009-2010).
Host: Giuseppe Caire, caire@usc.edu, EEB 540, x04683
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Landing Your Dream Intership - Tips for Sophomores and Juniors
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Sophomore? Junior? Come learn how to get your dream internship!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Epstein ISE Research Seminar - ISE Chair Candidate
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 @ 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Yuan-Shin Lee, Ph.D., P.E., Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering/North Carolina State University'Raleigh, NC
Talk Title: "Embracing Challenges"
Abstract: This is a talk that deals with todayâs technologies and the possible future of industrial and systems engineering. Within our imaginations, we probably all share a similar futuristic vision of internet real-time information, electronic and global commerce, micro and nano-scale product development, innovative medicine and healthcare breakthrough, virtual reality and teleoperation technology for the future world to come. This talk includes exploratory discussions on the new role of industrial and system engineering in the emerging areas of: service systems and health systems management, re-generative medicine, biotechnology and medical devices innovation, energy, manufacturing systems of micro- and nano-scale products development, emerging development of consumer electronics and electromechanical devices, the medicine and drug discovery, and the global product innovation processes with new virtual reality, remote teleoperation and human computer interface technologies. Quite certainly the Internet, information, nano-technology, bio-technology, and the science breakthroughs of the 21st century will be vastly enriched. In this talk, we will explore and discuss the industrial and system engineersâ new role in this evolving new world.
Biography: Yuan-Shin Lee is Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University, U.S.A. He received his Ph.D. and MS degrees from Purdue University, USA, both in industrial engineering, and his BS degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in mechanical engineering. His research interests include computational geometry for design and manufacturing, system automation, CAD/CAM, rapid prototyping, 5-axis sculptured surface manufacturing, computer-aided molecular design (CAMD), human-computer interface development, re-generative medicine manufacturing system, and micro-scale medical devices development. He is a registered professional engineer (PE) in mechanical engineering. He is also a certified
manufacturing engineer (CMfgE) in system integration and control. Dr. Lee is Fellow of Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). He is also Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Dr. Lee received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. He also received the 1997 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the 1998 Norman Dudley Award from the Taylor & Francis Journals, London, U.K., the 1999 Anderson Outstanding Faculty Award and the 2000 Alumni Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award from North Carolina State University, the 2001 ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award, the 2006 IIE Technical Innovation Award for Industrial Engineering, the 2007 IIE Fellow Award from Institute of Industrial Engineers and the 2008 ASME Fellow Award from American Society of Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Lee serves as the Department Editor of IIE Transactions. He also serves as an Associate Editor for several research journals, including the ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, the International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, the Journal of Manufacturing Systems, the Journal of Computer Aided Design and Applications, the International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, the Journal of Computer-Aided Drafting, Design and Manufacturing, and the Journal of Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers. He also serves as the Director of the Summer Research at NCSU Program at NCSU.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - Room 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Epstein Institute Seminar Series / ISE 650 Seminar
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: S. Jack Hu, Ph.D., G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering/Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and Operations Engineering/The University of Michigan
Talk Title: "Assembly System Design and Operations for Product Variety"
Abstract: Assembly is the capstone process for product realization where component parts and subassemblies are integrated together to form the final products. As product variety increases due to the shift from mass production to mass customization, assembly systems must be designed and operated to handle such high variety. In this presentation we first review the state of the art research in the areas of assembly system design, planning and operations in the presence of product variety. Methods for assembly sequence generation, system configuration design and assembly line balancing are presented and summarized. Operational complexity in assembly systems are then discussed in the context of product variety. Finally we conjecture a future manufacturing paradigm of personalized products and production and discuss the assembly challenge for such a paradigm.
Biography: Dr. S. Jack Hu is currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He also holds a joint appointment as Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at Michigan. He co-directs the General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory in Advanced Vehicle Manufacturing and serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering. Prior to his current appointment, he was Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education. Dr. Hu conducts research and teaches courses in assembly, manufacturing systems, and statistical quality methods. He has published more than 100 papers in professional journals and 40 papers in conferences. Dr. Hu is the recipient of various awards, including the SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, ASME Design Engineering Conference Best Paper Award, and the College of Engineering Research Excellence Award. He was elected a fellow of ASME in 2003.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - Room 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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SWE Election Meeting
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
What can be considered the most important meeting of the year! Come out to KAP 156 to hear speeches and meet the SWE USC Executive Board candidates for 2011-2012. Each candidate will give a short speech on what they will bring to their position and the Presidential candidates will answer a series of questions posed by the general members (that means you!).
If you can't make it, never fear! Videos of the speeches will be posted online along with the candidate profiles, so that you can still get acquainted with the candidates before you vote.
Voting will be open from Monday, March 28th to Friday, April 1st at 5 PM. Only PAID SWE Members may vote. If you are unsure of whether you are an official member, please email us at sweusc@usc.eduLocation: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers
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ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
Wed, Mar 30, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
DEADLINE: April 2nd, 1PM
E-Board Applications are now out for the 2011-2012 school year!
We hope you have enjoyed being a part of ASBME this past year, and if you would like to help improve it even more next year, we highly encourage you to run for a position by filling out this application: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/usc.edu/viewform?formkey=dHRrTnR0Z01xOC0zdnpuek5VUmZXR1E6MQ
The current E-board has put together a list of E-Board position responsibilities (on our website: http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asbme/), so that you can determine which one(s) fit you best.
The application is due Saturday, April 2nd by 1pm. We greatly look forward to the opportunity to have you be a part of next year's ASBME E-Board team, and we will be sending out election logistics in one week after applications have closed.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Mar 30, 2011
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 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://usconnect.usc.edu/ 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: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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CENG Seminar
Wed, Mar 30, 2011 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Janet Roveda , University of Arizona, Tucson
Talk Title: Conquering Variability for Robust VLSI Circuit Design
Abstract: Growing variability has been observed in nanometer CMOS due to limits in design and manufacture technology. The resulting diminished accuracy has caused a significant reduction in the parametric yield. In the presence of significant variations, the worst-case-based analysis is too pessimistic and the simulation based sampling schemes require excessive computation time due to the large parametric space. A new, efficient approach that models variability in the polynomial chaos domain through a set of orthogonal polynomials is proposed. The new method provides a functional presentation of circuit response in terms of process variations. The approach significantly reduces turnaround time for the pre-silicon stage, and provides accurate full chip verification down to 40nm technology. The presentation addresses a range of techniques that have been developed by Dr. Rovedaâs group: second order cone for robust optimization, fast probability collocation method, Principal Hessian Direction, and Chebyshev probability bound estimation. Looking forward, we focus our efforts on the creation of a unified framework that maps quality of applications to quality of circuit design. Additional comments on present efforts in Interface Models for smart grid, Nano-Sim for CNT based circuit design, and self-tuning techniques for robust and low power multi-core systems will conclude the discussion.
Biography: Janet Roveda received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from The East China Institute in 1991, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998 and 2000, respectively. She was a recipient of the NSF career award and the PEACASE award in 2005 and 2006, respectively. She received the best paper award in ISQED 2010 as well as best paper nominations in ASPDAC 2010, ICCAD 2007, and ISQED 2005. She is the recipient of the 2008 R. Newton Graduate Research Project Award from DAC, and the 2007 USS University of Arizona Outstanding Achievement Award. Her primary research interests focus on robust circuit design, VLSI circuit modeling and analysis, and low power multi-core system design.
Host: Massoud Pedram
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Field measurements and numerical modeling of energy transport in urban areas
Wed, Mar 30, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Zhihua Wang, Princeton University
Talk Title: Field measurements and numerical modeling of energy transport in urban areas
Abstract: Changes of surface landuse types, resulting from rapid global urbanization and anthropogenic stressors, have significant impacts on urban environmental and engineered systems such as heat island formation and modification of the hydrological cycle and air quality. A better understanding of the transport and storage of energy in urban areas, in particular, is essential to the long term sustainability of cities. The last few decades have seen increasing efforts to characterize the energy transport in the lower urban atmosphere; one of the useful tools that have emerged is the physically-based urban canopy model (UCM). We developed an energy transport model based on the single-layer UCM used in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. Our implementation does not require coupling to an atmospheric flow model and features several improvements in the urban surface energy exchange scheme including: (1) derivation and implementation of a spatially-analytical method that captures surface temperatures and heat storage better, (2) statistical characterization of uncertainties in the surface input parameter space using Markov-Chain Monte Carlo simulations, and (3) coupling to a hydrological model to better parameterize the water transport and evaporation from urban surfaces. Intensive field measurements are also carried out through a large wireless network of sensors deployed over the campus of Princeton University. Data collected from the sensor network are used to provide input parameters as well as to validate the proposed numerical scheme.
Host: Sonny Astani Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Erin Sigman
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AME Department Seminar
Wed, Mar 30, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jay Kudva, President, NextGen Aeronautics Inc.
Talk Title: 25 Years of Adaptive Structures â A Subjective Perspective
Abstract: While âsmart materials,â particularly piezoelectrics, have been known and used by the scientific community for more than a century, the term âsmart structuresâ came into vogue in the 1980s. The impetus for the research at that time was sparked by the initial demonstration of embedded fiber optic sensors in a composite laminate. Since then, hundreds of millions of dollars of R&D investment has been made in the broad area of smart or multi-functional materials and structures. This presentation traces the historical development of this field, starting from about the mid-80s to the present, in three areas:
1. Health monitoring, mainly for structures, wherein sensors are attached or embedded in the structures to monitor its (internal) health, to increase safety, reliability and possibly increase the flight envelope;
2. Integration of antennas and other sensors to provide multi-function capabilities at the component level â for instance provide optimal structural and antenna performance, enhancing overall system capability;
3. Adaptive structures where sensors and actuators are integrated in the structure or the overall system to change shape or state to optimize its performance for differing external conditions such as loads and flight regimes. The rationale in this case is to provide multi-point optimization at the system level, for example to realize wing shapes which could be optimal across a wide speed range, resulting in multi-mission capabilities.
While much fundamental and applied research has been conducted in all three areas, transition of the developed technologies with demonstrated performance improvements has been limited. The reasons for this are many and varied; the presentation provides a broad brush, subjective, assessment of the overall R&D commercialization efforts in the field and a speculative vision of the future of smart structures.
Host: Dr. F. Udwadia
More Info: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcomingLocation: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming
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ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
Thu, Mar 31, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
DEADLINE: April 2nd, 1PM
E-Board Applications are now out for the 2011-2012 school year!
We hope you have enjoyed being a part of ASBME this past year, and if you would like to help improve it even more next year, we highly encourage you to run for a position by filling out this application: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/usc.edu/viewform?formkey=dHRrTnR0Z01xOC0zdnpuek5VUmZXR1E6MQ
The current E-board has put together a list of E-Board position responsibilities (on our website: http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asbme/), so that you can determine which one(s) fit you best.
The application is due Saturday, April 2nd by 1pm. We greatly look forward to the opportunity to have you be a part of next year's ASBME E-Board team, and we will be sending out election logistics in one week after applications have closed.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Photography for Aircraft Accident Investigation (PHOTO)
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This specialized course in accident investigation is designed to assist the investigator to improve photographic documentation of an accident site.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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Human Error Analysis for System Safety (HEASS)
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
System safety analysis of engineered systems must often deal with the possibility of human error leading to adverse conditions. Hence human error probability evaluation is an important part of system safety. This course presents a summary of the methods and underlying theory for estimating human error probabilities.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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CS Seminar
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Sven Dickinson, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Talk Title: The Role of Intermediate Shape Priors in Perceptual Grouping and Image Abstraction
Abstract: Perceptual grouping played a prominent role in support of early object recognition systems, which typically took an input image and a database of shape models and identified which of the models was visible in the image. When the database was large, local features were not sufficiently distinctive to prune down the space of models to a manageable number that could be verified. However, when causally related shape features were grouped, using intermediate-level shape priors, e.g., cotermination, symmetry, and compactness, they formed effective shape indices and allowed databases to grow in size. In recent years, the recognition (categorization) community has focused on the object detection problem, in which the input image is searched for a specific target object. Since indexing is not required to select the target model, perceptual grouping is not required to construct a discriminative shape index; the existence of a much stronger object-level shape prior precludes the need for a weaker intermediate-level shape prior. As a result, perceptual grouping activity at our major conferences has diminished. However, there are clear signs that the recognition community is moving from appearance back to shape, and from detection back to unexpected object recognition. Shape-based perceptual grouping will play a critical role in facilitating this transition. But while causally related features must be grouped, they also need to be abstracted before they can be matched to categorical models. In this talk, I will describe our recent progress on the use of intermediate shape priors in segmenting, grouping, and abstracting shape features. Specifically, I will describe the use of symmetry and non-accidental attachment to detect and group symmetric parts, the use of closure to separate figure from background, and the use of a vocabulary of simple shape models to group and abstract image contours.
Biography: Sven Dickinson received the B.A.Sc. degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, in 1983, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he has also served as Acting Chair (2008-2009), Vice Chair (2003-2006), and Associate Professor (2000-2007). From 1995-2000, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University, where he also held a joint appointment in the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) and membership in the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS). From 1994-1995, he was a Research Assistant Professor in the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, and from 1991-1994, a Research Associate at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Toronto. He has held affiliations with the MIT Media Laboratory (Visiting Scientist, 1992-1994), the University of Toronto (Visiting Assistant Professor, 1994-1997), and the Computer Vision Laboratory of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland (Assistant Research Scientist, 1993-1994, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1994-1997). Prior to his academic career, he worked in the computer vision industry, designing image processing systems for Grinnell Systems Inc., San Jose, CA, 1983-1984, and optical character recognition systems for DEST, Inc., Milpitas, CA, 1984-1985.
Host: Prof. Gerard Medioni
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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CS Colloquium
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Zhichun Li, NEC Research Labs
Talk Title: Towards Scalable User-Agnostic Attack Defense
Abstract: Security has become one of the major concerns for todayâs Internet. End users, however, are slow in adopting new security technologies. Many users cannot do good security management by themselves. On the other hand, IT managers desire efficient and scalable protection mechanisms.
Towards solving these issues, in this talk, I would like to introduce two of my efforts I did at Northwestern University. First, I will present the design of NetShield, a new vulnerability signature based NIDS/NIPS, which achieves high throughput comparable to that of the state-of-the-art regular expression based systems while offering much better accuracy. In particular, I propose a candidate selection algorithm which efficiently matches thousands of vulnerability signatures simultaneously, and design a parsing transition state machine that achieves fast protocol parsing.
Second, I will talk about WebShield, a secure web proxy design that protects clients from web-based exploits by processing potentially malicious JavaScript in a sandboxed environment (shadow browser) on a middlebox. With shadow browsers, WebShield also aims to deploy client-based defenses against various classes of web attacks without client modifications.
Biography: Zhichun Li currently is a research staff member at NEC Research Labs. Before joining NEC, he received his Ph.D. on Dec 2009 from Northwestern University, and continued working in the same university as a research associate for half a year. He earned both M.S. and B.S. degrees from Tsinghua University in China. His research interests span the areas of security, networking and distributed systems with an emphasis on network security, web security, smartphone security, cloud security, social network security, network measurement and distributed system diagnosis. He has conducted research at Microsoft Research Redmond and International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) of UC Berkeley.
Host: Prof. William Halfond
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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ASBME Explore LA: Korean BBQ!!
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 @ 06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Explore LA: Korean BBQ!!
WHEN: Thursday, March 31st
**Meet at RTH at 6:30PM
WHERE: Oh Dae San
Get ready to eat lots of meat!!! ASBME will be going out for Korean Barbeque on the evening of Thursday, March 31st to eat MEAT and of course, bond and get to know each other better. It would be great if you could come out for a bit this evening to have some fun and eat delicious Korean BBQ with ASBME! (We are sorry if you cannot eat meat BUT there are plenty of vegetarian side dishes). Please fill out this form if you are interested: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dE03cGVSSEVYWGd1dFVsXzRMUzZfd1E6MQ
If you will be joining us, please meet in front of RTH at 6:30PM on Thursday, March 31st.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Musical Patois: Reflections of Language in Music
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 @ 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
A unique collaboration among a neuroscientist, a composer, a performer/engineer and a computer scientist, this event will boldly explore and transgress the boundaries between science, music, technology and art. The event is inspired by the research of neuroscientists Aniruddh Patel and John Iversen and composer Jason Rosenberg, which demonstrated that the instrumental music of British and French composers reflects the rhythm and intonation of their native languages. Patel, along with composer Peter Child, pianist-engineer Elaine Chew and computer scientist Alexandre François, will examine the influence of language on music through an evening of scientific presentation, musical performance, interactive visualization and lively conversation.
Organized by Elaine Chew (Engineering) and Alexandre François (Engineering).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Allan Hancock Foundation (AHF) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
DEADLINE: April 2nd, 1PM
E-Board Applications are now out for the 2011-2012 school year!
We hope you have enjoyed being a part of ASBME this past year, and if you would like to help improve it even more next year, we highly encourage you to run for a position by filling out this application: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/usc.edu/viewform?formkey=dHRrTnR0Z01xOC0zdnpuek5VUmZXR1E6MQ
The current E-board has put together a list of E-Board position responsibilities (on our website: http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asbme/), so that you can determine which one(s) fit you best.
The application is due Saturday, April 2nd by 1pm. We greatly look forward to the opportunity to have you be a part of next year's ASBME E-Board team, and we will be sending out election logistics in one week after applications have closed.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
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 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://usconnect.usc.edu/ 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: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; Subway to the Sea
Fri, Apr 01, 2011 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael Kennedy and Tamar Fuhrer, Senior Transportation Planner and Transportation Planner, Fehr & Peers, Inc.
Talk Title: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium; Subway to the Sea
Abstract: Michael Kennedy, Transportation Planner, and Tamar Fuhrer, Transportation Planner, of Fehr & Peers, Inc. will present "Subway to the Sea" as part of the W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium.
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
More Info: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/honors/schedules/Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Amanda Atkinson
Event Link: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/honors/schedules/
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Apr 01, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Yorgos Palaskas, Intel
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi and Firooz Aflatouni
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
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Quantum Engineering
Fri, Apr 01, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sergio Boixo, Harvard University
Talk Title: Quantum Engineering
Abstract: Quantum engineering is the direct use of quantum mechanics to improve some aspect of an engineering task beyond what is possible using classical physics. Out of the many facets of quantum engineering I will focus on three: measurement (quantum metrology), communication and adiabatic quantum computation. I will emphasize devices currently being tested. We proposed recently a general method for quantum metrology which uses quantum interactions to increase the sensitivity of high-precision measurements. This method has now been demonstrated experimentally, and the number of applications is growing. Adiabatic quantum computation has inspired a new type of processor currently under development.
Biography: Sergio Boixo is currently a postdoc at the Aspuru-Guzik's research group at Harvard University. Previoulsy he was a postdoc at the Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) at Caltech. He obtained a Master of Physics at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) and a Ph.D. in Physics at University of New Mexico (UNM), while also doing research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Sergio Boixo has undergraduate degrees in computer engineering, philosophy, and mathematics. He is a recipient of the Chip de Oro (âGolden Chipâ) price for outstanding academic achievements in computer science (1996), Roll of Honor at Universidad Complutense (1996), La Caixa Fellowship (2004), Phi Kappa Phi (2005), PhD with Honors (2008) and Mutua Madrilena Fellowship, 2008.
Host: Daniel Lidar, lidar@usc.edu, SSC 609, x00198
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
Sat, Apr 02, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
ASBME E-Board Applications: Run for a position for 2011-2012!
DEADLINE: April 2nd, 1PM
E-Board Applications are now out for the 2011-2012 school year!
We hope you have enjoyed being a part of ASBME this past year, and if you would like to help improve it even more next year, we highly encourage you to run for a position by filling out this application: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/usc.edu/viewform?formkey=dHRrTnR0Z01xOC0zdnpuek5VUmZXR1E6MQ
The current E-board has put together a list of E-Board position responsibilities (on our website: http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asbme/), so that you can determine which one(s) fit you best.
The application is due Saturday, April 2nd by 1pm. We greatly look forward to the opportunity to have you be a part of next year's ASBME E-Board team, and we will be sending out election logistics in one week after applications have closed.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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State of the Word: Asian American Spoken-Word Artists
Sat, Apr 02, 2011 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Asian American spoken-word artists seek to claim not only auditory space and the literary page, but also dramatic space and the human body. They are loud, provocative, exciting, articulate and literary. They bring the word to the world, and we are bringing them to USC. Bao Phi, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai and DâLo represent a fresh, diverse generation of artists who give new expression to the Asian American experience. As entertainers, they rouse audiences; but they are all also socially committed artists whose provocative words engage a wide range of issues.
For artist bios, visit the event page: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873382
Organized by Viet Nguyen (English and American Studies and Ethnicity), Jane Iwamura (Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity) and Sumun Pendakur (Asian Pacific American Student Services). Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, the Program in Asian American Studies, Asian Pacific American Student Services and the Creative Writing Program.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Grand Ballroom
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
