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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Apr 26, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
University Calendar
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://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html 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: Admission Intern
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CANCELLED- St. Jude Medical Information Session
Mon, Apr 26, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This Information Session has been Cancelled
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Tech Video Job Fair
Mon, Apr 26, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Alumni
Receptions & Special Events
Chat with top Silicon Valley Companies using your webcam!Yahoo, Flixter, and Tagged are just some of the companies hiring and are conduction interviews online. Interviews conducted April 26-30th. For more information and to register visit http://www.jobnob.com/job-fair/SiliconValleyVideoFair?utm_source=USC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=USC
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kathleen Concialdi
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BME 533 Seminar
Mon, Apr 26, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Merryn Tawhai, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand: Seminar Title: Emerging function from multi-scale models of the lung
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Graduate//Department Only
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Spectroscopic insights to the Fe(II)-Fe(III) redox system at mineral surfaces:
Tue, Apr 27, 2010 @ 02:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
... Implications for iron mineral formation and contaminant reduction.Speaker: Dr. Philip Larese-Casanova, Geology and Geophysics Department, Yale UniversityAbstract: The attenuation of groundwater contaminants has been closely linked with the chemical reactivity of native iron minerals. Dissolved Fe(II) can provide electrons that reduce contaminants to less toxic products, and this electron transfer process is catalyzed by reactive surface sites on Fe(III) minerals. However, the Fe(II)-Fe(III) redox reactions occurring at mineral surfaces are not fully understood because it is difficult to target and directly observe the physical and chemical activity of surficial iron atoms. Over the past few years, our observations of iron surfaces have become more sensitive by using 57Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy with selective use of 57Fe and 56Fe isotopes. The process of dissolved 57Fe(II) sorption onto 56Fe(III) oxide surface sites (56hematite) was revealed instead to be a combined process of 57Fe(II) sorption and electron transfer to the bulk oxide, forming a new 57Fe(III) surface layer. 56Hematite has a capacity for this 57Fe(III) layer growth beyond which stable sorbed 57Fe(II) atoms reside on its surface. The transferred electrons within hematite rapidly hop among Fe atoms, a process others predicted to occur using computational methods. These spectroscopic observations are the first of their kind and highlight the need for new metal sorption models to account for redox-active sorbents. Contaminant reduction by dissolved 57Fe(II) and 56Fe(III) oxides results in further 57Fe(III) surface layer growth and the formation of new surface iron minerals, such as nano-sized 57goethite on 56hematite or 57lepidocrocite on 56magnetite, and these surface precipitates can alter the rate of contaminant reduction. Fe surface precipitates can also form via microbial Fe(II)-oxidation, and we have quantified iron phases formed (57lepidocrocite and 57goethite) during microbial oxidation of 57Fe(II) by the Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterium Acidovorax sp. BoFeN1 and have examined their dependence on geochemical solution conditions. Overall, contaminant reduction by the Fe(II)-Fe(III) redox couple is highly dependant on the supporting mineral substrate, and subtle changes to mineral surfaces or geochemical conditions can have profound effects on contaminant reduction rates or Fe(III) mineralogy.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 )
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Tech Video Job Fair
Tue, Apr 27, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Alumni
Receptions & Special Events
Chat with top Silicon Valley Companies using your webcam!Yahoo, Flixter, and Tagged are just some of the companies hiring and are conduction interviews online. Interviews conducted April 26-30th. For more information and to register visit http://www.jobnob.com/job-fair/SiliconValleyVideoFair?utm_source=USC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=USC
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kathleen Concialdi
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Secure Collision-Free Frequency Hopping for STC-OFDM Based Wireless Networks
Tue, Apr 27, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Leonard E. Lightfoot,
Michigan State University,
Department of Electrical & Computer EngineeringAbstract: With the majority of today's transactions and communications relying heavily on wireless networks, the security threats of malicious jamming, detection, and interception are no longer limited to military applications. In fact, security is the key enabler for present and future high speed wireless networks. Patching or add-on security maybe effective in short term, but is far from adequate for addressing the needs on wireless security and can greatly complicate the communication systems. In our research, we focus on the fundamental study of developing a spectrally efficient and inherently secure wireless system by exploiting multiple diversity techniques.We propose an innovative spectrally efficient, jamming-resilient wireless scheme by exploiting the joint space-time and frequency diversity. Existing anti-jamming systems such as frequency hopping (FH) rely heavily on rich time-frequency diversity over large spread spectrums. Mainly limited by multiuser interference, the spectral efficiency of existing jamming resistant systems are very low due to inefficient use of the large bandwidth. While these systems work reasonably well for voice centric communications which only requires relatively narrow bandwidth, their low spectral efficiency can no longer provide sufficient capacity for today's high speed multimedia wireless services. In this research, (i) we develop a collision-free frequency hopping (CFFH) system based on the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) framework and the secure subcarrier assignment algorithm. The proposed subcarrier assignment algorithm is designed to ensure that malicious users cannot predict or repeat the hopping pattern of the authorized users and hence cannot launch follower jamming attacks; (ii) We improve the performance of the CFFH system under random jamming, by enhancing the system diversity through space-time coding, and introduce the space-time coded collision-free frequency hopping (STC-CFFH) system. Our analysis indicates that the proposed scheme is both highly efficient and very robust under various jamming scenarios. The proposed approach breaks new ground in the design and development of secure high speed wireless communication systems. Biography: Dr. Leonard Lightfoot received his B.S degree in Computer Engineering from Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA in May 2004. Upon completing his B.S. degree in 2004, he began his graduate studies at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, where he received his M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in December 2006 and March 2010, respectively. In July 2010, Leonard will join the research team in the Sensors Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory located in Dayton, Ohio. Leonard's current research interest includes developing and designing highly efficient and reliable wireless communications, and network security.Host: Michael Neely, neely@usc.edu, EEB 520, 213-740-3505
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Performance of Tall Buildings during the 2/27/2010 Chile M8.8 Earthquake
Tue, Apr 27, 2010 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
The Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council presents a city-by-city discussion of the recent supertemblorINTRODUCTION
Farzad Naeim, John A. Martin & AssociatesSEISMICITY AND GEOTECTONICS
Marshall Lew, MACTEC EngineeringSTANDARD OF PRACTICE FOR TALL BUILDINGS IN CHILE
Fabian Rojas, USCPERFORMANCE OF TALL BUILDINGS IN SANTIAGO
Farzad Naeim, John A. Martin & AssociatesPERFORMANCE OF TALL BUILDINGS IN VIÑA DEL MAR
Lauren Carpenter, WHL InternationalPERFORMANCE OF TALL BUILDINGS IN CONCEPCIÓN
Fabian Rojas, USCPERFORMANCE OF TALL BUILDINGS IN SAN PEDRO
Nabih Youssef, NYACONCLUSIONS AND QUESTIONS/ANSWERS
Farzad Naeim (moderator)Co-sponsored by:
USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
EERI Southern California Chapter
USC EERI/SCEC Student Chapter
Structural Engineers Association of Southern California
Location: Troyland Apartments (TAP) - er Hall Room 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Eric Mankin
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CS Colloq: Amarjeet Singh
Tue, Apr 27, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: Application driven research in sensing and mobile computingSpeaker: Prof. Amarjeet SinghHost: Prof. Gaurav SukhatmeAbstract: Recent advancements in sensing technologies and mobile proliferation have significantly impacted several applied domains including environmental sensing and rural technology respectively. In sensing domain, applications that exhibit complex dynamics across both space and time and that can only be partially observed are of particular interest. In rural technology, primary focus is on applications that are user friendly even for an illiterate person. For both environmental sensing and rural technology, there exists a problem of constrained resources. Further, lack of prior use of advanced technology in both the domains necessitates that for high fidelity understanding of such environments an iterative approach wherein real world deployment experiences in application domain should guide both the advancements in systems as well as deployment methodology.In this talk, I will first present our real world deployment experiences (using Networked Info Mechanical System – NIMS, developed at UCLA) in several critical environmental sensing applications including monitoring pollution in rivers and algae growth in lakes.
Large spatial expanse of such applications, together with limited available resources (sensing time or battery capacity) for mobile agents motivated our further research in performing efficient path planning for these mobile agents. I will present novel approximation algorithms for solving this NP-hard problem of path planning for mobile agents in such complex environments. In particular, we used Gaussian Process modeling to accurately represent the dynamics we observed in our real world deployments. We exploit several machine learning concepts to provide strong theoretical guarantees for the proposed algorithms. Several field experiments were performed, in addition to using multiple real world sensing datasets, to validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms for real world sensing applications.I will then move from mobile sensing for environmental applications to application driven research using mobile computing for addressing several challenges in socially responsive applications, particularly in the context of developing countries. I will first present the contextual difference between challenges in developing and developed countries for applications in mobile computing. Motivated by India specific contexts, I will then present some early stage work in two specific application areas of mobile computing – healthcare and GPS-less localization.Bio:Amarjeet Singh is currently an Asst. Professor in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing group at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi. He completed his MS and Phd in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 2007 and 2009 respectively. He was awarded
2009 Chorafas Foundation Award for applied research with long range implications. He was also a recipient of 2007 Edward K. Rice outstanding MS student in School of Engineering at UCLA. From 2002 – 2004, he worked as Senior Research and Development Engineer at Tejas Networks, Bangalore, India. His undergraduate education was in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2002.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Front Desk
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Apr 28, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
University Calendar
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://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html 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: Admission Intern
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Tech Video Job Fair
Wed, Apr 28, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Alumni
Receptions & Special Events
Chat with top Silicon Valley Companies using your webcam!Yahoo, Flixter, and Tagged are just some of the companies hiring and are conduction interviews online. Interviews conducted April 26-30th. For more information and to register visit http://www.jobnob.com/job-fair/SiliconValleyVideoFair?utm_source=USC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=USC
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kathleen Concialdi
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Aerodynamics of Nano-Flyers
Wed, Apr 28, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Daniel WeihsDistinguished ProfessorFaculty of Aerospace Engineering and Autonomous Systems
ProgramTechnion—Israel Institute of TechnologyHaifa, 32000, IsraelABSTRACT:Some of the smallest flying insects have unique comb-like wings, with non-continuous surfaces. These have span lengths of mm size. In this talk, I will analyze the aerodynamics of such surfaces, showing how they can produce lift at Reynolds numbers of o(1). These findings are then used to build and test artificial nano-flyers of mm size wingspan and several generations of such nano-gliders and nano-flyers will be shown and future developments discussed.Distinguished Professor Daniel Weihs of the Technion Faculty of Aerospace Engineering holds the Richmond Chair in Life Sciences at the Technion and is Chairman of the Israel National Committee for Space Research and head of the Technion Autonomous Systems Program. He is a a foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the American Physical Society.Prof. Weihs received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at Technion from 1964 to 1971. Prof. Weihs worked at the University of Cambridge, England 1971-1973, returned to the Technion as a senior lecturer in 1973; he was appointed full professor in 1983 and distinguished professor (one of only 5 at the Technion) in 2002. Part of the Technion leadership for many years, Prof. Weihs has served as Provost, Dean of the Graduate School and of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Director of the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology and Director of the Asher Space Research Institute.Throughout his career, Prof. Weihs has consulted for the Israeli ministries of Defense, Internal Security, Commerce & Industry, Science, and for public and private organizations in Europe, the United States and Canada, including NASA, NOAA, IBM and Atlas-Copco. He has been on the board of firms such as Israel Aircraft Industries, Beth Shemesh Engines, Israel Limnological and Oceanographic Research Corp, and Teuza-Fairchild VC fund, and of Ben Gurion University and Holon Institute of Technology. He has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Israel Space Agency for 20 years and head of its Scientific Satellite Sub-Committee. He has published more than 140 scientific papers and one book, and has lectured throughout the world on subjects of biofluid dynamics, aerospace engineering and life sciences.
Location: Seaver Science Library, Room 150 (SSL 150)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Tech Video Job Fair
Thu, Apr 29, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Alumni
Receptions & Special Events
Chat with top Silicon Valley Companies using your webcam!Yahoo, Flixter, and Tagged are just some of the companies hiring and are conduction interviews online. Interviews conducted April 26-30th. For more information and to register visit http://www.jobnob.com/job-fair/SiliconValleyVideoFair?utm_source=USC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=USC
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kathleen Concialdi
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An Analytically Enriched Finite Element Method for Cohesive Crack Modeling
Thu, Apr 29, 2010 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. James V. Cox, Soild Mechanics Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0346jvcox@sandia.govAbstract:Meaningful computational investigations of many solid mechanics problems require accurate characterization of material behavior through failure. A recent approach to fracture modeling has combined the partition of unity finite element method (PUFEM) with cohesive zone models. Extension of the PUFEM to address crack propagation is often referred to as the extended finite element method (XFEM). In the PUFEM, the displacement field is enriched to improve the local approximation. Most XFEM studies have used simplified enrichment functions (e.g., generalized Heaviside functions) to represent the strong discontinuity but have lacked an analytical basis to represent the displacement gradients in the vicinity of the cohesive crack. As such, the mesh had to be sufficiently fine for the FEM basis functions to capture these gradients.In this study enrichment functions based upon two analytical investigations of the cohesive crack problem are examined. These functions have the potential of representing displacement gradients in the vicinity of the cohesive crack with a relatively coarse mesh and allow the crack to incrementally advance across each element. Key aspects of the corresponding numerical formulation are summarized. Analysis results for simple model problems are presented to evaluate if quasi-static crack propagation can be accurately followed with the proposed formulation. A standard finite element solution with interface elements is used to provide the accurate reference solution, so the model problems are limited to a straight, mode I crack in plane stress. Except for the cohesive zone, the material model for the problems is homogenous, isotropic linear elasticity. The effects of mesh refinement, mesh orientation, and enrichment schemes that enrich a larger region around the cohesive crack are considered in the study. Propagation of the cohesive zone tip and crack tip, time variation of the cohesive zone length, and crack profiles are presented. The analysis results indicate that the enrichment functions based upon the asymptotic solutions can accurately track the cohesive crack propagation independent of mesh orientation. Example problems incorporating enrichment functions for mode II kinematics are also presented. The results yield acceptable crack paths compared with experimental studies. The applicability of the enrichment functions to problems with anisotropy, large strains, and inelasticity is the subject of ongoing studies. Preliminary results for a contrived orthotropic elastic material reflect a decrease in accuracy with increased orthotropy but do not preclude their application to this class of problems
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Investment in Technology Development and Technology Transfer in the Arab world: Opportunities & chal
Thu, Apr 29, 2010 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Hosted by Prof. Cauligi RaghavendraSpeaker: Alaya Bettaieb, Director Arab Academic Tech Transfer project at the Arab Science & Technology Foundation; Manager of MENA Technology Fund (raising); Former Chairman, Tunisia Venture Capital AssociationAbstract:
Last June, President Obama visited Cairo and delivered a landmark speech to the Muslim and Arab world, meant to launch a new era of US engagement for the development of better political cultural and business relations. A crucial part of his strategy was the announcement of multi-million dollars technology fund, centers of excellence, and technology transfer assistance for Muslim-majority countries, designed to jumpstart a new knowledge economy and forge business ties that can bridge cultures. Indeed, the Arabic-speaking world represents a vast untapped customer base of more than 320 million people, with a global market size of hundreds billion dollars and a high forecasted growth rate. Biography:
Mr. Bettaieb, former chairman of the Tunisian Venture Capital Association, and director of the Arab Academic Technology Transfer project within the Arab Science & Technology Foundation, will present Thursday 29 April, in a lecture entitled: "Investment in Technology development and technology transfer in the Arab world : Opportunities & challenges", the state of Technology development, investment and transfer in the Middle East & Northern Africa "MENA" region, with both identified opportunities and emerging challenges facing such development.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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Strategic Research and Innovation: An Excited-State Lifetime of 40 Years at AT&T Bell Labs
Thu, Apr 29, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Tingye Li,
Formerly of AT&T LabsRefreshments will be providedAbstract: Strategic research may be regarded as work that is focused on producing viable advances and innovations in a particular field. It can be fundamental or applied, but always involves having realistic goals in mind, an understanding of physics and limitations, and an appreciation for application issues. It is often associated with a vision that could launch a new technical direction and lead to innovations that engender significant industrial and societal impact. Innovation, on the other hand, is a process by which ideas or concepts are translated into viable applications. The innovative process can initially be a one-person or small-group effort, but later will involve usually a large-scale, institutionally-supported, team endeavor, driven by significant and measurable operational and economical gains. In this talk, I shall relate my experiences and observations of world-class strategic research and innovation in the field of optical fiber communications at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a participant over an excited-professional-state lifetime of 40 years.Biography: Tingye Li retired from AT&T in 1998. Until then, he was a Division Manager in the Communications Infrastructure Research Laboratory of AT&T Laboratories in New Jersey. Since joining AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1957, he has worked in the areas of antennas, microwave propagation, lasers and optical communications, in which he has contributed more than 100 journal papers, patents, books and book chapters. His early work on laser resonator modes established the basis for the understanding of laser operation and is considered a classic. Since the late 1960s, he and his groups have been engaged in pioneering research on lightwave technologies and systems, which are now ubiquitously deployed in telecommunications infrastructures worldwide. His work with his colleagues on amplified wavelength-division-multiplexed transmission systems has revolutionized lightwave communications.He holds a Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University. He is a Fellow of the OSA, IEEE, AAAS, Photonic Society of Chinese-Americans, and International Engineering Consortium. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has received the IEEE Baker Prize, IEEE David Sarnoff Award, OSA/IEEE John Tyndall Award, OSA Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus Quinn Endowment, AT&T Science and Technology Medal, IEEE Photonics Award, and IEEE Edison Medal. He was named an honorary professor at many prestigious universities in China and Taiwan. He has been active in various professional societies, and was President of the Optical Society of America in 1995.Host: Prof. Alan Willner, willner@usc.eduLocation: Charles Lee Powell Hall (PHE) - 223
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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[Photonics Seminar] Photonics based Telemedicine Technologies toward Smart Global Health Systems
Thu, Apr 29, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Prof. Aydogan Ozcan, UCLAAbstract:
Most of these existing cellphones are already equipped with advanced digital imaging and sensing platforms that can be utilized for various health monitoring applications. This impressive advancement is one of the central building blocks of the emerging fields of ¡°Telemedicine¡± and ¡°Wireless Health¡±. I will introduce new imaging and detection architectures that can compensate in the digital domain for the lack of complexity of optical components by use of novel theories and numerical algorithms to address the immediate needs and requirements of Telemedicine for Global Health Problems. Specifically, I will present an on-chip cytometry and microscopy platform that utilizes cost-effective and compact components to enable digital recognition and 3D microscopic imaging of cells with sub-cellular resolution over a large field of view without the need for any lenses, bulky optical components or coherent sources such as lasers. This incoherent holographic imaging and diagnostic modality has orders of magnitude improved light collection efficiency and is robust to misalignments which eliminates potential imaging artifacts or the need for realignment, making it highly suitable for field use.Bio:
Dr. Aydogan Ozcan received his Ph.D. degree at Stanford University Electrical Engineering Department in 2005. After a short post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University, he is appointed as a Research Faculty Member at Harvard Medical School, Wellman Center for Photomedicine in 2006. Dr. Ozcan joined UCLA in the summer of 2007 as an Assistant Professor, where he is currently leading the Bio-Photonics Laboratory at the Electrical Engineering Department. In 2009, Dr. Ozcan received the NIH Director¡¯s New Innovator Award, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, the IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Young Investigator Award and the MIT¡¯s TR35 Award for his seminal contributions to near-field and on-chip imaging, and telemedicine based diagnostics. Prof. Ozcan is also the recipient of the 2010 Netexplorateur Award given by the Netexplorateur Observatory and Forum in France, and the 2009 Wireless Innovation Award organized by the Vodafone Americas Foundation as well as the 2008 Okawa Foundation Award, given by the Okawa Foundation in Japan.Host:
Prof. Michelle PovinelliLocation: EE 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jing Ma
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Preliminary Reconnaissance Report: 12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Thu, Apr 29, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Eduardo A. Fierro1), and Cynthia L. Perry2)1) President of BFP Engineers, Inc., Berkeley, California USA2) Vice-President of BFP Engineers, Inc., Berkeley, California USAAbstract: After 240 years, the Enriquillo Plantain Garden Fault ruptured on 12 January 2010 at 4:53PM, resulting in a 7.0 Magnitude (USGS) earthquake in the vicinity of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The epicenter was located at 18.457°N and 72.533°W and 25 km (15miles) WSW of Port-au-Prince. The earthquake has been a disaster for Haiti; at the time of this writing there are 170,000 confirmed deaths with estimates over 200,000 deaths. The National Palace, Palace of Justice, National Assembly, Supreme Court, Prison Civile de Port-au-Prince, and buildings housing the ministries of finance, education, public works, communication and culture have all been damaged. Power, water, and communications have been disrupted. This report is based on field reconnaissance by Eduardo Fierro. Mr. Fierro was on the ground in Port-au-Prince on Thursday January 14. His photos and observations were made from January 14 to 20, 2010. The primary objective of this initial trip was to observe the performance of building structures, industrial facilities, and infrastructure from a structural engineering perspective. This report documents places and structures that Mr. Fierro personally observed during his visits including Port-au-Prince, Cite Soleil, Petion Ville, Carrefour and other towns en route to Leogane
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship Program - Second Annual Research and Creative Project Symposium
Thu, Apr 29, 2010 @ 01:30 PM - 05:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship Program
The Second Annual Research and Creative Project SymposiumThursday, April 29, 2010, 1:30 – 5:30 PM
Town and GownPresentations from 1:30 to 3:30 PM
2007, 2008 and 2009 Annenberg FellowsReception from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PMRemarks at 4:00 PMThe USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship Program cordially invites you to its second Annual Research and Creative Project Symposium on Thursday, April 29, 2010 from 1:30-5:30 p.m. This event is free and open to all graduate students and faculty, and will feature multimedia presentations by Annenberg Fellows from the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, the School of Cinematic Arts, and the Viterbi School of Engineering. Presenters will exhibit original and exceptional scholarly work and/or creative projects that investigate questions in communication and digital media. The Symposium will take place at Town and Gown on the University Park Campus. Authors will be at their presentation stations for questions and dialogue from 1:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m., followed by an informal dialogue and reception from 3:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Please stop by any time during the hours of the event. Questions regarding the Symposium should be directed to: anbrgfel@usc.edu. For a list of presenters, please visit: http://www.usc.edu/schools/GraduateSchool/documents/Annenberg/AnnenbergSymposium.pdf We look forward to your attendance!
Location: Tower Hall (TOW) - n and Gown
Audiences: All Students
Contact: USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship Program
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Apr 30, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
University Calendar
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://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html 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: Admission Intern
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Tech Video Job Fair
Fri, Apr 30, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Alumni
Receptions & Special Events
Chat with top Silicon Valley Companies using your webcam!Yahoo, Flixter, and Tagged are just some of the companies hiring and are conduction interviews online. Interviews conducted April 26-30th. For more information and to register visit http://www.jobnob.com/job-fair/SiliconValleyVideoFair?utm_source=USC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=USC
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kathleen Concialdi
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Optimizing Sensing from Water to the Web
Fri, Apr 30, 2010 @ 10:30 AM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk to take place at USC-ISI in Marina del Rey
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292Title: "Optimizing Sensing from Water to the Web"Speaker: Andreas Krause, California Institute of TechnologyLocation: 11th floor Large Conference Room @ USC/ISIAbstract: Where should we place sensors to quickly detect contamination in drinking water distribution networks? Which blogs should we read to learn about the biggest stories on the web? These problems share a fundamental challenge: How can we obtain the most useful information about the state of the world, at minimum cost?Such sensing problems are typically NP-hard, and were commonly addressed using heuristics without theoretical guarantees about the solution quality. In this talk, I will present algorithms which efficiently find provably near-optimal solutions to large, complex sensing problems. Our algorithms exploit submodularity, an intuitive notion of diminishing returns, common to many sensing problems; the more sensors we have already deployed, the less we learn by placing another sensor. To quantify the uncertainty in our predictions, we use probabilistic models, such as Gaussian Processes. In addition to identifying the most informative sensing locations, our algorithms can handle more challenging settings, where sensors need to be able to reliably communicate over lossy links, where mobile robots are used for collecting data or where solutions need to be robust against adversaries, sensor failures and dynamic environments.I will also present results applying our algorithms to several real-world sensing tasks, including environmental monitoring using robotic sensors, activity recognition using a built sensing chair, deciding which blogs to read on the web, and a sensor placement competition.Bio: Andreas Krause is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. Krause is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and the Okawa Foundation Research Grant recognizing top young researchers in telecommunications. His research on sensor placement and optimized information gathering received awards at several premier conferences, as well as the best research paper award of the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.
Location: 11th floor Large Conference Room @ USC/ISI
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Front Desk
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KIUEL Senior Design Expo
Fri, Apr 30, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Join students, faculty, staff, and industry partners in recognizing the capstone projects of Viterbi students. Attendees can vote for their favorite project. See what opportunities are available to you senior year or show off your work if you're graduating! To learn more about KIUEL, visit viterbi.usc.edu/kiuel
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: Undergraduates
Contact: KIUEL
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Apr 30, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Luke Theogarajan, UCSBTopic: CMOS for Biomedical Application
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
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The Gap Bootstrap
Fri, Apr 30, 2010 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speakers: Dr. Clifford H. Spiegelman (TAMU), Soumendra Lahiri (TAMU), Justice Appiah (UNL), and Laurence Rilett (UNL)Abstract:In many areas of application, multivariate data are collected routinely over long time periods. Examples include hydrocarbon pollution monitoring, and automated highway volume traffic monitoring. The dominant part or the dependence for these types of data is short term. The gap bootstrap uses a divide, estimate, assess and combine strategy to provide asymptotically optimal or near optimal estimators. In spirit, it is similar in approach to kernel regression estimation, except that the joined pieces are not contiguous in time. We will show that for smooth enough estimators, and some useful dependence models that the resulting estimators are asymptotically efficient and have uncertainties that are accurately assessed using a case bootstrapping approach. Examples will use Origin-Destination (OD) modeling in transportation.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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