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Events for the 4th week of September
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AGC Sparks Interview #2
Sun, Sep 19, 2010 @ 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Are you interested in construction or the contracting industry?
Have you heard about the SPARKs Competition the Associated General Contractors(AGC) compete in every year?
Did you hear we won 1st place in 3 categories and 2nd in another last year?
Well check out www.uscagac.com and read more about the SPARKs competition and AGC. If you are interested please sign up for membership and for SPARKs!
Then sign up for an interview date at:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ah4NaqjJwld3dGxjSzZjdFEtRjU3dWplcHhackhVTFE&hl=en&authkey=CLefmvAH#gid=0
Interviews are taking place this Saturday and Sunday, 9/18 and 9/19 in a room TBD in KAP Hall. Interviews are needed for the Board to determine the teams.
Fight On!Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Events USC AGC
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Sep 20, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Aviation Safety Management Systems (ASMS)
Mon, Sep 20, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed for the individual responsible for planning or directing aviation Safety Management System programs. Fundamentals in systems organization and structure provide the individual with the essential skills and methodology needed to plan and manage an effective program.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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CS Colloquium
Mon, Sep 20, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University
Talk Title: User-Controllable Security and Privacy: Lessons from the Design and Deployment of a Family of Location Sharing Applications
Abstract: Increasingly users are expected to configure a variety of security and privacy policies on their own, whether it is the firewall on their home computer, their privacy preferences on Facebook, or access control policies at work. In practice, research shows that users often have great difficulty specifying such policies. This in turn can result in significant vulnerabilities. This presentation will provide an overview of novel user-controllable security and privacy technologies and interfaces developed to empower users to more effectively and efficiently specify security and privacy policies. In particular, it will outline a new methodology to design expressive privacy and security policies that derives from new work in mechanism design and usability. Results from this research shed some light on why despite all the hoopla, most location sharing applications available in the market place today have failed to gain much traction.
Biography: Norman Sadeh is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His broad research interests include Web Security,
Privacy and Commerce. He is co-Director of the School of Computer Science PhD Program in Computation, Organizations and Society and of the School's Mobile Commerce Lab. Norman has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon since 1991. In the late nineties, he also served as Chief Scientist of the European Union's $800M e-Work and e-Commerce program, which at the time included all European-level cyber security and online privacy research. He has authored over 160 scientific publications, including several books and has also co-founded two companies to commercialize his technologies: Wombat Security Technologies and Zipano Technologies. Among other awards and honors, Norman was a co-recipient of IBM's 2004 Best Academic Privacy Faculty award. Norman received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, an MSc, also in computer science, from the University of Southern California, and a BS/MSc in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from Brussels Free University.
Host: Dr. Milind Tambe
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Sep 20, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: KWANG-JIN KIM, NOAH MALMSTADT, SHULIANG JIAO, JAMES WEILAND,
Talk Title: Faculty Research in Biomedical Engineering
Abstract:
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: BME graduate students, Faculty, contact department if interested (213-740-7237)
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Undergraduate Welcome Back Ice Cream Social
Mon, Sep 20, 2010 @ 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Student Activity
CEE sophomores, juniors and seniors are invited to our Fall 2010 Welcome Back Ice Cream Social.
RSVP required by 9/13/10.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) -
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Jennifer Gerson
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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Tue, Sep 21, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 10, 2011. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online.http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/
Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2011
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Photography for Aircraft Accident Investigation (PHOTO)
Tue, Sep 21, 2010 @ 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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Rio Hondo Transfer Fair
Tue, Sep 21, 2010 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Viterbi Transfer Admission Counselor, Christine Hsieh from the USC Viterbi Office of Admission, will be attending the Rio Hondo Transfer Fair. Please stop by the USC Viterbi table to learn how you can get started on your engineering courses at your current institution and more about the admission process.
Location: Rio Hondo Campus
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfer Applicants
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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CS Colloquium
Tue, Sep 21, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Gert Lankriet, UCSD
Talk Title: Multimodal Music Search and Discovery
Abstract: The revolution in production and distribution of music, which has made millions of audio clips instantly available to millions of people, has created the need for novel music search and discovery technologies.
While successful technologies with great societal impact exist for text-based document search (e.g., Yahoo!, Google, etc.), a Google for Music has yet to stand up: there is no easy way to find a mellow Beatles song on a nostalgic night, scary Halloween music on October 31st, or address a sudden desire for romantic jazz with saxophone and deep male vocals without knowing an appropriate artist or song title.
The non-text-based, multimodal character of Internet-wide information about music (audio clips, lyrics, web documents, artist networks, band images, etc.) poses a new and difficult challenge to existing database technology, due to its dependence on unimodal, text-based data structures. Two fundamental research questions are at the core of addressing this challenge: 1) The automated indexing of non-text based music content and 2) the automated integration of the heterogeneous content of multimodal music databases, to retrieve the most relevant information, given a query.
In this talk, I will outline some of my recent research in machine learning, statistics and optimization, inspired and driven by the previous two research questions in the emerging field of computer audition and music information retrieval. This will cover a spectrum from sparse generalized eigenvalue problems to human computation games, and from clustering graphical models to multiple-kernel partial order embeddings.
Biography: Gert Lanckriet received a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 2000 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001 respectively 2005. In 2005, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where he heads the Computer Audition Laboratory. He was awarded the SIAM Optimization Prize in 2008 and is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and an IBM Faculty Award. His research focuses on the interplay of convex optimization, machine learning and applied statistics, with applications in computer audition and music information retrieval.
Host: Prof. Fei Sha
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mary Francis
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CS Colloquium
Tue, Sep 21, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Gert Lankriet , UCSD
Talk Title: Multimodal Music Search and Discovery
Abstract: The revolution in production and distribution of music, which has made millions of audio clips instantly available to millions of people, has created the need for novel music search and discovery technologies.
While successful technologies with great societal impact exist for text-based document search (e.g., Yahoo!, Google, etc.), a Google for Music has yet to stand up: there is no easy way to find a mellow Beatles song on a nostalgic night, scary Halloween music on October 31st, or address a sudden desire for romantic jazz with saxophone and deep male vocals without knowing an appropriate artist or song title.
The non-text-based, multimodal character of Internet-wide information about music (audio clips, lyrics, web documents, artist networks, band images, etc.) poses a new and difficult challenge to existing database technology, due to its dependence on unimodal, text-based data structures. Two fundamental research questions are at the core of addressing this challenge: 1) The automated indexing of non-text based music content and 2) the automated integration of the heterogeneous content of multimodal music databases, to retrieve the most relevant information, given a query.
In this talk, I will outline some of my recent research in machine learning, statistics and optimization, inspired and driven by the previous two research questions in the emerging field of computer audition and music information retrieval. This will cover a spectrum from sparse generalized eigenvalue problems to human computation games, and from clustering graphical models to multiple-kernel partial order embeddings.
Biography: Gert Lanckriet received a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 2000 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001 respectively 2005. In 2005, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where he heads the Computer Audition Laboratory. He was awarded the SIAM Optimization Prize in 2008 and is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and an IBM Faculty Award. His research focuses on the interplay of convex optimization, machine learning and applied statistics, with applications in computer audition and music information retrieval.
Host: Prof. Fei Sha
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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Boston Consulting Information Session
Tue, Sep 21, 2010 @ 06:00 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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SWE Info Session with Hitachi Consulting
Tue, Sep 21, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Is your future within the exciting industry of engineering consulting?
Come hear about the projects and possibilities of Hitachi Consulting, one of the companies in partnership with the Viterbi School of Engineering. Are you unsure about what a consulting job entails or the other opportunities through this branch of industry? This session will give you more information about careers in that field. Also, Hitachi's representatives will give you an idea of the role of women and other diversities within the company and support available to them. If you are new to the job hunting process, come practice your networking skills. Also, juniors and seniors don't miss this great opportunity to present your skill set to a potential employer! Also enjoy FREE hors d'oeuvres and the company of your SWE peers.
Hope to see you there!Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Sep 22, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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The Effect of Soil-Structure Interaction on Seismic Response of Buildings
Wed, Sep 22, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Mohammad Ali Ghannad, Associate Professor, Dept. of Cvil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Talk Title: The Effect of Soil-Structure Interaction on Seismic Response of Buildings
Abstract: Abstract:
It is well known that the flexibility of soil beneath the structure affects its seismic response due to SoilâStructure Interaction (SSI). SSI not only affects the elastic response of structures, but also their inelastic behavior during earthquakes. This subject has been studied by numerous researchers and a wealth of knowledge is currently available in the literature.
In this presentation, a brief summary of recent research done on the subject at Department of Civil Engineering of Sharif University of Technology is presented. The main focus is the parametric study on SSI effect on global inelastic response of structures. This is done by employing a rather simple model for the soil and structure to study the effect on structural strength and ductility demands. Some aspects of current US provisions for introducing SSI in practical design of structures are also discussed.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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AME Seminar
Wed, Sep 22, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Suneel Kodambaka, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles
Talk Title: In situ Microscopy and Spectroscopy Studies of Epitaxial Graphene on Metal Surfaces
Abstract:
The recent discovery of two-dimensional (2D) graphene crystals has generated a lot of attention owing to its potential for applications in high-performance, low-power, electronics and as transparent conductors. Recent efforts focused on, and succeeded in, the fabrication of large-area graphene on a variety of substrates, an encouraging step toward realization of graphene-based devices. Yet, relatively little is known concerning the mechanisms underlying the growth of graphene and the role of substrate-graphene interactions on its electronic properties. As a first step, we focused on the development of an atomic-scale understanding of the growth and electronic structure of graphene on model metals such as Pd and Ni.
Using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM and STS), in combination with density functional theory (DFT), we investigated the morphology and electronic structure of monolayer graphene grown on Pd(111) and on 3D facetted Ni islands. On Pd(111), we observe the formation of monolayer graphene islands, 200-2000 à in size, bounded by Pd surface steps. Surprisingly, we found that graphene islands, as large as 2000 à , are semiconducting with a bandgap of 0.3 eV. For graphene on Ni, we observed hexagonal and stripe moiré patterns with periodicities of 22 à and 12 à , respectively, on (111) and (110) facets of the islands. Graphene domains are also observed to grow, as single crystals, across adjacent facets and over facet boundaries. STS data indicate that the graphene layers are metallic on both Ni(111) and Ni(110). DFT calculations support all of our observations and indicate the presence of strong interactions between carbon and metal atoms. Our results suggest that electronic properties of epitaxial graphene can be tailored by the appropriate choice of substrate and the possibility of preparing large-area epitaxial graphene layers even on polycrystalline surfaces.
Host: Dr. A. Hodge
More Info: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcomingLocation: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming
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ASBME Recruiting Event: Dine In with ev3 Neurovascular-Meet & Mingle and Resume Workshop for Viterbi Career Conference
Wed, Sep 22, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
WHEN: 6-7pm
WHERE: TCC 320a
WHAT: Recruiting session so ev3 can meet you for INTERNSHIP AND JOB HIRING! The recruiter will also be holding a resume and interview etiquette workshop as well to prepare Viterbi students for the Viterbi Career Fair on Sept. 25th! Bring your RESUME and dress to impress if YOU want the JOB!
SPACES ARE LIMITED! Sign up here today: http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asbme/get-involved/registration.htm
ABOUT ev3:
ev3 is a global leader and best-in-class technology provider for specialists treating a wide range of vascular diseases and disorders. ev3 is committed to the peripheral vascular and neurovascular markets offering a comprehensive portfolio of treatment options, including the primary interventional technologies used today - peripheral angioplasty balloons, stents, plaque excision systems, embolic protection devices, liquid embolics, embolization coils, flow diversion, thrombectomy catheters and occlusion balloons..
ev3 Neurovascular is located in Orange County, where the wide beaches, high cliffs and sandy coves surround 42 miles of beautiful coastline. We have 39,000 acres of urban and wilderness parks where you can ride or hike when you are not at the beach. Our offices have a fitness center and weâre 5 minutes from the Irvine Spectrum.
We are currently hiring for New Grad Engineering positions and will have more positions open next year. We also will be hiring for Engineer Interns for Summer 2011.
For more info on ev3, visit: www.ev3.netLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 320a
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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10x10: A New Paradigm for Computer Architecture (Meeting the Challenges of the New Technology Scaling Landscape)
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Andrew A. Chien, Adjunct Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego
Talk Title: 10x10: A New Paradigm for Computer Architecture (Meeting the Challenges of the New Technology Scaling Landscape)
Abstract: Two decades of microprocessor architecture enabled by transistor scaling in density, speed, and energy delivered 1000-fold performance improvement, enabling computing as we know it today â tiny, powerful, inexpensive, and therefore ubiquitous. Recent semiconductor process generations and technology projections suggest future scaling in density, but only decreasing improvements in transistor speed and energy. In this era of energy-constrained performance, the industry has undertaken a shift to rapidly increasing parallelism (multicore). This shift is broad based, including essentially all computers â smart phones, laptops, cloud data centers, and supercomputers.
In the new technology scaling landscape, more narrowly specialized designs (heterogeneity) become more attractive and have attracted much study, but computer architects have lacked a paradigm to deal with it systematically. We believe it is time to move beyond the general purpose architecture paradigm and 90/10 optimization which has served us well for 25 years, and replace it with a new paradigm, â10x10â, which divides workloads into clusters, enabling systematic exploitation of specialization in the architecture, implementation, and software. We believe such 10x10 can enable 10x improvement in energy efficiency and performance compared to conventional approaches. We call this new paradigm â10x10â because it divides the workloads and optimizes for 10 different 10% cases, not a monolithic 90/10. We will outline the critical challenges to this approach and implications for future computing systems.
Biography: Dr. Andrew A. Chien is former Vice President of Research of Intel Corporation. He served as a Vice President of Intel Labs and Intel Research / Future Technologies Research where he led a âbold, edgyâ research agenda in disruptive technologies. Chien has launched imaginative new efforts in robotics, wireless power, sensing and perception, nucleic acid sequencing, networking, cloud, and ethnography. Working with external partners, Chien was instrumental in creation of the Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers (UPCRC) focused on parallel software and Open Cirrus Consortium focused on Cloud computing.
For more than 20 years, Chien has been a global leader in research and education. Chienâs previous positions include the Science Applications International Corporation Endowed Chair Professor in the department of computer science and engineering, and created the Center for Networked Systems at the University of California at San Diego. While at UCSD, he also founded Entropia, a widely-known Internet Grid computing startup. From 1990 to 1998, Chien was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with joint appointments at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) where he was a research leader for parallel computing software and hardware, and developed the well-known Fast Messages, HPVM, and Windows NT Supercluster systems.
Dr. Chien is a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and has published over 130 technical papers. Chien currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Computing Research Association (CRA), Advisory Board of the National Science Foundationâs Computing and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate, and Editorial Board of the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM). Chien received his Bachelor's in electrical engineering, Master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Host: Sr Assoc Dean Timothy Pinkston
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Distinguished Lecture Series
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 @ 12:45 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Lynden A. Archer,
Talk Title: Nanoscale Organic Hybrid Materials (NOHMs)
Series: Distinguished Lectures Series
Host: Professor Tsotsis
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
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Oral Defense Dissertation
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yuan-Hung "Paul" Tan, Ph.D. Candidate
Talk Title: Oscillations of Semi-Enclosed Water Body Induced by Hurricanes
Abstract:
A numerical study is conducted to simulate the oscillations (storm surges) of semi-enclosed water body induced by hurricanes. For application using the numerical model developed in the present study, Lake Pontchartrain (located in southeastern Louisiana) is chosen as the semi-enclosed water body and Hurricane Katrina (the costliest hurricane in the history of the United States) is chosen as the hurricane. There are three (3) reasons to choose Lake Pontcharrain and Hurricane Katrina: 1. Storm surge built up in Lake Pontchartrain during Hurricane Katrina, 2. Wind drove water into Lake Pontchartrain as Hurricane Katrina approached from the Gulf of Mexico, and 3. The extensive field data, gathered by the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET), is available to provide the needed comparison of numerical result and prototype data on the oscillations at Lake Pontchartrain induced by Hurricane Katrina.
The depth-average, non-linear shallow-water equations (NLSW) are use as the governing equations. The finite-volume method (FVM) is employed to solve the governing shallow-water equations. In order to validate the present model, the hydrographs due to Hurricane Katrina obtained from the present model are compared with the field data reported by IPET at eight (8) sites along the shores and the center of Lake Pontchartrain. These eight (8) sites are: the 17th street Canal, the Orleans Avenue Canal, the London Avenue Canal, the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC)-Lakefront Airport, Midlake, Bayou Labranch, Pass Manchac, and Little Irish Bayou.
The time at which the maximum water surface elevation (WSE) occurs as predicted by the present model is almost identical to the time at which the maximum water level is observed at the 17th Street Canal, the Orleans Avenue Canal, the London Avenue Canal, and the IHNC-Lakefront Airport sites. Furthermore, the present model accurately predicts the general trend of the water level when the hydrographs due to Hurricane Katrina are compared with the observed hydrographs at the 17th Street Canal, the Orleans Avenue Canal, the London Avenue Canal, the IHNC-Lakefront Airport, and the Midlake sites. However, the present model only reasonably predicts the general trend of the water level when the hydrographs due to Hurricane Katrina are compared with the observed hydrographs at the Bayou La Branche (named Bayou Labranch by IPET), the Pass Manchac, and the Little Irish Bayou sites.
The present model is further applied to investigate the oscillations at Lake Pontchartrain induced by four (4) synthetic hurricanes within the time-span of 00:00 UTC August 29, 2005 to 00:00 UTC August 30, 2005: Case 1. Hurricane Katrina tracks on its original route, Case 2. Hurricane Katrina tracks 36 km west of its original route, Case 3. Hurricane Katrina tracks 72 km west of its original route, and Case 4. Hurricane Katrina tracks on its original route with forward speeds reduced by 16% ~ 45% (or altered from 15 km/h ~ 36 km/h to 15 km/h ~ 22 km/h). These are done to assess the impact of hurricanes under different risk conditions. It is found that much more severe catastrophes in metro New Orleans and neighboring parishes can be expected under the scenarios of: Case 2. Hurricane Katrina passes through the east part of New Orleans, Louisiana and both the east and central parts of Lake Pontchartrain and Case 4. Hurricane Katrina passes through the regions nearby the east shore of Lake Pontchartrain with reduced forward speeds.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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ASCE General Meeting #2/ Learning to Create your own Engineering Company
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Hope you all are excited for the next general meeting!
Our speaker will be Jacqueline Patterson, the JL of JL Patterson, a recognized rail design authority which was recently recognized as one of the "Best Civil Engineering Firms to Work For" by CE News Magazine.
Jackie will be talking about entrepreneurship in engineering, a subject she is well versed in since she started JL Patterson as a one-woman firm.
Put this meeting in your calendar!: Thursday September 23 at 5 pm. Room TBA. Food will be provided.
USC American Society of Civil Engineers
www.uscasce.com
Membership Form
Please fill out a membership form for the year 2010-2011, write a check for $30, made out to USC ASCE, and return ASAP to KAP 241. We will be accepting new members throughout the academic year. If you want to be a part of Concrete Canoe, Environmental or Steel Bridge or on any of the other teams at the regional conference this spring then you need to be a paid member. The membership form can be found on our website.
http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asce/membership.htmLocation: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 158
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Fall Spotlight - Chemical Engineering
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
A panel discussion featuring industry representatives, alumni, faculty and current student discussing opportunities in Chemical Engineering. For more detailed information please visit the Spotlight website at - http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/fye/spotlight.htm
Dinner is provided. RSVP to viterbi.studentservices@usc.edu with subject line: "RSVP for Spotlight on 9/23".Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Viterbi Undergraduate Students
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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Funn Concrete Canoe Meeting!!
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
What's up my fellow Venetians!!
Congratulations for choosing Venice as our theme for this years concrete canoe!
Alright September 23 after the ASCE general meeting around 6pm in KAP, we will be having a FUNN MEETING to discuss the theme and the process of how we are going to make this years canoe!!
Hope to see you all there!!
Membership Form
Please fill out a membership form for the year 2010-2011, write a check for $30, made out to USC ASCE, and return ASAP to KAP 241. We will be accepting new members throughout the academic year. If you want to be a part of Concrete Canoe team at the regional conference this spring then you need to be a paid member. The membership form can be found on our website.
http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asce/membership.htmLocation: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - TBA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Civil Engineers
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VSC Undergraduate Engineering BBQ
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Stop by the E-Quad between 11:00am and 1:00pm on Friday, September 24th for free BBQ provided by your Viterbi Student Council. Both vegetarian and non-vegetarian burgers will be served.
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: VSC E-Board
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ASBME + Match Venue = Your Chance to Win a 4 day Trip to PARIS and BOSTON!
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
ASBME had the incredible opportunity to be contacted by the CEO of MatchVenue.com, the first Students Only Video Chat Social Network. She has offered to come share her experience as an entrepreneur in the widely-expanding field of technology, specifically online networking, with USC students on Friday, September 24th from 12-1pm (room is pending).
She has also offered a very unique experience to attendees of the event who register for a MatchVenue account prior to the meeting: a 4 day trip to BOSTON and PARIS to spend a day with the management team in each city! MatchVenue is also currently offering a couple of INTERNSHIP spots for select applicants.
If you are interested in attending this event, please note that attendance will be limited, so if you would like to reserve your spot, register at: http://viterbistudents.usc.edu/asbme/get-involved/registration.htm and click on the link for the 9-24-10 Event to sign up. Students MUST SIGN UP to attend the event.
We look forward to seeing you there and sharing this experience with us!
If you have additional questions, please email asbme@usc.edu. Thanks!Location: TBA, register (below) for more info
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Sarah K. Yeomans, Professor of Archaeology, West Virginia University
Talk Title: Propulsion Laboratory 24 Medicine in Antiquity: What We Have Learned from Archaeology
Host: W.V.T Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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Three Fundamental Measures of Geometry and Their Role in Model Selection and Sparse Inverse Problems
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Waheed Bajwa , Duke University
Talk Title: Three Fundamental Measures of Geometry and Their Role in Model Selection and Sparse Inverse Problems
Abstract: In this talk, I discuss three measures of matrix geometry, namely, worst-case coherence, average coherence, and spectral norm, in the context of model selection and sparse inverse problems. These geometric measures are a better alternative to related measures such as the oft-studied restricted isometry property, since they can be explicitly computed in polynomial time. In this talk, I introduce a simple algorithm, termed one-step thresholding (OST) algorithm, and utilize the introduced geometric measures to provide an in-depth analysis of OST for both model selection and recovery of sparse signals. In particular, I show that OST has the ability to perform near-optimally for a number of generic (random or deterministic) matrices. In addition, I also talk about explicitly designing matrices with small average coherence, which is the key to guaranteeing that algorithms such as OST succeed.
Biography: Waheed U. Bajwa received BE (with Honors) degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan in 2001, and MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ from 2009 to 2010. He is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, Durham, NC. His research interests include high-dimensional inference and inverse problems, statistical signal processing, wireless communications, and applications in biological sciences, networked systems, and radar & image processing. Dr. Bajwa was affiliated with Communications Enabling Technologies, Islamabad, Pakistan - the research arm of Avaz Networks Inc., Irvine, CA (now Quartics LLC) - from 2000-2003, with the Center for Advanced Research in Engineering, Islamabad, Pakistan during 2003, and with the RF and Photonics Lab of GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY during the summer of 2006. He received the Best in Academics Gold Medal and President's Gold Medal in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in 2001, and the Morgridge Distinguished Graduate Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. He was Junior NUST Student of the Year (2000), Wisconsin Union Poker Series Champion (Spring 2008), and President of the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of Golden Key International Honor Society (2009). He currently serves as a Guest Associate Editor for Elsevier Physical Communication Journal and is a member of the IEEE, Pakistan Engineering Council, and Golden Key International Honor Society.
Host: Urbashi Mitra
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Viterbi Career Conference
Sat, Sep 25, 2010 @ 08:30 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Career Conference, designed specifically for Viterbi undergraduates, takes place once each fall. The conference provides an invaluable opportunity for all students, freshmen through seniors, to develop job search skills and to connect with company representatives and alumni.
To Register, stop by Viterbi Career Services in RTH 218
2010 Conference Workshops
Alumni Panel - Accenture, C.W. Driver, Rehrig Pacific
Building Information Modeling (BIM) - C.W. Driver
Getting into the Game: Resume Workshop - Electronic Arts
Getting Started: Tips for Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors - Cisco
How to Start an Internet Company - OpenX
Jobs in Consulting - Hitachi Consulting
Understanding Recruiters - Microsoft
Why You Should Consider Interning - Intel
2010 Conference Participants (a/o 8/4)
Alcon | Accenture | Bloomberg | Brocade | Central Intelligence Agency | Cisco | C.W. Driver | DIRECTV|Electronic Arts | Hewlett Packard | Hitachi Consulting | Intel | Microsoft | Northrop Grumman|Occidental Petroleum | OpenX | Raytheon | Rehrig Pacific | The Boeing Company
Location: Town & Gown
Audiences: Viterbi Undergraduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
