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Events for the 2nd week of October
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Oct 04, 2010 @ 01:00 AM - 01:00 AM
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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Feeling the Screen: Tactility and Emotion in the Digital Age
Mon, Oct 04, 2010 @ 04:00 AM - 06:00 AM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
While pundits worry about the increasing amount of time young people spend online in dematerialized virtual spaces, we have also witnessed an explosion of practices and devices that return our attention to the hand. From the online craft vendor Etsy to the tactile interfaces of our iPhones, the body and the digital are deeply interlaced. âThe Touch of the Hand in the Digital Eraâ is a two-part series that will consider the particular roles that touch and the emotions play in our sense of self and the world.
In the first event of the series, explore the digital up close and hands on with internationally renowned artists Erik Loyer and Sharon Daniel. The event will include hands-on interaction with projects presented by Loyer and Daniel that will allow students to engage a variety of devices, including the iPhone and the Wii remote.
Loyer and Daniel have collaborated on the production of two interactive documentaries, Public Secrets and Blood Sugar. Public Secrets is a Webby Awards honoree that was originally published in Vectors journal and has been shown at arts festivals such as Transmediale in Berlin and Artefact in Belgium and in gallery exhibitions in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia. Blood Sugar has been exhibited as a Wii remoteâoperated installation at UCLAâs Art|Sci gallery and at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
Related Event:
The Lupton Sisters
Friday, March 25, 2 p.m.
Doheny Memorial Library, Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240
For more info, visit the event page http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873374
Organized by Philip Ethington (History and Political Science) and Tara McPherson (Cinematic Arts). Co-sponsored by the Center for Transformative Scholarship.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Aircraft Accident Investigation
Mon, Oct 04, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This is a two week course. All aspects of the investigation process are addressed, starting with preparation for the investigation through writing the final report. Investigative techniques are examined with emphasis on fixed wing investigation. Data collection, wreckage reconstruction and cause analysis are also studied.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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EE-Systems Seminar
Mon, Oct 04, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Neal Patwari , University of Utah
Talk Title: Locate people without radio tags: Device‐free localization in wireless networks
Abstract: Abstract: Radio localization applications in sensor networks assume that the person to‐be¬located wears a radio tag, either a receiver or transmitter. We show that the tag is not necessary, except for identification. By measuring the changes in received signal strength (RSS) on static wireless links in the environment, we perform device‐free localization (DFL), i.e., estimation of the location of changes in the physical environment, and thus, inference of the locations of people in the environment. Such localization can be done when the network nodes are outside of a building, and the people are inside of the building, and thus have application for emergency responders arriving at a building that is dangerous to enter. Since static wireless networks are ubiquitous in indoor environments, we expect DFL using RSS to be useful in secure facilities, in which the locations of un‐tagged (potentially unauthorized) people should be monitored. While wideband radar provides similar capabilities, the use of RSS opens the door for DFL applications built using standard wireless networks. This talk will describe 1) new multipath channel fading models which provide the basis for our ability to accurately estimate a person's location; 2) algorithms for RSS‐based device‐free localization; and 3) lessons learned from prototype development and deployment. We will discuss the unanswered questions and future research directions in RSS‐based DFL.
Biography: Bio: Neal Patwari received the B.S. (1997) and M.S. (1999) degrees from Virginia Tech, and the Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005), all in Electrical Engineering. He was a research engineer in Motorola Labs, Florida, between 1999 and 2001. Since 2006, he has been at the University of Utah, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with an adjunct appointment in the School of Computing. He directs the Sensing and Processing Across Networks (SPAN) Lab, which performs research at the intersection of statistical signal processing and wireless networking. His research interests are in radio channel signal processing, in which radio channel measurements are used to improve security and networking and to perform localization. Neal has been involved with experimental prototypes of sensor networks deployed for centralized and distributed sensor localization, radio tomographic imaging, and secret key establishment. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2008 and the 2009 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Magazine Paper Award. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Host: Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Shane Goodoff
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BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 04, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: GERALD LOEB, TERENCE SANGER, ELLIS MENG,
Talk Title: Faculty Research in Biomedical Engineering
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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ISE 599 SEMINAR
Mon, Oct 04, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jesus De Loera, UC DavIs
Talk Title: Algebraic Geometric Algorithms in Discrete Optimization
Abstract: It is common knowledge that the understanding of the geometry of convex bodies has helped speed up algorithms in discrete optimization.
For example, cutting planes and facet-description of polyhedra have been crucial in the success of branch-and-bound algorithms for mixed integer linear programming. Another example, is how the ellipsoid method can be used to prove polynomiality results in combinatorial optimization. For the future, the importance of algebra and geometry in optimization is even greater since applications now demand non-linearity constraints together with discrete variables.
In the past 5 years two beautiful algebraic geometric algorithms on polyhedra have been used to prove unexpected new results on the computation of integer programs with non-linearly objective functions.
The first is Barvinok's algorithm for polytopes, the second is Graver's bases method on polyhedral cones. I will describe these two algorithms and explain why we can now prove theorems that were beyond our reach before. I will also describe attempts to turn these two algorithms into practical computation, not just in theoretical results.
This is a nice story collecting results contained in several papers joint work with various subsets of the following people: R. Hemmecke, M. Koeppe, S. Onn, U. Rothblum, and R. Weismantel.
Host: Professor Dorit Hochbaum
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Department Only
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Nestle Information Session
Mon, Oct 04, 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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Hensel Phelps Information and Recruitment Session
Mon, Oct 04, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Are you interested in working in the civil and construction engineering field?
Join CMAA, SWE, AGC and ASCE for an information and recruitment session hosted by Hensel Phelps Construction Co. The meeting will provide USC students with practical knowledge of field engineering and the opportunity to learn about Hensel Phelps Construction Company.
Students are encouraged to bring a copy of his or her resume and interact with Hensel Phelps employees after the presentation. Free food will be provided.Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers
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Info Session with Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
Mon, Oct 04, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
Hensel Phelps is a leading construction company that is involved with a wide variety of construction projects, such as commercial, industrial and transportation. Visit http://www.henselphelps.com for more information.
Remember to bring you resume and to ask a lot of questions!
Food will be served!Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Events USC AGC
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Southern California Smart Grid Symposium
Tue, Oct 05, 2010
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: The Southern California Smart Grid Research Symposium will explore the smart grid, discuss research challenges, and is a collaborative forum for the interchange of thoughts between academics, industry, government and other stakeholders.
Abstract: 9:00am â 9:05am: Opening Remarks
Viktor Prasanna, Professor â Electrical Engineering, USC
9:05am â 9:10am: Welcome
Don Paul, Executive Director, USC Energy Institute
9:10am â 9:50am: Hank Kenchington, Senior Manager, DOE
9:50am â 10:30am: Southern California Edisonâs Smart Grid Vision
Jim Kelly, SVP of Transmission & Distribution, SCE
10:30am â 10:50am: Break: Refreshments
10:50am â 11:30am: Ciscoâs Smart Grid Strategy
Paul De Martini, Smart Grid CTO, Cisco
11:30am â 12:10pm: Renewable Energy and the Smart Grid for Catalina Island
Steven Low, Professor â Computer Science, Caltech
12:10pm â 1:20pm: Lunch
1:20pm â 3:00pm:
Panel Discussion â Renewable Integration
Moderator: Gordon Roesler, Director of Energy Research, ISI
Cristina Archer, Asst. Professor â Environmental Science, CSU Chico
Mohammed Beshir, Manager of Resource Planning, LADWP
Rajit Gadh, Director, WINMEC
Hal La Flash, Director â Emerging Clean Technologies, PG&E
3:00pm â 3:20pm: Break: Refreshments
3:20pm â 5:00pm:
Panel Discussion â Electrifying Transportation
Moderator: GP Li, Professor â Electrical Engineering, UCI
Tim Brown, Senior Scientist, UCI
Doug Kim, Director of Advanced Technology, SCE
Joel Pointon, Manager of Electric Transportation, SDG&E
Anand Ranganathan, Research Staff Member, IBM
5:00pm â 6:30pm: Coffee and Dessert Bar concurrent with Poster Session
Host: The Symposium is sponsored by the Southern California Smart Grid Research Consortium, an industry-university collaboration between Southern California Edison, LADWP and leading research universities including USC, UCLA, UCI and Caltech.
More Info: http://socalsgs.org/Location: Charlotte S. & Davre R. Davidson Continuing Education Conference Center (DCC) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Eric Mankin
Event Link: http://socalsgs.org/
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El Camino College Transfer Fair
Tue, Oct 05, 2010 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Viterbi Transfer Admission Counselor, Becky Beiter from the USC Viterbi Office of Admission, will be attending the El Camino College 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: El Camino Campus
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfer Applicants
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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CS Colloquium
Tue, Oct 05, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Maxim Sviridenko , IBM Watson
Talk Title: Local Search Algorithms for Submodular Maximization
Abstract: We study the problem of maximizing a submodular function over the intersection of k matroids (for a constant k>=2). Submodular-function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important NP-hard problems including Max Cut in digraphs, graphs and hypergraphs, certain constraint satisfaction problems, maximum-entropy sampling, and maximum facility-location problems.
Our main result is that for any k>=2 and any epsilon>0, there is a natural local-search algorithm which has approximation guarantee of 1/(k+epsilon) for the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to k matroid constraints. This improves a 1/(k+1)-approximation of Nemhauser, Wolsey and Fisher from 1978. For maximizing a linear function over k matroids, we obtain a 1/(k-1+epsilon)-approximation, improving a previously known 1/k-approximation. Our analysis can be applied even to general non-monotone submodular maximization subject to k matroid constraints. We show that in this case the approximation guarantee of our algorithm is 1/(k+1+1/(k-1)+epsilon), improving the previously known factor of 1/(k+2+1/k+epsilon).
Biography: Maxim Sviridenko is a research stuff member in the Algorithms group of the Optimization Center in the Department of Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics (Russia) in 1999. After that he held two postdoc positions: in the Department of Commerce and Business Administration (UBC, Canada) and Computer Science Department at the University of Aarhus Denmark) before joining IBM Research in 2000. His research interests include design and analysis of algorithms for discrete optimization problems, computational complexity, integer and linear programming, modelling real-life optimization problems arising in various industrial applications and developing algorithms to solve such problems. Recently, he has been working on analyzing the local search algorithms that is one of the most popular approaches to solve optimization problems in practice.
Host: Dr. David Kempe
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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Chevron Information Session
Tue, Oct 05, 2010 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 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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BMEStart Meeting 3: Team Formation!
Tue, Oct 05, 2010 @ 07:15 PM - 08:15 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Tuesday will be the 3rd BMEStart meeting, where students will decide on the projects they are most interested in, form groups, and set up group meeting times to begin researching the topics. If you would like to join the mailing list or have any specific questions, e-mail bmestartusc@gmail.com
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - Meet in the lobby
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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2010 NAE Grand Challenges National SummitWed, Oct 06, 2010
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Various, Various
Talk Title: 2010 NAE Grand Challenges National Summit
Host: USC Viterbi School of Engineering
More Info: http://www.naegrandchallengessummit2010.org/Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Leslie DaCruz
Event Link: http://www.naegrandchallengessummit2010.org/
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Oct 06, 2010 @ 01:00 AM - 01:00 AM
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 hhttp://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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Short Range Radio Research in Twente
Wed, Oct 06, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Arjan Meijerink, University of Twente
Talk Title: Short Range Radio Research in Twente
Abstract: The research and education by the Telecommunication Engineering Group at the University of Twente is dedicated
to physical layer topics in communications. Three research tracks have prominence: Short Range Radio, Microwave Photonics,
and Electromagnetic Compatibility. Arjan is active in the Short Range Radio division, and will briefly outline the interests and
activities of this group. Furthermore he will present some results of the research that he did during his short sabbatical in
Belfast last year. This concerns the performance analysis of a frequency offset modulation scheme using wideband noise carriers.
The main advantage of such a scheme is that it enables fast receiver synchronization without channel adaptation, while
providing robustness to multipath fading and in-band interference. This is important for low-power wireless systems with bursty
traffic, such as sensor networks. In the talk a semi-analytical framework for evaluating its bit error rate performance in
wideband frequency-selective fading channels will be described. Some numerical results will be presented, based on channel
models developed in the IEEE 802.15.4a channel modeling subgroup. These illustrate that the considered system can be
designed with a lower fading margin than a narrowband system.
Biography: Arjan Meijerink received the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering (both with honours) from the
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. His PhD research was on coherence
multiplexing for optical communication systems, and was performed under supervision of Prof. W. van Etten, in the
Telecommunication Engineering (TE) Group. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the TE Group, carrying out
research on photonic beamformers for broadband phased array receive antennas, using fully integrated, ring resonator-based
optical beamforming networks. Since 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor in the TE group. He teaches an undergraduate
course on random signals and noise, and is involved in research on new radio transmission techniques for short-range
applications, such as wireless sensor networks. His particular interest is in resilient, low-power UWB transmit-reference
modulation techniques, stochastic channel modeling, and UWB-based ranging and localization techniques. In 2009 he was a
Visiting Lecturer at the Wireless Communications Research Group, at the Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
Currently he is a Visiting Scholar in the WiDeS Group. His research work involves stochastic channel modeling and time-of-arrival
estimation using UWB signals.
Host: Dr. A. F. Molisch
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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AME Seminar
Wed, Oct 06, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. L. Mahadevan, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Talk Title: On Growth and Form
Abstract: The growth and form of a soft solid pose a range of problems that combine aspects of mathematics, physics and biology. I will discuss some examples of growth and form in the plant and animal world motivated by qualitative and quantitative biological observations at the molecular, cellular and tissue level. In each case, we will see how a combination of physical experiments, mathematical models and simple computations allow us to unravel the basis for the diversity and complexity of biological form, while suggesting a rich new lode of problems in geometry and analysis.
Host: Dr. G. Spedding
More Info: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcomingLocation: Charlotte S. & Davre R. Davidson Continuing Education Conference Center (DCC) - Boardroom
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming
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Games in the Global Office: Insults, Compliments and the Edge of Violence
Wed, Oct 06, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Join us for a fascinating conversation about the games people play in an increasingly global workplace. When people play well together, creativity ensues. But games in the workplace can also be divisive and disrespectful, leading to vandalism and even violence. A panel of experts will discuss games in the workplace, explore parallels between social interactions and digital games and look at exciting possibilities of using serious games to offer solutions. Serious-games innovator Maryalice Jordan-Marsh will moderate a panel including international diversity expert Michà lle Mor Barak and Kevin A. Brown, art-development manager for Sony Computer Entertainment America.
Kevin A. Brown, art-development manager at Sony Computer Entertainment America in Santa Monica, has been making games for sixteen years. At Sony, Kevin is responsible for managing the entire art department. Prior to joining Sony, Brown was director of content at Brash Entertainment in Hollywood and studio art director at Microsoft Game Studios.
Maryalice Jordan-Marsh is an associate professor in the USC School of Social Work, with a courtesy appointment at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, and the director of the USC Nurse Social Work Practitioner program. She has collaborated with the USC School of Cinematic Arts on mobile social networking for health, including an intergenerational game to promote healthy behaviors.
Michà lle Mor Barak is a professor in the USC School of Social Work and the USC Marshall School of Business. She holds the Lenore Stein-Wood and William S. Wood Professorship in Social Work and Business in a Global Society and is the founder and director of the International Center for the Inclusive Workplace.
Reception to follow.
Organized by the USC School of Social Work.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Gabilan Courtyard, School of Social Work
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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ASBME 5th General Meeting: St. Jude Medical Recruitment/Info Session & Introduction to the Iridescent Volunteer Program
Wed, Oct 06, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
A recruiter from St. Jude Medicalâs Remote Care Technical Support Team (âDevice Monitoringâ) will present on numerous internships and job opportunities NOW! They are especially looking for candidates who are willing to take on a part-time position in the long term. Strong preference would be given to candidates who are available to work at least part of Mondays.
ALSO, ASBME is teaming up with IEEE and SWE this semester to volunteer for Iridescentâs Family Science Nights, where we will teach fun science and engineering experiments to local elementary school girls and their families. Come to this meeting to hear more about the work that Iridescent does and find out how you can get involved! If you can't make it or are curious about it now, you can also watch this video to learn more.
To RSVP for this event, fill out THIS FORM: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHVqbVF4UE0xMmZHRS1tOWd6LWNNLWc6MQ#gid=0Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 320A
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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SWE Info Session with Accenture
Wed, Oct 06, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Do you wish to travel all over the world? Would you like the opportunity to work on a different project every few months and become an expert in many different fields of engineering? Do you like talking to clients but also staying technical? Your future may be in engineering consulting!
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company and they are coming to USC to tell about the amazing opportunities within their company for talented, hardworking engineering students.
Take a break from midterms to spend an hour with your peers within Viterbi and get some valuable advice for the engineering career fair in the week following this event. There will also be a FREE delicious Thai dinner. Hope to see you there!Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers
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AIChE CHE 330 Study Group Session
Wed, Oct 06, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Thermo students! Come out to collaborate with other classmates to prepare yourself for your first midterm! Join the group at VARC!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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The Afterglow: A Tribute to Robert Frost
Thu, Oct 07, 2010 @ 06:00 AM - 08:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Join us for a festival of music and films presented in conjunction with the exhibit Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes,on display at the USC Fisher Museum of Art from August 19 through November 23. The exhibition celebrates the centenary of the birth of Yousuf Karsh, one of our greatest portrait photographers, whose portrait subjects include such political, social and literary figures as Nelson Mandela, Audrey Hepburn, Winston Churchill and Robert Frost.
The Afterglow: A Tribute to Robert Frost is a documentary narrated by Burgess Meredith that combines stunning visuals and literary criticism, breathing new life into Karshâs portrait of Frost, which will be on display. Following the screening, USC English professor and poet Mark Irwin will present a discussion and poetry reading. Irwin, a nationally acclaimed poet and four-time Pushcart Prize winner, has been described as a âdescendant of William Carlos Williams and Hart Crane.â He is the author of six collections of poetry, and he has also translated several French and Romanian works. Irwin teaches undergraduate and graduate poetry workshops at USC.
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: May Ormerod Harris Hall, Quinn Wing & Fisher Gallery (HAR) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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CS Colloquium
Thu, Oct 07, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Andrea Richa , Arizona State University
Talk Title: A Jamming-Resistant MAC Protocol for Single-Hop Wireless Networks
Abstract: In this paper we consider the problem of designing a medium access control
(MAC) protocol for single-hop wireless networks that is provably robust against adaptive adversarial jamming. The wireless network consists of a set of honest and reliable nodes that are within the transmission range of each other. In addition to these nodes there is an adversary. The adversary may know the protocol and its entire history and use this knowledge to jam the wireless channel at will at any time. It is allowed to jam a (1-epsilon)-fraction of the time steps, for an arbitrary constant epsilon>0, but it has to make a jamming decision before it knows the actions of the nodes at the current step. The nodes cannot distinguish between the adversarial jamming or a collision of two or more messages that are sent at the same time. We demonstrate, for the first time, that there is a local-control MAC protocol requiring only very limited knowledge about the adversary and the network that achieves a constant throughput for the non-jammed time steps under any adversarial strategy above. We also show that our protocol is very energy efficient and that it can be extended to obtain a robust and efficient protocol for leader election and the fair use of the wireless channel.
This is joint work with Christian Scheideler (University of Paderborn, Germany) and Baruch Awerbuch (John Hopkins University).
Biography: Prof. Andrea W. Richa is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University since August 2004. She joined this department as an Assistant Professor in August 1998. Prof. Richa received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. She also earned an M.S. degree in Computer Systems from the Graduate School in Engineering (COPPE), and a B.S. degree in Computer Science, both at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992 and 1990, respectively. Prof. Richa's main area of research is in network algorithms. For more information, please visit http://www.public.asu.edu/~aricha
Host: Prof. Shang-Hua Teng
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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Northrup Grumman Info Session hosted by IEEE and HKN
Thu, Oct 07, 2010 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
Snacks will be served from 6:30 to 7, and the talk will begin promptly at 7.
Have you ever considered the world real applications behind the courses that we take in school? Have you ever pondered how these formulas can be implemented in such technologies as UAVs and cyber security? Come to the Tech Show hosted by the experts at Communications Systems, Northrup Grumman Corporation (NGC). Do not miss an opportunity to meet the technologists of NGC one week before the Viterbi Engineering Career Expo. Good news: NGC representatives will answer all your questions regarding communications technology and NGC recruitment while you can enjoy FREE FOOD! So come on by and remember to bring your resume, because NGC is actively recruiting for internship and full time positions!Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Arup Information Session
Thu, Oct 07, 2010 @ 07:00 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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2010 NAE Grand Challenges National Summit
Fri, Oct 08, 2010
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Various, Various
Talk Title: 2010 NAE Grand Challenges National Summit
Host: USC Viterbi School of Engineering
More Info: http://www.naegrandchallengessummit2010.org/Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Leslie DaCruz
Event Link: http://www.naegrandchallengessummit2010.org/
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EE-Systems Seminar
Fri, Oct 08, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Anima Anandkumar, U.C.Irvine
Talk Title: "Distributed Algorithms for Learning and Cognitive Medium Access with Logarithmic Regret"
Abstract: I will talk about the problem of distributed learning and channel access in a cognitive network with multiple secondary users. The availability statistics of the channels are initially unknown to the secondary users and are estimated using sensing decisions. There is no explicit information exchange or prior agreement among the secondary users and sensing and access decisions are undertaken by them in a completely distributed manner. The challenge is to ensure that learning of channel availabilities and distributed channel access among the secondary users do not sacrifice the cognitive system throughput (number of successful secondary transmissions) to a large extent and to design policies which minimize this loss. We propose policies for distributed learning and channel access which achieve order-optimal cognitive system throughput under self play, i.e., when implemented at all the secondary users. Equivalently, our policies minimize the sum regret in distributed learning and access, which is the loss in secondary throughput due to learning and distributed access.
For the scenario when the number of secondary users is known to the policy, we prove that the total regret is logarithmic in the number of transmission slots. This policy achieves order-optimal regret based on a logarithmic lower bound for regret under any uniformly-good learning and access policy.
We then consider the case when the number of secondary users is fixed but unknown, and is estimated at each user through feedback. We propose a policy whose sum regret grows only slightly faster than logarithmic in the number of transmission slots. I will also talk about some exciting open problems in this context.
Biography: Anima Anandkumar received her B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in
2004 and her MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 2009. She was at the Stochastic Systems Group at MIT, Cambridge, MA as a post-doctoral researcher. She has been an assistant professor at EECS Dept. and a member of center for pervasive communications and computing (CPCC) at U.C.Irvine since July 2010. She is the recipient of the 2009 Best Thesis Award by the ACM Sigmetrics Society, 2008 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, 2008 IBM Fran Allen PhD fellowship, and student paper award at 2006 IEEE ICASSP. Her research interests are in the area of statistical-signal processing, network theory and information theory.
Host: Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Shane Goodoff
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Das Rheingold
Sat, Oct 09, 2010 @ 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Student Activity
Pre-opera discussion at 12 p.m.
Admission is free. Reservations required. Reservations will be accepted beginning Friday, September 17, at 12 p.m. To RSVP, go to http://cinema.usc.edu/Opera.
In his 40th-anniversary season, Maestro James Levine, who has conducted nearly 2,500 performances at the Met, more than any conductor in the companyâs 126-year history, will conduct Wagnerâs Das Rheingold, the first installment of the new Ring cycle directed by Robert Lepage. The opera will star Bryn Terfel in his first appearance as Wotan in the U.S. and Stephanie Blythe as Fricka. The opera will be preceded by a discussion hosted by the USC Thornton School of Music. Presented as part of an ongoing series of satellite broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera presented in spectacular HD digital projection and 5.1 surround sound.
Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts in conjunction with the USC Thornton School of Music and the Metropolitan Opera.
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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Bay Area - Santa Clara Admission Reception
Sat, Oct 09, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Hosted by the Admission Office, the reception will include a general discussion about the University. You will also be able to ask questions about your areas of academic interest, explore co-curricular options and learn more about life and opportunities at USC. A representative from our Admission and Student Affairs staff, will be there on behalf of the Viterbi School of Engineering along with other representatives from the University.RSVP online at http://www.usc.edu/admevents
Location: Marriott Santa Clara<br> 2700 Mission College Boulevard<br> Santa Clara, CA 95054
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and their families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
