Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
4th USC-Tsinghua University Faculty Forum on Green and Smart for a Sustainable Future
Faculty from USC and China's Tsinghua University will hold a two-day forum on environmental sustainability.
When:
April 1, 2010 8:30am to April 2, 2010 5:00pm
Where
DAY 1: Thursday, April 1, 2010
8:30 AM – Arrive and Refreshments, RTH 526
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM RTH 526
Introductions and Welcoming Remarks
Elizabeth Garrett, USC, Vice President for Academic Planning and Budget
Adam Powell, Vice Provost for Globalization
Yannis Yortsos, USC, Dean of Viterbi School of Engineering
Cauligi Raghavendra, Sr. Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives
Xu Chen, Vice President of Tsinghua University
Jun Li, Executive Vice Dean of School of Information Science and Technology (SIST)
Zhisheng Niu, Vice Dean of School of Information Science and Technology (SIST)
9:45 AM to Noon – Plenary Session Talks, RTH 526
Yannis Yortsos, Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC
“Smart and Green for a Sustainable Future”
Zanji Wang, Executive Director of Low Carbon Energy (LCE) and Director, China Automotive Energy Research Center (CAERC), THU
“Brief Introduction to Interdisciplinary Research of Low Carbon Energy at Tsinghua”
Dan Dapkus, Professor of Electrical Engineering, USC
“Emerging Materials for Solar Energy Conversion and Solid State Lighting”
Xiaohong Guan, Director of the Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems, THU
“Challenges and Opportunities in Efficient Energy Production, Consumption and Transmission for Information Science and Technology”
12:00 PM to 2 PM – Lunch at the University Club
14:00 PM – 17:00 PM – Two Parallel Tracks
14:00 PM – 17:00 PM
Track I, RTH 526, Green IT, Data Centers, Building Efficiency
Massoud Pedram, USC: Energy Efficient Enterprise Computing and Green Datacenters
Ling Feng, THU: Context Aware Computing and Applications - A Data Management Perspective
Burcin, Becerik, USC: Sustainable Development of the Built Environment
Junwei Cao, THU: Smart Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Data Analysis
Si-Zhao Qin, USC: Efficient Building Energy Optimization and Control for Demand Response
Qianchuan Zhao, THU: Control and Scheduling of Power Aware Networked Systems
14:00 PM – 17:00 PM
Track II, RTH 306 – Alternative Energy, Waste Management, and Bioinformatics
Fred Aminzadeh, USC: Use of the Oil Patch Technologies in Geothermal Fields
Xibin Zhao, THU:
Hai Wang, USC: Combustion Kinetics Research
Don Zhang, USC: Carbon Sequestration
Shanghua Teng, USC: Bioinformatics
Rui Jiang, THU: epiMPI, epiCUDA, epiForest, and epiMODE:
Detection of Epistatic Interactions in Genome-wide Association Studies
17:00 PM Campus Tour
18:30 PM Dinner, McKays Restaurant, Radisson Hotel, Figueroa Street
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DAY 2: Friday, April 2, 2010
9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon -- Two Parallel Tracks
9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon
Track I, RTH 526 – Smart Grid and Urban Infrastructure
Viktor Prasanna, USC: Energy Informatics for Smart Oil Field and Smart Grid
Zuo Zhang, THU: Evaluation for Traffic Situation and the Emergent Traffic Pathway Organization In Responsive to Urbane Severe Emergencies
Jay Kuo, USC: Power Quality Monitoring in Smart Grids via Change-Point Detection
Zhihua Wang, THU: Integrated Circuit Design in Smart Grid Environments
Roger Ghanem, USC: Information-Driven Predictions for Urban Sustainability
Hui Zhang, THU: Solid Reconstruction from Engineering Drawings
9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon
Track II, RTH 306 – Nanomaterials, Green Computing and Networks
Chong-Wu Zhou, USC: Nanomaterials for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells and Supercapacitors
Huaqiang Wu, THU: Graphene Based High Frequency FET and Novel Non-Volatile Memory Device
Murali Annavaram, USC: Server Energy Resiliency
Thomas Fang Zheng, THU: User Authentication in Telephone Banking based on Speaker Verification
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC: Green Wireless Networks
Lin Zhang, THU: “Sensing China” with the Development of Internal of Things (IoT)
12:00 Noon -- 13:30 PM -- Lunch with USC faculty at the University Club
13:30 PM – 15:30 PM – USC Lab Tours, HPC Lab, Nanotech Lab
15:30 PM – 17:00 PM Faculty Group Discussion
Appointment will be made by faculty (groups)
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DAY 3: Saturday, April 3, 2010
Individual faculty lab visits and meetings
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October 20, 2024
Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
RSVP link: https://forms.gle/1zer188RE9dCS6Ho6
Events
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author David M. Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.