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Events for January 14, 2015
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkWed, Jan 14, 2015
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. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering 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 make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Prospective Undergrads and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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AI Seminar: General Methods for Causal Discovery
Wed, Jan 14, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Frederick Eberhardt, Caltech, Professor of Philosophy at Caltech
Talk Title: General Methods for Causal Discovery
Series: AISeminar
Abstract: This talk will consist of two parts, both concerned with causal discovery. In the first part I will describe some methods we have developed to perform causal inference with very weak background assumptions. The problem of causal discovery is converted into a constraint optimization problem that is then solved using maxSAT solvers. This general framework allows for the inclusion of very general background knowledge and only requires extremely weak model space assumptions. We show in simulations that for the restricted domains in which an exact Bayesian computation can be performed, our methods achieve an accuracy very close to that of the exact Bayesian computation. For more general domains, no competing method exists. In the second part, I will describe some very recent research we have done on extracting causes of behavior from images. This research addresses the more general question of how causal macro-variables can be constructed from micro-variables (pixel data, in our case). We hope that our account can lay the groundwork for a more general approach to automated causal analysis of images and video data.
Here are the relevant papers:
First part: http://people.hss.caltech.edu/~fde/papers/HEJ_UAI2014.pdf
Second part: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2309
Biography: Frederick Eberhardt is Professor of Philosophy at Caltech. He is primarily interested in methods for causal discovery from statistical data, the use of experiments in causal discovery, the integration of causal inferences from different data sets and the philosophical issues at the foundations of causality and probability. His research focuses both on how methods of causal discovery can be constructed and on how humans and animals in fact learn about causal relations. Before joining Caltech in 2013, he was assistant professor in the philosophy-neuroscience-psychology program at Washington University in St Louis. He got his PhD from Carnegie Mellon in 2007 and was a postdoc in psychology at UC Berkeley until 2009.
Host: Kun Zhang
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=44b5327011024c03bc46967a538adc9d1dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 1135
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=44b5327011024c03bc46967a538adc9d1d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alma Nava / Information Sciences Institute
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Viterbi Spring Welcome
Wed, Jan 14, 2015 @ 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Come meet peers, upper-division Viterbi students, and staff at the Viterbi Spring Welcome!The Viterbi Spring Welcome is for new freshmen and transfer students as well as students who have indicated interest in changing their major to Viterbi. There will be food, activities as well as plenty of resources to jump start your Viterbi Life!
Viterbi Spring Welcome
Wednesday, January 14th
5:00-6:30 pm
Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH) 211
RSVP Here
You will have the opportunity to meet Kristi (Senior ISE student) and Wes (Junior ME student) who will serve as resources for you throughout your first semester and who will be organizing fun opportunities for everyone to get together to explore USC life!
Please RSVP so that we can plan for your attendance. We look forward to seeing you all there!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: New Viterbi Students
Contact: Jenny Vazquez-Akim
