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SS12 WebDev Workshop
Fri, Jan 23, 2015 @ 05:00 AM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
SS12 coming up and you feel like you don't know enough? Want to learn cool new frameworks to build applications?
Come to the workshop this Friday!
In preparation for the upcoming Hackathon SS12 this weekend, ACM will be hosting a Web Development workshop this Friday to teach newcomers how to make a web application. The event is completely free for everyone and is right before the kickoff of SS12.
Come ready to learn!Location: Annenberg School For Communication (ASC) - USC Annenberg Innovation Lab West Wing
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Association for Computing Machinery
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Transfer Day
Fri, Jan 23, 2015 @ 09:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Transfer Day is a half-day comprehensive program designed to give prospective transfer students the answers to questions about the transfer process. Transfer Day includes an hour-long Engineering Admission presentation, led by Viterbi's Transfer Admission Advisors, that will go over the admission process,recommended courses for engineers, transfer credit policy, etc.
To RSVP for transfer day visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/transfer/prospective/transferdays.htmlLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) -
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfer Applicants
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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Planning paths for Multiple Agents - Talk by Guni Sharon
Fri, Jan 23, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Speaker: Guni Sharon, Ben-Gurion University, Information Systems Engineering Department
Title: Planning paths for Multiple Agents
Abstract: Pathfinding for a single agent in a map is a well-known problem with applications in GPS applications, robotics, digital entertainment, and automated planning. This problem can be solved optimally in polynomial time, and current techniques are able to find paths in graphs with hundreds of millions of intersections within seconds. In my talk I will present the multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem, where the task is to plan paths for a group of agents in a joint state space. Applications of MAPF include motion planning for a team of robots, traffic management, evacuation from danger zones, video games and warehouse management. Unlike its single-agent counterpart, solving MAPF optimally is an NP-Hard problem, whose complexity grows roughly exponentially with the number of agents. The ncreased complexity stems from the hard constraint that agents must not be assign overlapping paths (the agents must never collide with each other).
Despite the NP-Hardness of MAPF, current techniques are able to solve MAPF optimally for more than a hundred agents. I will survey several of these techniques, manly: extensions to the A* search algorithm, decomposing a complex MAPF into a sequence of easier problems and reducing MAPF to other known problems. I will attempt to characterize the domains on which each of the techniques performs well. Lastly, I will show that by allowing a small, bounded, amount of suboptimality, problems with more than 250 (!!) agents can be solved.
Guni Sharon is a PHD student at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He is part of a research group led by Prof. Ariel Felner and Dr. Roni Stern. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Information Systems Engineering Dpt. at Ben-Gurion University. Guni’s main research interests lie in heuristic search and optimization. Guni presented several novel techniques for solving the Multi-Agent Pathfinding problem. His interests also cover Real-Time Search and Constraint Programing
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 146
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Jan 23, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ashley Crowder, Co-Founder and CEO of VNTANA
Talk Title: Engineering Entrepreneurship
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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NL Seminar- Understanding Analogies: Theory and Method
Fri, Jan 23, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Devin Griffiths , USC/Dornsife
Talk Title: Understanding Analogies: Theory and Method
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Analogies allow us to make connections between different domains of knowledge and to apply what we already know to new situations. For this reason, they're important to developing new theories and new understandings of the social and natural world, and have often been seen as an important task for machine learning. In my talk, I'll explore how different theories of how analogy works shape the different approaches that research teams take when modeling analogical thinking. Specifically, I'll contrast what I term "formal" or "top-down" theories of analogy with a "serial" or "bottom-up" approach. Finally, I'll describe a syntactic and semantic method for searching out analogies within corpora. I'm convinced that understanding analogies better, and being able to find locate new analogies in historical documents, can help us understand where new ideas come from.
Biography: Devin Griffiths is an assistant professor in the English Department at USC, where he studies nineteenth-century British literature and scientific history. His current book project, titled "Between the Darwins," explores how analogies were used in the nineteenth century to create new theories of evolution and social progress. His areas of research include science and literature, poetics, book history, and the digital humanities.
Host: Aliya Deri and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=56439af4a5cb41f49a2c5faef5683cd11dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Conference Room # 689, Marina del Rey
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=56439af4a5cb41f49a2c5faef5683cd11d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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USC ACM SS12 Hackathon 2015: Code for a Cause
Fri, Jan 23, 2015 @ 07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
USC ACM is teaming up with Project Possibility again for a high-impact hackathon! This event provides an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate software developers to make a profound difference by developing innovative, empowering software projects for disabled persons and win prizes for their work. The purpose of SS12 is to increase awareness of issues in accessible computing and be educational and fun for all participants.
Whether you're new to programming or an experienced developer, come out to USC's SS12 competition! We guarantee it'll be a memorable experience!
Schedule:
January 23rd, 7:00pm - Kickoff in GFS 106. Come and learn about the possible projects you can create, learn about SS12 and Code for a Cause, and form teams!Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - GFS106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Association for Computing Machinery
