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Events for February 05, 2008
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Recent Changes in Shipping and Port Industries: The Korean Experience
Tue, Feb 05, 2008 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
METRANS Lecture: "Recent Changes in Shipping and Port Industries: The Korean Experience"Professor Hee Seok Bang, Dean, College of Social Sciences & Chair, Department of Shipping and Logistics Chung Ang University Seoul, KoreaSponsored by The USC Sea Grant Program and The USC Paul Hall Endowment for Marine TransportationThe Korean marine transportation and logistics system has seen rapid changes as China has developed large seaports that now compete with Korean ports. Moreover, Korea has sought to redistribute its population as well as its logistics industry by developing new seaports around the country both to foster economic development and to better distribute its population. Professor Bang has long experience in advising the Korea's Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (MOMAF) in both of these areas and will share some of his insights with us.TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2008, 10 AM - 11:30 AMNewman Recital Hall, University Park CampusFor further information: (213) 740-1961
Location: Newman Recital Hall, University Park Campus
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Viterbi L.I.N.K.
Tue, Feb 05, 2008 @ 12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi L.I.N.K. (Learn, Interact, Network, Know) is an open house hosted by the Viterbi Student Affairs Office to highlight various academic and co-curricular opportunities, as well as the resources available to all of our undergraduate students. We will also be showcasing some of Viterbi's student organizations, encouraging each of our students to L.I.N.K. into the Viterbi community. Viterbi L.I.N.K. will be held on Tuesday, February 5th from 12:00 pm – 3:00pm in the Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH) lobby.We encourage you to stop by the event to discover and re-discover the many opportunities available to all Viterbi students. In addition, we will have free snacks and prizes.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - Lobby
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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CS Colloquia: Towards a Visually-Guided Semi-Autonomous Wheelchair for the Disabled
Tue, Feb 05, 2008 @ 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Title: Towards a Visually-Guided Semi-Autonomous Wheelchair for the DisabledSpeaker: Prof. John K. Tsotsos (York)ABSTRACT:
An intelligent, autonomous wheelchair for the disabled has been the dream of
many for some time.
Yet, the dream seems to still be very distant. In part, the role and utility
of vision seems to not have
reached its full potential in this application. I will describe a
long-standing project we affectionately call
Playbot whose goal is to develop a purely visually-guided wheelchair with
manipulator that would assist
a child. Most of the functionality easily translates to assistance for a
broader population. I will present an
overview of the project with a focus on several vision-based components
including active visual object
search, mapping, and doorway behavior. Video will demonstrate many of these
functions. There is
much to do particularly in integration and a preview of a control architecture
for this purpose will be given.
As a general goal, we seek to understand the role of vision, as a primary
sense, in autonomous assistive agents.
This project, framed against this ambitious goal, hopes to make a few small
steps towards the dream.BIO:
John K. Tsotsos received an honours undergraduate degree in Engineering
Science in 1974 from the University of Toronto and continued at the University
of Toronto to complete a Master's degree in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1980 both in
Computer Science. He was on the faculty in Computer Science and in Medicine at
the University of Toronto from 1980 - 1999, where he founded and led the
Computer Vision Research Group. In 2000 he moved to York University in Toronto
where he is currently Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science &
Engineering. He was Director of York's Centre for Vision Research, 2000 -2006. He holds the NSERC Tier I Canada Research Chair in Computational Vision
and is an Adjunct Professor in both the departments of Ophthalmology and of
Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He was a Fellow in the
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics program of the Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research from 1985 - 95, has several conference papers that received
recognition, was awarded the 2006 Canadian Image Processing and Pattern
Recognition Society Award for Research Excellence and Service, and is part of
the ACM Distinguished Speaker Program for 2007-08.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Colloquia
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CS Colloquia: Computing Equilibria in Games
Tue, Feb 05, 2008 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Title: Computing Equilibria in GamesSpeaker: Constantinos Daskalakis (UC Berkeley)ABSTRACT:
Game Theory is important for the study of large competitive environments, such
as the Internet, the market, and even social and biological systems. A key
tool in analyzing such systems (games) is the study of their stable states,
that is, their equilibria. Understanding the properties of equilibria can give
insights into the effectiveness of economic policies, engineering decisions,
etc. However, due to the large scale of most interesting games, the problem of
computing equilibria cannot be separated from complexity considerations.
Motivated by this challenge, I will discuss the problem of computing
equilibria in games.I will show first that computing a Nash equilibrium is an intractable problem.
It is not NP-complete, since, by Nash's theorem, an equilibrium is always
guaranteed to exist, but it is at least as hard as solving any fixed point
computation problem, in a precise complexity-theoretic sense.In view of this hardness result, I will present algorithms for computing
approximate equilibria. In particular, I will describe algorithms that achieve
constant factor approximations for 2-player games, and give a quasi-polynomial
time approximation scheme for the multi-player setting.Finally, I will consider a very natural and important class of games termed
anonymous games. In these games every player is oblivious to the identities of
the other players; examples arise in auction settings, congestion games, and
social phenomena. I will introduce a polynomial time approximation scheme for
the anonymous setting and provide surprising connections to Stein's method in
probability theory.BIO:
Constantinos (or Costis) Daskalakis grew up in Athens, Greece, where he
received his undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from
the National Technical University of Athens. In 2004 he moved to California to
pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley under the supervision of
Professor Christos H. Papadimitriou. Costis¡¦s work has focused on
computational game theory and applied probability, in particular the
computation of equilibria in games, the study of social networks, and
computational problems in biology. His research is motivated by two questions:
"How does the algorithmic perspective influence economics, biology, physics,
and the social sciences?" And, "how does the study of computational problems
arising from areas outside computer science transform the theory of
computation?"Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Colloquia
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World Performance: Here, Elsewhere, Everywhere
Tue, Feb 05, 2008 @ 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
University Calendar
World Performance: Here, Elsewhere, Everywhere
A Lecture by Joseph Roach Yale University professor Joseph Roach will present a dynamic and interactive lecture and discussion focusing on his groundbreaking work with the World Performance Project. Roach will challenge and expand our ideas of where and how performance takes place.Tuesday, February 5, 2008
6:00pmAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
