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Events for February 05, 2013
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Mock Interviews
Tue, Feb 05, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
This is a valuable opportunity to practice for an interview and receive feedback from an industry representative from Intel, CIA, SAIC, Northrop Grumman, or Microsoft.
CED members can sign up in RTH 210 before 5 pm Friday, February 1st.
For more information, e-mail viterbi.ced@usc.edu.Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 210
Audiences: Registered Members of Center for Engineering Diversity
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
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Epstein ISE Faculty Candidate Seminar
Tue, Feb 05, 2013 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Pengyi Shi, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk Title: "Data-driven Modeling and Decisions for Hospital Inpatient Flow Management"
Abstract: Emergency department (ED) overcrowding negatively impacts patient safety and public health, and hence, has become one of the most challenging problems facing healthcare delivery systems worldwide. It is known that prolonged waiting time for admitted patients to be transferred from ED to inpatient beds (i.e., ED boarding) is a key contributor to ED overcrowding. Our research focuses on gaining insights into effective inpatient flow management to reduce this waiting time, and eventually, to reduce ED overcrowding.
Based on an extensive empirical study of a Singaporean hospital, we build a new stochastic network model of inpatient flow. The model contains several novel features including the service times being endogenous, and these features are critical for the model to predict the time-dependent empirical performance measures such as the hourly average waiting time and the fraction of patients waiting more than 6 hours. By simulating the stochastic model, we identify certain operational policies that can reduce ED boarding and eliminate the excessively long waiting times for patients requesting beds in the morning. These policies focus on discharging patients at an earlier time of the day. The model also allows one to study the impact of other operational policies including staffing and expanding step-down-care facilities on ED boarding. To obtain structural insights, we further develop a novel ââ¬Åtwo-time-scaleââ¬Â analytical framework to analyze the model. This framework overcomes many challenges, including the service times being extremely long compared to the time-variations of the arrival rate, faced by existing methods for large-scale queuing systems. In addition to exact analysis, we employ a heavy-traffic approximation. Finally, we discuss future directions for research and practice.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: Seminar-Shi_Pengyi.doc
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - Room 526
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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CS Colloquium: Jeff Mogul (HP Labs): Corybantic: Towards the Modular Composition of SDN Controllers
Tue, Feb 05, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jeff Mogul, HP Labs
Talk Title: CS Colloquium: Jeff Mogul (HP Labs)
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to enable vigorous innovation, through separation of the control plane from the data plane, and to enable novel forms of network management, through a controller that uses a global view to make globally-valid decisions. The design of SDN controllers creates novel challenges; much previous work has focused on making them scalable, reliable, and efficient.
We argue that, to control a realistic network, we do not want one monolithic SDN controller. Instead, we want to compose the effects of many controller modules managing different aspects of the network, which may be competing for resources. Each module will try to optimize one or more objectives; we address the challenge of how to coordinate between these modules to optimize an overall objective function. Our framework design, Corybantic, focuses on achieving both modular decomposition and maximizing the overall value delivered by the controller's decisions.
Biography: Jeff Mogul is a Fellow at HP Labs, doing research primarily on computer networks and operating systems issues for enterprise and cloud computer systems; previously, he worked at the DEC/Compaq Western Research Lab. He received his PhD from Stanford in 1979, and is an ACM Fellow. Jeff is the author or co-author of several Internet Standards; he contributed extensively to the HTTP/1.1 specification. He has been the chair or co-chair of a variety of conferences and workshops, including SIGCOMM, OSDI, and ANCS. He is currently co-chairing NSDI 2013.
Host: Ethan Katz-Bassett
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Viterbi Industry Networking Event
Tue, Feb 05, 2013 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
Juniors and Seniors: Grow your network at VINE, an event that will help you prepare for the Career Expo. Get face-to-face time and practice your networking skills with top engineering companies; beverages and appetizers will be served.
Don't forget to register soon!
Location: Town & Gown
Audiences: Juniors & Seniors Only
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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An Evening with Patti Smith A Visions and Voices Signature Event
Tue, Feb 05, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free. Seating is general admission. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Tuesday, January 8, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897839
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897839
Book signing and reception to follow.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of music, poetry and conversation featuring the seminal American artist Patti Smith, moderated by USC Annenberg professor Josh Kun.
A poet, singer, songwriter, photographer and fine artist, Patti Smith has produced a body of work whose influence branches out through generations, across disciplines and around the world. Emerging in the nascent cultural hotbed of mid-1970s New York City, Smith forged a reputation as one of the decadeâs first visionary artists, merging poetry and rock in vital new ways. Her 1975 debut album, Horses, is routinely ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2010, she won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Just Kids, a best-selling memoir about her early days in New York when she met and made art with her friend Robert Mapplethorpe. In 2011, Smith was listed amongst TIME magazineâs 100 most influential people in the world and Rolling Stoneâs 100 greatest artists.
Patti Smith and her band released eight studio albums on Arista Records from 1975 to 2002: Horses, Radio Ethiopia, Easter, Wave, Dream of Life, Gone Again, Peace and Noise and Gung Ho. In 2004, on Columbia, she released trampinâ, a critically acclaimed album whose varied subject matter includes motherhood and the preemptive strike on Iraq. Her 2007 release, Twelve, a collection of cover songs, was hailed by many as the best of the year. In 2010, Smith received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishersâ Founders Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Smithâs poetry collections include Auguries of Innocence. Additional books include Babel, Early Work, The Coral Sea and Complete. As a fine artist, Smith has exhibited at various galleries and museums. Her 2002 exhibition, Strange Messenger, containing drawings, silkscreens and photos from 1967 to 2002, showed at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh before traveling throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. A solo exhibition of drawings and photographs showed at the Fondation Cartier pour lâart contemporain in Paris. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded her the prestigious title of Commandeur of Arts and Letters. Smith has honorary doctorate degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago, Rowan University and Pratt Institute.
Photo: Patti Smith, 2007 © Edward Mapplethorpe
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) - Bovard Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
