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Events for February 20, 2015
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Society of Women Engineers High School Guide to Engineering
Fri, Feb 20, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Help to inspire the next generation of women engineers! Please check out the SWE USC facebook page for more event details!
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkFri, Feb 20, 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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SIMULIA/Abaqus Update Seminar and User Meetings at University of Southern California
Fri, Feb 20, 2015 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Workshops & Infosessions
WHAT: Members of SIMULIA (makers of the Abaqus® software) will be on-campus to present a technical update seminar, and to meet with Faculty and Students. Be sure to mark the date on your calendar and plan to attend.
Update Seminar Presentation Agenda
1. Update on SIMULIA in Academia – New Research and Teaching packages with dramatically increased capabilities. USC now has access to *ALL* SIMULIA software technology using the same license tokens used for Abaqus:
• Abaqus® for Finite Element Analysis (structural, thermal, fluids, and multi-physics)
• Tosca® for topology optimization
• fe-safe® for fatigue and durability analysis
• Isight® for process integration, trade studies, and multi-discipline design optimization
2. What’s new in Abaqus 6.14 – Highlights
• Abaqus 6.14 was released in July 2014
Individual and Small Group meetings
Dick Rotelli of SIMULIA would like to meet individually or in small groups with USC faculty and students to learn how they are using Abaqus or other SIMULIA software, and get their feedback. These meetings can be scheduled anytime during the day, before or after the Update Seminar presentation. To reserve a time slot, please contact Dick.Rotelli@3ds.com.
For More Information Contact: Dick Rotelli at 401-531-5362 or Dick.Rotelli@3ds.com
Location: Robert Glen Rapp Engineering Research Building (RRB) - 208
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi IT
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Feb 20, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jonathan Gratch, Director for Virtual Human Research, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Talk Title: Interdisciplinary Research: Playing at the Boundary of Engineering, Psychology, and Business
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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Introduction to Internetworking
Fri, Feb 20, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Mujtaba Khambatti, Bing Search Engine
Talk Title: Why do we care about Performance
Abstract: This talk will discuss Bings approach to web performance. Bing is known for its rich search experiences that powers over a third of all US search traffic (from Bing.com, Yahoo, Baidu, Siri, Windows search, and several mobile entry points). Despite the richness and the high volume of traffic, it remains a superfast site, delivering results within a couple blinks of an eye. This is possible due to a deep rooted culture that balances speed with a desire to deliver beautiful experiences to its users; and several technical investments to improve performance like browser side enhancements, rendering enhancements, network/CDN optimizations, and server optimizations. The talk will dive into details on several of these technology investments including how Bing is able to measure performance at scale for hundreds of millions of page views daily. Bingâs focus on improving search speed has shown a provable impact to user engagement and revenue thereby fueling an even greater investment in web performance across Bing. Mujtaba will also share some of the advanced creative ideas like HTTP2, smart network caching, and so on that are being explored with the intent to reduce all unneeded latency in the search experience. Bing believes in the quest to create engaging websites that are both beautiful and fast, something nearly all websites need to have. This talk will share an approach that is essential to the success of any web property (websites, web apps, services) in the new Web 2.0 world.
Biography: Dr. Mujtaba Khambatti is a Principal Program Manager Lead in the Bing team at Microsoft. He runs several engineering teams that power the engine of Bing. He currently runs the web performance team, the UX platform team that powers Bingâs experiences across tablet, mobile and desktop devices, the Bing API team that creates and manages access to Bing search via REST APIs, and the Agility/Core Engineering team. In the past he worked in Windows on various engineering teams doing work on OS reliability, servicing and security. Here he managed engineering of monthly security & non-security updates to 1 billion Windows users worldwide, built several features to improve key reliability concerns like: Recovery, Hang Reporting, Resource Exhaustion Prevention, and Reliability Monitor. He is the recipient of numerous corporate awards for team and technical success including 5 engineering excellence awards. Mujtaba received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State University (2003).
Host: Alefiya Hussain
Location: SLH 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alefiya Hussain
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NL Seminar: Semantic Parsing as Machine Translation
Fri, Feb 20, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jonathan May, USC/ISI
Talk Title: Semantic Parsing as Machine Translation
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: We cast the generation of semantic graphs from natural language text as a machine translation problem, where the source language is English and the target language is a labeled graph representing a semantic interpretation, known as an Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). Via a series of data transformations we create a training set that is amenable to a string-to-tree syntax mt decoder. Previous work in SBMT and AMR parsing is combined to yield a trainable system that achieves state-of-the-art parsing results.
Biography: Jonathan May is a computer scientist at USC-ISI, where he also received a PhD in 2010. His current focus areas are in machine translation, machine learning, and natural language understanding. Jonathan co-developed and patented a highly portable method for optimizing thousands of features in machine translation systems that has since been incorporated into all leading open source MT systems. He has previously worked in automata theory and information extraction and at SDL Language Weaver and BBN Technologies.
Host: Nima Pourdamghani and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 6th Flr Conf Rm # 689, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Integrated Systems Seminar
Fri, Feb 20, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Dragan Maksimovic, University of Colorado
Talk Title: Distributed Power Electronics in Photovoltaic Power Systems
Series: Integrated Systems Seminar
Abstract: This talk is focused on power electronics in photovoltaic (PV) solar power systems. State of the art and emerging trends in PV system architectures are addressed, with emphasis on improvements in energy capture, efficiency, reliability, impact on reduced balance of system and installation costs, and increased levels of integration. Architectures based on distributed power electronics, including dc optimizers and microinverters, are highlighted. A new isolated-port system architecture is introduced, based on differential power processing submodule integrated dc-dc converters and simple distributed controls, leading to smart PV panels with integrated power management. It is shown how fine-granularity maximum power point tracking results in substantial improvements in energy capture in PV systems with mismatches due to partial shading, temperature gradients, dirt, tolerances, or ageing. Advantages of distributed differential power processing are verified by simulation and experimental results in representative scenarios, including rooftop and commercial-scale PV solar power systems.
Biography: Prof. Dragan Maksimovic received his Ph.D. degree from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1989. In 1992, he joined the University of Colorado at Boulder where he is currently a Charles V. Schelke Endowed Professor and Director of the Colorado Power Electronics Center (CoPEC) in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. Prof. Maksimovic is a Fellow of the IEEE and serves as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He is co-author of the textbook Fundamentals of Power Electronics, 2nd edition, Springer 2001. His current research interests include power electronics for renewable energy sources and energy efficiency, high frequency power conversion using wide bandgap semiconductors, digital control of switched-mode power converters, as well as analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits for power management applications.
Host: Hosted by Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen, and Prof. Mahta Moghaddam Organized and hosted by Run Chen
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=915365
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elise Herrera-Green
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=915365
