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Events for February 21, 2013
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Interviewing for Industry Jobs and Internships: from Preparing Your Resume to Negotiating Your Offer
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Debbie Lewis, Andrea Armani, Ehsan Tajer, Frank He, USC Alumni
Talk Title: Interviewing for Industry Jobs and Internships: from Preparing Your Resume to Negotiating Your Offer
Series: Graduate Students Practical Seminar
Abstract: This practical seminar is organized to introduce the graduate students in Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science to the Viterbi Career Services (VCS) and to hear first-hand from the department alumni about their job search experience and any tips to increase their chance of success. The seminar begins with a brief introduction to the resources available to graduate students at the VCS by Debbie Lewis, the director of VCS. After this presentation, each panelist will introduce themselves and share their job search experience and provide important tips on effective strategies in searching and interviewing for jobs. The panelists will then answer studentsââ¬â¢ questions on the job search process and the dosââ¬â¢ and donââ¬â¢ts at different stages of the process from preparing resumes to negotiating offers.
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Behnam Jafarpour
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Focused on parallel and distributed computingThu, Feb 21, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Weekly seminars given by researchers in academia and industry including senior doctoral students in EE, CS and ISI covering current research related to parallel and distributed computation including parallel algorithms, high performance computing, scientific computation, application specific architectures, multi-core and many-core architectures and algorithms, application acceleration, reconfigurable computing systems, data intensive systems, Big Data and cloud computing.
Biography: Prerequisite: Students are expected to be familiar with basic concepts at the level of graduate level courses in Computer Engineering and Computer Science in some of these topic areas above. Ph.D. students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science can automatically enroll. M.S. students can enroll only with permission of the instructor. To request permission send a brief mail to the instructor in text format with the subject field ââ¬ÅEE 598ââ¬Â. The body of the mail (in text format) should include name, degree objective, courses taken at USC and grades obtained, prior educational background, and relevant research background, if any.
Requirements for CR:
1. Attending at least 10 seminars during the semester
There will be a sign-in sheet and a sign-out sheet at every seminar. All students must sign-in (before 2:00pm) and sign-out (after 3:00pm). The sign-in sheet will not be available after 2:00pm, and the sign-out sheet will not be available before 3:00pm.
2. Submitting a written report for at least 5 seminars
The written report for each seminar must be 1-page single line spaced format with font size of 12 (Times) or 11 (Arial) without any figures, tables, or graphs. The report must be submitted no later than 1 week after the corresponding seminar, and must be handed only to the instructor either on the seminar times or during office hours. Late reports will not be considered.
The report must summarize studentââ¬â¢s own understanding of the seminar, and should contain the following:
- Your name and submission date [1 line]
- Title of the seminar, name of the speaker, and seminar date [1 line]
- Background of the work (e.g., applications, prior research, etc.) [1 paragraph]
- Highlights of the approaches presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Main results presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Conclusion (your own conclusion and not what was given by the speaker) [1 paragraph]
Reviewing papers related to the topic of the seminar, and incorporating relevant findings in the
reports (e.g., in the conclusion section) is encouraged. In such cases, make sure to clearly indicate
the reference(s) used to derive these conclusions.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR 6
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mohammad Abdel-Majeed and Hyeran Jeon, PhD Students, Electrical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: Energy Efficient and Reliable GPGPU Architecture
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are initially designed to provide a high performance computing for multimedia applications. Due to the efficiency of their execution model, nowadays GPUs are used to run scientific, medical and financial workloads in addition to the multimedia workloads. In this talk we will explore the opportunities in current GPUs that can be used to support a reliable and power efficient execution without affecting the overall performance of GPUs.
In the first part of the talk we will go through some workloads characterization experiments to explore the available opportunities for reliable and power efficient solutions. In the second part we will introduce two mechanisms based on the explored opportunities. The first mechanism is warped DMR that focuses on designing a reliable execution model in GPUs in order to match with the reliability requirements for the new set of application domains. The second mechanism is warped register file that targets designing a power efficient register file for GPUs in order to mitigate the wasted leakage and the dynamic power caused by the mismatch in applications requirements.
Biography: Mohammad Abdel-Majeed is a 3rd year PhD student in Electrical Engineering department at University of Southern California. He is working under the supervision of Professor Murali Annavaram and his research focuses on the power efficiency in the modern high throughput processors.
Hyeran Jeon is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering department of University of Southern California. She is also a member of SCIP lab led by Professor Murali Annavaram. Her research interest is in architectural support for reliable computing.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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CS Colloquium: Christoph Dorn (TU Vienna)
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Christoph Dorn, Technical University of Vienna
Talk Title: Models and Techniques for the Design and Self-Adaptation of Socio-Technical Systems
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: The emergence of socio-technical systems characterized by significant user collaboration poses a new challenge for system adaptation. People are no longer just the óusersò of a system but an integral part. Traditional self-adaptation mechanisms, however, consider only the software system and remain unaware of the ramifications arising from collaboration interdependencies. By neglecting collective user behavior, an adaptation mechanism is unfit to appropriately adapt to evolution of user activities, consider side-effects on collaborations during the adaptation process, or anticipate negative consequence upon reconfiguration completion. Inspired by existing architecture-centric system adaptation approaches, I will make the case for a human architecture model and linking it to the runtime software architecture.
I will introduce a mapping mechanism and corresponding framework that enables a system adaptation manager to reason upon the effect of software-level changes on human interactions and vice versa.
Biography: Christoph Dorn, PhD, worked since 2006 as a research assistant at the Technical University of Vienna. He received his Degree in Business Informatic MSocEcSc in 2004 and his PhD in Computer Science in 2009. His research interest is focused on Collaborative Working Environments, Adaptive Collaboration Patterns, Software Architecture, Team formation heuristics, and Self-adaptive Ad-hoc Workflows. Recently awarded an Austrian Science Fond Schroedinger Mobility Fellowship (Marie Curie Co-funded), Christoph was a visiting researcher with Prof. Richard Taylor at U.C. Irvine from March 2011 to August 2012. He is currently spending his fellowship return phase at the Distributed Systems Group (TU Vienna).
Host: Nenad Medvidovic
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Raytheon Information Session
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 @ 05:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Please come and learn more about Raytheon Company and the positions we have available.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: All Viterbi BS, MS Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Bright Ideas 2013
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 @ 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Receptions & Special Events
Do you thrive under pressure? Have you always wanted to be a reality show contestant? Do you want competition TV shows? Do you want win awesome gifts? Sounds like you're up for the challenge!
Join us on Thursday February 21st from 5:30 - 7:30 pm for BRIGHT IDEAS 2013, a Signature E-Week Event.
RSVP here: http://bit.ly/12Jj6NG
BRIGHT IDEAS is an interactive research presentation competition. No preparation or research experience required just an adventurous, competitive spirit!
Upon check in at 5:30pm, you'll grab your free dinner, be assigned a group, an given a research topic. You and your group will have 1 hour to create a Powerpoint presentation. You'll present to a small panel of industry judges and the winning group will win various prizes.
Please rsvp by midnight on Tuesday February 19th. Thanks!More Information: BRIGHTIDEAS Full Page Flyer 2013.pdf
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
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The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony)
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free.
Over the past 30 years, feminist lesbian performance artist Holly Hughes has influenced a generation of artists and scholars with her provocative performances. She will perform The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony), her first full-length solo piece in ten years, in which she poignantly and hilariously pairs incisive commentary on identity and politics with insights on aging, community and belonging. Written and performed by Hughes and directed by Dan Hurlin, the show offers a touching and comical look at the nature of relationships and intimacy through a loosely linked series of autobiographical narratives, the subject matter of which ranges from the legacy of feminism to the unique characters found at a Michigan dog show. The performance will be followed by a Q&A moderated by professor David Román.
Since she began performing at the New York City womenâs art cooperative the WOW Café in the early 1980s, Holly Hughes has established herself as one of the most important figures in feminist performance. She has written and performed such plays as The Well of Horniness and Let Them Eat Cake and the solo shows Clit Notes and Preaching to the Perverted. She has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others, and has won a Lambda Book Award as well as two OBIE Awards. Hughesâs innovative work in both solo and group performance has been foundational for performance artists and for performance studies as an academic field.
Related Event:
Autobiographical Performance Workshop with Holly Hughes
Friday, February 22, 2 to 4 p.m.
Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library 240
For more info, click here.
Organized by David Román (English and American Studies and Ethnicity).
Photo: Lisa Guido
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Grand Ballroom
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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SWE & Panhellenic Council - Something Sweet Fundraiser
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 @ 10:00 PM - 01:00 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join us for our Something Sweet Fundraiser! This is a joint event from the Society of Women Engineers and the Panhellenic Council. There will be dessert food trucks on the row, with the proceeds going to support the Global Fund for Women.
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
