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Events for February 24, 2015
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CS Colloquium: Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick (UC Berkeley)
Tue, Feb 24, 2015 @ 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, UC Berkeley
Talk Title: Structured Models for Unlocking Language Data
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: One way to provide deeper insight into data is to reason about the underlying causal process that produced it. I'll present model-based approaches for discovering and managing language data that incorporate rich causal structure in novel ways. First, I'll describe a new approach to automatic text summarization that incorporates syntactic structure into a decision process that learns from human summaries. Second, I'll describe an approach to historical document recognition that uses a statistical model of the historical printing press to reason about images, and, as a result, is able to decipher historical documents in an unsupervised fashion. I'll hint at how similar approaches can be used for a range of other problems and types of data.
Event will be available to stream HERE
Biography: Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick is a PhD candidate in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He works with professor Dan Klein on using machine learning to understand structured human data, including language but also sources like music, document images, and other complex artifacts. Taylor completed his undergraduate degree in mathematics and computer science at Berkeley as well, where he won the departmental Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize in mathematics. As a graduate student, Taylor has received both the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Host: Computer Science Department
More Info: https://bluejeans.com/853935926
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
Event Link: https://bluejeans.com/853935926
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USC Viterbi STEM Spotlight on the Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Tue, Feb 24, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 05:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering K-12 STEM Center
University Calendar
The USC Viterbi STEM Spotlight series focuses on three departments each year. In February, the Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering is being spotlighted. In the afternoon of Tuesday, 2/24, pre-registered middle & high school students will be visiting the research labs of Professors Childress, Sioutas, Masri, and Lynett. More information on the USC Viterbi STEM Spotlight can be found here: http://bit.ly/CEEspotlight.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) -
Audiences: K-12 Schools pre-registered
Contact: Katie Mills
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Epstein Institute / ISE 651 Seminar Series
Tue, Feb 24, 2015 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael C. Ferris, Professor of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Talk Title: Modeling and Optimization within Interacting Systems
Abstract: We consider models built up from a collection of optimizations within an interacting physical, economic or virtual system. We show how optimization and equilibrium concepts can be deployed and resulting models solved within an extended mathematical programming framework. Examples are drawn from sustainable land use modeling, power system design and economic operation, discrete Nash equilibria and risk analysis. The interplay between stochasticity, complementarity and hierarchical optimization will be highlighted.
Biography: Michael C. Ferris is Professor of Computer Sciences and leads the Optimization Group within the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, England in 1989.
Dr. Ferris' research is concerned with algorithmic and interface development for large scale problems in mathematical programming, including links to the GAMS and AMPL modeling languages, and general purpose software such as PATH, NLPEC and EMP. He has worked on several applications of both optimization and complement-arity, including cancer treatment plan development, radiation therapy, video-on-demand data delivery, economic and traffic equilibria, structural and mechanical engineering.
Ferris is a SIAM fellow, an INFORMS fellow, Ferris is a SIAM fellow, an INFORMS fellow, received the Beale-Orchard-Hays prize from the Mathematical Programming Society and is a past recipient of a NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He serves on the editorial boards of Mathematical Programming, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Transactions of Mathematical Software, and Optimization Methods and Software.
More Information: Seminar-Ferris.docx
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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E-Week Tech Talk: SanDisk
Tue, Feb 24, 2015 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Come hear from SanDisk’s VP of Engineering and USC Alum, Jason Lin (BS/MSEE ‘97). Jason joined SanDisk just two years after graduating and has since become instrumental in leading the development of Client SSD products with 30 patents issued and many other pending worldwide.
Refreshments will be provided.
http://bit.ly/eweeksandisk2015Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 102
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Christine D'Arcy
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Society of Women Engineers 6th General Meeting
Tue, Feb 24, 2015 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
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
