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Aircraft Accident Investigation AAI 24-3Mon, Mar 04, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
The course is designed for individuals who have limited investigation experience. All aspects of the investigation process are addressed, starting with preparation for the investigation through writing the final report. It covers National Transportation Safety Board and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) procedures. Investigative techniques are examined with an emphasis on fixed-wing investigation. Data collection, wreckage reconstruction, and cause analysis are discussed in the classroom and applied in the lab. The USC Aircraft Accident Investigation lab serves as the location for practical exercises. Thirteen aircraft wreckages form the basis of these investigative exercises. The crash laboratory gives the student an opportunity to learn the observation and documentation skills required of accident investigators. The wreckage is examined and reviewed with investigators who have extensive actual real-world investigation experience. Examination techniques and methods are demonstrated along with participative group discussions of actual wreckage examination, reviews of witness interview information, and investigation group personal dynamics discussions.
Location: WESTMINSTER AVENUE BUILDING (WAB) - Unit E
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24AAAI3
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EiS Communications Hub Drop-In Hours
Mon, Mar 04, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi Ph.D. students are invited to stop by the EiS Communications Hub for one-on-one instruction for their academic and professional communications tasks. All instruction is provided by Viterbi faculty at the Engineering in Society Program.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A
Audiences: Viterbi Ph.D. Students
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home?authuser=0
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EiS Communications Hub Drop-In Hours
Mon, Mar 04, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Engineering in Society Program
Student Activity
Drop-in hours for writing and speaking support for Viterbi Ph.D. students
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home
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CS Colloquium: Emily Tseng (Cornell University) - Digital Safety and Security for Survivors of Technology-Mediated Harms
Mon, Mar 04, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Emily Tseng, Cornell University
Talk Title: Digital Safety and Security for Survivors of Technology-Mediated Harms
Series: Computer Science Colloquium
Abstract: Platforms, devices, and algorithms are increasingly weaponized to control and harass the most vulnerable among us. Some of these harms occur at the individual and interpersonal level: for example, abusers in intimate partner violence (IPV) use smartphones and social media to surveil and stalk their victims. Others are more subtle, at the level of social structure: for example, in organizations, workplace technologies can inadvertently scaffold exploitative labor practices. This talk will discuss my research (1) investigating these harms via online measurement studies, (2) building interventions to directly assist survivors with their security and privacy; and (3) instrumenting these interventions as observatories, to enable scientific research into new types of harms as attackers and technologies evolve. I will close by sharing my vision for centering inclusion and equity in digital safety, security and privacy, towards brighter technological futures for us all.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium
Biography: Emily Tseng is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell University. Her research develops the systems, interventions, and design principles we need to make digital technology safe and affirming for everyone. Emily’s work has been published at top-tier venues in human-computer interaction (ACM CHI, CSCW) and computer security and privacy (USENIX Security, IEEE Oakland). For 5 years, she has worked as a researcher-practitioner with the Clinic to End Tech Abuse, where her work has enabled specialized security services for over 500 survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). Emily is the recipient of a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, Rising Stars in EECS, Best Paper Awards at CHI, CSCW, and USENIX Security, and third place in the Internet Defense Prize. She has interned at Google and with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research. She holds a B.A. from Princeton University.
Host: Jesse Thomason
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Faculty Affairs
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VLP Spring Study Sesh
Mon, Mar 04, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Spring into midterm season with the VLP! Join us in RTH 222 for quiet study spaces, plenty of FREE snacks, and spring vibes to keep you going strong! All Viterbi students are invited to attend.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alex Bronz
Event Link: https://cglink.me/2nB/r396006
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ventureSPARK Program
Mon, Mar 04, 2024 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship
University Calendar
ventureSPARK Who: All students (graduate and undergraduate) who have an idea or technology. What: ventureSPARK is a program to help you along your innovation journey. Whether you are just starting out with an idea or have been working on an idea for a while, this program is designed to help you identify your customers and develop initial market validation. When: The program will consist of three two hour workshops. Thursday March 21, March 28, and April 4 from 4pm-6pm. APPLY by MARCH 4 at 11:59PM
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi TIE
Event Link: https://airtable.com/appBsKwv6nCjaKrSd/shrgIfTq6StRSWOh3
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AME Seminar
Mon, Mar 04, 2024 @ 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Preston Culbertson, California Institute of Technology
Talk Title: To Err is Robotic: Enabling Robust Autonomy with Risk-Sensitivity
Abstract: Despite significant recent advances in robot learning and perception, achieving robust robot behavior for real-world, dynamic tasks like dexterous manipulation remains elusive. This challenge stems from the uncertainty inherent in robots' geometric models, perception systems, and controllers, particularly during dynamic interactions with the environment. This talk explores how risk-sensitivity can provide a principled, practical approach to addressing these robustness issues directly. First, I will discuss our work showing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) — typically trained for novel view synthesis — can be used for both collision avoidance and localization, repurposing them as a versatile, probabilistic occupancy model for robotics. Next, we will turn to the problem of real-time, risk-sensitive planning more broadly. Specifically, I will present work combining stochastic control barrier functions (CBFs), which provide rigorous probabilistic safety/performance guarantees, with deep generative dynamics models to yield a lightweight, data-driven approach to risk-sensitive control. We have demonstrated that our method (running onboard a quadrotor at 100Hz) enables aggressive, yet safe flight with a completely unmodeled and uninstrumented slung load. The talk will conclude with a discussion of some lessons learned and future directions in risk-sensitive robotics.
Biography: Preston Culbertson is a postdoctoral scholar in the AMBER Lab at Caltech. His research interests lie at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, optimization, and computer vision. Specifically, his research explores how to enable robust robot behavior for dynamic, contact-rich tasks like manipulation, locomotion, and navigation, emphasizing new tools for understanding risk and uncertainty for autonomous systems. Preston earned his PhD from Stanford University, mentored by Prof. Mac Schwager, where his work on collaborative manipulation and robot assembly was awarded the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship and the 'Best Manipulation Paper' award at ICRA 2018.
More Info: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/95892885119?pwd=QXZOZUhrcTJRYk5qZzZwVThrTytVZz09Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 406
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/95892885119?pwd=QXZOZUhrcTJRYk5qZzZwVThrTytVZz09
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tessa Yao
Event Link: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
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ECE-EP seminar - Rishabh Sahu, Monday, March 4th at 2pm in EEB 248
Mon, Mar 04, 2024 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Rishabh Sahu, Postdoctoral scholar, IST Austria
Talk Title: Building Quantum Networks with Quantum Electrooptics
Series: ECE-EP Seminar
Abstract: In the last few decades, a myriad of physical systems such as photons, atoms, ions and spins have been explored for various different quantum technologies such as computation, communication and meteorology. Until now, no single physical system has been suitable for all the different quantum applications and, therefore, different systems are utilized in different spheres usually without any intercompatibility between them. A solution to this emerging chaos in the quantum landscape is to build hybrid quantum networks where various quantum systems with their unique advantages can be connected together to build a combined system able to perform better than the sum of its aggregates. The nodes in such a network would be connected using flying qubits - telecom wavelength optical photons - which would also allow these nodes to be separated by long distances. There has been some progress in this direction, particularly attempts to make trapped ions and solid state qubits compatible with optical photons. However, making microwave technologies such as superconducting qubits compatible with high energy optics is more challenging due to the large energy gap between the two. In this talk, I will present how quantum electro optics can be used to establish a quantum bridge between microwave and optical frequencies. Such a bridge would not only allow connection of superconducting quits over a long distance but also would be a key step in making future hybrid quantum networks a reality.
Biography: Rishabh completed his bachelor's and master's degree in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His research mainly involved studying orbital angular momentum of light, in particular, sorting photons in this basis to get a multidimensional basis for photons. His master's thesis involved simulating Maxwell's equation using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method. Rishabh started graduate school at ISTA in fall of 2018 and joined the Fink group in 2019. He graduated in 2023 and works now as a postdoc on new cavity electrooptics experiments.
Host: ECE-EP
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97370470279?pwd=NGZ4aWdGUHRjUUtrQllkemVIV3lxQT09More Information: Rishabh Sahu Seminar Announcement.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97370470279?pwd=NGZ4aWdGUHRjUUtrQllkemVIV3lxQT09
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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CSC/CommNetS-MHI Seminar: Magnus Egerstedt
Mon, Mar 04, 2024 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Magnus Egerstedt, Dean of Engineering, Professor | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | University of California, Irvine
Talk Title: Mutualistic interactions in heterogeneous multi-robot systems
Series: CSC/CommNetS-MHI Seminar Series
Abstract:
The typical approach to multi-robot systems is to divide the team-level tasks into suitable building blocks and have the robots solve their respective subtasks in a coordinated manner. However, by bringing together robots with different capabilities, it should be possible to arrive at completely new capabilities and skill-sets. In other words, the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. In this talk, we will formalize this idea through the composition of barrier functions for encoding the collaborative arrangements in terms of expanding and contracting the reachable and safe sets. Inspired by the ecological concept of a mutualism, i.e., the interaction between two or more species that benefit everyone involved, the formalism is contextualized in a long-duration setting, i.e., for robots deployed over long time scales where optimality have to take a backseat to "survivability".
Biography:
Dr. Magnus Egerstedt is the Dean of Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to joining UCI, Egerstedt was on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received the M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, the B.A. degree in Philosophy from Stockholm University, and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard University. Dr. Egerstedt conducts research in the areas of control theory and robotics, with particular focus on control and coordination of multi-robot systems. Magnus Egerstedt is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC, a member of the Royal Swedish
Academy of Engineering Science, and currently serves as the President of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He has received a number of teaching and research awards, including the Ragazzini Award, the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, and the Alumni of the Year Award from the Royal Institute of Technology.
Host: Dr Lars Lindemann, llindema@usc.edu | Dr Mihailo Jovanovic, mihailo@usc.edu
More Info: https://csc.usc.edu/seminars/2024Spring/egerstedt.html
More Information: 2024.03.04 CSC Seminar - Magnus Egerstedt.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - EEB 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Miki Arlen
Event Link: https://csc.usc.edu/seminars/2024Spring/egerstedt.html
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Intellisense Networking Event and Resume Review
Mon, Mar 04, 2024 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Join WIE for an engaging session with Intellisense featuring accomplished engineers and recruiters! Students will be able to enjoy free burritos while getting their resumes reviewed individually by recruiters, learning about Intellisense, gaining insight from current engineers, and growing their network. Don't miss this chance to gain valuable insights from industry experts! Undergraduate and graduate students are welcome.
Location: Sign into EngageSC to View Location
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Thelma Federico Zaragoza
Event Link: https://engage.usc.edu/WIE/rsvp?id=396051
