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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkMon, Mar 25, 2013
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. 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 visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Mon, Mar 25, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you'll need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what youâve learned. This course is presented in the classroom in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIEâs Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
NOTE: Participants must bring a laptop computer running Microsoft Office® to the seminar.
Course Topics
* Business process management
* Computer applications
* Design of experiments (DOE)
* Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
* DMAIIC
* Enterprisewide deployment
* Lean enterprise
* Project management
* Regression and correlation modeling
* Statistical methods and sampling
* Statistical process control
* Team processes
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Analyze process data using comprehensive statistical methods
* Control the process to assure that improvements are used and the benefits verified
* Define an opportunity for improving customer satisfaction
* Implement the recommended improvements
* Improve existing processes by reducing variation
* Measure process characteristics that are critical to quality
Who Should Attend
* VPs, COOs, CEOs
* Employees new to a managerial position
* Employees preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
* Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
* Anyone interested in implementing Lean or Six Sigma in their organization
Program Fees
On-Campus Participants: $6095
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $6095
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Reduced Pricing:
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): Reduced pricing is available for members of IIE. Please contact professional@mapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, current students, faculty, and staff receive 10% reduced pricing on registration.
Boeing: Boeing employees receive 20% off registration fees (please use Boeing email address when registering).
Location
Two course delivery options are available for participants, on-campus and online with interactivity:
On-Campus Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on-campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area. For travel information, please visit our Travel section.
Overview of on-campus option:
* The ability to interact with faculty and peers in-person.
* Access to hard copy course materials.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
* If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
* Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants â unless otherwise specified.
Online (Interactivity) Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
* Virtually participate in the course live â with the ability to either ask questions or chat questions to the entire class.
* WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 10.5 (CEUs provided by request only)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of course.
Upon completion, participants will also receive their Institute of Industrial Engineers certification in SIx Sigma Black Belt.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
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Compression and Modern Data Processing
Mon, Mar 25, 2013 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Thomas Courtade, Stanford University
Talk Title: Compression and Modern Data Processing
Abstract: At first glance, modern applications of data processing -- such as clustering, querying, and search -- bear little resemblance to the classical Shannon-theoretic problem of lossy compression. However, the ultimate goal is the same for modern and classical settings; both demand algorithms which strike a balance between the complexity of the algorithm output and the utility that it provides. Thus, when we attempt to establish fundamental performance limits for these "modern" data processing problems, elements of classical rate distortion theory naturally emerge.
Inspired by the challenges associated with extracting useful information from large datasets, I will discuss compression under logarithmic loss. Logarithmic loss is a penalty function which measures the quality of beliefs a user can generate about the original data upon observing the compressor's output. In this context, we characterize the tradeoff between the degree to which data can be compressed and the quality of beliefs an end user can produce. Notably, our results for compression under logarithmic loss extend to distributed systems and yield solutions to two canonical problems in multiterminal source coding.
I will also briefly discuss recent work on compression for identification, where we seek to compress data in a manner that preserves the ability to reliably answer queries of a certain form. This setting stands in stark contrast to the traditional compression paradigm, where the goal is to reproduce the original data (either exactly or approximately) from its compressed form. Under certain assumptions on the data sources, we characterize the tradeoff between compression rate and the reliability at which queries can be answered.
Biography: Thomas Courtade received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2007, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 2008 and 2012, respectively. In 2012, he was awarded the Inaugural Postdoctoral Research Fellowship through the Center for Science of Information. He currently holds this position, and resides at Stanford University. His recent honors include a Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation award and an Excellence in Teaching award from the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering and a Best Student Paper Award at the 2012 International Symposium on Information Theory.
Host: Giuseppe Caire, x04683, caire@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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USC's Homeland Security Center (CREATE) Monthly Seminar Series
Mon, Mar 25, 2013 @ 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Seth Guikema , Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: ââ¬ÅTerrorism risk - definitions, models, and prediction?ââ¬Â
Series: CREATE Monthly Seminar Series
Abstract: While terrorism risk analysis is an important topic within the risk analysis community with a considerable base of activity in both research and practice, a lack of agreement on the fundamental concepts and aims of the field continues to persist. How is terrorism risk defined? Is the concept of the probability of a terrorist attack well-defined? What are the goals and requirements of terrorism risk analysis models? In this talk I first discuss different conceptualizations of "risk" and how they apply specifically to terrorism risk. I then discuss conflicting goals in terrorism risk analysis models, understanding and explanation vs. prediction, showing examples of different types of models, concluding that many of the existing modeling framework are focused on explanation and understanding, not prediction. I next argue that an increased focus on prediction is needed, suggest a set of necessary conditions that terrorism risk models should meet, and discuss the challenges of verification and validation of predictive terrorism risk models.
Biography: Dr. Seth Guikema is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Geography and Environmental Engineering department with joint appointments in Civil Engineering and Earth & Planetary Science. He is also an Adjunct Professor II at the University of Stavanger (Norway) in the Department of Industrial Economics, Risk Management, and Planning and a Senior Decision Analyst with Innovative Decisions, Inc. He completed degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering (BS, ME, MS) and Management Science and Engineering (PhD - Stanford), with a focus on engineering risk and decision analysis. The focus of his research is on risk analysis for natural hazards impacting infrastructure systems, climate adaptation for urban areas and infrastructure, and terrorism risk analysis. He is a Councilor for the Society for Analysis and the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society. He received the Chauncey Starr Distinguished Young Risk Analyst award from SRA in 2010 as well as two Best Publication on Awards from Risk Analysis in 2012 for two of his papers on terrorism risk analysis.
To ensure that I order your lunch, please RSVP to calicchi@usc.edu no later than Wednesday, March 20, 2013.
Please advise if you require a vegetarian option.
Hope to see you there!
Best Regards,
Erin Calicchio
Administrative Assistant
University of Southern California
U.S. Department of Homeland Security - National Center for
Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
3710 McClintock Ave, RTH 313
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2902
213-740-3863
calicchi@usc.edu
www.usc.edu/create
Host: Homeland Security Center @ USC (CREATE)
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kelly Buccola
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Mar 25, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ian Y. Wong, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School,
Talk Title: Biosystems Engineering and the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Cancer
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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EE-EP Seminar
Mon, Mar 25, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mina Rais-Zadeh, University of Michigan
Talk Title: Resonant MEMS for Timing and Integrated Sensing
Abstract: Invention of transistors and development of microelectronics unleashed a revolution in computing and communication. This revolution was mostly brought about by the fact that transistors and ICs could be miniaturized at an unprecedented level. Following the same trend, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), have been extensively employed for sensing and in mobile applications. In the next few decades, the MEMS field is expected to grow even more rapidly and find wider applications. A vast majority of systems used for sensing, communications, and signal processing rely on accurate clocking signals that are generated by micro-resonators. In this talk, I will go over the design of micro-resonators and resonant sensors, and discuss the application of these devices in timing and integrated sensing. I will explain the need for high quality factor and discuss the physical phenomena that limit the performance and scaling of resonant MEMS.
Biography: Professor Mina Rais-Zadeh received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2008, respectively. From August 2008 to 2009, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Integrated MEMS Group, Georgia Institute of Technology. Since January 2009, she has been with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Mina is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2011), IEEE Electron Device Society Early Career Award (2011), NASA Early Career Faculty Award (2012), and the Crosby Research Award from the University of Michigan (2013). She was the finalist in student paper competitions at the SiRF (2007) and IMS (2011) conferences. She is the chairperson of the Display, Sensors and MEMS (DSM) sub-committee at the 2013 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) and a senior member of IEEE. She has served as a member of the technical program committee of IEEE IEDM, IEEE Sensors Conference, and the Hilton Head workshop. Her research interests include RF MEMS, passive micromachined devices for communication applications, resonant micromechanical devices, gallium nitride MEMS, and micro/nano fabrication process development.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 324
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Speech and Multimedia Research at ICSI
Mon, Mar 25, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Roberto Pieraccini, CEO and Director, ICSI
Talk Title: Speech and Multimedia Research at ICSI
Abstract: ICSI, the International Computer Science Institute, is an independent organization affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley. Its mission is that of pursuing advanced computer science research through international collaboration. The Institute is involved in research in many areas, including Networking and Security, Computer Vision, Speech, Audio and Multimedia, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Biology. In this talk I will give a general overview of the research carried out in the different fields, with particular attention to the areas of speech, audio, and multimedia. Speech research at ICSI is focused on trying to address the limitation of the current speech recognition systems both in terms of modeling and needs for data. Audio and multimedia research is mostly involved in different video retrieval tasks and has shown that interesting results can be achieved by applying a mix of techniques typically used in tasks such as speaker verification and diarization.
Biography: Roberto Pieraccini is the CEO and Director of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, CA. Prior to that he was the Chief Technology Officer of SpeechCycle, a company specializing in advanced spoken human-machine interaction. He was also a research manager at IBM T.J. Watson Research and SpeechWorks International, and a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs and AT&T Shannon Laboratories. He started his career in the 1980s as a researcher at CSELT, the research laboratories of the Italian telephone company. His is the author and co-author of more than 130 publications in the fields of speech recognition, spoken language understanding and dialog, multimodal interaction, and machine learning. His book ââ¬ÅThe Voice in the Machineââ¬Â published by MIT Press in 2012, traces the history of speech recognition and understanding technology during the past 60 years.
Host: Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 320
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mary Francis
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AME - Department Seminar
Mon, Mar 25, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Wenting Sun, Princeton University
Talk Title: Non-Equilibrium Plasma-Assisted Combustion for Advanced Energy Conversion and Propulsion
Abstract: About 85% of the energy in the world is produced by the combustion of fossil fuels. However, the growing concerns about emissions, and the development of advanced energy conversion and propulsion systems have pushed traditional combustion technology to challenging limits. To continue to develop these technologies, it is critical to develop new approaches to improve the performance of combustion. This presentation will discuss controlling combustion kinetics using non-equilibrium plasmas - plasma-assisted combustion. Plasma introduces new chemical pathways into the combustion process. This plasma chemistry occurs on very different time scales compared to conventional combustion chemistry and also introduces a large number of new species and reactions which have not been previously considered in combustion research.
The kinetic enhancement mechanisms of non-equilibrium plasmas on combustion are investigated through plasma-flame interactions in counterflow systems. It is found that the radical production from the plasma can dramatically modify the reaction pathways of combustion to create a new flame region at low temperatures. Advanced laser diagnostic techniques are used to quantify radical (atomic O and OH) productions from plasmas. Both experimental and simulation results show that atomic O is critical in controlling fuel oxidation at low temperature conditions.
Biography: Wenting Sun is currently a postdoctoral researcher of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He received his B.E/M.E degrees from Tsinghua University, department of Engineering Physics in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and Ph.D degree from Princeton University, department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2013. His current research focuses on plasma-assisted combustion, laser diagnostics, and combustion kinetics for advanced energy conversion and propulsion systems. He also works on numerical modeling of reacting flows, chemical kinetic mechanism reduction, and high pressure plasma technology. He has been awarded the Bernard Lewis Fellowship from the Combustion Institute, the Britt and Eli Harari Fellowship and the Guggenheim Fellowship from Princeton University, and Distinguished Paper Award at the 33rd International Symposium on Combustion.
Host: Professor Spedding
More Info: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/3-25-13-sun.shtml
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - Room 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kristi Villegas
Event Link: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/3-25-13-sun.shtml
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CS Colloquium: Huijia Rachel Lin (Boston U): Concurrent Security
Mon, Mar 25, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Huijia Rachel Lin, Boston U, CSAIL, MIT
Talk Title: Concurrent Security
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Cryptographic protocols have been developed for a variety of tasks, including electronic auctions, electronic voting systems, privacy preserving data mining and more. Traditionally, these cryptographic protocols were analyzed in a simple ââ¬Åstand-aloneââ¬Â model which considers a single execution of the protocols taking place in isolation. Yet, in open networks, such as the Internet, executions of cryptographic protocols may occur concurrently. This concurrency undermines the security of protocols designed for the simple ââ¬Åstand-aloneââ¬Â model. As a consequence, in the past two decades, the study of concurrent security has been a main effort in Cryptography.
In this talk, I will present the first concurrently-secure protocols that enable securely performing general tasks (including all the above-mentioned ones), without relying on any trusted infrastructures or strong hardness assumptions. In particular, I introduce a novel technique that transforms any cryptographic protocol designed for the simple "stand-alone" setting, into one that is secure under concurrent executions. On the way, I solve a two-decade-old open problem, originating in the seminal paper introducing concurrent security.
Biography: Huijia Lin is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Department of Computer Science at Boston University. Earlier, she obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. Her research interests are in the field of Cryptography.
Host: Shaddin Dughmi
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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EPSTEIN ISE SEMINAR
Mon, Mar 25, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Please contact Julie Higle at julie.higle@usc.edu for speaker , and afiliation
Talk Title: Please contact Julie Higle at julie.higle@usc.edu for title
Abstract: This capstone presentation gives a bird's-eye view of the speaker's 40-year journey in the research of finite-dimensional variational inequalities (VIs) and complementarity problems (CPs) and their applications in modern-day engineering and economics domains. The contemporary study of the VIs/CPs was born in the mid-1970s out of the need to understand a large-scale, real-life energy model developed at the U.S. Department of Energy that was coincidental with the fusion of several milestones in related engineering applications. Today, this subject is rich in fundamental theories and equipped with effective solution methods, and has far-reaching impacts in many applied areas that include market equilibria of various kinds; frictional contacts in mechanics; flow congestion and user behavior in traffic networks; competitive resource allocation; energy generation, distribution, and pricing; gaming problems in digital communication; hybrid engineering systems; financial option pricing; and most recently, structural estimation in econometrics. The speaker has contributed to the core of the subject and all these areas of applications. The presentation will highlight the speaker's contributions in a few of these areas and shed lights on some new directions of the field and its promise in further applications.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - Room 526
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
