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Events for March 11, 2016
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The Pulmonary Challenge: Innovations in Lung Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration
Fri, Mar 11, 2016 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: various, various
Talk Title: various
Abstract: The Hastings Center for Pulmonary Research (HCPR) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC presents an inaugural symposium at the University of Southern California's Health Sciences Campus located in Los Angeles, CA on Friday, March 11, 2016.
Host: Hastings Center for Pulmonary Research (HCPR)
More Info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-pulmonary-challenge-innovations-in-lung-development-stem-cells-regeneration-tickets-19893233196
Location: Harlyne J. Norris Research Tower (NRT) - Aresty Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
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USC CCMB Symposium
Fri, Mar 11, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 05:30 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: various, various
Talk Title: various
Abstract: "Head formation in mouse: Attributes of the gene regulatory network," Patrick Tam, Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney
"Dental pulp mesenchymal stem cells in tooth growth," Paul Sharpe, Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology, King's College London
"Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions during tooth development," Irma Thesleff, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki
"Using next generation sequencing to define monogenic causes of craniosynostosis," Andrew Wilke, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
Host: Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology (CCMB)
More Info: http://ccmbsymposium.usc.edu/
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
Event Link: http://ccmbsymposium.usc.edu/
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PhD Seminar
Fri, Mar 11, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Evangelos Pantazis, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
Talk Title: A design methodology framework at the intersection of Architecture, Engineering and construction using Multi-Agent Systems
Abstract: This talk will review research on the prototyping of multi-agent systems (MAS) for architectural design. It proposes a design exploration methodology at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and construction. The motivation of the work includes exploring bottom up generative methods coupled with optimizing performance criteria including geometric complexity and objective functions for environmental, structural and fabrication parameters. The work focuses on the development of a design methodology and initial experiments to provide design solutions, which simultaneously satisfy complexly coupled and often contradicting objectives.
The prototypical experiments vary in complexity and focus on different design domains, namely: a) facade design, and the development of non structural building component (facade panels) that is adjusted based on the environmental performance of the facade b) shell design; and the development of structural building component (reciprocal frames) for form finding actual construction of lightweight shell structures using digital and robotic fabrication.
The developed system and algorithms are described, and initial results of the multi-agent derived efficiencies are presented
Biography: Evangelos Pantazis is currently pursuing a PhD at the Viterbi School of Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California. Evangelos holds a Masters of Advanced studies in the field of Computer Aided Architectural Design from the ETH in Zurich (2012). He received his Diploma in Architecture with honors from Aristotles University of Thessaloniki (2010), and has also graduated from the MOKUME jewelry design school in 2007, where he was trained as a jeweler.
Professionally, Evangelos has gained experience in several international offices, including Graft in Berlin, Germany, Melhado Architectes in Londrina, Brasil and Studio Pei Zhu in Beijing/China. Soon after, he co-founded Topotheque design office, a studio that focuses on computational design with its various tangent disciplines such architecture, product deisgn and graphic and plastic art. His latest work is focusing on non-linear design strategies for architectural and design purposes, their integration with performance analyses and their materialization using digital fabrication.
Host: Burcin Becerik-Gerber
Location: 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kaela Berry
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Mar 11, 2016 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
University Calendar
Join us for a presentation by Joshua Giegel, from Hyperloop Technologies, titled "21st Century Transportation."
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
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Munushian Seminar - Mark Lundstrom, Friday, March 11th at 2:00pm in EEB 132
Fri, Mar 11, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mark Lundstrom, Purdue University
Talk Title: Electrons and Phonons in Nanodevices
Abstract: The theory of electron transport in semiconductors has developed, evolved, and matured alongside the development of semiconductor technology from microelectronics to nanoelectronics. The field of thermal transport has an even longer history beginning with Fourier's Law, but electrons and phonons always go together - sometimes it is a problem, as in the self-heating of electronic devices, and sometimes it is the whole point, as in thermoelectrics. My goal in this talk is to discuss the remarkably simple conceptual picture of electron transport at the nanoscale that has emerged from decades of work on experiments and sophisticated transport theory and simulations and to explore its application to thermal transport. Two central concepts are the Landauer approach and the McKelvey-Shockley two-flux form of the Boltzmann equation. I'll discuss the similarities and differences of electron and phonon transport and some new insights into thermal transport that come from using concepts from electronics. Finally, I'll identify some issues that need to be addressed if we are to develop the comprehensive conceptual and computational framework for electrothermal transport that is needed to describe modern nanodevices.
Biography: Mark Lundstrom is the Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He received Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1980 and BEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1973 and 1974. Between his MSEE and Ph.D. degrees, he worked at Hewlett-Packard Corporation on integrated circuit process development and manufacturing. At Purdue, his research has explored a wide range of semiconductor devices, the physics of carrier transport, and the modeling and numerical simulation of devices. His current focus is on energy conversion devices such as solar cells and thermoelectric devices and on the physics of the ultimate transistor. Lundstrom was the founding director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology and nanoHUB.org, a science gateway that now serves a worldwide nanotechnology community of more than 300,000 individuals. He currently leads NEEDS, an NSF and industry-funded, multi-university initiative focused on new-era electronics, and he leads the nanoHUB-U initiative for on-line education. Dr. Lundstrom is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has received several awards for his teaching and research, and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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NL Seminar-Extracting Biomolecular Interactions Using Semantic Parsing of Biomedical Text
Fri, Mar 11, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sahil Garg, USC/ISI
Talk Title: Extracting Biomolecular Interactions Using Semantic Parsing of Biomedical Text
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: We advance the state of the art in biomolecular interaction extraction with three contributions: (i) We show that deep, Abstract Meaning Representations (AMR) significantly improve the accuracy of a biomolecular interaction extraction system when compared to a baseline that relies solely on surface- and syntax-based features; (ii) In contrast with previous approaches that infer relations on a sentence-by-sentence basis, we expand our framework to enable consistent predictions over sets of sentences (documents); (iii) We further modify and expand a graph kernel learning framework to enable concurrent exploitation of automatically induced AMR (semantic) and dependency structure (syntactic) representations. Our experiments show that our approach yields interaction extraction systems that are more robust in environments where there is a significant mismatch between training and test conditions.
Biography: Sahil Garg is a PhD student, advised by Prof. Aram Galstyan, in computer science department of Viterbi school of engineering at University of Southern California. He is interested in problem oriented research. In the past, he developed machine learning, information theoretic algorithms for real world problems such as sensing environmental dynamics using mobile robotic sensors. In this talk, he is going to discuss his recent work on extracting bio-molecular interactions from bio-medical text using semantic parsing, especially in relevance to Cancer disease.
Host: Xing Shi and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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USC Energy Institute Seminar
Fri, Mar 11, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. David Brown, ARPA-E Fellow, U.S. Department of Energy
Talk Title: How Can Technology Enable Greenhouse Gas Mitigation through Agriculture?
Host: USC Energy Institute
More Information: USCEI 2016 Seminar Series 031116.pdf
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 105
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Juli Legat
