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Events for April 10, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkWed, Apr 10, 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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Computer Science Full Faculty Meeting
Wed, Apr 10, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
Details
Agenda (http://myviterbi.usc.edu/) & RSVP
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Invited Faculty Only
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Manish Jain, USC (PhD Defense)
Wed, Apr 10, 2013 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Manish Jain, USC
Talk Title: Thwarting Adversaries with Unpredictability: Massive-scale Game-Theoretic Algorithms for Real-world Security Deployments
Series: PhD Defense Announcements
Abstract: Protecting critical infrastructure and targets such as airports, transportation networks, power generation facilities as well as critical natural resources and endangered species
is an important task for police and security agencies worldwide. Securing such potential targets using limited resources against intelligent adversaries in the presence of the uncertainty and complexities of the real-world is a major challenge. My research uses a game-theoretic framework to model the strategic interaction between a defender (or security forces) and an attacker (or terrorist adversary) in security domains.
Game theory provides a sound mathematical approach for deploying limited security resources to maximize their effectiveness. While game theory has always been popular in the arena of security, unfortunately, the state of the art algorithms either fail to scale or to provide a correct solution for large problems with arbitrary scheduling constraints. For example, US carriers fly over 27,000 domestic and 2,000 international flights daily, presenting a massive scheduling challenge for Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS).
My thesis contributes to a very new area that solves game-theoretic problems using insights from large-scale optimization literature towards addressing the computational challenge posed by real-world domains. I have developed new models and algorithms that compute optimal strategies for scheduling defender resources is large real-world domains. My thesis makes the following contributions. First, it presents new algorithms that can solve for trillions of actions for both the defender and the attacker. Second, it presents a hierarchical framework that provides orders of magnitude scale-up in attacker types for Bayesian Stackelberg games. Third, it provides an analysis and detection of a phase-transition that identifies properties that makes security games hard to solve.
These new models have not only advanced the state of the art in computational game-theory, but have actually been successfully deployed in the real-world. My work represents a successful transition from game-theoretic advancements to real-world applications that are already in use, and it has opened exciting new avenues to greatly expand the reach of game theory. For instance, my algorithms are used in the IRIS system: IRIS has been in use by the Federal Air Marshals Service (FAMS) to schedule air marshals on board international commercial flights since October 2009.
Committee:
Milind Tambe (chair)
Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Matthew McCubbins (outside member)
Vincent Conitzer
Fernando Ordonez
Host: Lizsl de Leon
Location: 223
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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CED "Talk to me"
Wed, Apr 10, 2013 @ 01:15 PM - 02:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Everyone keeps telling you that you should go talk to your professors but you donââ¬â¢t know quite how to approach them or what to talk about?
Donââ¬â¢t worry! This is the perfect workshop for you. During the ââ¬ÅTalk to meââ¬Â workshop we will learn some tools on how to talk to faculty members so that you can succeed!
Professor Madni (ISE) will be joining us for lunch!
Any questions: email viterbi.wie@usc.edu
RSVP: http://bit.ly/1635JHg
More Information: talk to me workshop flyer.pdf
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
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EE Distinguished Lecturer Series - CANCELED
Wed, Apr 10, 2013 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Erik Winfree, Ph.D., Professor, Computer Science, Computation and Neural Systems, Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
Abstract: Inspired by the information processing core of biological organisms and its ability to fabricate intricate machinery from the molecular scale up to the macroscopic scale, research in synthetic biology, molecular programming, and nucleic acid nanotechnology aims to create information-based chemical systems that carry out human-defined molecular programs that input, output, and manipulate molecules and molecular structures. For chemistry to become the next information technology substrate, we will need improved tools for designing, simulating, and analyzing complex molecular circuits and systems. Using DNA nanotechnology as a model system, I will discuss how programming languages can be devised for specifying molecular systems at a high level, how compilers can translate such specifications into concrete molecular implementations, how both high-level and low-level specifications can be simulated and verified according to behavioral logic and the underlying biophysics of molecular interactions, and how design and analysis methods can cope with the inherent stochasticity and uncertainties of molecular systems.
Biography: Erik Winfree is Professor of Computer Science, Computation and Neural Systems and Bioengineering at Caltech. He is the recipient of the Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology (2006), the NSF PECASE/CAREER Award (2001), the ONR Young Investigator Award (2001), a MacArthur Fellowship (2000), the Tulip prize in DNA Computing (2000), and MIT Technology Review's first TR100 list of "top young innovators" (1999). Prior to joining the faculty at Caltech in 1999, Winfree was a Lewis Thomas Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Biology at Princeton, and a Visiting Scientist at the MIT AI Lab. Winfree received a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Chicago in 1991, and a Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from Caltech in 1998.
Host: Dr. Alice Parker
More Info: http://ee.usc.edu/news/dls/
More Information: 20130410 Winfree Print.pdf
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
Event Link: http://ee.usc.edu/news/dls/
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SpaceX at USC
Wed, Apr 10, 2013 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
SpaceX is coming to USC!
SHPE-USC is proud to host an information session with SpaceX this Wednesday, April 10 from 5:30-7:00 pm in THH 116. This is a priceless opportunity for all engineers pursuing a career in space exploration (ME, AME, EE, and CS are especially encouraged to attend).
Furthermore, SpaceX will be presenting a competition that will allow students to compete with the best of their class in order to build a Mars Rover with a grand prize of : a personal tour of the SpaceX facility, lunch with SpaceX Co-Founder Tom Mueller, and a $500 donation to the student organization or charity of your choice.
For more information on the competition and its dates, check out the attached flyer.
If already interested in the competition, register by emailing your full name and resume to Sandon@SpaceX.com by 5:00pm Wednesday, April 10th. Once participants are selected they will receive more information about the materials they will be provided and a competition overview.
Don't miss out on hearing about SpaceX as well as learning more about the Mars Rover competition.
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Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
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Study Nights
Wed, Apr 10, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Come out to Study Nights and conquer your procrastination!
Group Study Rooms to work with your peers, quiet study spaces available, tutors, coffee, tea and snacks.
Sponsored by The Center for Engineering Diversity and The Viterbi Academic REsource Center.
Need more information? E-mail viterbi.ced@usc.edu.Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 213
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
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ASBME's Pre-Health Event
Wed, Apr 10, 2013 @ 07:15 PM - 08:15 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Thinking of becoming a pre-health or pre-medical student? Come join ASBME for an information session specifically geared for BMEs heading towards professional schools. A USC representative will be going through the application process and revealing the key aspects to becoming a competitive applicant. Whether you've already declared your 'Pre-Med' status or are still considering that path, come out to learn more and meet other BMEs! See you there!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 227
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
