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Events for April 10, 2015
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Apr 10, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael A. Long, Esq., The Soni Law Firm
Talk Title: Organizing research for Patent Applications
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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Inverse Problems and the Importance of Unconscious Processes
Fri, Apr 10, 2015 @ 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Athanassios S. Fokas, PhD, MD, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
Talk Title: Inverse Problems and the Importance of Unconscious Processes
Abstract: Mathematics provides a marvellous illustration of the innate ability of the brain to âlearnâ as well as to âcreateâ via the process of making associations and generalisations. This forms the basis of abstract thinking which indeed finds its apotheosis in mathematics. The discovery of a new method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), which has been acclaimed as ââthe most important development in the analysis of PDEs since the work of Fourier in the 18th centuryâ, will be used as an illustrative example of the above process. This unexpected discovery is also related to recent progress in the analysis of certain inverse problems arising in medical imaging. The role of this development, as well as of mathematics in general, in elucidating the importance of unconscious processes will be discussed.
Biography: A.S. Fokas has a BSc in Aeronautics from Imperial College (1975), a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology (1979) and an MD from the University of Miami, School of Medicine (1986). In 1986 he was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Clarkson University, USA. In 1996 he was appointed to a Chair in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College, UK. In 2002 he was appointed to the newly inaugurated Chair in Nonlinear Mathematical Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. In 2000 he was awarded the Naylor Prize, which is the most prestigious Prize in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in UK (the last earlier recipient was S.W. Hawking). He has also been awarded the Aristeion Prize in Sciences of the Academy of Athens which is the most important prize of the Academy given every four years to a single scholar of Greek origin, as well as the Excellence Prize of the Bodossaki Foundation which is the premier scientific prize in Greece. He has received honorary degrees from seven Universities and also has been decorated as the Commander of the Order of Phoenix by the President of the Hellenic Republic. In 2009 he was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and he is the first ever Applied Mathematician to be elected a full member in the Academy of Athens. He is a Professorial Fellow at Clare Hall College, Cambridge. He is the author or co-author of three monographs and of more than 300 papers, as well as the co-editor of seven books. ISI Web of Science includes A.S. Fokas in the list of the most highly cited researchers in the field of Mathematics in 2000-2012.
Host: Professor Sandeep Gupta
More Information: Seminar Announcement - Fokas 041015.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Apr 10, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Trevor Krasowsky and Sasan Tavakkol, Astani CEE Ph.D. Candidates
Talk Title: See below
Abstract: Presentation: Trevor Krasowsky
Black carbon aerosols: sources and evolution of physical and optical properties in the atmosphere
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Presentation: Sasan Tavakkol
Real time Wave Simulation and Visualization with a Boussinesq-type Model on GPU (see abstract below)
Abstract:
Real-time 2D simulations and visualization of coastal waves can be done only by employing massive parallel processing. Performing the simulation part is already possible through different models running on hundreds of CPUâs. However real-time visualization of the results is much easier if the simulations are done on a GPU. Moreover, cost of a user platform with a high-end GPU is only a small fraction of a platform with hundreds of CPUâs.
The presentation, firstly, elaborates the key differences between different mathematical models, i.e. non-linear shallow water equations and Boussinesq equations. Then it introduces a hybrid FVM-FDM numerical scheme to solve the latter one. The model is firstly examined in its one dimensional form on MATLAB employing CPU and then it is ported to GPU. A few technical aspects of porting the model to GPU will be discussed. The 2D model is also developed using MATLAB and running on GPU and results will be presented in the seminar.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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NL Seminar- TRANSLI, NLP-based social media analytics and monitoring
Fri, Apr 10, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Atefeh Farzindar (NLP Technologies), (NLP Technologies)
Talk Title: TRANSLI, NLP-based social media analytics and monitoring
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: NLP Technologies have developed a technology for automated analysis of social media data. TRANSLI Social Media Analytics and monitoring, is an online visual analytics system designed to provide social intelligence from news and other events from Twitter. During this seminar, Dr. Atefeh Farzindar will give a presentation on TRANSLI-SM where the system features an intuitive user interface and is designed to browse and visualise the results of the semantic analysis of social discussion on specific events from Twitter. The user can obtain the information not only limited to the main event of interest but also to the intelligence for the sub events.
NLP Technologies Inc. is a Canadian company founded in 2005 and that expanded to California in 2014. The company specialises in natural language processing, NLP-based search engines, translation technologies and services, social media analytics, and automatic summarization. http://www.nlptechnologies.ca/
Biography: Dr. Atefeh Farzindar, CEO NLP Technologies Inc. and Adjunct professor at University of Montreal Dr. Atefeh Farzindar is the co-founder and CEO of NLP Technologies. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Montreal and her Doctorate in automatic summarization of legal documents from Paris-Sorbonne University in 2005. She has been an Adjunct professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Montreal since 2010, and she was Honorary Research Fellowship at the Research Group in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton, UK (2010-2012).
Dr. Farzindar has been Action Editor in the international journal of Computational Intelligence since 2011. She co-edited two special issues on social media analysis for the International Journal of Computational Intelligence (CI) and Journal TAL, an international journal on natural language processing.
She co-authored an upcoming book on Natural Language Processing for Social Media [Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2014], and authored a book chapter in Social Network Integration in Document Summarization, Innovative Document Summarization Techniques: Revolutionizing Knowledge Understanding, IGI Global publisher January 2014.
In 2013, Dr. Farzindar won Femmessor-Montréalâs contest, Succeeding with a balanced lifestyle, in the Innovative Technology and Information and Communications Technology category because of her involvement in the arts. Her paintings have recently been published in a book titled One Thousand and One Nights, in which the palette of vivid colours and her unique contemporary style revolved around on the place of women in modern society (Vernissage & Artist Book Launch April, Montréal, Galerie 203 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLCghx1mvzY)
Host: Nima Pourdamghani and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 6th Flr Conf Rm # 689, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
