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USC Robotics Open House
Thu, Apr 11, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
Robotics faculty, postdocs, and students are proud to host the annual USC Robotics Open House on April 11, 2013 (10 am - 4 pm).
The open house will be held on the 4th floor of RTH and in HNB room 10. Please visit and learn what is new in robotics@usc.
Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES) was established in fall 2002. It is an interdisciplinary organized research unit (ORU) in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering that focuses on the science and technology of effective, robust, and scalable robotic systems, with broad and far-reaching applications. CRES facilitates interdisciplinary interactions and collaboration through its robotics faculty and its large team of interdisciplinary affiliates and serves as a linch pin for strategic research areas at USC. CRES projects span the areas of service, humanoid, distributed, reconfigurable, space, and nano robotics and impact a broad spectrum of applications, including assistance, training and rehabilitation, education, environmental monitoring and cleanup, emergency response, homeland security, and entertainment. The Center provides a tight-knit foundation for collaboration and opportunities for education and outreach.
CRES welcomes participation and new members. To get information on how to get involved, look here.
For more information, please email to cresrobotics.usc.edu.
The leadership of CRES consists of:
Maja J Mataric', Founding Director
Ari Requicha, Associate Director
Stefan Schaal, Associate Director
Wei-Min Shen, Associate Director
Gaurav Sukhatme, Associate DirectorMore Information: 2013_02_12_Open_house_ad.pdf
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 4th Floor
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Epstein ISE Seminar
Thu, Apr 11, 2013 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
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 speaker's afiliation
Talk Title: "Managing Extreme-Scale Computing via Modeling, Analysis and Distributed Methods"
Abstract: With emerging applications such as cloud computing, big data analytics, and smart grids, modern information and service computing networks are growing increasingly complex and large scale. In this talk, we present new performance models, analysis, and distributed methods to study the scalable design and efficient management of future information networks in extreme scale. We first investigate scaling laws and fundamental structural properties that determine the scalability of large information systems. We then present new first-order and second-order approaches for deriving distributed control algorithms in managing large-scale information networks with guaranteed fast convergence.
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
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Focused on parallel and distributed computingThu, Apr 11, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Weekly seminars given by researchers in academia and industry including senior doctoral students in EE, CS and ISI covering current research related to parallel and distributed computation including parallel algorithms, high performance computing, scientific computation, application specific architectures, multi-core and many-core architectures and algorithms, application acceleration, reconfigurable computing systems, data intensive systems, Big Data and cloud computing.
Biography: Prerequisite: Students are expected to be familiar with basic concepts at the level of graduate level courses in Computer Engineering and Computer Science in some of these topic areas above. Ph.D. students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science can automatically enroll. M.S. students can enroll only with permission of the instructor. To request permission send a brief mail to the instructor in text format with the subject field ââ¬ÅEE 598ââ¬Â. The body of the mail (in text format) should include name, degree objective, courses taken at USC and grades obtained, prior educational background, and relevant research background, if any.
Requirements for CR:
1. Attending at least 10 seminars during the semester
There will be a sign-in sheet and a sign-out sheet at every seminar. All students must sign-in (before 2:00pm) and sign-out (after 3:00pm). The sign-in sheet will not be available after 2:00pm, and the sign-out sheet will not be available before 3:00pm.
2. Submitting a written report for at least 5 seminars
The written report for each seminar must be 1-page single line spaced format with font size of 12 (Times) or 11 (Arial) without any figures, tables, or graphs. The report must be submitted no later than 1 week after the corresponding seminar, and must be handed only to the instructor either on the seminar times or during office hours. Late reports will not be considered.
The report must summarize studentââ¬â¢s own understanding of the seminar, and should contain the following:
- Your name and submission date [1 line]
- Title of the seminar, name of the speaker, and seminar date [1 line]
- Background of the work (e.g., applications, prior research, etc.) [1 paragraph]
- Highlights of the approaches presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Main results presented in the seminar [1-2 paragraphs]
- Conclusion (your own conclusion and not what was given by the speaker) [1 paragraph]
Reviewing papers related to the topic of the seminar, and incorporating relevant findings in the
reports (e.g., in the conclusion section) is encouraged. In such cases, make sure to clearly indicate
the reference(s) used to derive these conclusions.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR COURSE #12
Thu, Apr 11, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Nam Ma, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: DAG Scheduling with Weak Dependencies on Multiââ¬Âcore Systems
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Many computational solutions can be expressed as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with weighted nodes.
In parallel computing, a fundamental challenge is to efficiently distribute tasks to computing resources,
while preserving the precedence constraints among the tasks. Traditionally, such constraints are
preserved by starting a task after all its preceding tasks have completed. However, for a class of DAG
structured computations, a task can be partially executed with respect to each preceding task. We define
such relationship between the tasks as weak dependency. In this talk, we present our DAG scheduling
technique to exploit weak dependencies in a DAG. The exploitation of weak dependencies exposes more
parallelism for the task graph and reduces the execution time. On a stateââ¬Âofââ¬Âtheââ¬Âart generalââ¬Âpurpose
multicore system, the weak dependency based scheduler shows superior performance compared with a
baseline scheduler that is based on the traditional scheduling method.
Biography: Nam Ma is a Ph.D. candidate working with Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research interests include parallel algorithms, high performance computing, and large scale machine learning. His PhD thesis focuses on the
scalability of probabilistic inference in graphical models on multicore platforms. He is a recipient of the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) fellowship award in 2008. He earned his BSc degree in Computer Science from Vietnam National University.
More Info: http://halcyon.usc.edu/~pk/prasannawebsite/teaching/ee598sp2013/
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013) 2.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
Event Link: http://halcyon.usc.edu/~pk/prasannawebsite/teaching/ee598sp2013/
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CS Colloquium: Nora Ayanian (MIT): Distributed Multirobot Coordination: From Specification to Provably Correct Execution
Thu, Apr 11, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Nora Ayanian, MIT
Talk Title: Distributed Multirobot Coordination: From Specification to Provably Correct Execution
Abstract: Using a group of robots in place of a single complex robot to accomplish a task has many benefits, including simplified system repair, less down time, and lower cost. Combining heterogeneous groups of these multi-robot systems allows addressing multiple subtasks in parallel, reducing the time it takes to address many problems, such as search and rescue, reconnaissance, and mine detection. These missions demand different roles for robots, necessitating a strategy for coordinated autonomy while respecting any constraints the environment may impose. Distributed computation of control policies for heterogeneous multirobot systems is particularly challenging because of inter-robot constraints such as communication maintenance and collision avoidance, the need to coordinate robots within groups, and the dynamics of individual robots.
I will present algorithms for synthesizing distributed globally convergent feedback policies for navigating groups of heterogeneous robots in known constrained environments. Provably correct by construction, these algorithms automatically and concurrently solve both the path planning and control synthesis subproblems by decomposing the space into cells and sequentially composing local feedback controllers. The approach is useful for many decentralized applications of multirobot systems including task allocation, navigation in formation, and human-robot interaction. Finally, I will extend the algorithm to partially known environments, where dynamic task reassignment allows the team to cope with unknown hazards in the environment while still providing guarantees on convergence and safety.
Biography: Nora Ayanian is a postdoctoral associate in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. She received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, in 2008 and 2011, respectively.
Host: Fei Sha
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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ISE Annual Spring Banquet
Thu, Apr 11, 2013 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
The Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Presents
The Annual Spring Banquet
Thursday April 11, 2013
6:00-8:00 PM
The Davidson Conference Center, Embassy Room
3415 South Figueroa Street Los Angeles, CA 90089
6:00-6:45 pm
Welcome and Reception (Cash Bar)
6:45 â 8:00 pm
Three-course Dinner
An Honorary Guest Speaker
Recognition and Awards
Event Admission is $20
All paying guests are also welcome. Payment is due with RSVP.
Please RSVP to Georgia in GER 240A or to
Christina Sinner (sinner@usc.edu) by April 5th, 2013
Also, make note of any dietary restrictions.
Dress code for the event is business casual
More Information: 2013 IIE Banquet Flyer.docx
Location: Charlotte S. & Davre R. Davidson Continuing Education Conference Center (DCC) - Embassy Room
Audiences: Department Only
Contact: Rick Scott
