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Events for April 14, 2010
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Apr 14, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
University Calendar
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 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Admission Intern
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CS Colloq: Fernando De la Torre
Wed, Apr 14, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: Learning Components for Human SensingSpeaker: Prof. Fernando De la Torre - Carnegie Mellon UniversityHost: Prof. Gerard MedioniAbstract:Providing computers with the ability to understand human behavior from sensory data (e.g. video, audio, or wearable sensors) is an essential part of many applications that can benefit society such as clinical diagnosis, human computer interaction, and social robotics. A critical element in the design of any behavioral sensing system is to find a good representation of the data for encoding, segmenting, classifying and predicting subtle human behavior. In this talk I will propose several extensions of Component Analysis (CA) techniques (e.g. kernel principal component analysis, support vector machines, and spectral clustering) that are able to learn spatio-temporal representations or components useful in many human sensing tasks.In the first part of the talk I will give an overview of several ongoing projects in the CMU Human Sensing Laboratory, including our current work on depression assessment from video, as well as hot-flash detection from wearable sensors. In the second part of the talk I will show how several extensions of the CA methods outperform state-of-the-art algorithms in problems such as temporal alignment of human behavior, temporal segmentation/clustering of human activities, joint segmentation and classification of human behavior, and facial feature detection in images. The talk will be adaptive, and I will discuss the topics of major interest to the audience.Biography:Fernando De la Torre received his B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications (1994), M.Sc. (1996), and Ph. D. (2002) degrees in Electronic Engineering from La Salle School of Engineering in Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain. In 1997 and 2000 he was an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Communications and Signal Theory in Enginyeria La Salle. Since 2005 he has been a Research Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. De la Torre's research interests include computer vision and machine learning, in particular face analysis, optimization and component analysis methods, and its applications to human sensing. Dr. De la Torre co-organized the first workshop on component analysis methods for modeling, classification and clustering problems in computer vision in conjunction with CVPR'07, and the workshop on human sensing from video jointly with CVPR'06. He has also given several tutorials at international conferences (ECCV'06, CVPR'06, ICME'07, ICPR'08) on the use and extensions of component analysis methods. Currently he leads the Component Analysis Laboratory (http://ca.cs.cmu.edu ) and the Human Sensing Laboratory (http://humansensing.cs.cmu.edu ).
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 115
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Front Desk
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International Student Internship Panel
Wed, Apr 14, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Are you interested in obtaining an internship? Attend this panel event and hear from fellow Viterbi international students on how they found their internship opportunities. Learn the benefits of an internship and how you can begin your quest for engineering industry experience. Companies Represented by Students thus far:
Walt Disney Company,
Nestle,
Symantec Co.
Lunch is served at this event and an RSVP is required. Please see this week's edition (4/7) of the Weekly Wire for the RSVP Link
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH) 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Design, Technology, and Process;Team California, 2009 Solar Decathlon
Wed, Apr 14, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Timothy Hight, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Santa Clara UniversityAbstract:Santa Clara University and California College of the Arts joined forces to compete in the 2009 DOE Solar Decathlon competition, resulting in an overall third place finish. An SCU student team led the engineering effort, and CCA students led the architectural design, while both schools collaborated on these and many other aspects, such as communications and interior design. This talk will discuss some of the technologies chosen for the Refract House (including an integrated all PV roof, radiant heating and cooling, and whole home control system), as well as the tradeoffs and compromises inherent in the bold architectural design, and the process used for design and project management for this student-led team
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 (
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Physical constraints of small-scale motility in fluids
Wed, Apr 14, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Eric LaugaAssistant ProfessorMechanical/Aerospace EngineeringUniversity of California, San DiegoABSTRACT:
Hydrodynamics plays a crucial role in many cellular processes. One example is the locomotion of cells such as bacteria, spermatozoa, and essentially half of the microorganisms on earth. These organisms typically possess flagella, slender whiplike appendages which are actuated in a periodic fashion in a fluid environment, thereby giving rise to propulsion. Motivated by recent experimental data, we consider in this talk three problems on the nonlinear hydrodynamics of swimming cells. We first address the observed flagellar synchronization between eukaryotic cells swimming in close proximity. We then discuss the locomotion of cells in complex (polymeric) fluids. We finally explain why cells swimming in confined environments are attracted to nearby boundaries.
Location: Seaver Science Library, Rm 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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WORKSHOP: Branding People, Products, Services with Cliff Michaels
Wed, Apr 14, 2010 @ 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Student Activity
The USC Entrepreneur Club invites Cliff Michaels for an evening of "full tilt" Branding & Entrepreneurial Training.Cliff Michaels will take us through The 4 Essentials of Highly Successful People, Cliff's 1 DAY MBA concept for accelerated learning, and connected systems for entrepreneurial training. We'll cap the evening with a real world exercise on Branding, Sales & Marketing. Branding Highlights You Will Learn:-How & Why Great Brands Tell Stories
-Unique Value Proposition: Differentiators
-Branding People, Products, Services. Companies
-Your Brand: Like it Or Not – You Have One
-How to Brainstorm Brand Names ( A Live Exercise)
-Key Strategies to "Naming a Company"
-Importance of Branding
-How & Why Brands Impact Corporate Culture
-Effects on PR, Social Media, Networking, Sales, Marketing, Client Experience, Alliances
-The Positive & Negative Emotions & Effects of All Brands
-A Beginner's Checklist for Brands & EntrepreneursMore Info & RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112772072075213
Location: Hoffman Hall HOH1 (Basement Classroom)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Yannis Peyret
