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2013 Symposium on Game Theory and Human Behavior
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Tue, Apr 16, 2013
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Noam Nisan (Computer Science, Hebrew U.) Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research) David Pennock (Microsoft Research) Asu Ozdaglar (EE & CS, MIT) Matthew Elliot (Economics, CalTech) Timothy Ketelaar (Psychology, NMSU) Alan Sanfrey (Psychology, U Arizona),
Talk Title: GTHB Annual Conference
Series: Game Theory and Human Behavior Group
Abstract: Full Event information to be announced closer to the date. Check back soon!
RSVP to Rishika Agarwal to attend at rishikaa@usc.edu
Speakers include:
Noam Nisan (Computer Science, Hebrew U.)
Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research)
David Pennock (Microsoft Research)
Asu Ozdaglar (EE & CS, MIT)
Matthew Elliot (Economics, CalTech)
Timothy Ketelaar (Psychology, NMSU)
Alan Sanfrey (Psychology, U Arizona)
Host: Milind Tambe
Location: USC University Club at King Stoops Hall
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Tue, Apr 16, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you'll need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what you�ve learned. This course is presented in the classroom in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIE�s Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
NOTE: Participants must bring a laptop computer running Microsoft Office� to the seminar.
Course Topics
* Business process management
* Computer applications
* Design of experiments (DOE)
* Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
* DMAIIC
* Enterprisewide deployment
* Lean enterprise
* Project management
* Regression and correlation modeling
* Statistical methods and sampling
* Statistical process control
* Team processes
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Analyze process data using comprehensive statistical methods
* Control the process to assure that improvements are used and the benefits verified
* Define an opportunity for improving customer satisfaction
* Implement the recommended improvements
* Improve existing processes by reducing variation
* Measure process characteristics that are critical to quality
Who Should Attend
* VPs, COOs, CEOs
* Employees new to a managerial position
* Employees preparing to make the transition to managerial roles
* Current managers wanting to hone leadership skills
* Anyone interested in implementing Lean or Six Sigma in their organization
Program Fees
On-Campus Participants: $6095
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $6095
Includes attendee access codes for live call-in or chat capabilities during class sessions. Also includes all course and lecture materials available for live stream or download.
Reduced Pricing:
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): Reduced pricing is available for members of IIE. Please contact professional@mapp.usc.edu for further information.
Trojan Family: USC alumni, current students, faculty, and staff receive 10% reduced pricing on registration.
Boeing: Boeing employees receive 20% off registration fees (please use Boeing email address when registering).
Location
Two course delivery options are available for participants, on-campus and online with interactivity:
On-Campus Course is held in state-of-the-art facilities on the University of Southern California campus, located in downtown Los Angeles. Participants attending on-campus will have the option to commute to the course or stay at one of the many hotels located in the area. For travel information, please visit our Travel section.
Overview of on-campus option:
* The ability to interact with faculty and peers in-person.
* Access to hard copy course materials.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information - up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
* If there is a conflict during any on-campus course dates, on-campus participants can elect to be an online/interactive student.
* Parking, refreshments and lunch are provided for on-campus participants � unless otherwise specified.
Online (Interactivity) Course delivery is completely online and real-time, enabling interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Participants have the flexibility of completing the course from a distance utilizing USC's Distance Education Network technology. Students are required to be online for the entirety of each day's session.
Overview of online (interactive):
* Virtually participate in the course live � with the ability to either ask questions or chat questions to the entire class.
* WebEx technologies provide the option to call into the class and view the entire lecture/materials on a personal computer, or to participate on a computer without having to utilize a phone line.
* Ability to logon and view archived course information up to 7 days after the course has been offered. This includes course documents and streaming video of the lectures.
Continuing Education Units
CEUs: 10.5 (CEUs provided by request only)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of course.
Upon completion, participants will also receive their Institute of Industrial Engineers certification in SIx Sigma Black Belt.
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-black-belt
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Nadia Heninger (Princeton): RSA in the real world
Tue, Apr 16, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Nadia Heninger, Princeton
Talk Title: RSA in the real world
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: I study computer security and applied cryptography using a theoretician's mathematical toolkit. Security vulnerability analysis can often be a painstaking and implementation-specific process. My approach uses cryptographic and algorithmic ideas to reason about the security of deployed systems, to question assumptions underlying the security of these systems, and to understand and model threats.
In this talk, I will use RSA, the world's most widely used public key cryptosystem, as a vehicle to explore the interaction between cryptographic algorithms and real-world usage:
- Discovering widespread catastrophic failures in the random number generators in network devices by computing the greatest common divisors of millions of RSA public keys collected in the wild.
- Reconstructing complete private keys using only a few bits of the private key revealed in the course of a side-channel attack.
In addition to their impact on security, many of the ideas arising in the course of this work have surprising connections across computer science, leading to, for example, new algorithms for decoding families of error-correcting codes, applications within theoretical cryptography, and practical privacy-enhancing technologies.
Biography: Nadia Heninger is a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research New England. Her research focuses on security, applied cryptography, and algorithms. She is best known for her work identifying widespread entropy problems in cryptographic keys on the Internet (2012 Usenix Security best paper award), and developing the "cold boot" attack against disk encryption systems (2008 Usenix Security best student paper award). In 2011-2012, she was an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego. She received her Ph.D. in computer science in 2011 from Princeton and a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science in 2004 from UC Berkeley.
Host: Ramesh Govindan
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Performance and Form | A Net-Zero House
Tue, Apr 16, 2013 @ 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Receptions & Special Events
What: Panel Discussion Featuring Thom Mayne, Neil M. Denari, Michael Speaks, Ralph Knowles, and Anuradha Mathur moderated by Alice Kimm.
Reception to follow. Admission is free. Persons interested in USC's Solar Decathlon Team are especially encouraged to attend.
Presented by USC Visions and Voices and organized by the USC SOA.
More details below:
The Solar Decathlon is a biennial competition sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Energy that challenges interdisciplinary
collegiate teams to design a net-zero-energy single-family
house. Led by the USC School of Architecture, a multifaceted
team of students, faculty and supporters from across USC will
participate in the 2013 competition, working to create a
sustainable, efficient, but also spatially and aesthetically
powerful physical environment. Following the competition
period in 2013, the house will be relocated and donated to a
family in the USC neighborhood.
This event will bring together an interdisciplinary panel of experts
on sustainability and design for a provocative conversation on
the Solar Decathlon competition, its implications for long-term
application and the future of green living. A reception will follow
in Harris Hall Courtyard. During the reception, a full-scale
mockup of the USC Net-Zero House will be available for viewing.More Information: NetZeroHouse_Postcard.pdf
Location: Ray & Nadine Watt Hall Of Architecture & Fine Arts (WAH) - Watt Hall Courtyard
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Team USC Solar Decathlon Club
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SWE's 6th GM: Game Night!
Tue, Apr 16, 2013 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join us for our 6th General Meeting of the semester as we play Jeopardy and some fun board games. We'll have gift cards for the winners and dinner from Freeb!rds will be provided for all!
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 210
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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Study NightsTue, Apr 16, 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) - 111
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
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