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USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center Seminar Series
Fri, Apr 17, 2015 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Stacey Finley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor - Biomedical Engineering
Talk Title: Computational modeling of anti-angiogenic cancer therapeutics
Abstract: Systems biology approaches, including computational models, provide a framework to test biological hypotheses and optimize effective therapies that aim to inhibit tumor vascularization and growth. I will discuss my work in developing a mechanistic, compartment model of VEGF kinetics and transport in the human body and applying the model to investigate the effects of anti-angiogenic therapies targeting VEGF and its receptors. Interestingly, the model predicts that VEGF in the tumor interstitium can increase or decrease following administration of the VEGF-targeting agent, depending on properties of the tumor microenvironment. The model is useful for understanding the dynamics of VEGF distribution in the body in response to anti-VEGF agents, generating clinically relevant predictions in the areas of drug mechanism of action, biomarker identification, and personalized medicine. I will also present recent work in studying other angiogenic factors to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the balance of promoters and inhibitors of tumor angiogenesis.
Host: USC PSOC - Dr. Shannon Mumenthaler
More Information: USC PSOC_Monthly Seminar_FINLEY_4-17-15.pdf
Location: HSC - Harkness Auditorium, CSC-250
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Yvonne Suarez
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ASME Talks with Raytheon VP
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Fri, Apr 17, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Come join ASME for a casual Q&A discussion with Jerry Charlow. Mr. Charlow is Vice President of Program Management Excellence at Raytheon Missile Systems and also a USC alumnus.
This is a unique opportunity for you to lead the conversation with an esteemed industry professional from Raytheon in a relaxed setting.
Food will also be provided!
To attend, make sure to fill out the following form: http://tinyurl.com/lead-the-conversation
The room will fill up quickly, so make sure to sign up ASAP! We look forward to seeing you there!Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 252
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Apr 17, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Woodward Fischer, Professor of Geobiology, Caltech
Talk Title: Photosynthesis: A Planetary Revolution
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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Integrated Systems Seminar
Fri, Apr 17, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Hans Schanzt, Q-Track Corporation
Talk Title: TBD
Series: Integrated Systems Seminar
Host: Hosted by Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen, and Prof. Mahta Moghaddam Organized and hosted by Run Chen
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=915370
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elise Herrera-Green
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=915370
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NL Seminar- Exploiting Bilingual Corpora for Relation Extraction
Fri, Apr 17, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Longhua Qian, (Soochow University)
Talk Title: Exploiting Bilingual Corpora for Relation Extraction
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Large-scale labeled corpora are always critical for Natural Language Processing tasks using statistical machine learning methods, but at the great expense of human labor of annotation. While we have various labeled corpora in different languages at hand, such as English and Chinese, either resource-rich or resource-poor, can these corpora be taken full advantage of for NLP tasks in different languages to help each other? The difficult lies in the fact that parallel corpora with aligned NLP entities are hard to acquire. In this talk, I shall first discuss how to generate pseudo-parallel corpora for relation extraction via machine translation and entity alignment techniques, and then I will proceed to apply this corpora to statistical ML-based relation extraction in terms of the degree of supervision: (1) supervised learning; (2) bilingual co-training; (3) bilingual active learning. This talk is chiefly based on the ACL-2014 paper âBilingual Active Learning for Relation Classification via Pseudo Parallel Corporaâ.
Biography: Longhua Qian is a visiting researcher from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, China. He joined the Natural Language Group and will work with Professor Kevin Knight and his team members for one year. He will participate in on-going projects on Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) and Machine Reading etc. His mainly focuses on information extraction, relation extraction, and entity linking etc. He is also interested in extracting information from clinical medical records and building social networks from free text.
Host: Nima Pourdamghani and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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