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Graduate Seminar Series
Thu, May 01, 2014 @ 12:45 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Amy Karlsson, University of Maryland
Talk Title: Engineering Peptides and Proteins to Combat Human Disease
Series: Graduate Seminar Series
Abstract: Rational design and directed evolution are both powerful approaches for engineering proteins and peptides. Our lab applies these approaches to exploit the power of proteins and peptides in studying and combatting human disease, and I will discuss applications of protein engineering in fungal disease and cancer. We applied a rational design approach to engineer non-natural antimicrobial ò-peptides that exhibit antifungal activity against the fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Through this work, we developed a deeper understanding of the properties of ò-peptides that contribute to their toxicity towards fungal cells and fungal biofilms, and we are currently working on ways to apply this understanding to designing improved antifungal agents. We have also used directed evolution to engineer antibodies that can fold and function inside cells, which has broad applications in human diseases, including cancer. The reducing environment inside cells prevents formation of the disulfide bonds normally required for proper antibody folding, but we have developed a bacterial inner membrane display system that harnesses the cytoplasmic folding quality control mechanisms of the Escherichia coli twin-arginine translocation pathway to engineer proteins able to fold in the cytoplasmic environment. We used this method to display and screen a combinatorial library of single-chain variable fragment (scFv) antibodies and isolated scFvs with dramatic improvements in both antigen-binding and intracellular solubility. We are now using our display method to engineer scFvs for studying and treating cancer and fungal disease.
Biography: Dr. Amy J. Karlsson received her bachelorââ¬â¢s degree in chemical engineering from
Iowa State University in 2003 and then joined Prof. Sean Palecekââ¬â¢s group at the
University of Wisconsin, where she received her PhD in chemical engineering in 2009. Following her doctoral work, she was an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Matt DeLisaââ¬â¢s lab at Cornell University. Dr. Karlsson joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland as an assistant professor in 2012. Her groupââ¬â¢s research lies at the interface of biology and engineering and uses protein engineering strategies to improve the understanding of human diseases and develop tools for drug design and disease diagnosis.
Host: TBA
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ryan Choi
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CS Distinguished Lecture: Szymon Rusinkiewicz (Princeton) - Investigating the Past with 3D Scanning, Visualization, and Analysis
Thu, May 01, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Princeton University
Talk Title: Investigating the Past with 3D Scanning, Visualization, and Analysis
Series: CS Distinguished Lectures
Abstract: This talk will be available to stream via the link here. [Right-click and open in new tab or window for best performance.]
Recent research into scanning, visualizing, and analyzing real-world 3D objects has the potential of providing novel insights into archaeological sites and artifacts. Two recent projects have investigated how digital methods may be used to document and propose reconstructions of objects from ancient Greece and Cyprus. The first is a system that uses 3-D and 2-D digitization hardware, together with computer-based matching techniques, to assist archaeologists and conservators in documenting and reassembling thousands of plaster fragments from wall-paintings at the site of Akrotiri (modern-day Santorini, Greece). The second is a joint research and educational project in which students created digital reconstructions of four buildings in Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus, producing a computer-animated movie to accompany an exhibition of material from the site.
Biography: Szymon Rusinkiewicz is Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. His work focuses on the interface between computers and the visual and tangible world: acquisition, representation, analysis, and fabrication of 3D shape, motion, surface appearance, and scattering. He investigates algorithms for processing geometry and reflectance, including registration, matching, completion, hierarchical decomposition, symmetry analysis, sampling, and depiction. Applications of this work include documentation of cultural heritage artifacts and sites, appearance and performance capture for digital humans, and illustrative depiction through line drawings and non-photorealistic shading models.
Host: Hao Li
Location: SAL 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Synchronization of Dreams - The Reflections of Bob Scholtz
Fri, May 02, 2014 @ 11:30 AM - 02:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Robert A. Scholtz, Fred H. Cole Professor of Engineering/USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: Synchronization of Dreams - The Reflections of Bob Scholtz
Series: Electrical Engineering Pioneer Series
Abstract: Beginning with a bizarre adventure from the ââ¬Åbiographyââ¬Â of Secret Agent 00111, selected applications of synchronization to digital communication systems are revealed in a quasi-technical, quasi-historical fashion. Learn about the structure of comma-free codes, what characterizes a spread-spectrum system and how spreading and de-spreading systems are related to synchronization, thoughts about communication jamming, adaptation, and randomization, etc. Shakespeare, a science-fiction writer, a Holy Roman Emperor, a movie star, a bookshelf, and several USC faculty can be spotted along the way. This talk will conclude with some applications of synchronization to antenna systems (that is, if we can synchronize this presentation to the allotted time!)
Friday, May 2, 2014 - EEB 132
11:30am Introduction & Welcome
11:35am Synchronization of Dreams - The Reflections of Bob Scholtz, Fred H. Cole Professor of Engineering
12:20pm Break
12:30pm Bob Scholtz in Conversation with Urbashi Mitra
1:30pm Reception - Light Refreshments
Host: Ming Hsieh Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Van Der Meulen Symposium
Sat, May 03, 2014 @ 07:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: NEURORESTORATION Expanding the Landscape for the Treatment of Nervous System Diseases through Engineering and Medicine
Abstract: The USC Center for Neurorestoration exists to create new strategies in the treatment of neurological injury and disease. Collaborations between neurosciences,
medicine and engineering are conducting robust and innovative research, expanding knowledge and hastening the development of new therapies for diseases/conditions of the nervous system. This comprehensive one day program
provides lectures on the latest advances in neurosciences and research. Topics include neurorestoration, neuromodulation, brain machine interfaces and cognitive prosthesis.
Expanding the Landscape for the Treatment of Nervous System Diseases through Engineering and Medicine, May 3, 2014
Tuition: $75 MD, DO | $50 Nurses, Allied Health Professionals if registered and paid by noon PST on 4/30/14. Additional $25 for onsite payment. $25 Students, Fellows, Residents Tuition is non-refundable, unless program is cancelled by USC. $35 Printed Syllabus (Optional. Must be pre-ordered and paid by 4/21).
Cancellation Fee: There is a cancellation fee of $25. All requests must be received by fax or email only by May 1, 2014. No cancellations after May 1, 2014.
Location: Catherine and Joseph Aresty Conference Center, in the lower ground level
of the Har
lyne J. Norris Cancer Research Tower on the USC Health
S
ciences Campus. 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, California 90033
Parking: Biggy Parking Structure, 1334 Biggy Street at Zonal Avenue, LA, 90033
at the Kec
k School of Medicine on the USC Health Sciences Campus.
Cancellation: Courses subject to cancellation. USC will not refund travel costs for
cancelled courses.
Register: Mail: 1540 Alcazar Street, CHP 223, Los Angeles, CA 90033 Online: www.usc.edu/cme, scroll down to ââ¬ÅVan Der Meulen Symposiumââ¬Â
Phone: 323-442-2555 I Fax: 1-888-665-8650 Email: usccme@usc.edu
Onsite: Aresty Conference Center foyer
Special Needs: Advance notice of any special physical or dietary needs by April 16, 2014 will help us serve you better.
More Information: VDM2014 (7).pdf
Location: Harlyne J. Norris Research Tower (NRT) - Aresty Conference Center
Audiences: Registration Fee Required
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, May 05, 2014 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: TBA
Host: David D'Argenio
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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CEE Oral Dissertation Defense
Thu, May 08, 2014 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Miguel Hernandez-Garcia, Astani CEE Ph.D. Students
Talk Title: Analytical and experimental studies in modeling and monitoring of uncertain nonlinear systems using data-driven reduced-order methods
Abstract:
Most of the available data-based methodologies developed for system identification and health monitoring of complex nonlinear systems can be considered to be deterministic in nature. These approaches use experimental measurements to characterize the complex systems by means of nominal mathematical (e.g., parametric or non-parametric) models, while neglecting the effects of aleatory and epistemic uncertainties that can be present in real structures. The inherent stochastic nature of the systemsââ¬â¢ components (i.e., randomness in structural, geometric and material properties); the variability in environmental and operational conditions; and the uncertainties associated with the modeling, measurement and data analysis process can lead to unreliable description and characterization of complex nonlinear systems. Consequently, in order to develop robust and reliable models of nonlinear systems, it is imperative to address the issues of quantification and propagation of uncertainties.
This dissertation compiles analytical and experimental studies focused on implementing, analyzing, and validating promising and robust data-driven methodologies to build high-fidelity reduced-order models of uncertain complex nonlinear systems. These data-based reduced-order methodologies were used in structural health monitoring applications, and in the modeling of critical structural components. Experimental datasets from dynamic tests performed in a small-scale lab structure at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL); a re-configurable test structure designed, built, and tested at University of Southern California (USC); a scaled-down six-story steel-frame laboratory structure at the National Center for Research in Earthquake Engineering (NCREE); and a seven-story full-scale reinforced-concrete structure at the UCSD-NEES facilities, were used to evaluate the effectiveness and reliability of the data-based reduced-order models for detecting, locating and quantifying structural changes. In addition, sensor fault-detection and identification techniques based on statistical monitoring using latent-variable techniques, were implemented and evaluated for detecting and identifying faulty sensors using measurements from an actual cable-supported bridge in the metropolitan Los Angeles (CA) region. Finally, a general methodology for developing probabilistic reduced-order models of critical structural components from experimental measurements was proposed. This methodology was used to develop a probabilistic data-based reduced-order model to characterize the mechanical behavior of a particular type of lap bolted joints with an inclined interface directly from experimental data obtained from dynamic tests performed at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL).
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 Conference Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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CREATE Seminar w/ Blake Cignarella & Laura Martinez
Thu, May 08, 2014 @ 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Blake Cignarella & Laura Martinez, CREATE Fellows
Talk Title: Presentation 1: American Airport Security: An Evaluation of the SPOT Program / Presentation 2: Two Years at CREATE: An Experience in Emergency Management and Community Preparedness
Series: CREATE Monthly Seminar Series
Abstract: PRESENTATION #1
Title: American Airport Security: An Evaluation of the SPOT Program
Abstract: Security initiatives allow people to travel and continue living their lives in the hazardous world in which we reside. Specifically, airports in the last decade have become intensely guarded against attacks and invaders that seek to do harm to the United States and its citizens since the attacks of 9/11.
Increase measures have been put in place to guard against terror through governmentally run aviation security programs, such as The Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program in airports. This program seeks to detect threatening behavior based on behavioral queues before passengers go through screening. Through this program passengers are visually inspected by a behavioral detection officer (BDO) to find threating behavior. Although successful in concept, in other countries such as Israel, SPOT has failed to prove to the U.S. Government Accountability Office it is effective in continuing to spend tax payerââ¬â¢s dollars. This study probes at the methodology of the SPOT program by finding the capacity of the process and its vulnerabilities.
PRESENTATION #2
Title: Two Years at CREATE: An Experience in Emergency Management and Community Preparedness
Abstract: Laura will discuss how she has spent her time at CREATE crafting a well-rounded experience focused on emergency management and community preparedness. Her talk will cover three separate topics. She will first discuss ââ¬ÅEmergency Education: A Case for Compulsory Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Curricula in Los Angeles County Schools,ââ¬Â arguing that although children are among the most vulnerable to disasters and emergencies, they are arguably also an apt and readily reachable audience. She will highlight international and domestic examples that have proven that children can become agents of change within their families and communities and act as first responders in their own right. Ultimately, she builds the case for school-based emergency education, an ideal way to decrease the individual vulnerability of LAââ¬â¢s children while increasing the Countyââ¬â¢s resilience.
She will then discuss her second year as a Fellow working for the City of Los Angeles Emergency Management Department as an Emergency Management Intern. In her work with the City, Laura gained extensive project management experience in functional, hazard-specific, and disabilities, access and functional needs plan writing. She was also heavily involved in other aspects of local level emergency management, such as interdepartmental and community collaboration, grant management, budgeting, and emergency operations center activities.
Finally, she will describe her work on CREATEââ¬â¢s current project to enhance Disaster Survivor Assistance Teamsââ¬â¢ faith-based outreach. She contributed Catholic-specific research, and job aids for Catholic interaction and general best practices.
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP to calicchi@usc.edu by May 6.
Biography: Presenter:
Blake Cignarella, a native of New Jersey, is a current University of Southern California graduate student and a fellow for the Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE). She will be graduating with her masters and will be continuing her studies as a candidate in the doctors of philosophy program in Industrial Systems Engineering in the fall. During her tenure at CREATE she has developed interest in root cause analysis and improvement on security processes. Her employment with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority allowed her to contribute towards system security for crime on the rail lines, as well as police response timeââ¬â¢s improvement.
Blake graduated Magna Cum Laude and second in her class from Rutgers University, where she received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Systems Engineering. She is an active member of Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honors Society. Diverse sectors of homeland security utilized Blakeââ¬â¢s talents, and added to her expertise, prior to the fall 2013 when she joined CREATE. Blakeââ¬â¢s team at the National Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce developed a Detection-Action-Resilience Strategy for Small Vessel Security in the Port of New York and New Jersey. She performed network modeling and parameter identification for Rutgersââ¬â¢ Command, Control and Interoperability Center through a grant from the Federal Emergency Management (FEMA); completing the statistical analysis and modeling for flood mitigation efforts which is currently under review for publishing.
Presenter:
Laura Martinez, originally from Sacramento, is a graduate student at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and a research fellow for the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE). In 2014, she will receive her Master of Public Administration degree and a certificate in homeland security and public policy. While at CREATE, Laura has focused on emergency management issues related to community preparedness, including K-12 education and faith based outreach. Her work with the City of Los Angeles Emergency Management Department has allowed her to broaden her emergency management background through grant management, plan writing, community and interdepartmental relations, GIS and project management. She hopes to continue working at the local level in the future, and is an active member of the Municipal Management Association of Southern California, the International City/County Management Association, and the International Association of Emergency Managers.
Laura graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and a minor in music from California State University, Sacramento, where she was also inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Prior to coming to USC and CREATE in fall 2012, she served as a Capital Fellow under the Chief of Staff at the California Governorââ¬â¢s Office of Emergency Services, working on technology policy, special projects, and disaster response. She also worked for a nonpartisan non-profit in Washington, D.C., writing about both security and non-security related legislation to inform the California congressional delegation.
Host: CREATE at USC
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 306
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Erin Pearson (Calicchio)
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NL Seminar-
Fri, May 09, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Aram Galstyan, USC/ISI
Talk Title: Deciphering Social Interactions from Text
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Studies of social systems have traditionally focused on analyzing various structural properties of networks induced by social communication, while ignoring the content of communication. Despite recent advances, language-based analysis of social processes is still a challenging problem due to the lack of sound mathematical frameworks and adequate computational methods for extracting and analyzing useful social signals from unstructured text. Here I will describe our recent work on content-based analysis of social interactions, which involves two main steps: (a) Embedding communication content in an abstract content space, so that a sequence of textual exchanges is represented as trajectories in this space; and (b) Applying tools from information theory and dynamical systems to discover and characterize directional correlations among those trajectories. I will briefly describe the main elements of the technical approach, and demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed framework on two case studies: content-based characterization of social influence, and stylistic coordination in dialogues.
Biography: Aram Galstyan is a Project Leader at the USC Information Sciences Institute and a Research Assistant Professor at the USC Computer Science Department. His current research focuses on characterizing and predicting behavior of dynamic networks using informationâ⬓theoretic concepts. His other research interests include developing statisticalâ⬓physics based approaches for understanding fundamental limits of various inference algorithms and characterizing the performance of those algorithms with respect to stability and robustness
Host: Aliya Deri 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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"Real-Time Brain-Machine Interface Architectures: Algorithmic Development and Experimental Implementation"
Mon, May 12, 2014 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Maryam Shanechi, Assistant Professor/Cornell University
Talk Title: "Real-Time Brain-Machine Interface Architectures: Algorithmic Development and Experimental Implementation"
Abstract: A brain-machine-interface (BMI) is a system that interacts with the brain either to allow the brain to control an external device or to control the brain's state. In this talk, I present my work on developing both these types of BMIs, specifically motor BMIs for restoring movement in paralyzed patients and a new BMI for control of the brain state under anesthesia. Motor BMI research has largely focused on the problem of restoring the original motor function by using standard signal processing techniques. However, devising novel algorithmic solutions that are tailored to the neural system can significantly improve the performance of these BMIs. Moreover, while building high-performance BMIs with the goal of matching the original motor function is indeed valuable, a compelling goal is that of designing BMIs that can enhance original motor function. Here, I first develop a novel BMI paradigm for restoration of natural motor function that incorporates an optimal feedback-control model of the brain and directly processes the spiking activity using point process modeling. I show that this paradigm significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art. I then introduce a BMI architecture aimed at enhancing original motor function that decodes all the elements of a sequential motor plan concurrently prior to movement. I demonstrate the successful implementation of both these designs in rhesus monkeys. I also present a motor BMI for control of the native limb that decodes neural activity from an alert subject to generate arm movements in a second temporarily paralyzed subject by stimulating its spinal cord. In addition to motor BMIs, I construct a new BMI that controls the state of the brain under anesthesia. This is done by designing stochastic controllers that infer the brain's anesthetic state from non-invasive observations of neural activity and control the real-time rate of drug administration to achieve a target brain state. I show the reliable performance of this BMI in rodent experiments.
Biography: Maryam M. Shanechi is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. Her research focuses on using the principles of information and control theories and statistical signal processing to develop effective algorithmic solutions to basic and clinical neuroscience problems. Her work combines methodology development with in vivo implementation and testing. She received the B.A.Sc. degree with honors in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto in 2004 and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006 and 2011, respectively. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Medical School and in the EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Host: Dr. Sandeep Gupta
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Progress towards monitoring of ambient particulate matter using satellite and aircraft remote sensing
Mon, May 12, 2014 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: David J. Diner , JPL - California Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Progress towards monitoring of ambient particulate matter using satellite and aircraft remote sensing
Abstract: Exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) has been consistently linked to adverse health effects including cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, heart attacks, low birth weight, and premature death. According to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study, ambient (outdoor) PM causes over 3 million premature deaths in a single year. Although surface stations are currently used to monitor PM concentrations, their sparse distribution can lead to errors in establishing accurate exposure levels, and they are unable to provide the level of spatial detail needed to link different aerosol species to given health effects. By using passive remote sensing (that is, inference of particle properties by observing backscattered sunlight from a high-altitude platform), significant progress has been made in recent years to differentiate particle types using a combination of Multispectral, multiangular, and polarimetric observations. Establishment of regression relationships between column aerosol loading and the concentration of near-surface particulates measured by surface monitors makes it possible to use the coverage provided by satellite and airborne instruments to map PM with contiguous spatial coverage.
At JPL, we have been developing observational technologies to map aerosol abundance and type by remote sensing. The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer instrument has been flying on NASA's Terra spacecraft since 1999, and has demonstrated the value of supplementing multispectral measurements with observations at different view angles to separate scattering by aerosols from reflection by the underlying surface, enhance the visibility of thin aerosols, distinguish spherical and nonspherical particles, and track the injection heights of discrete aerosol plumes. More recently, we have been flying the Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (AirMSPI) instrument on NASA's high-altitude ER-2 aircraft. Interaction of sunlight with the atmosphere polarizes the light, providing an additional tool for diagnosing the size distribution and optical properties of airborne particles. In this talk I will discuss how an integrated approach in which remote sensing data, additional particle type constraints provided by chemical transport models, and in situ particle monitors has the potential to provide a cost-effective global PM monitoring system to benefit the health of future generations.
Biography: David J. Diner is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and Principal Investigator of the satellite Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) and Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (AirMSPI) instruments. He is also Supervisor of the Aerosol and Cloud Science Group at JPL. Dr. Diner received the B.S. degree in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Planetary Science from Caltech. He has been involved in numerous NASA planetary and Earth remote-sensing investigations, and is the recipient of both the NASA Outstanding Leadership and Exceptional Achievement medals.
Host: Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Shane Goodoff
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Integrated Systems Seminar
Tue, May 13, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Steven Bowers, California Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Holistic electromagnetics: integrated co-design of microwave, analog, digital, and photonic systems
Abstract: Continued integration of various devices on to a single semiconductor substrate as well as the scaling of those devices to ever smaller feature sizes have opened up a new design space for system level innovations that are no longer constrained by many of the restrictions of discrete system design. This talk will present holistic design methodologies for integrated power generation and radiation at mm-wave frequencies that are enabled by this continued integration of various electronic and electromagnetic (EM) structures onto the same substrate. One benefit of this integration available to mm-wave designers is the vast computational power available on chip. A fully integrated self-healing power amplifier at 28 GHz in 45nm SOI CMOS takes advantage of this processing power to heal the PA against process variation, mismatch, environmental variation and transistor failure.
Continuing with the observation that transistors and their connections to EM radiating structures on an integrated substrate are essentially incrementally free, the concept of multi-port driven (MPD) radiators is introduced, and proof of concept mm-wave radiators using 130nm SiGe BiCMOS and silicon photonics are demonstrated.
These systems showcase the benefits of utilizing a co-design between various fields, such as analog circuit design, digital circuit design and applied electromagnetics. By removing many of the boundaries between these various disciplines, new system architectures can be realized that can further push the limits of achievable performance.
Biography: Steven M. Bowers received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego and his M.S. and Ph.D. specializing in mm-wave circuits and systems from the California Institute of Technology, where he is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow. His research interests include holistic integration of high-frequency analog circuits, advanced digital circuits, novel electromagnetic structures and integrated silicon photonics to enable the next generation of mm-wave applications, specifically in adaptive and self-healing mm-wave circuits and mm-wave power generation and radiation. He received the Caltech Institute Fellowship in 2007, Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2009, is a member of IEEE, HKN and Tau-Beta-Pi, and was the recipient of the IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper award in 2012 and the IEEE IMS Best Student Paper award in 2013.
Host: Hossein Hashemi
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
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NL Seminar- Qualification Practice Talk / Beyond Parallel Data
Wed, May 14, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Qing Dou, USC/ISI
Talk Title: Beyond Parallel Data
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Thanks to the availability of parallel data and advances in machine learning techniques, we have seen tremendous improvement in the field of machine translation over the past 20 years. However, due to lack of parallel data, the quality of machine translation is still far from satisfying for many language pairs and domains. In general, it is easier to obtain non-parallel data, and much work has tried to learn translations from non-parallel data. Nonetheless, improvements to machine translation have been limited. In this work, I follow a decipherment approach to learn translations from non parallel data and achieve significant gains in machine translation.
I apply slice sampling to Bayesian decipherment. Compared with the state-of-the-art algorithm, the new approach is highly scalable and accurate, making it possible to decipher billions of tokens with hundreds of thousands of word types at high accuracy for the first time. Furthermore, I introduce dependency relations to address the problems of word reordering, insertion, and deletion when deciphering foreign languages, and show that dependency relations help improve deciphering accuracy by over 5-fold. I decipher large amounts of monolingual data to learn translations for out-of-vocabulary words and observe significant gains of up to 3.8 BLEU points in domain-adaptation. Moreover, I show that a translation lexicon learned from large amounts of non-parallel data with decipherment can improve a phrase-based machine translation system trained with limited parallel data. In experiments, I observe BLEU gains of 1.2 to 1.8 across three different test sets.
Given the above success, I propose to work on advancing machine translation of real world low density languages, and to explore using non-parallel data to improve word alignment and discovery of phrase translations.
Qing Dou is a fourth year PhD student at USC/ISI, advised by Professor Kevin Knight.
Biography: Home Page:
http://www.isi.edu/~qdou/
Host: Aliya Deri 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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NL Seminar- Story-Level Inference to Improve Machine Reading
Fri, May 16, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Hans Chalupsky, USC/ISI
Talk Title: Story-Level Inference to Improve Machine Reading
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Extracting well-defined entities and relations that hold between them from unstructured text is an important prerequisite for a variety of tasks such as knowledge base population, question answering, data analytics, visualization, etc. The difficulty of this problem is evidenced by the annual TAC-KBP evaluations organized by NIST, where the best-performing systems in the slot-filling task still only achieve an f-value in the high 30's. These high error rates on individual relations get further compounded once relations have to be joined to answer a question.
State-of-the art statistical information extraction techniques focus primarily on the phrase and sentence level to extract entities and relations between them, and are generally ignorant of the greater context around them. We present a new approach which aggregates locally extracted information into a larger story context and uses abductive reasoning to generate the best story-level interpretation. We demonstrate that this approach can significantly improve relation extraction and question answering performance on complex questions. We will also describe ongoing work to apply this type of inference to the TAC Knowledge Base Population task in order to improve relation extraction and coreference resolution.
Biography: Hans Chalupsky is a project leader at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, where he leads the Loom Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group. He holds a Master's degree in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria and a Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Chalupsky has over 25 years of experience in the design, development and application of knowledge representation and reasoning systems such as PowerLoom, and he is the principal architect of the KOJAK Link Discovery System. His research interests include knowledge representation and reasoning systems, natural language processing, knowledge and link discovery, anomaly detection and semantic interoperability.
Host: Aliya Deri 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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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Mon, May 19, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Course Number & Dates:
Session 1 (SAP 0514-05):
Monday, May 19th - Saturday May 24th, 2014
Tuesday, May 27th - Thursday, May 29th, 2014
Certification Exam on Friday, May 30th, 2014
(10 day course includes one Saturday class on May 24th)
The University of Southern California, being an active member of SAP's Global University Alliances program since its inception in 1996, has been chosen to offer the TERP10 Academy to its students in early Summer 2014. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated between 30,000 and 40,000, in the next several years. Students completing the TERP10 Academy and passing SAP's certification exam will have the advantage of being equipped with a good understanding of business processes adopted by companies around the world. They will also get insights into best business practices and how SAP can be used to optimize business processes. Students will find that the TERP10 Certification will open internship opportunities as well as full time jobs with consulting firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Hitachi, and other SAP partner companies.
Host: Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification AcademyTue, May 20, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Course Number & Dates: Session 1 (SAP 0514-05):
Monday, May 19th - Saturday May 24th, 2014
Tuesday, May 27th - Thursday, May 29th, 2014
Certification Exam on Friday, May 30th, 2014(10 day course includes one Saturday class on May 24th)
The University of Southern California, being an active member of SAPââ¬â¢s Global University Alliances program since its inception in 1996, has been chosen to offer the TERP10 Academy to its students in early Summer 2014. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated between 30,000 and 40,000, in the next several years. Students completing the TERP10 Academy and passing SAPââ¬â¢s certification exam will have the advantage of being equipped with a good understanding of business processes adopted by companies around the world. They will also get insights into best business practices and how SAP can be used to optimize business processes. Students will find that the TERP10 Certification will open internship opportunities as well as full time jobs with consulting firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Hitachi, and other SAP partner companies.
Host: Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
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Engineering Aspects of Gis Education
Tue, May 20, 2014 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: John N. Hatzopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
Talk Title: Engineering Aspects of Gis Education
Abstract: Engineering of education refers to scientific and technological aspects of education to support philosophical bases necessary to be used on didactics, curriculum structure in an effort to develop an educated character. Gis being a field with advanced scientific and technological bases, is used to support many and diverse applications of interdisciplinary nature. Education in such diverse applications must be at first place centered on promoting human values and on such bases proceed with the effort to develop a scientist, a professional and an educated character. Therefore, engineering procedures are adopted in terms of using mathematics as a tool to analyze structures and of using specifications for education planning. This is necessary to develop and use scientifically founded human value models and based on these models to proceed on didactics using scientific and technological tools in a way to create motives for the students, thus contributing to a balanced curriculum environment. This engineering structure and methodology of Gis education will be demonstrated as applied at the University of the Aegean, Greece, Department of the Environment.
Biography: Received his MSCE (1976) and Ph.D. (1989) degrees from the University of Washington (research assistantship fellow), Department of Civil Engineering and his diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering from the Technical University of Athens (1971), awarded the Crysovergion prize award as ranking the first among the graduates. Was employed as associate professor at the California State University, Fresno, Civil Engineering Department, Surveying and Photogrammetry Program (1980), and after four years was promoted to the rank of professor with tenure. During his career at Fresno State the Surveying Engineering program was raised to be one of the best in US and his effort was awarded by the outstanding professor's award. After nine years of service resigned from Fresno State and joined the faculty at the University of the Aegean, Department of the Environment (1989), where he is serving up today. Established the Laboratory of Remote Sensing and GIS (1995) being its director up today. His research interests involve Remote Sensing, GIS and geospatial applications mainly on environmental projects. Has been principal investigator and participant on over forty different research programs in US and Greece. Has been consultant on several Remote Sensing and GIS projects in US, Japan and Greece. Has published over 110 papers on scientific journals and conference proceedings. Has published five books three on "Topographic Mapping" and two on "Education and Philosophy". Has published Chapters in seven different collectively published volumes.
Host: Petros Ioannou
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Shane Goodoff
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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Wed, May 21, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Course Number & Dates: Session 1 (SAP 0514-05):
Monday, May 19th - Saturday May 24th, 2014
Tuesday, May 27th - Thursday, May 29th, 2014
Certification Exam on Friday, May 30th, 2014(10 day course includes one Saturday class on May 24th)
The University of Southern California, being an active member of SAPââ¬â¢s Global University Alliances program since its inception in 1996, has been chosen to offer the TERP10 Academy to its students in early Summer 2014. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated between 30,000 and 40,000, in the next several years. Students completing the TERP10 Academy and passing SAPââ¬â¢s certification exam will have the advantage of being equipped with a good understanding of business processes adopted by companies around the world. They will also get insights into best business practices and how SAP can be used to optimize business processes. Students will find that the TERP10 Certification will open internship opportunities as well as full time jobs with consulting firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Hitachi, and other SAP partner companies.
Host: Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
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CS Colloquium: Paul Elmore (Stennis Space Center) - Possiblistic & Probabilistic Approaches for Uncertainty Combinations and Measures
Wed, May 21, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Paul Elmore, Stennis Space Center
Talk Title: Possiblistic & Probabilistic Approaches for Uncertainty Combinations and Measures
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: We present research on use of probabilistic and possiblistic sources of information for use in decision-making. We seek approaches to assist this process by providing information theory based quantitative evaluations to guide decisions. In particular, we examine aspects of the possiblistic conditioning of probability and analyze cases of completely certain and uncertain probability with four possibility distributions. To consider whether the conditioned probability is more informative for decision-making, three measures, Shannon entropy, Gini index and Renyi entropy are used to compare the original probability distributions and the conditioned distribution for the cases described. We found compatible results for comparing the informativeness of the original versus the conditioned probability. The three measures have increasing values with increasing uncertainty, meaning the conditioned probability will be more informative for decision making if its measure value is less than that measure for the original probability and vice-versa. Additionally, we use the Zadeh consistency measure to assess these cases and found it correlates with the evaluation results. We are investigating ways for application to actual decision-making to assess if outcomes that are more desirable result when the evaluation measures have indicated that the conditioned probability is more informative.
Biography: Dr. Paul Elmore research interests are in geospatial models and uncertainty estimation methods for geophysical information. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from University of Mississippi in 1996, where his research focus was in nonlinear acoustics. He has been a Research Physicist in the Geospatial Sciences and Technology Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory at the Stennis Space Center since 2001 and principal investigator of research and development in bathymetric data fusion and uncertainty estimation since 2007.
Host: Teamcore
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Thu, May 22, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Course Number & Dates: Session 1 (SAP 0514-05):
Monday, May 19th - Saturday May 24th, 2014
Tuesday, May 27th - Thursday, May 29th, 2014
Certification Exam on Friday, May 30th, 2014(10 day course includes one Saturday class on May 24th)
The University of Southern California, being an active member of SAPââ¬â¢s Global University Alliances program since its inception in 1996, has been chosen to offer the TERP10 Academy to its students in early Summer 2014. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated between 30,000 and 40,000, in the next several years. Students completing the TERP10 Academy and passing SAPââ¬â¢s certification exam will have the advantage of being equipped with a good understanding of business processes adopted by companies around the world. They will also get insights into best business practices and how SAP can be used to optimize business processes. Students will find that the TERP10 Certification will open internship opportunities as well as full time jobs with consulting firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Hitachi, and other SAP partner companies.
Host: Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Fri, May 23, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Course Number & Dates: Session 1 (SAP 0514-05):
Monday, May 19th - Saturday May 24th, 2014
Tuesday, May 27th - Thursday, May 29th, 2014
Certification Exam on Friday, May 30th, 2014(10 day course includes one Saturday class on May 24th)
The University of Southern California, being an active member of SAPââ¬â¢s Global University Alliances program since its inception in 1996, has been chosen to offer the TERP10 Academy to its students in early Summer 2014. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated between 30,000 and 40,000, in the next several years. Students completing the TERP10 Academy and passing SAPââ¬â¢s certification exam will have the advantage of being equipped with a good understanding of business processes adopted by companies around the world. They will also get insights into best business practices and how SAP can be used to optimize business processes. Students will find that the TERP10 Certification will open internship opportunities as well as full time jobs with consulting firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Hitachi, and other SAP partner companies.
Host: Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
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NL Seminar- How to Speak a Language Without Knowing It
Fri, May 23, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Xing Shi, USC/ ISI
Talk Title: How to Speak a Language Without Knowing It
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: We develop a system that lets people overcome language barriers by letting them speak a language they do not know. Our system accepts text entered by a user, translates the text, then converts the translation into a phonetic spelling in the userââ¬â¢s own orthography. We trained the system on phonetic spellings in travel phrasebooks.
Biography: Xing Shi is a PhD student at USC, advised by Professor Kevin Knight.
Host: Aliya Deri 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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Teamcore Seminar: Dr. Guillaume Sagnol (Zuse-Institute Berlin) - On the price of spite in Spot-checking games
Fri, May 23, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Guillaume Sagnol, Zuse-Institute Berlin
Talk Title: On the price of spite in Spot-checking games
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: We introduce the class of spot-checking games (SC games). These games model problems where the goal is to distribute fare inspectors over a toll network. In an SC game, the pure strategies of network users correspond to paths in a graph, and the pure strategies of the inspectors are subset of edges to be controlled.
Although SC games are not zero-sum, we show that a (mixed) Nash equilibrium can be computed by linear programming. The computation of a strong Stackelberg equilibrium is more relevant for this problem, but we show that this is NP-hard. However, we give some bounds on the price of spite, which measures how the payoff of the inspector degrades when committing to a Nash equilibrium. That is, the inspector chooses the most harmful strategy for his opponents (because it is easy to compute) rather than the best strategy for himself. Finally, we demonstrate the quality of these bounds for a real-world application, namely the enforcement of a truck toll on German motorways.
Biography: Dr. Guillaume Sagnol is a post-doc fellow at Zuse-Institute Berlin and has been a member of this institute since 2010. He holds an engineering degree and a PhD from the French grande école "Mines Paristech". Prior to joining the ZIB he was working as a PhD student in a joint team between INRIA Saclay and Ecole Polytechnique.
His research interests lie in the areas of approximation algorithms for hard combinatorial problems, game theory, and conic programming. In particular, he has developed new SDP and SOCP formulations for the computation of "optimal experimental designs", an area at the interface of statistics and optimization. He he now working on several applied optimization projects, like the optimization of toll enforcement on German motorways, or scheduling problems in surgery planning.
Host: Teamcore
Location: Charles Lee Powell Hall (PHE) - 223
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Sat, May 24, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Course Number & Dates: Session 1 (SAP 0514-05):
Monday, May 19th - Saturday May 24th, 2014
Tuesday, May 27th - Thursday, May 29th, 2014
Certification Exam on Friday, May 30th, 2014(10 day course includes one Saturday class on May 24th)
The University of Southern California, being an active member of SAPââ¬â¢s Global University Alliances program since its inception in 1996, has been chosen to offer the TERP10 Academy to its students in early Summer 2014. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated between 30,000 and 40,000, in the next several years. Students completing the TERP10 Academy and passing SAPââ¬â¢s certification exam will have the advantage of being equipped with a good understanding of business processes adopted by companies around the world. They will also get insights into best business practices and how SAP can be used to optimize business processes. Students will find that the TERP10 Certification will open internship opportunities as well as full time jobs with consulting firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Hitachi, and other SAP partner companies.
Host: Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Sun, May 25, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Course Number & Dates: Session 1 (SAP 0514-05):
Monday, May 19th - Saturday May 24th, 2014
Tuesday, May 27th - Thursday, May 29th, 2014
Certification Exam on Friday, May 30th, 2014(10 day course includes one Saturday class on May 24th)
The University of Southern California, being an active member of SAPââ¬â¢s Global University Alliances program since its inception in 1996, has been chosen to offer the TERP10 Academy to its students in early Summer 2014. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated between 30,000 and 40,000, in the next several years. Students completing the TERP10 Academy and passing SAPââ¬â¢s certification exam will have the advantage of being equipped with a good understanding of business processes adopted by companies around the world. They will also get insights into best business practices and how SAP can be used to optimize business processes. Students will find that the TERP10 Certification will open internship opportunities as well as full time jobs with consulting firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Hitachi, and other SAP partner companies.
Host: Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Mon, May 26, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Course Number & Dates: Session 1 (SAP 0514-05):
Monday, May 19th - Saturday May 24th, 2014
Tuesday, May 27th - Thursday, May 29th, 2014
Certification Exam on Friday, May 30th, 2014(10 day course includes one Saturday class on May 24th)
The University of Southern California, being an active member of SAPââ¬â¢s Global University Alliances program since its inception in 1996, has been chosen to offer the TERP10 Academy to its students in early Summer 2014. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated between 30,000 and 40,000, in the next several years. Students completing the TERP10 Academy and passing SAPââ¬â¢s certification exam will have the advantage of being equipped with a good understanding of business processes adopted by companies around the world. They will also get insights into best business practices and how SAP can be used to optimize business processes. Students will find that the TERP10 Certification will open internship opportunities as well as full time jobs with consulting firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Hitachi, and other SAP partner companies.
Host: Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Tue, May 27, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Course Number & Dates: Session 1 (SAP 0514-05):
Monday, May 19th - Saturday May 24th, 2014
Tuesday, May 27th - Thursday, May 29th, 2014
Certification Exam on Friday, May 30th, 2014(10 day course includes one Saturday class on May 24th)
The University of Southern California, being an active member of SAPââ¬â¢s Global University Alliances program since its inception in 1996, has been chosen to offer the TERP10 Academy to its students in early Summer 2014. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated between 30,000 and 40,000, in the next several years. Students completing the TERP10 Academy and passing SAPââ¬â¢s certification exam will have the advantage of being equipped with a good understanding of business processes adopted by companies around the world. They will also get insights into best business practices and how SAP can be used to optimize business processes. Students will find that the TERP10 Certification will open internship opportunities as well as full time jobs with consulting firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Hitachi, and other SAP partner companies.
Host: Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
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AI Seminar- Frank Schweitzer: Modeling User Behavior In Online Social Networks
Tue, May 27, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Frank Schweitzer, Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Talk Title: Modeling User Behavior In Online Social Networks
Series: Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Abstract: Online communication can be seen as a large-scale social experiment
that constantly provides us with data about users' activities,
interactions and emotions. While their online behavior on the
``microôô level is largely governed by individual traits, we find on the ``macroôô level remarkable statistical regularities. These can be reproduced by means of agent-based models that allow us to understand how emotional influence and individual decisions create collective phenomena, such as collective emotions and drop-out cascades of users.
Biography: Home Page:
http://www.sg.ethz.ch/team/people/fschweitzer/
Host: Kristina Lerman
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=6103774e5c2c4eedb6dfc8d4f19ebe471dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 6th Flr Conf Rm # 689, Marina Del Rey
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=6103774e5c2c4eedb6dfc8d4f19ebe471d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Wed, May 28, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Course Number & Dates: Session 1 (SAP 0514-05):
Monday, May 19th - Saturday May 24th, 2014
Tuesday, May 27th - Thursday, May 29th, 2014
Certification Exam on Friday, May 30th, 2014(10 day course includes one Saturday class on May 24th)
The University of Southern California, being an active member of SAPââ¬â¢s Global University Alliances program since its inception in 1996, has been chosen to offer the TERP10 Academy to its students in early Summer 2014. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated between 30,000 and 40,000, in the next several years. Students completing the TERP10 Academy and passing SAPââ¬â¢s certification exam will have the advantage of being equipped with a good understanding of business processes adopted by companies around the world. They will also get insights into best business practices and how SAP can be used to optimize business processes. Students will find that the TERP10 Certification will open internship opportunities as well as full time jobs with consulting firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Hitachi, and other SAP partner companies.
Host: Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Thu, May 29, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Course Number & Dates: Session 1 (SAP 0514-05):
Monday, May 19th - Saturday May 24th, 2014
Tuesday, May 27th - Thursday, May 29th, 2014
Certification Exam on Friday, May 30th, 2014(10 day course includes one Saturday class on May 24th)
The University of Southern California, being an active member of SAPââ¬â¢s Global University Alliances program since its inception in 1996, has been chosen to offer the TERP10 Academy to its students in early Summer 2014. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated between 30,000 and 40,000, in the next several years. Students completing the TERP10 Academy and passing SAPââ¬â¢s certification exam will have the advantage of being equipped with a good understanding of business processes adopted by companies around the world. They will also get insights into best business practices and how SAP can be used to optimize business processes. Students will find that the TERP10 Certification will open internship opportunities as well as full time jobs with consulting firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Hitachi, and other SAP partner companies.
Host: Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Fri, May 30, 2014
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Talk Title: SAP TERP 10 Student Certification Academy
Abstract: Course Number & Dates: Session 1 (SAP 0514-05):
Monday, May 19th - Saturday May 24th, 2014
Tuesday, May 27th - Thursday, May 29th, 2014
Certification Exam on Friday, May 30th, 2014(10 day course includes one Saturday class on May 24th)
The University of Southern California, being an active member of SAPââ¬â¢s Global University Alliances program since its inception in 1996, has been chosen to offer the TERP10 Academy to its students in early Summer 2014. The TERP10 Academy, and its certification, is a direct response to the global forecast of needed SAP skills in the market, estimated between 30,000 and 40,000, in the next several years. Students completing the TERP10 Academy and passing SAPââ¬â¢s certification exam will have the advantage of being equipped with a good understanding of business processes adopted by companies around the world. They will also get insights into best business practices and how SAP can be used to optimize business processes. Students will find that the TERP10 Certification will open internship opportunities as well as full time jobs with consulting firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Hitachi, and other SAP partner companies.
Host: Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/terp10#overview
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AI SEMINAR
Fri, May 30, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Ph.D (MPI)
Talk Title: Modeling Diffusion of Competing Products and Conventions in Social Media
Series: AISeminar
Abstract: Abstract: The emergence and wide-spread use of social networks and
microblogging sites has led to a dramatic increase on the availability
of users' activity data. Importantly, this data can be exploited to
solve some of the problems that have captured the attention of
economists and marketers for decades as, e.g., product adoption,
product competition and product life cycle. In our work, we leverage
on users' activity data from a popular microblogging site to model and
predict the competing dynamics of products and social conventions
adoptions.
To this aim, we propose a data-driven model, based on continuous-time
Hawkes processes, for the adoption of competing products and
conventions. We then develop an inference method to efficiently fit
the model parameters by solving a convex program. The problem
decouples into a collection of smaller subproblems, thus scaling
easily to networks with hundred of thousands of nodes. We validate our
method over synthetic and real diffusion data gathered from Twitter,
and show that the proposed model does not only present a good
predictive power but also provides interpretable model parameters,
which allow us to gain insights into the fundamental principles that
drive product and convention adoptions.
Biography: Bio: Manuel Gomez Rodriguez is a Research Scientist at Max Planck
Institute for Intelligent Systems. Manuel develops machine learning
and large-scale data mining methods for the analysis and modeling of
large real-world networks and processes that take place over them. He
is particularly interested in problems motivated by the Web and social
media and has received several recognitions for his research,
including an Outstanding Paper Award at NIPS'13 and a Best Research
Paper Honorable Mention at KDD'10. Manuel holds a PhD in Electrical
Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical
Engineering from Carlos III University in Madrid (Spain). You can find
more about him at http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/manuelgr/
Host: Greg Ver Steeg
Webcast: tbaLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 1135
WebCast Link: tba
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alma Nava / Information Sciences Institute
