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Events for May 23, 2014
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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification AcademyFri, 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
