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Events for May 30, 2014
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, May 30, 2014
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid. Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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SAP TERP 10 Student Certification AcademyFri, 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
