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Events for July 12, 2013
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Lean Six Sigma White Belt
Fri, Jul 12, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: Lean Six Sigma White Belt
Abstract: Course Overview
Lean Six Sigma White Belt (formerly: Introduction to Lean Six Sigma) class will introduce you to the tools and techniques for implementing lean principles. Participants will gain a broad understanding of the philosophy, methods and benefits of lean and value stream mapping as they apply to all types of enterprises. You will be introduced to lean concepts via hands-on exercises. This course is offered both on-campus and online.
A lean enterprise views itself as part of an extended value chain, focusing on the elimination of waste between you and your suppliers and you and your customers. This seminar is the first step in learning the principles of lean. The instructors for this course have extensive experience implementing lean principles worldwide. This seminar will teach you the history and basics of lean and demonstrate why these practices have such a significant impact on operations. The live course features an interactive simulation that illustrates lean principles.
Course Topics
* Cellular flow
* 5S
* Lean and Six Sigma
* SMED
* Value stream mapping
* Waste reduction
Benefits
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Identify and eliminate waste within operations
* Interpret a value stream map
* Manage a lean process transformation
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: $745
Includes continental breakfasts, lunch and all course materials. The fee does not include hotel accommodations or transportation.
Online Participant with Live Session Interactivity: $600
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.
Includes course materials available for download and viewable archive of lecture for 30 days.
Reduced rates are available for USC alumni and Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) members. Please contact professional@mapp.usc.edu for more information.
Location
Two course delivery options are available for participants, on-campus, online with interactivity, and online with archive access:
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: 0.7 (CEUs provided by request only)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Certificate of Participation is awarded to all participants upon successful completion of course.
Registration Information
To register for this upcoming course, please visit the Lean Six Sigma White Belt Registration Form.
More info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/leansixsigmawhitebelt
Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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NL Seminar- Daniel Bauer: "Understanding Descriptions of Visual Scenes Using Graph Grammars"
Fri, Jul 12, 2013 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Daniel Bauer, Columbia University
Talk Title: "Understanding Descriptions of Visual Scenes Using Graph Grammars"
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: I will present work on the interpretation of descriptions of visual scenes such as âA man is sitting on a chair and using the computer’. One application of this research is the automatic generation of 3D scenes which provides a way for non-artists to create graphical content and have wide-ranging applications in entertainment and education.
The core task of text-to-scene generation involves understanding the high-level content of a description and translating it into a low-level representation representing a 3D scene as a set of relations between pre-existing 3D models. Linguistic, spatial, and world-knowledge inference is required in this process on different levels.
My talk will present VigNet, a repository of lexical- and world knowledge needed for text-to-scene generation, which is based on FrameNet. I will also describe how visual scenes can be represented as directed graphs and how information in VigNet can be encoded in Synchronous Hyperedge Replacement Grammars to enable semantic parsing and generation of a scene.
Biography: Daniel Bauer is a PhD candidate at Columbia University. His research interests include lexical and computational semantics, semantic parsing, and formal grammars in syntax and semantics. He is a co-founder of WordsEye Inc, a company that aims to make text-to-3D-scene generation available to everyone on social media. Daniel is currently an intern at ISI for the second summer in a row. He received his undergrad degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Osnabrück, Germany, and a MSc in Language Science and Technology from Saarland University
Host: Qing Dou
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/
