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Events for August 11, 2017

  • Mork Family Department Graduate Seminar

    Fri, Aug 11, 2017 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

    Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Dr. Robert Simpson, Singapore University of Technology and Design

    Talk Title: Active electronic and photonic materials by nanostructural design

    Host: Dr. Paulo Branicio

    More Information: USC_Abstract_Simpson.docx

    Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - 116

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Aleessa Atienza

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  • MS Group Advisement Session - NEW CS/INF Students

    Fri, Aug 11, 2017 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

    Workshops & Infosessions


    This group advisement session is for NEW Fall 2017 incoming students to the CS/INF Master's programs. New students should attend at least one of these sessions to meet with advisement staff. One-on-one time with advisors will be available toward the end of the group advisement session.

    Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101

    Audiences: Graduate

    Contact: Ryan Rozan

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  • New Master's Students Orientations and Welcome Events

    Fri, Aug 11, 2017 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Masters Programs

    Receptions & Special Events


    Master's student orientations for master's students entering Fall 2017 are scheduled from Aug. 9th to Aug. 11th, 2017. You are required to attend only one session based on your admitted academic department. Please register to the corresponding session below. You are NOT required to attend USC's general graduate student orientation session.

    You MUST attend the USC Viterbi Master's for your department by RSVPing at our New Student Events and Orientation page.

    All sessions begin at 8:30 am and end by 4:30 pm.

    Audiences: Graduate

    Contact: Master's Programs and Services

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  • MS Group Advisement Session - NEW & CONTINUING CS/INF Students

    Fri, Aug 11, 2017 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

    Workshops & Infosessions


    This group advisement session is for NEW Fall 2017 incoming students to the CS/INF Master's programs. New students should attend at least one of these sessions to meet with advisement staff. CONTINUING students are also welcome to attend this session. One-on-one time with advisors will be available toward the end of the group advisement session.

    Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 201

    Audiences: Graduate

    Contact: Ryan Rozan

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  • USC Graduate Engineering Info Session: Ahmedabad, India

    Fri, Aug 11, 2017 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission

    Workshops & Infosessions


    This event will be hosted by Sudha Kumar, Director of the USC India Office, and special guest Kelly Goulis, Senior Associate Dean for graduate programs at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Candidates with a strong academic background and a Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, or physical science (such as physics, biology, or chemistry) are welcome to attend

    Each information session will include a presentation on:

    - Master's & Ph.D. Programs in Engineering and Computer Science
    - How to Apply
    - Scholarships and Funding
    - Student Life at USC and in Los Angeles
    -Application Tips

    There will also be sufficient time for questions during the information session. In order to guarantee seating availability, we request completion of the online registration form using the Registration link below

    Register to Attend

    Location: Hyatt Ahmedabad, Plot 216, TPS 1, Near Vastrapur Lake, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380015

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: USC Viterbi Graduate & Professional Programs

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  • NL Seminar-Improving machine translation from low resource languages

    Fri, Aug 11, 2017 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

    Information Sciences Institute

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Nima Pourdamghani, USC/ISI

    Talk Title: Improving machine translation from low resource languages

    Series: Natural Language Seminar

    Abstract: Statistical machine translation MT often needs a large corpus of parallel translated sentences in order to achieve good performance. This limits the use of current MT technologies to a few resource rich languages. Assume an incident happens in an area with a low-resource language. For a quick response, we need to build an MT system with available data, as finding or translating new parallel data is expensive and time consuming. For many languages this means that we only have a small amount of often out-of-domain parallel data e.g. a Bible or Ubuntu manual. This talk is about ways to improve machine translation in low resource scenarios. I'll talk about use of monolingual data and parallel data from related languages to improve machine translation from the low resource language into English.



    Biography: Nima Pourdamghani is a fourth year Ph.D. student at ISI. He works with Professor Kevin Knight on machine translation from low resource languages.

    Host: Nima Pourdamghani

    Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 6th Flr Conf Rm -# 689

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Peter Zamar

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