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Events for September 15, 2016
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Biotechnology Lecture SeriesThu, Sep 15, 2016 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Various, Amgen
Talk Title: R&D Insights from Lab Bench to Patient Bedside
Abstract: USC researchers have the opportunity to gain research and development insights with a new biotechnology lecture series sponsored by Amgen and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC.
The weekly lecture series, "R&D Insights from Lab Bench to Patient Bedside" takes place Thursdays at 10:30AM-12:00PM at USC's Health Sciences Campus from September 1, 2016 through November 10, 2016.
The talks will feature Amgen scientists speaking about:
Identifying a possible therapeutic target and its role in disease
Increasing therapeutic efficacy and safety
Process development, devices and manufacturing
Case studies from bench to clinic
Lectures will take place at the BCC First Floor Seminar Room or ZNI Herklotz Seminar Room.
RSVP at http://www.usc.edu/esvp (use code: amgenlecture). Space is limited. Preference will be given to SCRM master's students, PhDs, and postdocs, and attending all lectures is mandatory.
Please contact qliumich@usc.edu or karenw03@amgen.com for further details.
Host: USC Stem Cell/Amgen
More Info: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/biotechnology_lecture_series_rd_insights_from_lab_bench_to_patient_bedside?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=USC+Event+Calendar#.V8dKNLX8vW4
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
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AI SEMINAR
Thu, Sep 15, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Rudi Studer, Institutes AIFB/KSRI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany & FZI Research Center for Information Technology at KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
Talk Title: Flexible Management of Event Processing Applications for the (Industrial) Internet of Things
Series: AI Seminar
Abstract: Gathering and processing events from cyber-physical systems provides users with the opportunity to continuously be aware of current performance indicators and potentially upcoming issues as well as to optimize production and maintenance processes. In this context, Event Processing has become an established technology to process high-frequency event streams in real-time while providing capabilities to detect event patterns based on spatial, temporal or causal relationships.
However, although event processing applications are often highly dynamic in regard to oftentimes changing requirements of observed situations as well as frequent syntactic and semantic changes of incoming sensor data, current technologies still suffer from high technical complexity making the development of real-time applications a time-consuming task due to slow development cycles.
In this talk, we discuss methods and tools supporting the management of event processing applications. We present a lightweight, semantics-based model to describe event sources such as sensors, event processing agents and consumers and an approach that enables application specialists to define and execute event processing pipelines in a self-service manner. The approach is illustrated based on two IoT scenarios: integrated monitoring of manufacturing processes and disruption management in supply chains. In the beginning, selected research activities at Institutes AIFB and KSRI at KIT as well as at FZI will be outlined.
Biography: Bio:
Rudi Studer is Full Professor in Applied Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute AIFB. In addition, he is director at the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) as well as at the FZI Research Center for Information Technology at KIT. His research interests include knowledge management, Semantic Web technologies and applications, data and text mining, Big Data and Service Science.
He obtained a Diploma in Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart in 1975. In 1982 he was awarded a Doctor's degree in Informatics at the University of Stuttgart, and in 1985 he obtained his Habilitation in Informatics at the University of Stuttgart. From 1985 to 1989 he was project leader and manager at the Scientific Center of IBM Germany.
He is involved in various national and international research projects, among others the EU projects XLime (crossLingual crossMedia Knowledge Extraction) and iVision (Immersive Semantics-based Virtual Environments for the Design and Validation of Human-centered Aircraft Cockpits).
Rudi Studer is former president of the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) and former Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. He is a Semantic Technologies Institute (STI) International Fellow.
Host: Craig Knoblock
Webcast: http://webcastermshd.isi.edu/Mediasite/Play/33a9588370b74466825f95063e27108e1dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 1135 - 11th fl Large CR
WebCast Link: http://webcastermshd.isi.edu/Mediasite/Play/33a9588370b74466825f95063e27108e1d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alma Nava / Information Sciences Institute
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Distinguished Lecture Series
Thu, Sep 15, 2016 @ 12:45 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Jay Guo, University of Michigan
Talk Title: Structural colors, metasurfaces, and ultrasonics by light interaction with nanostructures
Series: Distinguished Lecture
Host: Professor Jongseung Yoon
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Martin Olekszyk
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EE Seminar
Thu, Sep 15, 2016 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Terence D. Sanger, MD PhD, Depts of Biomedical Engineering, Biokinesiology, and Child Neurology/USC
Talk Title: A Bayesian nonlinear filter and a stochastic nonlinear control algorithm suitable for estimation and control by populations of spiking neurons
Abstract: The best-known examples of Bayesian nonlinear filters are the Kushner and Zakai equations which unfortunately have limited applicability to important classes of real-world problems. I derive a general nonlinear filter with broad applicability that can be shown to integrate to Bayes' rule over short time intervals. The filter extracts maximal information per unit time, in the sense that the rate of decrease of the entropy of the estimate is equal to the mutual information between the state and the observation. I show that this filter has a straightforward parallel implementation, and I show an efficient representation using Poisson-distributed spiking neurons.
I then show that this technique can be extended to a class of stochastic nonlinear controllers. These controllers extend linear feedback controllers and permit control of systems with non-Gaussian noise or state uncertainty, asymmetric cost or perturbations, or state measurements that are not characterized by additive Gaussian noise. The theory is based on Stochastic Dynamic Operators (SDOs) in which the fundamental signals used for feedback are not estimates of state, but estimates of the probability distribution of state. This allows control to vary depending on the degree of state uncertainty (eg: one might drive more slowly if visibility is poor). The reference signal used for control is not a desired time-varying reference state, but a time-varying cost function that assign a value to every potential state. Such cost functions can represent asymmetric penalties and discontinuities in cost (eg: a cliff to one side of a road). Feedback control uses Bayesian statistics to combine the uncertain state estimate (from a nonlinear filter) and the time-varying cost function to produce an estimated motor command. The command is the solution to a short-term optimization problem. As with the Bayesian nonlinear filter, populations of spiking neurons provide a good representation for SDOs and an efficient control algorithm. I will show a real-time implementation of a feedback controller for a desktop robot arm using a population of 900 simulated spiking neurons that tracks the desired minimum cost and stably resists perturbations.
Biography: Terry Sanger holds an SM in Applied mathematics (Harvard), PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (MIT), and MD (Harvard), with medical specialization in Child Neurology and Movement Disorders. He is currently Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Neurology, and Biokinesiology, and he is the director of the Pediatric Movement Disorders Clinic at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, and the Health Technology and Engineering program at USC (HTE@USC).
His research on disorders of developmental motor control is driven by his interest in finding new treatments for children with movement disorders including dystonia, chorea, spasticity, and dyspraxia. He has a particular interest in computational motor learning, and the role of motor learning in recovery from childhood brain injury. Major focus areas of laboratory research include wearable devices to promote motor learning, EMG-driven communication devices and assistive prosthetics, and modeling of the electrophysiology of deep-brain stimulation. Personal involvement in motor control and motor learning includes snowboarding, jazz and classical piano, bluegrass banjo, and ballroom dance with particular focus on Argentine Tango.
Host: Professor Sandeep K. Gupta, sandeep@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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EE 598 Computer Engineering Seminar
Thu, Sep 15, 2016 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside
Talk Title: Parallel Graph Processing on GPUs, Clusters, and Multicores
Abstract: The importance of iterative graph algorithms has grown due to their widespread use in graph mining and analytics. Although computations on graphs with millions of nodes and edges contain vast amounts of data level parallelism, exploiting this parallelism is challenging due to the highly irregular nature of real-world graphs. In this talk I will present our recent results that greatly improve the SIMD-efficiency, communication efficiency, and I/O efficiency of graph processing on GPUs, a cluster, and a single multicore machine. In comparison to prior techniques, our Warp Segmentation technique achieves 1.3x-2.8x performance improvement on a single GPU, our Vertex Refinement technique achieves 2.7x performance improvement on a multi-GPU system, our Relaxed Consistency protocol achieves 2.3x performance improvement on a 16-node cluster, and our Dynamic Shards I/O optimization achieves up to 2.8x performance improvement on a single multicore machine.
Biography: Rajiv is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Riverside. His research interests include Compilers, Architectures, and Runtimes for Parallel Systems. He has supervised PhD dissertations of 28 students including two winners of ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. Papers coauthored by Rajiv with his students have been selected for: inclusion in 20 Years of PLDI (1979-1999), a best paper award in PACT 2010, and a distinguished paper award in ICSE 2003. Rajiv is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. He received the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award and UCR Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award. He has chaired several major conferences including FCRC, PLDI, HPCA, ASPLOS, CGO, CC, HiPEAC, and LCTES. He serves on the Editorial Boards of ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization and Parallel Computing journal. Rajiv served as a member of a technical advisory group on networking and information technology created by the PCAST.
Host: Xuehai Qian
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - OHE 100D
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Navigating U.S. Recruitment Process
Thu, Sep 15, 2016 @ 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This workshop will provide students tips on how to navigate the process of U.S. corporate recruiting and will touch on American culture norms.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Google Info Session
Thu, Sep 15, 2016 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Google's main tech talk for the fall -- come here from Google engineers about working at Google!
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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NOBE General Body Meeting #1
Thu, Sep 15, 2016 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
The National Organization for Business and Engineering (NOBE), is a national society uniting business, management and engineering organizations from universities coast to coast. NOBE strives to produce and refine leadership internally and develop professional skills in our members that can be translated into success in the business world.
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Our first General Body Meeting is THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th at Fertitta Hall (JFF) 236 at 6 PM. Please RSVP using this Facebook Event link and invite any friend that may be interested, they can register during the meeting!
We will be introducing the current E-Board and talking about our event plans for the coming semester.
We always try to make NOBE as useful to our members as possible, so please show up to the meeting if you would like to suggest events or have any ideas of what you would like to see.
If your friends want to sign up, please direct them to this link so they can be added to the mailing list:
https://goo.gl/forms/QDksA3jK4coNzd7s1More Information: Flyer One Page.pdf
Location: JFF 236
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC NOBE
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Google Info Session
Thu, Sep 15, 2016 @ 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Google's main tech talk for the fall -- come here from Google engineers about working at Google!
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
