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Events for September 17, 2024
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Viterbi How to Get Hired: Mock Interview Day (In-Person + Virtual)
Tue, Sep 17, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Please RSVP through Handshake.
As part of Viterbi's How to Get Hired Series, Mock Interview Day provides students with valuable opportunities to connect with industry experts and Viterbi alumni. This event will help refine your behavioral interviewing and networking skills, boost your confidence, and equip you with the tools needed to excel in future job interviews.
Students will have the chance to:
Practice interview skills with Viterbi corporate partners to gain practical experience.
Discover techniques for answering both traditional and behavioral interview questions.
Receive feedback on all aspects of interviewing.
Engage in open networking with industry professionals and alumni.
Time:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm - On-Campus
Sign up for a 20-minute IN-PERSON session on SLOTTED (external link provided). This means you have an appointment time. LIMIT of 1 review per person.
Drop-ins are welcome on a first-come, first-served basis. Entry is not guaranteed unless you registered on slotted.
PLEASE NOTE: This event is exclusively for Viterbi engineering students. The link provided is specifically for in-person sign-ups from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
For those interested in attending virtually, details and sign-up information for the virtual session (1:00 PM - 4:00 PM) can be found under Events < Viterbi How to Get Hired Mock Interview Day (Virtual).
**The How to Get Hired Series is a multi-day event that helps undergraduate and graduate engineering students develop key professional skills while connecting with Viterbi industry partners and alumni. This series provides a great opportunity for you to gain insights from industry experts on what it takes to get hired and prepare for this fall's recruiting season. Employers and Alumni host workshops and provide industry feedback on students' resumes and interview answers during the Resume Review Day (9/6) and Mock Interview Day (9/17):
Fall 2024 Get Hired Series Schedule:
September 5: Employer/Alumni Led Industry Workshops
September 6: Resume Review Day - Separate registration
September 17: Mock Interview Day - Separate registration
September 18: Employer/Alumni Led Industry Workshops
Location: Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience (MCB) - 101 + 102
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/
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DEN@Viterbi - Online Graduate Engineering Virtual Information Session
Tue, Sep 17, 2024 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Join USC Viterbi School of Engineering for a virtual information session via WebEx, providing an introduction to DEN@Viterbi, our top-ranked online delivery system. Discover the 40+ graduate engineering and computer science programs available entirely online. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect directly with USC Viterbi representatives during the session to discuss the admission process, program details, and the benefits of online delivery.
WebCast Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/rf7b4fc341174a7549e374f2793834372
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs
Event Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/rf7b4fc341174a7549e374f2793834372
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PhD Thesis Proposal - Hanchen Xie
Tue, Sep 17, 2024 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Title: Mitigating Environment Misalignments and Discovering Intrinsic Relations via Symbolic Alignment
Date and Time: Tuesday, September 17th, 2024: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: SAL 213
Committee Members: Yue Wang (Chair), Wael AbdAlamgeed (Outisde), Aram Galstyan, Emilio Ferrara, Peter Beerel
Abstract: Modern data-driven machine learning models have achieved remarkable performance on visual recognition tasks, such as object detection and semantic segmentation. Further, when the training data is relatively comprehensive and contains intrinsic relations data, such as object dynamics relations, machine learning models can also discover such relations for downstream tasks, like dynamics prediction. However, unlike data for visual recognition, data that contains comprehensive intrinsic relations can be hard to acquire in many environments (e.g., the real world). As an alternative solution, directly deploying models trained in different environments (e.g., synthetic data) may lead to unsatisfied performance due to environment misalignment challenges. Further, finetuning any pre-trained relations discovery model is also challenging due to the absence of comprehensive data. In this thesis proposal, I will first introduce a set of datasets I designed to investigate the challenge. Then, I will discuss the environment misalignment challenges of conventional machine learning models by using the dynamics prediction tasks as a probe. Following that, I will introduce a promising research direction to mitigate such a challenge by utilizing symbolic space as the common space to align various environments so that the pre-trained relations discovery models can be directly employed and maintain satisfactory performance.
Zoom Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/93657427715?pwd=Q2M5tyfDp7plVXp77nBU11ll3YB7Ul.1Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 213
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hanchen Xie
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Epstein Institute, ISE 651 Seminar Class
Tue, Sep 17, 2024 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Damek Shea Davis, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University
Talk Title: Nonconvex optimization for statistical estimation and learning: beyond smoothness and convexity
Host: Dr. Johannes Royset
Location: Social Sciences Building (SOS) - B2
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Casi Jones/ ISE
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MFD Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Gennady Gor
Tue, Sep 17, 2024 @ 04:00 PM - 05:20 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Gennady Gor, Associate Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering. New Jersey Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Elasticity of Fluids in Nanopores: Molecular Modeling and Ultrasonic Experiments
Series: Mork Family Department Distinguished Lecture Series
Abstract: Fluids confined in nanopores are ubiquitous in nature and technology. In recent years, the interest in confined fluids hasgrown, driven by research on unconventional hydrocarbon resources -- shale gas and shale oil, much of which areconfined in nanopores. When fluids are confined in nanopores, many of their properties differ from those of the samefluid in the bulk. These properties include density, freezing point, transport coefficients, thermal expansion coefficient,and, as it was shown recently, elastic properties.
The elastic modulus of a fluid confined in the pores contribute to the overall elasticity of the fluid-saturated porousmedium and determine the speed at which elastic waves traverse through the medium. In this talk I will show howelastic modulus of a confined fluid in a nanopore can be calculated based on Monte Carlo and molecular dynamicssimulations and illustrate it with calculations for various fluids. Additionally, I will present our recent experimentalmeasurements of elastic properties of water confined in nanoporous glass samples. Our results suggest that some of themodels widely used for describing elasticity of fluid-saturated porous solids need to be revised.
Biography: Dr. Gennady Gor is an associate professor at NJIT. He received a PhD in theoretical physics from St. PetersburgUniversity, Russia, in 2009. He continued his research in the United States, first at Rutgers University, and then atPrinceton University and Naval Research Laboratory. In 2016, he joined the faculty of NJIT.
The central focus of Dr. Gor's research is in interactions of fluids with porous materials. He is an expert in molecularmodeling of fluid adsorption, known for his contributions to modern methods of adsorption porosimetry and thedevelopment of the theory of adsorption-induced deformation. His current research interests include confined liquidsand electrolytes, atmospheric aerosols, lithium-ion batteries, and ultrasound propagation in porous media. Dr. Gorauthored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and is the recipient of the National Research Council Associateship(2014) and the NSF CAREER Award (2020)
Host: Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
More Information: 9_17 Gennady Gor Abstract.pdf
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 352
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: William Wences
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Viterbi - Blue Origin Recruiting Session
Tue, Sep 17, 2024 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This is for Viterbi engineering students only.
Attend this session to learn about opportunities at Blue Origin! Food will be served!
Please RSVP through Handshake. If the RSVP is full, please join the waitlist. Waitlist does not guarantee entry, but you are welcome to stop by the event and if there is room, you can attend.
NOTE: Blue Origin cannot hire non-US Citizens
At Blue Origin we envision a future where millions of people are living and working in space. We are developing human spaceflight systems, including reusable launch vehicles and rocket engines, that will dramatically lower the cost of access to space. Expand your professional networks and delve deeper into the goals and values that drive Blue Origin’s innovative work in the aerospace industry. Attendees will have recruitment opportunities for potential internships and entry-level positions.
Degree Levels: Bachelors, Masters
Majors: Aerospace Engineering, Astronautical Engineering, Chemical Engineering , Computer Engineering, Computer Science , Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Material Science, Systems Architecting & Engineering Sponsorship: NoLocation: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: BS, MS
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/
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M&M Mentorship Match
Tue, Sep 17, 2024 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Student Activity
WIE's mentor match reveal!! Mentees meet Mentors over dinner. A wonderful opportunity to mingle with other women and non-binary students in engineering. Join us it will be a great time!
Location: Sign into EngageSC to View Location
Audiences:
Contact: Thelma Federico Zaragoza
Event Link: https://engage.usc.edu/WIE/rsvp?id=397876
