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Events for September 18, 2015
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process ImprovementFri, Sep 18, 2015
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract: Learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a Six Sigma green belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
This course is available on-campus and online.
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial-systems/six-sigma-green-belt-process-improvement
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, and Engineering Talk
Fri, Sep 18, 2015
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. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering 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 make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember 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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AI SEMINAR
Fri, Sep 18, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Philipp Singer, post doc (GESIS) in Cologne (Germany)
Talk Title: Comparing Hypotheses about Human Trails on the Web
Series: AI Seminar
Abstract: When users interact with the Web today, they leave sequential digital trails on a massive scale. Examples of such human trails include Web navigation, sequences of online restaurant reviews, or online music play lists. Understanding the factors that drive the production of these trails can be useful for e.g., improving underlying network structures, predicting user clicks or enhancing recommendations. In this talk, I present a general approach called HypTrails for comparing a set of hypotheses about human trails on the Web, where hypotheses represent beliefs about transitions between states. The approach utilizes Bayesian inference and the core idea is to incorporate hypotheses as priors into the inference process and utilize the sensitivity of Bayes factors on the prior for gaining insights into the relative plausibility of hypotheses. I will also present results from empirical experiments studying several different kinds of human trails such as (i) human navigational trails, (ii) online editing trails or (iii) human mobility trails.
Biography: Dr. Philipp Singer is a post doctoral researcher at the Computational Social Science Department of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS) in Cologne (Germany). Philipp is interested in data science, statistics with a focus on Bayesian statistics, machine learning and web science. In the past few years, Philipp has been mainly concerned with modeling aspects of human trails on the Web. Human trails can emerge by any kind of human interaction with the Web such as the navigation of websites. In detail, he has been dedicated to provide tools that facilitate future research concerned with the study of regularities, patterns and strategies in human trails on the Web. Philipp has published his work in top-tier conferences and journals such as WWW, ISWC, CIKM or IJHCS.
Host: Kristina Lerman
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=21f9e396f7834b709900db913153f91f1dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 689
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=21f9e396f7834b709900db913153f91f1d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alma Nava / Information Sciences Institute
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Munushian Seminar
Fri, Sep 18, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dan M. Goebel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Talk Title: The Asteroid Retrieval Robotic Mission using High Power Electric Propulsion
Abstract: Recent splashes in the media about asteroid mining by two new companies backed by celebrities is based on a real idea by John Brophy of JPL: retrieve all or part of an asteroid and bring it close enough to Earth using advanced, high power electric propulsion to easily send astronauts out to mine it. The same mission may also investigate deflecting an asteroid in anticipation that an ARMAGEDDON-like killer asteroid is found headed toward Earth. A recent study at the Keck Institute at Caltech backed by further work by NASA has investigated robotically capturing and returning a near-earth asteroid (NEA) to various Earth and lunar orbits for study by astronauts and potentially mining by commercial ventures. Moving an asteroid up to several meters in diameter weighing nearly 500,000 kg is a daunting task, but not impossible. Studies show that recent breakthroughs in high power electric thrusters at JPL and the possibility of large area, high voltage solar arrays directly driving these thrusters makes the concept of rearranging the solar system feasible. The ideas behind asteroid retrieval and mining, novel direct drive electric thrusters, and capturing and studying NEA by astronauts in the vicinity of the moon will be explored and described.
Biography: Dan M. Goebel received a B.S. in physics, an M.S. in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. in applied plasma physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1977, 1978 and 1981 respectively. He is a Senior Research Scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, an Adj. Prof. of Electrical Engineering at USC and an Adj. Prof. of Aerospace Engineering at UCLA. At JPL he is responsible for the development of high efficiency ion and Hall thrusters and advanced components such as cathodes and grids. Previously he was a Research Scientist at HRL Laboratories in Malibu, CA and Principal Scientist at Hughes/Boeing EDD in Torrance, CA where he was the supervisor of the Advanced Technology Group for microwave tube development and the lead scientist of the XIPS ion thruster program for commercial satellite station keeping. Dr. Goebel is a membe3r of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the AIAA, Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). He is the author of over 125 technical journal papers, 150 conference papers, one book entitled Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion: Ion and Hall Thrusters published in 2008, and holds 43 patents.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
More Info: http://ee.usc.edu/news/munushian
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
Event Link: http://ee.usc.edu/news/munushian
