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Events for September 20, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Sep 20, 2013
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. 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 visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure 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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The W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Sep 20, 2013 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Susan Martonosi, Harvey Mudd College, Department of Mathematics
Talk Title: Models for Preventing and Treating Malaria in Resource-Constrained Regions
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Christine Viterbi Admission & Student Affairs
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NL Seminar- Yang Feng: "A Markov Model of Machine Translation using Non-parametric Bayesian Inference (ACL 2013)'
Fri, Sep 20, 2013 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yang Feng, USC/ISI
Talk Title: "A Markov Model of Machine Translation using Non-parametric Bayesian Inference (ACL 2013)"
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Most modern machine translation systems use phrase pairs as translation units, allowing for accurate modeling of phrase-internal translation and reordering. However phrase-based approaches are much less able to model sentence level effects between different phrase-pairs. We propose a new model to address this imbalance, based on a word-based Markov model of translation which generates target translations left-to-right. Our model encodes word and phrase level phenomena by conditioning translation decisions on previous decisions and uses a hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process prior to provide dynamic adaptive smoothing. This mechanism implicitly supports not only traditional phrase pairs, but also gapping phrases which are non-consecutive in the source.
Biography: Yang Feng is a posdoc of the natural language group in USC/ISI. She got her ph.D degree from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research interests are in all aspects of machine translation and machine learning focusing on graphical models and Bayesian inference.
Home Page:
http://www.isi.edu/~yangfeng
Host: Yang Gao
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/
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Sep 20, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Amir Mortazawi, University of Michigan
Talk Title: Frequency Agile Circuits Based on Thin Film Ferroelectrics
Series: Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Abstract: My talk is on the design of frequency agile circuits based on thin film ferroelectrics. Central to this work is the use of thin film barium strontium titanate (BST), a low loss, high dielectric constant field dependent material. The electric field dependence of BST is used to design tunable RF and microwave devices and components. Other applications such as linearization of power amplifiers will also be discussed. Another important characteristic of BST is its dc electric field induced piezoelectric and electrostrictive effects. These properties can be utilized to design intrinsically switchable film bulk acoustic wave resonators (FBARs) and FBAR filters. Ferroelectric based filter banks can make it possible to reduce size and power consumption of conventional filter banks employed in multi-standard and frequency agile radios. Recent results for intrinsically switchable BST bulk acoustic wave resonators and filters will be presented.
Biography: Amir Mortazawi received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, in 1990.
He is a currently a Professor of electrical engineering with The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His research interests include millimeter-wave circuits, phased arrays, power amplifiers, ferroelectric thin film based devices and frequency-agile microwave circuits.
Mortazawi was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES from 2006-2010. He is a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S) Administrative Committee (AdCom). He also served as Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION (1998â2001), IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES (2005). Mortazawi is a Fellow of IEEE.
Host: Hossien Hashemi, Mike Chen, Mahta Moghaddam, Kunal Datta
More Info: https://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/
More Information: Amir Mortazawi_Flyer.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - EEB 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Danielle Hamra
Event Link: https://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/
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CEE Ph. D. Seminar
Fri, Sep 20, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Ram Rajagopal, Stanford University
Talk Title: Demand Management in Smart Grids: Architecture, Data Analytics and Control.
Abstract: Increased penetration of renewable generation in the grid has required the development of novel power management approaches capable of handling the significant increase in uncertainty. A major focus has been demand-side management and control, including investigations of demand response and load scheduling mechanisms. Yet, the performance and scalability of existing methodologies is limited, and little is known about the broader potential of these mechanisms in realistic scenarios. Moreover, in many instances demand side management practice has failed to account appropriately for the additional uncertainty generated by consumer behavior. This talk presents a architecture for demand management that organizes consumers around communities (or clusters). Power management is implemented as a multi-scale hierarchical risk limiting control solution in such communities. Scalable demand-side behavioral analytics for segmenting, targeting, ranking and community design are presented, relying on new observations of consumer behavior from the large amounts of data collected in smart grids. Novel performance metrics for the architecture are estimated from the data to illustrate the potential of the proposed approach. If time permits, some applications to parking management are also presented.
Bio: Ram Rajagopal is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, where he directs the Stanford Sustainable Systems Lab (S3L), focused on large scale monitoring, data analytics and stochastic control for infrastructure networks, in particular energy and transportation. His current research interests in power systems are in integration of renewables, smart distribution systems and demand-side data analytics. Prior to his current position he was a DSP Research Engineer at National Instruments and a Visiting Research Scientist at IBM Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and an M.A. in Statistics, both from the University of California Berkeley, Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Texas, Austin and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a recipient of the Powell Foundation Fellowship, Berkeley Regents Fellowship and the Makhoul Conjecture Challenge award. He holds more than 30 patents from his work, and has advised or founded various companies in the fields of sensor networks, power systems and data analytics.
Pizza is served following the presentation in KAP 147.
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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ASBME Beach Bonfire
Fri, Sep 20, 2013 @ 05:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Looking for a fun beach break from your studies? Come join ASBME this Friday for a Viterbi Invasion of Dockweiler Beach!! The bonfire is a great opportunity to meet your fellow BMEs as well as many other engineering organizations while eating great food and enjoying that Californian coast. Plan for awesome activities such as roasting s'mores and human pyramid competitions and more! Fill out the following form if you wish to go and click attending on the Facebook event! http://tinyurl.com/ViterbiTakeover https://www.facebook.com/events/725731790776312/?notif_t=plan_user_joined
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
