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Events for September 23, 2009
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Sep 23, 2009
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
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 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Northrop Grumman Information Session
Wed, Sep 23, 2009 @ 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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CS Colloq: Prof. Dellaert
Wed, Sep 23, 2009 @ 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk title: Inference in Large-Scale Graphical Models and its application to SFM, SAM, and SLAMSpeaker: Prof. Frank Dellaert (Georgia Tech)Host: Prof. Gaurav S. SukhatmeAbstract:
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), Smoothing and Mapping (SAM), and Structure from Motion (SFM) are important and closely related problems in robotics and vision. Not surprisingly, there is a large literature describing solutions to each problem, and more and more connections are established between the two fields. At the same time, robotics and vision researchers alike are becoming increasingly familiar with the power of graphical models as a language in which to represent inference problems. In this talk I will show how SFM, SAM, and SLAM can be posed in terms of this graphical model language, and how inference in them can be explained in a purely graphical manner via the concept of variable elimination. I will then present a new way of looking at inference that is equivalent to the junction tree algorithm yet is - in my view- much more insightful. I will also show that, when applied to linear(ized) Gaussian problems, the lgorithm yields the familiar QR and Cholesky factorization algorithms, and that this connection with linear algebra leads to strategies for very fast inference in arbitrary graphs. I will conclude by showing some published and preliminary work that exploits this connection to the fullest.Bio:
Frank Dellaert is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing at Georgia Tech. His research is in the areas of Robotics and Computer vision. He is particularly interested in graphical model techniques to solve large-scale problems in mapping and 3D reconstruction. You can find out about his research and publications at http://frank.dellaert.com.
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 107
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Front Desk
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Academy Lecture Series
Wed, Sep 23, 2009 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Featured Speaker: Dr. Peter DiamandisDr. Diamandis is founder and chairman of X PRIZE foundation, an educational non-profit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In addition, he is creator of the Rocket Racing League, a cross between Indy car racing and rocket-powered flight. Dr. Diamandis is co-founder and a director of Space Adventures, Ltd which has flown four private citizens to the International Space Station!
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Freshmen Students
Contact: Freshmen Academies
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National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Study Jams
Wed, Sep 23, 2009 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Anyone can feel free to visit and meet some of your peers to study, get homework help, or just hang out. We'll have some snacks and drinks and provide some music. See you there!
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 144
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: NSBE National Society of Black Engineers
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General Electric Information Session - Information Management Leadership Program
Wed, Sep 23, 2009 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
