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Events for October 05, 2010
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Southern California Smart Grid Symposium
Tue, Oct 05, 2010
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: The Southern California Smart Grid Research Symposium will explore the smart grid, discuss research challenges, and is a collaborative forum for the interchange of thoughts between academics, industry, government and other stakeholders.
Abstract: 9:00am â 9:05am: Opening Remarks
Viktor Prasanna, Professor â Electrical Engineering, USC
9:05am â 9:10am: Welcome
Don Paul, Executive Director, USC Energy Institute
9:10am â 9:50am: Hank Kenchington, Senior Manager, DOE
9:50am â 10:30am: Southern California Edisonâs Smart Grid Vision
Jim Kelly, SVP of Transmission & Distribution, SCE
10:30am â 10:50am: Break: Refreshments
10:50am â 11:30am: Ciscoâs Smart Grid Strategy
Paul De Martini, Smart Grid CTO, Cisco
11:30am â 12:10pm: Renewable Energy and the Smart Grid for Catalina Island
Steven Low, Professor â Computer Science, Caltech
12:10pm â 1:20pm: Lunch
1:20pm â 3:00pm:
Panel Discussion â Renewable Integration
Moderator: Gordon Roesler, Director of Energy Research, ISI
Cristina Archer, Asst. Professor â Environmental Science, CSU Chico
Mohammed Beshir, Manager of Resource Planning, LADWP
Rajit Gadh, Director, WINMEC
Hal La Flash, Director â Emerging Clean Technologies, PG&E
3:00pm â 3:20pm: Break: Refreshments
3:20pm â 5:00pm:
Panel Discussion â Electrifying Transportation
Moderator: GP Li, Professor â Electrical Engineering, UCI
Tim Brown, Senior Scientist, UCI
Doug Kim, Director of Advanced Technology, SCE
Joel Pointon, Manager of Electric Transportation, SDG&E
Anand Ranganathan, Research Staff Member, IBM
5:00pm â 6:30pm: Coffee and Dessert Bar concurrent with Poster Session
Host: The Symposium is sponsored by the Southern California Smart Grid Research Consortium, an industry-university collaboration between Southern California Edison, LADWP and leading research universities including USC, UCLA, UCI and Caltech.
More Info: http://socalsgs.org/Location: Charlotte S. & Davre R. Davidson Continuing Education Conference Center (DCC) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Eric Mankin
Event Link: http://socalsgs.org/
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El Camino College Transfer Fair
Tue, Oct 05, 2010 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Viterbi Transfer Admission Counselor, Becky Beiter from the USC Viterbi Office of Admission, will be attending the El Camino College Transfer Fair. Please stop by the USC Viterbi table to learn how you can get started on your engineering courses at your current institution and more about the admission process.
Location: El Camino Campus
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfer Applicants
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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CS Colloquium
Tue, Oct 05, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Maxim Sviridenko , IBM Watson
Talk Title: Local Search Algorithms for Submodular Maximization
Abstract: We study the problem of maximizing a submodular function over the intersection of k matroids (for a constant k>=2). Submodular-function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important NP-hard problems including Max Cut in digraphs, graphs and hypergraphs, certain constraint satisfaction problems, maximum-entropy sampling, and maximum facility-location problems.
Our main result is that for any k>=2 and any epsilon>0, there is a natural local-search algorithm which has approximation guarantee of 1/(k+epsilon) for the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to k matroid constraints. This improves a 1/(k+1)-approximation of Nemhauser, Wolsey and Fisher from 1978. For maximizing a linear function over k matroids, we obtain a 1/(k-1+epsilon)-approximation, improving a previously known 1/k-approximation. Our analysis can be applied even to general non-monotone submodular maximization subject to k matroid constraints. We show that in this case the approximation guarantee of our algorithm is 1/(k+1+1/(k-1)+epsilon), improving the previously known factor of 1/(k+2+1/k+epsilon).
Biography: Maxim Sviridenko is a research stuff member in the Algorithms group of the Optimization Center in the Department of Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics (Russia) in 1999. After that he held two postdoc positions: in the Department of Commerce and Business Administration (UBC, Canada) and Computer Science Department at the University of Aarhus Denmark) before joining IBM Research in 2000. His research interests include design and analysis of algorithms for discrete optimization problems, computational complexity, integer and linear programming, modelling real-life optimization problems arising in various industrial applications and developing algorithms to solve such problems. Recently, he has been working on analyzing the local search algorithms that is one of the most popular approaches to solve optimization problems in practice.
Host: Dr. David Kempe
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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Chevron Information Session
Tue, Oct 05, 2010 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 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
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BMEStart Meeting 3: Team Formation!
Tue, Oct 05, 2010 @ 07:15 PM - 08:15 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Tuesday will be the 3rd BMEStart meeting, where students will decide on the projects they are most interested in, form groups, and set up group meeting times to begin researching the topics. If you would like to join the mailing list or have any specific questions, e-mail bmestartusc@gmail.com
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - Meet in the lobby
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
