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W.V.T. RUSCH ENGINEERING HONORS COLLOQUIUM
Fri, Oct 02, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join us for a conversation about "Controlling Light on a Chip at the Single-Photon Level" with Professor Andrei Faraon who works in Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
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W.V.T. RUSCH ENGINEERING HONORS COLLOQUIUM
Fri, Oct 09, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join us for a conversation titled, "Searching for Vibrations from the Big Bang" by Prof. Jamie Bock from the California Institute of Technology and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
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Photonics for Girls
Sat, Oct 10, 2015 @ 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering K-12 STEM Center
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In celebration of the International Year of Light, the Photonics Week for Girls is under the direction of USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor Andrea Armani. More information is coming soon.
Location: Viterbi Engineering Quad
Audiences: Middle & High School Girls
Contact: Prof. Andrea Armani
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Disney Jr. Miles from Tomorrowland Screening
Sat, Oct 10, 2015 @ 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering K-12 STEM Center
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Free Event & RSVP required: bit.ly/1Fjm3JH
This STEM-loving animated television series is a fun family outing, with the special treat of hearing from show's creator and executive producer, Sascha Paladino, and series consultant John Spencer (USC alumnus).
Before or after the screening, bring your family to
Dr. Armani's Laser 4 Ladies event (9:30 - 4 p.m.)
Location: 101
Audiences: Faculty, Staff and Families
Contact: Katie Mills
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27th Annual HENAAC STEM Career ConferenceWed, Oct 14, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Through the HENAAC STEM Career Conference, Great Minds in STEM honors the nation's best and brightest Hispanic engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and technology experts.
The STEM Career Conference provides a networking opportunity for college students to showcase their technical aptitude through a technical papers and poster competition, and through the Career & Graduate School Fair.Location: Pasadena, CA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
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27th Annual HENAAC STEM Career Conference
Thu, Oct 15, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Through the HENAAC STEM Career Conference, Great Minds in STEM honors the nation's best and brightest Hispanic engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and technology experts.
The STEM Career Conference provides a networking opportunity for college students to showcase their technical aptitude through a technical papers and poster competition, and through the Career & Graduate School Fair.Location: Pasadena, CA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
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27th Annual HENAAC STEM Career Conference
Fri, Oct 16, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Through the HENAAC STEM Career Conference, Great Minds in STEM honors the nation's best and brightest Hispanic engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and technology experts.
The STEM Career Conference provides a networking opportunity for college students to showcase their technical aptitude through a technical papers and poster competition, and through the Career & Graduate School Fair.Location: Pasadena, CA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
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W.V.T. RUSCH ENGINEERING HONORS COLLOQUIUM
Fri, Oct 16, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join us for a conversation with Dr. Michelle C. Hauer an engineering fellow at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems titled, "From Academia to a Defense Company; Perspectives From a USC Alumnus."
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
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27th Annual HENAAC STEM Career Conference
Sat, Oct 17, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Through the HENAAC STEM Career Conference, Great Minds in STEM honors the nation's best and brightest Hispanic engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and technology experts.
The STEM Career Conference provides a networking opportunity for college students to showcase their technical aptitude through a technical papers and poster competition, and through the Career & Graduate School Fair.Location: Pasadena, CA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
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27th Annual HENAAC STEM Career Conference
Sun, Oct 18, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Through the HENAAC STEM Career Conference, Great Minds in STEM honors the nation's best and brightest Hispanic engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and technology experts.
The STEM Career Conference provides a networking opportunity for college students to showcase their technical aptitude through a technical papers and poster competition, and through the Career & Graduate School Fair.Location: Pasadena, CA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Center for Engineering Diversity
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PhD Defense - Bo Wu
Wed, Oct 21, 2015 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
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PHD Defense -Bo Wu
Wed, Oct 21, 2015 @ 10:00am-12:00pm
SAL 213
PhD candidate: Bo Wu
Committee:
Craig A. Knoblock (Chair)
Cyrus Shahabi
Daniel O'Leary
Title: Iteratively Learning Data Transformation Programs from Examples
Abstract:
Data transformation is an essential preprocessing step in most data analysis applications. It often requires users to write many trivial and task-dependent programs, which is time consuming and requires the users to have certain programming skills. Recently, programming-by-example (PBE) approaches enable users to generate data transformation programs without coding. The user provides the PBE approaches with examples (input-output pairs). These approaches then synthesize the programs that are consistent with the given examples.
However, real-world datasets often contain thousands of records with various formats. To correctly transform these datasets, existing PBE approaches typically require users to provide multiple examples to generate the correct transformation programs. These approaches' time complexity grows exponentially with the number of examples and in a high polynomial degree with the length of the examples. Users have to wait a long time to see any response from the systems when they work on moderately complicated datasets. Moreover, existing PBE approaches also lack the support for users to verify the correctness of the transformed results so that they can determine whether they should stop providing more examples.
To address the challenges of existing approaches, we propose an approach that generates programs iteratively, which exploits the fact that users often provide multiple examples iteratively to refine programs learned from previous iterations. By collecting and accumulating key information across iterations, our approach can efficiently generate the new transformation programs by avoiding redundant computing. Our approach can also recommend potentially incorrect records for users to examine, which can save users effort in verifying the correctness of the transformation results.
To validate the approach in this thesis, we evaluated IPBE, the implementation of our iterative programming-by-example approach, against several state-of-the-art alternatives on various transformation scenarios. The results show that users of our approach used less time and achieved higher correctness compared to other alternative approaches.
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 213
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
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USC Viterbi STEM Spotlight on The Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Thu, Oct 22, 2015 @ 08:30 AM - 02:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering K-12 STEM Center
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The USC Viterbi STEM Spotlight on The Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science is organized by VAST: Viterbi Adopt-a-Student, Adopt-a-Teacher. During this day of lab tours, K-12 students from around Southern California will experience cutting-edge research in the fields of chemical engineering and material science.
Location: Epstein Family Engineering Plaza VHE Breezeway
Audiences: K-12 Schools pre-registered
Contact: Katie Mills
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W.V.T. Rusch Honors Engineering Program Colloquium
Fri, Oct 23, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join is for a conversation with Michele Judd, Managing Director for the Keck Institute for Space Studies at California Institute of Technology titled "Life Lessons from a Space Geek."
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
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Beating the Perils of Non-convexity: Guaranteed Training of Neural Networks Using Tensor Methods
Fri, Oct 30, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
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Speaker: Majid Janzamin
Title: Beating the Perils of Non-convexity: Guaranteed Training of Neural Networks Using Tensor Methods
Series: AI Seminar
Abstract:
Training neural networks is a highly non-convex problem and in general is NP-hard. Local search methods such as gradient descent get stuck in spurious local optima, especially in high dimensions. We present a novel method based on tensor decomposition that trains a two-layer neural network with guaranteed risk bounds with polynomial sample and computational complexity. We also demonstrate how unsupervised learning can help in supervised tasks. In our context, we estimate probabilistic score functions via unsupervised learning which are then employed for training neural networks using tensor methods.
Bio:
Majid Janzamin is a sixth year PhD student at the EECS Dept. at UC Irvine. He received his BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering, from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He has also visited and has done internship at Microsoft research labs at New England and Silicon Valley. His research interests are in the area of large-scale machine learning and high-dimensional statistics, and probabilistic modeling. In particular, he has worked on optimization methods for learning graphical models, and tensor methods for latent variable models.
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th floor large conference room
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=07a00eec98a44b81ab87fdfd8a6368151d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kary LAU
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Oct 30, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join us for a presentation by Dr. Christopher P. Silva, Senior Engineering Specialist, The Aerospace Corporation, titled "Overview of Chaos and its Information Applications."
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
