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Events for October 09, 2015
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, and Engineering Talk
Fri, Oct 09, 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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Women's Discover Engineering Day
Fri, Oct 09, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Women's Discover Engineering Day is SHPE-USC's first Outreach Event of the year!
We will be welcoming 100 female high school students to our beautiful campus. Our goal is to inspire them to pursue higher education and inform them about the great impact a STEM career can have on their lives.Location: Engineering Quad
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
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AI SEMINAR
Fri, Oct 09, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Pedro Szekely, Research Associate Professor
Talk Title: Domain Specific Search Where No Search Has Gone Before
Series: AI Seminar
Abstract: We are investigating crawling, extraction, alignment, entity resolution, database and indexing technologies to enable rapid creation of large domain-specific knowledge graphs. We are also investigating analytics, query and visualization techniques that use these graphs to deliver sophisticated, yet easy to use query and analysis capabilities to end-users. Our goal is to build technology that can use any source of information on the Web, including Web pages and services, text, images, text-delimited files and databases, and that scales to 1 billion Web pages. The project is a collaboration of the ISI information integration and natural language processing groups, Columbia University (deep learning for image analysis), JPL (Web crawling), Inferlink (extraction from Web pages and entity resolution) and NextCentury (user interface and visualization). The MEMEX program runs at a frantic pace (interview and demos in CBS 60 minutes, briefings and demos in the White House situation room, deployment to law enforcement in February 2015). The talk will cover the goals and key challenges of the project, and describe the system we built in several domains, including the human trafficking domain with over 50 million escort ads updated hourly, and the deployment to users in law enforcement.
Biography: Dr. Pedro Szekely is a Research Team Leader at the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and a Research Associate Professor at the USC Computer Science Department. Dr. Szekely joined USC in 1988 after receiving his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 and 1987 respectively. His research interests include Big-Data, Semantic Web and Human-Computer Interaction. His focus is on techniques and tools to extract and integrate data from a wide variety of sources (Web pages, databases, spreadsheets, etc.), and on methods to index the integrated data to support accurate querying and sophisticated analysis. The resulting software tools, Karma and DIG, released as Open Source, have been used in a variety of applications, including intelligence analysis, bioinformatics, environmental engineering and cultural heritage. A notable example is the work with the Smithsonian American Art Museum to publish the meta-data about the museums collection as Linked Open Data. Dr. Szekely is currently applying this work to combat human trafficking, deploying the tools to victim-support agencies and law enforcement.
Host: Craig Knoblock
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 1135 - 11th fl Large CR
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alma Nava / Information Sciences Institute
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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
University Calendar
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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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Oct 09, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Eric Fogleman, Maxlinear
Talk Title: Full-Spectrum Capture Receivers in Home Gateways: Circuit and Architecture Challenges
Series: Integrated Systems Seminar
Abstract: Full-Spectrum Capture or Direct Sampling architectures have emerged as a power-efficient solution in systems where channel bonding or aggregation is the path to increased throughput. While the classic notion of a direct-sampling receiver promises the simplicity of "direct to bits" signal path and leverages efficient digital signal processing, there are many challenges to a practical implementation. This talk will use the example of a DOCSIS home gateway - a system where Full-Spectrum Capture is now the industry norm - to walk through the system-level requirements and how they impact the IC architecture and implementation.
Biography: Dr. Eric Fogleman is Senior Director of the RF and MIxed-Signal IC Design Group at MaxLinear in Carlsbad, CA. He has been with MaxLinear since 2006, working on four generations of cable front-end chips for DOCSIS set-top boxes, cable modems, and cable gateways. Prior to MaxLinear, he designed data converters and analog circuits for Analog Devices, Silicon Wave, and Broadcom. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, San Diego where he developed signal processing techniques to enable high-resolution analog-to-digital conversion.
Host: Hosted by Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen, and Prof. Mahta Moghaddam. Organized and hosted by SungWon Chung.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elise Herrera-Green
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Communications, Networks & Systems (CommNetS) Seminar
Fri, Oct 09, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Bruno Sinopoli, Carnegie Mellon University
Talk Title: Cyber-Physical Systems: Performance, Robustness and Security
Series: CommNetS
Abstract: Recent advances in sensing, communication and computing allow cost effective deployment in the physical world of large-scale networks of sensors and actuators, enabling fine grain monitoring and control of a multitude of physical systems and infrastructures. Such systems, called cyber-physical, lie at the intersection of control, communication and computing. The close interplay among these fields renders independent design of the control, communication, and computing subsystems a risky approach, as separation of concerns does not constitute a realistic assumption in real world scenarios. It is therefore imperative to derive new models and methodologies to allow analysis and design of robust and secure cyber-physical systems (CPS). In this talk I will give an overview of my research on the CPS security, while briefly mentioning other research threads related to indoor positioning systems and adaptive streaming over HTTP.
Biography: Bruno Sinopoli received the Dr. Eng. degree from the University of Padova in 1998 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, in 2003 and 2005 respectively. After a postdoctoral position at Stanford University, Dr. Sinopoli joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University where he is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with courtesy appointments in Mechanical Engineering and in the Robotics Institute and co-director of the Smart Infrastructure Institute, a research center aimed at advancing innovation in the modeling analysis and design of smart infrastructure. Dr. Sinopoli was awarded the 2006 Eli Jury Award for outstanding research achievement in the areas of systems, communications, control and signal processing at U.C. Berkeley, the 2010 George Tallman Ladd Research Award from Carnegie Mellon University and the NSF Career award in 2010. His research interests include networked embedded control systems, distributed estimation and control with applications to wireless sensor-actuator networks and Cyber-physical systems security.
Host: Prof. Ashutosh Nayyar
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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NL Seminar-Using Highways for Bounded-Suboptimal Multi-Agent Path Finding
Fri, Oct 09, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Liron Cohen, USC
Talk Title: Using Highways for Bounded-Suboptimal Multi-Agent Path Finding
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Multi-agent path-finding (MAPF) is important for applications such as the kind of warehousing done by Kiva systems. Solving the problem optimally is NP-hard, yet finding low-cost solutions is important. Bounded-suboptimal MAPF algorithms, such as enhanced conflict-based search (ECBS), often do not perform well in warehousing domains with many agents. We therefore develop bounded-suboptimal MAPF algorithms, called CBS+HWY and ECBS+HWY, that exploit the problem structure of a given MAPF instance by finding paths for the agents that include edges from user-provided highways, which encourages a global behavior of the agents that avoids collisions. On the theoretical side, we develop a simple approach that uses highways for MAPF and provides suboptimality guarantees. On the experimental side, we demonstrate that ECBS+HWY can decrease the runtimes and solution costs of ECBS in Kiva-like domains with many agents if the highways capture the problem structures well.
Biography: Liron received a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 2007 and an M.S. in Computer Science in 2012, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Liron is interested in combinatorial problems related to constraint-based reasoning and symbolic planning. Specifically, he is looking at novel algorithmic techniques for exploiting structure in such combinatorial problems.
Host: Nima Pourdamghani and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: 6th Flr Conf Rm # 689, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Oct 09, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mohammad Ali Motie Share , Astani CEE Ph.D. Student
Talk Title: Horizontal Traffic Queues: From Microscopic to Macroscopic Models
Abstract: Motivated by emerging ITS technologies such as Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications, we consider a Horizontal Traffic Queue (HTQ) on a circular road, where vehicles arrive according to a spatio-temporal Poisson process, and, upon arrival move clockwise until they reach a common destination point, from which they depart the queue. When inside the queue, vehicles communicate with each other and the speed of a vehicle is a function of the distance to the vehicle in front. We analyze the stability of this queuing system and provide a tight characterization of the maximum traffic flow. We also study the evolution of the system in between the jumps to characterize finer properties of the queueing system. In the proposed HTQ, we associate the road with a server that simultaneously serves all the vehicles present on the road. This analogy suggests the relation between HTQ and processor sharing (PS) queues. We use this connection to derive the fluid limit of the proposed system that gives a macroscopic representation of the underlying microscopic queueing system.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
