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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Mon, Oct 11, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 10, 2011. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online.http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/
Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2011
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Oct 11, 2010 @ 01:00 AM - 01:00 AM
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 hhttp://usconnect.usc.edu/ 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: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 11, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Gert Cauwenberghs, Dept. of Bioengineering & Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego
Talk Title: Silicon and Biological Adaptive Neural Circuits
Abstract: Dialogues between neuroscience and neuroengineering are offering new avenues to advance the engineering of intelligent brain-machine interfaces, and to accelerate the pace of neuroscience research in mapping the organization and decoding the function of the central nervous system.Reverse engineering the brain in "neuromorphic" silicon provides a means to validate hypotheses on neural structure and function through "analysis by synthesis". I will present a scalable approach to realizing locally dense and globally sparse synaptic connectivity and plasticity in reconfigurable hybrid analog-digital neuromorphic systems, towards a real-time and low-power silicon model of neocortical vision with over a million neurons and billion synapses. I will also present our related work on a synapse array for adaptive template-based visual pattern recognition that operates at less than a femtojoule of energy per synaptic operation, exceeding the energy efficiency of synaptic transmission in the human brain.
Biography: Gert Cauwenberghs is Professor of Bioengineering and Co-director of the Institute for Neural Computation at UC San Diego. He received the Ph.D.in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 1994, and was previously Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and Visiting Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT.
His research focuses on micropower biomedical instrumentation,
neuron-silicon and brain-machine interfaces, neuromorphic engineering, and adaptive intelligent systems. He received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1997, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 1999, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2000. He is Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, and a Senior Editor for the IEEE Sensors Journal.
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Gert Cauwenberghs
Professor of Bioengineering
Co-Director, Institute for Neural Computation
University of California, San Diego
Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall, Rm. 304
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0412
La Jolla, CA 92093-0412
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering, USC
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: BME graduate students, Faculty, contact department if interested (213-740-7237)
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Technical Resume Workshop
Mon, Oct 11, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Does your resume highlight the skills that will land an interview? Learn how to create a resume that will serve as the marketing tool that will get your foot inside industry's door!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Technical Resume Workshop
Mon, Oct 11, 2010 @ 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Does your resume highlight the skills that will land an interview? Learn how to create a resume that will serve as the marketing tool that will get your foot inside industry's door!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Google Information Session
Mon, Oct 11, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 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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Sacramento Admission Reception
Mon, Oct 11, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Hosted by the Admission Office, the reception will include a general discussion about the University. You will also be able to ask questions about your areas of academic interest, explore co-curricular options and learn more about life and opportunities at USC. A representative from our Admission and Student Affairs staff, will be there on behalf of the Viterbi School of Engineering along with other representatives from the University.RSVP online at http://www.usc.edu/admevents
Location: Doubletree Hotel Sacramento<br> 2001 Point West Way<br> Sacramento, CA 95815
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and their families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Ira Glass Radio Stories and Other Stories; A Visions and Voices Signature Event
Mon, Oct 11, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, visit our event page http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873322 beginning Monday, September 13, at 9 a.m.
Reception to follow.
Ira Glass, host and producer of the award-winning public-radio program This American Life, returns to USC for a Visions and Voices signature event presented in celebration of the inauguration of USCâs eleventh president, C. L. Max Nikias. Glass spoke at USC in 2007, and to this day his presentation remains one of the most talked about and memorable events presented by Visions and Voices.
Ira Glass revitalized radio by sharing stories of ordinary people to create a program that is humorous, provocative and powerful. He will give a multimedia presentation modeled after his radio program that reflects the power of storytelling to lift the human spirit.
This American Life premiered on Chicagoâs public radio station WBEZ in 1995 and is now heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by over 1.8 million listeners. Most weeks, the podcast of the program is the most popular podcast in America. Under Glassâs direction, This American Life has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including several Peabody and duPont-Columbia awards. The American Journalism Review declared that the show is âat the vanguard of a journalistic revolution.â It has won critical acclaim and attracted continuous national media attention over the years. In 2001, Glass was named by Time magazine as the âBest Radio Host in America,â and in 2009, he received the Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding contributions to public radio. In 2007, the television adaptation of This American Life premiered on Showtime to great critical acclaim and has won several Emmy awards.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
