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Events for October 12, 2006
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Engineering Career Fair
Thu, Oct 12, 2006 @ 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
The Engineering Career Fair is free and open to all students in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Students do not need to register for this event…just show up! This casual, yet professional, environment allows students the opportunity to have brief conversations with recruiters about full-time employment, internships, and co-ops.
Don't forget your resume!
Location: Engineering Quad
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Lyman L. Handy Colloquium
Thu, Oct 12, 2006 @ 12:45 PM - 02:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
"Molecular Engineering of Stem Cell and Gene Therapies"Professor David Schaffer
Department of Chemical Engineering &The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
University of California at Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryAbstractNew molecular therapies based on gene delivery and stem cells have significant potential for tissue engineering and repair for numerous diseases. Before these approaches can succeed, however, a number of fundamental engineering challenges must be overcome, particularly in the nervous system, our tissue of interest.Gene therapy, the introduction of genetic material to the cells of a patient for therapeutic benefit, has the potential to directly translate the basic knowledge derived from the Human Genome Project into therapeutic benefit. However, the vehicles or vectors that deliver therapeutic genes still require engineering for enhanced efficiency and safety. Our efforts are focused on modifying these vehicles at the molecular level to overcome the common dilemma faced by all: they did not evolve in nature to perform the therapeutic endeavors we ask of them. We have developed novel approaches to engineer already promising gene delivery vehicles, the adeno-associated viral vector and lentiviral vector. Specifically, we are applying directed evolution approaches to overcome several challenges in vector performance, including its mass transport through tissue and cells and interactions with the immune system.Furthermore, gene therapy has enormous potential to synergize with stem cells to repair damaged tissue. Neural stem cells are present throughout the adult nervous system, but we must learn at a quantitative, molecular level the signaling mechanisms that control these cells before we can harness them. We have identified novel signaling factors that regulate neural stem cells and are investigating the mechanisms by which the cells process these signals into functional decisions. Specifically, we are exploring the hypothesis that cell switching between multiple steady states in gene regulation networks can serve as a general mechanism for the critical fate choices these cells must make as they differentiate into specific cell types, such as neurons. We hope that this basic knowledge can be applied, in combination with improved gene delivery vehicles, to regenerate neural tissue from the effects of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Lou Gehrig's Diseases.Thursday, October 12, 2006
12:45 p.m.
OHE 122
Refreshments will be served after the seminar in the HED Lobby
The Scientific Community is cordially invited.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
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CS Colloquium Series
Thu, Oct 12, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
Prof. Trevor DarrellMIT CSAILTitle:Visual Recognition and Tracking for Perceptive InterfacesAbstract: Devices should be perceptive, and respond directly to their human user and/or environment. In this talk I'll present new computer vision algorithms for fast recognition, indexing, and tracking that make this possible, enabling multimodal interfaces which respond to users'
conversational gesture and body language, robots which recognize common object categories, and mobile devices which can search using visual cues of specific objects of interest. As time permits, I'll describe recent advances in real-time human pose tracking for multimodal interfaces, including new methods which exploit fast computation of approximate likelihood with a pose-sensitive image
embedding. I'll also present our linear-time approximate correspondence kernel, the Pyramid Match, and its use for image indexing and object recognition, and discovery of object categories. Throughout the talk, I'll show interface examples including grounded multimodal conversation as well as mobile image-based information retrieval applications based on these techniques.Hosted by: Gerard MedioniLocation: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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Microsoft Information Session
Thu, Oct 12, 2006 @ 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: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Spotlight on Computer Science and Computer Science/Computer Engineering
Thu, Oct 12, 2006 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
The Viterbi Spotlight Series is a NEW series of panel presentations designed to help first year engineering students learn more about the majors in Viterbi. Each major will be highlighted once throughout the fall semester. Whether you are an undeclared engineering student or still not sure what engineering is all about, feel free to come to every session of the "Spotlight Series" to help educate yourself about the various areas of study that are available to you. Panelists will include faculty, industry representatives, current students and Viterbi alumni.Please RSVP: http://viterbi.usc.edu/fye
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: First and second year engineering undergraduates
Contact: Tisha Armatys
