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Events for October 14, 2014
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AIChE WhiteWave Foods Plant Tour
Tue, Oct 14, 2014 @ 01:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Get a private tour of WhiteWave Foods, maker of some of your favorite food brands! From products like Silk to Horizon to Land O Lakes, WhiteWave is a huge company in the food industry and a heavy recruiter for USC. Come learn more about their company and how some of their products are made!
Note: There are currently no more spots available for this event.
Location: Meet at RTH
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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CS Colloquium - USC Student Series: George Konstantinidis, Leandro Soriano Marcolino
Tue, Oct 14, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: George Konstantinidis; Leandro Soriano Marcolino, USC
Talk Title: Scalable Data Integration under Constraints, Agents Vote for the Environment: Designing Energy-Efficient Architecture
Series: Student Seminar Series
Abstract: Coming Soon
Biography: Coming Soon
Host: CS Department
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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CS Colloquium - USC Student Series: George Konstantinidis, Leandro Soriano Marcolino
Tue, Oct 14, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: George Konstantinidis, Leandro Soriano Marcolino, USC
Talk Title: Scalable Data Integration under Constraints, Agents Vote for the Environment: Designing Energy-Efficient Architecture
Series: Student Seminar Series
Abstract: Saving energy is a major concern nowadays. Hence, it is fundamental to design and construct buildings that are energy efficient. It is known that the early stage of architectural design has a significant impact on this matter. However, it is very complex to create designs that are optimally energy efficient, and at the same time balance and meet other essential design criteria such as economics, space, and safety. One state of the art approach is to create parametric designs, and use a genetic algorithm to optimize across complexly coupled objectives. In this work we further improve this method, by aggregating the solutions of multiple agents. We evaluate our approach across three design case studies of increasing complexity, and show that a team of agents are able to provide one order of magnitude higher number of 1st ranked solutions in the Pareto frontier. Therefore, our approach provides the designers with a higher number of optimized solutions to choose from, that they can further subjectively evaluate, thus leading to better and highly energy efficient building designs.
We witness an explosion of available data in all areas of human activity, from large scientific experiments, to medical data, to distributed sensors, to social media. Integrating data from disparate sources can lead to novel insights across scientific, industrial, and governmental domains. This integration is achieved by either creating a data warehouse, that is, by copying/transforming the data to a centralized site under a single schema for subsequent analysis (data exchange), or by leaving the data at their original sources and querying the data at analysis time ((virtual) data integration), making use of mappings or views between the source and the global schemas. In this work, we focus in scalable data integration and data exchange under constraints or dependencies (or ontologies). In both these problems we make use of the chase algorithm, a forward-chaining reasoning algorithm and the main tool to reason with dependencies. Our first contribution is to introduce the frugal chase, which produces smaller solutions than the standard chase, still remaining polynomial in data complexity. Our second contribution is to use the frugal chase to scale up virtual data integration, aka query answering using views, under constraints in the language of LAV-weakly-acyclic dependencies, a useful language capturing the W3C Recommendation RDF/S. The latter problem can be reduced to query rewriting using views without constraints by chasing the source mappings using the constraints. We construct a compact graph-based representation of the mappings and the constraints and develop an efficient algorithm to run the frugal chase on this representation. We show experimentally that our approach scales to larger problems, outperfomring the standard chase algorithm by close to two orders of magnitude and improving online data integration time by a factor of 3.
Biography: George Konstantinidis is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California (USC) and a Research Assistant at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at USC. He studied Computer Science at the University of Crete, Greece, and holds a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete and the Foundation for Research and TechnologyHellas (FORTH). His research interests lie in the intersection of Databases and Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Information and Data Integration and the Semantic Web, and in particular OntologyBased Data Answering, Integration and Evolution. He enjoys combining novel theory and practical implementations. He has been a reviewer for IJCAI and TKDE, and has published papers both in A.I. (e.g., ECAI, KAIS) and in Databases (e.g., SIGMOD, VLDB).
Leandro Soriano Marcolino is a 4th year PhD student at University of Southern California (USC). He is advised by Milind Tambe. Previously he was awarded the Monbukagakusho scholarship and obtained a M.A. in Systems Information Sciences in Future University Hakodate, Japan. His research work performed during his master's studies was a best paper nominee at AAMAS 2011. He has been researching since very early as an undergraduate student at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, and was able to publish many papers before even entering graduate school. His research is mainly about teamwork and cooperation, and he has published on the topic in a variety of different domains such as swarm robotics, computer Go, and building design. He has published in several prestigious conferences in AI and robotics, such as AAAI, AAMAS, IJCAI, ICRA and IROS.
Host: CS Department
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Astani Environmental Engineering Seminar
Tue, Oct 14, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Kai Loon Chen, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Interactions of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials with Model Cell Membranes: Implications for Nanotoxicity
Host: Dr. Amy Childress
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 200
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Getting to know OIS and the Importance of CPT & OPT
Tue, Oct 14, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Looking for an internship or full-time job in the U.S.?
Please join OIS and Viterbi Career Connections for a CPT/OPT/STEM Informational Workshop. All topics will be discussed along with application materials and immigration processing times. OIS advisors will be present to answer all of your questions about CPT, OPT, and STEM extension.
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 201
Audiences: All Viterbi International Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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ASBME GM #3: Careers for Biomedical Engineers
Tue, Oct 14, 2014 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Wondering what the real world holds for biomedical engineers? Come to our 3rd General Meeting to hear a couple corporate representatives share their story: what their current job is all about, how they got from college to career, and why they like working in industry. This is also a great networking opportunity, so be sure to come! Dinner will be provided.
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 252
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
