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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkWed, Oct 15, 2014
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 http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/firstyear/prospective/meetusc_sw.html to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure 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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USC Investment Office Information Session
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Interested in a career in investment management? The USC Investment Office is looking to hire paid interns for the Spring 2015 semester as well as internships full time Summer 2015. All undergraduates are welcome to apply. This is an amazing opportunity to work with investing USC’s endowment funds, and report to the Chief Investment Officer of USC! Undergraduates with an interest in Private and Public Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, and Real Estate are encouraged to apply. To learn more, please attend the information session.
Location: Gwynn Wilson Student Union (STU) - B3 (Trojan Presentation Room)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Job Search Strategies for International Students
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Learn techniques for looking for a job in the United States and discuss important international student employment issues. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of International Services and the USC Career Center.
This event will be held in DML 204.
Reservations are requested for this event. Your seat is not guaranteed unless you register. To reserve a seat, log into connectSC , search for the event under "Events," and click "RSVP".Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - 204
Audiences: All Viterbi International Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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EE Pioneer Seminar Series
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Melvin A. Breuer, USC
Talk Title: TBA
Abstract: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - EEB 132
1:30pm Introduction & Welcome
1:35pm Technical talk by Melvin A. Breuer, Charles Lee Powell Professor of EE and CS
2:00pm Melvin A. Breuer in Conversation with Sandeep Gupta
2:45pm Reception - Light Refreshments
Biography: Dr. Breuer is the editor and co-author of Design Automation of Digital Systems: Theory and Techniques, Prentice-Hall; editor of Digital Systems Design Automation: Languages, Simulation and Data Base, Computer Science Press; co-author of Diagnosis and Reliable Design of Digital Systems, Computer Science Press; co-editor of Computer Hardware Description Languages and their Applications, North-Holland; co-editor and contributor to Knowledge Based Systems for Test and Diagnosis, North-Holland; and co-author of Digital System Testing and Testable Design, Computer Science Press 1990 and reprinted in 1995 by the IEEE Press. He has published over 270 technical papers and was formerly the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Design Automation and Fault Tolerant Computing, on the editorial board of the Journal of Electronic Testing, the co-editor of the Journal of Digital Systems, and the Program Chairman of the Fifth International IFIP Conference on Computer Hardware Description Languages and Their Applications. He is a co-author of a paper that received an honorable mention award at the 1997 International Test Conference, a co-author of a paper nominated for the best paper award at the 1998 Design Automation and Test in Europe Conf., a co-author of a paper published in the 1998 International Test Conference that was selected to be in a compendium of significant papers over the last 35 years, and a co-author of the best paper at the 2000 Asian Test Symposium.
Host: Ming Hsieh Institute
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elise Herrera-Green
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NSEG Fellowship Info Session
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship program is open to applicants who are citizens or nationals of the United States. Students must be enrolled in their final year of undergraduate studies, or have completed less than two full-time years of graduate study in the discipline in which they are applying. The NDSEG funds applicants who will pursue a doctoral degree in one of the following disciplines:
Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Biosciences
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Cognitive, Neural, and Behavioral Sciences
Computer and Computational Sciences
Electrical Engineering
Geosciences
Materials Science and Engineering
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Oceanography
Physics
The NDSEG Fellowship Application is now open (https://ndseg.asee.org/), and will close on December 12, 2014, at 5:00 P.M. EST.
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 227
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Christine D'Arcy
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Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Paul Newton, Professor of Applied Mathematics in Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Talk Title: Random Walks, Markov Chains, and Cancer Progression Models from Longitudinal and Autopsy Data
Series: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Abstract: We will describe models of metastatic cancer progression using Markov chain modeling on a directed graph of nodes that are the various anatomical sites where metastatic tumors can form for a given type of primary cancer. We use metastatic tumor distributions gathered from historical autopsy data, as well as current longitudinal data sets to estimate the transition probabilities (stochastic parameters) from site to site. This creates a systemic network diagram from which we can calculate reduced two-step diagrams using the fact that the systems converge to their steady-state distribution after roughly two steps. The diagrams are used to categorize metastatic sites as `sponges' or `spreaders', as well as to run hypothetical therapeutic scenarios based on Monte Carlo simulations of progression with mean first-passage times as a surrogate timescale measure. A useful metric which we describe is the notion of metastatic entropy and how is correlates with graph conductance dictating Markov convergence rates, mixing times, and complexity. If time permits, we will describe a more fine-scale cell based model which is driven by a stochastic Moran process acting on a heterogeneous population of cells trafficking across the directed graph to various sites, governed by a fitness landscape, with simple point-mutations, interacting via the prisonerâs dilemma paradigm in which the cancer cells are the `defectorsâ and the healthy cells are the `cooperators'.
Biography: Paul Newton received his B.S. in Applied Math/Physics at Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University, he was Assistant and Associate Professor of Mathematics and The Center for Complex Systems Research at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He has held visiting appointments at Caltech, Brown, Hokkaido University, The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at U.C. Santa Barbara, and The Scripps Research Institute. He is currently Professor of Applied Math, Engineering, and Medicine in the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California. He serves as Managing Editor of The Journal of Nonlinear Science, Advisor on Texts in Applied Mathematics Series, Springer-Verlag, New York, and is on The Center Advisory Committee for The Physical Sciences Oncology Center at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA where he serves as Project Leader, Mathematical Modeling: Physics and Mathematics of Cancer Metastasis.
Host: Professor Paul Ronney
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Valerie Childress
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Turner Construction Meet & Greet
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Turner representatives will be available to
collect resumes, chat with you, answer your questions and
share their insight about working for Turner Construction.
Info Session to followMore Information: Turner-Meet-Greet-2014.pdf
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Turner Construction Information Session
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
More Information: Turner-Info-Session-2014_UPDATED21.pdf
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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USC Engineering in Izmir, Turkey - Information Session
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are cordially invited to join us for an upcoming graduate engineering information session in Izmir,Turkey.This event will be hosted by Viterbi School representative Camillia Lee, Assistant Dean of Graduate Recruitment for the Viterbi School of Engineering.
Students who have earned or are in the progress of earning a Bachelor's degree in engineering, math, or a hard science (such as physics, biology, or chemistry) are welcome to attend to learn more about applying to our graduate programs.
Attendees will also have the chance to ask questions and receive official brochures and handout information from USC.
Audiences: Students with an undergraduate backrgound in engineering, math or science
Contact: William Schwerin
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USC Sports Analytics Collective General Meeting
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come get involved with USC's Sports Analytics Collective - a group that conducts research projects relating to data in sports and explore current hot-topic issues in the world of sports analytics!
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 213
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jeremy USCSAC
