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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkWed, Oct 16, 2013
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 https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx 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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Health Professions Fair (not by ASBME)
Wed, Oct 16, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come find out about career choices, educational opportunities, and campus resources related to the healthcare professions. Meet with representatives from medical schools and health professions programs from across the country.
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - courtyard
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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ASBME at Red Cross Rivalry Blood Drive
Wed, Oct 16, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Help save lives by volunteering at the annual Red Cross rivalry blood drive against Notre Dame. Sign-up for a tabling shift and write "ASBME" in the organization column at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnMCk1jlOZ0PdDhmbFBxMkh6WG1DLVBCNkV5YTJiY2c&usp=sharing#gid=0 If you would like to donate blood yourself, follow the instructions ont he facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/613006835417253/
Location: May Ormerod Harris Hall, Quinn Wing & Fisher Gallery (HAR) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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NL Seminar- Qing Dou: "Dependency Based Decipherment for Resource-Limited Machine Translation (EMNLP 2013 Practice Talk) "
Wed, Oct 16, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Qing Dou, USC/ISI
Talk Title: "Dependency Based Decipherment for Resource-Limited Machine Translation (EMNLP 2013 Practice Talk) "
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: We introduce dependency relations into deciphering foreign languages and show that dependency relations help improve the state-of-the-art deciphering accuracy by over 500%. We learn a translation lexicon from large amounts of genuinely non parallel data with decipherment to improve a phrase-based machine translation system trained with limited parallel data. In experiments, we observe BLEU gains of 1.2 to 1.8 across three different test sets.
Biography: Home Page:
http://www.isi.edu/~qdou/
Host: Yang Gao
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 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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CS Colloquium - Richard Snodgrass: Database Ergalics: Examining Suboptimality
Wed, Oct 16, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Richard Snodgrass, University of Arizona
Talk Title: Database Ergalics: Examining Suboptimality
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: In this talk I apply the methodology of ergalics (the science of
computing) to database management systems, by articulating a model of database suboptimality: when a DBMS picks the wrong query execution plan. Along the way, I develop a protocol for accurately measuring query time, a surprisingly difficult task. The goal is to make the case that computer science integrates three equally ascendant perspectives: mathematics, science, and engineering. I'll look at how these three perspectives interact and the sources of endurance of ergalic theories.
Biography: Richard T. Snodgrass joined the University of Arizona in 1989, where he is a Professor of Computer Science. He holds a B.A. degree in Physics from Carleton College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He is an ACM Fellow.
Rick's research foci are ergalics, compliant databases, and temporal databases.
Rick was Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems from 2001 to 2007, was ACM SIGMOD Chair from 1997 to 2001, and has chaired the ACM Publications Board, the ACM History Committee, the ACM SIG Governing Board Portal Committee, the ACM Outstanding Award Committee, and program committees for SIGMOD and VLDB. His web page is at http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/rts
Host: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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#ViterbiAbroad - Rome 2014 Info Session
Wed, Oct 16, 2013 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
This Summer, the Viterbi School is headed to Rome, Italy! Learn about our summer abroad program designed specifically for Viterbi undergrads. Our session will cover the application process, discuss the classes offered this summer, and review the housing and cultural trips and programs built in to your time in Rome. More details are available at the Rome, 2014 website.
Applications for the program are available starting on Oct. 11 and due no later than Nov 8.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Paul Ledesma
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Spokeo Information Session
Wed, Oct 16, 2013 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Come one, come all, to the first Spokeo info session at USC! We're a fast-paced and financially sound start-up specializing in people search and social network aggregation. Oh and we're hiring!
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Henryk Flashner: Biomechanics Research
Wed, Oct 16, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Interested in what kind of biomechanics research USC professors are currently conducting? Come join ASBME and Professor Flashner this Wednesday to discover the BME projects our research university is investing in. Professor Flasher will also speak more on how to find a spot as a student assistant in a lab. It's never too early or late to start gaining experience in research!
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Engineers Without Borders- Las Vegas Project Meeting
Wed, Oct 16, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 164
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Engineers Without Borders
