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Events for October 16, 2018
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Finding Structure in Data: Clustering and Representation Learning
Tue, Oct 16, 2018 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Arya Mazumdar, College of Information & Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Talk Title: Finding Structure in Data: Clustering and Representation Learning
Abstract: This talk is loosely divided into two parts, both about uncovering hidden structures in data by unsupervised or semisupervised methods. In the first, we discuss new tools to learn parameters of mixtures of distributions, statistical block models, and interactive algorithms for such problems. In the second, we describe new algorithms to learn nonlinear models of data, primarily focusing on networks of rectified linear units. We will emphasize on the information theoretic tools that have been used in both of the parts. We provide rigorous theoretical guarantees and our algorithms perform very well in experiments conducted with real data.
Biography: Arya Mazumdar is an assistant professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since Fall 2015. Prior to this, Arya was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and a postdoctoral scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Arya received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2011, where his thesis won the Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship Award. Arya is a recipient of the 2015 NSF CAREER award and the 2010 IEEE ISIT Jack K. Wolf Student Paper Award. He spent the summers of 2008 and 2010 at the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, and IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, respectively. Arya's research interests include information theory and machine learning.
Host: Professor Salman Avestimehr
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia White
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Interviews Open Forum
Tue, Oct 16, 2018 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Increase your career and internship knowledge for interviews by attending this professional development Q&A moderated by Viterbi Career Connections staff or Viterbi employer partners.
For more information about Labs & Open Forums, please visit viterbicareers.usc.edu/workshops.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Epstein Institute Seminar - ISE 651
Tue, Oct 16, 2018 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Andrzej Ruszczynski , Professor, Rutgers Business School
Talk Title: Risk-Averse Optimization and Control of Partially Observable Systems
Host: Dr. Meisam Razaviyayn
More Information: October 16, 2018.pdf
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Grace Owh
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Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Seminar - Lyman L. Handy Colloquia
Tue, Oct 16, 2018 @ 04:00 PM - 05:20 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Susanne Stemmer, Materials Department , University of California, Santa Barbara
Talk Title: Topological Heterostructures by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Abstract: Topology, both in real space and in reciprocal space, has emerged as a new design principle for materials that can host a wealth of novel properties. Interfaces and heterostructures with topological materials offer opportunities to control and manipulate their electronic states and associated phenomena, for example, via electric field effect, strain, or symmetry breaking. In this presentation, we will discuss recent progress in the growth of thin films of the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 by molecular beam epitaxy. We show that high-mobility, epitaxial Cd3As2 films can be grown and discuss some of the phenomena that can be observed, such as an unusually large negative longitudinal magnetoresistance under parallel electric and magnetic fields. The heterostructures allow for experimental tests of theoretically predicted transitions between topological states by manipulating parameters, such as confinement and film strain. For example, as the film thickness is reduced, a band gap opens in the bulk Dirac electronic states and we observe a quantum Hall effect. Using electric field gating and Landau level spectroscopy, we demonstrate the Dirac dispersion of these two-dimensional states.
Biography: Susanne Stemmer is Professor of Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She did her doctoral work at the Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart (Germany) and received her degree from the University of Stuttgart in 1995. Following postdoctoral positions, she moved to Rice University, where she was Assistant Professor from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, she joined the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are in the development of scanning transmission electron microscopy techniques, molecular beam epitaxy, functional and strongly correlated oxide heterostructures, and topological materials. She has authored or co-authored more than 240 publications. Honors include election to Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Materials Research Society, Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America, and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship of the Department of Defense.
Host: Dr. Jayakanth Ravichandran
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 200
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Karen Woo/Mork Family
