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Events for October 16, 2024
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement Wed, Oct 16, 2024 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: IISE Faculty, IISE Faculty
Talk Title: Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Abstract: USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement, offered in partnership with the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, allows professionals to learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics, and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a USC Six Sigma Green Belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the USC Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
Host: USC Viterbi Corporate and Professional Programs
Audiences: Six Sigma Green Belt Students
Contact: VASE Executive Education
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EiS Communications Hub - Tutoring for Engineering Ph.D. Students
Wed, Oct 16, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Come to the EiS Communications Hub for one-on-one tutoring from Viterbi faculty for Ph.D. writing and speaking projects!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A
Audiences: Viterbi Ph.D. Students
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home
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Viterbi - Lockheed Martin Network of Women Series (4/4)
Wed, Oct 16, 2024 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This event is for Viterbi engineering students only. Please register through Handshake.
Join the Lockheed Martin network of Women (LM Now) as they share their stories of mentorship, career growth, goals achievement, and more. This is the fourth event of the series. This event's topic will be Empowering Leadership: Applying Women's Self-Defense Principles in Technical Leadership.
External employer-hosted events and activities are not affiliated with the USC Viterbi Career Connections Office. They are posted on Viterbi Career Connections because they may be of interest to members of the Viterbi community. Inclusion of any activity does not indicate USC sponsorship or endorsement of that activity or event. It is the participant’s responsibility to apply due diligence, exercise caution when participating, and report concerns to vcareers@usc.edu
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/
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Computer Science General Faculty Meeting
Wed, Oct 16, 2024 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
Bi-Weekly regular faculty meeting for invited full-time Computer Science faculty and staff only. Event details emailed directly to attendees.
Location: Ginsburg Hall (GCS) - 107
Audiences: Invited Faculty Only
Contact: Julia Mittenberg-Beirao
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USC CAIS Seminar with Dr. Frederic Reamer
Wed, Oct 16, 2024 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Frederic Reamer, Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work - Rhode Island College
Talk Title: USC CAIS Seminar with Dr. Frederic Reamer
Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in the behavioral health professions. AI is being used to conduct client risk assessments; assist people in crisis; strengthen prevention efforts; document clinical services; identify systemic biases in the delivery of services; provide professional education and clinical supervision; and predict practitioner burnout and service outcomes, among other uses.
This webinar will examine cutting-edge ethical issues related to behavioral health practitioners’ use of AI; apply relevant ethical standards; and outline key elements of a strategy for practitioners’ ethical use of AI. Join Dr. Frederic Reamer as he examines ethical issues and risks related to informed consent and client autonomy; privacy and confidentiality; transparency; potential client misdiagnosis; client abandonment; client surveillance; plagiarism, dishonesty, fraud, and misrepresentation; algorithmic bias and unfairness; and use of evidence-based AI tools.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium.
Register for Zoom webinar: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DC48EaIORMy9ePEE86IGiA
Biography: Frederic G. Reamer has been on the faculty of the School of Social Work, Rhode Island College since 1983. His research and teaching have addressed a wide range of human service issues, including mental health, health care, criminal justice, public welfare, and professional ethics. Dr. Reamer received his Ph.D. (social work) from the University of Chicago. He has served as a social worker in correctional and mental health settings.
He serves as Associate Editor of the National Association of Social Workers Encyclopedia of Social Work (Oxford University Press and National Association of Social Workers). Since 2012, Dr. Reamer has served as the ethics instructor in the Providence (RI) Police Department Training Academy. Dr. Reamer has conducted extensive research on professional ethics. He has published 25 books and more than 190 journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia articles.
Dr. Reamer is the recipient of awards such as the NASW Mit Joyner Presidential Award, NASW Social Work Pioneer Award, and NASW Excellence in Ethics Award.
Host: CAIS
More Info: https://cais.usc.edu/events/usc-cais-seminar-with-dr-frederic-reamer/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DC48EaIORMy9ePEE86IGiALocation: Zoom Webinar
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DC48EaIORMy9ePEE86IGiA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Event Link: https://cais.usc.edu/events/usc-cais-seminar-with-dr-frederic-reamer/
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A.V. Balakrishnan Awards Ceremony - Dr. Earl H. Dowell
Wed, Oct 16, 2024 @ 02:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Earl H. Dowell, William Holland Hall Professor of the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
Talk Title: Fluid Structural Thermal Interaction (FSTI) in Hypersonic Flow
Abstract: When flowing fluids and deformable structures interact, they may become unstable (flutter) and if the system is nonlinear this may lead to limit cycle oscillations and even chaotic dynamics. Physical phenomena of interest include wind induced oscillations of long span bridges and tall buildings, internal flows in nuclear reactors and gas turbines, blood flow through arteries and airflow over human tongues. However historically and even today much of the progress is driven by aerospace applications including high performance flight vehicles be they aircraft, jet engines, launch vehicles, missiles or rotorcraft. Current interest in FSTI in hypersonic flow is high and will be the subject of this talk. Both experimental and theoretical (computational) work will be discussed.
Event Program
Reception 2:00PM - 2:30PM
Remarks 2:35PM - 3:15PM
Awardee Lecture 3:15PM - 4:00PM
Award Presentation 4:00PM - 4:15PM
Biography: Dr. Dowell is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has also served as Vice President for Publications and member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the AIAA; as a member of the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board; the Air Force Studies Board, the Aerospace Science and Engineering Board and the Board on Army Science and Technology of the National Academies; the AGARD (NATO) advisory panel for aerospace engineering, as President of the American Academy of Mechanics, as Chair of the US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and as Chairman of the National Council of Deans of Engineering. From the AIAA he has received the Structure, Structural Dynamics and Materials Award, the Von Karman Lectureship, the Crichlow Trust Prize and the Reed Aeronautics Award; from the ASME he has received the Spirit of St. Louis Medal, the Den Hartog Award, Lyapunov Medal and the Caughey Medal; and he has also received the Guggenheim Medal which is awarded jointly by the AIAA, ASME, AHS and SAE. He has served on the boards of visitors of several universities and is a consultant to government, industry and universities in science and technology policy and engineering education as well as on the topics of his research. Dr. Dowell research and teaching ranges over the topics of acoustics, aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, dynamics and structures. In addition to being author of over four hundred research articles, Dr. Dowell is the author or co-author of four books, "Aeroelasticity of Plates and Shells", "A Modern Course in Aeroelasticity", "Studies in Nonlinear Aeroelasticity" and “Dynamics of Very High Dimensional Systems”. Dr. Dowell received his B.S. degree from the University of Illinois and his S.M. and Sc.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before coming to Duke as Dean of the School of Engineering, serving from 1983-1999, he taught at M.I.T. and Princeton. He has also worked with the Boeing Company.
Host: Dr. Petros Ioannou, ioannou@usc.edu
More Info: https://forms.gle/zUxvBSDsb1TCHdcEA
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - RTH 526
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Miki Arlen
Event Link: https://forms.gle/zUxvBSDsb1TCHdcEA
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AAI-CCI-MHI Seminar on CPS
Wed, Oct 16, 2024 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Alex Robey, Postdoctoral Researcher
Talk Title: Jailbreaking LLM-Controlled Robots
Series: EE598 Seminar Series
Abstract: Recent research has shown that large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT are susceptible to jailbreaking attacks, wherein malicious users fool an LLM into generating harmful content (e.g., bombbuilding instructions). However, these attacks are generally limited to eliciting text from chatbots. In contrast, we consider attacks on LLM-controlled robots, which, if jailbroken, could be manipulated into causing physical harm in the real world. Our attacks successfully jailbreak a self-driving LLM, a wheeled Clearpath Robotics Jackal robot, and, most concerningly, the commercially available Unitree Go2 robot dog. In this talk, we will walk through the recent history of jailbreaking, describe our robotic attacks, and discuss how such attacks can be mitigated to avoid the misuse of AI-powered robots.
Biography: Alex Robey is a postdoctoral researcher in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is advised by J. Zico Kolter. He is also affiliated with Gray Swan, a start-up that aims to develop AI models resistant to adversarial attacks. In 2024, he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was advised by Hamed Hassani and George J. Pappas. He was recently named a Rising Star in Adversarial Machine Learning (AdvML) at the NeurIPS 2024 workshop on AdvML, and he was also the recipient of the Best Paper Award from the AdvML workshop at ICML 2023.
Host: Stephen Tu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ariana Perez
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AME Seminar
Wed, Oct 16, 2024 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ananya Balakrishna, UC Santa Barbara
Talk Title: Phase Transformations in Multifunctional Materials
Abstract: Phase transformation materials are characterized by their ability to rapidly and reversibly switch between distinct properties, such as insulating and conducting, paramagnetic and ferromagnetic, or Li-rich and Li-poor. These transformations, however, are accompanied by abrupt structural changes in the crystal lattices, which can nucleate defects, accumulate strain energy, and accelerate material decay. We investigate these transformations in multifunctional materials from the viewpoint of Ericksen’s multiple energy wells. By doing so, we identify important links between material constants, crystallographic microstructures, and macroscopic properties. This approach to understanding material behavior from the perspective of energy landscapes may suggest new ways to design materials with improved properties and lifespans. In this talk, I will present our findings on phase transformations in battery electrodes (intercalation compounds), photomechanical materials (molecular crystals), and soft magnetic alloys. Most of this work has primarily been conducted by Delin Zhang (PhD candidate at USC/AME) and Devesh Tiwari (MS from USC/AME).
Biography: Ananya Renuka Balakrishna is an Assistant Professor in the Materials Department at the University of California Santa Barbara. She received her B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka and her Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering from the University of Oxford. Before her current appointment, she was a Lindemann Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT and the University of Minnesota and joined the faculty in the Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California in 2020. Her research group develops theoretical models to understand the interplay between fundamental material constants and microstructural instabilities, and how they collectively shape the physical response of a material.
Host: AME Department
More Info: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 202
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tessa Yao
Event Link: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
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Viterbi - Behavioral Interviewing with Novanta
Wed, Oct 16, 2024 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Date: October 16, 2024Time: 5PM - 6PM PSTLocation: USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Join us for an engaging session with Novanta, where we will introduce our company and share valuable insights on behavioral interviewing. This event is designed for students who are eager to learn about Novanta’s mission, values, and the skills we seek in potential candidates.
What to Expect:
A brief introduction to Novanta and our innovative work.
An in-depth discussion on behavioral interviewing techniques.
Tips and strategies to excel in behavioral interviews.
Q&A session with Novanta representatives.
Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with industry professionals and gain a competitive edge in your job search. We look forward to seeing you there!Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/
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Turner Construction- Resume Review
Wed, Oct 16, 2024 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Workshops & Infosessions
Need help with your resume or interview tips? Join Turner Construction to learn more about their company while also preparing for the recruiting season! Dinner provided.
Location: Sign into EngageSC to View Location
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Thelma Federico Zaragoza
Event Link: https://engage.usc.edu/WIE/rsvp?id=400041
