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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkFri, Oct 17, 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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AI Seminar-Topics in Constraint Satisfaction and Weighted Constraint Satisfaction
Fri, Oct 17, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli , USC
Talk Title: Topics in Constraint Satisfaction and Weighted Constraint Satisfaction
Series: Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Abstract: In this talk, I will present two ideas: (a) the idea of "Smoothness" in constraint satisfaction; and (b) the idea of "Constraint Composite Graphs" in weighted constraint satisfaction. Smoothness helps us identify tractable classes of constraint satisfaction problems with important implications in such diverse areas as temporal reasoning, logical filtering, and distributed problem solving. In weighted constraint satisfaction, Constraint Composite Graphs yield a long-pursued unified mathematical framework for exploiting the graphical structure of the constraint network as well as the numerical structure of the weighted constraints.
Biography: Dr. Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli (T. K. Satish Kumar) is a Research Scientist at the University of Southern California. He has published extensively on numerous topics in Artificial Intelligence spanning such diverse areas as Constraint Reasoning, Planning and Scheduling, Probabilistic Reasoning, Combinatorial Optimization, Approximation and Randomization, Heuristic Search, Model-Based Reasoning, Knowledge Representation and Spatio-Temporal Reasoning. He has served on the Program Committees of many international conferences in Artificial Intelligence and is a co-winner of the Best Student Paper Award from the 2005 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. Dr. Kumar received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in March 2005. In the past, he has also been a Visiting Student at the NASA Ames Research Center, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, a Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of West Florida and a Senior Research and Development Scientist at Mission Critical Technologies
Host: Greg Ver Steeg
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=bdc8f29218904371a2eb9a6c68d175c31dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=bdc8f29218904371a2eb9a6c68d175c31d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Computer Science PhD Lunch
Fri, Oct 17, 2014 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
RSVP will be sent to invitees.
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 322
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Oct 17, 2014 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jeff Lamb, Orange Empire Railway Museum
Talk Title: Steam Locomotives: Past and Future
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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NL Seminar- Beyond Parallel Data: Joint Word Alignment and Decipherment Improves Machine Translation [EMNLP Practice Talk]
Fri, Oct 17, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Qing Dou, USC/ISI
Talk Title: Beyond Parallel Data: Joint Word Alignment and Decipherment Improves Machine Translation [EMNLP Practice Talk]
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Inspired by previous work, where de- cipherment is used to improve machine translation, we propose a new idea to combine word alignment and decipher- ment into a single learning process. We use EM to estimate the model parameters, not only to maximize the probability of parallel corpus, but also the monolingual corpus. We apply our approach to im- prove Malagasy-English machine transla- tion, where only a small amount of paral- lel data is available. In our experiments, we observe gains of 0.9 to 2.1 Bleu over a strong baseline.
Biography: Qing Dou is a fifth year Ph.D. student at ISI. He works with Professor Kevin Knight on various decipherment problems and its application to different Natural Language Processing tasks.
Host: Aliya Deri and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Conference Room # 689, Marina del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Society of Women Engineers Mentorship Mixer
Fri, Oct 17, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Come out to the Mentorship Mixer on Friday October 17th at Gateway Rooftop! We will be providing pie from the Pie Hole and it will be a great chance to meet your fellow SWEsters! After the mixer fill out the form below to help us match you with your preferences. Even if you cannot attend the mixer but still want a mentor or a mentee then you can still fill the form! Anyone who wants a mentor or a mentee needs to fill out the form by Sunday 10/19 at midnight, pairings will be announced via email by Wednesday 10/22.
Mentor/Mentee Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mO70rEhPOrmaQF_fo84D8jqvG_jiRW7sEqCvlhjw6pA/viewform?usp=send_form
Check out the Facebook event for more information and to RSVP! https://www.facebook.com/events/1533070640262460/?notif_t=plan_admin_addedLocation: Gateway Rooftop
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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ASBME Corporate Networking Night
Fri, Oct 17, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join ASBME at our third annual Corporate Networking Night with representatives from 13 different biotech companies! This event is a prime opportunity to introduce yourself to recruiters for internships and jobs starting in 2015. Companies attending include Abbott, Accenture, Amgen, Baxter, Chromologic, Edwards, HTE@USC, Medtronic, MEIRxRS, National Instruments, Nuvasive, St. Jude, and USC Coulter Translational. Please bring copies of your resume and dress smartly. To reserve your seat, please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ojB20s4vR9567mudPGlFFt_pUdnmSSPibrk24WaGgls/viewform and submit a $20 deposit to the front desk of DRB 140 by the end of the week, October 10th (this will be returned to you at check-in for the event but forfeited if you do not show). Due to limited room capacity, we will give preference to Junior and Senior undergraduate students who are MEMBERS of ASBME; however, any interested underclassmen can sign up for the wait-list for available seats. Spot confirmations and additional details will be sent out by Monday, October 13th. Any questions can be directed to Joycelyn Yip, joycelyy@usc.edu.
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Forum
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
