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Events for October 18, 2010
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HOPE Funding Board Application Due Friday 10/22!
Mon, Oct 18, 2010
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join the HOPE Funding Board!
Are you looking for a way to implement engineering service projects in the USC, L.A., and international communities? Would you like to apply your engineering, leadership, business, marketing, design, or writing skills to pressing issues? Do you want to find out what it really takes to fund, select, and execute a feasible project, and do you want to take on a leadership role in your community that will actually make a difference?
If you share any of these passions, you are exactly the type of person we need for the HOPE Funding Board: Helping Overcome Project Expenses. It is our goal to help provide the guidance, funding, and manpower to engineering projects conceived in WRIT340 classes at USC, which would otherwise be lost to the writing archives. Because this is a newly founded board directly supported by the Engineering writing program, we are currently looking for motivated students for several leadership positions. If you are interested in bringing HOPE to the USC community, please fill out the application (please email usc.hope@gmail.com for a copy) on pages 3 and 4 and email it to usc.hope@gmail.com or print it out and deliver it to OHE 106.
*The due date for submission is Friday, October 22nd, 2010. There will be a rolling selection process. Once a strong candidate applies for a position, we will close the position to other applicants, so apply today!*Location: OHE 106 or online
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: HOPE
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Writing about Patients: Truth and Consequences A Lecture by Jay Baruch, MD
Mon, Oct 18, 2010 @ 12:00 AM - 02:00 AM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
A reception will be held at 3 p.m. in Hoyt Gallery.
The recent era has seen a rise in writing about illness, including physician and patient memoirs, blogs about illness and the practice of medicine and fiction based on the experiences of patients. Such writing can be illuminating and healing and can foster important conversations about health and the nature of suffering. But at a time when information can be shared with a keystroke, issues of privacy and confidentiality demand our careful consideration and thoughtful reflection. Jay Baruch, MD, will discuss the moral and ethical implications of this kind of writing.
Dr. Baruch is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. His collection of short fiction, Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers received an honorable mention in the short-story category in ForeWord magazineâs 2007 Book of the Year Awards. His fiction has also appeared in numerous print and online literary journals. In addition to his emergency-medicine practice, he serves as director of the medical-ethics curriculum and of the medical-ethics scholarly concentration at Brownâs medical school.
Organized by Pamela Schaff (Pediatrics and Keck Educational Affairs), Erin Quinn (Family Medicine and Keck Admissions) and Lyn M. Boyd-Judson (Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics). Co-sponsored by the Keck School of Medicineâs Program in Medical Humanities, Arts and Ethics; the USC Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics; and the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Health Sciences Campus, Mayer Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Oct 18, 2010 @ 01:00 AM - 01:00 AM
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://usconnect.usc.edu/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Accident/Incident Response Preparedness (AIP)
Mon, Oct 18, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed for individuals who are involved in either preparing for an accident or responding to one as a representative of their organization. It is based on the premise that accidents are relatively rare events and organizations may have little experience in dealing with them.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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Aviation Security Program Management (AVSEC)
Mon, Oct 18, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed for individuals responsible for managing and implementing aviation security measures at medium to small size aircraft operators, all airports and Indirect Air Carriers (IAC's). This course demonstrates how to apply the SMS principles in the aviation security environment.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 18, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Andrew Mackay, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, USC
Talk Title: Drug delivery using environmentally responsive polypeptides
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering, USC
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: BME graduate students, Faculty, contact department if interested (213-740-7237)
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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CS Colloquium
Mon, Oct 18, 2010 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Vince Conitzer, Duke University
Talk Title: Computational Methods for Acting Strategically
Abstract: Abstract:
Game theory concerns settings where multiple self-interested agents (e.g., people or software agents) interact in the same environment. It attempts to describe the actions that rational strategic agents will take. Many successful real-world applications of game theory are in the context of designing a system or mechanism, for example, the design of the auctions used by major search engines to allocate advertisement slots. Game theory can be used to optimize the design, taking the strategic behavior of the agents (bidders) into account.
However, a different type of application of game theory is to design a decision support tool for one of the agents in the game. For example, we may wish to help a security force to allocate its resources strategically to defend against an attacker. Because the details of the strategic setting will vary across time and across users, computational considerations are paramount: we need algorithms that can take arbitrary games as input. Moreover, due to the ambiguities of game theory, it is not clear that we can restrict attention to a single computational problem. For example, an algorithm for computing a single Nash equilibrium may not be satisfactory if there is a better equilibrium that we might reach, or if there is concern that the other agent will not play the same equilibrium.
In this talk, I present algorithms and complexity results for a variety of computational problems in game theory, and discuss them in the context of how they can help an agent act (more) strategically.
Biography: Vincent Conitzer is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Economics at Duke University. He received Ph.D. (2006) and M.S. (2003) degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and an A.B. (2001) degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. His research focuses on computational aspects of microeconomics, in particular game theory, mechanism design, voting/social choice, and auctions. This work uses techniques from, and includes applications to, artificial intelligence and multiagent systems. Conitzer has received a CAREER award, a Sloan fellowship, the inaugural Victor Lesser dissertation award, an honorable mention for the ACM dissertation award, and several awards for papers and service at the AAAI and AAMAS conferences.
Host: Prof. Milind Tambe
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - Audi
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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Bloomberg Information Session
Mon, Oct 18, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Denver Admission Reception
Mon, Oct 18, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Hosted by the Admission Office, the reception will include a general discussion about the University. You will also be able to ask questions about your areas of academic interest, explore co-curricular options and learn more about life and opportunities at USC. A representative from our Admission and Student Affairs staff, will be there on behalf of the Viterbi School of Engineering along with other representatives from the University.RSVP online at http://www.usc.edu/admevents
Location: Westin Tabor Center Denver<br> 1672 Lawrence Street<br> Denver, CO 80202
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and their families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
