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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, and Engineering Talk
Fri, Oct 23, 2015
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. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering 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 make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember 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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Canstruction
Fri, Oct 23, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Help out people in need by donating canned food!! Students and faculty come together for this annual event to collect cans and donate them to the LA Food Bank. On the last day of the drive, we bring all the cans together to make a Canstruction. Collection is from 10/14 - 11/20.
Collection Bin Locations:
ACCT 101 Office
Crocker Library (in HOH)
Popovich Hall Rm 200
Deans Office BRI 100
Advising Office BRI 104Location: Various Locations (look at description)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC NOBE
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AI SEMINAR
Fri, Oct 23, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mohsen Taheriyan, Ph.D at USC
Talk Title: Learning the Semantics of Structured Data Sources
Series: AI Seminar
Abstract: Information sources such as relational databases, spreadsheets, XML, JSON, and Web APIs contain a tremendous amount of structured data, however, they rarely provide a semantic model to describe their contents. Semantic models of data sources capture the intended meaning of data sources by mapping them to the concepts and relationships defined by a domain ontology. Such models are the key ingredients to automate many tasks such as source discovery, data integration, and publishing semantic content on the Web. Manually modeling the semantics of data sources requires significant effort and expertise, and although desirable, building these models automatically is a challenging problem. Most of the effort to automatically build semantic models is focused on labeling the data fields (source attributes) with ontology classes and/or properties, e.g., annotating the first column of a table with the class Person and the second one with the class Movie. However, a precise semantic model needs to explicitly represent the relationships between the attributes in addition to their semantic types, e.g., stating that the person is the director of the movie. Automatically constructing such precise models is a difficult task. In this talk, I present a novel approach that exploits the knowledge from a domain ontology, the semantic models of previously modeled sources, and the vast amount of data available in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud to automatically learn a rich semantic model for a new source. This model represents the semantics of the new source in terms of the concepts and relationships defined by the domain ontology. The approach takes into account user corrections to learn more accurate semantic models on future data sources. Our evaluation shows that our method generates expressive semantic models for data sources and services with minimal user input.
Biography: Mohsen Taheriyan is a newly graduated PhD from the University of Southern California. He worked at Information Integration Group at ISI on learning the semantics of structured data sources. His research focus is applying Semantic Web technologies and AI techniques to understand the meaning of data. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Tehran and his M.S. in Software Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=500df65b10044d08837b95ecc188eecf1dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 1135 - 11th fl Large CR
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=500df65b10044d08837b95ecc188eecf1d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alma Nava / Information Sciences Institute
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IEEE Ice Cream Social
Fri, Oct 23, 2015 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join IEEE as we have our first ever ice cream social this year in appreciation of our members and IEEE organization. This is a time where you can come out to learn about IEEE and socialize with other members. And don't forget, FREE ice cream from Häagen-Dazs!
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - EEB Courtyard
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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W.V.T. Rusch Honors Engineering Program Colloquium
Fri, Oct 23, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
University Calendar
Join is for a conversation with Michele Judd, Managing Director for the Keck Institute for Space Studies at California Institute of Technology titled "Life Lessons from a Space Geek."
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
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Department of Biomedical Engineering Systems Cellular-Molecular Bioengineering Distinguished Speaker Series
Fri, Oct 23, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Trey Ideker, PhD, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Bioengineering University of California, San Diego
Talk Title: The Cancer Cell Map Initiative
Series: Department of Biomedical Engineering Systems Cellular-Molecular Bioengineering Distinguished Speaker Series
Abstract: **Lunch and refreshments will be available at 12:30 pm**
Host: Professor Stacey Finley, PhD
More Information: Ideker_flyer + bio_October 23 Seminar.pdf
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Munushian Seminar, "Harnessing Disorder for Photonics" - Hui Cao
Fri, Oct 23, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Hui Cao, Department of Applied Physics, Yale University
Talk Title: Harnessing Disorder for Photonics
Abstract: For device applications disorder and scattering have long been considered annoying and detrimental features that were best avoided or minimized. In this talk, I will show that disorder and complexity can be harnessed for photonics application, in particular, to provide unique functionalities of photonic devices. We recently developed an on-chip random spectrometer that combines high resolution with small footprint. In addition, we incorporated disorder to a laser to reduce the spatial coherence for free-speckle full-field imaging.
Biography: Hui Cao is a Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. She received her B.S. degree (1990) in Physics from Peking University, and her Ph.D. degree (1997) in Applied Physics from Stanford University. Her doctoral research was in the area of semiconductor microcavity quantum electrodynamics. Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 2008, Professor Cao was on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University. Her technical interests and activities are in the areas of complex photonic materials and devices, nanophotonics, and biophotonics. She has co-authors one book and ten book-chapters, and has published more than 200 research papers in the area of random lasers, optical microcavities, photonic crystals, and structural coloration. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award, Packard Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship, Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award and Guggenheim Fellowship. She is also a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the Optical Society of America, and a member of Connecticut Academy of Science & Engineering.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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NL Seminar: Fine Grained Temporal Patterns of Online Content Consumption
Fri, Oct 23, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Farshad Kooti, USC/ISI
Talk Title: Fine Grained Temporal Patterns of Online Content Consumption
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Online activity is characterized by diurnal and weekly patterns, reflecting human circadian rhythms, sleep cycles, and social patterns of work and leisure. Using data from online social networking site Facebook, we uncover temporal patterns that take place at far shorter time scales. Specifically, we demonstrate fine-grained, within-session behavioral changes, where a session is defined as a period of time a user engages with Facebook before choosing to take a break. We show that over the course of a session, users spend less time consuming some types of content, such as textual posts, and preferentially consume more photos and videos. Moreover, users who spend more time engaging with Facebook have different patterns of session activity than the less-engaged users, a distinction that is already visible at the start of the session. We study activity patterns with respect to users demographic characteristics, such as age and gender, and show that age has a strong impact on within-session behavioral changes. Finally, we show that the temporal patterns we uncover help us more accurately predict the length of sessions on Facebook.
Biography: I am a third-year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Southern California USC, Information Sciences Institute ISI working under the supervision of Kristina Lerman. My main research interest is the study of large and complex datasets, especially data from online social networks, which includes the measurement and analysis of users' behavior in OSNs. I'm currently a Data Science intern at Facebook in Menlo Park. Before joining USC, I got my master's from Max Planck Institute for Software Systems MPI SWS, Germany. I worked with Krishna Gummadi as my advisor and also with Meeyoung Cha KAIST and Winter Mason Facebook during my master's. Before MPI, I got my bachelor's in Computer Engineering Software from University of Tehran, Iran.
Host: Nima Pourdamghani and Kevin Knight
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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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Oct 23, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Thang Le and Qin Ba, Astani CEE Ph.D. Students
Talk Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
