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Events for October 25, 2012
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Taipei Admission Reception
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
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. Matthew O'Pray, Associate Dean of Admission, will be there on behalf of the Viterbi School of Engineering along with other representatives from the University.
To RSVP online please go to https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/resrsvp/Location: Grand Hyatt Taipei
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen Students and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Thu, Oct 25, 2012 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Larry Aft, USC Viterbi School of Engineering,
Talk Title: Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Abstract: 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 Six Sigma green belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
During this course you will have the opportunity to apply what you have learned to an actual issue you face in your organization. Prior seminar participants have reported significant savings from implementing their projects.
*A financial services organization saw $128,000 in cost savings per quarter when they reduced transaction processing rework
*A state agency reduced project cost over-runs by 28 percent
*A transportation company saved more than $875,000 per year in turnover costs by improving the employee communications process
*Reduced errors in a painting operation led to increased first pass acceptance and more than $197,000 in annual savings
*A Web developer increased annual profits by 10 percent by cutting cycle time
*A wave solder operation saw defects reduced by half and costs reduced by $60,000 per year
Host: Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: http://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/industrial%26systems/six-sigma-green-belt-process-improvement
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Employer Insight on Job Search Best Practices- Presented by Cisco
Thu, Oct 25, 2012 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Learn tips from Cisco representatives that will help you get your dream job.
More Information: Cisco Job Search Best Practices Workshop.pdf
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Shale gas, carbon storage, and earthquake triggering
Thu, Oct 25, 2012 @ 12:45 PM - 02:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mark Zoback, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
Series: Lyman L. Handy Colloquium Series
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Angeline Fugelso
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Online Optimization under Uncertainty: Intelligence in the smart grid and a connection to Model Predictive Control
Thu, Oct 25, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Murali Narayanaswamy, IBM Research, India
Talk Title: Online Optimization under Uncertainty: Intelligence in the smart grid and a connection to Model Predictive Control
Abstract: Incorporating large quantities of intermittent renewable power into the grid highlights the need for intelligent scheduling of generation, loads and storage. Recent advances in solar and wind power prediction offer hope that a reduction in the uncertainty of renewable availability will lead to an increase in its value. However, incorporating these predictions effectively turns out to be a non-trivial problem.
In this talk we show how to model these (and many other) problems as a Markov Decision Process with short term predictions of (or lookahead into) future rewards. In each time step more information is revealed to the algorithm as predictions are updated, leading to what we call dynamic uncertainty. We first show that the natural Model Predictive Control (MPC) based algorithm for this class of problems can perform arbitrarily badly because of _temporal_ uncertainty. We then describe online algorithms, both randomized and deterministic, to handle time varying uncertainty in future reward structures and values. We establish that, in the deterministic case, discounting future rewards is a method to effectively de-randomize against possible futures, thus providing a theoretical justification for discounting in MPC. Time permitting we will also talk about recent work on multi-agent models for power systems and highlight important problems that require increased intelligence in the smart grid.
This talk will be accessible to a wide audience since we will give examples and intuition in lieu of detailed proofs. It may be of particular interest to those interested in AI, control theory, machine learning and smarter energy systems.
Biography: Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy received his PhD from the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Carnegie Mellon University in 2011, after which he joined the IBM Research Lab in Bangalore, India. His research interests lie at the intersection of AI, optimization, learning and inference particularly using them to understand, model and combat noise and uncertainty in real world applications.
His current research centers on the application of novel, theoretically well motivated optimization algorithms to resource allocation problems that arise in next generation smarter energy management systems. His thesis research at Carnegie Mellon was in the application of information and coding theory, detection, probability theory and inference algorithms to a variety of sensing systems such as sensor networks, mobile robots, biological screening and drug discovery. During his graduate studies he also worked on problems ranging from target tracking, iris recognition, speaker recognition, multi-source separation to codes for next generation memory systems.
A system partly based on some of his work scored near the top of the DARPA iris grand challenge. He is a proud recipient of the National Talent Search (NTSE) and the Jawaharlal Nehru (JNCASR) scholarships from the government of India during my undergraduate studies. He is currently on the TPC of the Energy in Communication, Information and Cyber-Physical Systems (E6) workshop at COMSNETS 2013.
Host: Professor Raghu Raghavendra
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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CS Theory Lecture Series: Computing Divisor Class Groups of Function Fields Using Stark Units with Applications to Cryptography
Thu, Oct 25, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Anand Narayanan, USC
Talk Title: Computing Divisor Class Groups of Function Fields Using Stark Units with Applications to Cryptography
Series: USC CS Theory
Abstract: Divisor class groups are structures central to the study of the arithmetic of global fields. We present a brief introduction to these groups and motivate their study in a computational setting by describing their extensive use in cryptography (elliptic and hyperelliptic curve based crypto-systems), error correction (algebraic geometric codes) and in solving certain Diophantine equations (Pell's Equation).
We then describe a new characterization of the structure of divisor class groups through the machinery of Kolyvagin systems from Stark units. This characterization leads to many interesting computational results; two of which we will discuss. The first is an efficient (nearly optimal) algorithm to compute the divisor class number of ray class fields. The second is a reduction relating the discrete logarithm problem in certain families of real elliptic/hyperelliptic curves to the principal ideal problem.
Host: Shang-Hua Teng
Location: SSL 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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The New York Times Feminist Reading Group With Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden
Thu, Oct 25, 2012 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free.
Refreshments will be provided.
Since this project was first performed at Dispatch Bureau in New York in 2009, The New York Times Feminist Reading Group has met periodically to discuss current events and feminist issues raised by that dayâs issue of the New York Times. Participants are welcome regardless of whether they have read, skimmed or even just glanced at that dayâs paper. The discussion begins informally with news items or questions raised by participants, and ranges widely from investigations of specific articles or images, to editorial choices and ad placements, to the larger questions of the business of newspapers and contemporary media in general. The New York Times Feminist Reading Group is organized and facilitated by writer Jen Kennedy and artist Liz Linden, who have been collaborating on projects that investigate contemporary usages of the word feminism since 2008. Their projects include town-hall meetings, feminist book swaps, video and sound works and pilot press, their DIY feminist publishing house.
About the Artists:
Jen Kennedy is a Montreal-based writer. Her work has been published in a number of journals, including C Magazine, Image [&] Narrative, FUSE and the Journal of Critical Studies in Business & Society. Kennedy attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009, and is currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellow at Binghamton University. She received her BA and MA in visual arts from the University of Western Ontario.
Liz Linden also attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009. She received her BA from Yale University and studied photography at the Ãcole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France. Linden has been awarded several grants and international residencies, including a DaNY grant from the Danish Arts Council and residencies at Capacete in Rio de Janeiro, Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne and unitednationsplaza in Berlin. (Official website)
Kennedy and Linden have been collaborating since 2009 on a multidisciplinary project that explores the semantics of contemporary feminism. They have received grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs/Brooklyn Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation. Their work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum and the Brooklyn Museumâs Sackler Center for Feminist Art, as well as at numerous other venues.
Organized by the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Forum Room, 4th Floor
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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TBP Caucus
Thu, Oct 25, 2012 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
come and join for the TBP caucus and have fun and meet the current Tau beta pi members
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - 152
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tau Beta Pi
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Acquity Group
Thu, Oct 25, 2012 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 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: BS
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Viterbi Spotlight - Computer Science & Computer Engineering
Thu, Oct 25, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Still not quite sure of which Viterbi major is right for you? Considering Computer Science/Computer Engineering as a possible option? Want to learn about the challenges, rewards and the future of this field of engineering? Then, come to the Computer Science and Computer Engineering Spotlight Program! Hear from our panel of alumni and industry representatives as they talk about their experiences and learn first-hand what it's like working in the field. Then practice your networking skills by mingling with our panelists. Dinner will be provided!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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EE 101 Supplemental Instruction SessionThu, Oct 25, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Supplemental Instruction session for students enrolled in EE 101.
SI offers an informal atmosphere where you and your classmates can explore important concepts, review class notes, discuss assignments, work on practice problems, and go over relevant study skills.
SI is a great study option and we encourage all students to make SI part of their study habits! Come for 30 minutes or the whole 2 hours.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 144
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Academic Resource Center
