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Events for October 26, 2010
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Six Sigma Black BeltTue, Oct 26, 2010 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Abstract: Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIEâs Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
Host: USC VSoE Professional Programs
More Info: http://mapp.usc.edu/professionalprograms/ShortCourses/SixSigmaBlackBelt.htmAudiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
Event Link: http://mapp.usc.edu/professionalprograms/ShortCourses/SixSigmaBlackBelt.htm
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Los Angeles Valley College Transfer Fair
Tue, Oct 26, 2010 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Viterbi Transfer Admission Counselor, Becky Beiter from the USC Viterbi Office of Admission, will be attending the Los Angeles Valley College Transfer Fair. Please stop by the USC Viterbi table to learn how you can get started on your engineering courses at your current institution and more about the admission process.
Location: LA Valley Campus
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfer Applicants
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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"Enemy Number One": A Tour and Performance at the Villa Aurora
Tue, Oct 26, 2010 @ 12:00 PM - 05:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
*This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited and advance registration is required. RSVP at the event page http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873329 beginning Thursday, September 30, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 11:15 a.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 12 p.m. and return to campus at 5 p.m. Lunch will be provided at check-in.
The USC Libraries are home to the papers and library of historical novelist Lion Feuchtwanger, who escaped his native Germany after Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933. Because he was an outspoken critic of the Nazi Party, the Nazis ordered his books burned and declared him âEnemy Number One.â The libraries recently published a new edition of Feuchtwangerâs The Devil in France, a memoir of his internment and escape from Nazi-occupied France. He wrote movingly about the political situation in Europe and his experiences as an exiled writer. He later escaped to Los Angeles, where Theodor Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, Thomas Mann and other German émigré artists and intellectuals gathered during World War II. Feuchtwangerâs story illuminates the struggles faced by artists who speak truth to power and endure exile from their native countries.
In conjunction with this new publication, USC students will have the opportunity to take an intimate look at Lion Feuchtwangerâs life in exile by visiting Villa Aurora, his former home in Pacific Palisades where he hosted figures like Charlie Chaplin, Thomas Mann and Billy Wilder. After a welcoming reception and tour, students will enjoy a staged reading of letters exchanged between Lion and his wife, Marta Feuchtwanger, from the 1930s and â40s. Acclaimed actor, producer and director Norman Lloyd and actress Nina Franoszek will play the parts of Lion and Marta.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Eta Kappa Nu Professor Pumpkin Costume Contest
Tue, Oct 26, 2010 @ 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
It's here again! The moment that you have been waiting an entire year for has once again arrived! I think you know what I'm talking about. This is the day when you make YOUR PROFESSOR wear a PUMPKIN COSTUME to class all day!
Members of Eta Kappa Nu (the EE and CECS Honor Society) will be stationed in the E-Quad today for the LAST DAY OF FUNDRAISING. We will have jars labeled with professors' names, in which you will be able to make donations according to who you would like to see in the pumpkin costume. The professor with the most money donated in his name at the end of today will be the "winner", and will have the honor of wearing the costume to his classes on Thursday, the 28th.
This year, the competitors are:
Professor Redekopp (defending champion)
Professor Nazarian
Professor Hashemi
Professor Burke
Professor Bickers
All proceeds benefit MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement), an organization dedicated to increasing the interest and enrollment in Engineering classes among K-12 age students. You can learn more about USC MESA at http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/ced/precollege/mesa/
Hope to see everybody there!
Location: E-QUAD
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Eta Kappa Nu
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U.S. Airforce
Tue, Oct 26, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Game Theory & Human Behavior (GTHB) Seminar Series (http://gthb.usc.edu/)
Tue, Oct 26, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Matthew O Jackson, Eberle Professor of Economics/Stanford University
Talk Title: Network Patterns of Favor Exchange
Abstract: RSPV: Please email Helen Pitts by early Monday morning so she has a headcount for lunch.
We examine the exchange of favors when any two individuals in a society interact too infrequently to sustain exchange, but where the threat of losing multiple relationships can sustain exchange. We show that networks of favor exchange that are robust, in that deleted relationships only result in a local loss of favor exchange, are such that all links are "supported": Each pair of individuals exchanging favors have a common friend with whom they also exchange favors. We then examine a unique data set consisting of detailed social networks in 77 different rural villages in southern India to test the game theoretic predictions. We find levels of `support' that are consistent with the theory and significantly higher than a standard `clustering' measure.
We also find significantly higher support in favor networks than purely social networks.
Biography: Matthew O. Jackson is the Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford (1988) and a B.A. from Princeton (1984), and served on the faculties of Northwestern University and Caltech before joining Stanford in 2006.
Jackson's research includes studies of social and economic networks, including game-theoretic studies of network formation, studies of the role of social networks in labor markets, social learning and diffusion, homophily, social mobility, friendship formation, and favor exchange, .
He has also made contributions to game theory, mechanism design and implementation theory, the study of war and conflict, and political economy.
Jackson is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has received the Social Choice and Welfare Prize and Arrow Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and from the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences. He is co-editor of Games and Economic Behavior and has served on the boards of Econometrica and the Journal of Economic Theory, and serves on the councils of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, the Econometric Society, and the Game Theory Society.
Home page: http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm
Location: Elvon & Mabel Musick Law Building (center) (LAW) - Room 103
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Cover Letter Writing
Tue, Oct 26, 2010 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Philadelphia Admission Reception
Tue, Oct 26, 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: Philadelphia Marriott West<br> 111 Crawford Avenue<br> West Conshohocken, PA 19428
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and their families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
