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USC SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater Screening
Mon, Oct 02, 2006 @ 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
USC Siggraph Kick Off: Dinner and Outdoor Screening of SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre 2005 Come get some free food, meet your fellow members, and watch some cool animations. All are welcome!More info on USC SIGGRAPH at http://imagine-it.org/uscsiggraph/
Location: Fine Arts Lawn
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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SWE 3rd General Meeting - Self-Defense Workshop
Tue, Oct 03, 2006 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Want to learn some basic self-defense techniques? Come to our third general SWE meeting on Tuesday, October 3rd at 6 PM in SOS B46, where a self-defense instructor will demonstrate the correct ways to protect yourself. Food will be provided.
Location: Social Sciences Building (SOS) - B46
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers
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C.W. Driver Information Session
Tue, Oct 03, 2006 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Society of Petroleum Engineers: 1st General Meeting
Tue, Oct 03, 2006 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Ãâ Society of Petroleum Engineers is holding their first General Meeting. Come have pizza and find out about the energy industry and the connections available through SPE. We will be going over our events for the rest of the year!
Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Petroleum Engineers
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EGSA Welcome Party & General Meeting
Tue, Oct 03, 2006 @ 06:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Student Activity
Come out for some fun and games!
Meet fellow graduate engineers.
Food from India, China, Italy, & Iran!Who: All Graduate Engineers & DependantsWhen: Oct. 3, 2006, 6:30-9:30pm
Where: Ground ZeroFree Food
Music & GamesSponsored by Engineering Graduate School Associationwww-scf.usc.edu/~egsa
Location: Ground Zero
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Linda Mizushima
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Walk-In Wednesdays: Career Services Advising
Wed, Oct 04, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, or general engineering career advice.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Current Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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AGC: 2nd General Meeting & Recruitment Event
Wed, Oct 04, 2006 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
AGC and ASCE will be combining their meetings with a recruitment visit from Standard Pacific Homes. AGC and ASCE will go over upcoming events for about 20 minutes, and then Standard Pacific Homes will be giving a presentation and handing out prizes. The last hour is reserved for students to meet the presenters and sign up for interviews.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: AGC
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Walk-In Advising -- Career Fair Preparation!
Thu, Oct 05, 2006 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, or general engineering career advice.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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USC CS Colloquium Series
Thu, Oct 05, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
Prof. Tanya Berger-WolfUI, ChicagoTitle:A Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks Abstract:
Finding patterns of social interaction within a population has wide-ranging applications including: disease modeling, cultural and information transmission, phylogeography, conservation, and behavioral ecology. Social interactions are often modeled with networks. A key characteristics of social interactions is their continual change. However, most past analyses of social networks are essentially static in that all information about the time that social interactions take place is discarded. I will present a new mathematical and computational framework that enables analysis of dynamic social networks and that explicitly makes use of information about when social interactions occur. I will discuss several algorithms for obtaining information about the structure of dynamic social networks in this framework and pose many open questions.The research is joint work with J. Saia (UNM), D.I.Rubenstein, S. Sundaresan, and I. Fischoff (Princeton) Bio:
Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research is in applications of algorithmic and data mining techniques to population biology, both human (epidemiology) and animal, from genetics to social interactions. Dr. Berger-Wolf has received her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel) in 1995 and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. She has spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico working in computational phylogenetics and a year at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) doing research in computational epidemiology. Hosted by Prof. David Kempe
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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Walk-In Advising - Career Fair Preparation!
Fri, Oct 06, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, or general engineering career advice.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Undergraduate and Graduate Engineers
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Walk-In Advising - Career Fair Preparation!
Mon, Oct 09, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, or general engineering career advice.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Undergraduate and Graduate Engineers
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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USC CS Colloquium Series
Tue, Oct 10, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
Prof. Victor Zordan
UC, RiversideTitle: Animating Characters Using Motion Capture and Simulation Abstract:Automatically creating humanlike animation for characters is difficult, especially in applications such as video games and online environments where the characters must move realistically, respond to unpredicted events, and remain controllable at a high level by the users of such virtual worlds. In this talk, I describe several techniques for generating realistic character motion using examples recorded from humans and physically based models, focusing primarily on controllable, responsive characters that combine dynamic simulation and recorded data. My research relies on human examples to dictate movement style and on simulation to create physically plausible motion including interactions with the environment and other simulated characters. Emphasis will be placed on generating believable unpredicted responses within a motion capture dependent animation system as well as on using both motion capture and simulation alone as mechanisms for generating high fidelity movement for humans. The talk will close with a brief discussion about the role of physics in generating games and online motion that is beyond the scope of applications seen today. Bio:Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Riverside, Dr. Victor Zordan received his Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002. Professor Zordan's research interests fall in several areas of computer animation including human motion, physically based modeling, interactive virtual environments, behavior control, and interface design. He has published numerous papers on the control of human and humanlike characters as well as on several other topics including anatomical modeling, procedural approaches, and video-based animation. http://graphics.cs.ucr.edu/projects/mocsim/mocsim.htmlHosted by: Prof. Karen Liu
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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AICHE: Chevron Industry Night
Tue, Oct 10, 2006 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Guest speaker from Chevron about working in the petroleum industry.Food will be provided.
Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: VSC American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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AIChE: Chevron Industry Night
Tue, Oct 10, 2006 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Guest speaker from Chevron about working in the petroleum industry.Food will be provided.
Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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NSBE: General Body Meeting
Tue, Oct 10, 2006 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Intel will be sponsering our meeting tonight! Bring your resumes and hear about the great opportunites at Intel and NSBE!
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: National Society of Black Engineers
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Walk-In Wednesdays: Career Services Advising
Wed, Oct 11, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, or general engineering career advice.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Current Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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ISPE: Project Management
Wed, Oct 11, 2006 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Brad Lozan from A. D. Brown Corporation, General Engineering Contractors will be coming to present on Project Management. A.D Brown does project management, construction, installation of equipment in the pharmaceutical and food industries, and also support the validation after installation. They also routinely do projects in distillation, lyophilization, sterilization, and others. He will be answering any questions that you may have about project management and work opportunities.He will be accepting resumes since they are looking for at least one intern, and if interns are a good fit will lead to permanent positions. He also frequently gets requests from the pharmaceutical companies themselves looking for candidates and would be able to connect them with a client.We will be providing free sandwiches for dinner. Please come by for this wonderful opportunity to network!
Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - 216
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: ISPE
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CS Colloquium Series
Thu, Oct 12, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
Prof. Trevor DarrellMIT CSAILTitle:Visual Recognition and Tracking for Perceptive InterfacesAbstract: Devices should be perceptive, and respond directly to their human user and/or environment. In this talk I'll present new computer vision algorithms for fast recognition, indexing, and tracking that make this possible, enabling multimodal interfaces which respond to users'
conversational gesture and body language, robots which recognize common object categories, and mobile devices which can search using visual cues of specific objects of interest. As time permits, I'll describe recent advances in real-time human pose tracking for multimodal interfaces, including new methods which exploit fast computation of approximate likelihood with a pose-sensitive image
embedding. I'll also present our linear-time approximate correspondence kernel, the Pyramid Match, and its use for image indexing and object recognition, and discovery of object categories. Throughout the talk, I'll show interface examples including grounded multimodal conversation as well as mobile image-based information retrieval applications based on these techniques.Hosted by: Gerard MedioniLocation: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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SHPE-USC Football Tailgate
Sat, Oct 14, 2006 @ 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come out and join SHPE and ASCE as we co-host a tailgate for the USC-Arizona St. game. We will be tailgating right in front of Doheny Library on the corner closest to Trousdale Parkway and VKC. Join us for FREE food and drinks. We will be serving Carne Asada.Please come early to ensure you get food.
Location: In front of Doheney Library and Trousdale Parkway
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
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ASCE: Tailgate BBQ before ASU Footbal Game
Sat, Oct 14, 2006 @ 12:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join ASCE for a free tailgate BBQ before the Arizona State football game.
Location: Estelle Doheny Eye Foundation (DOH) - eny Library (side facing Bovard)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Viterbi Student Council: 3rd General Meeting
Mon, Oct 16, 2006 @ 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 224
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: VSC
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Walk-In Wednesdays: Career Services Advising
Wed, Oct 18, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, or general engineering career advice.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Current Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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JavaScript, XML, & AJAX Workshop
Wed, Oct 18, 2006 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
We'll be covering basics of Javascript and XML, as they pertain to AJAX, a common technique used for creating fast-response & dynamic web2.0 apps.Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and the DOM. You can check our website for notes from the previous workshop on those topics.First come, first served. (We will not be taking RSVPs)Upsilon Pi Epsilon
USC Computer Science Honors Society
http://pollux.usc.edu/~upe/Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 127
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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Walk-In Wednesdays: Career Services Advising
Wed, Oct 25, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, or general engineering career advice.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Current Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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SWE: Knotts Scary Farm
Fri, Oct 27, 2006 @ 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
It's that time of year. Halloween is right around the corner, and what could be a better way to celebrate than with your SWE sisters? Get in the Halloween spirit at a place that's as scary as it is fun as Knott's Scary Farm! Members of both SWE National and the USC Chapter pay the discounted price of $20, and available drivers get free parking! Please make your deposit by our third general meeting on Tuesday, October 3rd. Space is limited, so be sure to sign up soon! This event will take place the Friday before Halloween Friday, October 27th. We will leave USC at 8:00 PM.
Location: TBD
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers
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AIChE Pumpkin Carving Party
Mon, Oct 30, 2006 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join the CHE department for our annual Pumpkin Carving Event! Come carve your favorite CHE professor into his/her orange likeness and eat delicious pie and candy!
Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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EGSA Halloween Party & General Meeting
Mon, Oct 30, 2006 @ 08:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Have you felt the Halloween Scare before?
Do you like being scared?
We will make it scarier than you can imagine.
Join us for the scary night as we approach the D-Day...
We will have DJ to rock the floor and scare.Lots of PRIZES to be won, including a domestic AIRLINE TICKET, book store gift certificates, and movie tickets.Every one with a costume leaves with something.
Chinese food and Halloween candy will be served.RSVP required by 3pm Oct 26, 2006: egsa@usc.eduLocation: Ground Zero
Audiences: Graduate & their eligible dependents
Contact: EGSA
