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Shanghai Admission Reception
Mon, Oct 29, 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. Louise Yates, Sr. Associate Dean of Admission and Student Affairs, 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: JW Marriott Shanghai
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen Students and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Situated Spoken Language Interaction: Challenges and Opportunities
Mon, Oct 29, 2012 @ 10:29 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research
Talk Title: Situated Spoken Language Interaction: Challenges and Opportunities
Abstract: Previous research on spoken language interaction has mostly focused on dialog with single users in limited, predefined contexts. Efforts in this space have led to the development and wide-scale deployment of telephony-based and, more recently, multimodal mobile applications. At the same time, numerous and important challenges in the realm of physically situated, open-world interaction are still largely unaddressed.
In this talk, I will present an overview of the Situated Interaction project at Microsoft Research, which aims to address such challenges: the long term goal is to enable a new generation of interactive systems that reason more deeply about their surroundings and embed spoken interaction into the natural flow of everyday tasks, activities and collaborations.
I will outline a set of core competencies - engagement, turn taking, understanding and interaction planning - that are essential for supporting physically situated spoken language interactions. Developing computational models for supporting these processes in open, relatively unconstrained environments brings to the fore many challenges in representation, multimodal inference and decision making. I will illustrate and discuss some of these challenges by reviewing samples of research work we have conducted in these areas, addressing a diverse set of questions such as: how to represent and model engagement in multiparty open-world settings, how to learn to make inferences about speakers and addressees from raw streams of evidence, how to make fast-paced turn-taking decisions by taking into account uncertainty over the world and over the systemâs own computational delays. Throughout the talk, I will discuss and showcase several prototype systems that we have developed to date, and highlight several other on-going research efforts in physically situated spoken language interaction.
Biography: : Dan Bohus is a Researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research. The central question that drives his long term research agenda is: how do we develop systems that naturally embed interaction and computation deeply into the flow of everyday tasks, activities, and collaborations? Specifically, in the last few years Danâs work has focused on developing computational models for multiparty engagement, turn taking, interaction planning, and on addressing the challenges in inference and decision making that such models bring to the fore. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dan obtained his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where he investigated problems of dialog management and error handling in speech interfaces.
Host: Professor Shrikanth Narayanan
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 320
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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USC Graduate Engineering Information Session at University of Maryland
Mon, Oct 29, 2012 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
The University of Southern California offers a wide range of Master's and Doctoral programs in engineering in both broad and specialized disciplines.
The information session topics will include: a brief overview of USC and the Viterbi School, an overview of MS and PhD programs, the application process, admission criteria, and scholarships/funding.
In addition, you will learn about our Summer Undergraduate Research Program, an exciting opportunity to work with USC faculty this summer in Los Angeles!
Students with a background in engineering, math or a hard science are welcome to attend.
Event location:
University of Maryland
1105 Kim, PEPCO Room
College Park, MDAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate & Professional Programs
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Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 29, 2012 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Richard W. Roberts, Ph.D., The End of Antibodies? SUPR Peptides Engineered to Target Protein Surfaces
Talk Title: TBA
Abstract: Peptides have poor biostability and natural sequences cannot readily be converted into drug-like, stable molecules. This talk will describe our efforts to adapt mRNA display to evolve highly stabilized unnatural versions of natural peptide sequences. The results of these efforts are a new class of molecules we term SUPR peptides (Scanning Unnatural Protease Resistant) that have antibody like affinity for biomolecular targets and are highly stable to proteolysis. The potential utility of these new peptides will be demonstrated in both therapeutic and diagnostic applications relating to nanomedicine and cancer biology.
Biography: Richard W. Roberts, Ph.D
Professor of Chemistry, the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering/Materials Science, and Biology
University of Southern California
507 RTH Mail Code 2905
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2905
Host: BME
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Corral de Piedras (CDP) Project Meeting
Mon, Oct 29, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come join EWB's Corral de Piedras (CDP) Project Meetings! In CDP, we are building a rainwater catchment system on a schoolhouse for the kids to drink water during school, with plans on expanding the system further.Â
We went to Honduras over Spring Break and we want to update everyone on how the trip went and how we can continue moving forward!Â
Questions/Comments? Feel free to email us at EWB@usc.edu!
*Note: Location is listed as "KAP" and it just means to meet in the lobby and we'll find a room together! It's usually KAP 164 or the few rooms around it. See you there!Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - Lobby
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Engineers Without Borders
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Corral de Piedras (CDP) Project Meeting
Mon, Oct 29, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come join EWB's Corral de Piedras (CDP) Project Meetings! In CDP, we are building a rainwater catchment system on a schoolhouse for the kids to drink water during school, with plans on expanding the system further.Â
We went to Honduras over Spring Break and we want to update everyone on how the trip went and how we can continue moving forward!Â
Questions/Comments? Feel free to email us at EWB@usc.edu!
*Note: Location is listed as "KAP" and it just means to meet in the lobby and we'll find a room together! It's usually KAP 164 or the few rooms around it. See you there!Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - Lobby
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Engineers Without Borders
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USC Graduate Engineering Information Session at Johns Hopkins University
Mon, Oct 29, 2012 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
The University of Southern California offers a wide range of Master's and Doctoral programs in engineering in both broad and specialized disciplines.
The information session topics will include: a brief overview of USC and the Viterbi School, an overview of MS and PhD programs, the application process, admission criteria, and scholarships/funding.
In addition, you will learn about our Summer Undergraduate Research Program, an exciting opportunity to work with USC faculty this summer in Los Angeles!
Students with a background in engineering, math or a hard science are welcome to attend.
Event location:
John Hopkins University
Mattin 162
Baltimore, MDAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate & Professional Programs
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The Future of TV - Research and Development at the Samsung Digital Media Solutions Lab
Mon, Oct 29, 2012 @ 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
The Samsung Digital Media Solutions Lab will talk about the future of TV and the research and development efforts going on at their lab.
This session is mainly for Master's and PhD level students, but everyone is welcome to join.Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: All Viterbi Graduate and Post Graduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Minneapolis Admission Reception
Mon, Oct 29, 2012 @ 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. 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: Minneapolis Airport Marriott Bloomington
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen Students and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Las Vegas Admission Reception
Mon, Oct 29, 2012 @ 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. Paul Ledesma, Director of Undergraduate 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: JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort and Spa
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen Students and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
