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Events for October 29, 2015
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Canstruction
Thu, Oct 29, 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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MFD - Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Distinguished Lecture: Ali Javey
Thu, Oct 29, 2015 @ 12:45 PM - 02:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ali Javey, Univ. of California, Berkley
Talk Title: 2D Semiconductor Electronics: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities
Series: MFD Distinguished Lecture
Abstract: Two-dimensional (2-D) semiconductors exhibit excellent device characteristics, as well as novel optical, electrical, and optoelectronic characteristics. In this talk, I will present our recent advancements in defect passivation, contact engineering, surface charge transfer doping, and heterostructure devices of layered chalcogenides. We have developed a defect repair/passivation technique that allows for observation of near-unity quantum yield in monolayer MoS2. The work presents the first demonstration of an optoelectronically perfect monolayer. Forming Ohmic contacts for both electrons and holes is necessary in order to exploit the performance limits of enabled devices while shedding light on the intrinsic properties of a material system. In this regard, we have developed different strategies, including the use of surface charge transfer doping at the contacts to thin down the Schottky barriers, thereby, enabling efficient injection of electrons or holes. We have been able to show high performance n- and p-FETs with various 2D materials. Additionally, I will discuss the use of layered chalcogenides for various heterostructure device applications, exploiting charge transfer at the van der Waals heterointerfaces. I will also present progress towards achieving tunnel transistors using layered semiconductors.
Host: Prof. Jongseung Yoon
More Information: DLS JaveyAb.pdf
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jason Ordonez
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CS Colloquium: Nina Balcan (CMU) - Learning Submodular Functions
Thu, Oct 29, 2015 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Nina Balcan , Carnegie Mellon University
Talk Title: Learning Submodular Functions
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Computer Science Research Colloquium
Submodular functions are discrete functions that model laws of diminishing returns and enjoy numerous applications in many areas, including algorithmic game theory, machine learning, and social networks. For example, submodular functions are commonly used to model valuation functions for bidders in auctions, and the influence of various subsets of agents in social networks. Traditionally it is assumed that these functions are known to the decision maker; however, for large scale systems, it is often the case they must be learned from observations.
In this talk, I will discuss a recent line of work on studying the learnability of submodular functions. I will describe general upper and lower bounds on the learnability of such functions that yield novel structural results about them of interest to many areas. I will also discuss even better guarantees that can be achieved for important classes that exhibit additional structure. These classes include probabilistic coverage functions that can be used to model the influence function in classic models of information diffusion in networks and functions with bounded complexity used in modeling bidder valuation functions in auctions.
I will also discuss an application of our algorithms for learning the influence functions in social networks, that outperforms existing approaches empirically in both synthetic and real world data.
This event will be available to stream HERE.
Biography: Maria-Florina Balcan is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Her main research interests are machine learning, computational aspects in economics and game theory, and algorithms. Her honors include the CMU SCS Distinguished Dissertation Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Microsoft Faculty Research Fellowship, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and several paper awards. She was a Program Committee Co-chair for COLT 2014, and is currently a board member of the International Machine Learning Society and a Program Committee Co-chair for ICML 2016.
Host: Yan Liu
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Intel Information Session
Thu, Oct 29, 2015 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Intel Tapeout Technology Development team intends to conduct an on-campus recruitment at USC. There will be information session which will discuss about the job opportunities and silicon process technologies we work on, followed by on campus interview the next day.
More Information: Intel Information Session.pdf
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
