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Events for October 30, 2012
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CSCI 102 Supplemental Instruction SessionTue, Oct 30, 2012 @ 07:00 AM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Supplemental Instruction session for students enrolled in CSCI 102.
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) - 140
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Academic Resource Center
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The Price is Right with NSBE
Tue, Oct 30, 2012 @ 10:00 AM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
NSBE is providing free transportation for students to attend a taping of the game show the Price is Right on Tuesday, October 30. There are only a few spots left, so sign up today!
Please sign up on this Google Doc to formally reserve a spot!
https://docs.google.com/a/usc.edu/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHgwZjFTcEQzWUNVSWpXV2tsN2pxR2c6MQ
If you need more information, just visit the event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/441967715840046/
Location: Hollywood, CA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: NSBE National Society of Black Engineers
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USC Graduate Engineering Information Session at Cooper Union
Tue, Oct 30, 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:
Cooper Union
41 Cooper
Manhattan, NYAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate & Professional Programs
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Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Tue, Oct 30, 2012 @ 01:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Simon Cherry, University of California, Davis
Abstract: Highly sophisticated hybrid imaging systems that integrate positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging systems (MRI) have recently emerged with astonishing speed, building on many years of technical development and catalyzed by advances in photodetector technology as well as the success of hybrid imaging with PET/CT. This presentation will trace some of the early developments in PET/MRI instrumentation, as well show results from a selection of state-of-the-art systems and their initial preclinical applications. Approaches to PET/MRI based on photomultiplier tubes, avalanche photodiodes and silicon photomultipliers will be contrasted, and trade-offs in using each technology discussed. The recent emergence of clinical PET/MRI scanners, challenges with respect to quantification, and their potential applications will be reviewed. The remaining limitations of current generation clinical and preclinical PET/MRI systems will be identified and a view on the future needs and possible trends for instrumentation in PET/MRI presented.
Biography: Simon R. Cherry, Ph.D. received his B.Sc.(Hons) in Physics with Astronomy from University College London in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the Institute of Cancer Research, University of London in 1989. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Edward Hoffman at UCLA, he joined the faculty in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA in 1993. From 1998-2001 he was Associate Director of the UCLA Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging. In 2001, Dr. Cherry joined UC Davis as a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging. Dr. Cherry was Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis from 2007-2009.
Dr. Cherryâs research interests center around in vivo molecular imaging systems. A focus of his research is the development of very high-resolution positron emission tomography (PET) systems for preclinical imaging, in particular the development of the microPET scanner that was subsequently widely adopted in academia and industry. Additional interests include Cerenkov luminescence imaging and multi-modality imaging, especially the integration of PET MRI. Dr. Cherry is a founding member of the Society of Molecular Imaging and a fellow of the IEEE, BMES and AIMBE. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology and serves on the Editorial Board of Molecular Imaging and Biology. In 2006, Dr. Cherry was invited to give the Henry Wagner Distinguished Lectureship at the Society of Nuclear Medicine annual meeting and in 2007, Dr. Cherry received the Academy of Molecular Imaging Distinguished Basic Scientist Award. In 2011 Dr. Cherry received the Imaging Achievement Award from the Society for Molecular Imaging. Dr. Cherry is the author of more than 170 peer-reviewed journal articles or book chapters in the field of biomedical imaging. He is also co-author of the textbook âPhysics in Nuclear Medicineâ.
Host: Prof. Krishna Nayak
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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Building Lexical Cognitive Networks for Web Corpora with Application to Semantic Similarity Computation and Affective Text Analysis
Tue, Oct 30, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Alexandros Potamianos, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Talk Title: Building Lexical Cognitive Networks for Web Corpora with Application to Semantic Similarity Computation and Affective Text Analysis
Abstract: We investigate language-agnostic algorithms for the construction of unsupervised distributional semantic models using web-harvested corpora. A corpus is created from web document snippets and the relevant semantic similarity statistics are encoded in a semantic network. We propose the notion of semantic neighborhoods that are defined using co-occurrence or context similarity features. Three neighborhood-based similarity metrics are proposed, motivated by the hypotheses of attributional and maximum sense similarity. The lexical networks and semantic distances are motivated by cognitive considerations (associative networks and lexical priming). The proposed metrics are evaluated against human similarity ratings achieving state-of-the-art results. The proposed semantic similarity metrics are applied to affective modeling of text. Continuous valence ratings are estimated for unseen words using the underlying assumption that semantic similarity implies affective similarity. Starting from a set of manually annotated words, a linear affective model is trained using the least mean squares algorithm followed by feature selection. We then propose linear and non-linear fusion schemes for investigating how lexical valence scores can be combined to produce sentence-level scores, as well as, extend the lexical similarity model to groups of words (compounds). Evaluation on affective text tasks (e.g., polarity recognition) show significant performance improvement compared to the state of the art.
Biography: Alexandros Potamianos received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1990. He received the M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA in 1991 and 1995, respectively. He received the M.B.A. degree from Stern School of Business, NYU in 2002.From 1991 to June 1993 he was a research assistant at the Robotics Lab, Harvard University. From 1993 to 1995 he was a research assistant at the Digital Signal Processing Lab at Georgia Tech. From 1995 to 1999 he was a Senior Technical Staff Member at the Speech and Image Processing Lab, AT&T Shannon Labs, Florham Park, NJ. From 1999 to 2002 he was a Technical Staff Member and Technical Supervisor at the Multimedia Communications Lab at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ. From 1999 to 2001 he was an adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Columbia University, New York, NY. In the spring of 2003, he joined the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece as an associate professor. His current research interests include speech processing, analysis, synthesis and recognition, dialog and multi-modal systems, nonlinear signal processing, natural language understanding, artificial intelligence and multimodal child-computer interaction. Prof. Potamianos has authored or co-authored over ninety papers in professional journals and conferences. He is the co-author of the paper "Creating conversational interfaces for children" that received a 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He is the co-editor of the book "Multimodal Processing and Interaction: Audio, Video, Text", Springer, 2008.
Host: Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 320
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mary Francis
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USC Graduate Engineering Information Session at Gonzaga University
Tue, Oct 30, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 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:
Gonzaga University
Location to be determined
Spokane, WAAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate & Professional Programs
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Epstein Institute Seminar Series / ISE 651 Seminar
Tue, Oct 30, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: David L. Bourell, Ph.D., P.E., FASM, FTMS , Temple Foundation Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Talk Title: "Additive Manufacturing: Past, Present and Future"
Series: Epstein Institute Seminar Series
Abstract: The collection of manufacturing technologies now known as additive manufacturing (AM) exploded on the scene in the last half of the 1980s. From a near-term perspective, this phenomenon was driven by the synergism of the advent and maturization of laser technology and desktop computing. From a long-term perspective, the field is built on layerwise manufacturing technologies that date back over 150 years. These historical technologies fall into two groups: topography and photosculpture. This presentation begins with an overview of the history of AM including precedents in topography and photosculpture. An analysis of the present landscape of AM on an international level will be given, including recent activities such as the 2009 AM Roadmap and the 2012 AM Pilot Institute of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. Some prospects for the future of AM will also be explored.
Biography: Dr. David L. Bourell is the Temple Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is currently Director of the Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication. Dr. Bourell's areas of research include particulate processing with emphasis on sintering kinetics and densification, and materials issues associated with Laser Sintering (LS). He holds 9 primary patents dealing with materials innovations in LS dating back to 1990 and has published over 200 papers in journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. Dr. Bourell is a Fellow of ASM International and TMS, and he is also a lifetime member of TMS. In 2009, he received the TMS Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award. He has received two major conference career awards in additive manufacturing: the SFF Symposium FAME Award and the Portuguese VRAP Career Educator Award. Professor Bourell is a leading expert in advanced materials for Laser Sintering, having worked in this area since 1988. Dave was the lead author on the original materials patent for LS technology. Issuing in 1990, this patent has been cited by 150 other patents, and it represents the original intellectual property for mixed and coated powders for LS, including binders.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: Seminar-Bourell.doc
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - Room 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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USC Graduate Engineering Information Session at University of Virginia
Tue, Oct 30, 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:
University of Virginia
009 Olssen
Charlottesville, VAAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Graduate & Professional Programs
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IIE Pressent: InSidEr
Tue, Oct 30, 2012 @ 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come to IIE's upper/lower classmen mixer to get the inside scoop on which classes to take! Meet other ISEs while putting together an awesome schedule with the best professors!
Lowerclassmen, do you want help making the optimal schedule with the best professors?
Upperclassmen, do you want to be the person that you wish you had a couple years ago when YOU had to make your schedule? This is the chance!
Plus...Wait for it.....FREE FOOD!
Awesome people, helpful information, and food...what more could you possibly want.Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - 158
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC Institute of Industrial Engineers
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Pro Softnet Corp Information Session
Tue, Oct 30, 2012 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Pro Softnet Corp is looking to hire full time and intern engineers! Come to the information session to:
-Get to know Drive and its products
-Know life at Drive
-Learn about the Interview Process
-Interact with USC alumni working at Drive
-Win free IDrive portables -320GB and goodiesLocation: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: BS, MS
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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CSCI 101 Supplemental Instruction Session
Tue, Oct 30, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Supplemental Instruction session for students enrolled in CSCI 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
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La Estanzuela (LE) Project Meeting
Tue, Oct 30, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come join EWB's La Estanzuela (LE) Project Meetings! In LE, we are currently in the midst of constructing a water wheel pump delivery system to provide drinkable water to many of the families in the community.Â
Question/Comments? Feel free to email EWB@usc.edu!
*Note: Location is listed as "KAP Lobby" 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 (EWB)
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ASBME Corporate Meet and Mingle with Medtronic (Tim Nayar)
Tue, Oct 30, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Interested in industry? The Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering is looking forward to an informative info session with Tim Nayar, a Mechanical Engineering Intern in New Product Production at Medtronic Diabetes. An alum of USC, Mr. Nayar is excited to talk to us about internship and career opportunities available at Medtronic. Food will be provided and we look forward to seeing you there!
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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La Estanzuela (LE) Project Meeting
Tue, Oct 30, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come join EWB's La Estanzuela (LE) Project Meetings! In LE, we are currently in the midst of constructing a water wheel pump delivery system to provide drinkable water to many of the families in the community.Â
Question/Comments? Feel free to email EWB@usc.edu!
*Note: Location is listed as "KAP Lobby" 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 (EWB)
