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Events for October 18, 2016
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Engineering Ventures, Innovation and LaunchTue, Oct 18, 2016 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
University Calendar
Engineering Ventures, Innovation and Launch is an introductory course for scientists and engineers interested in learning the basics of developing and evaluating new investment and innovation opportunities.
The course will review lean startup concepts and methodologies, with a focus on customer discovery and value propositions. Participants will learn how to develop and validate business models to commercialize new technologies.
Additionally, the 3-day program will cover various financial, technological, and strategic assessment frameworks to evaluate and prioritize commercial opportunities. Evaluation frameworks will be discussed individually and integrated to provide a complete view of potential technology commercialization.
Engineering Ventures, Innovation and Launch is designed for scientific and engineering staff with 3 or more years of professional technical experience. Course participants do not need any advanced business experience or education.
For more information and to register, please visit https://gapp.usc.edu/professional-programs/short-courses/engineering-ventures-innovation-and-launch.Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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USC Stem Cell Seminar: Victor Corces, Emory University
Tue, Oct 18, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Victor Corces, Emory University
Talk Title: TBD
Series: Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC Distinguished Speakers Series
Host: USC Stem Cell
More Info: http://stemcell.usc.edu/events
Webcast: http://keckmedia.usc.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/StemCellSeminarWebCast Link: http://keckmedia.usc.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/StemCellSeminar
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
Event Link: http://stemcell.usc.edu/events
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ISE 651 Epstein Institute Seminar
Tue, Oct 18, 2016 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Plumlee, Assistant Professor - University of Michigan
Talk Title: Bayesian calibration of complex systems: methods, applications, and lingering issues
Abstract: -“ Bayesian calibration is used to combine collected
experimental or observational data with existing
understanding. The popularity of this method is tied to several
features: it can incorporate unknown parameters, it can function
when the model is imperfect, and it offers both future prediction
and uncertainty quantification. This seminar will discuss the
general methods and some applications of Bayesian calibration
while challenging the current state-of-the-art science on the
topic. Chiefly, this talk will discuss a modeling framework that is
widely adopted but leaves the posterior of the parameter often
sub-optimally broad. There has been no generally accepted
alternatives to date. This presentation will illustrate how using
Bayesian calibration where the prior distribution on the bias
(potential model incorrectness) is orthogonal to the gradient of the
computer model. Problems associated with Bayesian calibration
are shown to be mitigated through analytic results in addition to example.
Biography: Matthew Plumlee received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the
Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the department Industrial and
Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research interests include statistical learning with
special emphasis on model calibration and uncertainty quantification. He received the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi
Best Dissertation Award and the Quality, Reliability and Statisitistic Best Student Paper Award from INFORMS.
His work has appeared in the Journal of the American Statistical Association and Technometrics.
Host: Dr. Jong-Shi Pang & Dr. Qiang Huang
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Angela Reneau
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Interviewing Strategies and Techniques
Tue, Oct 18, 2016 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Discover tips on how to prepare for both technical and behavioral interviews, as well as the proper steps for follow-up!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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CS Colloquium: Keshav Pingali (UT Austin) - Parallel Programming Needs Data-centric Foundations
Tue, Oct 18, 2016 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Keshav Pingali , UT Austin
Talk Title: Parallel Programming Needs Data-centric Foundations
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Computer Science Research Colloquium.
Multicore and manycore processors are now ubiquitous, but
parallel programming remains as difficult as it was 30-40 years ago. During this time, our community has explored many promising approaches including functional and dataflow languages, logic programming, and automatic parallelization using program analysis and restructuring, but none of these approaches has succeeded except in a few niche application areas.
In this talk, I will argue that these problems arise largely from the computation-centric foundations and abstractions that we currently use to think about parallelism. In their place, I will propose a novel data-centric foundation for parallel programming called the operator formulation in which algorithms are described in terms of actions on data. The operator formulation shows that a generalized form of data-parallelism called amorphous data-parallelism is ubiquitous even in complex, irregular applications such as mesh generation/refinement/partitioning and SAT solvers. Regular algorithms emerge as a special case of irregular ones,
and many application-specific optimization techniques can be generalized to a broader context. The operator formulation also leads to a structural analysis of algorithms called TAO-analysis that provides implementation guidelines for exploiting parallelism efficiently. Finally, I will describe a system called Galois based on these ideas for exploiting amorphous data-parallelism on multicores and GPUs.
Biography: Keshav Pingali is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, and he holds the W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Computing in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at UT Austin. He was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University from 1986 to 2006, where he held the India Chair of Computer Science.
Pingali is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM and the AAAS. He was the co-Editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, and currently serves on the editorial boards of the ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing, International Journal of Parallel Programming and Distributed Computing. He has also served on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee.
Host: Chao Wang
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Phillips 66 Information Session
Tue, Oct 18, 2016 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join Phillips 66 as they provide an overview company presentation and summer internship opportunities.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
