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Events for October 25, 2016
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Graduate Seminar
Tue, Oct 25, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Austin J. Minnich, California Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Heat under the microscope: Uncovering the microscopic processes that govern thermal transport
Series: Graduate Seminar
Host: Professor Jayakanth Ravichandran
Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Martin Olekszyk
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USC Stem Cell Seminar: Jan Nolta, University of California, Davis
Tue, Oct 25, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jan Nolta, University of California, Davis
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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EE-EP Seminar
Tue, Oct 25, 2016 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prasad Gogineni, University of Kansas
Talk Title: Ultrawideband (UWB) Radars for Remote Sensing of Snow, Soil Moisture and Ice
Abstract: Ultra-wideband (UWB) radars operating over the frequency range from about 100 MHz to 94 GHz and integrated into small Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) can support scientific and operational research on snow, soil moisture, and ice. Two major impacts of climate change are related to fresh water resources and sea level rise. We need more information on snow water equivalent (SWE) and soil moisture to manage water resources in the future. Soil moisture is a key variable in scientific research and operational applications, including the forecasting of floods and agriculture. Also, soil moisture controls evaporation of land surfaces and is an input variable in predictions of summer rainfall over the continents. UWB radars operating over the frequency range of 150-600 MHz and UWB microwave radars operating over the frequency range of 2-18 GHz integrated into small and medium-scale UASs can provide valuable information on soil moisture and SWE. Also, we need accurate information on the bed topography, basal conditions, and snow accumulation of large ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica to generate accurate estimates of sea level increase over the century. UWB radars can also provide much-needed data for improving ice sheet models used to generate sea level rise projections.
In this talk, I will discuss the need for remote sensing of snow, soil moisture, and ice, as well as present preliminary results from UWB measurements on these targets. I will also discuss advances required to develop medium and small UAS integrated with UWB radars to support scientific and operational applications.
Biography: Dr. Gogineni is the Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas with more than two decades of research and teaching experience in radar remote sensing of the Earth, including polar ice sheets. He has successfully led several multi-disciplinary research projects funded by NASA and NSF. Dr. Gogineni served as the Director of the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory at the University of Kansas before serving as Manager of NASA's Polar Research Programs during 1997-1999. He is currently the Director of the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, where he continues to manage a center that connects science and engineering in polar research. Dr. Gogineni and his colleagues at CReSIS have successfully demonstrated SAR imaging of the ice-bed interface and generated fine-resolution 3-D topography of an ice-bed covered in over 3 km of ice. The Center has also succeeded in sounding and imaging the ice bed of three important glaciers in Greenland.
He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, in 1984. He has authored or co-authored over 125 archival journal publications and more than 240 technical reports and conference presentations. His research interests include the application of radars to the remote sensing of the polar ice sheets, sea ice, ocean, atmosphere, and land. He developed several radar systems currently being used at the University of Kansas for sounding and imaging of polar ice sheets, and has also participated in field experiments in the Arctic and Antarctica.
Host: Mahta Moghaddam - AWARE
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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CS PhD Colloquium: Om Prasad Patri (USC) - Shape Mining for Multisensor Event Recognition
Tue, Oct 25, 2016 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Om Prasad Patri, USC
Talk Title: Shape Mining for Multisensor Event Recognition
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Computer Science Research Colloquium.
CS PhD Colloquium Lecture Event.
The ubiquitous rise of sensors in our daily lives, as well in industrial and engineering equipment, have led to emerging challenges in pattern analysis of large amounts of multisensor data to identify critical events automatically. This talk presents our recent work on framing this event recognition problem in the context of time series classification by automatically finding discriminative shapes or patterns (called shapelets) within sensor data. These unconventional shape mining approaches show potential for real-world sensor datasets, such as equipment monitoring data from an oil field or a manufacturing plant, as they don't make assumptions about the nature and structure of the input sensor data and provide visual intuition in the form of the extracted shapes for further analysis by domain experts, instead of being a black-box machine learning approach.
These approaches also perform fast classification as they focus on throwing away most of the data after finding the discriminative shapelets. By combining shape extraction and feature selection, this temporal pattern mining paradigm can be extended for processing data from multiple sensors. This talk describes algorithmic strategies for performing this combination, and presents results and motivational examples from modern industrial systems where our approaches are applicable. An interesting application of the proposed approach using shape mining for identifying malware from Windows portable executable files is also discussed.
Biography: Om P. Patri is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at USC, advised by Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna. His interests are broadly in the areas of data science, AI, cybersecurity and event-based systems, and his dissertation research is on modeling and recognition of events from multisensor time series data. At USC, he has been a part of the Center for Smart Interactive Oil Field Technologies (CiSoft) and the USC Data Science Lab. During his graduate studies at USC, he has worked with NEC Labs America and Cylance Inc. Before coming to USC, he obtained a Bachelors in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
Host: CS Department
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Epstein Institute Seminar
Tue, Oct 25, 2016 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Jack Zhou, Drexel University
Talk Title: 4D Printing with Photoactive Shape-Changing Polymer
Host: Dr. Yong Chen
More Information: October 25, 2016_Zhou.pdf
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Michele ISE
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ADP Information Session
Tue, Oct 25, 2016 @ 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
ADP Information Session to discuss our full time and internship opportunities and the type of experience we have to offer USC students
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
