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Events for November 01, 2010
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Nov 01, 2010 @ 01:00 AM - 01:00 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://usconnect.usc.edu/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Threat and Error Management Development (TEM)
Mon, Nov 01, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
Threat and Error Management Development is being implemented by operators throughout the world. This course is designed to train those who wish to develop a TEM program within their own organizations. Taught by a leader in TEM development, this course provides an applied, practical approach to explaining TEM principles.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Mon, Nov 01, 2010 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a Six Sigma green belt, you will be equipped to support and champion Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).During this course you will have the opportunity to apply what you have learned to an actual issue you face in your organization. Prior seminar participants have reported significant savings from implementing their projects.
Location: USC Campus or Online
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Nov 01, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Natasha Leporé, Department of Radiology, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Talk Title: Methods for group analyses of brain magnetic resonance data
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering, USC
More Info: http://bme.usc.edu/assets/007/71621.pdfLocation: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: BME graduate students, Faculty, contact department if interested (213-740-7237)
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
Event Link: http://bme.usc.edu/assets/007/71621.pdf
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Active Sequential Hypothesis Testing
Mon, Nov 01, 2010 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Tara Javidi, University of California, San Diego
Talk Title: Active Sequential Hypothesis Testing
Abstract: Active sequential hypothesis testing problem arises in a broad
spectrum of applications in cognition, communications, design of
experiments, and sensor management. In all of these applications, a decision
maker is responsible to take actions dynamically so as to enhance
information about an underlying phenomena of interest in a speedy manner
while accounting for the cost of communication, sensing, or data collection.
In particular, due to the sequential nature of the problem, the decision
maker relies on his current information state to constantly (re-)evaluate
the trade-off between the precision and the cost of various actions.
In this work, we first discuss active sequential hypothesis testing as a
partially observable Markov decision problem. In particular, we provide a
brief survey of the design of experiment literature and the dynamic
programming interpretation of information utility introduced by De Groot.
Using Blackwell ordering, we, then, connect this stochastic control
theoretic notion of information utility to the concept of stochastic
degradation and uncertainty reduction in information theory.
Finally, we discuss the dynamics and expected drift of log-likelihood,
entropy, and probability of error as well as their connection to
Kullback-Leibler divergence and mutual information in order to approximate
the optimal value function (i.e. the solutions to the DP). We then utilize
these value function approximations (lower bounds) to provide simple
sequential test strategies (heuristic) whose performance is numerically
compared to the optimal policies. In addition, we recover the asymptotic
optimality of a class of test strategies which includes Burnashev's coding
scheme in the context of variable-length block coding over memoryless
channels with feedback.
This is joint work with Ofer Shayevitz and Mohammad Naghshvar.
Biography: Tara Javidi studied electrical engineering at Sharif University
of Technology, Tehran, Iran from 1992 to 1996. She received the MS degrees
in electrical engineering (systems), and in applied mathematics
(stochastics) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1998 and 1999,
respectively. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer
science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2002.
From 2002 to 2004, she was an assistant professor at the Electrical
Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle. She joined
University of California, San Diego, in 2005, where she is currently an
associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.
Tara Javidi was a Barbour Scholar during 1999-2000 academic year and
received an NSF CAREER Award in 2004. Her research interests are in
communication networks, stochastic resource allocation, stochastic control
theory, and wireless communications.
Host: Prof. Urbashi Mitra, ubli@usc.edu, x0-4667
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Zynga Information Session
Mon, Nov 01, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Vancouver Admission Reception
Mon, Nov 01, 2010 @ 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. A representative from our Admission and Student Affairs staff, will be there on behalf of the Viterbi School of Engineering along with other representatives from the University.RSVP online at http://www.usc.edu/admevents
Location: St. George's School<br>4175 West 29th Avenue<br> Vancouver, BC, Canada V6S 1V6
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and their families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Tau Beta Pi Caucus
Mon, Nov 01, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Eligible new Tau Beta Pi members(you are eligible if you have received an email from us), come to our caucus for the chance to be elected to become an official Tau Bate. Bring your resume, a check for initiation fees, and a food item for 10 people.
Current members, come join us at caucus to meet the new members and help decide who will be elected to join. This is a two point event!Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tau Beta Pi
