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Events for November 02, 2015
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, and Engineering Talk
Mon, Nov 02, 2015
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. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering 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 make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Canstruction
Mon, Nov 02, 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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Brain Inspired Technologies - opportunity for cross-boundary translation between engineering and neuroscience - Dr. Yurii Vlasov
Mon, Nov 02, 2015 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Yurii Vlasov, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Talk Title: Brain Inspired Technologies -“ opportunity for cross-boundary translation between engineering and neuroscience
Abstract: For over a decade I led the IBM Silicon Nanophotonics project from its early scientific exploration stage to real-world technology qualified in microelectronics foundry. More recently, with a successful transition of the technology to business, I initiated a new exploratory project that is aimed at developing an alternative approaches to computing that mimic information processing in the mammalian brain. I will discuss neuroscience experiments I conducted being on a year leave at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus, as well as current developments on neuromorphic computing ideas in my department at the IBM Research. The overarching theme is to explore how engineering can contribute to the advancement in the brain science and to development of novel computing architectures.
Biography: Dr. Yurii Vlasov is a Principal Member of Research Staff and a Manager of the Department of Brain-Inspired Technologies at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center. He has been recognized as the founder and long-term leader of the IBM Silicon Nanophotonics project. He led the project from its early fundamental research stage in 2001-2007 to advanced technology development in 2008-2010. In 2011-2013 Dr. Vlasov led the company-wide effort on transitioning the IBM Silicon Nanophotonics technology to commercial manufacturing aimed at cost-optimized low-power optical transceivers for mega-datacenters and supercomputers.
With successful transition of Silicon Nanophotonics technology to IBM product division, Dr. Vlasov initiated a new exploratory project that is aimed at developing an alternative approaches to computing that mimic information processing in the mammalian brain. Dr. Vlasov spent the year of 2013-2014 on an extended assignment at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, VA investigating the basic science of hierarchical sensory information processing in the neocortex in a rodent in-vivo model. In September 2014 he returned back to IBM Research with a mandate to provide a vision and leadership to this new program. In support of this program Dr. Vlasov has been appointed as a Senior Fellow of HHMI Janelia Research Campus and is running his lab there.
Dr.Vlasov is a Fellow of the OSA, the APS, and the IEEE. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers, filed over 100 patents, and delivered over 100 invited, plenary and tutorial talks. He was awarded the IBM Corporate Award, "Best of IBM" Award, as well as was named "Scientist of the Year" by the Scientific American journal.
Prior to IBM, Dr. Vlasov developed semiconductor nanophotonics at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton and at the Strasbourg IPCMS Institute in France. For over a decade, he was also a Research Scientist with the Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology in St. Petersburg, Russia working on optics of nanostructured semiconductors. He received his MS from the University of St.Petersburg (1988) and PhD from the Ioffe Institute (1994), both in physics. Being an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's Department of Electrical Engineering Dr. Vlasov taught courses on microelectronics and photonics.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Online Information Session - Graduate Programs in Computer Science
Mon, Nov 02, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Discover Viterbi: Computer Science with Professor Gaurav Sukhatme
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering is a top ranked graduate engineering program by U.S. News and World Report.
Join us for an online information session to learn about graduate programs in Computer Science. Professor Gaurav Sukhatme will be joining the session to highlight important information about the program.
Register NowAudiences: RSVP Only
Contact: Viterbi Graduate & Professional Programs
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Nov 02, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Stephanie Seidlits, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Talk Title: Probing Cell-Matrix Interactions in the CNS using Engineered Microenvironments
Series: Seminars in Engineering, Neuroscience & Health (ENH)
Abstract: Many pathological conditions in the central nervous system (CNS) are accompanied by dramatic changes to the biochemical and physical landscape of the extracellular matrix (ECM). However, ECM involvement in CNS function and dysfunction remains largely uncharacterized. Limited understanding of how cell-ECM interactions coordinate tissue function and a lack of research tools to study these phenomena have hindered development of effective clinical treatments. To address this need, my laboratory is developing biomaterial platforms that mimic the native, hyaluronic acid (HA)-rich microenvironment in the CNS and can be engineered to present independently varied, user-defined features. Through systematic manipulation of different features embodied by the biomaterial, we aim to identify processes responsible for pathological alterations in cell-ECM interactions and work towards developing new clinical strategies targeting these interactions. I will describe the application of these biomaterial platforms to study two distinct microenvironments: those of CNS tumors and neural stem cell niches. Specifically, HA-rich, 3D culture environments can be used to study the role of ECM in the characteristic resistance to treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) -“ an extremely aggressive form of brain cancer. In addition, I will present how these culture environments may be tuned to drive lineage-specific differentiation of human neural stem cells.
Biography: Dr. Stephanie Seidlits joined the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA as an Assistant Professor in 2014. She obtained a B.S. (2004) in Bioengineering from Rice University and went on to receive both M.S. (2006) and Ph.D. (2010) degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University Texas at Austin. Dr. Seidlits then trained as an NIH NRSA post-doctoral fellow in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University under the mentorship of Dr. Lonnie Shea and Dr. Aileen Anderson. Dr. Seidlits' research seeks to develop multifaceted therapies for regeneration of the central nervous system that utilize biomaterial platforms to directly alter the pathological microenvironment.
Link to Professor Seidlits' CV: http://seidlitslab.seas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Seidlits_CV_Jan2015_webpage.pdf
Host: Stanley Yamashiro, PhD
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Free Headshots for Viterbi Students!
Mon, Nov 02, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
Do you need an updated headshot for your LinkedIn profile or personal website? You're in luck! The Viterbi Student Engagement and Career Connections Office will be hosting a free headshots event next week for all Viterbi students!
Please remember to bring your USC student ID card in order to check in. We recommend students dress business casual to professional as this photo will be seen by potential employers via your website and/or LinkedIn profiles!Location: Engineering Quad
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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CS Seminar: Michael J. Carey (UCI) - AsterixDB: A Counter but Intuitive Approach to Big Data Management
Mon, Nov 02, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael J. Carey, UC Irvine
Talk Title: AsterixDB: A Counter but Intuitive Approach to Big Data Management
Series: CS Seminar Series
Abstract: This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Computer Science Research Colloquium
We are living in the Big Data era, and we are witnessing a shift in the role of data management system: Rather than "just" being the systems of record at the heart of traditional enterprises, modern Big Data management systems must model, capture, track, and react to the current state of the world. Doing so requires the ingestion of event data, arriving from a variety of devices, as well as enabling query access to the history of captured data over time. These requirements span a variety of scientific disciplines, including the handling of data produced by a variety sensors in health care, environmental monitoring applications, traffic monitoring, dynamic social network data, and many other domains.
AsterixDB is an open source Big Data Management System (BDMS) with a feature set that's very different than those of other platforms in today's Big Data ecosystem. The system was initially co-developed by UC Irvine and UC Riverside, starting in 2009 and leading eventually to its first beta release in mid-2013. It has recently moved to Apache, where AsterixDB is now an active incubating project. Many of the system's key design decisions relate to the aforementioned shift. This talk will first briefly review AsterixDB's data model, query language, and scale-out architecture. It will then examine a number of counter-cultural aspects of the AsterixDB system, including where its data lives, its runtime architecture, its approach to streaming data, its view of transactions, and its features for handling time-based data.
Biography: Michael J. Carey is a Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine. Before joining UCI in 2008, Carey worked at BEA Systems for seven years and led the development of BEA's AquaLogic Data Services Platform product for virtual data integration. He also spent a dozen years teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, five years at the IBM Almaden Research Center working on object-relational databases, and a year and a half at e-commerce platform startup Propel Software during the infamous 2000-2001 Internet bubble. Carey is an ACM Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the ACM SIGMOD E.F. Codd Innovations Award. His current interests all center around data-intensive computing and scalable data management (a.k.a. Big Data). He was also an adjunct faculty member at USC for a few years during his BEA days, but that never earned him the USC season football tickets he'd been hoping for.
Host: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 202
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Microsoft Information Session
Mon, Nov 02, 2015 @ 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: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) -
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
