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Events for November 03, 2015
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Canstruction
Tue, Nov 03, 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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USC Viterbi STEM Spotlight on the Department of Computer Science
Tue, Nov 03, 2015 @ 08:30 AM - 02:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering K-12 STEM Center
University Calendar
The USC Viterbi STEM Spotlight on the Department of Computer Science is organized by VAST: Viterbi Adopt-a-Student, Adopt-a-Teacher. During this day of lab tours, K-12 students from around Southern California will experience cutting-edge research in the field of computer science.
Location: Epstein Family Engineering Plaza VHE Breezeway
Audiences: K-12 Schools pre-registered
Contact: Katie Mills
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AI Seminar
Tue, Nov 03, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ryan James, UC Davis
Talk Title: The Unpredictable, the Predetermined, and the Postdetermined Unfold Together
Abstract: Recently, decomposition of the Shannon entropy rate has been proposed which provided a more nuanced understanding of entropy generation in a variety of systems. One component of this decomposition, the ephemeral information, is the part of the entropy rate which is independent of the future behavior of the system. The other component, the bound information, is that which plays a role in the dynamics going forward. Having derived this decomposition, I will then use it to characterize the effects of generating partition choice on chaotic systems, namely the tent map. Though all generating partitions result in a bijection between map orbits and symbolic sequences, the information-theoretic properties of such symbolic sequences can be very different as exemplified by the ephemeral and bound informations.
Biography: I did my doctoral work with Jim Crutchfield at UC Davis physics department. I then did a postdoc with Liz Bradley at CU Boulder, and am now doing my second postdoc back at Davis with Jim Crutchfield.
Host: Aram Galstyan
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=58a51e0ee7b1471db839213945ab11b41dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th floor large conference room
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=58a51e0ee7b1471db839213945ab11b41d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kary LAU
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USC Stem Cell Seminar: Sally Temple, Neural Stem Cell Institute
Tue, Nov 03, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sally Temple, Scientific Director/Neural Stem Cell Institute, Regenerative Research Foundation
Talk Title: Neural stem cells, their role in development and therapeutic potential
Series: Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC Distinguished Speakers Series
Abstract: The central nervous system is the most complex of tissues, with neural stem and progenitor cells producing numerous types of neurons and glia that connect in intricate circuits. While most neural stem cells are extinguished after development, a few are retained in the adult forebrain where they continually make new neurons, and the decline in neural stem cells with aging and in Alzheimer's disease contributes to memory impairments. Human neural stem cells are being harnessed to replace cells lost to disease or damage, and their environmental regulators offer new therapeutic avenues to stimulate endogenous repair processes.
Host: Wange Lu
More Info: http://stemcell.usc.edu/events/details/?event_id=916778
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
Event Link: http://stemcell.usc.edu/events/details/?event_id=916778
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Epstein Institute Seminar - ISE 651
Tue, Nov 03, 2015 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Bianca Maria Colosimo, Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Politecnico di Milano
Talk Title: Statistical Quality Monitoring of Advanced Manufacturing Processes: Open Challenges and Possible Solutions
Host: Qiang Huang
More Information: November 3, 2015_Bianca Maria Colosimo.pdf
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Shelly Lewis
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CS Colloquium: Geoffrey Zweig (Microsoft Research) - High Performance Image Captioning
Tue, Nov 03, 2015 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Geoffrey Zweig, Microsoft Research
Talk Title: High Performance Image Captioning
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Computer Science Research Colloquium
The problem of generating text conditioned on some sort of side information arises in many areas including dialog systems, machine translation, speech recognition, and image captioning. In this talk, we present a highly effective method for generating text conditioned on a set of words that should be mentioned. We apply this to the problem of image captioning by linking the generation module to a convolutional neural network that predicts a set of words that are descriptive of an image. The system placed first in the 2015 MSCoco competition on the Turing Test measure, and tied for first place overall.
This event will be available to stream HERE.
Biography: Geoffrey Zweig is a Principal Researcher, and Manager of the Speech and Dialog Group at Microsoft Research. His work centers on developing improved algorithms for speech and language processing. Recent work has focused on applications of side-conditioned recurrent neural network language models, such as image captioning and grapheme to phoneme conversion. Prior to Microsoft, Dr. Zweig managed the Advanced Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Group at IBM Research, with a focus on the DARPA EARS and GALE programs. In the course of his career, Dr. Zweig has written several speech recognition trainers and decoders, as well as toolkits for doing speech recognition with segmental conditional random fields, and for maximum entropy language modeling. Dr. Zweig received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of over 80 papers, numerous patents, is an Associate Editor of Computers Speech and Language, and is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Host: Yan Liu
Webcast: https://bluejeans.com/996018929Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
WebCast Link: https://bluejeans.com/996018929
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
