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Events for November 14, 2012
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USC Graduate Engineering Information Session
Wed, Nov 14, 2012 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Join us for an online information session to learn about the exciting graduate opportunities available.
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Graduate & Professional Programs
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Improving Features and Models for Automatic Emotion Prediction in Acted Speech
Wed, Nov 14, 2012 @ 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: Improving Features and Models for Automatic Emotion Prediction in Acted Speech
Abstract: In this talk I will present our recent work on emotion prediction in acted speech, as well as validation on spontaneous speech.
We introduce a class of spectral features computed over three phoneme type classes of interestâstressed vowels, unstressed vowels and consonants in the utterance. Classification accuracies are consistently higher for our features compared to prosodic or utterance-level spectral features. Combination of our phoneme class features with prosodic features leads to even further improvement. Further analyses reveal that spectral features computed from consonant regions of the utterance contain more information about emotion than either stressed or unstressed vowel features. We also explore how emotion recognition accuracy depends on utterance length. We show that, while there is no significant dependence for utterance-level prosodic features, accuracy of emotion recognition using class-level spectral features increases with the utterance length.
We also introduce a novel emotion recognition approach which integrates ranking models. The approach is speaker independent, yet it is designed to exploit information from utterances from the same speaker in the test set before making predictions. It achieves much higher precision in identifying emotional utterances than a conventional SVM classifier. Furthermore we test several possibilities for combining conventional classification and predictions based on ranking. All combinations improve overall prediction accuracy.
This is joint work with Houwei Cao, Dmitri Bitouk and Ragini Verma
Biography: Ani Nenkova is an Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her main areas of research are automatic summarization, discourse, and text quality. She obtained her PhD degree in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2006. She also spent a year and a half as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University before joining Penn in Fall 2007.
Host: Chi-Chun Lee, Angeliki Metallinou, Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 320
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mary Francis
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NIKE Internship Program Information Session
Wed, Nov 14, 2012 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Visit Nike Recruiting Representatives on Wednesday, November 14th to find out about internship opportunities with the company.
The information session will take place at 1:00PM at the Student Union Building 110- Trojan Presentation Room
To RSVP please visit: http://bitly.com/Sco64TMore Information: USC - Internship Program (2).pdf
Location: Gwynn Wilson Student Union (STU) - 110
Audiences: BS
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Laufer Lecture Series
Wed, Nov 14, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Patrick Huerre, Professor of Mechanical Polytechnic, Director of Research at the National Centre for Scientific Research, and Head of the Laboratory of Hydrodynamics (LadHyX), UMR CNRS-School Polytechnic
Talk Title: AMPLIFIERS AND OSCILLATORS: A HYDRODYNAMIC STABILITY PERSPECTIVE
Series: Laufer Lecture Series
Abstract: Complex flows of interest in aeronautical applications may often be considered as involving a combination of simpler prototypical free shear flows such as mixing layers, wakes, jets, etc. which prevail in different spatial subdomains. Such archetypical shear flows are in a turbulent state but they are known to exhibit large-scale vortical structures which dominate the dynamics up to very large Reynolds numbers. Experimental observations indicate that some flows are extrinsic amplifiers of external noise while others are intrinsic oscillators which beat at a specific frequency. In this lecture, such structures will be described as instablity waves living on a suitable mean flow. Hydrodynamic stability concepts such as convective/absolute instability, local/ global instability, will then be shown to account for the extrinsic or intrinsic spatio-temporal dynamics of coherent structures in several shear flows. The classical locally parallel asymptotic analyses and the more recently developed fully non-parallel numerical approaches will be critically assessed.
Biography: Professor Patrick Huerre received his Ingénieurâs degree from Ecole Centrale Paris in 1970 and his PhD in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1976. After postdoctoral work at the University of Leeds with the late Professor David Crighton, he joined the faculty of the department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1978. In 1989 he was appointed Professor of Mechanics at Ecole Polytechnique. Since 1991, he has also been Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Patrick Huerre was the founder and director of the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX) at Ecole Polytechnique in the period 1990-2008. Patrick Huerre is President of the European Mechanics Society. He was Associate-Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (1999-2009). He has served on several committees and panels in Europe and in the United States.
Patrick Huerre is a member of the Académie des Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is Chevalier de la Légion dâHonneur. His research areas of interest cover a wide variety of hydrodynamic instabilities and transition phenomena in shear flows. His main research achievements include the effective use of absolute/convective instability concepts to rigorously distinguish between amplifiers and oscillators in fluid mechanics, the introduction of the notions of linear and nonlinear global mode and associated frequency selection criteria to account for the dynamics of oscillators and the identification of super-directivity as a key mechanism for the production of sound in shear flows.
Host: Dr. Geoff Spedding
More Info: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/11-14-12-huerre.shtml
Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Room 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
Event Link: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/11-14-12-huerre.shtml
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Steven J. Ross- Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics The Provost's Writers Series
Wed, Nov 14, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Thursday, October 18, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here.
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://bit.ly/VVRoss
Book signing and reception to follow.
The University Club at King Stoops Hall will offer a prix-fixe dinner prior to this event. For information and to make reservations, click here: http://bit.ly/VVRoss
Steven J. Ross is a professor of history at USC and co-director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. He is the author of several books, including Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America (named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of 1998) and Movies and American Society. He will talk about his most recent book, Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, which received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciencesâ Film Scholars Award (the academic equivalent of an Oscar) and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. USC Provost Elizabeth Garrett will introduce the evening, followed by a conversation with Ross moderated by Marty Kaplan, the Norman Lear Chair in Entertainment, Media and Society and Director of the Norman Lear Center.
In Hollywood Left and Right, Ross tells a story about the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics. Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth century, it has had an outsize influence on American politics. Through a discussion of compelling larger-than-life figures in American cinema, like Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Edward G. Robinson, George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hollywood Left and Right reveals how the film industryâs engagement in politics has been longer, deeper and more varied than most people would imagine.
âHollywood Left and Right is nonfiction at its best: entertaining and engaging, probing and provocative, detailed and comprehensive in coverage, multifaceted and far-ranging in its treatment, objective and balanced, appropriately paced in covering a complex, big story.ââStephen Roulac, New York Journal of Books.
The Provostâs Writers Series highlights the extraordinary talents of USC authors. The series provides opportunities for students and the community to engage with USC authors, learn about the incredible diversity of their work and celebrate the written word.
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Location: Faculty Center-university Club (FAC) - University Club
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Industrial & Systems Engineering Spotlight
Wed, Nov 14, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Still not quite sure of which Viterbi major is right for you? Considering Industrial & Systems Engineering as a possible option? Want to learn about the challenges, rewards, and the future of this field of engineering? Then, come to the Industrial & Systems Engineering Spotlight Program! Hear from our panel of alumni and industry representatives as they talk about their experiences and learn first-hand what it's like working in the field. Then practice your networking skills by mingling with our panelists. Dinner will be provided!
RSVP online today: https://uscviterbi.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_aV1pYICIazC6RZrLocation: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Academic Resource Center
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ASBME BMEStart Break Off Meeting
Wed, Nov 14, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Come out to BMEstart's break off update meeting. We will be presenting the ideas that each team has been working on so far this semester, as well as providing feedback on what would be the best idea to continue with for the semester. So if you have ever been interested about BMEstart, or just want to see my neat biomedical innovation, please stop by!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 227
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
