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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Nov 15, 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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Gas Turbine Engine Accident Investigation
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This 4.5 day course examines specific turbine engine investigation methods and provides technical information in the related area of material factors. This is a fundamental accident investigation course with the assumption that the attendees have basic understandings of jet engines.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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Human Error Analysis for System Safety (HEASS)
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
System safety analysis of engineered systems must often deal with the possibility of human error leading to adverse conditions. Hence human error probability evaluation is an important part of system safety. This course presents a summary of the methods and underlying theory for estimating human error probabilities.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you'll need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what you've learned. This course is presented in the classroom in three five-day sessions over a three-month period and in 10 weeks online.Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn IIE's Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate.This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.NOTE: Participants must bring a laptop computer running Microsoft Office® to the seminar.
Location: USC campus or Online
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Gas Turbine Engine Accident Investigation
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This 4.5 day course examines specific turbine engine investigation methods and provides technical information in the related area of material factors. This is a fundamental accident investigation course with the assumption that the attendees have basic understandings of jet engines.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Hossein Jadvar, Department of Radiology, USC Keck School of Medicine,
Talk Title: Promise of Molecular Imaging
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering, USC
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: BME graduate students, Faculty, contact department if interested (213-740-7237)
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Math Finance Colloquium
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 @ 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Olaf Menkens , University of Dublin, Ireland
Talk Title: "Optimising Proportional Reinsurance Using a Worst Case Scenario Approach"
Abstract: This presentation considers the problem of an insurance company to optimize its reserve process by proportional reinsurance. Usually, the reinsurance level will be determined by a ruin probability constraint or by minimizing the ruin probability (see e.g. Hipp and Vogt (2003), Schmidli (2001, 2002, and 2004), or Eisenberg and Schmidli (2008)). Instead of conditioning on the ruin probability, this presentation will maximize the controlled reserve process by a worst--case scenario approach.
The worst--case scenario approach has been introduced in the context of portfolio optimization by Korn and Wilmott (2002). This approach has been extended so far in various ways (e.g. considering different utility function (Korn and Menkens (2005)), optimizing investment portfolio of an insurance company (Korn (2005)), in a stochastic differential game context (Korn and Steffensen (2007)).
We start by making the so--called small claims assumption, that is the claims will be modeled as a Brownian motion with drift. Second, the claims will be modeled as the sum of a Brownian motion with drift and a Poisson process and third, claims will be modeled as a Poisson process. Results will be computed, analyzed, and compared with the results of minimizing the ruin probability.
This is work in progress and joint research with Ralf Korn (TU Kaiserslautern) and Mogens Steffensen (U of Copenhagen).
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - Room 414
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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CS Colloquium
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Katerina Argyraki, EPFL
Talk Title: Verifiable Network-Performance Measurements
Abstract: In the current Internet, there is no clean way to troubleshoot poor forwarding performance: when an Internet service provider (ISP) does not forward traffic as agreed/expected, its customers and peers resort to ad-hoc probing to localize and assess the problem. Research proposals advocate end-to-end measurements from different vantage points (e.g., PlanetLab nodes) as a way to forcefully extract information on an ISP's performance without any involvement from the ISP itself. I will argue that it is time to consider a different approach, where ISPs willingly contribute information on their performance, albeit in a way that forces them to tell the truth.
I will present Network Confessional, a system and protocol that enables ISPs to disclose accurate information on their forwarding performance. This information is verifiable -- ISPs cannot manipulate it to significantly exaggerate their performance -- and independently tunable -- each ISP is free to choose its own trade-off between the accuracy of its performance estimates and the resources it devotes to this purpose.
Network Confessional requires deploying modest functionality at participating domains' border routers; I will show that required resources are well within the capabilities of modern networks and can be implemented using today's hardware.
Biography: Katerina Argyraki is a network researcher at EPFL, Switzerland, where she works on programmable networks and techniques for network troubleshooting. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2007. Her graduate-student years were divided between Stanford's Distributed Systems Group, where she worked on defenses against denial-of-service attacks, and various startups -- Kealia (now part of Sun), BlueArc, and Arista Networks.
Host: Profs. Konstantinos Psounis and Ramesh Govindan
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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USC ISI- Are You Interested in A Career in Intelligence
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 @ 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Do you want to Learn more about a Career in Intelligence?
Attend USC ISIâs Co-op Opportunity event on Monday, November 15th to find out more.
RSVP Deadline is November 11th
Come in to Viterbi Career Services, RTH 218, to RSVP
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Viterbi EE, ME, ASTE, AE, CS, CECS, and ISE Majors
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Steps to a Successful Startup
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Eta Kappa Nu (The EE and CECS honor society) is hosting a speaking engagement featuring Jon Vincent, a previous Project Manager at Microsoft for 6 years and CEO of a one year old startup Kikini, a social matchmaking service for college students. The talk will cover the differences between corporate and startup lifestyles as well as the importance of startup companies in the tech industry. Jon will also discuss some of the basics on how to successfully launch and finance a startup company. This event is open to all majors and is not targeted at any one major or organization. So, if you are considering your own startup or are just curious as to the steps necessary for startup success, come and enjoy some free Chick-Fil-A at the same time.
Also, did we mention that there will be FREE CHICK FIL A ?!?Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Eta Kappa Nu
