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Events for November 16, 2010
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AIChE 3rd Socal Meeting
Tue, Nov 16, 2010 @ 04:15 AM - 10:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
"Process Optimization - Perceptions, Dreams, and Reality"
Process Optimization is a complex subject, one often misunderstood. Mr. Nick's talk will detail his experiences with "optimization" projects ranging from Corporate Operations Research planning models, to process revamp studies. Grass-root designs, and on-line operations. Similarities and differences in the methodology and approach to each type of project will be covered. Hopefully listeners will come away with a better perspective of what is possible in this area and maybe what is not.
Speaker's Bio
Pete Nick is a registered PE in the state of California. His 35 year career has spanned the range of process support work with EPCM companies (Fluor & WorleyParsons - 14+ yrs comb.), to corporate operations and local advanced control & optimization(Unocal 13 yrs), IS/IT/Software Dev (Simsci/IBM/Siemens 6+ yrs) Mr. Nick has a BS from University of Arizona and an ME from Cal Poly Pomona, both in Chemical Engineering. He has lived in California for 34 of his 35 years, or 29 of his 35 years if you count travel time. He is a founding member of and past president (1987) of the Orange county section.
Also:
Ben Lascelles, President CSULB AIChE, will give a 10-15 minute beer project presentation.
Cost: FREE for members!, $5 for other students WITH RSVP
We will meet to carpool at 4.15pm in front of RTH.
If you would like to RSVP to this event, please send an email to aiche.usc@gmail.com with your first and last name, student ID number, and indicate if you will be able to drive.
THE DEADLINE TO RSVP FOR THIS EVENT IS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, AT 5PMLocation: CSU Long Beach Campus
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Tue, Nov 16, 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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GTHB Seminar
Tue, Nov 16, 2010 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University
Talk Title: Intrinsic Robustness of the Price of Anarchy
Abstract: The price of anarchy is a measure of the inefficiency of selfish behavior that has been successfully analyzed in many applications, including network routing, resource allocation, network formation, and even models of basketball. It is defined as the worst-case ratio between the welfare of a Nash equilibrium and that of an optimal (first-best) solution. Seemingly, a bound on the price of anarchy is meaningful only if players successfully reach some Nash equilibrium. Our main result is that for many of the classes of games in which the price of anarchy has been studied, results are "intrinsically robust" in the following sense: a bound on the worst-case price of anarchy for pure Nash equilibria *necessarily* implies the exact same worst-case bound for a much larger sets of outcomes, including mixed Nash equilibria, correlated equilibria, and sequences of outcomes generated by natural experimentation strategies (such as successive best responses or simultaneous regret-minimization).
Biography: Tim Roughgarden received his PhD from Cornell University in 2002 and joined the Stanford CS faculty in 2004. His research interests lie in theoretical computer science, especially its interfaces with game theory and networks. He wrote the book "Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy" (MIT Press, 2005) and co-edited the book "Algorithmic Game Theory", with Nisan, Tardos, and Vazirani (Cambridge, 2007). His significant awards include the 2002 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention), the 2003 Tucker Prize, the 2003 INFORMS Optimization Prize for Young Researchers, speaking at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians, a 2007 PECASE Award, the 2008 Shapley Lectureship of the Game Theory Society, and the 2009 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award.
Host: GTHB
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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College Commons Panel Discussion
Tue, Nov 16, 2010 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sharon Swartz (Evolutionary Biology, Brown University), Akira Lippit (Cinema USC), and Michael Arbib (Computer Science and Neuroscience, USC) , Brown University & USC
Talk Title: Thinking With/As Animals
Abstract: When bees dance, when birds and whales sing and when bats echolocate, how close do these communicative methods come to what we call âlanguageâ? Furthermore, within evolutionary processes, how do manual gestures among humans become speech and how does a leg, in the case of the bat, become a wing? What essential changes to the nature of the human or the animal are signified by speech and flight? And how do we represent the relations between humans and animals in terms of choreographies of the gaze? Why and when do animals look at humans? What do they see when they do look? And how are human and animal gazes the same or different?
In a wide-ranging and dynamic panel discussion between Sharon Swartz (Evolutionary Biology, Brown University), Akira Lippit (Cinema USC), and Michael Arbib (Computer Science and Neuroscience, USC) we will engage these questions and more about the differences and similarities between animals and humans.
To secure your spot please RSVP to: tcc@college.usc.edu
Part IV of a Series of V: THE HUMAN-ANIMAL DIVIDE
Host: College Commons
Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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Fall Spotlight - Aerospace, Mechanical, and Astronautical Engineering
Tue, Nov 16, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
A panel discussion featuring industry representatives, alumni, faculty and current student discussing opportunities in Aerospace, Mechanical, and Astronautical Engineering. For more detailed information please visit the Spotlight website at - http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/fye/spotlight.htm
Dinner is provided. RSVP to viterbi.studentservices@usc.edu with subject line: "RSVP for Spotlight on 11/16".Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Viterbi Undergraduate Students
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
