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Events for November 18, 2010
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Thu, Nov 18, 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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CRA-W/CDC Distinguished Lecture Series
Thu, Nov 18, 2010 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Mondira (Mandy) Pant, Intel
Talk Title: Microprocessor Power Challenges
Abstract: The relentless pursuit of microprocessor performance over the last decade has been challenged by power consumption. The talk will provide an overview of the microprocessor power trends, reviewing historical efforts to control power such as thermal throttling. Also covered will be a review of power states and how they are used to reduce power in processors. Specific techniques used in today's generation of processors to reduce power like power gating; independent voltage and frequency domains; dynamic power and frequency scaling in response to processor loading and operating system state requests; making use of wide dynamic range, will be mentioned. Further the talk will include some discussions on power delivery challenges associated with these power reduction efforts.
Biography: Dr. Mondira (Mandy) Deb Pant received her B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from I.I.T Kharagpur, India in 1995. She picked up a MS in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA in 1997 and 2000 respectively. She joined Intel in Aug 2001 as part of the Alpha team acquisition from Compaq Computer Corporation where she worked since graduating in Aug 2000. The first couple of years she worked as the Sequential design lead on a next generation ItaniumTM microprocessor. Over the past couple of years, as a lead technologist in the area of power delivery and power management, she has been investigating and driving several issues in the power space, particularly on-chip power delivery issues, power management and power reduction on the next generation XeonTM server and ItaniumTM microprocessors at Intel. She has given several invited talks at various conferences and universities, most recently as a Keynote speaker at the GLVSI conference and is regarded as an expert in her field. In 2009, Mandy was been recognized by Mass High Tech as one of the top ten upcoming Women to Watch. To know more about her you can visit her website: www.mondirapant.com
Host: Prof. Timothy Pinkston
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 324
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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CENG, CS & CED/WIE Panel Discussion
Thu, Nov 18, 2010 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Mondira (Mandy) Pant, Intel, and Dr. Charles Lee Isbell, Jr., Georgia Tech
Talk Title: Why Pursue Graduate School?
Abstract: This panel encourages students to pursue graduate degree(s) in computing and engineering fields at Masterâs and Ph.D. levels. It aims to inspire and prepare students to be successful in graduate school pursuits. Questions addressed by the panel include the following: Why attend grad school, and why in a computing/engineering field as opposed to some other professional field? How does a graduate degree in a computing/engineering field impact oneâs career opportunities and earning potential? 3) What is the difference between a Masters and PhD, how long do each take, and how do the possible career paths differ between the two degrees? What is exciting about doing research, and how can one find out if research is interesting to him/her? How does one get accepted into graduate school, which schools, and how to pay for it? How can one best prepare him/herself to succeed in grad school? What are the biggest challenges?
Host: Prof. Timothy Pinkston, Senior Associate Dean of Engineering
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 324
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Photonics Seminar Series
Thu, Nov 18, 2010 @ 12:45 PM - 01:45 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Peter B. Catrysse, Stanford University
Talk Title: Metal optics at the nano-scale: from basic physics to integrated optoelectronic applications
Abstract: The manipulation of light is essential in many optoelectronic applications as well as in fundamental research. One of the emerging opportunities in light manipulation is the use of nanostructures. In information technology, for example, it can lead to smaller, faster information processing systems via monolithic integration of optics and electronics. In physics research, it can open up new regimes of light-matter interaction by greatly enhancing weak optical processes through highly-confined optical fields. In this talk, I present my work on the use of metallic nanostructures to control of light at deep-subwavelength scales. First, I describe my theoretical contributions to the basic physics of metal optics at the nano-scale. I demonstrate a conceptual approach for designing novel materials based on the existence of deep-subwavelength modes in metallic systems. Next, I describe my experimental contributions to the creation of ultra-compact photonic devices in optoelectronic systems. With the examples presented in this talk, I illustrate the rich set of opportunities for nano-scale metal optics research at the interface between fundamental physics and large-scale optoelectronic systems.
Biography: Dr. Peter B. Catrysse is an Engineering Research Associate in the E. L. Ginzton Laboratory at Stanford University. He holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He pioneered the integration of subwavelength metal optics in standard deep-submicron CMOS technology. His current work focuses on nanophotonics at the interface between basic physics and optoelectronic systems. He has authored more than 75 refereed publications and holds several US patents. Dr. Catrysse is a Brussels Hoover Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, a Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and the recipient of a 2008 Hewlett-Packard Labs Innovation Research Award.
Host: Michelle Povinelli
More Info: http://ee.usc.edu/news/seminars/photonics/Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jing Ma
Event Link: http://ee.usc.edu/news/seminars/photonics/
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CS Colloquium: CRA-W/CDC Distinguished Lecture Series
Thu, Nov 18, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Charles Lee Isbell, Jr., Georgia Tech
Talk Title: Adaptive Drama Management: Bringing Machine Learning to Interactive Entertainment
Abstract: In recent years, there has been a growing interest in constructing rich interactive entertainment and training experiences. As these experiences have grown in complexity, there has been a corresponding growing need for the development of robust technologies to shape and modify those experiences in reaction to the actions of human participants.
When thinking about how machine learning and artificial intelligence could help, one notes that the traditional goal of AI games---to win the game---is not particularly useful; rather, the goal is to make the human player's play experience better while being consistent with the goals of the author.
In this talk, I will present our technical efforts to achieve this goal by using machine learning as a way to allow designers to specify problems in broad strokes while allowing a machine do further fine-tuning. In particular, I discuss (1) Targeted Trajectory Distribution Markov Decision Processes (TTD-MDPs), an extension of MDPs that provide variety of experience during repeated execution and (2) computational influence, an automated way of operationalizing theories of influence and persuasion from social psychology to help guide players without decreasing their feelings of autonomy. I also describe our evaluation of these techniques with both simulations and an interactive storytelling system with human subjects.
Biography: Dr. Charles Lee Isbell, Jr., received his BS in computer science in 1990 from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his PhD in 1998 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After four years at AT&T Labs, he returned to Georgia Tech as faculty at the College of Computing. Charles' research interests are varied, but recently he has been building autonomous agents that engage in life-long learning in the presence of thousands of other intelligent agents, including humans. His work has been featured in the popular media, including The New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as in technical collections, where he has won two best paper awards in this area. Charles also pursues reform in CS education. He was a developer of Threads, Georgia Tech's new structuring principle for computing curricula. Recently, he has become the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the College of Computing.
Host: Dr. Timothy Pinkston, Senior Associate Dean of Engineering
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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CENG Seminar: CRA-W/CDC Distinguished Lecture Series
Thu, Nov 18, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Charles Lee Isbell, Jr., Georgia Tech
Talk Title: Adaptive Drama Management: Bringing Machine Learning to Interactive Entertainment
Abstract: In recent years, there has been a growing interest in constructing rich interactive entertainment and training experiences. As these experiences have grown in complexity, there has been a corresponding growing need for the development of robust technologies to shape and modify those experiences in reaction to the actions of human participants.
When thinking about how machine learning and artificial intelligence could help, one notes that the traditional goal of AI games---to win the game---is not particularly useful; rather, the goal is to make the human player's play experience better while being consistent with the goals of the author.
In this talk, I will present our technical efforts to achieve this goal by using machine learning as a way to allow designers to specify problems in broad strokes while allowing a machine do further fine-tuning. In particular, I discuss (1) Targeted Trajectory Distribution Markov Decision Processes (TTD-MDPs), an extension of MDPs that provide variety of experience during repeated execution and (2) computational influence, an automated way of operationalizing theories of influence and persuasion from social psychology to help guide players without decreasing their feelings of autonomy. I also describe our evaluation of these techniques with both simulations and an interactive storytelling system with human subjects.
Biography: Dr. Charles Lee Isbell, Jr., received his BS in computer science in 1990 from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his PhD in 1998 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After four years at AT&T Labs, he returned to Georgia Tech as faculty at the College of Computing. Charles' research interests are varied, but recently he has been building autonomous agents that engage in life-long learning in the presence of thousands of other intelligent agents, including humans. His work has been featured in the popular media, including The New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as in technical collections, where he has won two best paper awards in this area. Charles also pursues reform in CS education. He was a developer of Threads, Georgia Tech's new structuring principle for computing curricula. Recently, he has become the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the College of Computing.
Host: Prof. Timothy Pinkston
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Engineering Empowering Society: An Evening with Dean Yannis C. Yortsos
Thu, Nov 18, 2010 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Alumni
Receptions & Special Events
Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines, Salon A & B
10950 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
Join fellow Trojans and friends for an evening with Yannis C. Yortsos , dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Dean Yortsos will lead a thought-provoking discussion about world-changing discoveries in the areas of information science, biomedicine, energy and national security.
6:00 p.m. Reception and check in.
6:30 p.m. Discussion with Dean Yortsos
Self Parking is hosted. Valet parking is $11.
There is a $20/person suggested donation. Proceeds support USC Alumni Club of San Diego scholarships for engineering students. To register visit https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/SCA/events/event_order.cgi?tmpl=events&event=2307253Location: La Jolla, CA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kathleen Concialdi
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Capture the Flag!
Thu, Nov 18, 2010 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come join your fellow engineers for a night of fun playing a game of Capture the Flag! Cookies and water provided! Bring a white and a cardinal shirt for your team color.
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: VSC
