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Women and the Workforce: Boeing Industry Tour
Fri, Nov 03, 2006 @ 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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This industry tour is a great way to learn more about Boeing and future career options! The visit includes a tour of the spacecraft factory and a Q & A session. You must be a US citizen to attend. Space is limited so email viterbi.wie@usc.edu if you are interested.
Location: Boeing, El Segundo Office
Audiences: Undergraduate Viterbi Women
Contact: Viterbi Women in Engineering
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The Central Intelligence Agency National Security Search
Tue, Nov 07, 2006 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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It's No Secret...The CIA has challenging and rewarding career opportunities!
The Central Intelligence Agency is searching for intelligent and dedicated men and women from a variety of diverse backgrounds to contribute to its' National Security mission. Representatives from the National Clandestine Service (Operations), the Directorate of Intelligence (Analysis), the Open Source Center (Foreign Media Analysis) and the West Coast Regional Recruiter will be conducting an Information Session to discuss the CIA mission, employment opportunities and the security clearance process. Feel free to bring your resume for review. Both the Directorate of Intelligence and the Open Source Center will be conducting interviews the following day.Date: Tuesday, November 7thStart Time: 6 PMLocation: Career Planning & Placement Center, Student Union Bldg. Lower Level B-3 / Trojan Presentation RoomThe event is open to all academic majors with an emphasis on students with foreign language skills, foreign travel, and an interest in foreign affairs/business. The information will be most relevant to students within 18 months of graduation. We strongly encourage graduate students to attend.Keep in mind that most all positions require U.S. Citizenship, relocation to the Northern Virginia area and a lengthy employment process that can take from six to twelve months.
Location: Gwynn Wilson Student Union (STU) - Lower Level B-3/Trojan Presentation Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Last Day to Withdraw with W
Fri, Nov 10, 2006
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Audiences: Graduate/Undergrad/
Contact: Monica De Los Santos
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Invitation to Healthcare Medical Executive Presentation
Fri, Nov 10, 2006 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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The USC SPPD Health Management & Policy Programs are pleased to invite all USC students and faculty to the following executive presentation:SHARON GRIGSBY,
Chief Network Officer, LA Co. Department of Health ServicesFRIDAY — NOVEMBER 10, 2006,
10:00 A.M-Noon,
Ralph & Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) 219As part of our course, PPD608: Leadership Symposium in Health Management and Policy, Prof. Thomas Collins has agreed to open this portion of his class to the SPPD and university community. Space is limited! Kindly RSVP to: shirose@sppd.usc.edu. SPEAKER BIO: Sharon Grigsby is chief network officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. In this role she is responsible for the County's five acute teaching hospitals and related clinics. Previously, Ms. Grigsby was executive director, LA Co. Public Health Bioterrorism Preparedness. Her prior assignment in public health was as area health officer for Service Planning Area 2, San Fernando Valley. Ms. Grigsby has extensive experience in public-sector and community based services, including hospitals, mental health and public health settings. She is the former chief executive officer of Visiting Nurse Association of Los Angeles, Inc. and has served as associate hospital administrator and chief operating officer at both Rancho Los Amigos and Harbor UCLA Medical Centers, and as associate director of finance at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Ms. Grigsby began her public service career in the Department of Public Health overseeing federally funded projects, subsequently managing finance and administration in the Department of Mental Health, and then serving as principal analyst and team leader in the County Chief Administrative Office. She currently serves on the USC SPPD Health Advisory Board and has had a faculty appointment as an adjunct clinical professor. Ms. Grigsby is a graduate of Occidental College and holds an MBA from the California State University at Los Angeles.
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 219
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Likelihood Based Inference for Diffusion Driven State Space Models
Fri, Nov 10, 2006 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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INFORMATION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT, MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PRESENTSDr. Siddhartha ChibHarry C. Hartkop Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Olin School of Business, Washington State University in St. LouisFriday, November 10, 2006Hoffman Hall 40410:30 am – 12:00 noonABSTRACT: In this paper we develop likelihood based inferential methods for a novel class of (potentially non-stationary) diffusion driven state space models. Examples of models in this class are continuous time stochastic volatility models and counting process models. Although our methods are sampling based, making use of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to sample the posterior distribution of the relevant unknowns, our general strategies and details are different from previous work on related but simpler models. The proposed methods are easy to implement and simulation efficient. Importantly, unlike methods for related models, the performance of our method is not worsened, in fact it improves, as the degree of latent augmentation is increased to reduce the bias of the Euler approximation. We also consider the problems of model choice, model checking and filtering and apply the techniques and ideas to both simulated and real data.Keywords: Bayes estimation, Brownian bridge, Non-linear diffusion, Euler approximation, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, Missing data, Simulation, Stochastic differential equation.SPEAKER BIO: Professor Chib's research is in the area of Bayesian statistics and Markov chain Monte Carlo computational methods. He has published papers on a number of different topics including the analysis of binary and ordinal data, Markov mixture models, stochastic volatility, Metropolis-Hastings algorithms and model choice. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.*Paper co-authored with Michael K. Pitt, Department of Economics, University of Warwick and Neil Shephard, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
Location: H. Leslie Hoffman Hall Of Business Administration (HOH) - 404
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Issues of Scale, Time, and Approach to Transportation Modeling and Simulation
Wed, Nov 15, 2006 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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You are cordially invited to a METRANS Seminar by:Kostas Goulias,
Professor of Transportation at the Geography Department of the University of California Santa BarbaraWednesday, Nov. 15th 2006, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Ralph & Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) Room 215** Bring a bag lunch. Refreshments will be served. **ABSTRACT: In this presentation, an overview of changing requirements for modeling and simulation is offered. Rapid changes of these requirements emerge from a need to address travel behavior and develop procedures in facets that emerge from three sources: a) dynamic planning practice; b) sustainable and green visions, and c) new research and technology. The typical aspects of data collection, modeling, and simulation considered for transportation policy analysis and planning are in this way examined from perspectives that raise many questions about our ability to make programmatic assessments. For each of these fundamental areas questions are posed as potential candidates for research programs and topics for Ph.D. dissertations and many issues remain largely under scrutinized. They include issues of scale in time and space, content and procedures for which models are designed, and the need to revert time in simulation to address problems of strategic planning and scenario buildin g.SPEAKER BIO: Kostas Goulias, PhD, is Professor of Transportation at the Geography Department of the University of California Santa Barbara since 2004. In that department he is teaching courses in transportation modeling and simulation at the senior undergraduate level and the graduate level.
The courses contain material on regional transportation policy and planning. The bulk of the time is dedicated to the development of models from the conceptual design, to data collection, estimation and use in policy analysis. The models examined and analyzed are about land use, demographics, and activity participation and travel behavior. From 1991 to 2004, Goulias has been Professor of Civil Engineering at PennState University and the director of the Transportation Operations Program at the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute since 1997. He was also the director of the Center for Intelligent Transportation Systems, a center of excellence in the College of Engineering, and the director of a regional research and education consortium the Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center.
Dr. Goulias has been the author and co-author of more than 160 papers, book chapters, and reports to sponsors the majority of which are on new methodological developments in the area of travel behavior and new models for activity based data collection modeling and simulation. He is also the editor-in-chief and contributing author of the 2003 Transportation Systems Planning engineering handbook by CRC press and the editor of the 2007 Elsevier book Transport Science and Technology. Goulias developed estimation methods and computer code for data analysis and simulation systems for nationwide demographic simulation, travel demand forecasting, and other data management and decision support systems. His research emphasis is on forecasting the demand for transportation services and on the impact simulation and forecasting of policy actions including telecommunications and information systems with particular focus on the dynamics of travel behavior. He has also been the immediate past chair of the National Academy of Science -Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Travel Behavior and Values and he is the founder and chair of the TRB Task Force on Moving Activity-based Approaches to Practice. Dr. Goulias earned a Ph.D. in 1991 from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Davis, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering in 1987 from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a Laurea (BS and MS) in Civil Engineering in 1986 from the University of Calabria, College of Civil Engineering, Cosenza, Italy.
Dr. Goulias has worked on many projects providing transportation engineering and planning consulting services to State/Federal agencies and International organizations and firms. He has worked in the United States, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Germany, Portugal, and Australia developing new modeling techniques, simulation frameworks, and providing expert reviews of technologies and engineering practice and policies.For more information, please contact Hossein Ataei (ataei@usc.edu).
Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 215
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Epstein ISE EGSA Ice Cream Social
Tue, Nov 21, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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UPCOMING EPSTEIN ISE EVENTSOne more month left for the semester to end, and most of you are probably exhausted with course work and job interviews. The Engineering Graduate Students Association (EGSA) is about to wrap up events for this semester and to end it, we decided to have an ice-cream social and give you an opportunity to attend other major events.EPSTEIN ISE EGSA ICE-CREAM SOCIALDate: Tuesday, 21st November 2006Time: 2:00 - 4:00pmLocation: Courtyard of Andrus Gerontology BuildingDrop by between 2 to 4pm at the Courtyard of GER building for free Ice Cream. Open for all Epstein ISE graduate students and faculty.
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - Building Courtyard
Audiences: Graduate/Faculty/Department Only/
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Freshmen Academy Large Lecture Series
Tue, Nov 21, 2006 @ 05:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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The 3rd Freshmen Academy Large Lecture Series will welcome Ken Klein, President, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Wind River, a global leader in device software optimization. Ken Klein is a Viterbi alumnus whose generous gift established the Klein Institute for Undergraduate Engineering Life (KIUEL). A full biography is posted on http://viterbi.usc.edu/academies/.We will have a "Thanksgiving Dinner" before the program beginning at 5pm on the SGM patio!
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Freshmen
Contact: Freshmen Academies
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Leadership Team Building & Business Strategy
Tue, Nov 28, 2006 @ 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Dr. Alexis Livanos, Corporate Vice President and President, Northrop Grumman Space Technology Division & Dr. Peter Kaufman, Chairman and CEO, Glenair, will discuss the importance of leadership and teamwork in the world of engineering and business. RSVP at viterbi.kiuel@usc.edu
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Undergraduate Students
Contact: KIUEL
