Select a calendar:
Filter December Events by Event Type:
SUNMONTUEWEDTHUFRISAT
Events for December 03, 2009
-
Multivalent approaches to the design of bioactive materials
Thu, Dec 03, 2009
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Kristi KiickUniversity of DelawareAbstract:TBA
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce Sapir
-
Integrated Modeling and Simulation of Transportation Systems
Thu, Dec 03, 2009 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
ABSTRACT: The state-of-the-art method for studying transportation systems is simulation based modeling which affords the opportunity to evaluate control and design strategies without committing expensive resources to implement alternate strategies in the field. Major efforts have been invested in developing traffic simulation systems during the past several decades. The usefulness of these tools will be significantly enhanced if they can be used in an integrated manner to investigate scenarios involving domain
aspects modeled by different tools.We begin the talk with a brief review of current traffic simulation integration systems. We will then discuss limitations of these systems. To address these limitations, an extensible semantic integration framework for transportation modeling and simulation is presented. We conclude the talk with some ongoing and future work regarding semantic web and workflow based methodologies in this area. Lunch will be served, so please note that you must RSVP to: Joey Pulford, via pulford@usc.edu by 12 noon on Wednesday, Dec. 2nd if you would like a meal. Please also arrive at Noon in order to guarantee yourself enough time to eat, because the Seminar will start promptly at 12:30pm. See you there!Viktor K. Prasanna (ceng.usc.edu/~prasanna) is the Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He is the executive director of the USC-Infosys Center for Advanced Software Technologies (CAST). He is also a member of the USC-Chevron Center of Excellence for Research and Academic Training on Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies. His research interests include parallel and distributed systems including networked sensor systems, embedded systems, configurable architectures and high performance computing. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers during 2003-06. Prasanna was the founding Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. He is the steering chair of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (www.hipc.org). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. He is a recipient of 2009 Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award from the Pennsylvania State University.Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - -100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
-
Integrated Modeling and Simulation of Transportation Systems
Thu, Dec 03, 2009 @ 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
METRANS SeminarTitle: "Integrated Modeling and Simulation of Transportation Systems"Speaker: Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern CaliforniaThursday, December 3, 2009, 12:30 PM, HNB 100ABSTRACT: The state-of-the-art method for studying transportation systems is simulation based modeling which affords the opportunity to evaluate control and design strategies without committing expensive resources to implement alternate strategies in the field. Major efforts have been invested in developing traffic simulation systems during the past several decades. The usefulness of these tools will be significantly enhanced if they can be used in an integrated manner to investigate scenarios involving domain aspects modeled by different tools.Seminar will start promptly at 12:30pm.
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
-
CS Colloq: Dr. Liang Huang
Thu, Dec 03, 2009 @ 04:00 PM - 05:50 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: Packed Forest for Parsing and Translation Speaker: Dr. Liang Huang Host: Prof. Paul Rosenbloom Abstract: A major challenge in natural language research is how to deal with ambiguity. This is because ambiguity grows *exponentially* with sentence length (for example, consider the number of interpretations of a 60-word long sentence). This suggests that the common practice of a k-best list largely under-represents the whole search space. So is there a better way to efficiently represent and exploit the vast amount of ambiguities in human languages? The answer is "packed forest", a polynomial-space data-structure for representing exponentially many trees in a compact form by sharing common substructures. In this talk, I will apply this forest idea to both machine translation and syntactic parsing. In both tasks, we show that working with a forest encoding millions of trees improves the state-of-the-art accuracies by considering many more alternatives. This results in the best parsing performance reported on the Penn Treebank. More interestingly, translating a forest of 10 millions
trees is even faster than translating 30 individual trees, thanks to dynamic programming. (This talk is intended for a general CS audience.)
Bio: Liang Huang is currently a Research Scientist at ISI. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008, and worked as a Research Scientist at Google before moving back to ISI where he had two internships. He is mainly interested in the theoretical aspects of computational linguistics, in particular, efficient algorithms in parsing and machine translation, generic dynamic programming, and formal properties of synchronous grammars. His work received an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2008, and Best Paper Nominations at ACL 2007 and EMNLP 2008. He also loves teaching, and won a University
Teaching Award at Penn in 2005. He is currently teaching CS 562, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. http://www.isi.edu/~lhuang
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lhuang3
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Front Desk
-
Engineers Without Borders - Corral de Piedras Project Meeting
Thu, Dec 03, 2009 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
EWB-USC currently has projects based in two communities in Honduras, La Estanzuela and Corral de Piedras. Come to the bi-monthly project meeting to see what it's all about! This is where we get it all done, from researching to grant writing to CAD drawing. So bring your laptops and be ready to jump into these projects. Students with all levels of experience are welcome to attend.This is the last project meeting of the semester so be sure to attend! See you there!
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 163
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Engineers Without Borders
-
SWE/WSA 6th General Meeting - Gingerbread House Making
Thu, Dec 03, 2009 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Location: TBA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers
