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Events for December 12, 2014
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkFri, Dec 12, 2014
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://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/firstyear/prospective/meetusc_sw.html to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Short Course: Lean Six Sigma White Belt
Fri, Dec 12, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA,
Abstract: Lean Six Sigma White Belt will introduce you to the tools and techniques for implementing lean/six sigma principles. Participants will gain a broad understanding of the philosophy, methods and benefits of lean/six sigma and value stream mapping as they apply to all types of enterprises. You will be introduced to lean concepts via hands-on exercises.
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Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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AI Seminar-Experiences with Opinion Mining in the Brazilian Election Scenario: beyond twitters and products reviews
Fri, Dec 12, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Karin Becker, UFRGS
Talk Title: Experiences with Opinion Mining in the Brazilian Election Scenario: beyond twitters and products reviews
Series: Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Abstract: Opinion mining aims at automatically identifying opinionative content in documents available in the web, and determine the sentiment, perception or attitude of the public with regard to the target of the opinion. Product reviews and tweets are popular sources of opinions, well explored by existing works. This talk describes some of our experiences in handling newspapers readersâ comments written in Portuguese, using the Brazilian elections scenario. More specifically, we focus on the challenges of mining user-generated content in Portuguese, a language for which tools and resources are scarce; sentiment-based prediction of the variation on vote intentions and aspect-based sentiment mining in unstructured opinion sources. These are important contributions towards a more general framework that is able to blend opinions from several different sources to find representativeness of the target population, and make more reliable sentiment-based applications.
Biography: Karin Becker is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Institute of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) since 2010. She received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (Belgium), and a M.Sc. degree from UFRGS (Brazil), and currently she is a visiting scholar at ISI- USC. Her research background involves both the academia and industry, mainly in the areas of database, data and web mining and software engineering. Her current interests are focused on the application of data mining techniques to web-related data (opinion mining, web services, social networks, linked data). She is also an enthusiastic of agile practices. She has near 100 published papers, including articles in journals and conference proceedings, and book chapters. She served as chairperson and member of program committee in several conferences.
Host: Craig Knoblock
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
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EE-Electrophysics Seminar
Fri, Dec 12, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Joyce Poon, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
Talk Title: Scaling Integrated Photonic Devices and Circuits
Abstract: By 2020, the number of Internet-connected devices will be more than six times the number of people on Earth. The âInternet of Thingsâ is causing an explosion of data that must be transmitted and processed in energy-efficient ways. Optical communications have been a part of the physical backbone of this paradigm and will continue to have a vital role in enabling the interconnectivity in our world.
In this talk, I will give an overview of my groupâs research in integrated photonic devices and circuits implemented in silicon photonic platforms. We are exploring how device size, performance, and circuit complexity can be scaled to address the challenges in communications and computing. I will describe our work on optical modulators, filters, polarization management, electronic-photonic integration, and wavelength-size active components. I will also describe some ongoing and new projects. The work paves the path toward very large-scale photonic integrated circuits.
Biography: Joyce Poon is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Integrated Photonic Devices. She and her team conduct theoretical and experimental research in micro- and nano-scale integrated photonics.
Dr. Poon obtained the Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2007 and 2003 respectively, and the B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science (physics option) from the University of Toronto in 2002. She is the recipient of a McCharles Prize for Early Research Career Distinction, a MIT TR35 award in 2012, IBM Faculty Award in 2010 and 2011, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Award in 2009, NSERC University Faculty Award in 2008, and the Clauser Doctoral Thesis Prize from Caltech in 2007.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
