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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Jan 18, 2016 @ 12:30 PM - 01:49 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: NO CLASS, MLK JR. HOLIDAY, NO CLASS, MLK JR. HOLIDAY
Talk Title: NO CLASS, MLK JR. HOLIDAY
Host: K. Kirk Shung, PhD
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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PhD Defense - Niloofar Montazeri
Tue, Jan 19, 2016 @ 04:45 AM - 06:45 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Title: Building a Knowledgebase for Deep Lexical Semantics
PhD Candidate: Niloofar Montazeri
Date / Time: Jan 19th (Tuesday), 4:45-6:45 pm
Place: SAL 213
Abstract:
Words describe the world, so if we are going to draw the appropriate inferences in understanding a text, we must have a prior explication of how we view the world (world knowledge) and how words and phrases map to this view (lexical semantics knowledge).
Existing world knowledge and lexical semantics knowledge resources are not particularly suitable for deep reasoning, either due to lack of connection between their elements or due to their simple knowledge representation method (binary relations between natural language phrases).
To enable deep understanding and reasoning over natural language, (Hobbs 2008) has proposed the idea of "Deep Lexical Semantics". In Deep Lexical Semantics, principal and abstract domains of commonsense knowledge are encoded into "core theories" and words are linked to these theories through axioms that use predicates from these theories. This research is concerned with the second task: Axiomatizing words in terms of predicates in core theories.
We show that a large scale lexical semantics knowledgebase for a given domain can be developed by dividing the authoring task using the optimum mix of manual and automatic methods. We use concept relations in existing lexical semantics resources to systematically identify the optimum set of concepts that need to be axiomatized manually and axiomatize a large number of relevant concepts automatically. We have used this method to axiomatize concepts related to the domain of composite entities and evaluated the quality of the resulting axioms. Furthermore, we have evaluated the usefulness of these axioms on the well-studied task of extracting part-of relations from text.
Committee:
Prof. Jerry R. Hobbs (Chair)
Prof. Kevin Knight
Prof. Andrew Gordon
Prof. Elsi Kaiser (External Member)
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 213
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
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NSF Overview and Advanced Manufacturing Funding Opportunities
Tue, Jan 19, 2016 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Zhijian Pei, NSF - Program Director
Talk Title: NSF Overview and Advanced Manufacturing Funding Opportunities
Host: Qiang Huang
More Information: ZJ Pei Abstract and Bio for USC.pdf
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Michele ISE
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USC Stem Cell Seminar: James Wells, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Tue, Jan 19, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: James Wells, Professor, Developmental Biology; Director for Basic Research, Endocrinology; Director of the Pluripotent Stem Cell Facility/Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Talk Title: Pluripotent stem cell-derived tissues to study development and disease of the GI tract
Series: Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC Distinguished Speakers Series
Abstract: Research in the Wells Lab focuses on identifying the molecular mechanisms that control organogenesis and on using this information to direct the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into human organ tissues (organoids) including pancreas, stomach and intestine. Organoids are being used to model diabetes and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and are being studied for their therapeutic potential to restore function to damaged tissues.
Host: Senta Georgia
More Info: http://stemcell.usc.edu/events/details/?event_id=916786
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
Event Link: http://stemcell.usc.edu/events/details/?event_id=916786
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PhD- Defense - Gholamreza Safi
Tue, Jan 19, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Date and Location: Tuesday, January 19th, 11:00 am at SAL 322.
Title: Detecting Anomalies in Event-Based Systems Through Static Analysis
PhD Candidate: Gholamreza Safi
Committee: Nenad Medvidovic (chair), William GJ Halfond, Sandeep Gupta(outside member)
The event-based paradigm allows developers to design and build systems that are highly flexible and can be easily adapted. There are two main complications that can occur in the systems that are based on this paradigm. The first complication concerns inter-component interactions. Events that are used by components for this purpose are sent, received, and processed nondeterministically, due to the systems' reliance on implicit invocation and implicit concurrency. This nondeterminism can lead to event anomalies, which occur when an event-based system receives multiple events that lead to the write of a shared field or memory location. Event anomalies can lead to unreliable, error-prone, and hard-to-debug behavior in an event-based system. The second complication concerns intra-component interactions that usually occur through method calls. Each sequence of method calls introduces an execution path to the system. It is possible that there exist multiple execution paths that are not accessing the same memory locations or sharing data but are unnecessarily synchronized with each other despite the fact that they can be executed concurrently. I call these situation synchronization anomalies.
To detect event anomalies, this dissertation presents a new static analysis technique, DEvA, for automatically Detecting Event Anomalies. DEvA has been evaluated on a set of open-source event-based systems against a state-of-the-art technique for detecting data races in multi-threaded systems and a recent technique for solving a similar problem with event processing in Android applications. DEvA exhibited high precision with respect to manually constructed ground truths and was able to locate event anomalies that had not been detected by the existing solutions.
Also, this dissertation presents a new static analysis technique, DSA, for automatically Detecting Synchronization Anomalies. I have evaluated DSA both empirically and analytically. My empirical evaluation shows that synchronization anomalies are a common problem and can occur in any randomly chosen system. Also, DSA is efficient and scalable while exhibiting high precision, meaning that there were no false positives in its results after being applied to fourteen subject systems. The analytical evaluation of DSA provides guidelines for the situations where removing a synchronization anomaly can be more beneficial. By removing just one synchronization anomaly from two of our subject systems based on the provided guidelines, there was an enhancement of 10% in the performance of those systems.
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 322
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
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Epstein Institute Seminar - ISE 651
Tue, Jan 19, 2016 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Michael N. Katehakis, Rutgers University
Talk Title: Asymptotically Optimal Policies for Mult Armed Bandit Models Under Generalized Ranking
Host: Sheldon Ross
More Information: January 19, 2016_Katehakis.pdf
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Michele ISE
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CS Colloquium & Yahoo! Labs Seminar: Jure Leskovec (Stanford) - Machine Learning for Human Decision Making
Tue, Jan 19, 2016 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jure Leskovec, Stanford University
Talk Title: Machine Learning for Human Decision Making
Series: Yahoo! Labs Machine Learning Seminar Series
Abstract: This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Computer Science Research Colloquium
In many real-life settings human judges are making decisions and choosing among many alternatives in order to label or classify items: Medical doctor diagnosing a patient, criminal court judge making a decision, a crowd-worker labeling an image, and a student answering a multiple-choice question. Gaining insights into human decision making is important for determining the quality of individual decisions as well as identifying mistakes and biases. In this talk we discuss the question of developing machine learning methodology for estimating the quality of individual judges and obtaining diagnostic insights into how various judges decide on different kinds of items. We develop a series of increasingly powerful hierarchical Bayesian models which infer latent groups of judges and items with the goal of obtaining insights into the underlying decision process. We apply our framework to a wide range of real-world domains, and demonstrate that our approach can accurately predict judges decisions, diagnose types of mistakes judges tend to make, and infer true labels of items.
The lecture will be available to stream HERE. [For best quality, right click -> open in new tab]
Biography: Jure Leskovec is assistant professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and chief scientist at Pinterest. His research focuses on mining large social and information networks, their evolution, and the diffusion of information and influence over them. Computation over massive data is at the heart of his research and has applications in computer science, social sciences, economics, marketing, and healthcare. This research has won several awards including a Lagrange Prize, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and numerous best paper awards. Leskovec received his bachelor's degree in computer science from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and his PhD in in machine learning from the Carnegie Mellon University and postdoctoral training at Cornell University. You can follow him on Twitter @jure
Host: Yan Liu
More Info: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~liu32/mlseminar.html
Webcast: https://bluejeans.com/469517570Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
WebCast Link: https://bluejeans.com/469517570
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
Event Link: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~liu32/mlseminar.html
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Computer Science General Faculty Meeting
Wed, Jan 20, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
Bi-Weekly regular faculty meeting for invited full-time Computer Science faculty only. Event details emailed directly to attendees.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Invited Faculty Only
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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CiSoft Seminar
Wed, Jan 20, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mr. Jim Crompton, founder of Reflections Data Consulting
Talk Title: No Document Left Behind: Digital Asset Lifecycle Management
Series: CiSoft Seminar
Host: CiSoft
More Information: CiSoft Seminar Crompton 1-20-16.pdf
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 324
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Juli Legat
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Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Wed, Jan 20, 2016 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Assad Oberai, Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Talk Title: Biomechanical Imaging: Shall We See How You Feel?
Series: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Abstract: Certain types of diseases lead to changes in the microstructural organization of tissue. Altered microstructure in turn leads to altered macroscopic tissue properties, which are often easier to image than the microstructure itself. Thus the measurement of macroscopic properties offers a window into tissue microstructure and health. In Biomechanical Imaging (BMI) we aim to utilize this association between the macroscopic mechanical properties of tissue and its health by generating images of the mechanical properties and using these to infer tissue microstructure and health.
At the heart of BMI lies the solution of an inverse problem in continuum mechanics: given the deformation of the medium (tissue) and a constitutive model, determine the spatial distribution of the material properties. In this talk, I will discuss the well-posedness of this inverse problem and describe efficient and robust algorithms for solving it. I will also describe the development of new constitutive models that are motivated by tissue microstructure, and applications of BMI that include improved in-vivo diagnosis of breast cancer, and imaging elastic properties of tissue at the cellular, and sub-cellular levels.
Biography: Assad Oberai is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He is also the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the School of Engineering, and the Associate Director of the Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC). Assad is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Career award in 2005 and the Department of Energy Early Career award in 2004. He was awarded the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2007. He received the Humboldt Foundation Award for experienced researchers in 2009, and the Erasmus Mundus Master Course Lectureship at Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona in 2010. In 2015, he was awarded the Research Excellence Award by the School of Engineering at RPI, and was elected as a Fellow of the United States Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM). In 2016, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He is on the board of academic editors for the journal PlosOne.
Host: Prof. Roger Ghanem
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - Biomechanical Imaging: Shall We See How You Feel?
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Valerie Childress
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Writing Effective Resumes
Wed, Jan 20, 2016 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Students will learn tips on writing effective resumes.
Location: EEB 132
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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IEEE Spring General Meeting
Wed, Jan 20, 2016 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Hi IEEE!
Welcome back and save this date! We're excited to meet with you and let you know about our plans for this semester. We have lots of career opportunities including our annual networking dinner coming up.
This is a great chance for new and old students to learn about how to get involved and ask any questions or even provide suggestions.
Of course we'll have FREE FOOD so invite all your friends!
Even Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/432741066915139/Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Get Connected! Involvement Fair
Thu, Jan 21, 2016 @ 11:30 AM - 02:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
The Get Connected! Involvement Fair is your opportunity to learn more about Viterbi's 35+ student organizations and design teams. Stop by and sign up to get involved in #ViterbiLife!
To register, click here https://myviterbi.usc.edu/vasa/?PostingID=1234567981.Location: Epstein Family Plaza
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Jenny Vazquez-Akim
Event Link: https://myviterbi.usc.edu/vasa/?PostingID=1234567981
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Introduction to COMSOL Multiphysics
Thu, Jan 21, 2016 @ 12:45 PM - 02:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mina Sierou, COMSOL Inc.
Talk Title: Introduction to COMSOL Multiphysics
Abstract: COMSOL Multiphysics is a general purpose software platform for modeling and simulating a large variety of physical phenomena. With more than 30 add-on products, COMSOL gives you access to dedicated physics interfaces and tools applicable for electrical, mechanical, fluid flow and chemical & electrochemical applications. This seminar will introduce the software through a live demonstration and presentation of example models in a wide range of fields.
Host: Professor Jayakanth Ravichandran
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Martin Olekszyk
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Find More Jobs & Internships: Viterbi Career Gateway Workshop
Thu, Jan 21, 2016 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi Career Gateway is your access to thousands of internships, co-ops, and full-time jobs as well as on-campus recruiting events and professional development workshops. Are you utilizing the tool fully? This workshop will ensure that you are.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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AI Seminar
Fri, Jan 22, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yisong Yue, Cal Tech
Talk Title: A Decision Tree Framework for Data-Driven Speech Animation
Abstract: n many animation projects, the animation artist typically spends significant time animating the face, which involves many labor-intensive tasks that offer little potential for creative expression. One particularly tedious task is speech animation: animating the face to match spoken audio. Indeed, the often prohibitive cost of speech animation has limited the types of animations that are feasible, including localization to different languages.
In this talk, I will show how to view speech animation through the lens of data-driven sequence prediction. In contrast to previous sequence prediction settings, speech animation is an instance of contextual spatiotemporal sequence prediction, where the output is continuous and high-dimensional (e.g., a configuration of the lower face), and also depends on an input context (e.g., audio or phonetic input).
I will present a decision tree framework for learning to generate context-dependent spatiotemporal sequences given training data. This approach enjoys several attractive properties, including ease of training, fast performance at test time, and the ability to robustly tolerate corrupted training data using a novel latent variable approach. I will showcase this approach in a case study on speech animation, where our approach outperforms several competitive baselines in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations, and also demonstrates strong robustness to corrupted training data.
This is joint work with Taehwan Kim, Sarah Taylor, Barry-John Theobald, and Iain Matthews.
Biography: Yisong Yue is an assistant professor in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. He was previously a research scientist at Disney Research. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Machine Learning Department and the iLab at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Ph.D. fromCornell University and a B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Yisong's research interests lie primarily in the theory and application of statistical machine learning. He is particularly interested in developing novel methods for spatiotemporal reasoning, structured prediction, interactive learning systems, and learning with humans in the loop. In the past, his research has been applied to information retrieval, recommender systems, text classification, learning from rich user interfaces, analyzing implicit human feedback, data-driven animation, sports analytics, policy learning in robotics, and adaptive routing & allocation problems.
Host: Ashish Vaswani
More Info: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=6147027e077e4570919a58730193abf91d
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th floor large conference room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kary LAU
Event Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=6147027e077e4570919a58730193abf91d
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Jan 22, 2016 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
University Calendar
Join us for a presentation by Prof. Greg Autry, from the University of Southern California, titled "Entrepreneurship in the New Space Industry."
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ramon Borunda/Academic Services
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EE-EP Seminar, Jae-Sun Seo, Friday, January 22nd at 2:00pm in EEB 132
Fri, Jan 22, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jae-sun Seo, Arizona State University
Talk Title: Designing Power-Efficient Neuromorphic VLSI Systems That Can Learn and Infer
Abstract: In recent years, both industry and academia have shown large interest in low-power hardware designs for neuromorphic computing (e.g. TrueNorth) and machine learning algorithms (e.g. convolutional neural networks) for a wide range of image, speech, and biomedical applications. State-of-the-art algorithms are computation-/memory-/communication-intensive, however, making it difficult to perform low-power real-time training and classification. Furthermore, to optimize system-level power, efficient power delivery and voltage regulation of such VLSI systems also becomes a critical concern.
In this talk, I will present our exemplary research on low-power digital neuromorphic processor design with on-chip learning, as well as workload-adaptive integrated voltage regulators. I will discuss our work on on-chip STDP (spike-timing dependent plasticity) learning for pattern recognition (45nm), spiking clustering for deep-brain sensing (65nm), and a versatile neuromorphic processor design that can support various STDP learning / inhibition rules found in neuroscience literature with large fan-in/out per neuron. To provide an efficient and stable power supply for such processors against fluctuating workloads, integrated switched-capacitor voltage regulator designs are proposed with fast on-chip current sensing (32nm) and capacitance dithering (65nm).
I will also briefly discuss our machine learning hardware designs for speech and biometric applications, and present future research directions to vertically integrate and further improve the power-efficiency of neuromorphic systems while bridging the gap with machine learning approaches.
Biography: Jae-sun Seo received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 2010 in electrical engineering. From 2010 to 2013, he was with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on neuromorphic chip design for the DARPA SyNAPSE project and energy-efficient circuits for IBM's high-performance processors. Since January 2014, he has been with Arizona State University as an assistant professor in the School of ECEE. During the summer of 2015, he was a visiting faculty at Intel Circuits Research Lab. His research interests include efficient hardware design of learning algorithms and integrated power management. He received the IBM outstanding technical achievement award in 2012, and serves on the technical program committee for ISLPED and the organizing committee for ICCD.
Host: EE-EP
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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NL Seminar-EXTRACTING USER INFORMATION FROM ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA
Fri, Jan 22, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jiwei Li, Stanford University
Talk Title: EXTRACTING USER INFORMATION FROM ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: The overwhelming popularity of online social media creates an unprecedented opportunity to display aspects of oneself. Inferring information about these users has the potential to benefit many downstream applications such as recommendation engines and targeted advertising. In this talk I will show how to extract important personal information such as major life events and personal attributes (e.g., gender, education, job) from social evidence such as the text produced by users and their friends and from properties of their social network. I will describe algorithms making use of a variety of frameworks, including distant supervision, and a deep learning architecture that learns user representations by integrating many heterogeneous social signals.
Biography: Jiwei Li is a PH.D. student in the computer science department at Stanford University, working with Prof. Dan Jurafsky. His research interests include discourse, language generation, and social networks, with a focus on deep learning methods. Jiwei receives his B.S. from Peking University in 2012. He was rewarded the Facebook Fellowship in 2015.
Host: Xing Shi and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=6b5348f2f8dc4a4dbb595eca444410d51dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 6th Flr Conf Rm # 689, Marina Del Rey
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=6b5348f2f8dc4a4dbb595eca444410d51d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Jan 22, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yoichi Mukai Associate Professor, Dr.Eng. , Department of Architecture, Kobe University
Talk Title: Introduction of the real-time hybrid simulator with shaking-table in Kobe University
Abstract:
Dr. Mukai's research group has been interested in re-assessment of existing buildings and re-evaluation of traditional and historical structures. For this purpose, we are researching about development of practical techniques for sounding of damaged building conditions or for evaluation and estimation of structural mechanism of traditional structures, through monitoring and sensing techniques. Dr. Mukai's research group is currently developing a real-time hybrid simulator for investigating structural response control systems with semi-active-active control devices. This activity, to develop the real-time hybrid simulator, are carried out by the collaboration with Prof. Fujitani & Dr. Ito's research group, mainly researching on development of advanced seismic-isolation system with semi-active controlling dampers retrofit for high-rise building structures with newly proposing slit-inserted steel plate dampers, etc. The real-time hybrid simulator is actualized by installing real-time response generator of the inside numerical model as the additional function on the actual shaking-table. We make the shaking-table generate interactive movement between the inside numerical model and the actual external specimen devices. This system can be exactly simulate computed interaction movement, so we can operate hybrid experimental test of whole structural system by connecting vertically the actual specimen to the internal model while we don't need to prepare in whole the structural system but to prepare limited part only which we actually focus on and want to know its behavior in detail.
"Image Based Detection for Concrete Fracture"
Tomohiro Miki Associate Professor, Dr.Eng.
Department of Civil Engineering, Kobe University
Host: Dr, Maria Todorovska
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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