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  • Repeating EventThe Communications Hub - Academic Writing and Speaking Tutoring for Viterbi Ph.D. Students

    Mon, Feb 06, 2023 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs

    Workshops & Infosessions


    The Communications Hub offers academic writing and speaking tutoring for Viterbi Ph.D. students! Bring your academic and professional work (at any stage) to faculty at the Engineering in Society Program!

    Drop in hours are in RTH 222:
    Monday: 10-1
    Wednesday: 10-1
    Friday: 10-1

    We also offer online and custom appointments at https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home.

    See you at the Hub!

    Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222

    Audiences: Graduate

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    Contact: Helen Choi

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  • Viterbi Career & Internship Expo: Trojan Talks and Demos

    Mon, Feb 06, 2023 @ 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections

    University Calendar


    Groups of pre-registered students meet with an organization for a 45-minute company info session or company product or service showcase in an on-campus location.

    Pre-registration required on Viterbi Career Gateway: USC Viterbi School of Engineering > Events > Information Sessions

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections

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  • Viterbi Career & Internship Expo: On-Campus Trojan Talks and Demos

    Tue, Feb 07, 2023 @ 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections

    University Calendar


    Groups of pre-registered students meet with an organization for a 45-minute company info session or company product or service showcase in an on-campus location.

    Pre-registration is required on Viterbi Career Gateway:
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering > Events > Information Sessions

    For the most up-to-date information visit the Career & Internship Expo Website: USC Viterbi School of Engineering

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections

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  • Dr. Karol Hausman (Google) - Preventing the Next Bitter Lesson

    Tue, Feb 07, 2023 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Dr. Karol Hausman, Google

    Talk Title: Preventing the Next Bitter Lesson

    Series: Robotics and Autonomous Systems Seminar

    Abstract: Richard Sutton's essay titled "The Bitter Lesson" remains one of the most insightful observations of the last 70 years of AI progress. Given the recent trends and developments in AI and robotics, it might be useful to predict what our next bitter lesson will be, and how we can prevent it today. In this talk, I will explore one potential answer to this question. Based on the resulting insights, I will discuss how leveraging foundation models in robotics can benefit both. I will show various examples of how low-level tasks can be combined with large language models to enable performing complex and temporally extended instructions that were not possible before.

    Biography: Karol Hausman is a researcher at Google and an adjunct professor at Stanford. He spent 5 wonderful years at USC where he did his PhD and he's super excited to be back to share his recent findings in robot learning

    Host: Gaurav Sukhatme

    Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 100B

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Assistant to CS chair

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  • Epstein Institute - ISE 651 Seminar

    Tue, Feb 07, 2023 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Dr. Santanu S. Dey, Russell Chandler III Professor; Associate Chair of Graduate Studies; Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering Georgia Tech

    Talk Title: Theoretical and Computational Analysis of Sizes of Branch-and-Bound Trees

    Host: Dr. Andres Gomez

    More Information: February 7, 2023.pdf

    Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - GER 206

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Grace Owh

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  • Repeating EventThe Communications Hub - Academic Writing and Speaking Tutoring for Viterbi Ph.D. Students

    Wed, Feb 08, 2023 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs

    Workshops & Infosessions


    The Communications Hub offers academic writing and speaking tutoring for Viterbi Ph.D. students! Bring your academic and professional work (at any stage) to faculty at the Engineering in Society Program!

    Drop in hours are in RTH 222:
    Monday: 10-1
    Wednesday: 10-1
    Friday: 10-1

    We also offer online and custom appointments at https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home.

    See you at the Hub!

    Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222

    Audiences: Graduate

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    Contact: Helen Choi

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  • Viterbi Career & Internship Expo: Career Fair (On-Campus)

    Wed, Feb 08, 2023 @ 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections

    University Calendar


    Viterbi Career Connections is excited to announce the Fall 2022 Career & Internship Fair will be hosted on campus! This recruitment event allows students the opportunity to have brief conversations with recruiters about full-time employment, internships, and co-ops. Join additional activities such as Trojan Talks and Meet & Greets on Febraury 6th and 7th.
    The Viterbi Career & Internship Expo is free and open to all students in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Don't forget your resume!

    For more information about the Expo: USC Viterbi School of Engineering

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections

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  • Computer Science General Faculty Meeting

    Wed, Feb 08, 2023 @ 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: Zoom only

    Audiences: Invited Faculty Only

    Contact: Assistant to CS chair

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  • AME Seminar

    Wed, Feb 08, 2023 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

    Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez, Senior Research Scientist Google Research and Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Talk Title: Dynamical Weighs: Learning Smooth Latent-Dynamics for Advection-Dominated Systems via Consistency-Constrained Hyper-Networks

    Abstract: We present a data-driven, space-time continuous framework to learn surrogate models for complex physical systems described by partial differential equations (PDEs). Our approach involves constructing hypernetwork-based latent dynamical models directly on the parameter space of a compact representation network specially tailored to the state space of the target system. The framework leverages the expressive power of the network with a specially designed consistency-inducing regularization to obtain latent trajectories that are both low-dimensional and smooth. These properties render our surrogate models highly efficient at inference time.

    We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on advection-dominated systems. These systems have slow-decaying Kolmogorov n-widths that hinders standard methods, including reduced order modeling, from producing high-fidelity simulations at low cost. We show that our method is able to generate accurate multi-step rollout predictions at high efficiency, for several one- and two-dimensional PDEs. The resulting rollouts are shown to be stable and reflect statistics that are consistent with the ground truths.

    Biography: Leonardo Zepeda-Nunez is a Senior Research Scientist at Google Research and an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has held postdoctoral positions at Lawrence Berkeley Lab and University of California, working with Lin Lin and Hongkai Zhao respectively. He received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT in 2015 under the direction of Laurent Demanet, an M.Sc. from University of Paris VI in 2010, and a Diploma from École Polytechnique in 2009. His research emcompases scientific machine learning with applications to weather and climate, electronic structure computations, wave-based inverse problems, and fast PDE solvers for wave phenomena.

    More Info: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/

    Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/98775609685?pwd=a2lSd01oY0o2KzA4VWphbGxjWk5Qdz09

    Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102

    WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/98775609685?pwd=a2lSd01oY0o2KzA4VWphbGxjWk5Qdz09

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Tessa Yao

    Event Link: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/

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  • DEN@Viterbi - Online Graduate Engineering Virtual Information Session

    Wed, Feb 08, 2023 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM

    DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission

    Workshops & Infosessions


    Join USC Viterbi School of Engineering for a virtual information session via WebEx, providing an introduction to DEN@Viterbi, our top ranked online delivery system. Discover the 40+ graduate engineering and computer science programs available entirely online.

    Attendees will have the opportunity to connect directly with USC Viterbi representatives during the session to discuss the admission process, program details and the benefits of online delivery.

    Register Today!

    WebCast Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/uscviterbi/onstage/g.php?MTID=ef7c00d399297ebfa414baac3109050a3

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs

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  • PhD Thesis Proposal - Baskin B. Senbaslar

    Thu, Feb 09, 2023 @ 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

    University Calendar


    Title:
    Thesis Proposal: Real-time Trajectory Planning for Mobile Robot Navigation in Cluttered Environments

    Committee:
    Gaurav Sukhatme (Chair), Laurent Itti, Mihailo R. Jovanovic, Sven Koenig, and Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli

    Date:
    Thursday, February 9th, 12:30pm PST

    Location:
    RTH 406

    Zoom Meeting Details:
    https://usc.zoom.us/j/97713760524?pwd=Ynh5enZTTzlTZmNpdW5FWmlGSGhtQT09

    Abstract:
    Collision-free mobile robot navigation in cluttered environments is a central problem for many robotics applications. In such environments, obstacles can be static, i.e. stationary, or dynamic, i.e. moving. Dynamic obstacles can be cooperative or non-cooperative. Non-cooperative dynamic obstacles can be interactive, i.e. changing their behavior according to the behavior of other entities, or not interactive. Navigation in such environments with obstacles with different behavior modalities require real-time decision making capabilities.

    In this thesis proposal, we investigate the safety requirements against these different types of objects, and develop a real-time trajectory planning algorithm satisfying the safety requirements. We investigate the context in which the planner should be used and delve into its interaction with other system components, including reactive controllers and global trajectory planners

    Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 406

    WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97713760524?pwd=Ynh5enZTTzlTZmNpdW5FWmlGSGhtQT09

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Assistant to CS chair

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  • CED MESA Transfer Student Success Workshop #1

    Thu, Feb 09, 2023 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

    Center for Engineering Diversity

    Workshops & Infosessions


    This workshop will highlight academic resources available to youâ”Viterbi Learning Program (VLP) & the Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity (KCLC).

    VLP (a free tutoring service) will cover the basics of making an appointment with a tutor. They'll host a mock session so that participants know what to expect out of an appointment with VLP.

    The KCLC will present 2 time management tools that are useful in academic and professional spaces!

    More Information: Transfer Student Success Series Workshop.png

    Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211

    Audiences: Undergrad

    Contact: Miguel Anzelmetti

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  • PHD Thesis Proposal (John Francis)

    Thu, Feb 09, 2023 @ 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

    University Calendar


    PhD Candidate: John Francis
    Date: 02/09/23 (Thursday)

    Committee: Mike Zyda, Carl Kesselman, Jernej Barbic, Scott Fraser, Kate White

    Abstract:

    The structural modeling of cells can be accomplished by integrating images of cellular morphology from multiple scales and modalities using a parts based approach. In this thesis, we demonstrate a method for combining the statistical distribution of structures from x-ray tomography and fluorescence microscopy using neural networks to predict the localization of high resolution components in low resolution modalities by using the single cell as a shared unit of transfer.

    Location: https://usc.zoom.us/j/92031065960

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Asiroh Cham

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  • Become a Volunteer Tutor with STEMx Tutors! | Info Session

    Thu, Feb 09, 2023 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM

    USC Viterbi School of Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    EnCorps STEMx Expert Tutor Program is a national volunteer opportunity that supports STEM-focused college students interested in virtually volunteering two hours of their week to mentor and tutor a middle school student in need of academic and math support. EnCorps provides all the necessary onboarding information as well as the tools needed to effectively mentor students. EnCorps have over 150 STEM professionals and college students volunteering with their program. As a thank you to college volunteers EnCorps offers networking opportunities, letters of recommendation, and professional development opportunities.

    Visit the EnCorps STEMx Tutor Website to Learn More:
    https://encorps.org/volunteer-programs

    If you have any questions contact Ashley Lentz at ashley.lentz@encorps.org

    Location: Online Event

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Noe Mora

    Event Link: https://engage.usc.edu/viterbi/rsvp?id=388544

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