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  • New Delhi, India - Admitted Student Reception

    Mon, Apr 22, 2019

    Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission

    University Calendar


    These Admitted Student Programs, hosted by the Undergraduate Admission Office, provide admitted students and their families an opportunity to meet admission counselors, representatives from academic departments, alumni, and you will have the opportunity to meet other admitted students from your local area. Viterbi and University Admission counselors will be there to answer any questions you might have, tell you more about campus life and your specific academic program, and welcome you to the Trojan Family. The program will last approximately two hours.

    We love seeing our newly admitted students in person! if you live in or near a city we will be visiting, we encourage you to join us!

    Once admitted, students can find the RSVP link in their USC Applicant Portal.

    Audiences: Admitted Students & Family Members

    Contact: Viterbi Admission

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  • Repeating EventSpring Explore USC

    Mon, Apr 22, 2019

    Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission

    University Calendar


    Spring Explore is a full-day program running from 8:30am-5pm. The day includes a presentation from the Office of Admission, a USC Campus Tour, and visit with us in the Viterbi School of Engineering. During your time with us you will learn what your life will be like as an engineering student at USC, meet some of our current engineering students, see facilities and labs, and get your questions answered about the enrollment process, housing, and your "next steps".

    Once admitted, students can find the RSVP link in their USC Applicant Portal.

    Audiences: Spring Admits & Family Members

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    Contact: Viterbi Admission

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  • ECE Seminar: Analyzing Learning Algorithms: Perspectives from Information Theory and Optimal Transport

    Mon, Apr 22, 2019 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Varun Jog, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Talk Title: Analyzing Learning Algorithms: Perspectives from Information Theory and Optimal Transport

    Abstract: In this talk, we will analyze generalization and robustness properties of learning algorithms using tools derived from information theory and optimal transport. In statistical learning theory, generalization error is used to quantify the degree to which a supervised machine learning algorithm may overfit to training data. Leveraging recent work [Xu and Raginsky (2017)], we derive information-theoretic generalization error bounds for a broad class of iterative algorithms that are characterized by bounded, noisy updates with Markovian structure, such as stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (SGLD). We describe certain shortcomings of these information-theoretic bounds, and propose alternate strategies that rely on optimal transport theory. We show that results from optimal transport are well-suited to analyze not only generalization properties, but also robustness properties of learning algorithms.

    Biography: Varun Jog received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2010, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) from UC Berkeley in 2015. Since 2016, he is an Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and a fellow at the Grainger Institute for Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His research interests include information theory, machine learning, and network science. He is a recipient of the Eli Jury award from the EECS Department at UC Berkeley (2015) and the Jack Keil Wolf student paper award at ISIT 2015.


    Host: Professor Salman Avestimehr, avestime@usc.edu

    Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Mayumi Thrasher

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  • Munushian Keynote Lecture - F. Duncan Haldane - Nobel Laureate, Physics 2016, Princeton University

    Mon, Apr 22, 2019 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: F. Duncan Haldane, Princeton University

    Talk Title: Topological Quantum Matter, Entanglement, and the Second Quantum Revolution

    Abstract: While the laws of quantum mechanics have remained unchanged and always validated for the last eighty-five years, new discoveries about the exotic states that they allow, entanglement, and ideas from quantum information theory have greatly changed our perspective, so much so that some talk of a "second quantum revolution" that is currently underway. The discovery of unexpected "topological states of matter", and their possible use for "topologically-protected quantum information processing" is one of the important themes of these developments, and will be reviewed. Some of the early work in the 1980's that began to expose topological quantum matter has already earned Nobel Prizes, including the experimental discoveries of von Klitzing (Integer Quantum Hall Effect, Nobel 1985), and Stormer and Tsui (Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Nobel 1998), the theoretical discovery of its description by Laughlin (co-laureate, 1998), and the work honored by the recent 2016 prize, which also occured in the 1980's. Given the surprising nature of subsequent recent developments, and the excitement they have generated, it seems likely that more will follow, especially if the current attempts to demonstrate "braiding" become successful. It is no exaggeration to say that, at least in Condensed Matter Physics, the concepts and language used to describe quantum states of matter have dramatically changed since about 1980 as a result of all these developments, in which the quantum property of "entanglement" plays a key role.

    Biography: Duncan Haldane, who shared the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics with David Thouless and Michael Kosterlitz, is the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at Princeton University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Institute of Physics (UK).
    He was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize for his theoretical work on "topological states of matter", including pioneering
    work on unexpected (and initially controversial) "topological quantum states" of one-dimensional systems of magnetic atoms (for which he had previously received the 1993 Oliver Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society), and on the 1988 theoretical prediction of (ferromagnetic) topological insulators exhibiting the "quantum anomalous Hall effect" (finally observed experimentally many years later in 2013) for which he shared the 2012 Dirac medal of the International
    Center for Theoretical Physics (Trieste) with Charles Kane and Shou-Cheng Zhang. His work helped to open up new directions and ways of thinking about quantum effects in condensed matter, and in recent years, "topological quantum matter" has grown into a very active experimental field which many believe may provide platforms for "quantum computing". He also initiated the field of "topological photonics". He currently works on "quantum geometry" in the "fractional quantum Hall effect".
    Dr. Haldane received his Ph. D. in theoretical condensed matter physics from Cambridge University, under the direction
    and mentorship of Philip W. Anderson (Nobel Laureate in Physics 1977), and, before his appointment at Princeton University, worked at the Institut Laue-Langevin (Grenoble, France), the University of Southern California, Bell Laboratories, and the University of California, San Diego. Haldane was born in London in 1951, of mixed Scottish and Slovenian origins. Despite also having three forenames, he is unrelated to the famous biologist J. B. S. Haldane.

    Host: ECE-Electrophysics

    More Info: https://minghsiehee.usc.edu/about/lectures/munushian/

    Location: Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience (MCB) - 102

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Marilyn Poplawski

    Event Link: https://minghsiehee.usc.edu/about/lectures/munushian/

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  • Repeating EventExplore USC - Admitted Student Day

    Tue, Apr 23, 2019

    Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission

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    Explore USC is the most comprehensive campus visit program for admitted students. It is a full-day program that allows you to interact with dozens of our current students, tour the campus, learn more about financial aid, gives you opportunities to sit in on classes, and start the morning with the Viterbi School of Engineering.

    Your time with us in the Viterbi School will take you through an informative session on our academic programs. We will arrange a meeting with faculty from the major you are interested in as well as engineering facility tours of that same area. For lunch we will have you hanging out with some of our engineering students for a few hours, eating in the dinning facilities, seeing the residence halls, but most importantly experiencing the full USC atmosphere.

    Once admitted, students can find the RSVP link in their USC Applicant Portal.

    Audiences: Admitted Students & Family Members

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    Contact: Viterbi Admission

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  • PhD defense - Yaguang Li

    Tue, Apr 23, 2019 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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    Ph.D. Defense - Yaguang Li
    Tue, April 23rd, 2019
    1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    Location: PHE 325

    Title:
    Spatiotemporal Prediction with Deep Learning on Graphs

    PhD Candidate: Yaguang Li
    Date, Time, and Location: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 at 1pm in PHE 325
    Committee: Prof. Cyrus Shahabi, Prof. Yan Liu, and Prof. Antonio Ortega

    Abstract:
    Spatiotemporal data is ubiquitous in our daily life, ranging from climate science, via transportation, social media, to various dynamical systems. The data is usually collected from a set of correlated objects over time, where objects can be sensors, locations, regions, particles, users, etc. For instance, in the transportation network, road sensors constantly record the traffic data at various correlated locations; in social networks, we observe activity data of correlated users, as indicated by friendships, evolving over time, and in dynamical systems, e.g., physics, climate, we observe the movement of particles interacting with each other. Spatiotemporal prediction aims to model the evolution of a set of correlated objects. It has various applications, ranging from classical subjects such as intelligent transportation system, climate science, social media, physics simulation to emerging fields of sustainability, Internet of Things (IoT) and health-care.

    Spatiotemporal prediction is challenging mainly due to the complicated spatial dependencies and temporal dynamics. In this thesis, we study the following important questions in spatiotemporal prediction: (1) How to model complex spatial dependency among objects that are usually non-Euclidean and multimodal? (2) How to model the non-linear and non-stationary temporal dynamics for accurate long-term prediction? (3) How to infer the correlations or interactions among objects when they are not provided nor can be constructed a prior?

    To model the complex spatial dependency, we represent the non-Euclidean pair-wise correlations among objects using directed graphs and then propose the novel diffusion graph convolution which captures the spatial dependency with bidirectional random walks on the graph. To model the multimodal correlations among objects, we further propose the multi-graph convolution network. To model the non-linear and non-stationary temporal dynamics, we integrate the novel diffusion graph convolution into the recurrent neural network to jointly model the spatial and temporal dependencies. To capture the long-term temporal dependency, we propose to use the sequence to sequence architecture with scheduled sampling. To utilize the global contextual information in the temporal correlation modeling, we further propose the contextual gated recurrent neural network which augments the recurrent neural network with a contextual-aware gating mechanism to re-weights different historical observations. To infer correlation among objects, we propose a structure-informed variational graph autoencoder based model, which infers the explicit interactions considering both observed movements and structural prior knowledge, e.g., node degree distribution, edge type distribution, and sparsity. The model represents the structural prior knowledge as differentiable constraints on the interaction graph and optimizes it using gradient-based methods.

    We conduct extensive experiments on multiple real-world large-scale datasets for various spatiotemporal prediction tasks, including traffic forecasting, spatiotemporal demand forecasting, travel time estimation, relational inference and simulation. The results show the proposed models consistently achieve clear improvements over state-of-the-art methods. The proposed models and their variants have been deployed in real-world large-scale systems for applications including road traffic speed prediction, Internet traffic forecasting, air quality forecasting, travel time estimation, and spatiotemporal demand forecasting.

    Location: Charles Lee Powell Hall (PHE) - 325

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Lizsl De Leon

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  • IoT Solutions with Amazon Web Services

    Tue, Apr 23, 2019 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Chris Azer, Amazon Web Services

    Talk Title: IoT Solutions with Amazon Web Services

    Abstract: There are billions of devices in homes, factories, oil wells, hospitals, cars, and thousands of other places. With the proliferation of devices, you increasingly need solutions to connect them, and collect, store, and analyze device data. AWS IoT provides broad and deep functionality, spanning the edge to the cloud, so you can build IoT solutions for virtually any use case across a wide range of devices. This session will explore customer use cases and dive deep into some of these core IoT services in the cloud and at the edge.

    Biography: As an IoT Specialist Solutions Architect for AWS Public Sector, Chris Azer is responsible for supporting federal and state government agencies and partners with their IoT initiatives. With over 15 years of experience, it has been his main goal to help customers extract value from connected devices within the public sector community and industrial automation. Today, Chris helps his customers improve quality of life for populations, business operations, quality of care from service providers, environmental sustainability, and host of other use case scenarios.


    Host: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, CCI

    More Information: 190423_AWS_Chris Azer Flyer.pdf

    Location: Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience (MCB) - 101

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Brienne Moore

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  • Epstein Institute Seminar - ISE 651

    Tue, Apr 23, 2019 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Dr. Chi Zhou, Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo, The State Univ. of NY

    Talk Title: Additive Manufacturing of Multiscale, Multifunctional Structures

    Host: Dr. Yong Chen

    More Information: April 23, 2019.pdf

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

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Grace Owh

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  • CS Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Dan Boneh (Stanford University) – Cryptography for Blockchains

    Tue, Apr 23, 2019 @ 04:00 PM - 05:20 PM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Dr. Dan Boneh, Stanford University

    Talk Title: Cryptography for Blockchains

    Series: Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series

    Abstract: This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium.


    Biography: Dr. Boneh is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University where he heads the applied cryptography group and co-directs the computer security lab. Dr. Boneh's research focuses on applications of cryptography to computer security. His work includes cryptosystems with novel properties, web security, cryptography for blockchains, and cryptanalysis. He is the author of over a 150 publications in the field and is a recipient of the 2014 ACM prize, the 2013 Godel prize, the RSA award in mathematics, and six best paper awards. In 2016 Dr. Boneh was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.


    Host: Computer Science Department

    Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Computer Science Department

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  • Senior Design Student Presentations

    Tue, Apr 23, 2019 @ 04:00 PM - 06:30 PM

    Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Student Activity


    Come along to the Department of Biomedical Engineering's senior design student presentations. Each presentation will last about 20 minutes, with demonstration and Q&A.

    Tuesday 04/23 - 4 pm to 6:30 pm:

    Team 1: Aid for self-administered mucus clearance and airway function assessment for paraplegic patients. Lin Cao, Preethi Chaudhari, Asma Nawaz, Daniel Yen
    Team 2: eye drop dispenser for subjects with deficient fine motor control. Jared Chen, Victor Ong, Swetha Raman, Jenna Wahbeh
    Team 3: Improved pill tracker for clinical trials. Jiarui Fu, Manjima Sarkar, Nina Singh, Sabrina Teo
    Team 4: Stress management device: Kylie Chinn, Priya Lee, Edward Min, Cheryl Tan
    Team 5: Mama-Strut 2.0 - post-partum instrumented brace system: Mana Mehraein, Vincent Mei, Luann Raposo, Afra Yaghoubian

    Location: Corwin D. Denney Research Center (DRB) - 351

    Audiences: Department of Biomedical Engineering faculty and students

    Contact: Greta Harrison

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  • Singapore - Admitted Student Reception

    Wed, Apr 24, 2019

    Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission

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    These Admitted Student Programs, hosted by the Undergraduate Admission Office, provide admitted students and their families an opportunity to meet admission counselors, representatives from academic departments, alumni, and you will have the opportunity to meet other admitted students from your local area. Viterbi and University Admission counselors will be there to answer any questions you might have, tell you more about campus life and your specific academic program, and welcome you to the Trojan Family. The program will last approximately two hours.

    We love seeing our newly admitted students in person! if you live in or near a city we will be visiting, we encourage you to join us!

    Once admitted, students can find the RSVP link in their USC Applicant Portal.

    Audiences: Admitted Students & Family Members

    Contact: Viterbi Admission

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  • Repeating EventPreview USC - Admitted Student Half-Day

    Wed, Apr 24, 2019

    Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission

    University Calendar


    Preview USC is a half-day program covering topics related to housing, financial aid, and transitioning from high school to college. It also offers the opportunity for admitted students to sit in on classes, be part of a session in the Viterbi School of Engineering, and interact with a number of current students in a shorter period of time.

    Once admitted, students can find the RSVP link in their USC Applicant Portal.

    Audiences: Admitted Students & Family Members

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    Contact: Viterbi Admission

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  • LAUSD Drop-In Hours

    Wed, Apr 24, 2019 @ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections

    University Calendar


    Drop in Hours for students interested in Los Angeles United School District ENGR.

    Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections

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  • Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things and Ming Hsieh Institute Seminar Series

    Wed, Apr 24, 2019 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Prof. Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Department of Computer Science, University of California Irvine

    Talk Title: Resilient Communities, The Elements - A Middleware Perspective

    Series: Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things

    Abstract: Advances in technology mobile computing, cyberphysical systems, Internet-of-Things, cloud computing and big data technologies are making available new modalities of information and new channels of communication. It has enabled the interconnection of objects and data to provide novel services that are changing the landscape of cities and communities worldwide. The impact of these technologies are being felt when they improve and enrich the basic elements of our daily lives in our homes and workplaces. During large scale disasters and unexpected events such as (fires, floods and earthquakes), these technologies can be morphed to gain improved situational awareness and better decision support for response personnel, agencies and citizens. The ability to ensure resilient operation under small events and large disasters requires intelligent data collection and data exchange from diverse devices and data sources and interpretation of this information for higher level semantic observations. Drawing on our recent efforts in smartspaces, smart firefighting and smartwater infrastructures , I will discuss the role of adaptive middleware and big data technologies to generate situational awareness. The ability to combine novel technologies at multiple layers will open up new possibilities for resilient and scalable communities of the future.

    Biography: Nalini Venkatasubramanian is currently a Professor in the School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California Irvine. She has had significant research and industry experience in the areas of distributed systems, adaptive middleware, pervasive and mobile computing, cyberphysical systems, distributed multimedia and formal methods and has over 250 publications in these areas. As a key member of the Center for Emergency Response Technologies at UC Irvine, Nalini's recent research has focused on enabling resilient and sustainable communities using IoT/CPS technologies. In particular, her research addresses scalable observation and analysis of situational information from multimodal input sources; dynamic adaptation of the underlying systems to enable information flow under massive failures and the dissemination of rich notifications to members of the public at large. She is the recipient of the prestigious NSF Career Award, multiple Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Awards and best paper awards. Prof. Venkatasubramanian has served in numerous program and organizing committees of conferences on middleware, distributed systems and multimedia and on the editorial boards of journals. She received and M.S and Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her research is supported both by government and industrial sources such as NSF, DHS, ONR, DARPA, Novell, Hewlett-Packard and Nokia. Prior to arriving at UC Irvine, Nalini was a Research Staff Member at the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California.

    Host: Paul Bogdan

    Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Talyia White

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  • Senior Design Student Presentations

    Thu, Apr 25, 2019 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

    Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Student Activity


    Come along to the Department of Biomedical Engineering's senior design student presentations. Each presentation will last about 20 minutes, with demonstration and Q&A.

    Thursday 04/25, 4 pm to 6 pm:

    Team 6: Self-assessment of sweat ionic content. Daniel Cummins, Nora Farahmandian Sarah Milkowski, Mitchell Mills, Christy Nguyen
    Team 7: Nullcer: Diagnostic tool for foot ulcers in diabetic subjects. Rahul Bilakanti, Jordan Hurless, John Kirwan, Justin Lee
    Team 8: Parkinson's disease evolution tracking. Grace Camia, Kristofer Caluya, Camila Mendez-Otero, Conner Pekarek, Zoe Shappell.
    Team 9: DreamDX: At home sleep study device. Devin Dubin, Paris Hajali, Daniel Kwon, Kiera Shepard.

    Location: Corwin D. Denney Research Center (DRB) - 351

    Audiences: Department of Biomedical Engineering faculty and students

    Contact: Greta Harrison

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  • Ming Hsieh Institute Seminar Series on Integrated Systems

    Fri, Apr 26, 2019 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Dr. Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley

    Talk Title: Hybrid and Resonant Switched-Capacitor Power Converters -“ Achieving High Power Density in Applications Ranging from Electric Aircrafts to Data Centers

    Host: Profs. Hossein Hashemi, Mike Chen, Dina El-Damak, and Mahta Moghaddam

    More Information: MHI Seminar Series IS - Robert Pilawa-Podgurski.pdf

    Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Jenny Lin

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  • Senior Design Expo

    Fri, Apr 26, 2019 @ 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs

    Receptions & Special Events


    The KIUEL Senior Design Expo gives seniors a chance to show off what they've done in their capstone classes. Seniors present their projects to a judging panel of faculty, staff, and industry partners, with winners receiving cash prizes. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors can learn what types of projects they will work on and vote for their favorite, as well as see how their current classes can be applied to future engineering projects.

    Location: Daniel J. Epstein Family Plaza (E-Quad)

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Myra Fernandez

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  • Admitted Students Day

    Sat, Apr 27, 2019

    Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission

    University Calendar


    The On Campus Admitted Student Reception is a full day program (10:00am -4:00pm) that takes place on USC's campus on Saturday, April 27. This full day program will provide you and your family with an opportunity to meet staff from Undergraduate Admission, Financial Aid and the Viterbi School of Engineering, tour residence halls, tour the surrounding neighborhood, and meet current Viterbi students and faculty.

    During the program the Viterbi School will host an Engineering Open House - just for admitted students. This large program will cover practically everything you want to know about USC and the Viterbi School. The day includes a Viterbi School Information session and our open house featuring engineering faculty and current engineering students on hand to meet you and help you better understand your chosen academic discipline. Representatives from our student organizations will show you some of the problems they are working to solve as well as some students showing off what they have been working on in their current classes.

    Once admitted, students can find the RSVP link in their USC Applicant Portal.

    Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office

    Audiences: Admitted Students & Family Members

    Contact: Viterbi Admission

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  • 2019 Annual Viterbi Robotics Invitational

    Sat, Apr 27, 2019 @ 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering K-12 STEM Center

    Receptions & Special Events


    The Viterbi Robotics Invitational is an annual competition that highlights the increasing role that robotics have in our everyday lives.

    The competition encourages interactions that leave everyone involved feeling valued with a sense of integrity and teamwork as they seek to solve the wicked problems facing our times such as water security, sustainability and climate change, and terrorism; as well as the Grand Engineering Challenges of advanced health informatics, restoring and improving urban infrastructure, providing access to clean water, preventing nuclear terror and engineering the tools of scientific discovery.

    Nearly 350 elementary middle and high school students participate in the Robotics Invitational which has been hosted by USC Viterbi for over 13 years.

    Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) -

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Darin Gray/Viterbi STEM Educational Outreach

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