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SeMS Aviation Security Management Systems AVSEC 24-2Mon, May 13, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed for individuals responsible for managing and implementing aviation security measures at medium to small-size aircraft operators, all airports, and Indirect Air Carriers (IACs). The course applies the fundamentals of SMS (hazard identification, risk assessment, and mitigation of risk) to aviation security. It demonstrates how to conduct a risk-based security program that builds upon national and international standards and requirements. The course presents the PRIFISE operational risk assessment tool as a framework for meeting emerging security threats. As cyber security has become a more important issue, this course has been extended to include a half-day on cyber security. Note: This is a non-SSI course.
Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 920
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24AAVSEC2
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Software Safety SFT 24-2
Mon, May 13, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
Software requires special attention in system planning, architecture, design, and testing. This course presents philosophies and methods of developing and analyzing software and highlights managing a software safety program. Software design principles will be taught to create fault-tolerant and acceptably safe programs. Several software hazard analysis methods will be evaluated, including Fault Tree/Soft Tree, Software Sneak Analysis, and Petri Nets.
Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 960
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24ASFT2
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SeMS Aviation Security Management Systems AVSEC 24-2
Tue, May 14, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed for individuals responsible for managing and implementing aviation security measures at medium to small-size aircraft operators, all airports, and Indirect Air Carriers (IACs). The course applies the fundamentals of SMS (hazard identification, risk assessment, and mitigation of risk) to aviation security. It demonstrates how to conduct a risk-based security program that builds upon national and international standards and requirements. The course presents the PRIFISE operational risk assessment tool as a framework for meeting emerging security threats. As cyber security has become a more important issue, this course has been extended to include a half-day on cyber security. Note: This is a non-SSI course.
Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 920
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24AAVSEC2
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Software Safety SFT 24-2
Tue, May 14, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
Software requires special attention in system planning, architecture, design, and testing. This course presents philosophies and methods of developing and analyzing software and highlights managing a software safety program. Software design principles will be taught to create fault-tolerant and acceptably safe programs. Several software hazard analysis methods will be evaluated, including Fault Tree/Soft Tree, Software Sneak Analysis, and Petri Nets.
Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 960
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24ASFT2
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SeMS Aviation Security Management Systems AVSEC 24-2
Wed, May 15, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed for individuals responsible for managing and implementing aviation security measures at medium to small-size aircraft operators, all airports, and Indirect Air Carriers (IACs). The course applies the fundamentals of SMS (hazard identification, risk assessment, and mitigation of risk) to aviation security. It demonstrates how to conduct a risk-based security program that builds upon national and international standards and requirements. The course presents the PRIFISE operational risk assessment tool as a framework for meeting emerging security threats. As cyber security has become a more important issue, this course has been extended to include a half-day on cyber security. Note: This is a non-SSI course.
Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 920
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24AAVSEC2
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Software Safety SFT 24-2
Wed, May 15, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
Software requires special attention in system planning, architecture, design, and testing. This course presents philosophies and methods of developing and analyzing software and highlights managing a software safety program. Software design principles will be taught to create fault-tolerant and acceptably safe programs. Several software hazard analysis methods will be evaluated, including Fault Tree/Soft Tree, Software Sneak Analysis, and Petri Nets.
Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 960
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24ASFT2
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SeMS Aviation Security Management Systems AVSEC 24-2
Thu, May 16, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed for individuals responsible for managing and implementing aviation security measures at medium to small-size aircraft operators, all airports, and Indirect Air Carriers (IACs). The course applies the fundamentals of SMS (hazard identification, risk assessment, and mitigation of risk) to aviation security. It demonstrates how to conduct a risk-based security program that builds upon national and international standards and requirements. The course presents the PRIFISE operational risk assessment tool as a framework for meeting emerging security threats. As cyber security has become a more important issue, this course has been extended to include a half-day on cyber security. Note: This is a non-SSI course.
Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 920
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24AAVSEC2
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Software Safety SFT 24-2
Thu, May 16, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
Software requires special attention in system planning, architecture, design, and testing. This course presents philosophies and methods of developing and analyzing software and highlights managing a software safety program. Software design principles will be taught to create fault-tolerant and acceptably safe programs. Several software hazard analysis methods will be evaluated, including Fault Tree/Soft Tree, Software Sneak Analysis, and Petri Nets.
Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 960
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24ASFT2
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PhD Dissertation Defense - Nicolaas Weideman
Thu, May 16, 2024 @ 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
PhD Dissertation Defense - Nicolaas Weideman
Title: Improving Binary Program Analysis to Enhance the Security of Modern Software Systems
Committee: Jelena Mirkovic (chair), Chao Wang and Paul Bogdan
Abstract: With the ever-increasing reliance of the modern world on software systems, the frequency and impact of cyberattacks have greatly increased as well. Software must be analyzed thoroughly to evaluate its security, as vulnerabilities in software can have devastating consequences such as compromised privacy of users, shutdown of infrastructure, significant business losses, and even pose threat to human life. Unfortunately, manual analysis of the source code is insufficient to evaluate the security of software. This is firstly due to the quantity and size of modern software making this method impractical and secondly due to low-level vulnerabilities that are invisible in the source code. Conversely, binary program analysis focuses on automatically analyzing the machine code instructions of executables to reason about security-related properties. In this thesis we enhance automatic software security evaluation by leveraging and extending binary program analysis. We develop approaches to 1) automatically discover vulnerabilities and 2) automatically and safely patch vulnerabilities. We improve the reliability of binary data-flow analysis by 3) evaluating three state of the art binary analysis frameworks and 4) improving the state of the art. Each of these directions independently pushes the boundaries of what is possible in defending modern software, leading to a more secure digital environment.
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 213
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nicolaas Weideman
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Alfred E.Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering - Seminar series
Thu, May 16, 2024 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ben Almquist, Senior Lecturer (US equivalent: Associate Professor) in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London and Director of the Biomedical Technology Ventures Programme
Talk Title: Pilfering Patient Pharmacies -“ Using Bioinspiration to Drive Wound Repair
Abstract: Over the course of our lives, our bodies break down and we fix them. Everything from a scraped knee to a broken bone can be mended. But there is always the chance that the task becomes a bit too much for our bodies to handle. Whether it is a chronic skin wound that has persisted for twenty years in an elderly individual, a diabetic ulcer that is trying hard to steal a life, or simply a major traumatic injury that is simply too much for our bodies to handle, the impact is astounding. Chronic non-healing skin wounds have been called a silent epidemic, drive social isolation and depression, and consume 3-5% of national healthcare budgets. Meanwhile, non-union fractures of bones, such as the tibia, score lower in quality-of-life surveys than acute myocardial infarction, AIDS, and T1 diabetes, with a one in two chance of not returning to work. Somewhat surprisingly, there is an astounding lack of innovative approaches carrying clinical approval for treating defective wound healing; in the area of skin repair, the last FDA approved pharmacologic treatment for chronic wounds was approved over 20 years ago! In this talk, I will discuss our push to develop new methods for promoting tissue repair for both chronic and acute wounds, using bioinspiration to link together insights from materials science, nanotechnology and biology to enable new possibilities for driving tissue repair. This goal has led us to establish a new method for controlling drug delivery based on cellular traction forces, while also allowing us to ask the question – can our bodies simply give us the helping hand we need to heal our tissues?
Biography: Dr Ben Almquist is a Senior Lecturer (US equivalent: Associate Professor) in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London and Director of the Biomedical Technology Ventures Programme. His research aims to develop new methods for seamlessly bridging the interface between engineered materials and devices and biological systems, with a major focus on tissue repair and regeneration. Dr Almquist has been recognized as an Emerging Investigator in Biomaterials Science and is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining. Before joining Imperial College, Dr Almquist spent time as a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Solider Nanotechnologies at MIT and was a Research Fellow in the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University. He has an MS and PhD in Materials Science from Stanford University and a BSc in Materials Science from Michigan Technological University.
Host: Eun Ji Chung
Location: Corwin D. Denney Research Center (DRB) - 145
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Carla Stanard
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DEN@Viterbi: Active Duty Military and Veterans Info Session
Thu, May 16, 2024 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Join USC Viterbi representatives for a step-by-step guide and tips for how to apply for formal admission into a Master's degree or Graduate Certificate program. The session is intended for individuals who wish to pursue a graduate degree program completely online via USC Viterbi's flexible online DEN@Viterbi delivery method. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect directly with USC Viterbi representatives and ask questions about the admission process throughout the session.
WebCast Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/r6b09657bde1e9fef8b36ffd0b45ac6e8
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs
Event Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/r6b09657bde1e9fef8b36ffd0b45ac6e8
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SeMS Aviation Security Management Systems AVSEC 24-2
Fri, May 17, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed for individuals responsible for managing and implementing aviation security measures at medium to small-size aircraft operators, all airports, and Indirect Air Carriers (IACs). The course applies the fundamentals of SMS (hazard identification, risk assessment, and mitigation of risk) to aviation security. It demonstrates how to conduct a risk-based security program that builds upon national and international standards and requirements. The course presents the PRIFISE operational risk assessment tool as a framework for meeting emerging security threats. As cyber security has become a more important issue, this course has been extended to include a half-day on cyber security. Note: This is a non-SSI course.
Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 920
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24AAVSEC2
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PhD Defense- Hongkuan Zhou
Fri, May 17, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
PhD Defense- Hongkuan Zhou
Title: Scaling up Temporal Graph Learning: Powerful Models, Efficient Algorithms, and Optimized Systems
Committee Members: Prof. Keith Michael Chugg, Prof. Rajgopal Kannan, Prof Viktor K. Prasanna (Chair), Prof. Mukund Raghothaman
Abstract: Recently, Temporal Graph Neural Networks (TGNNs) have extended the scope of Graph Representation Learning (GRL) to dynamic graphs. TGNNs generate high-quality and versatile dynamic node embeddings by simultaneously encoding the graph structures, node and edge contexts, and their temporal dependencies. TGNNs are shown to demonstrably outperform traditional dynamic graph analytic algorithms in impactful applications that address critical real-world challenges, such as social network analysis, healthcare applications, and traffic prediction and management. However, due to the challenges of the prevalent noise in real-world data, irregular memory accesses, complex temporal dependencies, and high computation complexity, current TGNNs face the following problems when scaling to large dynamic graphs: (1) Unpowerful models. Current TGNN models struggle to capture high-frequency information and handle the diverse and dynamic noise. (2) Ineffcieint algorithms. Current training algorithms cannot leverage the massive parallel processing architecture of modern hardware, while current inference algorithms cannot meet the requirements in different scenarios. And (3) Unoptimized systems. Current TGNN systems suffer from inefficient designs that hinder overall performance. In this dissertation, we address the above issues via model-algorithm-system co-design. For model improvements, we propose a static node-memory-enhanced TGNN model and a temporal adaptive sampling technique. For algorithm improvements, we propose a scalable distributed training algorithm with heuristic guidelines to achieve the optimal configuration, and a versatile inference algorithm. For system improvements, we propose techniques of dynamic feature caching, simplified temporal attention, etc., to compose optimized training and inference systems. We demonstrate significant improvements in accuracy, training time, inference latency, and throughput compared with state-of-the-art TGNN solutions.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hongkuan Zhou
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Join us to learn about the Advancements in Research Ultrasound from Verasonics
Fri, May 17, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Christian Coviello, PhD and Miguel Bernal, Phd, Verasonics
Talk Title: Join us to learn about the Advancements in Research Ultrasound from Verasonics
Host: Qifa Zhou
Location: Corwin D. Denney Research Center (DRB) - 145
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Stephanie Perales
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Quantum Science & Technology Seminar - Z.Y. Jeff Ou, Friday, May 17th at 10:30am in EEB 248
Fri, May 17, 2024 @ 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Z.Y. Jeff Ou, Physics, City University of Hong Kong
Talk Title: Quantum Entangled Interferometers and Their Applications
Series: Quantum Science & Technology Seminar Series
Abstract: A new type of quantum interferometer utilizes nonlinear parametric processes as the wave splitting and recombination elements. Because of the nonlinear interaction, the fields inside the interferometer are intrinsically entangled and quantum mechanically correlated. This type of quantum correlated interferometer exhibits some unique properties that we will review in this talk. Because of these properties, this type of interferometer is superior to traditional beam splitter-based interferometers in many aspects. We will present its various forms and its realizations with different types of waves such as microwave, atomic waves (both internal and external degrees), and sound waves. We will discuss its applications in quantum metrology, quantum imaging, quantum spectroscopy, and quantum state engineering.
Biography: Professor Ou obtained his BS in 1984 from Peking University and his Ph.D. in 1990 from University of Rochester. He is now a chair professor in City University of Hong Kong. Professor Ou is an expert in quantum optics, especially in quantum interference, for which he is famous for the Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer. His current research focuses on quantum metrology, quantum sensing, quantum state engineering, and the fundamental quantum interference effects. Professor Ou is a fellow of American Physical Society and of Optica (formerly Optical Society of America).
Host: Quntao Zhang, Wade Hsu, Mengjie Yu, Jonathan Habif & Eli Levenson-Falk
More Information: Z.Y. Jeff Ou Flyer.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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AI Seminar- AI for Fostering Constructive Online Conversations
Fri, May 17, 2024 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Kristina Gligoric, Stanford University
Talk Title: AI for Fostering Constructive Online Conversations
Abstract: REMINDER: Meeting hosts only admit guests that they know to the Zoom meeting. Hence, you’re highly encouraged to use your USC account to sign into Zoom. If you are an outside visitor, please inform us at aiseminars DASH poc AT isi DOT edu beforehand so we will be aware of your attendance and let you in. Zoom meeting ID: 704 285 0182Passcode: 832239 Abstract: NLP systems promise to positively impact society in high-stakes social domains. However, current evaluation and development focus on tasks that are not grounded in specific societal implications, which can lead to societal harms. In this talk, I will present recent work addressing these issues in the domain of online content moderation. In the first part, I will discuss online content moderation to enable constructive conversations about race. Content moderation practices on social media risk silencing the voices of historically marginalized groups. Both the most recent models and humans disproportionately flag posts in which users share personal experiences of racism. Not only does this censorship hinder the potential of social media to give voice to marginalized communities, but we also find that witnessing such censorship exacerbates feelings of isolation. A psychologically informed reframing intervention offers a path to reduce censorship through. In the second part, I will discuss how identified biases in models can be traced to the use-mention distinction, which is the difference between the use of words to convey a speaker’s intent and the mention of words for quoting what someone said or pointing out properties of a word. Computationally modeling the use-mention distinction is crucial for enabling counterspeech to hate and misinformation. Counterspeech that refutes problematic content mentions harmful language but is not harmful itself. Even recent language models fail at distinguishing use from mention. This failure propagates to downstream tasks but can be reduced through introduced mitigations. Finally, I discuss the big picture and other recent efforts to address these issues in different domains beyond content moderation, including education, emotional support, sustainability, and public discourse about AI. I will reflect on how, by doing so, we can minimize the harms and develop and apply NLP systems for social good.
Biography: Kristina Gligoric is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University Computer Science Department, advised by Dan Jurafsky at the NLP group. Previously she obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science at EPFL, where she was advised by Robert West. Her research focuses on developing computational approaches to address societal issues, drawing methods from NLP and causal inference. Her work has been published in top computer science conferences focused on computational social science and social media (CSCW, ICWSM, TheWebConf), natural language processing (EACL, NAACL, EMNLP), and broad audience journals (Nature Communications and Nature Medicine). She is a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow and University of Chicago Rising star in Data Science. She received awards for her work, including EPFL Thesis Distinction and CSCW Best Paper Honorable Mention Award. This event will be recorded. It will be posted on our USC/ISI YouTube page within 1-2 business days: https://www.youtube.com/user/USCISI.
Host: Myrl Marmarelis and Maura Covaci
More Info: https://www.isi.edu/events/4952/ai-for-fostering-constructive-online-conversations/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Conf Rm#1014
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Pete Zamar
Event Link: https://www.isi.edu/events/4952/ai-for-fostering-constructive-online-conversations/
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PhD Dissertation Defense - Binh Vu
Fri, May 17, 2024 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Title: Exploiting Web Tables and Knowledge Graphs for Creating Semantic Descriptions of Data Sources
Committee: Craig Knoblock (Chair), Sven Koenig, Daniel Edmund O'Leary, Yolanda Gil, Jay Pujara
Date and Time: Friday, May 17th - 3:00p - 5:00p
Location: SAL 322
Abstract: There is an enormous number of tables available on the web, and they can provide valuable information for diverse applications. To harvest information from the tables, we need precise mappings, called semantic descriptions, of concepts and relationships in the data to classes and properties in a target ontology. However, creating semantic descriptions, or semantic modeling, is a complex task requiring considerable manual effort and expertise. Much research has focused on automating this problem. However, existing supervised and unsupervised approaches both face various difficulties. The supervised approaches require lots of known semantic descriptions for training and, thus, are hard to apply to a new or large domain ontology. On the other hand, the unsupervised approaches exploit the overlapping data between tables and knowledge graphs; hence, they perform poorly on tables with lots of ambiguity or little overlapping data. To address the aforementioned weaknesses, we present novel approaches for two main cases: tables that have overlapping data with a knowledge graph (KG) and tables that do not have overlapping data. Exploiting web tables that have links to entities in a KG, we automatically create a labeled dataset to learn to combine table data, metadata, and overlapping background knowledge (if available) to find accurate semantic descriptions. Our methods for the two cases together provide a comprehensive solution to the semantic modeling problem. In the evaluation, our approach in the overlapping setting yields an improvement of approximately 5\% in F$_1$ scores compared to the state-of-the-art methods. In the non-overlapping setting, our approach outperforms strong baselines by 10\% to 30\% in F$_1$ scores.Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 322
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Felante' Charlemagne
