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Aviation Law & Aviation Dispute Resolution LEGAL 24-2Mon, May 20, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed to provide information on the legal risks inherent in aviation operations and an overview of the legal system as it relates to aviation safety. It provides an understanding of the various legal processes relating to aviation and discusses ways to engage aviation authorities responsibly and successfully. The judicial process, current litigation trends, legal definitions, and procedures are also covered.
Our experienced aviation lawyers, as instructors, will encourage "preventative legal medicine" to avoid legal problems. Classes are not just lectures but include interactive issue-spotting so that students can get relevant legal advice from their organizations' lawyers if and when legal problems develop.Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 920
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24ALEGAL2
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Advanced Software Safety ADVSFT 24-1
Mon, May 20, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course builds upon the skills learned in the Software Safety (SFT) course. It is presumed and highly recommended that the student understands the importance of software safety in planning, analyzing architecture, designing, and coding and testing automated systems. The course expands upon those skills and presents opportunities to apply them in class in diverse situations using a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) that is also weaponized.
Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 960
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24AADVSFT1
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Semiconductors & Microelectronics Technology Seminar - Roozbeh Tabrizian, Monday, May 20th at 2pm in EEB 248
Mon, May 20, 2024 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Roozbeh Tabrizian, University of Florida
Talk Title: Unleashing the Power of Nano-Mechanics on Chip using CMOS-based Ferroelectric Hafnia
Series: Semiconductors & Microelectronics Technology
Abstract: The incorporation of nanoscale piezoelectric transducers into advanced semiconductor nodes enables the direct implementation of high-frequency nanomechanical resonators onto CMOS chips. The discovery of metastable ferroelectric phase in hafnia heralds the long-awaited arrival of this integrated piezoelectric transducer. Hafnia films, already utilized in amorphous form as high-k dielectrics in standard semiconductor processes, can be further engineered to stabilize in the ferroelectric phase with significant piezoelectric coupling. Hafnia piezoelectric transducers pave the way for the development of on-chip nanomechanical resonators with quality factors several orders of magnitude higher than solid-state counterparts. This exceptional performance, combined with seamless integration with electronic circuitry, enables the creation of on-chip clocks, local oscillators, and microwave filters, meeting the escalating frequency-control requirements in computing and communication applications. This presentation will provide an overview of Tabrizian Lab's work focusing on the development of nanoscale hafnia transducers and resonators, and their application in creating on-chip distributed clocks for massive computing and monolithic microwave spectral processors for adaptive wireless communication.
Biography: Roozbeh Tabrizian is an Associate Professor and the NELMS Rising Star Endowed Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida. He received his B.S. (2007) degree in EE from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and the Ph.D. (2013) degree in ECE from Georgia Tech. He was a Post-Doctoral Scholar (2014) at the University of Michigan. His research interests include semiconductor micro- and nano-electro-mechanical systems for frequency control applications; microwave acoustics; and novel ferroic materials and devices. Tabrizian has received the DARPA Director's Fellowship Award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, and an NSF CAREER Award. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS) and Sensors and Actuators A: Physical. Tabrizian and his students are recipients of multiple outstanding paper awards at top-tier conferences such as IEEE MEMS, IEEE IFCS, IEEE IEDM, IEEE NEMS, and Transducers.
Host: J Yang, H Wang, C Zhou, S Cronin, W Wu
More Information: Roozbeh Tabrizian Flyer.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Aviation Law & Aviation Dispute Resolution LEGAL 24-2
Tue, May 21, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed to provide information on the legal risks inherent in aviation operations and an overview of the legal system as it relates to aviation safety. It provides an understanding of the various legal processes relating to aviation and discusses ways to engage aviation authorities responsibly and successfully. The judicial process, current litigation trends, legal definitions, and procedures are also covered.
Our experienced aviation lawyers, as instructors, will encourage "preventative legal medicine" to avoid legal problems. Classes are not just lectures but include interactive issue-spotting so that students can get relevant legal advice from their organizations' lawyers if and when legal problems develop.Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 920
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24ALEGAL2
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Advanced Software Safety ADVSFT 24-1
Tue, May 21, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course builds upon the skills learned in the Software Safety (SFT) course. It is presumed and highly recommended that the student understands the importance of software safety in planning, analyzing architecture, designing, and coding and testing automated systems. The course expands upon those skills and presents opportunities to apply them in class in diverse situations using a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) that is also weaponized.
Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 960
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24AADVSFT1
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PhD Dissertation Defense - Avi Thawani
Tue, May 21, 2024 @ 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Title: Aggregating Symbols fo Language Modeling
Date and Time: Tuesday, May 21st, 2024 - 1:30p - 3:30p
Committee: Jay Pujara (Chair), Swabha Swayamdipta, Dani Yogatama, Aiichiro Nakano, Gerard Hoberg
Abstract: Natural language is a sequence of symbols. Language Models (LMs) are powerful at learning sequence patterns. The first step for large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT is to convert text (that humans understand) into indices (that models do). This crucial phase in the Language Modeling pipeline has unfortunately been understudied and is currently achieved by subword segmentation, a manually engineered set of heuristics. I will deep dive into case studies where these heuristics fail and my recommended improvements: for example when representing numbers in text, as well as multi-word phrases. I present an end-to-end tokenized language model that understands both words and numbers better than subwords without any manually engineered heuristic. It also outperforms character-level tokenisation, promising up to 4/6x speed up in inference and training respectively.
I show the benefits of aggregating symbols for language modeling, and investigate key aspects of symbol use in LMs:
1. Aggregating on the number line improves both numeracy and literacy of language models
2. We can learn to aggregate symbols given a corpus with improved language modeling and approximate
3. Learning to aggregate symbols helps downstream performance in certain application areas like neural machine translation of non-concatenative languages
Zoom Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96005480765?pwd=TXFUWU5KWjA1S3JtM3FNaWRQZVZOZz09Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 110
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Felante' Charlemagne
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Aviation Law & Aviation Dispute Resolution LEGAL 24-2
Wed, May 22, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed to provide information on the legal risks inherent in aviation operations and an overview of the legal system as it relates to aviation safety. It provides an understanding of the various legal processes relating to aviation and discusses ways to engage aviation authorities responsibly and successfully. The judicial process, current litigation trends, legal definitions, and procedures are also covered.
Our experienced aviation lawyers, as instructors, will encourage "preventative legal medicine" to avoid legal problems. Classes are not just lectures but include interactive issue-spotting so that students can get relevant legal advice from their organizations' lawyers if and when legal problems develop.Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 920
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24ALEGAL2
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Advanced Software Safety ADVSFT 24-1
Wed, May 22, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course builds upon the skills learned in the Software Safety (SFT) course. It is presumed and highly recommended that the student understands the importance of software safety in planning, analyzing architecture, designing, and coding and testing automated systems. The course expands upon those skills and presents opportunities to apply them in class in diverse situations using a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) that is also weaponized.
Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 960
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24AADVSFT1
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DEN@Viterbi - Online Graduate Engineering Virtual Information Session
Wed, May 22, 2024 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 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.
WebCast Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/ra9e59a829e912676f1808c0d064f02a0
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs
Event Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/weblink/register/ra9e59a829e912676f1808c0d064f02a0
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Aviation Law & Aviation Dispute Resolution LEGAL 24-2
Thu, May 23, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed to provide information on the legal risks inherent in aviation operations and an overview of the legal system as it relates to aviation safety. It provides an understanding of the various legal processes relating to aviation and discusses ways to engage aviation authorities responsibly and successfully. The judicial process, current litigation trends, legal definitions, and procedures are also covered.
Our experienced aviation lawyers, as instructors, will encourage "preventative legal medicine" to avoid legal problems. Classes are not just lectures but include interactive issue-spotting so that students can get relevant legal advice from their organizations' lawyers if and when legal problems develop.Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 920
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24ALEGAL2
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Advanced Software Safety ADVSFT 24-1
Thu, May 23, 2024 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course builds upon the skills learned in the Software Safety (SFT) course. It is presumed and highly recommended that the student understands the importance of software safety in planning, analyzing architecture, designing, and coding and testing automated systems. The course expands upon those skills and presents opportunities to apply them in class in diverse situations using a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) that is also weaponized.
Location: Century Boulevard Building (CBB) - 960
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daniel Scalese
Event Link: https://avsafe.usc.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=24AADVSFT1
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AI Seminar-Things Multimodal LLMs Cannot See: Toward Discovering and Mitigating Perceptual Biases in Neural Networks through Visual Interventions
Thu, May 23, 2024 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mahyar Khayatkhoei , USC/ISI
Talk Title: Things Multimodal LLMs Cannot See: Toward Discovering and Mitigating Perceptual Biases in Neural Networks through Visual Interventions
Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss our recent research on the use of pixel-space interventions for discovering and mitigating biases in visual neural networks, including in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). I will start by showcasing our discovered perceptual limitations and biases of MLLMs (including commercial ones such as GPT-4V and LLaVA). I will then discuss our simple yet effective intervention-based approach for mitigating such limitations, which can do so without requiring any training. Finally, I will more broadly discuss the problem of removing attribute-specific bias from neural networks, present our latest information theoretic bounds on this problem, and explain our adversarial input-intervention approach for removing strong attribute bias.
This event will be recorded but only shared with AI Division Leadership.
Biography: I am a Computer Scientist at the AI Division of the USC Information Sciences Institute. I received my Ph.D. and M.Sc. in computer science from Rutgers University working with Dr. Ahmed Elgammal, and my B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran. My research explores the theory and application of deep generative models, and has identified and resolved major bottlenecks in neural networks’ ability to learn from heterogeneous data (NeurIPS 2018), to learn high frequency features (AAAI 2022), and in their reliable evaluation (ICML 2023). My latest focus is on adopting large-scale generative neural networks to real-world mission-critical tasks. I am particularly interested in developing reliable and efficient data-driven computational models of real-world phenomena that would enhance our current physics-based models. My personal website is at https://mahyarkoy.github.io
Host: Host: Adam Russell, POC Justina Gilleland and Alma Nava
More Info: https://www.isi.edu/events/4966/things-multimodal-llms-cannot-see-toward-discovering-and-mitigating-perceptual-biases-in-neural-networks-through-visual-interventions/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/93179461297?pwd=d2RpNWlEblhxcHRFMU9RbnRxbWJBUT09Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Conf Rm#1135
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/93179461297?pwd=d2RpNWlEblhxcHRFMU9RbnRxbWJBUT09
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Pete Zamar
