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SERC TALKS: Systems Engineering Research Center
Wed, Aug 03, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Astronautical Engineering, Systems Architecting and Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dinesh Verma, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Systems and Enterprises and Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology
Talk Title: What Were the Top Issues and Opportunities from the SERC Model Centric Design and Acquisition Forum?
Series: SERC Talks
Abstract: Model centric engineering can be characterized as an overarching digital and visual approach to engineering. Digital technologies are changing how organizations are conceptualizing, architecting, designing, developing, producing, and sustaining. Some use model centric environments for customer engagements, as well as design engineering analyses and review sessions. Some are integrating mission and system level modeling and simulations originally created for design and development and expanding them into new cloud like services enabled by the industrial Internet. Most organizations today have a unique capability realized by integrating commercial technologies and tools with their own innovations.
The Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) organized an Industry Government Forum to gain insights from key stakeholders in the user community on how to transform our engineering and acquisition culture in light of these advancements, how to align engineering and business acquisition models; and explore ideas and concepts to improve the efficiencies, and speed development, deployment, and sustainment of needed capabilities to the user.
The intent of this Forum was for key stakeholders in industry, government, and academia to converge and identify high value air gaps that remain as hurdles in model centric engineering, and that can be addressed through focused research and policy. This presentation will highlight the primary insights and challenges identified during this forum.
Biography: Dinesh Verma is Dean of the School of Systems and Enterprises and Professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, while concurrently serving as the Executive Director of the Systems Engineering Research Center, the first University Affiliated Research Center established by the DoD for Systems Engineering Research. He also serves as the Scientific Advisor to the Director of the Embedded Systems Institute in Eindhoven, Holland. Prior to this role, he served as Technical Director at Lockheed Martin Undersea Systems, in Manassas, Virginia, in the area of adapted systems and supportability engineering processes, methods and tools for complex system development and integration.
Host: Systems Engineering Research Center
More Info: http://www.sercuarc.org/
Webcast: https://stevensinstitute.webex.com/mw3100/mywebex/default.do?service=1&siteurl=stevensinstitute&nomenu=false&main_url=%2Fmc3100%2Fmeetingcenter%2Fdefault.do%3Fsiteurl%3Dstevensinstitute%26rnd%3D2399697570%26main_url%3D%252Fmc3100%252Fe.do%253Fsiteurl%253DLocation: Webex Webinar
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Barry Boehm
Event Link: http://www.sercuarc.org/
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Can machines understand and generate stories?
Wed, Aug 03, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Angeliki Lazaridou, USC/ISI Summer Intern
Talk Title: Can machines understand and generate stories?
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Computational creativity is an emerging field of AI, with linguistic creativity being an interesting test-bed for developing and evaluating machines with reasoning capabilities. A concrete example is story generation and understanding, a task which unlike the vast majority of traditional NLP that treats sentences in isolation, requires deep understanding of the general context and discourse of stories.
In this talk, I will present some preliminary steps towards this goal and show how sequence-to-sequence models can be applied to this task. Overall, our results on story understanding are on par with current state-of-the-art (that nevertheless have no generative capabilities), while at the same time producing sometimes rather amusing story endings.
Biography: Angeliki is a final year PhD student at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences of the University of Trento. She received her MSc from the Saarland University, where she worked with Ivan Titov and Caroline Sporleder on Bayesian models for sentiment and discourse. She is currently working at the intersection between language and vision under the supervision of Marco Baroni.
Host: Xing Shi and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Webcast: http://webcastermshd.isi.edu/Mediasite/Play/202452984a364bc8875b71bf115149281dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
WebCast Link: http://webcastermshd.isi.edu/Mediasite/Play/202452984a364bc8875b71bf115149281d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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USC Energy Institute Symposium
Thu, Aug 04, 2016 @ 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: Oil Economics and the State of the Industry
Host: USC Energy Institute
Webcast: https://bluejeans.com/894433558More Information: Oil Economics and the State of the Industry_REVISE.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
WebCast Link: https://bluejeans.com/894433558
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Juli Legat
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Communications, Networks & Systems (CommNetS) Seminar
Thu, Aug 04, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Tina Woolf, Claremont Graduate University
Talk Title: Weighted L1-Minimization for Sparse Recovery under Arbitrary Prior Information
Series: CommNetS
Abstract: Weighted L1-minimization has been studied as a technique for the reconstruction of a sparse signal from compressively sampled measurements when prior information about the signal, in the form of a support estimate, is available. In this talk, we present recent results on the recovery conditions and the associated recovery guarantees of weighted L1-minimization when arbitrarily many distinct weights are permitted. For example, such a setup might be used when one has multiple estimates for the support of a signal, and these estimates have varying degrees of accuracy. Our analysis yields an extension to existing works that assume only a single constant weight is used.
Biography: Tina Woolf is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Claremont Graduate University. She received her B.S. in Mathematics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 2009 and her M.S. in Mathematics from Claremont Graduate University in 2012. Her research interests include compressed sensing, sparse approximation, and stochastic optimization. Since 2009, she has also been a Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman, primarily involved in modeling, simulation, and payload system performance analysis of infrared systems.
Host: Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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USC Graduate Engineering Info Session: Mumbai
Fri, Aug 05, 2016 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
These events will be hosted by Sudha Kumar, Director of the USC India Office. Special guest speaker Dr. Sandeep Gupta, Professor and Chair of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, will also join this event.
Each 2-hour information session will include a presentation on:
Master's & Ph.D. Programs in Engineering and Computer Science
How to Apply
Scholarships and Funding
Student Life at USC and in Los Angeles
Attendees will also have the chance to ask questions and receive official brochures and handout information from USC.
Register to Attend
Location: Vivanta by Taj President, Mumbai
Audiences: Students with an undergraduate background in engineering, computer science, math or physical science
Contact: Sudha Kumar
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USC Graduate Engineering Info Session: Bangalore
Sat, Aug 06, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
These events will be hosted by Sudha Kumar, Director of the USC India Office. Special guest speaker Dr. Sandeep Gupta, Professor and Chair of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, will also join.
Each 2-hour information session will include a presentation on:
Master's & Ph.D. Programs in Engineering and Computer Science
How to Apply
Scholarships and Funding
Student Life at USC and in Los Angeles
Attendees will also have the chance to ask questions and receive official brochures and handout information from USC.
Register to Attend
Location: ITC Windsor Manor, Bangalore
Audiences: Students with an undergraduate background in engineering, computer science, math or physical science
Contact: Sudha Kumar
