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Addressing COVID-19 Challenges - AME M.Sc. Summer Directed Research
Tue, Aug 11, 2020 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Alumni
Workshops & Infosessions
Directed Research Summer Program for M.Sc. students in USC AME will be showcasing their final presentations on big challenges related to COVID-19.
Join us on August 11 from 10:00-11:30 am PST for four main projects on:
- Disinfection Robots
- PPE handling improvements
- PAPRs and re-purposing beyond COVID-19
- Droplet dispersion modeling
Please Register Here: TinyURL.com/AMEResearchMore Information: COVID 19 Challenges.jpeg
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kristy Ly
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Undergraduate Experience Viterbi Info Session
Tue, Aug 11, 2020 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Join us for an Experience Viterbi Welcome Party! Learn more about the Experience USC Viterbi app and how to engage along four success areas, receive insider app tips from current undergraduate student users, and play interactive games for a chance to win prizes! Unlock all the tools you need for a successful school year. It's an event you won't want to miss!
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Programs
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Virtual First-Year Admission Information SessionTue, Aug 11, 2020 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Our virtual information session is a live presentation from a USC Viterbi admission counselor designed for high school students and their family members to learn more about the USC Viterbi undergraduate experience.Our session will cover an overview of our undergraduate engineering programs, the application process, and more on student life.Guests will be able to ask questions and engage in further discussion toward the end of the session.
Please register here!Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Virtual Viterbi New Master's Student Welcome
Wed, Aug 12, 2020 @ 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Masters Programs
Student Activity
Meet the Master's Student Affairs team along with your Academic Advisor to prepare you for a successful transition to USC Viterbi!
Audiences: Invite Only
Contact: Juli Legat
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Klein Institute for Undergraduate Engineering Life (KIUEL) Freshman Officer Info Session
Wed, Aug 12, 2020 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
We invite all first-year Viterbi students to join this info session and learn more about KIUEL. KIUEL is an undergraduate student committee that focuses on building community among the undergraduate engineers at USC.
We coordinate a multitude of events to educate the student body on the various university and professional initiatives aimed to create a community which promotes learning and explore engineering.
Our mission is to enhance the holistic experience of Viterbi undergraduate students by fostering community, leadership, engagement, and service.Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Programs
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Virtual Viterbi New Master's Student Welcome
Wed, Aug 12, 2020 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Masters Programs
Receptions & Special Events
Meet the Master's Student Affairs team along with your Academic Advisor to prepare you for a successful transition to USC Viterbi!
Audiences: Invite Only
Contact: Juli Legat
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DEN@Viterbi - 'Limited Status: How to Get Started' Virtual Info Session
Thu, Aug 13, 2020 @ 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Join USC Viterbi for our upcoming Limited Status: How to Get Started Virtual Information Session via WebEx to learn about the Limited Status enrollment option. The Limited Status enrollment option allows individuals with an undergraduate degree in engineering or related field, with a 3.0 GPA or above to take courses before applying for formal admission into a Viterbi graduate degree program.
USC Viterbi representatives will provide a step-by-step guide for how to get started as a Limited Status student and enroll in courses online via DEN@Viterbi as early as the Fall 2020 semester.
Register Now!WebCast Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/uscviterbi/onstage/g.php?MTID=e7962d044e71c7c2bd25503581ed1edef
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs
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M.S. Group Advisement
Thu, Aug 13, 2020 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
This optional group advisement session is for new and continuing M.S. Computer Science students and M.S. students in our Data Science Programs. Access instructions will be emailed to students prior to the session.
Location: Zoom
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/92220006953
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: Ryan Rozan
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NL SEMINAR Improving Dialogue Agents with a Social Dimension and Understanding Monolingual Pre-Training for Bilingual Models
Thu, Aug 13, 2020 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Naitian Zhou and Omar Shaikh , ISI interns
Talk Title: Improving Dialogue Agents with a Social Dimension and Understanding Monolingual Pre-Training for Bilingual Models
Abstract: Naitian Zhou
TITLE Improving Dialogue Agents with a Social Dimension
The dialogue problem is challenging because a proper response must be conditioned on many different factors: knowledge about the language, knowledge about the world, knowledge about self, and knowledge about the speaker, to name a few. Prior research has focused on language modeling and "persona" modeling, encoding facts about the dialogue agent. In this project, I try to focus on an alternative dimension to dialogue: how do we condition the way we converse, based on our understanding of ourselves and our social relationship with our dialogue partner?
Omar Shaikh
TITLE Understanding Monolingual Pre Training for Bilingual Models
Monolingual embeddings from models like BERT are known to help on a variety of downstream tasks in a straightforward way. Usually, these embeddings are plug and play initializing models with BERT embeddings or using them as input representations result in increased model performance. However, supervised NMT tasks do not appear to benefit equally from traditional pretraining methods. We explore what makes NMT bilingual and BERT LM monolingual representations different on several probing tasks, and why certain training methods succeed in extracting performance from BERT embeddings from NMT tasks.
Biography: 1. Naitian Zhou is a rising junior at the University of Michigan studying computer science and data science. His interests include computational social science and natural language processing.
2. Omar is a Summer 2020 intern with Dr. Jon May. He is also a rising junior at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Host: Jon May and Emily Sheng
More Info: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Webcast: https://youtu.be/QS3NVSbunt8Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Virtual Only
WebCast Link: https://youtu.be/QS3NVSbunt8
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petet Zamar
Event Link: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Viterbi Undergraduate New Student Welcome
Thu, Aug 13, 2020 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Receptions & Special Events
The annual Viterbi Undergraduate New Student Welcome will be held on August 13th. We welcome Viterbi's incoming first-years and transfer students with an opportunity to meet faculty, staff, and students. This year the Welcome will continue on Friday, August 14th with virtual Welcome Receptions hosted by each academic department.
For more information: http://viterbiundergrad.usc.edu/welcome-viterbi/Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Programs
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Virtual First-Year Admission Information Session
Thu, Aug 13, 2020 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Our virtual information session is a live presentation from a USC Viterbi admission counselor designed for high school students and their family members to learn more about the USC Viterbi undergraduate experience.Our session will cover an overview of our undergraduate engineering programs, the application process, and more on student life.Guests will be able to ask questions and engage in further discussion toward the end of the session.
Please register here!Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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DEN@Viterbi - 'Limited Status: How to Get Started' Virtual Info Session
Thu, Aug 13, 2020 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Join USC Viterbi for our upcoming Limited Status: How to Get Started Virtual Information Session via WebEx to learn about the Limited Status enrollment option. The Limited Status enrollment option allows individuals with an undergraduate degree in engineering or related field, with a 3.0 GPA or above to take courses before applying for formal admission into a Viterbi graduate degree program.
USC Viterbi representatives will provide a step-by-step guide for how to get started as a Limited Status student and enroll in courses online via DEN@Viterbi as early as the Fall 2020 semester.
Register Now!WebCast Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/uscviterbi/onstage/g.php?MTID=e14e9b06563c9bac7ff83603f42fd3445
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs
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M.S. Group Advisement
Fri, Aug 14, 2020 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
This optional group advisement session is for new and continuing M.S. Computer Science students and M.S. students in our Data Science Programs. Access instructions will be emailed to students prior to the session.
Location: Zoom
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/92220006953
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: Ryan Rozan
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Virtual Transfer Information Session
Fri, Aug 14, 2020 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Our virtual information session is a live presentation from a USC Viterbi admission counselor designed for prospective transfer students and their family members to learn more about the USC Viterbi undergraduate experience. Our session will cover an overview of our undergraduate engineering programs, the application process, and more on student life. Guests will be able to ask questions and engage in further discussion toward the end of the session.
Register HereAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Undergraduate New Student Welcome Event (Online)
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Fri, Aug 14, 2020 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Student Activity
Please email Grace Owh: owh@usc.edu for Zoom link details.
Location: Online/Zoom
Audiences: Department Only
Contact: Grace Owh
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Viterbi Undergraduate New Student Welcome
Fri, Aug 14, 2020 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Receptions & Special Events
The 2020 Viterbi New Student Welcome continues on Friday, August 14th with virtual Welcome Receptions hosted by each academic department. Hope to see you there!
For more information: http://viterbiundergrad.usc.edu/welcome-viterbi/#deptAudiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Programs
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Netflix Party
Fri, Aug 14, 2020 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Masters Programs
Student Activity
Join fellow engineering students every other Friday on a movie adventure with our Summer Netflix Party Series. Netflix Party allows students to link their viewing experience with each other and even chat along the way!
Please Note:
-You must have a Netflix account. Don't have an account? Netflix does offer a free 30 day trial.
-You must download the Netflix Party extension.
-The day of the Netflix Party, 20 minutes prior to start, you will need to go to the "Summer Netflix Party Series" path in the Experience Viterbi App to receive your special Netflix Party link.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Juli Legat
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Netflix Party
Fri, Aug 14, 2020 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Join your fellow engineering students before classes start and for one more movie adventure with our final Summer Netflix Party. Netflix Party allows students to link their viewing experience with each other and even chat along the way! Special welcome to all our new students!
Please Note:
-You must have a Netflix account. Don't have an account? Netflix does offer a free 30 day trial.
-You must download the Netflix Party extension.
-The day of the Netflix Party, 20 minutes prior to start, you will need to go to the "Summer Netflix Party Series" path in the Experience Viterbi App (eva.usc.edu) to receive your special Netflix Party link.Audiences: Undergraduate and graduate students.
Contact: Monica De Los Santos
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M.S. Group Advisement
Sat, Aug 15, 2020 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
This optional group advisement session is for new and continuing M.S. Computer Science students and M.S. students in our Data Science Programs. Access instructions will be emailed to students prior to the session.
Location: Zoom
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/92220006953
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: Ryan Rozan
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