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Computer Science Department Retreat
Sun, Aug 28, 2016
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
RSVP, details, and agenda sent directly to invited participants. Please see our dedicated web page, below, for further information.
Location: LA Live
WebCast Link: https://www.cs.usc.edu/2016-computer-science-annual-retreat
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Aug 29, 2016 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Cesar Blanco, PhD, Sr Dir R&D, Regulatory, and Quality, USC Alfred Mann Institute
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Cyber-Physical Systems Seminar
Mon, Aug 29, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Pierluigi Nuzzo, USC
Talk Title: Cyber-Physical System Design Using Contracts
Series: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
Abstract: The realization of complex cyber-physical systems is creating design and verification challenges that will soon become insurmountable with today's engineering practices. While model-based design tools are already facilitating several design tasks, harnessing the complexity of the Internet-of-Things scenario is only deemed possible within a unifying methodology. This methodology should help interconnect different tools, possibly operating on different system representations, to enable scalable design space exploration and early detection of requirement inconsistencies.
In this talk, I show how a contract-based approach provides a formal foundation for a cyber-physical system design methodology which can address the above challenges and encompass both horizontal and vertical integration steps. I use assume-guarantee contracts and their algebra (e.g., composition, conjunction, and refinement) to support the entire design process and enable concurrent development of system architectures and control algorithms. In the methodology, the design is carried out as a sequence of refinement steps from a high-level specification to an implementation built out of a library of components at the lower level. Top level system requirements are represented as contracts, by leveraging a set of formal languages, including mixed integer-linear constraints and temporal logic. Contracts are then refined by combining synthesis and optimization-based methods. I propose a set of optimization-based algorithms for efficient selection of cost effective architectures under safety, reliability, and performance constraints over a large, mixed discrete continuous design space. I demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach on industrial design examples, including aircraft electric power distribution and environmental control systems, showing, for instance, that optimal selection of industrial-scale power system architectures can be performed in a few minutes. Finally, I conclude by presenting future research directions towards a full-fledged integrated framework for system design.
Biography: Pierluigi Nuzzo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) from the University of California at Berkeley in 2015. He also holds a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pisa and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. Between August 2015 and August 2016, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at U.C. Berkeley. Before joining U.C. Berkeley, he was a Researcher at IMEC, Leuven, Belgium, and the University of Pisa, working on the design of energy efficient A/D converters, frequency synthesizers for reconfigurable radio, and design methodologies for mixed-signal integrated circuits.
Pierluigi's research interests include: methodologies and tools for the design of cyber-physical systems and mixed-signal systems; contracts, interfaces, and compositional methods for embedded system design and requirement engineering; the application of automated formal methods and optimization theory to problems in embedded and cyber-physical systems and electronic design automation. He was a recipient of the Best Submission in the Design Automation Conference (DAC) and International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Design Competition in 2006, and the Best Paper Award from the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) in 2016. His awards and honors also include the U.C. Berkeley EECS Ph.D. Fellowship in 2008, the U.C. Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award in 2013, the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship in 2012 and 2014, and the U.C. Berkeley EECS David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize in 2016 for his doctoral research.
Host: Prof. Paul Bogdan
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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Microsoft Info Session
Mon, Aug 29, 2016 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Meet the Company Presentation!
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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PhD Defense - Jing Huang
Tue, Aug 30, 2016 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Title: Object Detection and Recognition from 3D Point Clouds
Location: PHE 223
Time: 10 am, Tuesday, Aug 30th, 2016
PhD Candidate: Jing Huang
Committee:
Suya You (Chair), Ulrich Neumann, Aiichiro Nakano, C.-C. Jay Kuo (Outside Member)
Abstract:
Object detection and recognition are fundamental problems in computer vision. While most existing works have been in the 2D image domain, 3D data are gaining popularity in recent years thanks to the development of 3D sensors. My work focuses on object detection and recognition from 3D point clouds, which involves various stages of point cloud processing including feature description, matching, segmentation, localization, classification, and labeling. We explore two different strategies to solve the detection and recognition problems:
The first strategy is to compute a set of descriptors on the local neighborhood of feature points and use them in the matching-based framework. We apply this strategy in the industrial object detection problem, where the intra-class variation is small. We first present a 3D descriptor based on the self-similarity property of the data, and apply the descriptor to build a feature-based matching module. The matching module is incorporated in the object detection and recognition system, which is further used to build an object-level change detection system.
The second strategy is to compute a representation for a whole candidate cluster, and then apply machine learning techniques to classify the clusters without knowing the exact poses. We employ this strategy in the urban object detection, where the intra-class variation is much higher. Specifically, we develop a slicing-based localization method for pole-like objects, introduce a representation of six attributes based on the height and five PCA-based features and apply SVM to classify the candidate objects into four categories. For vehicles, the PCA-based features are not enough to tell them apart from other planar objects. To this end, we employ the deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) based on the orthogonal-view information from the candidates, and prior knowledge for vehicles and urban environment is utilized to help the detection process. Finally, inspired by the success of deep learning on the 2D problems, we present the voxel-based fully-3D Convolutional Neural Network on the point cloud labeling problem. This approach minimizes the use of prior knowledge and hand-crafted features compared to most previous approaches.
We demonstrate the proposed object detection and recognition methods through experiments on point clouds from industrial datasets and large-scale urban datasets.
Location: Charles Lee Powell Hall (PHE) - 223
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
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AI Seminar
Tue, Aug 30, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Fei Sha, UCLA
Talk Title: Large-scale Zero-Shot Learning
Abstract: Abstract: Is it possible for computer vision systems to recognize visual object categories that they have never seen before? More precisely, in the paradigm of zero-shot learning, a learner has access to only a subset of the labels in the labeling space (and its associated exemplar images). Nonetheless, our goal for the learner is to recognize future occurrences of images from all possible categories. This is an important research problem with great application potential for automatic object recognition in the wild where the number of possible visual categories continuously rises and there is little hope to collect adequate labeling samples for those categories fast enough.
In this talk, I will describe a few work from my research group on tackling this challenge. We have demonstrated that it is possible to train vision systems on the ImageNet images from 1,000 visual categories yet attaining meaningful results on recognizing a disjoint set of 20,000 visual categories.
This is a joint research work with my PhD students (Soravit Changpinyo and Weilun Chao ) at USC and our collaborator Prof. Boqing Gong (U. of Central Florida).
Host: Emilio Ferrara
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th floor Large Conference room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kary LAU
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Microsoft Product Demo & Devices
Tue, Aug 30, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
How does Microsoft design hardware?
What do all of these products have in common?
How does Microsoft take one design and make it into millions?
Find out answers to these questions and many more at Microsoft's Manufacturing & Supply Chain (MSC) and Devices Product Demo Booth. This will be your chance to interact with Microsoft employees and learn about the end to process of taking a product from a design to a product in the customer's hands.
Majors: ME, EE, IE & SCLocation: RTH LOBBY
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Introduction to Viterbi Gateway Workshop
Tue, Aug 30, 2016 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Come to this presentation to learn how to navigate the Viterbi Career Gateway,a powerful job & internship search tool available ONLY to Viterbi students.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Light Modulators-Figures of Merit
Tue, Aug 30, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jacob B Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Light Modulators-Figures of Merit
Abstract: We compare characteristics of various modulators of light. Included are semiconductor QW's with band-to-band and intersubband transitions, graphene, two dimensional materials like MoS2 and polymers. The efficiency enhancement using either micro resonators or plasmonic structures is considered as well. The results indicate that the performance of different modulators depends on the very few characteristics of modulator, essentially on the ratio of absorption cross-section of the modulating medium to the waveguide cross-section and none of the currently fashionable 2D materials offer any meaningful improvement over a simple QW modulator. We also show that electro-optic modulators typically offer lower switching energies than all-optical modulators, but still their performance simply cannot match electronic devices.
Biography: Jacob B Khurgin has been a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University since he remembers himself, or, more precisely, since 1988. Prior to that he vaguely recalls being a Senior Member of Research Staff at Philips NV where he developed various useful things such as small kitchen appliances, lighting fixtures, display components and systems including 3-D projection TV. Satiated by things useful, Prof. Khurgin had decamped industry for academia to immerse himself into topics of dubious utility yet higher entertainment value. Prof. Khurgin's main area of expertise is difficult to pinpoint as it falls into the gap between optics and solid state electronics. In his 28 years at JHU Prof. Khurgin had made contributions of various degrees of relevance and importance in the fields of nonlinear optics, semiconductor optoelectronic devices, quantum-cascade lasers, optical communications, THz technology, microwave photonics, slow light, plasmonics, laser cooling, opto-mechanics, condensed matter physics, and to other fields that he can no longer recall. Prof Khurgin had authored over 320 technical papers, 500 Conference presentations, 5 book chapters, and 35 patents. More importantly, he is very fond of dogs and bicycles and he is also a Fellow of American Physical Society and Optical Society of America. Prof. Khurgin holds PhD from Polytechnic University of New York (Now elevated to the status of NYU school of Engineering).
Host: Alan Willner, x04664, willner@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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ISE 651-Epstein Institute Seminar Speaker Series
Tue, Aug 30, 2016 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Sunderesh S. Heragu, Professor and Head Chair
Talk Title: Deterministic & Stochastic Models for Manufacuturing, Warehousing & Health Care Systems
Host: Dr. Julie Higle
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Angela Reneau
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Microsoft Info Session
Tue, Aug 30, 2016 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Meet the company presentation!
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Computer Science General Faculty Meeting
Wed, Aug 31, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
Bi-Weekly regular faculty meeting for invited full-time Computer Science faculty only. Event details emailed directly to attendees.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Invited Faculty Only
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Microsoft Resume Exchange
Wed, Aug 31, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Be amongst the first to be considered for career at Microsoft!We will be collecting resumes, offering insight and handling out swag on the 31st at Ronald Tutor Hall!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 1st Floor Lobby
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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MHI Communications, Networks & Systems (CommNetS) Seminar
Wed, Aug 31, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Felix Krahmer, Technical University of Munich
Talk Title: Blind Demixing and Deconvolution at Near-Optimal Rate
Series: CommNetS
Abstract: Consider a communication setup of $r$ devices, each sending a signal $x_i$ to a common receiver. In the transmission process, each signal $x_i$ gets convolved with an unknown vector $w_i$, which represents the channel. The receiver measures only the superposition of these signals. The goal is to recover all signals $x_i$. Of course, this problem is highly underdetermined, but in many practical applications, it is a natural to assume that $x_i$ and $w_i$ are elements of some (known) subspaces.
Ling and Strohmer have proposed a convex recovery program for this problem, which is based on nuclear norm minimization. They were able to prove (probabilistic) recovery guarantees, which scale quadratically in the number of devices $r$. However, their numerical experiments suggest that recovery is still possible when the number of measurements scales linearly in $r$. In this talk, we present a recovery guarantee, which is linear in the number of degrees of freedom $r$ and which is close to the number of degrees of freedom. Similar to the work of Ling and Strohmer, the proof is based on the Golfing Scheme by David Gross. However, using tools on Chaos Processes developed by Krahmer, Mendelson, and Rauhut we are able to prove a certain local isometry property, which is stronger than the one established in the work of Ling and Strohmer. This allows us to construct a different dual certificate.
This is joint work with Peter Jung (TU Berlin) and Dominik Stöger (TU Munich).
Biography: Felix Krahmer received his PhD in Mathematics in 2009 from New York University under the supervision of Percy Deift and Sinan Güntürk. He was a HCM postdoc in the group of Holger Rauhut at the University of Bonn, Germany from 2009-2012. In 2012 he joined the University of Göttingen as an assistant professor for mathematical data analysis, where he has been awarded an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group. Since 2015 he has been tenure track assistant professor for optimization and data analysis in the department of mathematics at the Technical University of Munich.
Host: Prof. Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
More Info: http://ee.usc.edu/~ashutosn/CommNetS2016/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
Event Link: http://ee.usc.edu/~ashutosn/CommNetS2016/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start
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Microsoft Coding Competition
Wed, Aug 31, 2016 @ 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Calling all Coders!! Put your programming skills to the test and score some AWESOME prizes and of course free food! Stand out on the spot by registering and competing in our annual Coding Competition on the 31st!
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Viterbi Transfer Student BBQ
Wed, Aug 31, 2016 @ 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Receptions & Special Events
Social event for transfer students to meet each other and hear about resources.
To register, click here https://myviterbi.usc.edu/vasa/?PostingID=1234567994.Location: Epstein Family Plaza (E-Quad)
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Lilian Barajas
Event Link: https://myviterbi.usc.edu/vasa/?PostingID=1234567994
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ASBME GM 0: Welcome!
Wed, Aug 31, 2016 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Welcome to ASBME! This is our first event of the year, and we are so excited to have you join us. Come to hear what ASBME is all about and what we have in store for you for the coming semester from biomedical company networking events, to professional development and speaker sessions, research information, our mentoring program, and community and social events to get involved in. Meet our new Executive Board, and get all of your questions answered all while eating some free pizza and mingling with the best and brightest at USC! Sign up to become a member now on our Membership Page.
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 227
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Biotechnology Lecture SeriesThu, Sep 01, 2016 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Various, Amgen
Talk Title: R&D Insights from Lab Bench to Patient Bedside
Abstract: USC researchers have the opportunity to gain research and development insights with a new biotechnology lecture series sponsored by Amgen and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC.
The weekly lecture series, "R&D Insights from Lab Bench to Patient Bedside" takes place Thursdays at 10:30AM-12:00PM at USC's Health Sciences Campus from September 1, 2016 through November 10, 2016.
The talks will feature Amgen scientists speaking about:
Identifying a possible therapeutic target and its role in disease
Increasing therapeutic efficacy and safety
Process development, devices and manufacturing
Case studies from bench to clinic
Lectures will take place at the BCC First Floor Seminar Room or ZNI Herklotz Seminar Room.
RSVP at http://www.usc.edu/esvp (use code: amgenlecture). Space is limited. Preference will be given to SCRM master's students, PhDs, and postdocs, and attending all lectures is mandatory.
Please contact qliumich@usc.edu or karenw03@amgen.com for further details.
Host: USC Stem Cell/Amgen
More Info: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/biotechnology_lecture_series_rd_insights_from_lab_bench_to_patient_bedside?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=USC+Event+Calendar#.V8dKNLX8vW4
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
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HSC Seminar: Introduction to the USC Stevens mission, functions & support programs that are a part of a thriving culture of innovation at USC
Thu, Sep 01, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Various, USC Stevens Center for Innovation
Abstract: USC Stevens Center for Innovation will be hosting a seminar introducing USC innovators to the USC Stevens mission, functions & support programs that are a part of a thriving culture of innovation at USC. The seminar will take place at USC's Health Sciences Campus, Broad 1st Floor Auditorium (BCC). To sign up, visit www.usc.edu/esvp (code: stevenscenter).
The discussion topics will include: an introduction to USC Stevens, an overview of the commercialization process, resources available for startup support and the corporate collaborations process.
Speaking will be:
Randolph Hall, Vice President of Research
Jennifer Dyer, Executive Director, USC Stevens Center for Innovation
Vasiliki Anest, Senior Director, Corporate Collaborations & Strategic Alliances, USC Stevens Center for Innovation
Michael Arciero, Director of Technology Licensing & New Ventures, USC Stevens Center for Innovation
For more info, contact Peijean Tsai, USC Stevens Marketing Coordinator at peijeant@stevens.usc.edu.
Host: USC Stevens Center for Innovation
More Info: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/usc_stevens_seminar_HSC?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=USC+Event+Calendar#.V8dNNbX8vW4
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
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Information session: A.P. Giannini Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program
Thu, Sep 01, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Workshops & Infosessions
The A.P. Giannini Foundation invites physician-scientists and junior researchers with six to 36 months of postdoctoral research experience to apply to the 2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program. The Fellowship Program supports innovative research in the basic sciences and applied fields, and trains fellows to become established investigators. The research project should advance the translation of biomedical science into treatments, preventions and cures for human diseases.
The 2017 application form and instructions are available at apgianninifoundation.org.
The foundation must receive the candidate's completed application and letters of reference before 3 p.m. (PDT) on Monday, November 1, 2016. All letters of reference must be sent to info@apgianninifoundation.org.
Eligibility
must have completed no less than six months and no more than three years in their mentor's laboratory as of November 1, 2016
must be a U.S. citizen or permanent alien resident
must hold or complete an MD, MD/PhD, PhD or equivalent degree before activation of training
must arrange research training before applying to the program. Research training program must be sponsored by an accredited California medical school and performed under the mentorship of a principal investigator (PI) at the sponsoring medical school. Mentor must hold a full-time faculty appointment at the sponsoring medical school as the fellow. Mentor may supervise a maximum of two A.P. Giannini Foundation fellows in any one year.
Stipend
competitive stipend for research training and an annual allowance for career development programs, services and resources
Stipends can only be used for support. The current stipends are $50,000 in Year 1, $50,000 in Year 2 and $52,000 in Year 3. The foundation will announce the 2017 fellowship stipends by December 15, 2016.
Candidates may be eligible to obtain additional salary support from their sponsoring institution. Candidates cannot currently hold a full fellowship from another source or a federally funded career development award.
Timeline
September 1, 2016: Information session
November 1, 2016: Application and letters of reference due
December 2016: Initial application review and evaluation
January 17, 2017: Finalists selected/candidates notified of application status
February 2017: Finalists contacted to be counseled for the interview and presentation process
March 2, 2017: Finalist interviews and final awardee decision
Location: Harlyne J. Norris Research Tower (NRT) - 503/504
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
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Distinguished Lecture Series
Thu, Sep 01, 2016 @ 12:45 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Tim Rupert, UC Irvine
Talk Title: Promoting Beneficial Grain Boundary Phase Transitions with Segregation Engineering
Series: Distinguished Lecture
Host: Professor Andrea Hodge
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Martin Olekszyk
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External Fellowship Information Session
Thu, Sep 01, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Doctoral Programs
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi PhD students, undergraduate juniors and seniors are invited to attend an information session to learn more about applying for external fellowships. Students will have the opportunity to hear from current external fellows, as well as Professor Andrea Armani, and Associate Professor of Technical Communication Practice and Engineering Writing Program Director, Steve Bucher.
Please visit https://gapp.usc.edu/externalfellowshipinfosession for more information and to RSVP.
Questions may be directed to Jennifer Gerson, Director, Doctoral Programs, at jgerson@usc.eduLocation: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: PhD students, Undergraduate Juniors and Seniors (United States Citizens/Permanent Residents Only)
Contact: Jennifer Gerson
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Introduction to Viterbi Gateway Workshop
Thu, Sep 01, 2016 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Come to this presentation to learn how to navigate the Viterbi Career Gateway,a powerful job & internship search tool available ONLY to Viterbi students.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Architecting More Power-Efficient Datacenters By Removing the Peaks
Thu, Sep 01, 2016 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dean Tullsen, University of California, San Diego
Talk Title: Architecting More Power-Efficient Datacenters By Removing the Peaks
Series: EE 598 Computer Engineering Seminar Series
Abstract: Datacenters are rapidly increasing in size and computational ability. However, this growth places great stress on the power delivery and heat removal of the datacenter. The cost of power and cooling, and the computational capacity of the datacenter, are both driven by the peak demands on the power infrastructure and the cooling infrastructure, even though most datacenters see large differences between the peak demand and the average demand. We will discuss two technologies that enable the datacenter to service the peak computational demand, yet present the power and cooling infrastructure with a flat profile that hides the peaks, without sacrificing peak-period performance. We make use of batteries and phase-change materials (e.g., wax) for these optimizations.
Biography: Dean Tullsen is a professor and chair of the computer science and engineering department at University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD from the University of Washington in 1996, where he introduced simultaneous multithreading (hyper-threading). He has continued to work in the area of computer architecture and back-end compilation, where with various co-authors he has introduced many new ideas to the research community, including threaded multipath execution, symbiotic job scheduling for multithreaded processors, dynamic critical path prediction, speculative precomputation, heterogeneous multi-core architectures, conjoined core architectures, event-driven simultaneous code optimization, and data triggered threads. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. He has twice won the Influential ISCA Paper Award. He is chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture.
Host: Xuehai Qian, x04459, xuehai.qian@usc.edu
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 100D
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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ITP Information Session
Thu, Sep 01, 2016 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Are you interested in adding a minor or gaining experience with computer programming, business technology, or cutting-edge technological fields? Come check out the USC Information Technology Program! ITP offers over 100 courses in applied technology that are taught by our industry professional faculty to students across all majors at USC. Come learn about our 11 different ITP minors, course offerings, and meet some of our faculty members who will be present to answer any of your questions.
What: ITP Information Session
When: Thursday, September 1st from 5:00 - 6:00pm
Where: KAP 160
Free pizza provided! All majors are welcome!
We hope to see you there! For questions, feel free to contact ITP at itpadvising@usc.edu.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 160
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Information Technology Program
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St Jude Medical Info Session
Thu, Sep 01, 2016 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Engineering Management and Talent Acquisition leaders from St. Jude Medical, Sylmar Branch, will speak to Computer Science and Computer Engineering students about the exciting and life-saving technologies of SJM and the manner in which students may participate with us through our internships and Co-Op programs.
More Information: St Jude Medical Flyer.pdf
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Seminar -
Fri, Sep 02, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Odette Scharenborg, Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Talk Title: Modeling and Understanding Human Spoken-Word Recognition
Abstract: The question that underlies most of my research is the question why humans are so much better at recognizing speech than computers. I have approached this question from several angles, from the field of automatic speech recognition, the field of psycholinguistics, and through the combination of the two, i.e., the computational modeling of human spoken-word recognition. In this talk, I will present results from my computational modelling and psycholinguistics work.
In the first part, I will present my computational model, which is able to recognize real speech, Fine-Tracker. Fine-Tracker was specifically developed to account for the accumulating evidence that subtle phonetic detail in the speech signal is important in human spoken-word recognition. I will explain the model and illustrate its modelling ability by presenting a simulation study investigating the role of durational information in resolving temporary ambiguity due to lexical embedding (i.e., 'ham' in the longer word 'hamster') to aid spoken-word recognition. I will start the talk by briefly discussing the value of computational modelling in spoken-word recognition.
In the second part of this talk, I will focus on the results obtained in my current project on human non-native word recognition in noise. Most people will have noticed that communication in the presence of background noise is more difficult in a non-native than in the native language - even for those who have a high proficiency in the non-native language involved. The aim of this project is to understand the effect of background noise on the processes underlying non-native spoken-word recognition. In this presentation, I will present recent results on the effect of background noise on 1) the flexibility of the perceptual system in non-native listening; 2) the multiple activation, competition and recognition processes in non-native spoken-word recognition.
Biography: Odette Scharenborg (PhD) is an associate professor at the Centre for Language Studies and a research fellow at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands). Her research interests focus on narrowing the gap between automatic and human word recognition. In 2008, she co-organized the Interspeech 2008 Consonant Challenge, which aimed at promoting comparisons of human and machine speech recognition in noise in order to investigate where the human advantage in word recognition originates. She was one of the initiators of the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network 'Investigating Speech Processing In Realistic Environments' (INSPIRE, 2012-2015). Her current project is funded by a fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research on
the topic of human non-native word recognition in noise, which will be investigated using a combination of listening experiments and computational modelling.
Host: Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan & Prof. Panayiotis Georgiou
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tanya Acevedo-Lam/EE-Systems
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Surface-based Methods for Analyzing Brain Structure and Connectivity
Fri, Sep 02, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Boris Gutman, Ph.D., Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Talk Title: Surface-based Methods for Analyzing Brain Structure and Connectivity
Series: Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Abstract: In this talk I will describe several shape centric methods for analyzing brain MR image data. The first part will focus on surface-based analysis of structural MRI. I will suggest some parametric registration techniques, with particular focus on adapting traditional image registration algorithms to the spherical domain. Building on this, an alternative shape space will be proposed, extending the Ebin metric on the 2 sphere to a Riemannian product metric for simple closed surfaces.
The second part of the talk will offer a method to combine surface representations and diffusion MRI based connectivity analysis. We will propose a generative model of structural connectivity based on the Poisson point process. Treating each tractography fiber model as a point observation in the continuous brain product space, we estimate the spatially distributed Poisson parameter to represent cortical connectivity. We can then adapt traditional spatial domain tasks such as registration and segmentation based on this continuous connectivity representation. Example adaptations will be proposed.
Example applications to the study of genetics and disease will be shown throughout, with some special focus on Partial Least Squares modeling as an alternative to the traditional genome wide association study (GWAS).
Biography: Boris Gutman is a Post-doctoral Scholar at the Imaging Genetics Center within the Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics at the University of Southern California. His current research interests include biomedical shape analysis, brain connectivity and imaging genetics, with the goal of enabling new discoveries of genetic associations and disease effects in the human brain.
Host: Professor Richard Leahy
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia White
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USC Stem Cell Special Seminar: Broad Clinical Fellows
Fri, Sep 02, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Various, USC Stem Cell
Talk Title: Various
Abstract: Rodrigo MartÃnez Monedero, MD
Molecular analysis of mature supporting cells as targets for regeneration
Victoria Forte, MD
Stem cell markers in breast cancer
Andre Abreu, MD
Key role of macula densa-derived CCN1 in nephron repair
Host: USC Stem Cell
More Info: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/usc_stem_cell_special_seminar_broad_clinical_fellows?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=USC+Event+Calendar#.V8dPFrX8vW4
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
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Undergraduate Open House
Fri, Sep 02, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Student Activity
Are you a Electrical Engineering freshman, transfer, or undeclared undergraduate? Join us for free pizza and drinks and hear from fellow students and EE professors. Learn about Electrical Engineering, research opportunities, and some of the internships our current students have had.
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Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Benjamin Paul
