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ASBME Mentoring Kick-Off
Sun, Oct 09, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come out to the start of the ASBME mentoring program where all the families will be introduced! Even if you didn't get to sign up, feel free to come out and be placed in a family (or contact our mentoring chair, Kevin at kimjoony@usc.edu). We'll have snacks and fun bonding games to get the mentors and mentees acquainted with each other!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Franklin Suite
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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ASBME Abbott Company Cheat Sheet and Internship Q&A
Mon, Oct 10, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Want to know more about the details of Abbott's internship program? Still unclear on what the process is like, what you should know, and other insider information? Abbott's Campus Ambassador will be talking about his internship experience with the company, giving an overview of the company, what products it manufactures, and its values, as well as tips for putting your best foot forward. A portion of this event will be Q&A, so gear up and ask all the detailed questions you want. This event is a perfect way to prepare for networking with the Abbott recruiters at VINE later that evening. We hope to see you there, and good luck this recruiting seaon! There will be 2 sessions to accommodate for people with class during this time. The first session is 12-1 and the second is 1-2.
Location: Waite Phillips Hall Of Education (WPH) - B27
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 10, 2016 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Fikret Kirkbir, PhD, USC Alfred Mann Institute
Talk Title: Protecting Intellectual Property
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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EE 598 Cyber-Physical Systems Seminar Series
Mon, Oct 10, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ajay Jayant Joshi, Associate Professor, Boston University
Talk Title: Designing Energy-efficient and Secure Accelerators for Machine Learning Applications
Abstract: Today's mobile applications like activity tracking, photo/document sorting, fingerprint matching, search suggestions, etc. are increasingly data driven and commonly use Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. Executing these ML algorithms locally on the mobile system is sometimes preferable/necessary, but this local execution can be very energy intensive. At the same time, keeping these ML algorithm secure is becoming increasingly critical for application vendors as the use of the right ML algorithm can provide significant competitive (and in turn financial) advantage in the market. Hence, there is a need to execute these ML algorithms in an energy-efficient and secure manner. This talk focuses on the design of energy-efficient and secure hardware accelerators for ML-based applications. In the first half of my talk I'll present an adaptive classifier design that leverages the wide variability in data complexity to enable energy-efficient data classification operations. This adaptive classifier takes advantage of varying classification 'hardness' across data to dynamically allocate an appropriate classifier and improve energy efficiency. In the second half of my talk, I'll present a backside imaging approach that can be used to detect any insertion of Hardware Trojans during the fabrication phase. In particular, we engineer the fill cells in a standard cell library to be highly reflective at near-IR wavelengths so that they can be readily observed in an optical image taken through the backside of the chip. The pattern produced by their locations produces an easily measured watermark of the circuit layout. Any replacement, modification or re-arrangement of the fill cells to add a Hardware Trojan can therefore be detected through rapid post-fabrication backside imaging.
Biography: Ajay Joshi received his Ph.D. degree from the ECE Department at Georgia Tech in 2006. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the EECS Department at MIT. In 2009, he joined the ECE department at Boston University, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests span across various aspects of VLSI design including circuits and architectures for communication and computation. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2012 and Boston University ECE Department's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014.
Host: Paul Bogdan
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Fred S. Grodins Keynote Lecture
Mon, Oct 10, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Roger D. Kamm
Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dept. of Biological Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
In Vitro Vascularized Models for Metastatic Cancer
Over the past 10 years, our ability to realistically model the critical biological steps in disease have dramatically improved, due in part to the advances in microfluidic technologies. In particular, the capabilities to create realistic 3D microenvironments, including microvascular perfusion, have led to in vitro models for disease that offer, in many respects, considerable advantages over in vivo experiments. In this talk, I will present some recent advances in creating microvascular networks in vitro and using these to model the successive stages of metastatic cancer, especially in the context of immunotherapies and organ-specific models of metastasis.
Bio:
A primary objective of Kamm's research has been the application of fundamentals in fluid and solid mechanics to better understand essential biological and physiological phenomena. Past studies have addressed issues in the respiratory, ocular and cardiovascular systems. More recently, his attention has focused on the molecular mechanisms of cellular force sensation, cell population dynamics, and the development of new microfluidic platforms for the study of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, especially in the context of metastatic cancer. This cumulative work has led to over 280 refereed publications. Recognition for his contributions is reflected in Kamm's election as Fellow to AIMBE, ASME, BMES, AAAS and the IFMBE. He is also the 2010 recipient of the ASME Lissner Medal and the 2015 recipient of the Huiskes Medal, both for lifetime achievements, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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Fred S. Grodins (1915-1989), joined thef aculty at USC in 1967 as Professor of Physiology and Electrical Engineering. He established Biomedical Engineering (BME) at USC first as a Program in 1970 and subsequently as a full-fledged Department in 1976. Dr. Grodins was Professor and Chairman of BME until 1986. He remained active in research as Emeritus Professor at USC until his death in 1989.
More Information: flyer. grodins keynote 2016 (2).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Viterbi Career Fair
Tue, Oct 11, 2016 @ 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Career Fair is free and open to all students in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Students do not need to register for this event, just show up! This casual, yet professional, environment allows students the opportunity to have brief conversations with recruiters about full-time employment, internships, and co-ops. Don't forget your resume!
Location: Trousdale Parkway
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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CANCELLED—USC Stem Cell Seminar: Andrew Brack, University of California, San Francisco
Tue, Oct 11, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Andrew Brack, University of California, San Francisco
Talk Title: TBD
Series: Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC Distinguished Speakers Series
Abstract: Please note: This seminar has been cancelled.
Host: USC Stem Cell
More Info: http://stemcell.usc.edu/events
Webcast: http://keckmedia.usc.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/StemCellSeminarWebCast Link: http://keckmedia.usc.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/StemCellSeminar
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
Event Link: http://stemcell.usc.edu/events
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Tensor Decomposition Techniques for analysing time-varying networks
Tue, Oct 11, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Anna Sapienza, PhD in Applied Mathematics at the Polytechnic Univ. of Turin, working in the Data Science Lab at ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy
Series: Recruitng Seminar
Abstract: The increasing availability of high-dimensional data calls for new methods to extract meaningful information, such as groups of data correlations (i.e. communities, clusters) or unusual and unexpected data records (i.e. anomalies, outliers). Time-varying networks are particularly suitable objects to summarize a large amount of data into interpretable representations and are used to describe a great variety of complex systems. A fundamental challenge is to define models and tools that are able to capture and disentangle the structural and temporal properties from the time-varying networks and reproduce the observed features on dynamical processes occurring over the network, such as information diffusion, event cascades or disease spreading. Thus, the purpose of my Ph.D work is twofold: to extract the structural and temporal properties of time-varying networks to face problems as pattern detection and missing data recovery, and to analyze the interplay between these characteristics and dynamical processes.
Biography: Anna Sapienza is currently a Ph.D candidate at the Polytechnic University of Turin, she is completing the third year of her Ph.D studies. Her work was developed in the Data Science group at the I.S.I. Foundation of Turin under the supervision of Dr. Ciro Cattuto and Dr. Laetitia Gauvin. Her research interests stay at the intersection between computational social science, machine learning, and network analysis. Recently her work focused on the development of mathematical frameworks and tools for tensor factorization techniques and their applications for studying high-dimensional data.
Host: Emilio Ferrara and Kristina Lerman
Webcast: http://webcastermshd.isi.edu/Mediasite/Play/e7f614b9cffc415db4015dd86999db5f1dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 1135 - 11th fl Large CR
WebCast Link: http://webcastermshd.isi.edu/Mediasite/Play/e7f614b9cffc415db4015dd86999db5f1d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alma Nava / Information Sciences Institute
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CANCELLED- Micron Technology Info Session
Tue, Oct 11, 2016 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This event has been cancelled
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility
Tue, Oct 11, 2016 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Informational session on career opportunities at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. We'll discuss what our engineers do, the application process and benefits.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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ASBME Amgen Info Session
Wed, Oct 12, 2016 @ 07:00 AM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Are you interested in industry opportunities? Join ASBME for our first industry info session of the year with Amgen during fall recruitment season. Amgen is a major biopharmaceutical and therapeutics company based in Thousand Oaks, CA.This will be a great opportunity to meet with representatives from Amgen in a more relaxed environment than at VINE or the Career Fair. Come out and learn more about the company and their potential internship, co-op and full-time opportunities! Subway will be served as dinner.
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 450
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Learning to Live with Errors: The Challenges and Solutions for Memory Reliability in the Sub-20nm Regime
Wed, Oct 12, 2016 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prashant J. Nair, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Learning to Live with Errors: The Challenges and Solutions for Memory Reliability in the Sub-20nm Regime
Abstract: Technology scaling, the prime driver for high-capacity memory systems, continues to be critical for current applications and acts as a key enabler for future applications. Unfortunately, scaling DRAM below sub-20nm is already becoming a challenge due to small feature sizes and flaky cells. Designers are also investigating alternative technologies such as die-stacking and Non-Volatile Memories (NVM), which makes the memory system susceptible to new failure modes (such as TSV failures). At these high error rates and failure modes, memory reliability challenges pose a serious threat to scaling. Furthermore, the cost of mitigating these failures with traditional solutions becomes impractically high. The goal of my thesis is to investigate architectural techniques to enable reliable and scalable memory systems at negligible overheads. In this talk, I will discuss three low-cost techniques to mitigate memory failures.
First, I will advocate a cross-layer approach to tolerating memory failures, whereby the scaling faults are exposed to the architecture level and a simple error-correction code is used to tolerate scaling failures. Such a scheme can tolerate error rates as high as 100 parts per million with a negligible storage overhead. Second, I will discuss the challenges of TSV-failures for die-stacked memory systems and present techniques that can mitigate TSV and other large failures at runtime using a RAID-based technique. Finally, I will discuss a scheme called XED that can obtain Chipkill-level reliability by using 2x fewer chips for memory systems with On-Die ECC. XED mitigates the performance and power overheads of Chipkill without requiring any changes to the memory interface and transparently exposing the error detection information from each chip to the memory controller. Overall, this talk aims to showcase techniques that will enable dense, efficient and reliable memories that are robust to the pitfalls of technology scaling and die-stacking.
Biography: Prashant J. Nair is a Ph.D. candidate in Georgia Institute of Technology where he is advised by Professor Moinuddin Qureshi. He received his MS (2011-2013) from Georgia Institute of Technology and his BE in Electronics Engineering (2005-2009) from University of Mumbai. His research interests include reliability, performance, power and refresh optimizations for current and upcoming memory systems. In these areas, he has authored and co-authored 9 papers in top-tier venues such as ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, ASPLOS and DSN. Prashant organized the "Memory Reliability Forum" (co-located with HPCA 2016) to highlight the importance of memory reliability to the wider architecture community. He served as the Submission's Co-chair of MICRO 2015 and in the ERC of ISCA 2016. During his Ph.D., he interned at several leading industrial labs including AMD, Samsung, Intel and IBM.
Host: Murali Annavaram
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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MHI CommNetS Seminar
Wed, Oct 12, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Athina Petropulu, Rutgers University
Talk Title: Optimal Co-Design for Co-existence of MIMO Radars and MIMO Communication Systems
Series: CommNetS
Abstract: Spectrum congestion in commercial wireless communications is a growing problem as high-data-rate applications become prevalent. In an effort to relieve the problem, US federal agencies intend to make available spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band, which was primarily used by federal radar systems for surveillance and air defense, to be shared by both radar and communication applications. Even before the new spectrum is released, high UHF radars overlap with GSM communication systems, and S-band radars partially overlap with Long Term Evolution (LTE) and WiMax systems. When communication and radar systems overlap in the frequency domain, they exert interference to each other. Spectrum sharing is a new line of work that targets at enabling radar and communication systems to share the spectrum efficiently by minimizing interference effects. The current literature on spectrum sharing includes approaches which either use large physical separation between radar and communication systems, or optimally schedule dynamic access to the spectrum by using OFDM signals, or allow radar and communication system to co-exist in time and frequency via use of multiple antennas at both the radar and communication systems. The latter approach greatly improves spectral efficiency as compared to the other approaches. This talk presents our recent work on the latter approach. In particular, we discuss optimal co-design of MIMO radars and MIMO communication system signaling schemes, so that the effective interference power to the radar receiver is minimized, while a desirable level of communication rate and transmit power are maintained.
Biography: Athina Petropulu received her undergraduate degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Northeastern University, Boston MA, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since 2010, she is Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Rutgers, having served as chair of the department during 2010-2016. Before that she was faculty at Drexel University. Dr. Petropulu's research interests span the area of statistical signal processing, wireless communications, signal processing in networking, physical layer security, and radar signal processing. Her research has been funded by various government industry sponsors including the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval research, the US Army, the National Institute of Health, the Whitaker Foundation, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.
Dr. Petropulu is Fellow of IEEE and recipient of the 1995 Presidential Faculty Fellow Award given by NSF and the White House. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2009-2011), IEEE Signal Processing Society Vice President-Conferences (2006-2008), and member-at-large of the IEEE Signal Processing Board of Governors. She was the General Chair of the 2005 International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-05), Philadelphia PA. In 2005 she received the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award, and in 2012 the IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award for "exemplary service in technical leadership capacities". She was selected as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the Signal Processing Society for 2017-2018.
More info on her work can be found at www.ece.rutgers.edu/~cspl
Host: Dr. Ashutosh Nayyar
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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CIA Info Session
Wed, Oct 12, 2016 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
CIA's Deputy Director for the Directorate of Digital Innovation will lead an information session regarding CIA career opportunities in Digital Innovation. All undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend. All CIA careers require U.S. citizenship and relocation to the Washington, DC area.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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EE 598 Computer Engineering Seminar
Thu, Oct 13, 2016 @ 04:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Josep Torrellas, Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Talk Title: Toward Extreme-Scale Manycore Architectures
Abstract: As transistor sizes continue to scale, we are about to witness stunning levels of chip integration, with 1,000 (simple) core on a single die, and increasing levels of die stacking. Transistors may not be much faster, but there will be many more of them. In these architectures, energy and power will be the main constraint, efficient communication and synchronization a major challenge, and programmability an unknown.
In this context, this talk presents some of the technologies that we will need to deploy to exploit these architectures. Cores need to flexibly operate at a range of voltages, and techniques for efficient energy use such as power gating and voltage speculation need to be widespread. To enable data sharing, we need to rethink synchronization and fence hardware for scalability. Hardware extensions to ease programming will provide a competitive edge. A combination of all of these techniques-and additional disruptive technologies-are needed.
Biography: Josep Torrellas is the Saburo Muroga Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He leads the Center for Programmable Extreme-Scale Computing, a center focused on architectures for extreme energy and power efficiency. He has been the director of the Intel-Illinois Parallelism Center (I2PC), a center created by Intel to advance parallel computing. He has made contributions to parallel computer architecture in the areas of shared memory multiprocessor organizations, cache hierarchies and coherence protocols, thread-level speculation, and hardware and software reliability. He is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM. He received the 2015 IEEE CS Technical Achievement Award.
Host: Xuehai Qian
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - OHE 100D
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Biotechnology Lecture SeriesThu, Oct 13, 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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Interviewing Strategies and Techniques
Thu, Oct 13, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Discover tips on how to prepare for both technical and behavioral interviews, as well as the proper steps for follow-up!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Distinguished Lecture Series
Thu, Oct 13, 2016 @ 12:45 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Tae-Joon Jeon, Inha University
Talk Title: Investigation of Ion Channel Activities in the Presence of Ionic Liquids Using Model Cell Membranes
Series: Distinguished Lecture
Host: Professor Noah Malmstadt
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Martin Olekszyk
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Computer Engineering Seminar
Thu, Oct 13, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Simon Su, US Army Research Laboratory
Talk Title: Scientific Visualization Research at ARL
Abstract: A typical scientific visualization process involves the use of a favorite visualization toolkit to read the simulation data stored on a file system. Once the data is loaded, computational scientists will use the data analysis capabilities provided by the visualization toolkit to analyze the data, in an attempt to understand the output of a simulation. The scientists will then use the visualization toolkit to generate images and movies from the data to further understanding of the data. In most cases, a high performance computing center will have visualization staff members that can help the scientists to create a more elaborate movies for presentations. In an attempt to provide the computational scientists with alternative visualization technologies, the visualization team at ARL has extended ParaView to support 3D immersive and interactive visualization running on the zSpace virtual reality display. Furthermore, for large scale simulation datasets, we have also extended ParaView to include the capability for high-resolution interactive visualization.
Biography: Simon Su is a Computer Scientist at the US Army Research Lab. He received his PhD from the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Houston in 2001. He has 14 years of experience in virtual reality and scientific visualization research and development. He is currently working on using large scale high-resolution and virtual reality technologies to support data visualization to enable scientific discovery and exploration of large scale scientific data. His research interests include interactive information visualization to support data analysis, and applying 3D immersive and interactive technologies to enable research in other interdisciplinary field including education, and journalism.
Host: Prof. Viktor Prasanna
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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ASBME 6th Annual Fall Networking Night
Thu, Oct 13, 2016 @ 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join ASBME at our sixth annual Corporate Networking Night with representatives from numerous different biotech companies! This event is a prime opportunity to introduce yourself to recruiters for internships and jobs starting in 2017. Companies attending include Abbott Laboratories, Edwards Lifesciences, St. Jude Medical, and more! Networking Night is scheduled forr Thursday, October 13th from 5-8pm in the Franklin Suite of Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC 350/351/352). Warning: Space is limited for this event, so please sign up early! Fill out this form and submit a deposit to DRB by October 7th to reserce a spot: https://docs.google.com/a/usc.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2uS6Wyu7Mj9Md7VqDM-zwNg2A40lq0D31RD6BBbC7cfpoMA/viewform Preference will be given to upperclassmen who are paying members of ASBME. Please bring copies of your resume and dress to impress. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Fall Networking Night Coordinator, Daniel Yen at danielpy@usc.edu
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 350/351/352
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Edwards Lifesciences Info Session
Thu, Oct 13, 2016 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
COME BE INSPIRED.
Discover Edwards Lifesciences' award winning products through a hands-on demo with our Engineering representatives. You'll learn about our Transcatheter Heart Valves, Heart Valve Therapies, and Critical Care monitoring systems in an interactive group environment.
We'll also take some time to discuss our Engineering New Grad (ENG) Programs and Summer Internship opportunities.
DISCOVER LIFE HERE.
At Edwards, you can:
-Explore a wide variety of medical device engineering projects
-Develop professional skills
-Work in a stimulating learning environment
-Partner with passionate employees fighting cardiovascular diseaseLocation: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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AI Seminar-Matrix Completion, Saddlepoints, and Gradient Descent
Fri, Oct 14, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jason Lee , USC
Talk Title: Matrix Completion, Saddlepoints, and Gradient Descent
Series: Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Abstract: Matrix completion is a fundamental machine learning problem with wide applications in collaborative filtering and recommender systems. Typically, matrix completion are solved by non-convex optimization procedures, which are empirically extremely successful. We prove that the symmetric matrix completion problem has no spurious local minima, meaning all local minima are also global. Thus the matrix completion objective has only saddlepoints an global minima.
Next, we show that saddlepoints are easy to avoid for even Gradient Descent -- arguably the simplest optimization procedure. We prove that with probability 1, randomly initialized Gradient Descent converges to a local minimizer.
Biography: Jason Lee is an assistant professor in Data Sciences and Operations at the University of Southern California. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley working with Michael Jordan. Jason received his PhD at Stanford University advised by Trevor Hastie and Jonathan Taylor. His research interests are in statistics, machine learning, and optimization. Lately, he has worked on high dimensional statistical inference, analysis of non-convex optimization algorithms, and theory for deep learning.
Host: Emilio Ferrara
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 6th Floor -CR # 689; ISI-Marina del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
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Careers in Data Science and Data Engineering Infosession
Fri, Oct 14, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
With the explosion of raw data being produced in recent years, data scientists and engineers work on topics covering almost every aspect of life we can think of. Top companies like Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, The New York Times, Merck, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the Broad Institute are hiring students from quantitative fields to help them glean insights from the terabytes of data that they collect every day. While the amount of data these companies are producing and storing is growing exponentially, there is a severe shortage of top talent to organize, store, and analyze these data and extract valuable insights.
In this seminar, Judit Lantos will discuss her transition from a career in research to becoming a Data Engineer and Program Director at the Insight Data Engineering Fellowship program, where she helps graduating students from quantitative fields make the transition themselves. She will also give a high-level overview of the state of the field of data engineering and industry-wide trends, as well as the tools and skills that top data-driven companies are looking for when hiring data scientists and engineers. The session will include time for Q&A, as well as advice for those interested in transitioning to careers based on Insight's experience working with 600+ alumni.
Learn more at: insightdatascience.com and insightdataengineering.com
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ryan Rozan
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Oct 14, 2016 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Join us for a presentation by Professor Rana Adhikari, Professor of Physics, Caltech, titled "Listening to the Thunder of Gravity in the Cosmos".
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Julie Phaneuf
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Biomedical Engineering Speakers
Fri, Oct 14, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Danny J. Wang, PhD, Professor of Neurology, USC Institute for Neuroimaging & Informatics
Talk Title: Noncontrast Perfusion MRI and Dynamic MR Angiography
Series: Department of Biomedical Engineering: Systems Cellular-Molecular Bioengineering Distinguished Speaker Series
Abstract: Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is an emerging noninvasive MRI technique to measure cerebral blood flow (CBF) by utilizing magnetically labeled arterial blood water as an endogenous tracer. While in the past ASL has been limited by the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), recent technical development at high and ultrahigh magnetic fields, array receive coils and more efficient spin labeling and image acquisition methods has brought ASL to the frontier of both basic and clinical neuroscience. In this talk I will review the latest technical development of ASL and representative clinical applications in neurologic disorders such as stroke and arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Another new ASL technique is 4D non-contrast dynamic MR angiography (dMRA) that is able to visualize and quantify the dynamic flow pattern of labeled blood through the cerebrovasculature with millisecond temporal resolution and millimeter spatial resolution. I will showcase representative clinical applications of 4D dMRA, and discuss a novel method for assessing cerebral vascular compliance or arterial stiffness.
Host: Brent Liu, PhD
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 100B
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Ming Hsieh Institute Seminar Series on Integrated Systems
Fri, Oct 14, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Stacy Ho, Deputy Director, Analog Circuit Design, MediaTek, Inc.
Talk Title: Recent Advances in ADCs for Mobile Applications: 4G to 5G
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen, and Prof. Mahta Moghaddam
More Information: MHI Seminar Series IS - Stacy_Ho_Flyer.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jenny Lin
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Oct 14, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Christopher Morrow and Ryan Gustafson, Astani CEE Ph.D. Candidates
Talk Title: See Attachment
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Oct 14, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Christopher Morrow and Ryan Gustafson, Astani CEE Ph.D. Candidates
Abstract: Towards Sustainable Wastewater Reuse: Salinity Control in Osmotic Membrane Bioreactors
By: Christopher Morrow
Alongside climate change comes an increase in drought duration and severity. In response, low energy wastewater recycling methods are becoming increasingly attractive. Our group has developed an osmotic membrane bioreactor system (OMBR) with a low energy Membrane Distillation (MD) re-concentration step driven by waste heat for potable wastewater reuse applications. A membrane bioreactor with a submerged forward osmosis (FO) module subsystem has been tested for high-strength domestic wastewater treatment. In the FO process, relatively pure water is transported from the mixed liquor into the draw solution; the mixed liquor suspended solids become concentrated and the draw solution becomes diluted. At the same time, a small amount of salt from the draw solution diffuses across the membrane from the draw solution into the mixed liquor. Consequently, bioreactor salinity increases. This reverse salt diffusion (RSD) can affect biological processes, particularly at higher concentrations. In this presentation, RSD from two membrane configurations will be evaluated; the first is a membrane cassette submerged in the bioreactor and the second is a side-stream process external to the bioreactor. In the submerged configuration, the draw solution is recirculated through a frame skinned with FO membrane and in the external configuration, both the feed and draw solutions have crossflow along the membrane selective and structural layers, respectively. Two advantages of external operation are: 1) crossflow on the feed side scours foulants away from the membrane, and 2) increasing crossflow velocity (CFV) on the draw side reduces dilutive concentration polarization. These result in increased water flux, but may also change RSD, which alters the composition of the foulant layer and/or the bioreactor salinity. Bench-scale FO experiments to determine the specific reverse salt flux (SRSF) with each configuration were carried out. The bench-scale results were used as inputs to initialize a model and predict the steady-state salt concentration of the pilot-scale bioreactor. Further analysis was carried out to examine the affect of changing the solids retention time (SRT), membrane area, and reactor volume to optimize system performance and maintain low salinity OMBRs.
TITLE: Waste-heat-driven membrane distillation (MD) and long-term hydrophobicity of MD membranes
By: Ryan Gustafson
Abstract:
Global concern regarding water scarcity, climate change, and environmental health have resulted in increased interest in new water treatment technologies, particularly technologies for water reuse and desalination applications with low electrical energy requirements. Increased interest in water reuse and environmental health have resulted in more stringent regulatory requirements for producers of industrial and municipal wastewaters. One technology poised to address these concerns is MD. MD is a thermally driven separation process that is used to distill water from an impaired feed water source using a hydrophobic membrane. Maintaining the hydrophobicity of the MD membrane is vital to maintaining the characteristic high rejection of non-volatile contaminants that is key to the application of MD to water treatment. It is though that long-term exposure of MD membranes to flowing water at high temperature and high salinity will result in reduced membrane hydrophobicity over time, but this has not been proven. Another key aspect of MD technology for its application to water treatment is its ability to be driven by low-grade waste-heat. While most MD researchers assume that low-grade waste-heat will be available and easily transferrable to the MD module, few have demonstrated successful operation of waste-heat-driven MD systems. Further, the small amount of research available on these systems lacks detailed analysis of the impacts of waste heat source variability on water production. Finally, an analysis of system-wide heat transfer behavior and the impact of different system configurations on water production in WHD-MD systems is not available in existing studies. In my presentation, I will discuss
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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EMNLP PRACTICE TALK: UNDERSTANDING NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION: LENGTH CONTROL AND SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE
Fri, Oct 14, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Xing Shi, USC/ISI
Talk Title: EMNLP PRACTICE TALK: UNDERSTANDING NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION: LENGTH CONTROL AND SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Neural Machine Translation is powerful but we know little about the black box. We conduct the following two investigations to gain a better understanding: First, we investigate how neural, encoder-decoder translation systems output target strings of appropriate lengths, finding that a collection of hidden units learns to explicitly implement this functionality. Second, we investigate whether a neural, encoderdecoder translation system learns syntactic information on the source side as a by-product of training. We propose two methods to detect whether the encoder has learned local and global source syntax. A fine-grained analysis of the syntactic structure learned by the encoder reveals which kinds of syntax are learned and which are missing.
Biography: Xing Shi is a PhD student at ISI working with Prof. Kevin Knight.
Host: Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 6th Floor -CR # 689; ISI-Marina del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Information Session in Guangzhou, China
Sat, Oct 15, 2016 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Interested in graduate studies in engineering or computer science?
Candidates with a strong academic background and a Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, or physical science (such as physics, biology, or chemistry) are welcome to attend an information session to learn more about applying to graduate engineering programs at the University of Southern California.
These events will be hosted by Ray Xu, Director of the USC Viterbi Shanghai Office, and joined by Camillia Lee, Assistant Dean for Graduate Recruitment at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Topics to be covered:
- Master's & Ph.D. Programs in Engineering and Computer Science
- How to Apply
- Scholarships and Funding
- Student Life at USC and in Los Angeles
- Application Tips
There will also be sufficient time for questions during the information session.
For questions about these events, please contact us at viterbi.gradprograms@usc.edu.
REGISTER NOWLocation: The Westin Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China
Audiences: Prospective students with a background in engineering, math or hard science
Contact: Mary Kae/Graduate and Professional Programs
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Information Session in Shenzhen, China
Sat, Oct 15, 2016 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Interested in graduate studies in engineering or computer science?
Candidates with a strong academic background and a Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, or physical science (such as physics, biology, or chemistry) are welcome to attend an information session to learn more about applying to graduate engineering programs at the University of Southern California.
These events will be hosted by Ray Xu, Director of the USC Viterbi Shanghai Office, and joined by Camillia Lee, Assistant Dean for Graduate Recruitment at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Topics to be covered:
- Master's & Ph.D. Programs in Engineering and Computer Science
- How to Apply
- Scholarships and Funding
- Student Life at USC and in Los Angeles
- Application Tips
There will also be sufficient time for questions during the information session.
For questions about these events, please contact us at viterbi.gradprograms@usc.edu.
REGISTER NOWLocation: The St. Regis Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
Audiences: Prospective students with a background in engineering, math or hard science
Contact: Mary Kae/Graduate and Professional Programs
