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Discover USC Open House
Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
DISCOVER USC FEATURES: A presentation from Viterbi Admission, Campus Tours, Panel Discussions with Viterbi Students, Lab Tours, the Viterbi Student Organization EXPO and more!
This full day program will provide you and your family with an opportunity to meet staff from Undergraduate Admission, Financial Aid and the Viterbi School of Engineering, in addition to current Viterbi students and faculty.
During the Discover USC, the Viterbi School hosts an Engineering Expo. The Expo is an open house for our students, faculty, and staff to showcase the numerous opportunities to get involved. We will host information sessions about academic services and provide tours of the labs used by our undergraduate student design teams and research projects.
Check out the Viterbi Expo Page to learn more about the event and see all the items we hosted at last years expo!Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) - Trousdale Walkway
Audiences: Prospective Students & Family Members
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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GRAMMAR WORKSHOP FOR WRIT340E STUDENTS
Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
WRIT 340E Professors Choi and Schroeder will be providing grammar lessons and individualized assistance to students currently taking WRIT 340 - Advanced Writing for Engineers.
Students should bring their WRIT 340E assignments so that they can apply the lessons and also receive detailed feedback on grammar.
This is the last of the four grammar workshops this semester. LAST CHANCE for grammar help on your 340E assignments and portfolios!
Food will be served.
Please be advised that attendance is not related to your grades in your WRIT 340E course.More Information: Workshop Flyer.pdf
Location: Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Library (LVL) - 16
Audiences: Currently enrolled WRIT340E students
Contact: Helen Choi
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, and Engineering TalkMon, Nov 19, 2018
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
University Calendar
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen (HS seniors and younger) and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process, a student led walking tour of campus, and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering school. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process, and financial aid.
Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m.
Please make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
RSVPLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Rebecca Kinnon
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Nov 19, 2018 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Benjamin Xu, MD, USC Keck School of Medicine, Assistant Professor Of Clinical Ophthalmology
Talk Title: AI for glaucoma study
Host: Qifa Zhou
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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**No Epstein Seminar, ISE 651 This Week (Happy Thanksgiving)**
Tue, Nov 20, 2018
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Grace Owh
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PhD Defense - Hieu Nguyen
Tue, Nov 20, 2018 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Title: Asynchronous Writes in Cache Augmented Data Stores
Author: Hieu Nguyen
Date: November 20, 2018 from 1-3pm.
Location: Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) Room 213.
Committee:
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (Chair)
Clifford Neuman
Francois Bar
Abstract: This dissertation explores processing of writes asynchronously in a cache augmented data store while maintaining the atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) properties of transactions. It enables the caching layer to dictate the overall system performance with both read-heavy and write-heavy workloads, motivating alternative implementations of a write-back policy. A write-back policy buffers writes in the cache and uses background threads to apply them to a data store asynchronously. By doing so, it enhances the overall system performance and enables the application throughput to scale linearly as a function of the number of cache servers. The main limitations of this technique are its increased software complexity and additional memory requirement.
When the data store is unavailable, a write-back policy buffers writes as long as the caching layer is available. Once the data store becomes available, it applies the buffered writes to the data store asynchronously. We use this idea to introduce TARDIS, a family of techniques to process writes when the data store is unavailable. TARDIS techniques (TAR, TARD, DIS, and TARDIS) differ in how they apply buffered writes to the data store during the recovery mode. While TAR and DIS are simple to implement, other techniques are more complex. TARDIS is most complex and resembles the write-back policy.
We quantify the tradeoffs associated with the write-back policy and TARDIS family of techniques using YCSB, BG, and TPC-C benchmarks. We compare their performance with alternatives such as write-around and write-through policies that perform writes synchronously. All benchmark results show that asynchronous writes enhance the overall performance and enable the application to scale as a function of the number of nodes in the caching layer. The results also highlight the extra memory required by the proposed techniques to buffer the writes.
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 213
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
