BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Best Dissertation Symposium DESCRIPTION:Each year, the Viterbi School of Engineering's academic departments awards PhD candidates who submitted exceptional research dissertations the honor of Best Dissertation. Each PhD student who receives the Best Dissertation award will also be nominated to compete for the William F. Ballhaus, Jr. Prize for Excellence in Graduate Engineering Research. A faculty committee will review the dissertations, then narrow down the nominees to three finalists. The finalists will be invited to present their research at the Best Dissertation Symposium on April 18, 2017. From these nominees, a final winner will be selected.\n \n RSVP requested via https://gapp.usc.edu/events/best-dissertation-symposium by April 17, 2017.\n \n More information can be found at https://gapp.usc.edu/students/doctoral-students/awards/best-dissertation-symposium\n \n DTSTART:20170418T150000 LOCATION:RTH 526 URL;VALUE=URI: DTEND:20170418T163000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR