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Events for October 02, 2024

  • Repeating EventEiS Communications Hub - Tutoring for Engineering Ph.D. Students

    Wed, Oct 02, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs

    Workshops & Infosessions


    Come to the EiS Communications Hub for one-on-one tutoring from Viterbi faculty for Ph.D. writing and speaking projects!

    Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A

    Audiences: Viterbi Ph.D. Students

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    Contact: Helen Choi

    Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home

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  • Career & Internship Fair

    Wed, Oct 02, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections

    Workshops & Infosessions


    For Viterbi engineering students only.

    Connect with employers on-campus, hiring for full-time, part-time, and paid internships at this Viterbi-specific recruitment fair!

    Please visit Handshake for all the companies attending.
    For more information, please visit: https://viterbicareers.usc.edu/careerexpo/

    Location: Trousdale Parkway and Alumni Park

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections

    Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/

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  • Alfred E.Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering - Seminar series

    Wed, Oct 02, 2024 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Dr. Ji-Xin Cheng, Ph.D., Moustakas Chair Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics; Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Professor of Electrical & Computer EnProfessor of Chemistry & Professor of Physics Boston University

    Talk Title: Seeing the unseen using molecular fingerprints

    Abstract: Spectrochemical imaging, using intrinsic fingerprint spectroscopic signals from molecules as a contrast mechanism, opens a new window for understanding life at the molecular level and also enables molecule-based precision diagnosis of diseases. Yet, the intrinsic spectroscopic signal, especially the vibrational signals from chemical bonds, is weaker than the fluorescence signal from a dye by many orders of magnitude. Detecting such weak signal from a tight focus (i.e., a small volume of ~1 femtoliter) under a microscope is extremely challenging and was considered nearly impossible. Ji-Xin Cheng devoted his career to overcoming such daunting barrier through developing advanced chemical microscopes over the past 25 years. In this lecture, Cheng will tell his journey of serendipity-driven innovation, scientific discovery, clinical translation, and entrepreneurship in the growing field of chemical imaging.

    Biography: Ji-Xin Cheng attended University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) from 1989 to 1994. From 1994 to 1998, he carried out his PhD study on bond-selective chemistry at USTC. As a graduate student, he worked as a research assistant at Universite Paris-sud (France) on vibrational spectroscopy and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) on quantum dynamics theory. After postdoctoral training on ultrafast spectroscopy at HKUST, he joined Sunney Xie’s group at Harvard University as a postdoc, where he spearheaded the development of CARS microscopy that allows high-speed vibrational imaging. Cheng joined Purdue University in 2003 as Assistant Professor in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, promoted to Associate Professor in 2009 and Full Professor in 2013. He joined Boston University as the Inaugural Theodore Moustakas Chair Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics in summer 2017.
     Among his honors, Cheng is the recipient of the 2024 Raman Innovation Award at the International Conference of Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS, Rome), the 2024 Analytical Chemistry Spectrochemical Analysis Award from American Chemical Society, the 2024 Charles Delisi Award from Boston University College of Engineering, the 2024 Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award from International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), the 2022 Boston University Innovator of Year, the 2020 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award from the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh, the 2019 Ellis R. Lippincott Award from Optica, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and Coblentz Society, the 2016 Research Award from Purdue University College of Engineering, and the 2015 Craver Award from Coblentz Society.

    Host: Qifa Zhou

    Location: Corwin D. Denney Research Center (DRB) - 145

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Carla Stanard

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  • Viterbi - Lockheed Martin Network of Women Series (3/4)

    Wed, Oct 02, 2024 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections

    Workshops & Infosessions


    This is a virtual event. Please register through Handshake.   Join the Lockheed Martin network of Women (LM Now) as they share their stories of mentorship, career growth, goals achievement, and more. This is the third event of the series. This event's topic will be Panel with LM Employees.   
     
    External employer-hosted events and activities are not affiliated with the USC Viterbi Career Connections Office. They are posted on Viterbi Career Connections because they may be of interest to members of the Viterbi community. Inclusion of any activity does not indicate USC sponsorship or endorsement of that activity or event. It is the participant’s responsibility to apply due diligence, exercise caution when participating, and report concerns to vcareers@usc.edu

    Audiences: BS, MS, PhD

    Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections

    Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/

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  • When does human-centered AI (fail to) scale?

    When does human-centered AI (fail to) scale?

    Wed, Oct 02, 2024 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Dr. Angel Hwang (she/her), Assistant Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

    Talk Title: When does human-centered AI (fail to) scale?

    Abstract: State-of-the-art AI systems are built and deployed at the societal scale, increasing the need to consider sociotechnical factors for implementing systems of such magnitude. In contrast, individual user experience has long been the core of designing and developing user-friendly technologies. Through a series of experiments and case studies, I examine challenges and breakdowns as one extends individual-centered approaches to design societal-scale AI systems.  
     
     
    This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium.    

    Biography: Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Her research explores the societal impact of AI-powered technologies on work practices. In her past and present work, she focuses on how practitioners design, build, and/or apply AI to facilitate group interaction, produce creative content, and balance everyday wellness.

    Host: CAIS

    More Info: https://cais.usc.edu/events/usc-cais-seminar-with-dr-angel-hwang/

    Location: Montgomery Ross Fisher Building (school Of Social Work) (MRF) - 102

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

    Event Link: https://cais.usc.edu/events/usc-cais-seminar-with-dr-angel-hwang/

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  • AME Seminar

    Wed, Oct 02, 2024 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

    Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Andres Jared Goza, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Talk Title: Lighting the fuse to enable metamaterials for passive, adaptive flow control

    Abstract: Unsteady flow control is challenging in many engineering domains. Active techniques are costly, energy-intensive, and heavy, while passive approaches often lack robustness in handling complex flow dynamics. Metamaterials are structures with engineered architecture, allowing for catered response behaviors to stimuli. These structures offer a transformative potential for flow control by flow-metamaterial interaction, FMI. FMI could allow engineers to leverage architected structures to passively and adaptively produce desired flow responses. 
     
    To capitalize on this potential, however, we must first identify which classes of metamaterials are most promising for different flow scenarios, and understand how to align the key metamaterial behaviors with the relevant flow length- and timescales to enable favorable flow-structure interplay.  This understanding must account for the behavior of the fully coupled flow-metamaterial system, which will generally yield dynamics with distinct time/length scales from those of the constituent flow/structure systems. Obtaining this understanding requires a suite of computational tools capable of predicting and understanding the flow-structure interplay between the targeted complex flows and modern architected structures.

     
    We present some a-la-carte results on these various challenges and opportunities. We discuss some key metamaterial classes promising for certain flow behaviors. We share some ongoing development of high-fidelity and resolvent computational tools within an immersed boundary framework, currently without flow-structure interplay but being designed to enable robust, versatile computations between flows and a wide range of metamaterials. Finally, for simplified flow-metamaterial configurations, we discuss efforts to synthesize appropriate dimensionless parameters, expressed in terms of key intrinsic properties of the separate flow/structure systems, that govern the FMI system's behavior.  

     
     
    *Andres is grateful for funding from AFOSR to perform the presented work.
     

    Biography:  Andres is an Assistant Professor at UIUC. He uses computational techniques to study flow-structure interaction, particularly when the structure has some heterogeneous properties that make the coupled behavior more complex. He is interested in developing high-fidelity and analysis techniques to simulate and understand these dynamics. He also has two young children that bring fun regular surprises, and enjoys running, cycling, squash, and bouldering.

    Host: AME Department

    More Info: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/

    Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1

    Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 202

    WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Tessa Yao

    Event Link: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/

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  • Viterbi - NAWCWD: Engineer and Science Development Program

    Wed, Oct 02, 2024 @ 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections

    Workshops & Infosessions


    This event is for Viterbi engineering students only. Please register through Handshake.
    Become a part of an organization that will let you make a difference to the country and the world! 
    The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is seeking civilian entry-level Engineers and Scientists to assume exciting and challenging jobs supporting Naval Aviation. Demand is high for candidates with degrees in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Challenges and career opportunities are unlimited as you and your team work to develop, deliver and support state-of-the-art aircraft to the men and women defending our nation. 
    . What engineering degree levels are you interested in connecting with? 

    Bachelors, Masters, Doctoral

    2. What engineering majors are you interested in connecting with? 

    Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science , Electrical Engineering

    3. Are you able to potentially sponsor or hire on CPT/OPT?

    No

    Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211

    Audiences: BS, MS, PhD

    Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections

    Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/

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