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Events for December 03, 2014
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkWed, Dec 03, 2014
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen 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. 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 visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/firstyear/prospective/meetusc_sw.html to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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SWE 2014 Holiday Goldie Blox Project
Wed, Dec 03, 2014
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
During this winter season, opt to participate in SWE's exciting new project to get in the Holiday spirit by giving back to the local community!
This year, SWE will be distributing 100 Goldie Blox sets to young girls at local schools and the Orthopedic Institute.
We will be tabling at RTH from Monday December 1st to Thursday December 4th, where we will be accepting donations of any size - $10 alone is enough to fund one whole Goldie Blox set! Anyone can donate (yes, guys you too!)
We will also be hosting the first annual SWE Holiday Wrapping Party - Join us on Thursday December 4th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm to wrap the Goldie Blox and celebrate the season with treats, festive music, good time together before finals!
HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE :)
* Goldie Blox toys were designed by a female engineer who believed strongly that it is extremely important for girls to gain experience in engineering from an early age with fun toys that encourage their problem solving, puzzle, and creativity skills. Help SWE make this a reality for local girls by investing in the local community.
For more information visit the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/334907983368229/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcomingLocation: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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Computer Science Faculty Meeting - RTH 217
Wed, Dec 03, 2014 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
Event details will be emailed to invited attendees.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 217
Audiences: Invited Faculty Only
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Big Data and Human Behavior Speaker Series: Tom M. Mitchell (E. Fredkin University Professor) Carnegie Mellon University
Wed, Dec 03, 2014 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
How does the human brain use neural activity to create and represent meanings of words, sentences and stories?One way to study this question is to have people read text while scanning their brain, then develop machine learning methods to discover the mapping between language features and observed neural activity. We have been doing such experiments with fMRI (1 mm spatial resolution) and MEG (1 msec time resolution) brain imaging, for over a decade. As a result, we have learned answers to questions such as "Are the neural encodings of word meaning the same in your brain and mine?", "Are neural encodings of word meaning built out of recognizable subcomponents, or are they randomly different for each word?," and "What sequence of neurally encoded information flows through the brain during the half-second in which the brain comprehends a single word, or when it comprehends a multi-word sentence?" This talk will summarize some of what we have learned, newer questions we are currently working on, and will describe the central role that machine learning algorithms play in this research.
Location: Cammilleri Hall, BCI
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Communications, Networks & Systems (CommNetS) Seminar
Wed, Dec 03, 2014 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Steven Low, Caltech
Talk Title: Semidefinite Relaxation of Optimal Power Flow
Series: CommNetS
Abstract: The optimal power flow (OPF) problem seeks to optimize a certain objective, such as power loss, generation cost or user utility, subject to Kirchhoffâs laws, power balance as well as capacity, stability and contingency constraints on the voltages and power flows. It is a fundamental problem that underlies many power system operations and planning. It is nonconvex and many algorithms have been proposed to solve it approximately. A new approach via semidefinite relaxation of OPF has been developed in the last few years.
In this tutorial, we present a bus injection model and a branch flow model, formulate OPF within each model, and prove their equivalence. The complexity of OPF formulated here lies in the nonconvex quadratic constraints on the feasible set of OPF. We characterize these feasible sets that lead to three different convex relaxations based on semidefinite programming (SDP), chordal extension, and second-order cone programming (SOCP). When a convex relaxation is exact, an optimal solution of the original nonconvex OPF can be recovered from every optimal solution of the relaxation. We summarize three types of sufficient conditions that guarantee the exactness of these relaxations.
Biography: Steven H. Low is a Professor of the Department of Computing & Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Electrical Engineering at Caltech. Before that, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems and the IEEE Transactions on Network Science & Engineering, is on the editorial boards of NOW Foundations and Trends in Networking, and in Electric Energy Systems, as well as Journal on Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks. He is an IEEE Fellow and received his B.S. from Cornell and PhD from Berkeley, both in EE.
Host: Prof. Ashutosh Nayyar and the Ming Hsieh Institute
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
