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EiS Communications Hub - Tutoring for Engineering Ph.D. StudentsMon, Apr 21, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi Ph.D. students are invited to drop by the Hub for instruction on their writing and speaking tasks! All tutoring is one-on-one and conducted by Viterbi faculty.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A
Audiences: Viterbi Ph.D. Students
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
"Keys to Life" series at USC ORSL
Mon, Apr 21, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
"Keys to Life" with Prof. Weiss is a motivational discussion series designed to promote student success and well-being. This series is for students who want to develop their "keys" in a small group setting and a peaceful, reflective environment. Finding purpose is essential to living a meaningful life and key to personal fulfillment. This series will help students identify and articulate their purpose and provide group motivation to work towards it. A unique feature of the series will be its peripatetic "Purpose Walks" through campus.
More Information: Keys to Life with Prof. Weiss.jpg
Location: University Religious Center (URC) - courtyard
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elisabeth Arnold Weiss
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Remarkable Trajectory Lecture Honoring Dr. Ellis Horowitz
Mon, Apr 21, 2025 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Ellis Horowitz, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering - USC
Talk Title: Turing Award Winners I Have Known and Their Impact on My Research
Abstract: I have been involved with computers for the past 62 years ever since I programmed an IBM 1620 while a junior in college. My journey has witnessed the development of the field of Computer Science and its recognition as a legitimate field of study, the growth of journals to publish the growing body of work in the field, the development of computer science departments and the awarding of degrees including Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D.s (including my own). In this talk I plan to highlight just some of the changes I have witnessed, by focusing on the Turing award winners I have known that have impacted my research. Though many more computer scientists have influenced my work, for this talk I will stick to the Turing award winners that I actually met personally and in some cases did joint work.
VIRTUAL AUDIENCE: If you are unable to join us in-person, you will be missed, but you can still view the lecture using the Zoom link below.
https://usc.zoom.us/j/94418192726?pwd=CgniyXcDAgc63uxdb70EmNmASGzf6Z.1
Meeting ID: 944 1819 2726
Passcode: 04212025
Biography: Dr. Ellis Horowitz is currently Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received his B.S. degree from Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He was on the faculty there and at Cornell University. He has also been a visiting Professor at M.I.T. and the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion).
Dr. Horowitz has held numerous academic administrative jobs including Associate Chairman of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin. At U.S.C. he was chairman of the Computer Science Department from 1990 to 1999. After completing his term as Computer Science department chairman, Dr. Horowitz was appointed Director of Information Technology and Distance Education in USC's Viterbi School of Engineering. Part of his responsibilities included the Distance Education Network (DEN). As Director he oversaw an operation that offers more than 200 graduate engineering courses per year to more than 1,000 students. Originally courses were delivered by closed circuit satellite broadcast, but under Dr. Horowitz DEN converted their course delivery to Internet webcast.
Dr. Horowitz is the author of ten books and over eighty journal articles and refereed conference proceedings on computer science subjects ranging from data structures, algorithms, and software design to computer science education. He has been a principal investigator on research contracts from NSF, AFOSR, ONR, and DARPA. He is a past associate editor for the journals Communications of the ACM and Transactions on Mathematical Software. He was an IBM Scholar from 1989-1993. His Erdos number is 4.
Dr. Horowitz is an active consultant to the legal community, specializing in intellectual property issues. He has participated in several landmark cases including Yahoo v Google, RIAA v Kazaa, and RIAA v LimeWire. He was the founder and CEO of Quality Software Products, a California Corporation, from 1983 - 1993. The company designed and developed UNIX application software that was sold worldwide.
For more information on Dr. Horowitz please visit: https://ellishorowitz.com/
Host: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
More Info: https://forms.gle/jFxiDEvrwBovEHw27
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/94418192726?pwd=CgniyXcDAgc63uxdb70EmNmASGzf6Z.1Location: Ginsburg Hall (GCS) - Auditorium (LL1)
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/94418192726?pwd=CgniyXcDAgc63uxdb70EmNmASGzf6Z.1
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Event Link: https://forms.gle/jFxiDEvrwBovEHw27
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Controls Seminar: Dario Paccagnan
Mon, Apr 21, 2025 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dario Paccagnan, Associate Professor, Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Talk Title: Pick-to-Learn for Systems and Control: Data-driven design with state-of-the art safety guarantees
Abstract: Data-driven methods have become powerful tools for tackling increasingly complex problems in Systems and Control. However, deploying these methods in real-world settings — especially safety-critical ones — requires rigorous safety and performance guarantees. This need has motivated much recent work at the interface of Statistical Learning and Control, aiming to integrate formal guarantees with data-driven design methods. However, many existing approaches achieve this only by sacrificing valuable data for testing/calibration or by restricting the design space, thus leading to suboptimal performances.
Against this backdrop, in this talk I will introduce Pick-to-Learn (P2L) for Systems and Control, a novel framework designed to equipany data-driven control method with state-of-the-art safety and performance guarantees. Crucially, P2L enables the use of all available data to jointly synthesize and certify the design, eliminating the need to set aside data for calibration or validation purposes.
I will then demonstrate how, as a result, P2L delivers designs and certificates that outperforms existing methods across a range of core problems including optimal control, reachability analysis, safe synthesis, and robust control.
Biography: Dario Paccagnan is a Senior Lecturer (US Associate Professor) and a member of the Computational Optimization Group in the Department of Computing, Imperial College London.Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Control, Dynamical System, and Computations, UCSB hosted by Prof. Francesco Bullo and Prof. Jason Marden. Paccagnan received a PhD in optimization and control from ETH Zurich under the guidance of Prof. John Lygeros. He was awarded a B.Sc. and two M.Sc. degrees from the University of Padova, and the Technical University of Denmark under the TIME double degree program.He is interested in the modeling, analysis, and control of multi-agent systems where self-interested agents take autonomous decisions. He leverages theoretical models and real world case studies to shed light on the societal impact of self-interested decision making.
Host: Dr. Lars Lindemann, llindema@usc.edu | Dr. Mihailo Jovanovic, mihailo@usc.edu | Dr. Ketan Savla, ksavla@usc.edu
More Information: 2025.04.21 Seminar - Dario Paccagnan.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - EEB 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lars Lindemann
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Computational Science Distinguished Seminar Series
Mon, Apr 21, 2025 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC School of Advanced Computing
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Padmini Rangamani, UCSD
Talk Title: Advances in computational modeling for cellular biophysics
Abstract: Cellular function often integrates biochemical and mechanical cues in what is known as mechanotransduction. Mechanotransduction is closely tied to cell shape during development, disease, and wound healing. In this talk, I will showcase how mathematical models have helped shed light on some fundamental problems in this area of research including how cell shape can alter biochemical signaling and how cell mechanics can alter cell shape. Beyond mathematical model development, I will also highlight how advances in computational modeling can help us understand complex cellular predictions. Throughout, I will highlight the challenges and opportunities for integrating mathematical models with experimental measurements.
Biography: Padmini Rangamani is a Professor in Pharmacology and in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. She joined the department in July 2014. Earlier, she was a UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, where she worked on lipid bilayer mechanics. She obtained her Ph.D. in biological sciences from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University (Hyderabad, India) and Georgia Institute of Technology respectively. She is the recipient of the PECASE, ARO, AFOSR, and ONR Young Investigator Awards, and a Sloan Research Fellowship for Computational and Molecular Evolutionary Biology. She was also elected as a fellow of the American Institute for Biological and Medical Engineers.
Host: The School of Advanced Computing
More Info: https://sac.usc.edu/distinguished-seminar-series/
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tessa Yao
Event Link: https://sac.usc.edu/distinguished-seminar-series/
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
MEPC Finals
Mon, Apr 21, 2025 @ 05:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Viterbi Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Receptions & Special Events
Watch your fellow Trojans compete for a $100,000 prize in the MEPC Finals Pitch Competition. Dinner will be provided .
Location: Sign into EngageSC to View Location
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jashan Dhami
Event Link: https://engage.usc.edu/Viterbitie/rsvp?id=404174
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
