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Events for March 05, 2009
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US Corporate Culture Workshop
Thu, Mar 05, 2009 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Are you an International Student? Are you looking to get an edge with U.S. companies? Come to the US Corporate Culture workshop this Thursday to learn more about how American companies recruit, hire and integrate employees into the workforce. These invaluable pointers could help you secure a position in this difficult job market.This workshop is available to all Viterbi students and will discuss how corporate culture is different than academia and how one can prepare to enter into the workforce.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Current Engineering Undergraduate/Graduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Wenchuan Earthquake Damage to Infrastructural Facilities
Thu, Mar 05, 2009 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Depei Zhou,
Chairman and Professor of Geotechnical Engineering Department, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, ChinaAbstract:The 5.12.2008 Wenchuan earthquake caused widespread damage to infrastructural facilities in the affected areas. Based on results of the post-earthquake emergency investigation and inspection, Professor Zhou will describe the damage to road engineering systems, retaining structures, highway bridges, and railways systems. The main focus will be on the geological hazards caused by the Wenchuan earthquake. Professor Zhou will also discuss the lessons learnt from this devastating earthquake regarding design and construction of infrastructural facilities in earthquake active areas. Moreover, the current status of reconstruction in the earthquake affected areas will be presented and the international collaboration in geotechnical earthquake engineering will be outlined. During the presentation, many slides of photos will be shown.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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A Survey of Some Recent Research at the Border of Game Theory and Theoretical Computer Science
Thu, Mar 05, 2009 @ 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
CS Distinguished Lecture
Speaker: Prof. Anna Karlin, University of Washington
Host: Prof. David KempeAbstract:
The design of protocols for resource allocation and electronic commerce among parties with diverse and selfish interests has spawned a great deal of recent research at the boundary between economics, game theory and computer science.In the process, completely new areas of research have emerged such as computational economics. We need to understand the complexity of computing various equilibria. New notions such as the "price of anarchy" arise in an attempt to quantify the efficiency lost due to selfish behavior in natural games. Finally, there is "mechanism design", a fascinating subfield of game theory and microeconomics, focusing on "incentive engineering". A mechanism is an algorithm or protocol that is explicitly designed so that rational participants, motivated solely by their self-interest, will end up achieving the designer's goals.In this talk, we survey some of the research and open problems in these areas. (No background in game theory will be assumed.)Biography:
Anna Karlin is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and then spent 5 years as a researcher at (what was then) Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center before coming to the University of Washington. Her professional activities have included serving on the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, the editorial board for SIAM Journal on Computing, the committee to award the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (including chairing that committee in 2006), and serving as Program Chair for the 1997 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. She has given a number of Distinguished Lectures at major universities including among others MIT, Brown, Penn and Duke.Her research is primarily in theoretical computer science: the design and analysis of algorithms, particularly probabilistic and online algorithms. Much of her work is also at the interface between theory and other areas, such as economics and game theory, data mining, operating systems, networks, and distributed systems.Outside of work, her main claim to fame is having formerly been part of "an obscure and very bad rock band of furry Palo Alto geeks" (according to the Rolling Stones) called Severe Tire Damage (or STD for short). STD was the first band to broadcast live over the Internet (back in 1993).Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Colloquia
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Raytheon Company Information Session
Thu, Mar 05, 2009 @ 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori (GFS) 106
Audiences: Current Engineering Undergraduate/Graduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
