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Environmental Team Meeting
Tue, Sep 14, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Hello 2010-2011 Environmental Team,
We will have our first Environmental Team meeting in 2010-2011 history this Tuesday, September 14th at KAP at 3:30pm.
This meeting will be a general information meeting about the project and the PSWRC competition.
See you Tuesday!
Please let us know if you have any questions!
USC American Society of Civil Engineers
email: uscasce@usc.edu
website: www.uscasce.comLocation: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - Lobby
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Civil Engineers
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CS Colloquium
Tue, Sep 14, 2010 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Golovin , Cal Tech
Talk Title: Adaptive Submodularity: A New Approach to Active Learning and Stochastic Optimization
Abstract: Solving stochastic optimization problems under partial observability, where one needs to adaptively make decisions with uncertain outcomes, is a fundamental but notoriously difficult challenge. In this talk, I will introduce a new concept called adaptive submodularity, which generalizes submodular set functions to adaptive policies. In many respects adaptive submodularity plays the same role for adaptive problems as submodularity plays for nonadaptive problems. Specifically, just as many nonadaptive problems with submodular objectives have efficient algorithms with good approximation guarantees, so too do adaptive problems with adaptive submodular objectives. We use this fact to recover and generalize several previous results in adaptive optimization, including results for active learning and adaptive variants of maximum coverage and set cover. Applications include machine diagnosis, observation selection and sensor placement problems, and an adaptive version of a viral marketing problem studied by Kempe et al. Joint work with Andreas Krause.
Biography: Daniel Golovin is a postdoctoral fellow in Caltech's Center for the Mathematics of Information. His current research mainly focuses on online and approximation algorithms for machine learning and optimization, with an eye towards creating principled solutions that work well in practice. Prior to joining Caltech, he obtained a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008, and spent an additional year there at the Center for Computational Thinking. He did his undergraduate work at Cornell University.
Host: Dr. David Kempe
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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Microsoft Early Engagement Presentation
Tue, Sep 14, 2010 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This presentation is geared for CS/CECS/EE Undergraduate Students
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
