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Events for October 05, 2006

• Oct

  05

  Walk-In Advising -- Career Fair Preparation!

  Thu, Oct 05, 2006 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections

  Student Activity

  
  

  Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, or general engineering career advice.

  Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218

  Audiences: Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Students

  Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services

  

• Oct

  05

  USC CS Colloquium Series

  Thu, Oct 05, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM

  Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

  Student Activity

  
  

  Prof. Tanya Berger-WolfUI, ChicagoTitle:A Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks Abstract:
  Finding patterns of social interaction within a population has wide-ranging applications including: disease modeling, cultural and information transmission, phylogeography, conservation, and behavioral ecology. Social interactions are often modeled with networks. A key characteristics of social interactions is their continual change. However, most past analyses of social networks are essentially static in that all information about the time that social interactions take place is discarded. I will present a new mathematical and computational framework that enables analysis of dynamic social networks and that explicitly makes use of information about when social interactions occur. I will discuss several algorithms for obtaining information about the structure of dynamic social networks in this framework and pose many open questions.The research is joint work with J. Saia (UNM), D.I.Rubenstein, S. Sundaresan, and I. Fischoff (Princeton) Bio:
  Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research is in applications of algorithmic and data mining techniques to population biology, both human (epidemiology) and animal, from genetics to social interactions. Dr. Berger-Wolf has received her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel) in 1995 and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. She has spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico working in computational phylogenetics and a year at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) doing research in computational epidemiology. Hosted by Prof. David Kempe
  

  Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Nancy Levien

  

• Oct

  05

  Freshmen Spring 2007 Registration Workshop

  Thu, Oct 05, 2006 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

  Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs

  Workshops & Infosessions

  
  

  All freshmen are expected to attend a group advising session prior to their individual advising appointments for spring 2007 registration.

  Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101

  Audiences: Undergraduate Students

  Contact: Monica De Los Santos

  

• Oct

  05

  EE-S DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES

  Thu, Oct 05, 2006 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM

  Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES"RECENT ADVANCES IN DIGITAL
  PROCESSING OF IMAGES AND AUDIO"Dr. Henrique MalvarDirector of Microsoft ResearchRedmond, WAAbstract:We present an overview of recent developments in audio and visual signal processing at Microsoft Research. We briefly discuss technologies such as enhancement of images from digital cameras (raw demosaicing, interactive tone mapping, denoising), generation and browsing of gigapixel images, recovery of 3-D environments from image sets, and audio denoising, bandwidth extension, and enhancement with microphone arrays. We also present live demos of some of these technologies.Bio:Henrique (Rico) Malvar is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, and Director of the Microsoft Research Laboratory in Redmond, WA. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT in Electrical Engineering. Before Joining Microsoft in 1997, he was a Vice President of Research and Advanced Development at PictureTel Corporation, and prior to that he was with the faculty of University of Brasilia for 14 years. As a Director at Microsoft Research, he oversees the activities of several research groups: Adaptive Systems and Interaction, Communication and Collaboration Systems, Data Management, Exploration and Mining, Databases, Interactive Visual Media, Knowledge Tools, Machine Learning and Applied Statistics, Natural Language Processing, Speech Technology, and Text Mining, Search, and Navigation. His technical interests include multimedia signal compression and enhancement, fast algorithms, multi-rate filter banks, and wavelet transforms; he has over 120 publications and 50 patents in those areas. Dr. Malvar is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the editorial board of the journal Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, and a former Associate Editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He received the Young Scientist Award from the Marconi International Fellowship in 1981, the Best Paper Award in Image Processing from the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1992, and the 2002 Technical Achievement Award, also from the IEEE SP Society.Host: Prof. Sanjit K. Mitra, (213) 740-2358

  Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - ontology Auditorium

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Rosine Sarafian