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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Jan 12, 2015
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. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering 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 make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Prospective Undergrads and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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New Graduate Student SCavenger Hunt
Mon, Jan 12, 2015 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Take this opportunity to meet your classmates and explore campus while learning about USC.
The SCavenger Hunt will begin in the EQuad (Epstein Family Plaza) near the tables by OHE.More Information: SCavenger Hunt 20151.jpg
Location: E Quad
Audiences: First Semester Graduate Students
Contact: Meredith Tiras
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Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Jan 12, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Keyue Shen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, USC BME
Talk Title: Engineering Cell Microenvironments for Cancer Therapeutics
Biography: http://bme.usc.edu/directory/faculty/core-faculty/keyue-shen/
Host: Stanley Yamashiro
Location: OHE 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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New Graduate Student Speed Networking
Tue, Jan 13, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Build your network by meeting fellow students in a series of fun, quick conversations. Space is limited.
New graduate students should check their USC email the week of 1/5/15 for registration details.Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 350
Audiences: First Semester Graduate Students
Contact: Meredith Tiras
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Epstein Institute / ISE 651 Seminar Series
Tue, Jan 13, 2015 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Shinyi Wu, Associate Professor, USC School of Social Work and Joint Appointment, Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Talk Title: An Engineer-Led Clinical Trial to Harness Technology to Facilitate Evidence-Based Depression Care-Management
Series: Epstein Institute Seminar Series
Abstract: The rapid growth in the use of telecommunication technologies can reduce disparities and amplify the humanity of the health care system. Clinical and social work research and practice increasingly show promise of care-management for reducing disparities in depression care. In this talk, Dr. Shinyi Wu will describe her engineer-designed clinical trial that exploits telecommunication technologies to facilitate adoption of evidence-based collaborative depression care in safety net clinics. This Diabetes-Depression Care-management Adoption Trial (DCAT) tests an automated telephonic assessment and web-based provider notification system (ATA) tethered to diabetes patient registry system to expand the capacity of the diabetes care team for depression care management. The system aims to shift the burden of routine work to machines and frees up providers to deliver effective, efficient, and compassionate care to those most in need. The technology was tested in a quasi-experimental comparative-effectiveness trial with 1406 diabetes patients in a large public safety-net care system serving primarily minority patients. The comparisons included a usual care group, a care-management group, and a care-management with technology group. Properties of the care-management technology were evaluated and patient and provider user experiences were assessed. Generalized linear and logistic regression analyses with propensity score methods were conducted to compare group effectiveness on patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness of the 3 care models. This study serves as a roadmap for engineers interested in conducting clinical trials to test health technology.
Biography: Shinyi Wu (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an Associate Professor in the USC School of Social Work with a joint appointment in the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She serves as the Associate Director of Social and Health Services Research in the USC Roybal Institute on Aging. Applying her engineering background, her work has focused on ways to improve quality and cost-effectiveness of health services and population health, especially for patients with chronic illnesses, the elderly, and disadvantaged populations. Dr. Wu was the principal investigator of the DCAT trial to improve care for patients with concurrent diabetes and depression. Currently she is leading another trial to study mobile technology and aging, titled "Intergenerational Mobile Technology Opportunities Program" (IMTOP). Her other current work involves testing interventions to reduce health care disparities, including an NIH study to develop and evaluate a mobile health technological approach to implement care management for underserved stroke patients, and a PCORI study to test a promotora (community healthcare worker) intervention for patients with multiple chronic illnesses and depression.
Prior to joining USC, she was a researcher at RAND, where she also co-directed the NIA-funded Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation. She was honored as an outstanding researcher by RAND for her contributions to improving health policy and decision-making.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: Seminar-Wu.docx
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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CS Colloquium: Vishal Misra (Columbia University) - The Network Neutrality Debate: An Engineering Perspective
Tue, Jan 13, 2015 @ 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Vishal Misra , Columbia University
Talk Title: The Network Neutrality Debate: An Engineering Perspective
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: The issue of Network Neutrality has ignited considerable public debate recently. While the term and much of the discussion originated in the legal community, we started looking at it from an engineering and networking perspective a few years ago. We employed the lens of cooperative game theory and a careful modeling of the Internet including the topology, peering relationships and protocols used on the Internet. Our primary conclusion is that Network Neutrality as an issue is secondary to that of the real problem, that of lack of market competition amongst broadband providers. We present some of our results including our prediction back in 2008 of a rise in paid peering (this year Netflix signed paid peering arrangements with all 4 of the top broadband providers in the US), the inadequacies of strict Network Neutrality regulation when competition exists and our proposal of a Public Option ISP that solves the problems of a "non neutral network" without needing any regulatory support. We also discuss some open issues regarding Network Neutrality in the wireless context.
This Lecture will be available to stream HERE. (please right-click to load in a separate tab for optimal performance).
Biography: Vishal Misra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. His research emphasis is on mathematical modeling of networking systems, bridging the gap between practice and analysis. He served as the Vice-Chair of the Computer Science Department at Columbia University from 2009 to 2011, and in 2011 he spun out Infinio, a company in the area of datacenter storage. The company is based in Kendall Square and employs more than 50 people. He is also credited with inventing live-microblogging at Cricinfo, a company he co-founded while a graduate student at UMass Amherst, predating Twitter by 10 years. Cricinfo was later acquired by ESPN and is still the worldâs most popular sports portal.
Host: CS Networked Systems Laboratory
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Jan 14, 2015
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. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering 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 make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Prospective Undergrads and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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AI Seminar: General Methods for Causal Discovery
Wed, Jan 14, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Frederick Eberhardt, Caltech, Professor of Philosophy at Caltech
Talk Title: General Methods for Causal Discovery
Series: AISeminar
Abstract: This talk will consist of two parts, both concerned with causal discovery. In the first part I will describe some methods we have developed to perform causal inference with very weak background assumptions. The problem of causal discovery is converted into a constraint optimization problem that is then solved using maxSAT solvers. This general framework allows for the inclusion of very general background knowledge and only requires extremely weak model space assumptions. We show in simulations that for the restricted domains in which an exact Bayesian computation can be performed, our methods achieve an accuracy very close to that of the exact Bayesian computation. For more general domains, no competing method exists. In the second part, I will describe some very recent research we have done on extracting causes of behavior from images. This research addresses the more general question of how causal macro-variables can be constructed from micro-variables (pixel data, in our case). We hope that our account can lay the groundwork for a more general approach to automated causal analysis of images and video data.
Here are the relevant papers:
First part: http://people.hss.caltech.edu/~fde/papers/HEJ_UAI2014.pdf
Second part: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2309
Biography: Frederick Eberhardt is Professor of Philosophy at Caltech. He is primarily interested in methods for causal discovery from statistical data, the use of experiments in causal discovery, the integration of causal inferences from different data sets and the philosophical issues at the foundations of causality and probability. His research focuses both on how methods of causal discovery can be constructed and on how humans and animals in fact learn about causal relations. Before joining Caltech in 2013, he was assistant professor in the philosophy-neuroscience-psychology program at Washington University in St Louis. He got his PhD from Carnegie Mellon in 2007 and was a postdoc in psychology at UC Berkeley until 2009.
Host: Kun Zhang
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=44b5327011024c03bc46967a538adc9d1dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 1135
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=44b5327011024c03bc46967a538adc9d1d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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Viterbi Spring Welcome
Wed, Jan 14, 2015 @ 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Come meet peers, upper-division Viterbi students, and staff at the Viterbi Spring Welcome!The Viterbi Spring Welcome is for new freshmen and transfer students as well as students who have indicated interest in changing their major to Viterbi. There will be food, activities as well as plenty of resources to jump start your Viterbi Life!
Viterbi Spring Welcome
Wednesday, January 14th
5:00-6:30 pm
Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH) 211
RSVP Here
You will have the opportunity to meet Kristi (Senior ISE student) and Wes (Junior ME student) who will serve as resources for you throughout your first semester and who will be organizing fun opportunities for everyone to get together to explore USC life!
Please RSVP so that we can plan for your attendance. We look forward to seeing you all there!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: New Viterbi Students
Contact: Jenny Vazquez-Akim
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New Grad Student Dessert Party with DPS
Thu, Jan 15, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Enjoy desserts with the USC Department of Public Safety while registering your bike, getting your questions answered and learning about safety at USC.
*Desserts available while supplies last.
Event for new Viterbi Graduate Students - Attendees must show USC IDLocation: E Quad
Audiences: First Semester Graduate Students
Contact: Meredith Tiras
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Writing Effective Resumes- For Grad Students
Thu, Jan 15, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Does your resume highlight the skills that will land an interview? Learn how to create a resume that will serve as the marketing tool that will get your foot inside industry’s door!
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Viterbi MS students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Jan 16, 2015
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. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering 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 make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Prospective Undergrads and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Jan 16, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Ashish Soni, Founding Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage
Talk Title: Starting a Technology Venture: Keys to Success
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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NL Seminar-Towards the Interpretation of Metaphoric Language
Fri, Jan 16, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jonathan Gordon, USC/ISI
Talk Title: Towards the Interpretation of Metaphoric Language
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Understanding what people mean when they use metaphoric language is a central problem in natural language understanding. Metaphors give a partial understanding of one kind of experience in terms of another, highlighting similarities and hiding differences. In this talk, I give an overview of the problems posed by metaphoric language. I then describe ongoing crosslinguistic work on the knowledge-based interpretation of metaphors by abductive inference. This work moves us toward a better understanding not only of what people are saying with metaphors but also how the metaphors used by groups of people (e.g., the supporters and opponents of gun control) expose their different world views.
Biography: Jonathan Gordon is a postdoctoral researcher at the USC Information Sciences Institute, where he is advised by Jerry Hobbs. His 2014 doctoral dissertation, 'Inferential Commonsense Knowledge from Text', was supervised by Lenhart Schubert at the University of Rochester. Jonathan's research interests include natural language understanding, semantics, and knowledge extraction
Host: Aliya Deri and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/