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Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Jan 19, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: MLK HOLIDAY (NO CLASS)
Host: Stanley Yamashiro
Location: OHE 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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CS Colloquium: Michael Reiter (UNC) - Side Channels in Multi Tenant Environments
Tue, Jan 20, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael Reiter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Talk Title: Side Channels in Multi Tenant Environments
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: With the growth of cloud computing, the security provided by public clouds to their tenants is increasingly being scrutinized, in part because these clouds arrange for mutually distrustful tenants to simultaneously execute tasks on the same hardware. In this talk we explore a long-suspected but, to date, largely hypothetical attack vector in public clouds, namely 'side-channel attacks' in which one tenant might learn sensitive information about another tenant simply by running on the same hardware with it, but without violating the logical access control enforced by the cloud's isolation software (hypervisor or operating system). Specifically, we demonstrate the practicality of damaging cross-tenant side channel attacks on modern hypervisors and operating systems, including some that we have demonstrated on commercial public clouds. We will then describe various approaches we have developed to defend against side-channel attacks in cloud environments, both inexpensive defenses against our specific attacks and more holistic but expensive protections.
Biography: Michael Reiter is the Lawrence M. Slifkin Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He received the B.S. degree in mathematical sciences from UNC in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1991 and 1993, respectively. He joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1993 and became a founding member of AT&T Labs - Research when NCR and Lucent Technologies (including Bell Labs) were split away from AT&T in 1996. He then returned to Bell Labs in 1998 as Director of Secure Systems Research. In 2001, he joined Carnegie Mellon University as a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science, where he was also the founding Technical Director of CyLab. He joined the faculty at UNC in 2007.
Dr. Reiter's research interests include all areas of computer and communications security and distributed computing. He regularly publishes and serves on conference organizing committees in these fields. He served as program chair for the the flagship computer security conferences of the IEEE, the ACM, and the Internet Society, and of the flagship dependability conference of the IEEE; as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security; and on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, the International Journal of Information Security, and Communications of the ACM. He also served on the Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee for the United States Department of Commerce for four years.
Dr. Reiter was named an ACM Fellow in 2008 and an IEEE Fellow in 2014.
Host: Teamcore
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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WIE Lunch & Learn: Networking
Tue, Jan 20, 2015 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Our first WIE Lunch & Learn of the semester will focus on networking to help you prepare for events like the Career Fair, VINE, and any time you find yourself talking to a company rep! Come ready to practice your elevator pitch! A light lunch will be provided. RSVP now!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Women in Engineering
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Writing Effective Resumes- For Grad Students
Tue, Jan 20, 2015 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 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: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 124
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Stroz Friedberg Networking Event
Tue, Jan 20, 2015 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Don't miss your chance to NETWORK among our cyber-savvy experts and learn exciting routes toward success in the professional field of CYBER SECURITY.
RSVP by Friday, January 16 2015 by emailing jgranger@strozfriedberg.com
For questions, please contact:Recruiting@StrozFriedberg.com
*** Light refreshments will be provided.Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Jan 21, 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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2015 Cornelius Pings Lecture
Wed, Jan 21, 2015 @ 11:15 AM - 12:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Mary F. Wheeler, Director, Center for Subsurface Modeling at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, UT Austin
Talk Title: Fluid-lled Fracture Propagation Using Phase Field
Series: Cornelius Pings Lecture
Abstract: In this presentation, we discuss current research on fluid-filled fracture propagation using a phase-field diffusive zone algorithm and coupling to a reservoir simulator. Phase field modeling has been used for the past decade in modeling fractures in an elastic medium. Recently in collaboration with Andro Mikelic and Thomas Wick we extended this method to pressurized fractures in a poroelastic medium. This thermodynamically consistent approach captures several characteristic features of crack propagation such as joining, branching and non-planar propagation in heterogeneous porous media as well as fracture width evolution and fracture-length propagation. Here we also describe a technique for coupling phase-field to a fractured poroelastic reservoir simulator. We present two and three-dimensional numerical tests to benchmark, compare and demonstrate the predictive capabilities of the fracture propagation model as well as the proposed coupling scheme.
Biography: Mary Fanett Wheeler was born in 1938 in Cuero, Texas, near San Antonio. She had always been interested in mathematics and took a course in it 'just for fun'. She ended up with enough courses to graduate in mathematics as well." Mary Wheeler earned a double major in social sciences and mathematics in 1960 at the University of Texas. She received an M.A. from the University of Texas in 1963, and her Ph.D. (1971) from Rice University (when her daughter was 3 years old.) Her Ph.D. thesis was on "A Priori L2 Error Estimates for Galerkin Approximations to Parabolic Partial Differential Equations". She began teaching at Rice University in 1971, rising through the ranks until in 1988 she was appointed as Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics (first woman to hold such a position at Rice.)
Since 1995 she has held the Ernest and Virginia Cockrell Chair in Engineering in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas in Austin. She works on numerical solutions of partial differential equations, parallel computation, and modeling flow in porous media. She has written over 200 research papers and technical reports, and authored 7 books.
More Information: USC Pings Lecture-Wheeler.pdf
Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - DML 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ryan Choi
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Computer Science Faculty Meeting
Wed, Jan 21, 2015 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
Event details will be emailed to invited attendees.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Invited Faculty Only
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Communications, Networks & Systems (CommNetS) Seminar
Wed, Jan 21, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Joel Zylberberg, University of Washington
Talk Title: Signal and Noise in the Nervous System
Series: CommNetS
Abstract: The nervous system is a surprisingly noisy place. For example, if one presents the exact same stimulus to an animal many times, and records the activities of their sensory neurons, the responses of those neurons show high levels of trial-to-trial variability. Similar levels of variability are observed elsewhere in the nervous system. At the same time, we have the experience of having robust thoughts and perceptions. So how do our brains generate this robustness from systems of inherently unreliable components? In my talk, I will discuss my work on the retina, the visual cortex, and the hippocampus, each of which reveals strategies that the nervous system appears to use in solving this problem. Along the way, I'll highlight the implications of these results for other neuronal systems, and for the creation of biomimetic technologies. Importantly, I will assume no specialized knowledge on the part of the listener.
Biography: During my undergraduate studies in Physics at Simon Fraser University (Canada), I published papers in inorganic chemistry, nuclear physics, and physics education, before receiving the B.Sc. degree in 2008. Supported by a Fulbright Science and Technology PhD fellowship, I then moved to UC Berkeley to pursue my PhD in Physics. I spent the first 2 years of my graduate training studying cosmology, before transitioning into neuroscience. My early work in neuroscience won me a student research fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which supported my final (4th) year of doctoral studies. I received my PhD from UC Berkeley in 2012, and then took up my current position as Acting Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. In my research, I combine tools from information theory, physics, and computer science, to reveal the circuitry underlying the robust perception and memory functions of the nervous system.
Host: Dr. Paul Bogdan and the Ming Hsieh Institute
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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PhD Seminar
Wed, Jan 21, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Timu Gallien , Chancellorâs Fellow and postdoctoral scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Talk Title: Urban Coastal Flood Prediction: Implications of modeling methodology, infrastructure and coastal management
Abstract: Globally, coastal flooding represents a significant humanitarian and socioeconomic hazard for urbanized communities. Accurate flood mapping is critical to quantifying evolving flood risk. However, flood maps are not rigorously validated to determine sensitivities and uncertainties relative to modeling methodology and infrastructure resolution. A two-dimensional Godunov type hydrodynamic model that solves a local Riemann problem to accommodate weir-like overflow is successfully applied to simulate tidal flooding. The shallow water model is then augmented with temporally variable empirical and numerical overtopping estimates to investigate wave overtopping flooding. Simulation results are compared to two unique validation datasets. Three critical issues in coastal flood prediction emerge; the effects of methodology (i.e. equilibrium vs. hydrodynamic), characterizing wave overtopping volumes and finally, resolving flood control infrastructure and mitigation measures. Hydrodynamic modeling methodologies integrating flood control infrastructure and overtopping processes significantly outperform traditional static flood mapping methods. Results show skilled flood predictions require substantially higher flood defense elevation accuracies, ~2 cm, than is currently associated with LiDAR topographic data (~15 cm). Finally, flood mitigation measures (e.g., elevating sea walls, storm drainage, beach management) have significant, and at times, unintended implications for backshore flooding.
Biography: Dr. Timu Gallien is a Chancellorâs Fellow and postdoctoral scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of California, Irvine and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Agricultural Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Gallienâs research focuses on quantifying evolving coastal flood risk from sea level rise, storm events, and urbanization. She uses a combination of high resolution fluid-mechanics based models to comprehensively resolve both key flooding processes (e.g., tide, waves, embayment amplification, drainage) and urban flood defense structures (e.g., sea walls, anthropogenic berming). Dr. Gallien conducts extensive nearshore field observations to advance coastal process knowledge and quantitatively evaluate model performance.
Host: Katie Russo
Location: Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Hall (of Philosophy) (MHP) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kaela Berry
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Wed, Jan 21, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Timu Gallien , Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Talk Title: Urban Coastal Flood Prediction: Implications of modeling methodology, infrastructure and coastal management
Abstract: Globally, coastal flooding represents a significant humanitarian and socioeconomic hazard for urbanized communities. Accurate flood mapping is critical to quantifying evolving flood risk. However, flood maps are not rigorously validated to determine sensitivities and uncertainties relative to modeling methodology and infrastructure resolution. A two-dimensional Godunov type hydrodynamic model that solves a local Riemann problem to accommodate weir-like overflow is successfully applied to simulate tidal flooding. The shallow water model is then augmented with temporally variable empirical and numerical overtopping estimates to investigate wave overtopping flooding. Simulation results are compared to two unique validation datasets. Three critical issues in coastal flood prediction emerge; the effects of methodology (i.e. equilibrium vs. hydrodynamic), characterizing wave overtopping volumes and finally, resolving flood control infrastructure and mitigation measures. Hydrodynamic modeling methodologies integrating flood control infrastructure and overtopping processes significantly outperform traditional static flood mapping methods. Results show skilled flood predictions require substantially higher flood defense elevation accuracies, ~2 cm, than is currently associated with LiDAR topographic data (~15 cm). Finally, flood mitigation measures (e.g., elevating sea walls, storm drainage, beach management) have significant, and at times, unintended implications for backshore flooding.
Biography: Dr. Timu Gallien is a Chancellorâs Fellow and postdoctoral scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of California, Irvine and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Agricultural Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Gallienâs research focuses on quantifying evolving coastal flood risk from sea level rise, storm events, and urbanization. She uses a combination of high resolution fluid-mechanics based models to comprehensively resolve both key flooding processes (e.g., tide, waves, embayment amplification, drainage) and urban flood defense structures (e.g., sea walls, anthropogenic berming). Dr. Gallien conducts extensive nearshore field observations to advance coastal process knowledge and quantitatively evaluate model performance.
Location: Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Hall (of Philosophy) (MHP) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Wed, Jan 21, 2015 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ulrike K. Müller, Associate Professor, Department of Biology at California State University Fresno, Fresno, CA
Talk Title: From 0 to 10 mph in 100 Microseconds - The Fluid Mechanics of Feeding Strikes in a Carnivorous Plant
Series: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Abstract: Fish capture prey by suction feeding-they quickly expand their mouth cavity to entrain prey in a suction flow. Current suction feeding models can explain fish, but not the small aquatic carnivorous plant bladderwort, who captures zooplankton in mechanically triggered underwater traps. With a mouth less than 0.5 mm wide, these traps are among the smallest known that work by suction-a mechanism that would not be effective in the creeping-flow regime. To understand what makes suction feeding possible on this small scale, we compare analytical flow models with experimentally observed flows, recorded at frames rates of up to 50 000 Hz. We found maximum flow speeds of 5 m/s (similar to those in adult fish) and extreme accelerations of up to 40 000 m/s2. Complete within 0.5 milliseconds, the bladderwort feeding strike outpaces the development of a boundary layer, creating a fast and efficient inward jet.
Biography: Ulrike Müller is an Associate Professor in Biology at California State University Fresno. She earned a PhD in Marine Biology from Gröningen University, Netherlands. She has conducted research in the labs of R McN Alexander (Leeds University, UK), W Nachtigall (Saarbrücken University, Germany), CP Ellington (Cambridge University, UK), JL van Leeuwen (Wageningen University, Netherlands) and Hao Liu (Chiba University, Japan) and has published work in Nature and Science. Her research interests center around bio fluid dynamics and range from swimming to suction feeding, studying fish, insects, and carnivorous plants. She is an associate editor at the Proceedings B of the Royal Society.
Host: Eva Kanso
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Valerie Childress
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Communications, Networks & Systems (CommNetS) Seminar
Wed, Jan 21, 2015 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Richard J. La, University of Maryland
Talk Title: Convergence of a class of simple learning rules to pure-strategy Nash equilibria
Series: CommNetS
Abstract: Recently, there has been a growing interest in applying a game theoretic framework to various distributed engineering systems, including communication networks and distributed control systems.
Oftentimes, Nash equilibria are taken as an approximation to the expected operating point of these systems. In this talk, we examine the convergence of a class of simple learning rules to pure-strategy Nash equilibria (PSNEs). First, we demonstrate that if all agents adopt a learning rule from this class, when there exists at least one PSNE, they converge to a PSNE almost surely even in the presence of heterogeneous or time-varying feedback or observation delays under mild conditions on the games, which we call generalized weakly acyclic games (GWAGs). Second, we show that GWAGs are the only games for which the learning rules are guaranteed to converge to a PSNE. In other words, for a non-GWAG, there is an initial condition, starting with which the learning rules do not converge to a PSNE. Finally, we consider the case where the agents do not correctly determine their payoffs and make errors in their decisions. We illustrate that, if the probability of making a mistake diminishes to zero arbitrarily slow, the probability that the strategy profile of the agents belongs to the set of PSNEs tends to one over time.
This is a joint work with Siddharth Pal.
Biography: Richard J. La received his B.S.E.E. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1994 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 and 2000, respectively. From 2000 to 2001 he was with the Mathematics of Communication Networks group at Motorola Inc,. Since 2001 he has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, where he is currently an Associate Professor.
Host: Prof. Rahul Jain and the Ming Hsieh Institute
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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Writing Effective Resumes
Wed, Jan 21, 2015 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 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: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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PDP Information Session
Wed, Jan 21, 2015 @ 05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Interested in earning your MS from Viterbi? How about starting a MS degree during your senior year? The Viterbi Graduate Admission team is hosting a Progressive Degree information session next week!
What are the details?
When: Wednesday, Jan 21 @ 5:15pm
Where: Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH) 211
Who should attend?
All undergraduate students thinking about pursuing a MS degree through USC.
What is the Progressive Degree Program?
The Progressive Degree Program (PDP) gives continuing USC undergraduates another path to earning a Master’s degree from USC. The main advantages to a Progressive Degree are:
1) Start graduate-level classes during your senior year
2) Reduce the units required for a Master’s Degree
Where can you learn more?
More Progressive Degree information may be found by attending our information session and visiting http://viterbi.usc.edu/pdp! Questions? Email the Viterbi Graduate Admission team at: viterbi.pdp@usc.edu
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi PDP
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Android Dev workshop
Wed, Jan 21, 2015 @ 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
SS12 coming up and you feel like you don't know enough? Want to learn cool new frameworks to build applications?
Come to the workshop this Wednesday!
In preparation for the upcoming Hackathon SS12 this weekend, ACM will be hosting a special Android Development workshop this Wednesday to teach newcomers how to make a web application. The event is completely free for everyone.
Come ready to learn!
There is limited space so the event will be first come first serve.Location: Annenberg School For Communication (ASC) - Blackstone Launchpad
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Association for Computing Machinery
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DEN@Viterbi Online Information Session
Thu, Jan 22, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
USC Viterbi School of Engineering DEN@Viterbi (Distance Education Network) strives to meet the needs of engineering professionals, providing the opportunity to advance your education while maintaining your career and other commitments. By breaking down geographical and scheduling barriers, DEN allows you to take your classes anytime and anywhere.
Join this information session to learn more about the 40+ graduate level programs and continuing education offerings available completely online.
RSVP NOWAudiences: RSVP Required
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Get Connected! Involvement Fair
Thu, Jan 22, 2015 @ 11:30 AM - 02:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Receptions & Special Events
All undergraduate students are invited to join us to learn about the various ways to get involved with Viterbi student life and meet other students from engineering student organizations. Find out how to participate in project teams and leadership opportunities and GET CONNECTED!
Plus, the first 200 fair attendees will get free Yogurtland!
For a list of all Viterbi student organizations, click here.Location: Epstein Family Engineering Plaza (Engineering Quad)
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Christine D'Arcy
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Get Connected Involvement Fair
Thu, Jan 22, 2015 @ 11:30 AM - 02:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Receptions & Special Events
All undergraduate students are invited to join us to learn about the various ways to get involved with Viterbi student life and meet other students from engineering student organizations. Find out how to participate in project teams and leadership opportunities and GET CONNECTED!
Plus, the first 200 fair attendees will get free Yogurtland!
For a list of all Viterbi student organizations go to: http://www.viterbi.usc.edu/students/studentorgs/
To register, click here https://myviterbi.usc.edu/vasa/?PostingID=1234567957.Location: Engineering Quad
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Christine D'Arcy
Event Link: https://myviterbi.usc.edu/vasa/?PostingID=1234567957
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MFD - Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Distinguished Lecture: Christopher Voigt (MIT)
Thu, Jan 22, 2015 @ 12:45 PM - 02:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Christopher Voigt, MIT Dept. of Biological Engineering
Talk Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Host: Prof. Wang
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ryan Choi
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Find More Jobs & Internships: Viterbi Career Gateway Workshop
Thu, Jan 22, 2015 @ 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join us to get tips on how to navigate this powerful job & internship search tool available ONLY to Viterbi students
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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DEN@Viterbi Online Information Session
Thu, Jan 22, 2015 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
USC Viterbi School of Engineering DEN@Viterbi (Distance Education Network) strives to meet the needs of engineering professionals, providing the opportunity to advance your education while maintaining your career and other commitments. By breaking down geographical and scheduling barriers, DEN allows you to take your classes anytime and anywhere.
Join this information session to learn more about the 40+ graduate level programs and continuing education offerings available completely online.
RSVP NOWAudiences: RSVP Required
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SS12 WebDev Workshop
Fri, Jan 23, 2015 @ 05:00 AM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
SS12 coming up and you feel like you don't know enough? Want to learn cool new frameworks to build applications?
Come to the workshop this Friday!
In preparation for the upcoming Hackathon SS12 this weekend, ACM will be hosting a Web Development workshop this Friday to teach newcomers how to make a web application. The event is completely free for everyone and is right before the kickoff of SS12.
Come ready to learn!Location: Annenberg School For Communication (ASC) - USC Annenberg Innovation Lab West Wing
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Association for Computing Machinery
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Transfer Day
Fri, Jan 23, 2015 @ 09:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Transfer Day is a half-day comprehensive program designed to give prospective transfer students the answers to questions about the transfer process. Transfer Day includes an hour-long Engineering Admission presentation, led by Viterbi's Transfer Admission Advisors, that will go over the admission process,recommended courses for engineers, transfer credit policy, etc.
To RSVP for transfer day visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/transfer/prospective/transferdays.htmlLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) -
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfer Applicants
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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Planning paths for Multiple Agents - Talk by Guni Sharon
Fri, Jan 23, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Speaker: Guni Sharon, Ben-Gurion University, Information Systems Engineering Department
Title: Planning paths for Multiple Agents
Abstract: Pathfinding for a single agent in a map is a well-known problem with applications in GPS applications, robotics, digital entertainment, and automated planning. This problem can be solved optimally in polynomial time, and current techniques are able to find paths in graphs with hundreds of millions of intersections within seconds. In my talk I will present the multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem, where the task is to plan paths for a group of agents in a joint state space. Applications of MAPF include motion planning for a team of robots, traffic management, evacuation from danger zones, video games and warehouse management. Unlike its single-agent counterpart, solving MAPF optimally is an NP-Hard problem, whose complexity grows roughly exponentially with the number of agents. The ncreased complexity stems from the hard constraint that agents must not be assign overlapping paths (the agents must never collide with each other).
Despite the NP-Hardness of MAPF, current techniques are able to solve MAPF optimally for more than a hundred agents. I will survey several of these techniques, manly: extensions to the A* search algorithm, decomposing a complex MAPF into a sequence of easier problems and reducing MAPF to other known problems. I will attempt to characterize the domains on which each of the techniques performs well. Lastly, I will show that by allowing a small, bounded, amount of suboptimality, problems with more than 250 (!!) agents can be solved.
Guni Sharon is a PHD student at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He is part of a research group led by Prof. Ariel Felner and Dr. Roni Stern. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Information Systems Engineering Dpt. at Ben-Gurion University. Guni’s main research interests lie in heuristic search and optimization. Guni presented several novel techniques for solving the Multi-Agent Pathfinding problem. His interests also cover Real-Time Search and Constraint Programing
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 146
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Jan 23, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ashley Crowder, Co-Founder and CEO of VNTANA
Talk Title: Engineering Entrepreneurship
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- Understanding Analogies: Theory and Method
Fri, Jan 23, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Devin Griffiths , USC/Dornsife
Talk Title: Understanding Analogies: Theory and Method
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Analogies allow us to make connections between different domains of knowledge and to apply what we already know to new situations. For this reason, they're important to developing new theories and new understandings of the social and natural world, and have often been seen as an important task for machine learning. In my talk, I'll explore how different theories of how analogy works shape the different approaches that research teams take when modeling analogical thinking. Specifically, I'll contrast what I term "formal" or "top-down" theories of analogy with a "serial" or "bottom-up" approach. Finally, I'll describe a syntactic and semantic method for searching out analogies within corpora. I'm convinced that understanding analogies better, and being able to find locate new analogies in historical documents, can help us understand where new ideas come from.
Biography: Devin Griffiths is an assistant professor in the English Department at USC, where he studies nineteenth-century British literature and scientific history. His current book project, titled "Between the Darwins," explores how analogies were used in the nineteenth century to create new theories of evolution and social progress. His areas of research include science and literature, poetics, book history, and the digital humanities.
Host: Aliya Deri and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=56439af4a5cb41f49a2c5faef5683cd11dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Conference Room # 689, Marina del Rey
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=56439af4a5cb41f49a2c5faef5683cd11d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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USC ACM SS12 Hackathon 2015: Code for a Cause
Fri, Jan 23, 2015 @ 07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
USC ACM is teaming up with Project Possibility again for a high-impact hackathon! This event provides an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate software developers to make a profound difference by developing innovative, empowering software projects for disabled persons and win prizes for their work. The purpose of SS12 is to increase awareness of issues in accessible computing and be educational and fun for all participants.
Whether you're new to programming or an experienced developer, come out to USC's SS12 competition! We guarantee it'll be a memorable experience!
Schedule:
January 23rd, 7:00pm - Kickoff in GFS 106. Come and learn about the possible projects you can create, learn about SS12 and Code for a Cause, and form teams!Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - GFS106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Association for Computing Machinery