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Edinburgh Graduate Information Session
Sun, Feb 01, 2015 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are cordially invited to meet Kelly Goulis, Senior Associate Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering, at our information session in Edinburgh.
Students who have earned or are in the progress of earning a Bachelor's degree in engineering, math, or a hard science (such as physics, biology, or chemistry) are welcome to attend to learn more about applying to our graduate programs.
The information session will include a presentation on: Master's & Ph.D. programs available at USC, how to apply, scholarships, student life, and more. Students will also have the chance to ask questions and receive official brochures and handout information from USC. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information about the event and to register, please visit the event page .Audiences: Students with a background in engineering, math or science are welcome to attend.
Contact: William Schwerin
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Feb 02, 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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Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Feb 02, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Maryam Shanechi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, USC
Talk Title: BME department
Host: Stanley Yamashiro
Location: OHE 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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PhD Defense - Eric Shieh
Mon, Feb 02, 2015 @ 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Dissertation Title
Not a Lone Ranger: Unleashing Defender Teamwork in Security Games
PhD Candidate
Eric Shieh
Committee
Milind Tambe (chair), Morteza Dehghani, Cyrus Shahabi, Andrea Armani, Rahul Jain
Time and Place
Monday, 2 Feb, 1:30pm
EEB 248 Conference Room
Abstract
Given the global concerns about security, intelligent allocation of limited security resources has become a major challenge. Game theory offers a promising solution; in particular, Stackelberg Security Games (SSGs) have been used in modeling these types of problems via a defender and an attacker(s), and applications based on SSGs have been widely deployed in the United States and tested in countries around the world. Despite recent successful real-world deployments of SSGs, scale-up to handle defender teamwork remains a fundamental challenge in this field. The latest techniques do not scale-up to domains where multiple defenders must coordinate time-dependent joint activities; the number of pure strategies becomes too large for the game to be even represented in memory. To address this challenge, my thesis presents algorithms for solving defender teamwork in SSGs in two phases. As a first step, I focus on domains without execution uncertainty, in modeling and solving SSGs that incorporate teamwork using incremental strategy generation, where defender pure strategies are generated one at a time. To efficiently generate strategies incrementally, I provide several novel techniques including: (i) an approach that uses an ordered network of nodes (determined by solving the traveling salesman problem) to generate individual defender strategies; (ii) exploitation of iterative reward shaping of multiple coordinating defender units to generate coordinated strategies.
In the second stage of my thesis, I address execution uncertainty among defender resources that arises from the real world by integrating the powerful teamwork mechanisms offered by decentralized Markov Decision Problems (Dec-MDPs) into security games. My thesis offers the following novel contributions: (i) New models of security games where a defender team's pure strategy is defined as a Dec-MDP policy for addressing coordination under uncertainty; (ii) New algorithms and heuristics that solve this new model and help scale up in the number of targets and agents to handle real-world scenarios; (iii) Exploration of the robustness of randomized pure strategies. Different mechanisms, from both solving situations with and without execution uncertainty, may be used depending on the features of the domain. This thesis opens the door to a powerful combination of previous work in multiagent systems on teamwork and security games.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
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Munushian Seminar Michael Roukes
Mon, Feb 02, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael Roukes, California Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Integrated Neurophotonics: Toward Massively-Parallel Mapping of Brain Activity
Abstract: In 2011, six U.S. scientists from different disciplines banded together, outlined a vision [1], and managed to convince the Obama administration of the unprecedented opportunity that now exists to launch a coordinated, large-scale effort to map brain activity. This culminated in the U.S. BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), which was launched in 2013. Our vision was predicated on the current level of maturity of diverse fields of nanotechnology that, for the first time, can now be coalesced to realize powerful new tools for neuroscience. I will outline the assertions we made, and focus upon our own collaborative efforts toward these goals - at Caltech and beyond - to realize this exciting potential.
[1] Alivisatos A.P., Chun M., Church G.M., Greenspan R.J., Roukes M.L., Yuste R., The Brain Activity Map project and the challenge of functional connectomics. Neuron 74, 970-4 (2012).
Biography: Michael Roukes is the Robert M. Abbey Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology . His scientific interests range from quantum measurement to applied biotechnology - with a unifying theme of the development, very-large-scale integration and application of complex nanostructures. Roukes was the founding Director of Caltech's Kavli Nanoscience Institute (KNI) from 2003-2006. In 2007, he co-founded the Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI (very-large-scale integration) with scientists and engineers at CEA/LETI in Grenoble, which maintains a $B-scale microelectronics research foundry. He then continued as co-director of Caltech's KNI from 2008-2013, when he stepped down to pursue full-time efforts in nanoscience and neuroscience. Concurrent with his Caltech appointment, he has held a Chaire d'Excellence in nanoscience in Grenoble, France since 2008. Among his honors, Roukes is a recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer Award and has been awarded Chevalier (Knight) dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the Republic of France.
Host: EE-Electrophysics
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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AT&T Info Session
Mon, Feb 02, 2015 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Discover and explore Full-Time and Internship opportunities with AT&T. Speak directly with recruiters about career opportunities, and learn how to jump-start your career with one of the top Technology companies in the industry.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Birmingham Graduate Information Session
Mon, Feb 02, 2015 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are cordially invited to meet Kelly Goulis, Senior Associate Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering, at our information session in London.
Students who have earned or are in the progress of earning a Bachelor's degree in engineering, math, or a hard science (such as physics, biology, or chemistry) are welcome to attend to learn more about applying to our graduate programs.
The information session will include a presentation on: Master's & Ph.D. programs available at USC, how to apply, scholarships, student life, and more. Students will also have the chance to ask questions and receive official brochures and handout information from USC. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information about the event and to register, please visit the event page .Audiences: Students with a background in engineering, math or science are welcome to attend.
Contact: William Schwerin
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Center for Engineering Diversity Industry Advisory Board Meeting
Tue, Feb 03, 2015 @ 10:00 AM - 03:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Receptions & Special Events
Quarterly meeting of Center for Engineering Diversity industry partners.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Industry Partners
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Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Tue, Feb 03, 2015 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Amanda Randles, Lawrence Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at Livermore, CA
Talk Title: Using Massively Parallel Simulation to Study Human Disease
Series: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Abstract: The recognition of the role hemodynamic forces have in the localization and development of disease has motivated large-scale efforts to enable patient-specific simulations. When combined with computational approaches that can extend the models to include physiologically accurate hematocrit levels in large regions of the circulatory system, these image-based models yield insight into the underlying mechanisms driving disease progression and inform surgical planning or the design of next generation drug delivery systems. Building a detailed, realistic model of human blood flow, however, is a formidable mathematical and computational challenge. The models must incorporate the motion of fluid, intricate geometry of the blood vessels, continual pulse-driven changes in flow and pressure, and the behavior of suspended bodies such as red blood cells. In this talk, I will discuss the development of HARVEY, a parallel fluid dynamics application designed to model hemodynamics in patient-specific geometries. I will cover the methods introduced to reduce the overall time-to-solution and enable near-linear strong scaling on up to 1,572,864 core of the IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer. Finally, I will present the expansion of the scope of projects to address not only vascular diseases, but also treatment planning and the movement of circulating tumor cells in the bloodstream.
Biography: Amanda Randles is a Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellow working in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at LLNL. Working with Professors Efthimios Kaxiras and Hanspeter Pfister, she completed her Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Harvard University with a secondary field in Computational Science in 2013. In 2010 she obtained her Master's Degree in Computer Science from Harvard University. Prior to graduate school, she worked for three years as a software developer at IBM on the Blue Gene Development Team. Her primary roles were in application development and performance analysis. She received her Bachelor's Degree in both Computer Science and Physics from Duke University.
Host: --
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Valerie Childress
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Communications, Networks & Systems (CommNetS) Seminar
Tue, Feb 03, 2015 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Yasamin Mostofi, UC Santa Barbara
Talk Title: Robotics and RF: From X-Ray Vision with WiFi to Communication-Aware Robotics
Series: CommNetS
Abstract: RF signals are everywhere these days. As we go on with our daily lives, we constantly leave our signature on these signals by breaking them. This naturally raises the question of how much information these signals carry about us or, in general, about their environment. For instance, imagine two unmanned vehicles arriving behind thick concrete walls. They have no prior knowledge of the area behind these walls.
But they are able to see every square inch of the invisible area through the walls, fully imaging what is on the other side with high accuracy. Can the robots achieve this with only WiFi signals and no other sensors? As another example, consider the WiFi network of a building. Can it estimate the occupancy level of the building and the spatial concentration of the people with a good accuracy?
In the first part of the talk, I will discuss our latest theoretical and experimental results to achieve these goals. More specifically, I show that it is possible to achieve x-ray vision with only WiFi signals and image details through thick concrete walls. Furthermore, I discuss occupancy estimation where I show how to extract the level of occupancy from WiFi measurements. With the vision of unmanned vehicles becoming part of our everyday society soon, the talk also shows how WiFi signals can give x-ray vision to robots.
In the second part of the talk, I focus on communication-aware robotics. I will start by developing a foundational understanding for the spatial predictability of wireless channels. This allows each robot to go beyond the over-simplified but commonly-used disk model for connectivity, and realistically assess the impact of a motion decision on its link. By utilizing this framework, I will then show how each unmanned vehicle can best co-optimize its communication, sensing and navigation objectives under resource constraints. This co-optimized approach results in a significant performance improvement as I discuss in the talk.
Biography: Yasamin Mostofi received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara.
Yasamin is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, the IEEE 2012 Outstanding Engineer Award of Region 6 (more than 10 Western U.S. states), and the 1999 Bellcore fellow-advisor award from Stanford Center for Telecommunications, among other awards. Her research is on mobile sensor networks. Current research thrusts include RF sensing, see-through imaging with WiFi, X-ray vision for robots, communication-aware robotics, and robotic networks. Her research has appeared in several news outlets such as BBC and Engadget.
Host: Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari and the Ming Hsieh Institute
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
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The Viterbi Industry Networking Event
Tue, Feb 03, 2015 @ 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Industry Networking Event allows Viterbi juniors and seniors from select active student organizations to meet employers the evening before the Fall and Spring Career Fairs and allows students to practice their networking skills by engaging with top engineering companies in a professional business networking environment.
This is an Invite Only eventLocation: TBA
Audiences: Invite Only
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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ASBME GM#7: Corporate Dinner Company Cheat Sheet
Tue, Feb 03, 2015 @ 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Planning on attending ASBME's Corporate Dinner? Come to this meeting to get a head start on learning all about the different companies you will be networking with! It's important to demonstrate your interest in these companies by knowing the basics about them, and that's what this event is all about. We've done all the research for you-- all you have to do is come listen to our short presentation about each company, what kinds of products they make, and other key details.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 108
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Feb 04, 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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Viterbi Career Fair
Wed, Feb 04, 2015 @ 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Career Fair is free and open to all students in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Students do not need to register for this event, just show up! This casual, yet professional, environment allows students the opportunity to have brief conversations with recruiters about full-time employment, internships, and co-ops. Don't forget your resume!
*We will have designated times for our undergraduate and graduate students to enter the Fair allowing recruiters to focus on each group separatelyLocation: E-Quad
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Wed, Feb 04, 2015 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: John B. Bell, Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley
Talk Title: Low Mach Number Simulation of Turbulent Combustion
Series: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Abstract: Numerical simulation of turbulent reacting flows with comprehensive kinetics is one of the most demanding areas of computational fluid dynamics. High-fidelity modeling requires accurate fluid mechanics, detailed models for multicomponent transport and detailed chemical mechanisms. An important aspect of turbulent flames in most combustion systems is that they occur in a low Mach number regime. By exploiting the separation of scales inherent in low Mach number flows one can potentially obtain significant computational savings, enabling a wider range of problems to be modeled. However, accurate numerical solution of the low Mach number reacting flow equations, which are structurally similar to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, introduces a number of challenges. Here, we discuss some of these issues, focusing on treating the low Mach number constraint and the coupling of processes with different temporal scales. Results illustrating the methodology on turbulent combustion problems with detailed chemistry and transport will be presented.
Biography: John Bell is a Senior Staff Mathematician at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Chief Scientist of Berkeley Labâs Computational Research Division. His research focuses on the development and analysis of numerical methods for partial differential equations arising in science and engineering. He has made contributions in the areas of finite volume methods, numerical methods for low Mach number flows, adaptive mesh refinement, stochastic differential equations, interface tracking and parallel computing. He has also worked on the application of these numerical methods to problems from a broad range of fields, including combustion, shock physics, seismology, and flow in porous media, mesoscale fluid modeling and astrophysics.
Host: Paul Ronney
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Valerie Childress
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Society of Women Engineers Spring Evening With Industry
Wed, Feb 04, 2015 @ 05:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
SWE-USC invites you to join us for the biggest networking event of the semester, Spring Evening with Industry! Don't miss out on this great opportunity to network with representatives from a variety of companies appealing to all different engineering majors. This event will be held on Wednesday February 4, 2015, from 5:30pm to 8:00pm at the Radisson Hotel Ballroom.
Companies attending include Turner Construction, Intel, Kiewit, Boeing, Sandia, NetApp, Qualcomm, Aera Energy, Visa, SanDisk, Cisco, and AT&T.
To sign up for company tables, please fill out the RSVP form: tinyurl.com/sewi2015 and turn in your $20 refundable deposit during the following dates/times:
Jan 23rd: 10:00am-1:00pm in RTH Lobby
Jan 26th~Jan 30th: 10:00am-1:00pm in RTH Lobby
You can also submit the deposit via Venmo to Sally SWE by Friday, January 30, 2015.
We will also be preparing a resume booklet to give to the attending companies so if you would like your resume to be a part of this invaluable opportunity, please stay tuned for more information after registration. If you have any questions, please contact Elena at yushanl@usc.edu. We hope to see you there!Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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Fluor Information Session
Wed, Feb 04, 2015 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Join AIChE to learn more about Fluor, one of the world's largest engineering project management companies. Four employees will be here to recruit YOU. Hear about their experiences and get your questions answered first hand. Bring your resume!
RSVP HERE
VIEW FACEBOOK EVENTLocation: TBA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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Technical Interviewing Techniques & Meet & Greet- Presented by Intel
Thu, Feb 05, 2015 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join Intel representatives as they share the inside scoop on technical interviewing. Behavioral interviews will be briefly discussed, but the real focus here is the technical interview.
Meet & Greet will immediately follow WorkshopLocation: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Computer Science George A. Bekey Distinguished Lecture: Jeff Dean (Google) - Building More Intelligent Computer Systems with Large-Scale Deep Learning
Thu, Feb 05, 2015 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jeff Dean, Google
Talk Title: Building More Intelligent Computer Systems with Large-Scale Deep Learning
Series: CS Distinguished Lectures
Abstract: Reception from 3:30-4:00PM.
Three years ago we started a small effort to see if we could build training systems for large-scale deep neural networks and use these to make significant progress on various perceptual tasks. Since then, our software systems and algorithms have been used by dozens of different groups at Google to train state-of-the-art models for speech recognition, image recognition, various visual detection tasks, language modeling, ads click prediction, language translation, and various other tasks. In this talk, I'll highlight some of the distributed systems and algorithms that we use in order to train large models quickly. I'll then discuss ways in which we have applied this work to a variety of problems in Google's products, usually in close collaboration with other teams.
This talk describes joint work with many people at Google.
Biography: Jeff joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Senior Fellow in Google's Knowledge Group, where he leads Google's deep learning research team in Mountain View. He has co designed/implemented five generations of Google's crawling, indexing, and query serving systems, and co designed/implemented major pieces of Google's initial advertising and AdSense for Content systems. He is also a co-designer and co-implementor of Google's distributed computing infrastructure, including the MapReduce, BigTable and Spanner systems, protocol buffers, LevelDB, systems infrastructure for statistical machine translation, and a variety of internal and external libraries and developer tools. He is currently working on large-scale distributed systems for machine learning. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a fellow of the AAAS, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the Mark Weiser Award and the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.
Host: Wyatt Lloyd
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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ASBME's 19th Annual Corporate Dinner
Thu, Feb 05, 2015 @ 05:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
ASBME's 19th Annual Corporate Dinner is the perfect opportunity for students interested in biomedical industry, research, and healthcare related fields to meet employers the evening after the Spring Career Fair. This event allows students to practice their networking skills by engaging with top engineering companies and professors in a professional business networking environment. There is very limited space, so follow the instructions below to sign up and ensure a spot at the event.
Instructions to sign up:
1. Reserve your space now by filling out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lwXt18xhzElL5o3QsOWDFWIUxf7XOgdQUxNqqABq15k/viewform
2. Turn in the following waiver with your $20 cash or check deposit to DRB 140 by Friday, January 30th at 5pm: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/1636cedad0b42f26cd524f028/files/Corporate_Dinner_Attendance_Form_2015.pdf
You can also sign up by going to asbmeusc.com under the Newsletter section to find the links to register.Location: Radisson
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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Intel Info Session
Thu, Feb 05, 2015 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Information session to tell students about intern and full time job opportunities at Intel Corporation
More Information: Intel USC Flyer Info Session Spring 2015.pdf
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Feb 06, 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, Feb 06, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: John Halchak, Senior Fellow of Rocketdyne
Talk Title: A History of Rocketry (from a Materials Standpoint)
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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Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering along with UCLA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fri, Feb 06, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Guangying Zhu, "Judy", Astani CEE Ph.D. Candidate
Talk Title: Three-Dimensional (3D) Soil Structure Interaction with Normal-Plane P-Wave Incidence: Rigid Foundation
Abstract:
The presentation is about an analytic solution of a three-dimensional Soil-Structural Interaction (3D SSI) model in which the building and foundation are idealized respectively to be cylindrical thin-rod and rigid hemisphere. The ground is a stress-free elastic, isotropic, homogenous half-space, and excitation is vertical plane P-incident wave. Analytic three-dimensional (3D) solutions are presented which satisfy the stress-free boundary conditions at the half-space surface. Foundation motions, relative responses of building and surface displacement of soil around building are analyzed and discussed. A comparison with related two-dimensional (2D) SSI close-form solution is also described.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes