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Six Sigma Black Belt
Sun, Sep 07, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Abstract: Event Dates:
Week 1: July 7 - 11, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 2: August 11 - 15, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 3: September 8 - 12, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you will need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what youââ¬â¢ve learned. This course is presented in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn USC and IIE's Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate. This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
More Info
Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Mon, Sep 08, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Abstract: Event Dates:
Week 1: July 7 - 11, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 2: August 11 - 15, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 3: September 8 - 12, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you will need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what youââ¬â¢ve learned. This course is presented in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn USC and IIE's Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate. This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
More Info
Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Sep 08, 2014 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: John Wood, Professor Of Pediatrics Professor Of Radiology, Pediatrics/Children's Hospital Los Angeles (Keck School of Medicine)
Talk Title: Rust and other causes of bad plumbing: How MRI is changing our understanding of hemoglobin disorders
Biography: http://www.chla.org/site/c.ipINKTOAJsG/b.7914609/k.32A4/John_Wood_Lab__Cardiovascular_MRI__Hemoglobin_Disorders_Research__Iron__Heart.htm
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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EWB-USC First General Meeting
Mon, Sep 08, 2014 @ 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come out to Engineers Without Borders First General Meeting and learn about our new domestic project in the Coachella Valley. We will also be looking for students interested in getting involved with different aspects of the club such as event planning, fundraising, and engineering.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 124
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Engineers Without Borders
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Lean Six Sigma White Belt
Tue, Sep 09, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract: Lean Six Sigma White Belt will introduce you to the tools and techniques for implementing lean/six sigma principles. Participants will gain a broad understanding of the philosophy, methods and benefits of lean/six sigma and value stream mapping as they apply to all types of enterprises. You will be introduced to lean concepts via hands-on exercises.
Register Now
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Tue, Sep 09, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Abstract: Event Dates:
Week 1: July 7 - 11, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 2: August 11 - 15, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 3: September 8 - 12, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you will need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what youââ¬â¢ve learned. This course is presented in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn USC and IIE's Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate. This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
More Info
Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Epstein Institute / ISE 651 Seminar Series
Tue, Sep 09, 2014 @ 03:30 AM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michael D. Orosz, Ph.D., Assistant Division Director, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Talk Title: "Smart Grid Technologies and USC Research"
Series: Epstein Institute Seminar Series
Abstract: Smart grid technology is enabling electric grids to operate more efficiently and reliably - leading to increased sustainability and resilience. Although simple in concept, the implementation of such technology is challenging. Issues including concerns over privacy, public health impacts and the integration of old and new technology have been difficult to overcome and pose interesting research questions. The purpose of this talk is to review smart grid technologies, current challenges in implementing these technologies, the USC Smart Grid Living Laboratory and current Smart Grid research underway at USC.
Biography: Dr. Michael Orosz is an Assistant Division Director at USCâs Information Sciences Institute, is a Research Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and is the Principal Investigator of the USC portion of US Department of Energy and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power funded Smart Grid Regional Demonstration Project (SGRDP).
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: Seminar-Orosz.doc
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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2014 CiSoft Seminar
Tue, Sep 09, 2014 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mr. Jim Crompton, Founder, Reflections Data Consulting
Talk Title: Unconventional Resource Plays: shale and tight reservoirs
Series: CiSoft Seminar
Host: CiSoft
Webcast: http://usccisoft.omnovia.com/register/77101409786000Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 324
WebCast Link: http://usccisoft.omnovia.com/register/77101409786000
Audiences: Please RSVP: legat@usc.edu
Contact: Juli Legat
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Writing Effective Resumes
Tue, Sep 09, 2014 @ 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 industryâs door!
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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AIChE's First General Meeting
Tue, Sep 09, 2014 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Want to learn more about AIChE? Come to our first general meeting of the year! Meet and socialize with your fellow ChemEs and hear about what we have planned for this semester. Afterwards we will walk over to Ground Zero to mingle over milkshakes. See you there!
For more information about our organization, visit our website HERE.Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Wed, Sep 10, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Abstract: Event Dates:
Week 1: July 7 - 11, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 2: August 11 - 15, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 3: September 8 - 12, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you will need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what youââ¬â¢ve learned. This course is presented in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn USC and IIE's Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate. This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
More Info
Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Sep 10, 2014
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. 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 visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/firstyear/prospective/meetusc_sw.html to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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CREATE Seminar w/ Mike Azizi
Wed, Sep 10, 2014 @ 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: S. Massoud (Mike) Azizi, Principal Engineer and Associate Technical Fellow Reliability, System Safety and Specialty Engineering Aerojet Rocketdyne
Talk Title: PRA Application to Offshore Drilling Critical Systems
Series: CREATE Monthly Seminar Series
Abstract: The nuclear and aerospace industries systems engineering approach typically incorporates Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) to estimate risk using quantitative methods to determine what can go wrong, the likelihood of occurrence of such events and the probable consequences. Thus, PRA provides insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the systemâs design, operation and maintenance strategy. For instance, in the nuclear industry PRA is traditionally used to estimate the core damage and potential consequences relative to the reactor, facilities, power grid, environment and public. A Space Shuttle and launch vehicle operations PRA would provide an estimated risk for operations on the ground and during the launch, on-orbit, re-entry and landing phases.
Similar discipline as those applied in the nuclear and aerospace industries can also be applied to various âmission criticalâ onshore and offshore oil and gas drilling, exploration and production systems. This paper describes the PRA methods as they could be applied to these systems and how the outcomes of such discipline can benefit the systemâs design, operations and stakeholder interests.
Biography: Mr. Azizi is a principal engineer and a technical fellow at Aerojet Rocketdyne (AR). He has 34 years of experience in the areas of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA), System Safety, Reliability, Availability and Maintainability; with applications to Nuclear Utilities, Aerospace and Defense, and the Oil and Gas industry. Mike has worked with various Government agencies (e.g. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NASA, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and the US Air Force) and Commercial customers, and is well versed in regulatory guidelines and industry practices.
He has been instrumental in saving his clients significant downtime and costs, while improving their systemsâ operational safety, reliability, and efficiency.
Mr. Azizi has a Bachelors Degree (B.S.) in Civil and Environmental (Structural) Engineering and Masters Degree (M.S.) in Nuclear Science and Engineering. He has published more than 30 papers and has received many honors and awards, including four patents from the US Patent Office.
Please RSVP to me (calicchi@usc.edu) no later than Monday, September 8 to ensure that I order your lunch.
Hope to see you there!
Thank you,
Erin Pearson (Calicchio)
Administrative Assistant II
University of Southern California
U.S. Department of Homeland Security - National Center for
Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
3710 McClintock Ave, RTH 313
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2902
213-740-3863
calicchi@usc.edu
www.usc.edu/create
Host: CREATE at USC
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 306
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Erin Pearson (Calicchio)
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Computer Science Faculty Meeting
Wed, Sep 10, 2014 @ 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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BIOMED Research Dinner
Wed, Sep 10, 2014 @ 05:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Interested in research but not sure what there is to offer? Come to ASBME's Annual BIOMED Research Dinner! We bring in several talented and respected research professors from the BME department to discuss their work over delicious Viztango's. Sign-ups are first come, first serve, so reserve your spot by emailing juliestr@usc.edu with your name and year ASAP.
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Ballroom
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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SHPE General Body Meeting &INROADS Resume Workshop
Wed, Sep 10, 2014 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
Looking to polish your resume and develop your professional skills as you begin to look for employment? If so, then come by for SHPE's second General Body Meeting as we partner up with NSBE to host INROADS' Resume Workshop. Aside from prepping our members for employment, they have also aided several of our members in getting internships with companies as prestigious as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. So come join us and get your search for employment started the right way!
Location: VPD 105
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Thu, Sep 11, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Abstract: Event Dates:
Week 1: July 7 - 11, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 2: August 11 - 15, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 3: September 8 - 12, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you will need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what youââ¬â¢ve learned. This course is presented in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn USC and IIE's Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate. This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
More Info
Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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PhD Defense- Andrew Goodney
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Multipulse Acoustic Tomography
PhD Candidate: Andrew Goodney
Date: Thursday Sept. 11th, 11am
Location: EEB132
Committee:
Dr. Young H. Cho (chair)
Dr. Shanghua Teng
Dr. Bhaskar Krishnamachari (outside member)
Abstract:
Water temperature sensing in the marine environment is an important task motivated by use of the oceans for industrial purposes, national defense and ecological research. Scientists and engineers desire real-time, high resolution temperature maps so that the dynamic nature of underwater processes can be tracked and understood with high fidelity. Point sensors, which only sense in one location, require dense deployments of sensor nodes to provide high resolution water temperature maps and thus spatial resolution is constrained by the cost of deploying additional nodes. Robotic boats and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) can sample at high spatial resolutions, however they can only sample at one location at a given time. Therefore such water craft can miss dynamic water temperature events that might occur in the area of interest, but not directly at the current location of the robot or AUV. These water craft are also known for being fabulously expensive, with a per unit costs on the order of $100k.
Point sensors can be deployed as underwater wireless sensor network where the communication links are formed through the water using acoustic modems. Our initial work for this dissertation made the observation that since speed-of-sound in water is dependent on the water temperature, the acoustic communications links could be used for sensing between the nodes by measuring the time-of-flight for a signal between two nodes. Known as acoustic tomography, this technique had previously been applied in the ocean with internode distances measuring 100's to 1000's of kilometers. In order to implement acoustic tomography with a sensor network we developed two novel and highly precise time-of-flight measurement techniques on top of a novel coding scheme that allows underwater sensor networks to combine data and sensing transmissions.
Acoustic tomography increases the resolution of water temperature maps over those drawn from just point sensors by reconstructing the sound-speed field located between the sensor nodes by using the time-of-flight data for signals sent between the nodes. However, current travel-time tomography techniques make the assumption that for each node pair only one data point can be observed: the average speed-of-sound along the path between the nodes. The resolution of a reconstruction is thus limited by the number of paths that cross through an area of interest, and therefore to increase the resolution of an acoustic tomography system more nodes must be added in strategic locations, which may not always be possible due to cost and/or other limitations.
Our third contribution, and the topic of todays defense talk is a travel-time acoustic tomography technique that breaks the "average assumption." With our technique we are able to derive a spatial distribution of water temperature along each acoustic path, and the spatial resolution of the distribution is not limited by node density, but by the time-of-flight measurement precision. In today's talk I will introduce the technique, which we call multipulse acoustic tomography, and show that if a stream of bidirectional pulses (signals) is sent between two nodes, subtle differences in time-of-flight can be used to build a spatial distribution of temperature along the acoustic path. We show through simulation that the technique works under a set of conditions and constraints that resembles those found in our maria testbed. We also show that the technique improves the resolution and accuracy of reconstructions by disambiguating data that would otherwise pose a problem for traditional acoustic tomography techniques. Finally, multipulse tomography generalizes to any travel-time tomography domain and we discuss how it could have important applications in other fields such as power grid monitoring
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lizsl De Leon
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Lyman L. Handy Colloquia: Vasilios I. Manousiouthakis (UCLA)
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 @ 12:45 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Vasilios I. Manousiouthakis, UCLA Chemical Engineering
Talk Title: Attainable Region (AR) for Reactor Networks and General Process Networks Definition, Motivation, Background, Quantification
Series: Lyman L. Handy Colloquia
Abstract: TBA
Host: Prof. Tsotsis
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ryan Choi
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NL Seminar- Towards automatic extraction of experimental data from scientific papers [Intern final talk]
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Eunsol Choi & Matic Horvat, University of Washington and Cambridge
Talk Title: Towards automatic extraction of experimental data from scientific papers [Intern final talk]
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Many areas of science have experienced rapid growth in the amount of scientific literature published. For example, there are approximately 400 new papers published each year in the area of Machine Translation. As such amount of new data is virtually impossible to processes by a single researcher, a new tool is needed that would help researchers explore existing and discover new MT literature. To address this problem we built an approach for automatic extraction of experimental data from scientific papers that populates a database enabling structured queries.
Biography: Eunsol Choi is a PhD student at the University of Washington, advised by Prof. Luke Zettlemoyer. Prior to UW, she studied mathematics and computer science at Cornell University.
Matic Horvat is a PhD student at University of Cambridge researching integration of semantics and Statistical Machine Translation. He is originally from Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he completed a BSc in Computer Science in 2012. He continued with a masters in Advanced Computer Science at University of Cambridge, graduating in 2013.
Host: Aliya Deri and Kevin Knight
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
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Viterbi Progressive Degree information session
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 @ 05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
The Viterbi Graduate Admission team is hosting a Progressive Degree information session next week!
When: Thursday, Sept 11 @ 5:15pm
Where: Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH) 211
All undergraduate students thinking about pursuing a MS degree through USC should attend.
Questions? Email the Viterbi Graduate Admission team at: viterbi.pdp@usc.eduLocation: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Alexandra Garabedian
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LEAD WITH YOUR STRENGTHS- Presented by Gallup
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Use Gallupâs strengths solutions to be more engaged, more productive, and happier.
Gallup Strengths-based Leadership Workshop
This workshop will enable you to begin understanding your own strengths and how to apply them successfully to develop strong leadership skills. Three key takeaways from this workshop:
• Investing in your strengths
• Maximizing your team
• Understanding why people follow
This one and half hour workshop is designed for Viterbi students interested in learning more about their personal strengths and developing leadership skills. This workshop is being offered FREE of charge.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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SHPE General Body Meeting &INROADS Resume Workshop
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
Looking to polish your resume and develop your professional skills as you begin to look for employment? If so, then come by for SHPE's second General Body Meeting as we partner up with NSBE to host INROADS' Resume Workshop. Aside from prepping our members for employment, they have also aided several of our members in getting internships with companies as prestigious as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. So come join us and get your search for employment started the right way!
Location: VPD 105
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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Six Sigma Black Belt
Fri, Sep 12, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBD,
Abstract: Event Dates:
Week 1: July 7 - 11, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 2: August 11 - 15, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Week 3: September 8 - 12, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
This course teaches you the advanced problem-solving skills you will need in order to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. Project assignments between sessions require you to apply what youââ¬â¢ve learned. This course is presented in three five-day sessions over a three-month period.
Learn the advanced problem-solving skills you need to implement the principles, practices and techniques of Six Sigma to maximize performance and cost reductions in your organization. During this three-week practitioner course, you will learn how to measure a process, analyze the results, develop process improvements and quantify the resulting savings. You will be required to complete a project demonstrating mastery of appropriate analytical methods and pass an examination to earn USC and IIE's Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate. This practitioner course for Six Sigma implementation provides extensive coverage of the Six Sigma process as well as intensive exposure to the key analytical tools associated with Six Sigma, including project management, team skills, cost analysis, FMEA, basic statistics, inferential statistics, sampling, goodness of fit testing, regression and correlation analysis, reliability, design of experiments, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis and simulation. Computer applications are emphasized.
More Info
Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Transfer Day
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 @ 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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AI SEMINAR
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Pascal Van Hentenryck, National ICT Australia (NICTA)
Talk Title: Measuring and Optimizing Cultural Markets
Abstract: Social influence has been shown to create significant unpredictability
in cultural markets, providing one potential explanation why experts
routinely fail at predicting commercial success of cultural
products. To counteract the difficulty of making accurate predictions,
``measure and react'' strategies have been advocated but finding a
concrete strategy that scales for very large markets has remained
elusive so far. Here we propose a ``measure and optimize'' strategy
that uses product quality, appeal, and social influence to maximize
expected profits in the market. Computational experiments show that
our ``measure and optimize'' strategy can leverage social influence to
produce significant performance benefits for the market. Our
theoretical analysis also proves that a ``measure and optimize''
strategy with social influence outperforms in expectation any
``measure and react'' strategy not displaying social information. In
other words, we show for the first time that dynamically showing
consumers positive social information increases the expected
performance of the seller in cultural markets, when using a ``measure
and optimize'' strategy.
Biography: Pascal Van Hentenryck leads the Optimisation Research Group (about 75
people) at National ICT Australia (NICTA). He also holds a
Vice-Chancellor Strategic Chair in data-intensive computing at the
Australian National University. Van Hentenryck is the recipient of
two honorary degrees and a fellow of the Association for the
Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He was awarded the 2002
INFORMS ICS Award for research excellence in operations research and
compute science, the 2006 ACP Award for research excellence in
constraint programming, the 2010-2011 Philip J. Bray Award for
Teaching Excellence at Brown University, and was the 2013 IFORS
Distinguished speaker. Van Hentenryck is the author of five MIT Press
books and has developed a number of innovative optimisation systems
that are widely used in academia and industry.
Host: Kristina Lerman
More Info: TBA
Webcast: TBALocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th floor large conference room
WebCast Link: TBA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kary LAU
Event Link: TBA
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 @ 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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Viterbi Career Conference
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 @ 01:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Career Conference, designed specifically for Viterbi undergraduates, takes place once each fall. The conference provides an invaluable opportunity for all students, freshmen through seniors, to develop job search skills and to connect with company representatives and alumni.
More Information Can Be Found HereLocation: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) -
Audiences: All Viterbi Undergraduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Integrated Seminar Series
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mark Davis, Consultant USA
Talk Title: Foliage Penetration Radar
Abstract: Abstract: Foliage Penetration (FOPEN) Radar is a technical approach to find and characterize man-made objections under dense foliage, as well as characterizing the foliage itself. It has applications in both military surveillance and civilian geospatial imaging. This Tutorial is divided into three parts.
1) The early history of FOPEN Radar: battlefield surveillance and the early experiments in foliage penetration radar are covered. There were some very interesting developments in radar technology that enabled our ability to detect fixed and moving objects under dense foliage. An important breakthrough was the quantification of the radar propagation through foliage, and related scattering and loss effects.
2) FOPEN synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with concentration on development results from several systems. These systems were developed for both military and commercial applications, and during a time of rapid awareness of the need and ability to operate in a dense signal environment. The tutorial quantifies the benefits of polarization diversity in detecting and characterizing both man made and natural objects. Furthermore, there is a clear benefit for use of polarization in false alarm mitigation. Finally the techniques developed for ultra wideband and ultra wide angle image formation will be presented.
3) New research in Multi-mode Ultra-Wideband Radar, with the design of both SAR and moving target indication (MTI) FOPEN systems. Particular note will be taken on the benefits and difficulties in designing these ultra-wideband (UWB) systems, and operation in real world electromagnetic environments. The tutorial will illustrate new technologies that have promise for future multimode operation: the need to detect low minimum discernable velocity; and simultaneous SAR and GMTI operation.
Biography: io: Dr Mark E Davis has over 45 years experience in Radartechnology and systems development. He has held senior management positions in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Research Laboratory, and General Electric Aerospace. At DARPA, he was the program manager on both the foliage penetration (FOPEN) radar advanced development program and the GeoSAR foliage penetration mapping radar. Dr Davis wrote the text "Foliage Penetration Radar - Detection and Characterization of Objects Under Trees", published by Scitech Raleigh NC in March 2011.
His education includes a PhD in Physics from The Ohio State University, and Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University. He is a Life Fellow of both the IEEE and Military Sensing Symposia, and a member of the AESS Board of Governors and Past-Chair of the AESS Radar Systems Panel.
Hosted by Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen and Prof. Mahta Moghaddam
Organized and hosted by Masashi Yamagata
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Host: Hosted by Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen, Prof. Mahta Moghaddam, and Masashi Yamagata
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=910775
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elise Herrera-Green
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=910775