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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Oct 06, 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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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 06, 2014 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ellis Meng, Keyue Shen, Francisco Valero-Cuevas, David D'Argenio, Meng (Professor, BME), Keyue Shen (Assistant Professor, BME), Francisco Valero-Cuevas (Professor, BME & Biokinesiology), David D'Argenio (Professor, BME)
Talk Title: BME Research Presentations
Abstract: Ellis Meng (12:30-12:45)Talk Title: Biomedical Microsystems Lab
Keyue Shen (12:50-1:05)Talk Title: Integrative Biosystems Engineering for Cell Therapeutics and Biomedicine
Francisco Valero-Cuevas (1:10-1:25)Talk Title: Neuromuscular systems
David D'Argenio (1:30-1:45)Talk Title: Systems Pharmacology: An Integrating Framework for Translational Medicine
Host: Stanley Yamashiro
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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ASME Industry Night
Mon, Oct 06, 2014 @ 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Join your mechanical and aerospace engineering peers for a night of professional development and networking! Some of the companies that will be present are Lockheed Martin and Rehrig Pacific.
The breakdown of the evening is as follows:
5:30pm Resume Reviews
6:00pm Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Keynote Speech
6:15pm Networking
Hors d'oeuvres will be served during the networking portion of the event.
To RSVP, fill out the form: http://goo.gl/4BxDAU.
*Be sure to email your resume to uscasme@gmail.com after filling out the RSVP form to complete your reservation!More Information: ASME Industry Night Invitation.pdf
Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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CANCELLED- Microsoft Code Challenge
Mon, Oct 06, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This session has been cancelled. Please attend Microsoft's Meet the Company Event on October 9th.
Learn more about what Microsoft has to offer. Ask questions of Microsoft Recruiter, Dave Cotter, and talk with Software Development Engineers.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd (SGM) 101
Time: Thursday, October 9th, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Enjoy Free Pizza and bring your Resume!!
Location: 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Tue, Oct 07, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract: Learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a Six Sigma green belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
Register Now
Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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The Viterbi Industry Networking Event
Tue, Oct 07, 2014 @ 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: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) -
Audiences: Juniors & Seniors Only
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Oculus VR Tech Talk: VR, the future, and you
Tue, Oct 07, 2014 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
In the surprisingly near future, VR is very likely to transform how we interact with information, computers, and each other. This talk will discuss why VR is likely to be a key part of our future, why it's different from anything that's come before, and what that implies for researchers and developers. Oculus VR Chief Scientist Michael Abrash will be hosting this presentation.
More Information: USC IEEE Oculus VR Tech Talk 10-7-14.pdf
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 200
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Society of Women Engineers: General Meeting
Tue, Oct 07, 2014 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Come check out SWE at our second general meeting! Learn about our upcoming events and learn how you can get more involved! Dinner will be provided.
Like our Facebook page SWE-USC for more details!Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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AAAI@USC Presents: Machine Learning@Google Tech Talk
Tue, Oct 07, 2014 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/684767928280665/
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1calarGI281ZKKo0QSSHSSOX_M78-kxWeDBbb1NDennQ/viewform
Title: From Text to Concepts at Google
Abstract: This talk will describe Rephil, a system used widely within Google to identify the concepts or topics that underlie a given piece of text. Rephil determines, for example, that "apple pie" relates to some of the same concepts as "chocolate cake", but has little in common with "apple ipod". The concepts used by Rephil are not pre-specified; instead, they are derived by an unsupervised learning algorithm running on massive amounts of text. The result of this learning process is a Rephil model -- a giant Bayesian network with concepts as nodes. I will discuss the structure of Rephil models, the distributed machine learning algorithm that we use to build these models from terabytes of data, and the Bayesian network inference algorithm that we use to identify concepts in new texts under tight time constraints. I will also discuss how Rephil relates to ongoing academic research on probabilistic topic models.
Bio: Brian Milch is a software engineer at Google's Los Angeles office. He first joined Google in 2000, after completing a B.S. in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. A year later, he entered the Computer Science Ph.D. program at U.C. Berkeley. He received his doctorate in 2006, with a thesis focused on the integration of probabilistic and logical approaches to artificial intelligence. He then spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at MIT before returning to Google in 2008. He has contributed to Google production systems for spelling correction, transliteration, and semantic modeling of text.
After the talk, Brian will also be happy to answer questions about both the technical material and what it's like to work on machine learning at Google.
---Free Pizzas and Google swags will be provided---
For more AAAI@USC events, visit and join our group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/344421032279109/736754983045710/Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Giovanni Sutanto
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Wed, Oct 08, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract: Learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a Six Sigma green belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
Register Now
Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Oct 08, 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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Viterbi Career Fair
Wed, Oct 08, 2014 @ 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Career Expo 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!
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Computer Science Tenured Faculty Meeting
Wed, Oct 08, 2014 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
Event details will be emailed to invited attendees.
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Invited Faculty Only
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Subspace Techniques for Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Wed, Oct 08, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Derya Dol Gungor, Ohio State University
Talk Title: Subspace Techniques for Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Series: Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Abstract: Parallel magnetic resonance imaging (pMRI) is an attempt to accelerate data acquisition by simultaneously collecting subsampled k-space data from multiple surface coils. The different sensitivity patterns for the various coils provide a spatial encoding and permit recovery from subsampled or otherwise aliased data. The smooth coil sensitivities in the image domain multiply with the single image representing the spin density of the excited slice. Via the Fourier transform, this can be written as a convolution of k-space representations of the coil sensitivities and the image. Since both the sensitivities and image are unknown in reality, this problem can be formulated as a blind multichannel deconvolution problem in the fully sampled case and this formulation allows us to use the established literature in signal processing to remedy the problems in parallel magnetic resonance imaging.
In this presentation, we particularly focus on subspace techniques to estimate both the coil sensitivities and the calibration kernels of the parallel imaging methods, which are conventionally extracted from a region of fully sampled low-pass calibration data. However, for high acceleration rates, the acquisition of the fully sampled calibration data becomes a limiting factor. Thus, we investigate extraction of coil sensitivities and calibration kernels from subsampled reference or ACS lines. We show that the subspace techniques can also be used for coil combination once the interpolated k-space data are obtained using coil-by-coil reconstruction techniques such as GRAPPA or SPIRiT. We demonstrate that the minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion provides a non-iterative coil combination method that employs signal space vectors, and provides higher contrast images with less intensity inhomogeneity than well-known coil combination approaches such as square-root sum-of-squares (SoS) and adaptive coil combination. Finally, we show that subspace techniques can also be used in pre-processing to suppress noise by exploiting structure and low-rank property in matrices obtained from fully sampled and uniformly subsampled acquired data in parallel imaging.
Biography: Derya Gol Gungor received her B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Ankara University, Turkey in 2007, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Ohio State University, USA in 2014. She spent a year in Bilkent University as a graduate research and teaching assistant. In 2013, she worked as a graduate research intern in Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ. Her general areas of interest are signal & image processing, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. During her undergraduate, she was awarded with scholarships from Ankara University, Turkish Prime-ministry and Turkish Education Foundation (TEV).
Host: Professor Krishna Nayak
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia White
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Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Wed, Oct 08, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Anirban Guha, Postdoctoral Fellow in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Talk Title: On the Connection between Wave Resonance, Shear Instability and Oscillator Synchronization
Abstract: Homlboe (Geophys. Publ., vol. 24, 1962, pp. 7-112) postulated that interaction between two or more progressive, linear interfacial waves produces exponentially growing instabilities in idealized (broke-line profiles), homogeneous or density-stratified, inviscid shear layers. We have generalized Holmboe's mechanistic picture of linear shear instabilities by (i) not initially specifying the wave type, and (ii) providing the option for non-normal growth. We have demonstrated the mechanism behind linear shear instabilities by proposing a purely kinematic model consisting of two linear, Doppler-shifted, progressive interfacial waves moving in opposite directions. Moreover, we have found a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of exponentially growing instabilities in idealized shear forms. The two interfacial waves, starting from arbitrary initial conditions, eventually phase-lock and resonate (grow exponentially), provided the necessary and sufficient condition in satisfied. The theoretical underpinning of our wave interaction model is analogous to that of synchronization between two coupled harmonic oscillators. We have re-framed our model into a nonlinear autonomous dynamical system, the steady-state configuration of which corresponds to the resonant configuration of the wave interaction model. When interpreted in terms of the canonical normal-mode theory, the steady-state/resonant configuration corresponds to the growing normal mode of the discrete spectrum. The instability mechanism occurring prior to reaching steady state is non-modal, favoring rapid transient growth. Depending on the wavenumber and initial phase-shift, non-modal gain can exceed the corresponding modal gain by many orders of magnitude. Instability is also observed in the parameter space, which is deemed stable by the normal-mode theory. Using our model we have derived the discrete spectrum non-modal stability equations for three classical examples of shear instabilities: Rayleigh/Kelvin-Helmholtz, Holmboe and Taylor-Caulfield. We have shown that the necessary and sufficient condition provides a range of unstable wave numbers for each instability type, and this range matched the predictions of normal-mode theory.
Biography: Anirban Guha is currently a Postdoctoral fellow in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UCLA. He is particularly interested in stratified shear instabilities, Rossby and gravity waves, vortices, and flow over topography. Dr. Guha obtained an Undergraduate Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of British Columbia, Canada. He received various awards during his Ph.D. studies at UBC - the Four year fellowship, the Earl R. Peterson memorial scholarship, and the Faculty of applied science graduate award. Dr. Guha was also the 2013 recipient of the prestigious David Crighton Fellowship from DAMTP, University of Cambridge.
Host: Professor Paul Ronney
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Valerie Childress
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Albert Dorman Distinguished Lecture Series
Wed, Oct 08, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: G. Wayne Clough, President Emiritus of the Georgia Institute of Technology & Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute
Talk Title: From the Eocene to the Anthropocene:An Engineer's View of Climate Change
Abstract: The lecture series honors Albert Dorman, an architect and civil engineer who is a USC alumnus and the founding chairman of AECOM Technology Corporation. He is the first person to become both a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and an Honorary Member of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the winner of the ASCE Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Leadership.
Biography: Dr. Wayne Clough is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the worldâs largest museum and research complex with activities in more than 130 countries. He oversees a construction and renovation program of more than $1 billion, including the current refurbishing of the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and construction of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture. Before his appointment to the Smithsonian, Clough was president of the Georgia Institute of Technology for 14 years, which U.S. News and World Report ranked among the top 10 public universities during his tenure. He holds a bachelorâs degree and a masterâs degree from Georgia Tech and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, with specialties in geotechnical and earthquake engineering.
Reception follows after the lecture.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Society of Women Engineers: Fall Evening with Industry
Wed, Oct 08, 2014 @ 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
After spending the day at the career fair, join us for our Fall Evening with Industry! You will get to network with industry members from a wide variety of companies over dinner and desert. You will not want to miss this event! Check out the following link to for more information and to RSVP:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1451757928446625/Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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Cypress Semiconductor Information Session
Wed, Oct 08, 2014 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
An intimate setting to learn more about Cypress, our products, our culture, the positions we are hiring for. This is a great opportunity to network with Cypress hiring managers and staffing team.
One of our core values is hiring the best and that is why we are recruiting at USC. We're looking for engineers and business students who have a passion for technology.Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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VISA Tech Talk
Wed, Oct 08, 2014 @ 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
Visa recruiters will be giving a talk about the technology they use and will be going over opportunities available for summer internships and full time. Jobs are being offered, all majors are welcome, so make sure to come by and bring your resume! FREE FOOD will be available!!!
Location: VPD 105
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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Intel Corporation Info Session
Wed, Oct 08, 2014 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Come meet representatives from multiple unique and exciting groups at Intel. Find out what they're working on in Wireless Technology, Mobile Communications, Competitive Analysis, Information Systems & Security, Software Solutions, Data Centers and more. Listen to some of the exciting opportunities for interns and grads within the organization
BS, MS, PhD Welcomed
Food will be served!
Bring your resume! We are hiring!
There will also be a raffle for an HP Pavilion x360 - 11t Touch LaptopMore Information: USC Flyer Info Session Fall 2014.pdf
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Thu, Oct 09, 2014
DEN@Viterbi, Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract: Learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a Six Sigma green belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
Register Now
Host: Professional Programs
Audiences: Registered Attendees
Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs
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Intel Corporation Office Hours
Thu, Oct 09, 2014 @ 09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Grab your resume and come as you are!
Come have a snack and meet Intel Leaders & Technology Experts - Learn about full time and intern opportunities in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering Computer Science.
(All Engineering Disciplines Welcome)
Stop by, meet our team, chat about Intel, receive resume tips, career advice, network. This is your chance to spend time with the hiring team outside of the hectic 2-3 minutes at the career fair. We look forward to seeing you!
Bagels and snacks provided!
Make a difference at intel.com/jobsMore Information: USC Flyer Office Hours Fall 2014.pdf
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Microsoft Information Session
Thu, Oct 09, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Learn more about what Microsoft has to offer. Ask questions of Microsoft Recruiter, Dave Cotter, and talk with Software Development Engineers.
Enjoy Free Pizza and bring your Resume!!!Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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CS Colloquium: Adrian Nistor (Chapman University) - Detecting and Repairing Performance Bugs using Execution and Code Patterns
Thu, Oct 09, 2014 @ 11:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Adrian Nistor, Chapman University
Talk Title: Detecting and Repairing Performance Bugs using Execution and Code Patterns
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: In this talk we will discuss Caramel, Toddler, and SunCat, three novel techniques for automatically detecting and repairing performance bugs. Unlike profilers, which focus on methods that take a long time to execute, Caramel, Toddler, and SunCat focus on code and execution patterns that are highly indicative of common programming mistakes affecting performance. The additional information provided by these patterns enable Caramel, Toddler, and SunCat to have better results---more automation, fewer false negatives, fewer false
positives, automated repair---than profilers for the bugs Caramel, Toddler, and SunCat are designed to find. Caramel, Toddler, and SunCat employ novel dynamic and static analyses. Caramel, Toddler, and SunCat found previously unknown performance bugs in widely used Java, C/C++, and C# applications, including in mobile applications.
Biography: Adrian Nistor started as an Assistant Professor at Chapman University in Fall 2014. He received his Ph.D from the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2014. His research interests are in software engineering, with a focus on detecting, repairing, and preventing bugs in real-world applications. His projects investigate performance bugs and concurrency bugs. His techniques found more than 150 previously unknown bugs in widely used software, e.g., PARSEC, GCC, Google Chrome, Mozilla, MySQL, Ant, Google Core Libraries, Lucene, Tomcat, JUnit, JMeter, Log4J, etc. More than 100 of these bugs are already fixed by developers. His research includes empirical and analytical work, static and dynamic techniques, hardware-assisted and software-only solutions, and bugs from various application types---client, server, mobile, and scientific applications.
Host: GJ Halfond
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Oct 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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Women's Discover Engineering Day
Fri, Oct 10, 2014 @ 08:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Receptions & Special Events
Join SHPE as we introduce local female high school students to the field of engineering and all its applications in daily life. We will stimulate, or initiate, their interest in engineering with team-oriented competitions and workshops. However, our main goal will be to encourage them to pursue higher education and apply to college!
Location: Engineering Quad
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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AI SEMINAR
Fri, Oct 10, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yolanda Gil, Deputy Director, Intelligent Systems Division
Talk Title: Semantic Challenges in Getting Work Done
Abstract: In the new millennium, work involves an increasing amount of tasks that are knowledge-rich and collaborative. We are investigating how semantics can help on both fronts. Our focus is scientific work, in particular data analysis, where tremendous potential resides in combining the knowledge and resources of a highly fragmented science community. We capture task knowledge in semantic workflows, and use skeletal plan refinement algorithms to assist users when they specify high-level tasks. But the formulation of workflows is in itself a collaborative activity, a kind of meta-workflow composed of tasks such as finding the data needed or designing a new algorithm to handle the data available. We are investigating "organic data science", a new approach to collaboration that allows scientists to formulate and resolve scientific tasks through an open framework that facilitates ad-hoc participation. With a design based on social computing principles, our approach makes scientific processes transparent and incorporates semantic representations of tasks and their properties. The semantic challenges involved in this work are numerous and have great potential to transform the Web to help us do work in more productive and unanticipated ways.
Biography: Yolanda Gil is Director of Knowledge Technologies and Associate Division Director at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, and Research Professor in the Computer Science Department. She received her M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Gil conducts research on various aspects of Interactive Knowledge Capture, including intelligent user interfaces, knowledge-rich problem solving, and the semantic web. In recent years, her work has focused on collaborative large-scale scientific data analysis through semantic workflows. She initiated and chaired the W3C Provenance Incubator that led to the PROV community standard. She was elected Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2012. Dr. Gil is the current Chair of ACM SIGAI, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence.
Host: Greg VerSteeg
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th floor large conference room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kary LAU
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Oct 10, 2014 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ed Ebrahimian, Director of the Bureau of Street Lighting of the City of Los Angeles
Talk Title: LA's Leadership in LED Street Lighting
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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Munushian Seminar - Keynote Lecture
Fri, Oct 10, 2014 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: David Wineland, NIST Time and Frequency Division, Boulder, CO
Talk Title: Quantum Computers and Raising Schrödingerâs Cat
Abstract: Quantum systems such as atoms can be used to store information. For example, we can store binary information in two energy levels of an atom by labeling the state with lower energy a â0â and the state with higher energy a â1.â However, quantum systems can also exist in superposition states, thereby storing both states of the bit simultaneously, a situation that makes no sense in our ordinary-day experience. This property of quantum bits or âqubitsâ potentially leads to an exponential increase in memory and processing capacity. It would enable a quantum computer to efficiently solve certain problems such as factorizing large numbers - an ability that could compromise the security of current encryption systems. A quantum computer would also realize an analog of âSchrödingerâs Cat,â a bizarre situation where a cat could be simultaneously dead and alive. Experiments whose goal is to realize a quantum computer based on laser manipulations of atomic ions will be described.
Biography: David J. Wineland (born 1944) is an American physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics laboratory in Boulder. His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser cooling of ions in Paul traps and use of trapped ions to implement quantum computing operations. Wineland received his bachelorâs degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965 and his PhD in 1970 working under Norman Ramsey at Harvard University. He then worked as a postdoc in Hans Dehmeltâs group at the University of Washington before joining the National Bureau of Standards in 1975 where he started the ion storage group, now at NIST, Boulder. Wineland is a fellow of the American Physical society, the American Optical society, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. He was the recipient of the 1990 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics, the 1990 William F. Meggers Award of the Optical Society of America, the 1996 Einstein Medal for Laser Science of the Society
of Optical and Quantum electronics, the 1998 Rabi Award from the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics,
and Frequency Control Society, the 2001 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser. He is an American Nobel-Prize-winning physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics laboratory. His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser cooling of ions in Paul traps and use of trapped ions to implement quantum computing operations. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Serge Haroche, for âground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.â
Host: EE-Electrophysics
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 124
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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Astani CEE Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Oct 10, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Todd Oliver, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at UT-Austin
Talk Title: A Framework for Validating Predictions of Unobserved Quantities with Applicatons from Turbulent Flow Similation
Abstract:
In applied science and engineering, computational models are commonly used to make predictions of quantities that are not experimentally observable. Assessing the validity of such predictions, which are fundamentally extrapolations, is challenging but critical. In classical approaches to validation, model outputs for observed quantities are compared to observations to determine if they are consistent. By itself, this consistency only ensures that the model can predict the observed quantities under the conditions of the observations. This limitation dramatically reduces the utility of the
validation effort for decision making because it implies nothing about predictions of unobserved QoIs or for scenarios outside of the range of observations.
This talk will describe a process for validation of extrapolative predictions for models with known sources of error. The process includes stochastic modeling, calibration, validation, and predictive assessment phases where representations of known sources of uncertainty and error are built, informed, and tested. The methodology is applied to a simple spring-mass-damper system to illustrate the process in the simplest possible setting. Finally, some aspects of the process, including calibration and stochastic modeling, are discussed in the context of RANS turbulence modeling.
Biography:
Todd Oliver is a research associate with the Center for Predictive Engineering and Computational Sciences (PECOS) at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at UT-Austin. Dr. Oliver's expertise is in the broad area of computational fluid dynamics with specific focus on statistical methods for the validation of models and predictions. At PECOS he developed predictive tools for the analysis and design of re-entry vehicles.
Host: Dr. Roger Ghanem
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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NL Seminar- Interplay between Continuous and Discrete Aspects of Brain Image Analysis
Fri, Oct 10, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Boris Gutman, USC/ISI
Talk Title: Interplay between Continuous and Discrete Aspects of Brain Image Analysis
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Brain MRI offers tremendous opportunity to learn about cortical anatomy, function and connectivity. In this talk I will go over several standard techniques for image understanding used in brain imaging. These include image registration, segmentation, tractography and graph-based connectivity analyses. Among these algorithms, we routinely encounter both continuous and discrete types of analysis. Non-linear image registration, typically formalized as a diffeomorphism on the image domain, is an example of the former: we may ask for instance how much volume change the brain is experiencing locally over time, clearly a continuous measure. In another example, we may trace continuous curves in space that best fit a Diffusion Tensor MR image to approximate fibers in the brainâs white matter. One the other hand, connectivity between distinct units within the nervous system is an example of discrete analysis: for instance, the brainâs functionally distinct regions are thought of as nodes in a graph, whose edges are defined by the connecting fiber models.
After a brief description of the standard methods at hand, I will suggest an approach for combining the two types of analysis. By assuming the continuous paradigm for connectivity, we can push our connectome model from being a discrete graph to being a linear operator. Using some well-known results from operator theory, we can decompose the operator into its resident âeigen-networks,â and apply continuous methods directly. As an example, we can spatially register connectivity matrices with spatially distributed nodes. Finally, I will show two simple examples of continuous analogues for standard graph theory measures, and their potential application for an Alzheimer âs disease study.
Biography: Boris Gutman received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UCLA before joining USCâs Imaging Genetics Center (IGC). He is currently a post-doctoral scholar at the IGC, under the supervision of Professor Paul M. Thompson.
Host: Aliya Deri and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 6th Flr Conf Rm # 689 Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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ASBME Big/Little Meet n' Mingle
Fri, Oct 10, 2014 @ 04:45 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Want to be a Little or a Big? Like what you saw at the Mentoring Preview Night? If so, or even if you didn't get a chance to make it, this is the first official event of the Big/Little program. We'll be having Chick-Fil-A across the way at the Rose Garden while playing some games and beginning to match you with a Big or Little. We're meeting by Tire Biter at 4:45 then walking over together at 5. This event is mandatory for anyone who wants to be a part of the program. If you have a conflict but would still like to be paired up as a Big or Little, please email asbme.mentoring@gmail.com.
Location: Rose Garden
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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ASBME Fur Baby Rescue
Sat, Oct 11, 2014 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Love to snuggle with cute cuddling puppies and kittens? Or are you a masculine, sports-lovin', dog's-best-friend kind of guy? Well then, you'll love ASBME's open-to-all Fur Baby Rescue Event. Only a block away from the USC campus, the animal shelter will allow students to walk the animals back on to the USC campus for a fun day of doggy-filled (and kitty-filled) games and activities. Sign up with ASBME here: https://docs.google.com/a/usc.edu/forms/d/1Gt-t_UjRpXdN0hdgY9bi0Qqa-AuE28R8XmUFfrO8W6c/viewform?usp=send_form. And be sure to PRINT OUT and sign this waiver: http://www.furbabyrescue.org/#!volunteer/cihc
Location: meet at Finger Fountain
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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USC Engineering in Istanbul, Turkey - Information Session
Sat, Oct 11, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are cordially invited to join us for an upcoming graduate engineering information session in Istanbul, Turkey.This event will be hosted by Viterbi School representative Camillia Lee, Assistant Dean of Graduate Recruitment for the Viterbi School of Engineering.
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.
Attendees will also have the chance to ask questions and receive official brochures and handout information from USC.
Audiences: Students with an undergraduate backrgound in engineering, math or science
Contact: William Schwerin