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ASBME Korean BBQ
Sun, Oct 12, 2014 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come join ASBME's Korean BBQ dinner! Just bring as little as $10 and ASBME will cover the rest! This event will max out at 15 people, and ASBME members have priority. Don't miss your chance to get All-You-Can-Eat Korean BBQ for an affordable price! PLEASE SIGN UP ASAP at https://docs.google.com/a/usc.edu/forms/d/12I2r_AeMKNUj2nIvb9LzVxcC38x1SuzQICPZNu9KG_s/viewform.
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Oct 13, 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 13, 2014 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Pramode Butte, Ph.D., Asst. Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Talk Title: OR 2.0:Â Next Generation Technologies for Intra-Operative Tumor Detection
Host: Michael Khoo
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Raytheon Company Information Session
Mon, Oct 13, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Please join us to learn more about Raytheon and the positions we offer.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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USC Engineering in Ankara, Turkey - Information Session
Mon, Oct 13, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are cordially invited to join us for an upcoming graduate engineering information session in Ankara,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
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AIChE WhiteWave Foods Plant Tour
Tue, Oct 14, 2014 @ 01:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Get a private tour of WhiteWave Foods, maker of some of your favorite food brands! From products like Silk to Horizon to Land O Lakes, WhiteWave is a huge company in the food industry and a heavy recruiter for USC. Come learn more about their company and how some of their products are made!
Note: There are currently no more spots available for this event.
Location: Meet at RTH
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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CS Colloquium - USC Student Series: George Konstantinidis, Leandro Soriano Marcolino
Tue, Oct 14, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: George Konstantinidis; Leandro Soriano Marcolino, USC
Talk Title: Scalable Data Integration under Constraints, Agents Vote for the Environment: Designing Energy-Efficient Architecture
Series: Student Seminar Series
Abstract: Coming Soon
Biography: Coming Soon
Host: CS Department
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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CS Colloquium - USC Student Series: George Konstantinidis, Leandro Soriano Marcolino
Tue, Oct 14, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: George Konstantinidis, Leandro Soriano Marcolino, USC
Talk Title: Scalable Data Integration under Constraints, Agents Vote for the Environment: Designing Energy-Efficient Architecture
Series: Student Seminar Series
Abstract: Saving energy is a major concern nowadays. Hence, it is fundamental to design and construct buildings that are energy efficient. It is known that the early stage of architectural design has a significant impact on this matter. However, it is very complex to create designs that are optimally energy efficient, and at the same time balance and meet other essential design criteria such as economics, space, and safety. One state of the art approach is to create parametric designs, and use a genetic algorithm to optimize across complexly coupled objectives. In this work we further improve this method, by aggregating the solutions of multiple agents. We evaluate our approach across three design case studies of increasing complexity, and show that a team of agents are able to provide one order of magnitude higher number of 1st ranked solutions in the Pareto frontier. Therefore, our approach provides the designers with a higher number of optimized solutions to choose from, that they can further subjectively evaluate, thus leading to better and highly energy efficient building designs.
We witness an explosion of available data in all areas of human activity, from large scientific experiments, to medical data, to distributed sensors, to social media. Integrating data from disparate sources can lead to novel insights across scientific, industrial, and governmental domains. This integration is achieved by either creating a data warehouse, that is, by copying/transforming the data to a centralized site under a single schema for subsequent analysis (data exchange), or by leaving the data at their original sources and querying the data at analysis time ((virtual) data integration), making use of mappings or views between the source and the global schemas. In this work, we focus in scalable data integration and data exchange under constraints or dependencies (or ontologies). In both these problems we make use of the chase algorithm, a forward-chaining reasoning algorithm and the main tool to reason with dependencies. Our first contribution is to introduce the frugal chase, which produces smaller solutions than the standard chase, still remaining polynomial in data complexity. Our second contribution is to use the frugal chase to scale up virtual data integration, aka query answering using views, under constraints in the language of LAV-weakly-acyclic dependencies, a useful language capturing the W3C Recommendation RDF/S. The latter problem can be reduced to query rewriting using views without constraints by chasing the source mappings using the constraints. We construct a compact graph-based representation of the mappings and the constraints and develop an efficient algorithm to run the frugal chase on this representation. We show experimentally that our approach scales to larger problems, outperfomring the standard chase algorithm by close to two orders of magnitude and improving online data integration time by a factor of 3.
Biography: George Konstantinidis is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California (USC) and a Research Assistant at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at USC. He studied Computer Science at the University of Crete, Greece, and holds a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete and the Foundation for Research and TechnologyHellas (FORTH). His research interests lie in the intersection of Databases and Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Information and Data Integration and the Semantic Web, and in particular OntologyBased Data Answering, Integration and Evolution. He enjoys combining novel theory and practical implementations. He has been a reviewer for IJCAI and TKDE, and has published papers both in A.I. (e.g., ECAI, KAIS) and in Databases (e.g., SIGMOD, VLDB).
Leandro Soriano Marcolino is a 4th year PhD student at University of Southern California (USC). He is advised by Milind Tambe. Previously he was awarded the Monbukagakusho scholarship and obtained a M.A. in Systems Information Sciences in Future University Hakodate, Japan. His research work performed during his master's studies was a best paper nominee at AAMAS 2011. He has been researching since very early as an undergraduate student at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, and was able to publish many papers before even entering graduate school. His research is mainly about teamwork and cooperation, and he has published on the topic in a variety of different domains such as swarm robotics, computer Go, and building design. He has published in several prestigious conferences in AI and robotics, such as AAAI, AAMAS, IJCAI, ICRA and IROS.
Host: CS Department
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Astani Environmental Engineering Seminar
Tue, Oct 14, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Kai Loon Chen, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Interactions of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials with Model Cell Membranes: Implications for Nanotoxicity
Host: Dr. Amy Childress
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 200
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Getting to know OIS and the Importance of CPT & OPT
Tue, Oct 14, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Looking for an internship or full-time job in the U.S.?
Please join OIS and Viterbi Career Connections for a CPT/OPT/STEM Informational Workshop. All topics will be discussed along with application materials and immigration processing times. OIS advisors will be present to answer all of your questions about CPT, OPT, and STEM extension.
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 201
Audiences: All Viterbi International Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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ASBME GM #3: Careers for Biomedical Engineers
Tue, Oct 14, 2014 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Wondering what the real world holds for biomedical engineers? Come to our 3rd General Meeting to hear a couple corporate representatives share their story: what their current job is all about, how they got from college to career, and why they like working in industry. This is also a great networking opportunity, so be sure to come! Dinner will be provided.
Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 252
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Oct 15, 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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Job Search Strategies for International Students
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Learn techniques for looking for a job in the United States and discuss important international student employment issues. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of International Services and the USC Career Center.
This event will be held in DML 204.
Reservations are requested for this event. Your seat is not guaranteed unless you register. To reserve a seat, log into connectSC , search for the event under "Events," and click "RSVP".Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - 204
Audiences: All Viterbi International Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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USC Investment Office Information Session
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Interested in a career in investment management? The USC Investment Office is looking to hire paid interns for the Spring 2015 semester as well as internships full time Summer 2015. All undergraduates are welcome to apply. This is an amazing opportunity to work with investing USC’s endowment funds, and report to the Chief Investment Officer of USC! Undergraduates with an interest in Private and Public Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, and Real Estate are encouraged to apply. To learn more, please attend the information session.
Location: Gwynn Wilson Student Union (STU) - B3 (Trojan Presentation Room)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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EE Pioneer Seminar Series
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Melvin A. Breuer, USC
Talk Title: TBA
Abstract: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - EEB 132
1:30pm Introduction & Welcome
1:35pm Technical talk by Melvin A. Breuer, Charles Lee Powell Professor of EE and CS
2:00pm Melvin A. Breuer in Conversation with Sandeep Gupta
2:45pm Reception - Light Refreshments
Biography: Dr. Breuer is the editor and co-author of Design Automation of Digital Systems: Theory and Techniques, Prentice-Hall; editor of Digital Systems Design Automation: Languages, Simulation and Data Base, Computer Science Press; co-author of Diagnosis and Reliable Design of Digital Systems, Computer Science Press; co-editor of Computer Hardware Description Languages and their Applications, North-Holland; co-editor and contributor to Knowledge Based Systems for Test and Diagnosis, North-Holland; and co-author of Digital System Testing and Testable Design, Computer Science Press 1990 and reprinted in 1995 by the IEEE Press. He has published over 270 technical papers and was formerly the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Design Automation and Fault Tolerant Computing, on the editorial board of the Journal of Electronic Testing, the co-editor of the Journal of Digital Systems, and the Program Chairman of the Fifth International IFIP Conference on Computer Hardware Description Languages and Their Applications. He is a co-author of a paper that received an honorable mention award at the 1997 International Test Conference, a co-author of a paper nominated for the best paper award at the 1998 Design Automation and Test in Europe Conf., a co-author of a paper published in the 1998 International Test Conference that was selected to be in a compendium of significant papers over the last 35 years, and a co-author of the best paper at the 2000 Asian Test Symposium.
Host: Ming Hsieh Institute
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elise Herrera-Green
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NSEG Fellowship Info Session
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship program is open to applicants who are citizens or nationals of the United States. Students must be enrolled in their final year of undergraduate studies, or have completed less than two full-time years of graduate study in the discipline in which they are applying. The NDSEG funds applicants who will pursue a doctoral degree in one of the following disciplines:
Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Biosciences
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Cognitive, Neural, and Behavioral Sciences
Computer and Computational Sciences
Electrical Engineering
Geosciences
Materials Science and Engineering
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Oceanography
Physics
The NDSEG Fellowship Application is now open (https://ndseg.asee.org/), and will close on December 12, 2014, at 5:00 P.M. EST.
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 227
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Christine D'Arcy
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Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Paul Newton, Professor of Applied Mathematics in Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Talk Title: Random Walks, Markov Chains, and Cancer Progression Models from Longitudinal and Autopsy Data
Series: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Abstract: We will describe models of metastatic cancer progression using Markov chain modeling on a directed graph of nodes that are the various anatomical sites where metastatic tumors can form for a given type of primary cancer. We use metastatic tumor distributions gathered from historical autopsy data, as well as current longitudinal data sets to estimate the transition probabilities (stochastic parameters) from site to site. This creates a systemic network diagram from which we can calculate reduced two-step diagrams using the fact that the systems converge to their steady-state distribution after roughly two steps. The diagrams are used to categorize metastatic sites as `sponges' or `spreaders', as well as to run hypothetical therapeutic scenarios based on Monte Carlo simulations of progression with mean first-passage times as a surrogate timescale measure. A useful metric which we describe is the notion of metastatic entropy and how is correlates with graph conductance dictating Markov convergence rates, mixing times, and complexity. If time permits, we will describe a more fine-scale cell based model which is driven by a stochastic Moran process acting on a heterogeneous population of cells trafficking across the directed graph to various sites, governed by a fitness landscape, with simple point-mutations, interacting via the prisonerâs dilemma paradigm in which the cancer cells are the `defectorsâ and the healthy cells are the `cooperators'.
Biography: Paul Newton received his B.S. in Applied Math/Physics at Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University, he was Assistant and Associate Professor of Mathematics and The Center for Complex Systems Research at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He has held visiting appointments at Caltech, Brown, Hokkaido University, The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at U.C. Santa Barbara, and The Scripps Research Institute. He is currently Professor of Applied Math, Engineering, and Medicine in the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California. He serves as Managing Editor of The Journal of Nonlinear Science, Advisor on Texts in Applied Mathematics Series, Springer-Verlag, New York, and is on The Center Advisory Committee for The Physical Sciences Oncology Center at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA where he serves as Project Leader, Mathematical Modeling: Physics and Mathematics of Cancer Metastasis.
Host: Professor Paul Ronney
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Valerie Childress
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Turner Construction Meet & Greet
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Turner representatives will be available to
collect resumes, chat with you, answer your questions and
share their insight about working for Turner Construction.
Info Session to followMore Information: Turner-Meet-Greet-2014.pdf
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Turner Construction Information Session
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
More Information: Turner-Info-Session-2014_UPDATED21.pdf
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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USC Engineering in Izmir, Turkey - Information Session
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are cordially invited to join us for an upcoming graduate engineering information session in Izmir,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
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USC Sports Analytics Collective General Meeting
Wed, Oct 15, 2014 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Come get involved with USC's Sports Analytics Collective - a group that conducts research projects relating to data in sports and explore current hot-topic issues in the world of sports analytics!
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 213
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jeremy USCSAC
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Interviewing Strategies and Techniques
Thu, Oct 16, 2014 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Discover tips on how to prepare for both technical and behavioral interviews, as well as the proper steps for follow-up!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Phillips 66 Information Session
Thu, Oct 16, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Phillips 66, created through the repositioning of ConocoPhillips, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on May 1, 2012, under the ticker PSX. The company brings with it a proud and successful heritage, one developed and enriched by our predecessor companies throughout more than a century of operations. Today, we stand ready to move forward into a promising future as one of the world's largest independent downstream companies. Please join us to learn about our exciting intern opportunities.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Oct 17, 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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AI Seminar-Topics in Constraint Satisfaction and Weighted Constraint Satisfaction
Fri, Oct 17, 2014 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli , USC
Talk Title: Topics in Constraint Satisfaction and Weighted Constraint Satisfaction
Series: Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Abstract: In this talk, I will present two ideas: (a) the idea of "Smoothness" in constraint satisfaction; and (b) the idea of "Constraint Composite Graphs" in weighted constraint satisfaction. Smoothness helps us identify tractable classes of constraint satisfaction problems with important implications in such diverse areas as temporal reasoning, logical filtering, and distributed problem solving. In weighted constraint satisfaction, Constraint Composite Graphs yield a long-pursued unified mathematical framework for exploiting the graphical structure of the constraint network as well as the numerical structure of the weighted constraints.
Biography: Dr. Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli (T. K. Satish Kumar) is a Research Scientist at the University of Southern California. He has published extensively on numerous topics in Artificial Intelligence spanning such diverse areas as Constraint Reasoning, Planning and Scheduling, Probabilistic Reasoning, Combinatorial Optimization, Approximation and Randomization, Heuristic Search, Model-Based Reasoning, Knowledge Representation and Spatio-Temporal Reasoning. He has served on the Program Committees of many international conferences in Artificial Intelligence and is a co-winner of the Best Student Paper Award from the 2005 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. Dr. Kumar received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in March 2005. In the past, he has also been a Visiting Student at the NASA Ames Research Center, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, a Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of West Florida and a Senior Research and Development Scientist at Mission Critical Technologies
Host: Greg Ver Steeg
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=bdc8f29218904371a2eb9a6c68d175c31dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=bdc8f29218904371a2eb9a6c68d175c31d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Computer Science PhD Lunch
Fri, Oct 17, 2014 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
RSVP will be sent to invitees.
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 322
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Colloquium
Fri, Oct 17, 2014 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jeff Lamb, Orange Empire Railway Museum
Talk Title: Steam Locomotives: Past and Future
Host: W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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NL Seminar- Beyond Parallel Data: Joint Word Alignment and Decipherment Improves Machine Translation [EMNLP Practice Talk]
Fri, Oct 17, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Qing Dou, USC/ISI
Talk Title: Beyond Parallel Data: Joint Word Alignment and Decipherment Improves Machine Translation [EMNLP Practice Talk]
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Inspired by previous work, where de- cipherment is used to improve machine translation, we propose a new idea to combine word alignment and decipher- ment into a single learning process. We use EM to estimate the model parameters, not only to maximize the probability of parallel corpus, but also the monolingual corpus. We apply our approach to im- prove Malagasy-English machine transla- tion, where only a small amount of paral- lel data is available. In our experiments, we observe gains of 0.9 to 2.1 Bleu over a strong baseline.
Biography: Qing Dou is a fifth year Ph.D. student at ISI. He works with Professor Kevin Knight on various decipherment problems and its application to different Natural Language Processing tasks.
Host: Aliya Deri and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Conference Room # 689, Marina del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Society of Women Engineers Mentorship Mixer
Fri, Oct 17, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Come out to the Mentorship Mixer on Friday October 17th at Gateway Rooftop! We will be providing pie from the Pie Hole and it will be a great chance to meet your fellow SWEsters! After the mixer fill out the form below to help us match you with your preferences. Even if you cannot attend the mixer but still want a mentor or a mentee then you can still fill the form! Anyone who wants a mentor or a mentee needs to fill out the form by Sunday 10/19 at midnight, pairings will be announced via email by Wednesday 10/22.
Mentor/Mentee Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mO70rEhPOrmaQF_fo84D8jqvG_jiRW7sEqCvlhjw6pA/viewform?usp=send_form
Check out the Facebook event for more information and to RSVP! https://www.facebook.com/events/1533070640262460/?notif_t=plan_admin_addedLocation: Gateway Rooftop
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Society of Women Engineers Society of Women Engineers
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ASBME Corporate Networking Night
Fri, Oct 17, 2014 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join ASBME at our third annual Corporate Networking Night with representatives from 13 different biotech companies! This event is a prime opportunity to introduce yourself to recruiters for internships and jobs starting in 2015. Companies attending include Abbott, Accenture, Amgen, Baxter, Chromologic, Edwards, HTE@USC, Medtronic, MEIRxRS, National Instruments, Nuvasive, St. Jude, and USC Coulter Translational. Please bring copies of your resume and dress smartly. To reserve your seat, please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ojB20s4vR9567mudPGlFFt_pUdnmSSPibrk24WaGgls/viewform and submit a $20 deposit to the front desk of DRB 140 by the end of the week, October 10th (this will be returned to you at check-in for the event but forfeited if you do not show). Due to limited room capacity, we will give preference to Junior and Senior undergraduate students who are MEMBERS of ASBME; however, any interested underclassmen can sign up for the wait-list for available seats. Spot confirmations and additional details will be sent out by Monday, October 13th. Any questions can be directed to Joycelyn Yip, joycelyy@usc.edu.
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Forum
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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USC Viterbi Homecoming Tailgate
Sat, Oct 18, 2014
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Alumni
Receptions & Special Events
USC Viterbi will once again host a tailgate before the USC vs. Colorado football game on October 18.
Tailgate to begin 3 hours prior to kickoff.
For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit us at Viterbi.usc.edu/Homecoming
Fight On!Location: Epstein Familyy Engineering Plaza (formerly known as the Engineering Quad)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Maita Schuster
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DEN@Viterbi Homecoming Tailgate
Sat, Oct 18, 2014
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
DEN@Viterbi students: Join us for the ultimate networking opportunity! Connect with fellow DEN@Viterbi students, experience this amazing Trojan Family get-together and enjoy delicious food and a hosted bar. Check your email for details and a personalized registration link. Email Meredith Tiras at tiras@usc.edu for more information. Fight On!
Location: Trousdale
Audiences: DEN@Viterbi Students
Contact: Meredith Tiras
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USC Engineering in Chengdu, China - Information Session
Sat, Oct 18, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
You are cordially invited to join us for an upcoming graduate engineering information session in Chengdu, China. This event will be hosted by Viterbi School representatives Ray Xu, Director of the USC China office 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.
Location:
The Ritz-Carlton Chengdu
No 269 Shuncheng Avenue
Qingyang District, Chengdu, 610017
REGISTER NOWAudiences: Students with an undergraduate backrgound in engineering, math or science
Contact: William Schwerin