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Discover USC - Fall Open House & Engineering Expo
Sun, Nov 20, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
The Discover USC program will take place on USC's campus on Sunday, November 20, 2011. This full day program will provide you and your family with an opportunity to meet staff from the Offices of Admission, Financial Aid and The Viterbi School of Engineering, in addition to current Viterbi students and faculty.
The Engineering Expo is an open house for our students, faculty and staff to showcase the numerous opportunities to get involved in the Viterbi School of Engineering. We will host information sessions about academic services and provide tours of the labs used by our undergraduate student design teams and research projects. RSVP online at http://www.usc.edu/admevents .Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Comedy@SCA Festival
Sun, Nov 20, 2011
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free. Reservations required. Reservations will be accepted beginning Friday, October 28, at 9 a.m. at http://cinema.usc.edu.
A three-day festival hosted by USC School of Cinematic Arts professors Jack Epps, Jr., David Isaacs and Barnet Kellman will celebrate comedy in film, television and new media. The festival will be presented in conjunction with the launch of the Comedy@SCA Initiative, a new multidisciplinary track at the School of Cinematic Arts. The festival will open with a sneak-preview screening of an unreleased comedy feature followed by an interview with principal artists involved. Discussions with prominent comedy writers, directors, producers and performers will be presented throughout the weekend on topics including classic television comedy, comedy and animation, film and new media, comedy and new media and current television comedies.
Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Engineering EXPO
Sun, Nov 20, 2011 @ 10:30 AM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Students considering transferring to USC for engineering are encouraged to join Viterbi for a transfer admission presentation and Engineering Expo on Sunday, November 20th.
The presentation is an opportunity for you to learn more about transferring into engineering at USC and the engineering academic programs of interest to you. Christine Hsieh, Associate Director of Admission, will lead a one-hour presentation at 10:30 am in Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) 122.
In addition to the presentation, there will be an Engineering EXPO from 1:00 PM â 4:00 PM in Ronald Tutor Hall. The EXPO will allow you to see and learn more about the specifics of our special programs and services dedicated to undergraduates including research opportunities, career services, and overseas studies. One of the most popular components of the EXPO are the lab tours that allow you to see our working facilities and how our undergraduates are involved in research.
NO RSVP is required.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) -
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfers
Contact: VSOE Undergraudate Admission
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Nov 21, 2011
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 https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx 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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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Mon, Nov 21, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 9, 2011. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online. http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/
Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2012
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Safety Management Systems for Managers (SMS MGR)
Mon, Nov 21, 2011 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Aviation Safety and Security Program
University Calendar
This course is designed to explain the fundamentals of the SMS process to managers and supervisors. It focuses on the particular functions and responsibilities that managers have within a SMS. The specific benefits of an SMS are detailed. Additionally, potential issues which may cause friction as a result of an SMS are discussed.
Location: Aviation Safety & Security Campus
Audiences: Aviation Professionals
Contact: Harrison Wolf
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Nov 21, 2011 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jacques Van Dam, M.D., Professor of Clinical- Med (USC Keck School of Medicine)
Talk Title: Optical Biopsy: Fad or Fantastic?
Host: BME Department
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Model-Based Control and Optimization Challenges in Reservoir Engineering
Mon, Nov 21, 2011 @ 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Paul M.J. Van den Hof, Delft University of Technology & Eindhoven University of Technology
Talk Title: Model-Based Control and Optimization Challenges in Reservoir Engineering
Abstract: Due to urgent needs to increase efficiency in oil recovery from subsurface reservoirs new technology is developed that allows more detailed sensing and actuation of multiphase flow properties in oil reservoirs. One of the examples is the controlled injection of water through injection wells with the purpose to displace the oil in an appropriate direction. This technology enables the application of model-based optimization and control techniques to optimize production over the entire production period of a reservoir, which can be around 25 years. Large scale reservoir flow models are used for optimizing production settings, but suffer from high levels of uncertainty and limited validation options. One of the challenges is the development of reduced complexity models that deliver accurate long-term predictions, and at the same time are not more complex than can be warranted by the amount of data that is available. In this seminar an overview will be given of the problems and opportunities for model-based control and optimization in this field aiming at the development of a closed-loop reservoir management system.
Biography: Paul Van den Hof received the Ph.D. degree from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands in 1989. Since 1986 he is with Delft University of Technology, where he was appointed as full professor in 1999. Since 2003 he has been founding co-director of the Delft Center for Systems and Control (DCSC), with appointments in the faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engingeering, and the faculty of Aplied Sciences. As of 2011 he holds a full professor position in the Electrical Engineering department of Eindhoven University of Technology. Since 2005 he is also scientific director of the national research and graduate school "Dutch Institute of Systems and Control" (DISC). His research interests are in issues of system identification, identification for control, and model-based control and optimization, with applications in industrial process control systems, including petroleum reservoir engineering systems, mechanical servo systems and physical measurement systems. He has been a member of the IFAC Council (1999-2005), the editorial board of Automatica (1992-2005), and the Board of Governors of IEEE Control Systems Society (2003-2005). He is IFAC Fellow and Fellow of IEEE.
Host: Prof. Antonio Ortega
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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Astani CEE Seminar
Mon, Nov 21, 2011 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ruchi Choudhary , Professor, Cambridge University, UK
Talk Title: Uncertainty Quantification of future energy consumption of buildings
Abstract:
We quantify uncertainties in energy consumption of the built environment using Bayesian approaches and demonstrate examples of recent applications on individual buildings and for an entire population of buildings. We use the Kennedy Oâ Hagan framework to calibrate energy models of representative buildings in a city, and argue that this approach is better suited than other existing protocols for evaluating retrofits of existing buildings. We consider alternative techniques, namely, Bayesian regression analysis and inverse methods to evaluate an entire set of buildings in a city. This work is driven by the need to quantify future energy demand of buildings in their urban context as a function of projected growth of buildings and populations, refurbishments, policies incentivizing energy efficiency measures, and changes in building operation.
Biography:
Dr Ruchi Choudhary specializes in building simulation with a particular interest in multicriteria modelling of energy demand and environmental characteristics of the built environment. Choudharyâs research is embedded within a wider multi-disciplinary project called the `Energy Efficient Cities Initiative', in which she leads the work on the built environment. Her recent research focuses on developing tools and methods for analysing energy consumption of large sets of buildings. These have resulted in two parallel investigations: one on how to represent and evaluate relevant and large-scale research and policy questions through physics-based models, and second, how to quantify uncertainties in model outcomes.
Host: Prof. Roger Ghanem
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 Conference Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Astani CEE Department Seminar
Mon, Nov 21, 2011 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Ruchi Choudhary, Civil Engineering, Cambridge University, UK
Talk Title: Energy Efficient Cities Initiative
Abstract:
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Host: Prof. Roger Ghanem
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 Conference Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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From Magic Mirror to Autism: Using Computational Multimedia for Video Self-modeling Therapy
Tue, Nov 22, 2011 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sen-ching Samson Cheung, MIA Laboratory, University of Kentucky
Talk Title: From Magic Mirror to Autism: Using Computational Multimedia for Video Self-modeling Therapy
Abstract: If you have ever been on a diet, you would know that having an old picture of a thinner "you" on the bathroom mirror or the refrigerator can be a powerful motivating tool. This is the idea behind the psychological theory of self-efficacy -- you can learn or model to perform certain tasks because you see yourself doing it. Even more powerful is to use modified imagery to trick your brain into believing a positive personal experience that has not occurred before. Perhaps the most famous example is the mirror box therapy for amputees -- seeing the mirror reflection of an intact arm conjures up an illusion of the presence of the amputated limb and provides an effective means to alleviate the phantom limb pain. Another example is video self-modeling (VSM) therapy in which the patient acts as his/her own model by taping several hours of behavior in video and splicing together a chain of clips depicting the new skill for instruction. Mirror and VSM therapies are widely used in the treatments of many neurological disorders. In practice, these therapies are challenging to administer due to the difficulties in constructing the mirror device or preparing the appropriate video content. This is where multimedia engineers can help -- by creating fictitious multimedia contents that require little manual input and are perceptually indistinguishable from those captured by sensors. In this talk, I will discuss a number of on-going projects in my lab that use computational multimedia approaches for therapy. I will demonstrate our SpeakToMe system for creating VSM content for voice-disorder patients. The system replaces the coarse voice of a patient with a perceptually-similar but healthy voice, and then renders a new video sequence with automated lip-synchronization. I will also discuss the MagicMirror system for helping children with autism spectrum disorders in their behavioral therapy. The MagicMirror system is a large-size computer display that uses a network of depth and color cameras to render a view-dependent mirror image of a virtual mirror. By injecting new behaviors into the mirror images, we are hoping to provide the instant visual feedback that is crucial to learning but completely lacking in the current form of VSM.
Biography: Sen-ching (Samson) Cheung is an associate professor from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Kentucky (UKY). He also has a joint appointment with the UKY Center of Visualization and Virtual Environments. Before joining UKY in 2004, he was a computer scientist in the Scientific Data Mining group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Samson got his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 2002. His work spans a number of different areas in multimedia including video copy detection, data mining, video surveillance, privacy protection, encrypted-domain signal processing, and computational multimedia for therapy. He is an associated editor of IEEE Transactions of Multimedia, Signal Processing: Image Communications, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, and EURASIP Journal on Information Security. He is a senior member of IEEE.
Host: Professor Shrikanth Narayanan
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mary Francis
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Blind Multimedia Processing
Tue, Nov 22, 2011 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sen-ching Samson Cheung,Ph.D. , MIA Laboratory, University of Kentucky
Talk Title: Blind Multimedia Processing
Abstract: The right to privacy has long been regarded as one of the basic universal human rights. The combination of ubiquitous sensors, wireless connectivity, and powerful recognition algorithms makes it easier than ever to monitor every aspect of our daily lives. From the use of sophisticated video surveillance systems to the theft of biometric signals, people are increasingly wary about the privacy of their multimedia data. To mitigate public concern over privacy violation, it is imperative to make privacy protection a priority in developing the next-generation multimedia processing algorithms. Due to the high dimensionality, high data-rates and stringent real-time requirements of multimedia systems, developing provably-secure privacy protection schemes for multimedia often leads to a blowup in complexity and remains impractical for most applications. In this talk, I will discuss a number of active projects in my group that aim at alleviating such an efficiency barrier. I will present the anonymous biometric access control system that can validate a biometric signal without knowing the identity of the owner. Anonymity is guaranteed by performing the matching on biometric signals that are encrypted with a homomorphic public-key cryptosystem. To reduce complexity of the encrypted-domain processing, we propose a k-anonymous quantization scheme that can optimally tradeoff efficiency with privacy. To realize the holy grail of privacy-protected signal processing at the pixel level, I will also discuss our recent work on secure cloud-based image processing with secret shares. The focus of this work is on the use of information-theoretic, rather than computationally, secure protocols for image processing. Image data and parameters are decomposed into secret shares and distributed in the cloud for processing. Giving a non-colluding distributed computing environment, such an approach is significantly faster and requires less bandwidth than other computationally-secure multiparty computation. I will use the example of a wavelet image denoising to illustrate our core framework of image processing with secret shares.
Biography: Sen-ching (Samson) Cheung is an associate professor from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Kentucky (UKY). He also has a joint appointment with the UKY Center of Visualization and Virtual Environments. Before joining UKY in 2004, he was a computer scientist in the Scientific Data Mining group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Samson got his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 2002. His work spans a number of different areas in multimedia including video copy detection, data mining, video surveillance, privacy protection, encrypted-domain signal processing, and computational multimedia for therapy. He is an associated editor of IEEE Transactions of Multimedia, Signal Processing: Image Communications, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, and EURASIP Journal on Information Security. He is a senior member of IEEE.
Host: Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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USC in Your Neighborhood: Behind the Scenes of Avatar
Tue, Nov 22, 2011 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Alumni
Receptions & Special Events
USC in Your Neighborhood: Behind the Scenes of Avatar
Featuring Dean Yannis C. Yortsos and Professor Paul Debevec
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
6:00 â 8:00 p.m.
Location: The TimesCenter
242 West 41st Street
New York, NY 10036
For more information visit, http://alumni.usc.edu/neighborhoodny
Location: 242 West 41st Street New York, NY 10036
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kathleen Concialdi
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USC in Your Neighborhood - New York
Tue, Nov 22, 2011 @ 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Alumni
Receptions & Special Events
Get the inside story from Dean Yortsos on the state of the university and the latest advancements at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Then delve into the world of digitally realistic animation with Paul Debevec, associate director for graphics research at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, whose techniques have been used in films such as Avatar and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
For more information, visit http://alumni.usc.edu/neighborhoodnyLocation: The TimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York, NY 10036
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Katie Dunham