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Sunday, December 11, 2016
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM	Catholic Mass Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry Description: We celebrate Catholic Mass on Sunday evenings in the Blue and Gold Welcome Center. All are welcome! Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Religious & Spiritual
« 11/8 - 12/12 »	Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition & Collaborative Aggregates Art Scholarship Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: An exhibition of Fine Arts faculty at the College of Visual and Performing Arts presents recent faculty work in Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Mixed-Media at the UMass Dartmouth CVPA Campus Gallery from November 8 through December 12, 2016. Also on display will be the Collaborative Aggregates Art Scholarship Exhibition. Collaborative Aggregates has awarded six $1,500 scholarships to students in the Department of Fine Arts enrolled in the graduate or undergraduate program: Henry Carpio, April Claggett, Devin Kish, Andrew Laverty, Allen TenBusschen, and Erin Wheary. Works by each scholarship winner will be included in the Collaborate Aggregates annual calendar and are also presented in this exhibition. The mission of the Department of Fine Arts is to maintain an environment where artists are committed to the pursuit of teaching, research, and creative work. This faculty of professional artists provides a high-quality cross-disciplinary studio education to students at the foundation, undergraduate, and graduate levels through formal, aesthetic, technical, and intellectual training. Faculty members prepare students to become creative artists, pursue graduate study, or engage in Fine Arts-related professions through the attainment of their BFA and MFA degrees. The closing reception will be held on Monday, December 12th, from 4 pm to 6 pm with artist talks at 5 pm. Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Concerts
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Holiday Concert featuring Annie Royer and Les Garcons Musettes Location: CVPA Room 153 Cost: $10, free for UMass Dartmouth students Contact: Boivin Center for French Language & Culture Description: The Boivin Center for French Language and Culture and the Claire T. Carney Library Associates are co-sponsoring a holiday concert featuring Parisian chanteuse, Annie Royer and Les Gacons Musettes. The program will take place in CVPA room 153 at 2PM. Annie Royer has delighted audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. She will be performing in both French an English. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students
Monday, December 12, 2016
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Last day of Fall classes Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Fall classes end today. Link: http://www.umassd.edu/academiccalendar/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar, Academic Calendar - Fall
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	ProCard & Travel Card Training Location: Foster Administration Building, Room 223 Contact: Joshua A. Dubroff Description: This 1 hour training class is required in order to obtain a University Procurement Card (Procard & Travel Card). Individuals may attend training either before or after submitting a Procard application, either way this training must be completed before an application receives final approval from Procurement. Location: Foster Administration Building, 2nd Floor, Room 223. Please be sure to register for the class you plan on attending as space is limited. Classes that no one has registered for may be cancelled. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Finance
« 11/8 - 4:00 PM	Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition & Collaborative Aggregates Art Scholarship Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: free Contact: University Art Gallery Description: An exhibition of Fine Arts faculty at the College of Visual and Performing Arts presents recent faculty work in Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Mixed-Media at the UMass Dartmouth CVPA Campus Gallery from November 8 through December 12, 2016. Also on display will be the Collaborative Aggregates Art Scholarship Exhibition. Collaborative Aggregates has awarded six $1,500 scholarships to students in the Department of Fine Arts enrolled in the graduate or undergraduate program: Henry Carpio, April Claggett, Devin Kish, Andrew Laverty, Allen TenBusschen, and Erin Wheary. Works by each scholarship winner will be included in the Collaborate Aggregates annual calendar and are also presented in this exhibition. The mission of the Department of Fine Arts is to maintain an environment where artists are committed to the pursuit of teaching, research, and creative work. This faculty of professional artists provides a high-quality cross-disciplinary studio education to students at the foundation, undergraduate, and graduate levels through formal, aesthetic, technical, and intellectual training. Faculty members prepare students to become creative artists, pursue graduate study, or engage in Fine Arts-related professions through the attainment of their BFA and MFA degrees. The closing reception will be held on Monday, December 12th, from 4 pm to 6 pm with artist talks at 5 pm. Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Concerts
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
3:00 PM	2016 Employee Service Recognition Ceremony Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Contact: Human Resources Description: Connect with staff, faculty, family and friends as we celebrate the milestone anniversaries (10 years, 15 years, 20 years, etc) of UMass Dartmouth's many hard working and dedicated employees. The monthly CARES winners will also be honored at this event. The celebration will precede the Chancellor's Holiday Party on Tuesday, December 13th at 3pm at Woodland Commons. All are welcome! Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM	Research Component of PhD Qualifier Exam: Guilin Zhao Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF COMPETING SYSTEMS WITH DUAL EVENTS LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A ABSTRACT: Functional dependence (FDEP) exists in many real-world systems, where the failure of one component (trigger) causes other components (dependent components) within the same system to become inaccessible or unusable. The FDEP behavior complicates the system reliability analysis because it can cause competing failure effects in the time domain. Existing works have assumed non-cascading FDEP, where each system component can be a trigger or a dependent component, but not both. However in practical systems with hierarchical configurations, cascading FDEP takes place where a system component can play a dual role as both a trigger and a dependent component simultaneously. Such a component causes correlations among the different FDEP groups, further complicating the system reliability analysis. In this work, we propose a new combinatorial method for addressing effects of cascading FDEP in the reliability analysis of competing systems with dual events. The method is flexible without limitations on the type of time-to-failure distributions for system components. We perform a detailed case study on a wireless sensor system used in smart home applications to illustrate the proposed methodology. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing Committee Members: Dr. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Haiping Xu, Department of Computer and Information Science *For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing at 508.999.8883, or via email at lxing@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Study Day Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Today is Study Day. Link: http://www.umassd.edu/academiccalendar/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar, Academic Calendar - Fall
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Master of Science Thesis Defense: Anusha Krishna Murthy Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: RELIABILITY AND COST OF TWO FAILURE MODE SYSTEMS SUBJECT TO CORRELATED FAILURES AND EXPECTATION CONDITIONAL MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS FOR FAILURE COUNT NON-HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS SOFTWARE RELIABILITY MODELS LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A ABSTRACT: This thesis presents two contributions to the reliability engineering research literature: (i) reliability and cost expressions for systems subject to two modes of failure considering correlated component failures and expressions for reliability and cost optimal designs and (ii) expectation conditional maximization (ECM) algorithms to identify the maximum likelihood estimates (MLE) of nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) software reliability growth models (SRGM). Contribution (i) extends traditional expressions that assume component failures are independent and identically distributed (IID). Contribution (ii) extend ECM algorithms from failure time to failure count data. Models to explicitly consider correlation are especially important for two failure modes reliability and cost modeling because the probability of open and closed mode failures are competing constraints that could lead to suboptimal designs when systems are susceptible to correlated failure. Failure count NHPP SRGM are most applicable to the largest and most complex software engineering projects that only record the number of failures observed in a specified interval instead of the individual failure times. For each of the four two failure mode systems considered, we provide reliability and cost expressions as well as closed-form solutions for reliability and cost optimal designs, examining the impact of correlation in each failure mode on these optimal designs. The ECM algorithm for NHPP SRGM is applied in the context of the Weibull SRGM, which is a flexible and therefore widely applied model. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Lance Fiondella Committee Members: Dr. Liudong Xing, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Gaurav Khanna, Physics Department *For further information, please contact Dr. Lance Fiondella at 508.999.8596, or via email at lfiondella@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Today - 12/20 »	Winter Move Out Collection Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The Sustainability office is hosting a Winter Move Out Collection where students can donate any unwanted items such as: clothes, non-perishable food, electronics, toys books etc. There will be a bin in each residence hall for students to use during that time. Topical Areas: Students
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Introduction to Qualtrics Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services Description: UMass Dartmouth has selected Qualtrics as our Internet survey tool. All Faculty and Staff have access to create and publish their own surveys. Students may also use Qualtrics under the direction of a Faculty or Staff member. This workshop covers the authoring and administration of surveys, as well as data collection. Question types are covered in detail, and survey logic is also included. No previous survey experience is necessary. Note that access to Qualtrics is managed by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. Please contact Jonathan Bonilla at JBonilla1@umassd.edu at least three business days prior to this workshop to request access. This workshop takes place in the Library, room 135. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today! Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Final exams begin Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Examinations begin today. Link: http://www.umassd.edu/academiccalendar/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar, Academic Calendar - Fall
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM	Faculty & Staff Mindfulness Meditation Group Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Weekly meeting of the Faculty & Staff Mindfulness Meditation Group. No prior experience is needed. Drop-ins are welcome at any time. For more information, contact Aminda O'Hare: ext. 8761 or aohare@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM	Master of Science Project Defense: Pratik Kiran Bhansali Location: CCB 115 Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: A PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS FOR THE PARETO SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODEL LOCATION: Charlton College of Business, CCB-115 ABSTRACT: Software reliability engineering provides various models and techniques to estimate failures and ensure that software operates in a failure-free manner. It employs methods from probability theory and stochastic processes to model the reliability of a system with respect to a specific operational environment and input conditions. Many software reliability growth models (SRGM) are modeled as a Non-homogenous Poisson process (NHPP). Such NHPP SRGM can provide quantitative measures of the reliability of software systems. SRGM are used to estimate software reliability and predict future failures. They can also be used to track reliability improvement during software testing and correction. To assess software reliability with a model, one must estimate the model parameters of NHPP based SRGM from failure data obtained during testing. Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) is a procedure to estimate the parameters of a model from the data. There are various computational procedures to identify the MLEs of NHPP SRGM. These procedures include the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm, expectation conditional maximization (ECM) algorithm, and Newtonâ€™s method. The EM algorithm exhibits more stable convergence properties. However, the complexity of this algorithm increases as the number of model parameters increases, whereas Newtonâ€™s method is sensitive to the initial parameter estimates and can fail to converge if the initial estimates are not close to the MLEs. The ECM reduces the mathematical complexity of the EM algorithm by reducing the maximization (M)-step to multiple conditional maximization (CM)-steps. Hybrid algorithms use a combination of the ECM algorithm for a predefined number of iterations, followed by Newtonâ€™s method. This project compares the performance of these alternative algorithms in the context of the Pareto model for a variety of datasets from the research literature. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Lance Fiondella Committee Members: Dr. Liudong Xing and Dr. Paul J. Gendron, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering *For further information, please contact Dr. Lance Fiondella at 508.999.8596, or via email at lfiondella@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
« 12/13 - 12/20 »	Winter Move Out Collection Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The Sustainability office is hosting a Winter Move Out Collection where students can donate any unwanted items such as: clothes, non-perishable food, electronics, toys books etc. There will be a bin in each residence hall for students to use during that time. Topical Areas: Students
Thursday, December 15, 2016
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Research Component of PhD Qualifer Exam: Lavanya Mandava Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: RELIABILITY OF MULTISTATE DEPENDENT CLOUD-RAID 5 WITH IMPERFECT COVERAGE LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A ABSTRACT: Cloud-RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a fault-tolerant data storage model, where different data redundancy techniques (corresponding to different levels) are utilized to enhance data availability and reliability in an anytime, anywhere data access framework implemented in the cloud environment. The performance and operation of physical disk drives in a cloud-RAID storage system are managed by and dependent on a controller. Also, each disk may exhibit multiple performance levels varying from perfect function to complete failure. The inter-component dependent behavior and the multistate behavior pose challenges to the reliability analysis of cloud-RAID systems. Further, the system can be subject to imperfect fault coverage due to imperfect fault detection or recovery mechanism, causing extensive damage to the whole system. In this research, we model reliability of a cloud-RAID 5 storage system addressing effects of dependence, multistate and imperfect coverage. Numerical results are provided to illustrate effects of those behaviors on the system reliability performance. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing Committee Members: Dr. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Gang Wang, Decision & Information Sciences Department *For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing at 508.999.8883, or via email at lxing@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	New Employee Orientation Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Human Resources Description: New Employee Orientation Topical Areas: topic: Human Resources, audience: Staff, audience: Faculty
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Psychology Research Conference Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 Contact: Psychology Department Description: The Psychology Department will be holding its fall semester Research Conference. Students in the Psychology department will be presenting their research projects within the areas of Developmental, Cognitive, Physiological, and Clinical Psychology. Where: Woodland Commons When: Thursday, December 15, 2016 Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm For more information please contact Dr. Robin Locke-Arkerson at rlocke@umassd.edu or 508-910-6955. All are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Psychology, Conferences & Events
« 12/13 - 12/20 »	Winter Move Out Collection Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The Sustainability office is hosting a Winter Move Out Collection where students can donate any unwanted items such as: clothes, non-perishable food, electronics, toys books etc. There will be a bin in each residence hall for students to use during that time. Topical Areas: Students
Friday, December 16, 2016
« 12/13 - 12/20 »	Winter Move Out Collection Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The Sustainability office is hosting a Winter Move Out Collection where students can donate any unwanted items such as: clothes, non-perishable food, electronics, toys books etc. There will be a bin in each residence hall for students to use during that time. Topical Areas: Students
Saturday, December 17, 2016
« 12/13 - 12/20 »	Winter Move Out Collection Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The Sustainability office is hosting a Winter Move Out Collection where students can donate any unwanted items such as: clothes, non-perishable food, electronics, toys books etc. There will be a bin in each residence hall for students to use during that time. Topical Areas: Students

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