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Friday, October 16, 2015
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HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'.
Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo.
Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race.
Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression.
royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- 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, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
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Recording with Techsmith Relay
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: Techsmith Relay is a software based lecture capture and personal recording solution. Relay can record PowerPoint presentations or any other content displayed on your computer screen, in addition to audio narration and web cam video. You can record anywhere, anytime regardless of internet connectivity or location. After recording, the video is automatically processed by the Relay server and uploaded to a cloud based storage provider. This workshop will walk through the process of installing Relay, recording and linking to the video from myCourses. Please bring your own laptop if you would like to participate in this Workshop.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
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MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY SACHIN PATEL
- Location: Liberal Arts Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: FREE
- Contact: Computer and Information Science Department
- Description: Topic: Capturing Provenance in Interactive Web Visualization
Abstract
With the increasing number of interactive visualization on Web, it becomes possible for the users to create new views of data and generate insight from them. However, such views are often transient, lost when the user moves to a new web page. This project creates a JavaScript library for capturing provenance the steps involved in generating a result for these visualizations. It automatically tracks the user interactions in visualizations created using dc.js (https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/).
In data visualization, D3 is one of the most popular libraries, and allow the designers to generate visualization on the web without any plugins. D3 provides a high degree of customization and allows the developer to manipulate the coordinate system, draw individual shapes, and respond to user command, but it is not high level charting library. DC.js builds on D3 and provides predefined chart types and leverages CrossFilter to link interactions across charts using filters.
This project creates a new JavaScript library that works with dc.js to capture provenance, record thumbnails, and return to previous states. All this data is saved into an XML file for storing provenance and displayed to the user in a list. In the list view, users can see thumbnails of past views and, details for each record, and the order they were generated. In addition, users can choose to return to a past version and further explore the visualizations.
ADVISOR: Dr. David Koop
DATE & TIME: Friday, Oct 16th, 2015 at 3:00 PM
LOCATION: LARTS-117
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Dr. Firas Khatib and Dr. Haiping Xu
- Topical Areas: General Public, Computer and Information Science
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ECE Seminar* Speaker: Dr. Edward Ackerman, Vice President, Research and Development for Photonic Systems, Inc.
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: Topic: PHOTONIC BEAMSTEERING
Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room
Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
Abstract:
The impressively low attenuation per unit length and low dispersion incurred by light propagating in optical waveguides has long made photonic beamsteering techniques attractive to the designers of electronically steered phased array antennas that need to operate across a broad range of microwave frequencies. Broadband steering of the beam transmitted or received by a phased array antenna requires control of the relative delays experienced by signals in the multiple paths between the individual antenna elements and the point where the one signal is split among those multiple paths (in the case of a transmitting array) or is combined from those multiple paths (in the case of a receiving array). Conveying the microwave signals on optical carriers in optical waveguides results in delays that are essentially constant across broad frequency bands (due to low dispersion) and performance that is essentially independent of the beam direction (due to nearly length-independent attenuation).
This talk will review many specific approaches to photonic beamsteering that have been pursued in the past 30 years. The approaches are organized into three categories: 1. approaches that employ time delay units (TDUs); 2. lenses and lens-like approaches, and; 3. approaches in which the delays in the various signal paths depend on the wavelength of the optical carrier. For each of these three categories of approaches, the talk will describe one or more implementation examples. The review of approaches will conclude with a comparison of their advantages and limitations.
Biography:
Edward Ackerman received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College in 1987 and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Drexel University in 1994. From 1989 through 1994 he was employed as a microwave photonics engineer at the GE Electronics Laboratory in Syracuse, New York. From 1995 to July 1999 he was a member of the Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Since 1999 he has been Vice President of Research and Development for Photonic Systems, Inc.
Dr. Ackerman has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical papers and book chapters on the subject of analog photonic subsystem performance modeling and optimization, and he holds eight US patents in this area. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for these contributions to the field.
The Seminars is open to the public free of charge.
*For further information, please contact Dr. Honggang Wang at 508.999.8469, or via email at hwang1@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- 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, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
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Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 114
- Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center
- Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor.
- Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
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A Journey Through the Thread / Viaje Al Hilo
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: An exhibition of contemporary designed handmade Mexican rugs
Traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston.
Viaje Al Hilo is a traveling exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, at UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus (Crapo Gallery & Lecture Hall).
Designed by young Mexican textile designer Marisol Centeno for her Bi Yuu brand, these rugs tell many stories, weaving together the traditional and the contemporary, expressing the inspiration and emotion through a careful combination of color, texture and form.
Bi Yuu works with extraordinary artisans from Teotitlan del Valle, designing and implementing a collaborative working method. Additionally, the company contributes to the artisan's local economy, utilizing local working methods and raw material from the area with the long and proud Oaxacan textile.
Marisol Centeno (Mexico City, 1985) studied textile design at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her work blends artisan craft and principles of contemporary design. In 2012, she founded Bi Yuu, a brand specializing in rugs and woven goods with a strong ethic of social responsibility and an aesthetic vision that combines quality with cutting edge design. Currently, Bi Yuu offers six collections and collaborates with 20 artisans.
Marisol participated in the Social Design Roundtable as well as the Second Conference of Collaborative Design Practices, organized by Ana Elena Mallet at CaSa in Oaxaca. She has exhibited widely at venues including: Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, CENART, and the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. In 2013, she was recognized as the "Best Designer" in the "Hand Made" category by the magazine CASAVIVA. Her work has been published in Folio, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest and Código. She is a current member of Comex's new Trend Forecast ColorLife 16.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- 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, Visual Arts
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Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission.
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015.
After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music.
As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today."
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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