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Wednesday, May 4, 2016
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Lawyers Without Rights: Library Living Room Exhibit
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: Center for Jewish Culture
- Description: The Center for Jewish Culture has brought to campus a traveling exhibit entitled "Lawyers Without Rights."
It is on view in the Library Living Room from Tuesday, 5/3 through Sunday, 5/8 at 7pm.
More than 70 years after its horrors unfolded, the Holocaust still has stories to reveal and lessons to share. This exhibit begins to provide a portrait of the fate of Jewish lawyers in Germany — stories that speak to how the Nazis purged Jewish lawyers as one of the early steps to attack the rule of law in their country.
The exhibit was created by the American Bar Association.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Center for Jewish Culture
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Blended Learning: Finding the Mix
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: This blended workshop is an introduction to the best practices of blended teaching and learning. A mix of online collaboration and face-to-face activities will prepare participants to design their own plan for blended instruction.
Note: Face-to-face meetings are scheduled for Wednesday April 27th and May 4th from 3:00pm - 4:00pm in the Claire T. Library, room 240.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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ECE Department Senior Design (Capstone) Presentations 2016
- Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: ECE Department Senior Design (Capstone) Presentations 2016
May 4th, 2016
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Woodland Commons
Park in Lot #6 or #7 and follow the signage to Woodland Commons.
Please NOTE that anyone with physical limitations should be dropped off in front of Woodland Commons (take a right when you get onto campus and you'll see Woodland Commons on your left). For parking, continue on to Parking Lot #6 or #7.
Once you have parked, follow signs along the walkways to Woodland Commons!
Contact the following for further information:
Fernanda Botelho, Administrative Assistant
f1botelho@umassd.edu
508.999.9164
Prof. Howard E. Michel, Senior Design Instructor
hmichel@umassd.edu
508.910.6465
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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David and Goliath: Giants Underdogs and conflict-Guest Speaker Memory Holloway
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 110
- Contact: Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
- Description: Guest speaker Memory Holloway will be speaking on David and Goliath. This Lecture will include visual examples of the story and film clips. Sponsored by the Religious & Spiritual Office April 28th at 2 pm in Liberal Arts Room 110
- Topical Areas: Students, Religious Studies, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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TEA Time: Broader Impacts Discussion
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: TEA Time: Broader Impacts Discussion
Presentation by: Barbara Pearson, UMASS Amherst
Location: Office of Faculty Development, Claire T. Carney Library
Contact: Sponsored Projects Administration for more information spa@umassd.edu
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/spa/newsevents/
- Topical Areas: Sponsored Projects Administration
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2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: April 2-May 14, 2016
2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 3-5 pm
Artists Talk: Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm
The UMass Dartmouth 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This large-scale exhibition at the Star Store Campus in historic Downtown New Bedford consists of a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and moving images, software application design, as well as intricately made jewelry that utilizes both text and unusual contemporary materials. The range of themes is equally diverse; explorations of personal and cultural identity, feelings of loss, intimacy, memories and dreams as well as examinations of formal and conceptual space.
The 2016 exhibition includes the creative efforts of 18 UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual arts: Alec H. Andersen, Amy Araujo, Calvin Arterberry, Kendra Conn, Kelly Lynn Daniels, Yinan Dong, Meaghan Gates, Marcia Goodwin, Kyungsun "Ariel" Lee, John A. Middleton, Mark Phelan, Sara Allen Prigodich, Cuong Abel Sy, Brett Sylvia, Andrew Tedesco, William M. Vanaria, Lillian E. Webster, and Will Wolf.
An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April April 2, from 3 to 5 pm and the exhibition is open to public through May 14, 2016. Artists Talk is scheduled on Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm.
Selections from this exhibition will be shown this summer at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston from June 1 to June 26, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 6:00 - 8:30 pm.
Gallery exhibitions are open daily in New Bedford from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month-April 14 and May 12). All events are free and open to the public.
University Art Gallery
UMass Dartmouth
715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
umassd.edu/universityartgallery
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Fine Arts, Visual Arts
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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DISSERTATION DEFENSE BY: Zhaoyang Zhang
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: SECURE AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
Recent advances in wireless networks, energy, and biomedical sensors have boosted the development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). WBANs provide an opportunity to address issues in rapidly increasing wireless health applications, such as eHealth, remote patient monitoring, and diagnostic.
However, improving the performance of WBANs is challenging in a mobile social environment due to mobility, inter-channel interference, and security concerns.
In this dissertation, two new authentication and encryption algorithms for WBANs are proposed to ensure secure and private data transmissions. One is called ECG-IJS, which is an ECG-based authentication and encryption platform using Improved Jules and Sudan (IJS) scheme. ECG-IJS uses a light-weighted, energy efficient key agreement algorithm, by which features extracted from ECG signals are used as keys to encrypt the message. The other is a channel information based authentication and encryption algorithm (CIAE) for WBANs, which uses keys extracted from the status of wireless channels between sender and receiver. Compared with ECG-IJS, the CIAE algorithm has the similar performance on data security and privacy, but does not need additional ECG sensors.
Further, to address the inter-WBANs interference issues in mobile social environment, a game-based power control approach is proposed to mitigate the interference and improve system energy efficiency. The proposed approach utilizes social contact information and adjusts transmitting power of each WBAN by following the power game to maximize the overall throughput.
The major contributions of my dissertation include: 1) a new ECG-based authentication and encryption algorithm for WBANs communications, including the security and energy analysis of the ECG-IJS algorithm; 2) a new channel information based authentication and encryption algorithm; 3) an effective power control game for intra-WBANs interference mitigation.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. Honggang Wang
Committee Members: Dr. Paul J. Fortier and Dr. Liudong Xing, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Dr. Cheng Wang, Mathematics Department; Dr. Shaoen Wu, Ball State University
*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, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Faculty Writing Workshop
- Location: OFD Lounge, Library 220
- Contact: Office of Faculty Development
- Description: The Office of Faculty Development’s Writing Group for Faculty provides UMass Dartmouth faculty with a structured yet flexible forum for discussing and stimulating their ongoing writing projects. The group will meet in the OFD lounge. Join us and get help with all aspects of your manuscript preparation from proof reading, to publication strategy input, to networking and collaboration with other colleagues both at UMassD. and other institutions that share your research passions.
Lunch will be provided. Regular participation throughout the academic year is encouraged, but drop-ins are welcome.
- Topical Areas: Training, audience: Faculty, Workshop, topic: Faculty Development
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Percussion Ensemble Concert
- Location: CVPA Room 104
- Contact: Music Department
- Description: Percussion Ensemble Concert
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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Faculty/Staff Mindfulness Meditation
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The Faculty/Staff Mindfulness Meditation group will be meeting on Wednesdays 12:15-1:00 pm this spring in the Reflection Room of the Campus Center (Rm. 233), starting Jan. 27th, ending May 11th.
Contact Aminda O'Hare (aohare@umassd.edu, ext. 8761) with questions.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators
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RESEARCH COMPONENT OF PHD QUALIFIER EXAM BY: Vidhyashree Nagaraju
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: CHANGE-POINT DETECTION AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR NON-HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
Most software reliability growth models (SRGM) characterize the software process as a function of testing time. However, during the software testing process, the failure data is affected by various other factors such as testing strategy and environment, integration testing, and resource allocation. This will affect the failure data with noticeable changes indicating the impact of such factors at various stages of testing, which are known as change-points. Several researchers have proposed non-homogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) SRGM with one or more change-points. One limitation of previous research is that they only consider homogeneous combinations of the failure distribution before and after change-points. However, in real data sets this often not the case. Another shortcoming is that there is no systematic method to select a model or combination of models when one or more change-points may be present.
This project developed heterogeneous single change-point models and algorithms to maximize the likelihood of these models. Heterogeneous models are compared with existing homogeneous models. The expectation conditional maximization (ECM) algorithm identifies the maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) of the model parameters. An information theoretic model selection strategy is proposed.
Experimental results suggest that heterogeneous change-point models better characterize some failure data sets.
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. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
*For further information, please contact Dr. Lance Fiondella at 508.999.8596, or via email at lfiondella@umassd.edu or hwang1@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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