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Friday, March 11, 2016
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Henry Horenstein: Animalia
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Henry Horenstein: Animalia
February 18 - March 20, 2016
Reception: March 3, 6 to 8 pm,
Artist Talk and Booksigning at 7 pm
New Bedford born photographer presents a series of evocative and mysterious black and white photographs of land and sea creatures.
University Art Gallery
College of Visual and Performing Arts
UMass Dartmouth, Star Store Campus
715 Purchase Street
New Bedford, MA 02740
www.umassd.edu/UniversityArtGallery
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
Open daily 9 am - 6 pm
All events are free and open to public
More info: www.horenstein.com/animalia
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Art Education
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BMEBT SEMINAR by David Dowling, Ph.D., Harvard Medical & Boston Children's Hospital
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: BMEBT Seminar Series
- Description: TITLE: Precision Vaccinology In Early Life How Small-Molecule Adjuvants Can Revolutionize Vaccine Design For Newborns
ABSTRACT: Respiratory Infections such as Pneumococcus and Tuberculosis are the most common causes of pediatric deaths worldwide. Childhood vaccines are the single most important intervention to prevent these deaths. However, newborns fail to response to most vaccines. Current pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) can prevent severe disease in older children, but newborns are unprotected. We demonstrate that the small molecule TLR7/8 adjuvant, 3M-052, chosen for its robust activation of neonatal Th1 production and its possession of a lapidated tail, when combined with PCV at birth, dramatically enhanced neonatal immunity to Streptococcus pneumoniae. Tuberculosis (TB) infects over a million children worldwide each year. The live attenuated Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the only TB vaccine currently available. However, the relatively low efficacy of the BCG vaccine combined with its complex production process, limits its availability and use. Therefore, we have combined engineering and rational vaccine design approaches in order to develop a nanoparticle-based adjuvant and antigen delivery system that mimics and in some instances exceeds the immunostimulatory effects of the live attenuated tuberculosis vaccine BCG on human neonatal Dendritic Cells. Together, this potent immunization strategies, needing only one birth dose, could represent a new paradigm in early life vaccine development.
BIOLOGY: David J Dowling, Ph.D.
Dr. Dowling is a research immunologist, Fellow in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and currently the Project Manager of Boston Children's Hospital Adjuvant Discovery Program. His work focuses on making innovated discoveries and developing novel technologies that may help protect the most vulnerable members of society from vaccine preventable infectious diseases. His current projects center on: Innate Immunology, Human Immune Ontogeny, Adjuvant Discovery & Development, and Rational Vaccine Design/Precision Vaccinology.
Along with his academic responsibilities, David regularly collaborates and advises pharmaceutical companies in vaccine development strategies. David previously obtained a B.Sc. in Biotechnology at Dublin City University, before going on the complete his Ph.D. in Immunology/Vaccinology/Parasitology at the same institution. David regularly presents his work on immunity and vaccinology at international conferences.
- Topical Areas: Biology, Bioengineering, College of Engineering, University Community
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2016 LusoFest
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: UMass Dartmouth hosts the 2016 LusoFest, March 9-12.
The UMass Dartmouth community and the general public are invited to a celebration of Portuguese heritage and culture at the 2016 LusoFest, March 9-12, presented by UMass Dartmouth's Fitzpatrick Luso-American Endowment and the Fall River Public Schools Fine Arts Department.
The celebration will include a series of performances and lectures hosted on UMass Dartmouth's campus. 2016 LusoFest includes:
March 9, 7pm
Portuguese rock band "Os Desalinhados"
Followed by a jam session and discussion.
College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) Building, Room 104, 7 p.m.
March 10, 12:30pm
"Taking Stock of Portuguese-American Literature"
Afternoon Series Lecture by Dr. Frank Sousa
CVPA Building, Room 153
March 11, 7pm
A Night of Portugese Music and Movement; Fado e Danca
Fado singer Ana Vinagre will be accompanied by Sr. Viriato Ferreira and Sr. Jose Silva, followed by the Rancho Folklorico Portugues (Portuguese United for Education). Special introduction by photographer Peter Pereira.
Main Auditorium
March 12, 6pm
Grande Banda Filarmonica
150 piece ensemble plays traditional big band repertoire.
Our Lady of Angels Band (New Bedford), Tony DaCosta, conductor Our Lady of Light Band (Fall River), Manuel Canito, conductor Sehnor da Pedra Band (New Bedford), Alfred Pacheco, conductor St. Anthony's Band (Fall River), Joao DaSilva, conductor St. Cecilia Band (Fall River), Peter Camara, conductor.
Main Auditorium
The program is supported by the Fitzpatrick Luso-American Endowment.
For more information, contact UMass Dartmouth CVPA Music Department Chairperson Dr. Ronald Sherwin (ronald.sherwin@umassd.edu).
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Music, Concerts, Literature
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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DISSERTATION DEFENSE BY: Abdelnaser O. Rashwan
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: *RESCHEDULED FROM ORIGINAL DATE, DUE TO WEATHER-RELATED CLOSING
TOPIC: QUALITY-DRIVEN SECURE ROUTING FOR WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA SENSOR NETWORKS USING SECRET SHARING
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
Security and video quality are progressively significant attributes for wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSN). Most existing research considers security and video quality separately. However, it is crucial to integrate security and video quality for video transmission because delivering video data across a secure path does not often meet video quality requirements. Applying secret sharing algorithms on a data packet and delivering it through disjoint multipaths can be considered as a typical security approach. However, using the general concept of secret sharing is not efficient when large size video data are routed. Therefore, in the first part of the dissertation, a new security and quality aware routing protocol (SQAR) is proposed to address these issues. Security and video quality are jointly considered in wireless multimedia networks by a proposed video distortion model based on a new secret image sharing scheme. In SQAR, a secret image sharing is only applied on the intra-frames (I-Frame) of the video codec H.264, which can significantly reduce the transmission overheads. The performance results show that SQAR scheme can achieve better trade-off between the security and quality over the traditional routing protocols.
The second part of the dissertation investigates the joint performance optimization of network lifetime and video distortion for WMSN. To balance the tradeoff between minimizing video distortion and maximizing network lifetime, a multi-objective cross-layer optimization framework is proposed. The approach not only extends network lifetime but also achieves optimal video quality, where the source encoding and link rates are jointly examined, formulating a weighted convex optimization problem. In the context of security, a secret scheme that couples secret sharing and multipath routing is developed to provide reliable security. Additionally, a specific video distortion model, including source rate and link rate is proposed. Lastly decentralized algorithms are implemented using subgradient methods to solve the multi-objective optimization problem. Experimental results demonstrate the optimal tradeoff performance. It is shown that the proposed scheme can accomplish a longer network lifetime with much less video distortion compared to existing approaches.
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. Liudong Xing and Dr. Howard E. Michel, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Dr. Haiping Xu, Computer and Information Science; Dr. Xinming Huang, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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A "Crash Course" in Grammar
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 220
- Contact: Writing and Reading Center
- Description: Bring a writing sample to the Writing & Reading Center in Larts 219 and ask the nagging grammar questions you've always wanted to ask.
- Topical Areas: University Community, Writing and Reading Center
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CORSAIR Jobs Training
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: This session will provide training in the use of the new CORSAIR Jobs system. This will be especially helpful for individuals who will be hiring students for the summer and the fall, but also for anyone who is new to using the system and would like training.
Please contact Verena Lisinski (vlisinski) x8609 with any questions.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Staff
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Together: Junior Design Exhibition
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Featuring student work from Digital Media, Graphic Design, Illustration, and Photography
Exhibition Dates: March 9 - April 4 Reception: Thursday, March 10, 4 - 6 pm
With an artists' talk, Connected, The Blending of Boundaries at 5 pm
CVPA, the College of Visual and Performing Arts at UMass Dartmouth, is pleased to present the fourth annual "Together: Junior Design Exhibition" on display through April 4, 2016. The reception on Thursday, March 10, (4-6 pm) will feature the artist talk "Connected, The Blending of Boundaries" at 5 pm. Speakers: Rea Bethel (Art History/Marketing), James Carpenter (Graphic Design), Emily Moreau (Illustration), Frankie Romeo (Digital Media), and Lizzy Santoro (Photography).
The exhibition features recent work from students, including 2D and 3D Animation, Editorial Illustration, Studio Photography, Large Format Photography, Digital Photography, Animated Typography, Information Graphics, Posters, and more.
CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747
Gallery hours: Monday through Thursday 10 am - 4 pm, Friday 10 am - noon
www.umassd.edu/cvpa, gallery@umassd.edu
www.facebook.com/UmassDartmouthGalleries
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Fine Arts
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