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Thursday, September 29, 2016
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John Havens Thornton: Vertical / Horizontal / Diagonal
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: FREE
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Reception: Thursday, AHA! Night, October 13, 5-8 pm
Abstract geometric paintings by New Bedford artist John Havens Thornton (b. 1933). Thornton has exhibited since the early 1960s, notably at the ICA, Boston (1967), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1970), the Whitney Museum of American Art (1967), the Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA (1979), the De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (1987), and the New Bedford Art Museum, MA (2004).
University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director
508.999.8555
gallery@umassd.edu
www.umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
The gallery is open daily from 9 am - 6 pm
Closed on major holidays. All events are free and open to the public.
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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9:20 AM
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11:20 AM
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EAS Doctoral Proposal Defense by Zachary Grant
- Location: Textiles Building 105
- Contact: College of Arts and Sciences
- Description: TOPIC: ON IMPLICIT & EXPLICIT HIGH ORDER SSP METHODS WITH A VARIETY OF STAGES, STEPS, AND DERIVATIVES FOR LINEAR AND NONLINEAR PROBLEMS.
Abstract: High order spatial discretizations with monotonicity properties are often desirable for the solution of hyperbolic PDEs. These methods can advantageously be coupled with high order strong stability preserving time discretizations. The search for high order strong stability time-stepping methods with large allowable strong stability coefficient has been an active area of research over the last two decades. This research has shown that explicit SSP Runge--Kutta methods exist only up to fourth order, and implicit ones only up to sixth order, while multistep SSP methods have small allowable time step. To break these order barriers and SSP time-step bounds, we turn to general (multistep, multi-stage) linear methods of order two and above. Order conditions and monotonicity conditions for such methods are worked out in terms of the method coefficients, and we propose a numerical optimization to find optimal methods of up to five steps, eight stages, and tenth order.
Another approach to breaking the order barrier is to restrict ourselves to solving only linear autonomous problems. In this case the order conditions simplify and this order barrier is lifted: explicit SSP Runge--Kutta methods of any linear order exist, but these methods reduce to second order when applied to nonlinear problems. We propose to seek explicit SSP Runge--Kutta methods with large allowable time-step, that feature high linear order and simultaneously have the optimal fourth order nonlinear order. Finally, we turn to multiderivative time-stepping methods which have recently been implemented with hyperbolic PDEs. We describe sufficient conditions for a two-derivative multistage method to be SSP, and formulate an optimization problem that will be used to find optimal SSP multistage two-derivative methods. These methods will be tested on a variety of scalar hyperbolic partial differential equations, to demonstrate the need for the SSP condition and investigate the sharpness of the SSP time-step.
- Topical Areas: University Community, Mathematics, College of Engineering
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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
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Flu Clinic
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: This clinic is offered by Rite Aid Pharmacy and will be held in the Library Living Room. Rite Aid accepts most insurances, but does not accept Tufts insurance. The cost is $30 if not covered by your insurance. Sponsored by Student Health Services.
- Topical Areas: University Community, Health Services
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7:00 PM
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Game Night in the Library Living Room
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library Living Room
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Need a study break? Come to the Library's Living Room for our Game Night which features a selection of popular board games. Great way to unplug and spend time with friends.
Questions? Please contact kmofford@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Students
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12:30 PM
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Workshop: Assessment & the Flipped Classroom - Recent Practices
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: Office of Faculty Development
- Description: Facilitated by Glaucia Silva (Portuguese) & Jacqueline Einstein (Management)
Join us to kick start your approach to flipped teaching and learning! In this workshop faculty will discuss and share their recent strategies for preparing students to work in the flipped classroom.
Lunch will be provided, please sign up through the event calendar
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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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 Sept 28th and Oct 5th from 3:00pm - 4:00pm in the Claire T. Library, room TBD.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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Bill Plympton Animator; Crowned King of Indie Animation: Drawings from Cheatin'
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: FREE
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Opening Reception: CVPA Campus Gallery, Sept 29 at 4-6 pm.
Artist Talk to follow at Claire T. Carney Library Grand Reading Room: 6-7:30 pm
(RSVP required on Eventbrite.com - under "Bill Plympton Talk at UMass Dartmouth").
Link: www.eventbrite.com/e/bill-plympton-talk-at-umass-dartmouth-tickets-27607014323
Gallery will remain open until 9 pm for the reception.
UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) proudly presents Bill Plympton
Animator; Crowned King of Indie Animation: Drawings from Cheatin'. This exhibition is a showcase of original drawings and production art of animator, cartoonist, and filmmaker Bill Plympton. Nearly 100 original graphite drawings from the artist's recent film Cheatin' will be on display along with other essential production materials and related media to reveal a "behind the scenes" look at Plympton's artistic process. Accompanying the art will be a continuous screening of the feature film Cheatin' in its entirety in the gallery. Video tutorials, produced by the artist himself, further the educational experience of "handmade" animation. This special exhibition curated for UMass Dartmouth can be seen at the CVPA Campus Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Main Campus) from September 29 through November 2, 2016.
Bill Plympton, who has been called The King of Indie Animation, is the first person to independently hand-draw an entire animated feature film. He has created over 40 animated short films and seven animated features. Plympton received Oscar nominations for various animated shorts along with winning the Cannes Palme d'Or and the Canal+ Award for short films at Cannes Critics' Week. Bill Plympton will speak about his work and provide insight into the wild world of cartooning and independent animation. While the event is free and open to the public, reservations for the talk are required and can be made through this link:
www.eventbrite.com/e/bill-plympton-talk-at-umass-dartmouth-tickets-27607014323
Excerpts from Artist's Statement
"Why is it that animation is stereotyped as being only aimed at children and created by computer graphics? Why can't adults see stories for themselves, created in the fantastically free style of a hand-drawn animator? The look of this film is very special to me. When I started my career as an illustrator, I developed a style that I loved, watercolor with a pen and ink crosshatch overlay. But because of the limits of technology, I was never able to recreate my favorite style in animation. However, with the new digital technology available now, I've been able to exactly replicate that beautiful watercolor look."
Biography
Bill Plympton moved to New York City in 1968 and began his career creating cartoons for publications such as The New York Times, Playboy, National Lampoon, and Screw. In 1987, he was nominated for an Oscar for his animated short Your Face. In 2005, Plympton received another Oscar nomination, this time for his short Guard Dog. Push Comes to Shove won the prestigious Cannes 1991 Palme d'Or; and in 2001, another short film, Eat, won the Grand Prize for Short Films in Cannes Critics' Week. After producing many shorts that appeared on MTV, Spike, and Mike's, he turned his talent to feature films. Since 1991, he has made ten feature films. Seven of them, The Tune, Mondo Plympton, I Married a Strange Person, Mutant Aliens, Hair High, Idiots and Angels, and Cheatin', are all animated features. Bill Plympton has also collaborated with Madonna, Kanye West, Terry Gilliam, and "Weird Al" Yankovic in a number of music videos, animated films, and book projects. In 2006, Plympton received the Winsor McCay Lifetime Achievement Award from The Annie Awards.
This event made possible through the generous support of Allan and Priscilla Ditchfield.
Personnel: Prof. Jean-FranÒ«ois Allaux (Illustration): Producer
Prof. James Edwards (Illustration): Curator
Prof. Michael Swartz (Digital Media): Co-Curator, Graphic Design
Viera Levitt: Gallery Director
Contacts: James Edwards, Curator: jedwards@umassd.edu, Viera Levitt, Gallery Director: vlevitt@umassd.edu
- Link: jedwards@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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"A Moment in Her Story" - Documentary Film and Meet the Filmmaker
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Cost: Free
- Contact: Women's and Gender Studies
- Description: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
Join us to watch this documentary film, highlighting stories from the Boston Women's Movement. Stay after the film for free refreshments and a discussion with the filmmaker Catherine Russo.
"Starting in 1968, the Second Wave of Feminism rippled across the U.S., demanding expanded possibilities for women of all races and classes. In the Boston area, students, professionals, community activists and working class mothers came together to demand change. This feature length documentary provides testimony of the movement's transforming energy, creativity and determination. Many of the culture wars being waged today came out of this movement and the backlash it incurred. The video traces the history of the women's movement coming out of the Anti-war and Civil Rights movements and continuing through the 1970s. This production includes 22 interviews with movement activists and archival material in the form of photos, videos, posters, music, graphics, newsletters and newspapers from the period. I worked for years to locate this material, asking women for their personal collections and searching through libraries and the web.
This video is not about feminist stars as defined by the media. The interviewees are the women who fought these struggles in groups and collectives and developed a new way of working together. They include working class women, black women, Latinas, lesbians, socialist feminists and the radical and cultural feminists of the late 60's and 70's. I doubt that you have seen this revolutionary force portrayed before."
-Catherine Russo
- Topical Areas: General Public, Students, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, History, Labor Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Films
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