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Thursday, May 5, 2016
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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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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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Call for Nominations: Provost's Award
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: The Provost's Teaching & Learning with Technology award was established in 2007 to recognize excellence in teaching and learning with technology.
The 2016 award recipient will receive $2000, an award plaque, and their name will be displayed on the Provost’s Award plaque in CITS Instructional Development.
See link for further information about award eligibility and directions for submitting nominations.
Deadline: 5:00pm EDT, Tuesday, May 31, 2016.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/provosts-award/
- Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
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Mechanical Engineering Industrial Systems Engineering (ISE) MS Project Presentation by Mr. William A. Flaherty
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department
- Description: Mechanical Engineering Industrial Systems Engineering (ISE)
MS Project Presentation by Mr. William A. Flaherty
May 5, 2016
3:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m.
Textile Building, Room 101E
TOPIC:
Optimization of the Determination of Vapor Pressure of Vacuum Grade Lubricants Utilizing the Knudsen Method
ABSTRACT:
In the semiconductor and aerospace industries, the use of materials which exhibit low outgassing properties is absolutely essential to the success of components and systems in high vacuum (very low atmospheric pressure) environments. All components, including the lubricants used in these environments, must possess exceptionally low outgassing properties, as to not contaminate any of the systems in the environment. Simply put, outgassing is when a material is placed into a high vacuum environment, with the addition of heat, and various components of the material are volatized out of the material and into the surrounding environment. This volatilization or evaporation into the surrounding environment can create enormous issues not only in the environment, but on any surfaces on which the evaporated materials may condense on. Understanding how a lubricant will behave in moderate to high vacuum conditions is critical to the success of components used in these environments. Although there are various methods for determining the vapor pressure of various materials, some methods have documented issues with being unstable and difficult to reproduce. The purpose of this study is to develop and optimize a Knudsen method for determining the vapor pressure of various lubricants. Determining the testing variables which produce fluctuations in results along with refining the testing method will lead to the most efficient method for performing these tests. Design of experiments methodology combined with optimization theory is used to design and validate a test method which will produce accurate and repeatable results.
ADVISOR:
Dr. Farhad Azadivar
COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Dr. Wenzhen Haung, Dr. Bharatendra Rai
Open to the public.
All MNE students are encouraged to attend.
For more information please contact Dr. Farhad Azazadivar (fazadivar@umassd.edu, 508-999-8549)
Thank you,
Sue Cunha, Administrative Assistant
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Lectures and Seminars
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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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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DISSERTATION DEFENSE BY: Jingfang Huang
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: QoE-AWARE SCALABLE VIDEO TRANSMISSION OVER RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
Scarce radio spectrum bands limit the advancement of modern wireless applications, especially multimedia applications, such as 3DTV and free viewpoint video (FVV), the quality of which is determined by available network bandwidth. In the meantime, the concept of Cognitive Radio (CR) networks has recently emerged to improve spectrum bandwidth utilization. In brief, a CR network attempts to identify the unused portion of allocated spectrum bands and loan them to others. However, how to satisfy each of users quality requirements under the limited spectrum resources is challenging for the design of CR network. The research in this dissertation is to address the challenge for video transmission with high quality and spectrum resource requirements. My approach is a cross layer design that can improve peoples perceived video quality, called Quality of Experience (QoE), from application level and can adjust the spectrum band allocation for optimal CR network system utility. This dissertation presents the research results on this proposed approach.
The core of this approach is a joint design of source coding, channel coding, and resource allocations in CR networks that considerably improves both bandwidth efficiency and QoE of video transmissions according to application characteristics. Specifically, a game based CR cloud network design for multimedia transmission is proposed, which satisfies the network user strict QoE requirement; the existence and uniqueness of the Stackelberg Nash equilibrium have also been proved. In this research, I proceed with three main steps: (1) Modeling QoE-aware resource allocation for multimedia transmission over CR networks; (2) Deriving optimal solutions including the joint design of game-based source-channel coding for resource-constrained QoE-driven multimedia transmission over CR networks; and (3) Conducting extensive performance evaluation through both simulation and experiments. The contributions of this work mainly include three folds: a game-based resource allocation scheme for resource-constrained CR network, which considers the network users quality of experience (QoE) and provides optimal resource allocation; a comprehensive cross-layer design for CR network; an extensive performance evaluation that proved the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The obtained research results are promising and anticipated to make broad impact on mobile and wireless communications and related multimedia applications over CR networks.
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. Dayalan Kasilingam and Dr. Liudong Xing, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Dr. Ken C.K. Lee, Microsoft Seattle; 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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Catholic Mass - Feast of the Ascension
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: 0
- Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry
- Description: Mass for the Feast of the Ascension will be held at 12:00 pm in the Reflection Room on the 2nd floor of the Campus Center. Please join us.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Religious & Spiritual, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
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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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12th Annual Psychology Research Conference
- Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
- Contact: Psychology Department
- Description: The Psychology Department is announcing its 12th Annual Research Conference. All are welcome to attend. The schedule of events will be
2:30 Check in;
3:00-4:00 Talk by Dr. Janessa Carvalho, Department of Psychology, Bridgewater State University;
Southcoast Brain and Spine Center, Southcoast Hospitals Group, Dartmouth, MA
"Cross-Cultural Issues in Neuropsychological Assessment";
4:00-5:00 Talk by Dr. Spencer Lynn, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University
"A model-driven approach to research in psychology: Bumble bee decisions and human psychopathology;
5:00-6:30 Student Poster presentations;
6:30-7:00 Departmental Awards
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Psychology, Research, Undergraduate Research, Alumni Events, Conferences & Events
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