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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
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12:00 PM
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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: Weekly meeting for faculty and staff who are interested in learning about and practicing mindfulness meditation.
This technique has been shown to increase cortical density in areas of the brain associated with cognitive and attentional control and emotional regulation. Practice with mindfulness meditation has been found to reduce anxiety and stress, increase attentional abilities and supplement socio-emotional functioning. No experience is required, and drop-ins are more than welcome.
This event is to repeat weekly for the Spring 2015 semester, excluding Feb. 17th and March 17th.
Please contact Aminda O'Hare (aohare@umassd.edu or ext. 8761) for more information.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators
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4:00 PM
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5:00 PM
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"India at the mathematical crossroads: the pre-modern world's mathematical sciences and their Indian influences"
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Contact: Center for Indic Studies
- Description: Speaker: Dr. Kim Plofker
Spring 2015 Seminar Series for Center for Indic Studies.
For hundreds of years before the rediscovery of ancient Greek texts in the Renaissance temporarily fixed the world's mathematical center of gravity in the Latin scientific literature of Europe, the Indian subcontinent had been a major hub of mathematical innovation and transmission. From decimal place-value numerals in medieval West Asia and Europe, to calendric computations in Southeast Asia, to trigonometric techniques in Chinese astronomy, a significant portion of pre-modern mathematical knowledge emerged from or passed through the vast corpus of India's Sanskrit scientific tradition. This talk explores some of the missing links in the historical development and spread of mathematics that have been reconstructed from the study of Indian sources.
Bio: Kim Plofker is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Union College in New York. She is the author of Mathematics in India (Princeton 2009) and many articles on the history of the exact sciences in India, Islam and early modern Europe.
- Topical Areas: University Community, History, Indic Studies, Mathematics, Religious Studies, Center for Indic Studies, Lectures and Seminars
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Peer Health Educator Recruitment
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness
- Description: Enjoy helping others? Up for a challenge? Ready to lead? Apply to join our award-winning team!
Peer Health Educators are student leaders who support the health and wellness of the campus community by:
- conducting and sponsoring educational programming
- disseminating accurate health information
- providing referrals to on- and off-campus services
- advocating for changes in campus policies and procedures to support student health
We recruit in the spring semester for entry into the program the following fall.
Visit our webpage for more information and to download an application.
- Application deadline: Friday, April 3 by 5 p.m.
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/phe/
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Student Organizations
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7:30 PM
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8:30 PM
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Matthew Sousa--Jazz Guitar Recital
- Location: CVPA Room 104
- Contact: Music Department
- Description: Student Recital
- Topical Areas: University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Music
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12:30 PM
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1:30 PM
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Lightning Session: Writing Across the Curriculum
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: Office of Faculty Development
- Description: Writing Across the Curriculum (Karen Gulbrandsen, English; Shaun Spencer, Law School; Anna Dempsey, Art History)
In keeping with the theme of interdisciplinarity, this lightning session addresses how faculty can support each other and all of our students by writing across disciplines. Each presenter shares techniques and strategies for incorporating righting into the curriculum, including strategies for improving student written expression. Discipline specific writing skills and styles and strategies for helping students navigate these differences in their courses will be discussed.
Lunch will be served; if you wish to attend, please register through the Events calendar on UMD website.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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The Creative Complex: A Ceramic Post-Bac Exhibition
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: The Creative Complex: A Ceramic Post-Bac Exhibition
Exhibiting artists: Carly Costello & Joe Lee
Location: Robert Hunt Photography and Gallery
48 Union St., New Bedford, MA 02740, 617-290-8009
Hours: 11 AM-6 PM Wednesday through Saturday
- 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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Enhancing Your Presentation & Facilitation Skills I & II
- Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115,
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Part I: Facilitation skills are in high demand as organizations search for specialists to manage training, development, and core team interactions. A skilled facilitator enables a group of people to solve problems or develop an action plan for delivering results. This seminar examines proven and practical techniques that will help participants to gain confidence as facilitators of groups of all kinds. Participants will be able to:
• Recognize the importance of creating positive, participatory learning environments.
• Identify basic characteristics and skills of an effective facilitator.
• Explore common challenges to facilitation.
Facilitator: Ceridian – Lifeworks Program
Contact: Sheila Whitaker, X8045
- Topical Areas: Workshop, Training, topic: Human Resources, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
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Safe Zone Training
- Location: Liberal Arts Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality
- Description: Safe Zone Training is designed to increase awareness, knowledge, and support of LGBTQ people and issues. The training was also established to build a visible support network of LGBTQ Allies at UMass Dartmouth and to improve campus climate for LGBTQ individuals. During the course of this training attendees will participate in activities and be provided with material involving homophobia, transphobia, heterosexism, and cissexism and will learn skills on how to actively support those who identify as LGBTQ regardless of societal oppression. At the end of the training participants will be provided with a sticker to display that they have completed the training and that their office is an LGBTQ Safe Zone on campus.
Safe Zone Training is open to Faculty, Staff and Students.
Participants must register prior to the training.
To register email Kendra Pereira at Kpereira@umassd.edu or call The Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality at 508.910.6567
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students
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Together: Junior Artists of the Department of Visual Design
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts presents
Together: Junior Artists of the Department of Visual Design
Featuring recent student work from Digital Media, Graphic Design, Illustration, and Photography
Exhibition Dates: 3/2- 4/1
Reception: Tuesday, March 3rd, 4 pm to 6 pm
Artist Talk at 5 pm during the reception, titled Re.Membered: The Art of Collaboration
The UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts is pleased to present the third annual Together: Junior Artists of the Department of Visual Design on display from March 2 through April 1, 2015.
The opening reception will be held on Tuesday, March 3, 4 to 6 pm, with the Artist Talk, presented by students of both Design and Art History at 5 pm. This exhibition features recent work from students in Digital Media, Graphic Design, Illustration, and Photography, along with a slide show of these same young artists engaged in activities and processes relative to their CVPA experience.
The Department of Visual Design is a cluster of professionally-oriented options: Digital Media, Graphic Design, Illustration, and Photography. Visual design is an art form, a craft, and a means of information dissemination for education, business, commerce, editorial and entertainment industries. Students earning their BFA in one of these four areas explore visual communication in the widest sense, employing both traditional (analog) and contemporary electronic and computer technologies.
The examples in this exhibition demonstrate that our broadly educated student visual artists/designers are both literate and articulate and capable of participating on many levels of a wide variety of projects. Bringing together both print and digital media, this exhibition provides insight into how Junior students use visual design as a method of communication.
CVPA Campus Gallery
University of Massachusetts 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
www.facebook.com/UmassDartmouthGalleries
gallery@umassd.edu
- Link: www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- 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, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Visual Design
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3:30 PM
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4:30 PM
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Computational Science Seminar
- Location: Textiles Building 105
- Contact: Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research
- Description: The Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research announces the following seminar.
Speaker: Daniele Venturi (Brown University)
Title: "Coarse-graining high-dimensional random systems: the probability density function approach"
Time: Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Textiles 105
Abstract: In this talk, I will present different methods to develop reduced-order equations for the probability density function (PDF) of quantities of interest (phase space functions) in high-dimensional stochastic dynamical systems.
In principle, this allows us to avoid computing high-dimensional stochastic flows and reduce a great mass of information to a more tractable and more interesting form (the PDF evolution of a low-dimensional quantity of interest). I will discuss two different classes of methods to achieve this goal: the first one is based on separated series expansions such as proper generalized decomposition (PGD) or high-dimensional model representations (HDMR).
When applied to high-dimensional systems, these methods yield a hierarchy of low-dimensional PDF equations that resembles the Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon (BBGKY) hierarchy of kinetic gas theory. The second approach stems from techniques of irreversible statistical mechanics, in particular the Mori-Zwanzig (MZ) formulation, and it yields directly formally exact equations for the PDF of quantities of interest. I will address the question of approximation of MZ-PDF equations by multi-level coarse graining, perturbation series and operator cumulant resummation. Throughout the presentation I will provide numerical examples and applications of the proposed methods to prototype stochastic problems, such as the Lorenz-96 system, stochastic advection-reaction and stochastic Burgers equations.
For additional information, see the CSCVR webpage http://cscvr.umassd.edu/seminars.html, or contact Akil Narayan at akil.narayan@umassd.edu or 508-999-8318.
- Link: http://cscvr.umassd.edu/seminars.html
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
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The Uncommon Object - University Art Gallery, New Bedford
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: For this group exhibition, ten alumni from the renown UMass Dartmouth Ceramics program invited artists who have been influential in a manner contrary to their aesthetic, finding pairings revealing an unusual logic; a connection in uncommon objects. "The Uncommon Object" was conceived by Rebecca Hutchinson and Jim Lawton with the notion that our counterpoint is not only interesting but offers insight into the depth of who we are as artists.
The exhibition is part of the programming for the 49th annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Providence, RI which has earned a reputation worldwide as a premier event for ceramic art, drawing thousands of participants each year.
Exhibiting Artists:
David Bogus, BFA 1999 & Gail Kendall
Josephine Burr, MFA 2002 & Hannah Burr
Angela Cunningham, PBC 2002 & Daniel Molyneux
Stephen Grimmer, MFA 1996 & Ron Meyers
Martha Grover, MFA 2007; PBC 2004 & Giselle Hicks
David Katz, PBC 2009 & Adams Puryear
Andrea Marquis, PBC 2002 & Paul Swenbeck
John Oles, BFA 1998 & Mary Louise Carter
Mallory Wetherell, MFA 2010 & Richard Notkin
Rhonda Willers, PBC 2003 & Xanthe Isbister
University Art Gallery
College of Visual and Performing Arts, UMass Dartmouth
715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740, (508) 999-8555
umassd.edu/universityartgallery
- Link: 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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Introduction to InDesign, Part 1
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free!
- Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services
- Description: InDesign is a sophisticated page layout and graphic design tool geared toward print publication. The first workshop in the three part series covers the basics of Adobe InDesign, and is intended for users with little or no InDesign experience. Topics covered include working with the toolbox, palettes and document window, as well as setting up pages, guides and grids.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
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SexFest
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: Free!
- Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness
- Description: Participate in fun activities (and a chance to win several raffle prizes), pick up free safer sex supplies and other giveaways, and get loads of information and resources from campus and community groups that work to promote sexual health and healthy relationships. Sponsored by the UMass Dartmouth Peer Health Educators, this annual event is held in the hallway outside the Main Auditorium.
- Topical Areas: Students, Livewell
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Catholic Mass
- Location: Law School
, 333 Faunce Corner Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry
- Description: Law School, Room 116. All are welcome.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
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UMD Ceramics Club presents: NCECA Preconference Event! Ceramic artist lectures, demos and more!
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: $45 for individuals, $31.50 for groups 5+
- Contact: College of Arts and Sciences
- Description: UMass Dartmouth Ceramics Club will be hosting a two-day NCECA Preconference workshop of demonstrations and lectures by ceramicists Lauren Gallaspy and Jason Briggs all day March 23rd-24th 2015. The preconference event invites students and professional artists to this event in celebration of these artists’ work through a kick off lecture by NCECA President, Patsy Cox, March 22 6:30 pm in Star Store. The Preconference Event will conclude with lectures and a panel discussion considering NCECA Providence's theme Lively Experiments.
Also available for viewing are 5 Ceramic exhibitions at the Star Store campus and 5 Ceramics Exhibitions in historic downtown New Bedford organized to coincide with the Preconference and NCECA. The Preconference Event is open for registration for the first 50 participants. The cost for attendance is offered at individual and group rates. The individual rate is $45 per registered attendee for the two-day event. Group rate will be considered for groups of five or more people with the rate of $31.50 for each person in the group (30% off the normal rate). Five University groups attending will be invited to select one representative student from their program to participate on the student panel discussing the aspect of Lively Experiment scheduled for the Tuesday, March 24 late afternoon.
Registration can be completed online: http://Tinyurl.com/NCECA-UMDpreconfernce For additional information contact us at UMDNCECApreconference@gmail.com or 508 910-6683. Hope to see you there!
- Link: http://Tinyurl.com/NCECA-UMDpreconfernce
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Student Organizations, Conferences & Events, Lectures and Seminars
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