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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
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2:00 PM
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3:15 PM
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Sustainable Innovations Day
- Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
- Contact: Campus Sustainability and Residential Initiatives
- Description: The Office of Campus Sustainability and Residential Initiatives will be hosting Sustainable Innovations Day on April 26th at the Woodland Commons. Come join us as we celebrate the members of our campus and our community and their efforts to make our world a better environment for everyone.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Sustainability Office
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5:00 PM
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6:00 PM
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Academic Success
- Location: Counseling Center
, AUD. ANNEX Room 101
- Contact: Counseling Center
- Description: Four session, reoccurring group that teaches time management, study skills, test-taking strategies, management of test anxiety, and memory tricks. Just show up for one of the groups. Students can begin with any session and work their way through the sequence. Students may repeat the sequence or any portion of it, if they like.
Meets Tues. from 5pm to 6 pm at the Counseling Center. Led by Jamison Merrell
- Topical Areas: Students, Counseling Center
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2:00 PM
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3:30 PM
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CORSAIR Jobs for Staff
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226
, 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, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, Workshop
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10:30 AM
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12:30 PM
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Doctor of Nursing Practice Capstone Defense
- Location: Textiles Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences
- Description: Debra Landry, NP, DNP(C)
Nursing DNP Candidate
Geriatric Homecare Education for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Date: April 26, 2016
Time: 10:3-12:30
Location: Textiles Building, Room: 011
DNP Capstone Defense Committee:
Elizabeth Chin, PhD (Capstone Advisor)
Monika Schuler, PhD
Susan Harrington, DNP
RSVP to Vicki Vital at vvital@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Nursing
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2:00 PM
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3:00 PM
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Internship Info Session
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
- Contact: Career Development Center
- Description: Why do an internship? How do you find one?
All types of internships are available for all majors. Come to an Internship Info session and find out how to get started finding and securing the right internship for you! Preregister on CareerLink via the UMassD portal or call the Career Development Center at 508.999.8658 for further information.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center
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11:00 AM
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1:00 PM
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MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY: Abigail E. O'Brien
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: QUANTIFYING SYSTEM SECURITY THROUGH MARKOV CHAINS AND RELATED STOCHASTIC MODELS FOR RELIABILITY
LOCATION: College of Engineering Conference Room, Textile's Building - Room 101E
ABSTRACT:
Network security is a heavily researched field with an endless cycle of newly discovered attacks and methods to mitigate them, but with very few models to numerically represent the resultant effect. When the security of a system can be quantified, values such as its marketability and the outcome of improved encryption algorithms become easier to visualize. This project aims to investigate stochastic models for reliability analysis and apply them in a way that can distinctively measure the desired security attributes (confidentiality, integrity, availability) of a specific system. Particularly, Markov chains, binary decision diagrams and related probability-based approaches are implemented for overall system security evaluation. The methods are demonstrated through a detailed case study of a body area network, which consists of several wearable computing devices used for health monitoring.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing
Committee Members: Dr. Hong Liu and Dr. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
*For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing at 508.999.8883, or via email at lxing@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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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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7:30 PM
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8:30 PM
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Large Jazz Ensemble Conceret
- Location: CVPA Auditorium
, CVPA-153
- Contact: Music Department
- Description: Large Jazz Ensemble Concert
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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12:00 PM
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1:00 PM
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Catholic Mass
- Location: Law School Room 116
, 333 Faunce Corner Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry
- Description: Catholic Mass will be celebrated in Room 116 of the UMass Lawschool at noon. All are Welcome.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Religious & Spiritual
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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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2:00 PM
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5:00 PM
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Three Minute Thesis Competition - Undergraduate Preliminary
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 205
- Contact: Graduate Studies Office
- Description: Three Minute Thesis is a research communication competition which challenges students to present a compelling oration on their research topic and its significance in just three minutes. The competition develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of research students' capacity to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The top six presenters will advance to the combined undergraduate/graduate finale. This event will be held in Room 205 of the Claire T. Carney Library.
Contact Susan Burke Pedreira for additional details @ extension 8012 or spedreira@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community
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11:00 AM
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ECE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DISSERTATION DEFENSE BY: Kaushallya Adhikari
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF PRODUCT PROCESSING OF COLINEAR SPARSE ARRAYS
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
Sampling of a propagating signal is a crucial step in radar and sonar systems. An array of sensors spatially samples a propagating signal. The most basic type of array of sensors is a uniform linear array (ULA) where the sensors are uniformly spaced on a line. The quality and the amount of information possessed by a sampled signal are highly dependent on where the signal is sampled in space and how the signals from different sensors are processed to extract the information. A beamformer processes the data sampled by an array to extract information about the signal, such as the direction of arrival for signals of interest, the number of signal sources, and the signal propagation medium.
The major theme of this thesis is the product processing of the conventional beamformer outputs of two colinear arrays that comprise a sparse non-uniform linear array. These sparse non-uniform linear arrays offer the resolution of a fully populated ULA with the same aperture using far fewer sensors. Two specific examples of product processing arrays that this thesis examines are linear coprime sensor arrays (CSAs) and nested arrays. A CSA consists of two undersampled ULAs with interleaved sensors while a nested array consists of a fully populated smaller aperture ULA nested between two adjacent sensors of an undersampled larger aperture ULA. The outputs of the product processors are spatial power spectral density estimates of the sampled signal and the bias and variance of the estimate characterize the performance of the product processors. This thesis makes three contributions to the understanding of product processing for colinear sparse arrays. First, this thesis derives the bias and variance of the product processors for sparse arrays and analyzes the results for CSAs and nested arrays. Second, this thesis provides analytical expressions for conditional probability density functions (PDFs) corresponding to signal present and absent cases in complex Gaussian signal detection by a CSA product processor and evaluates the receiver operation characteristic (ROC), facilitating the study of the detection performance. The analysis of the detection performance shows that the product processor detection gain is equal to the total number of sensors like in a linear array for medium and high signal to noise ratios. Third, this thesis determines the number of periods required in CSAs with different shadings to reduce the peak sidelobe (PSL) height to the same level as a ULA. A CSA with only one period can match the resolution of the fully populated ULA with the equivalent aperture. However, the CSA PSL height is higher than the equivalent full ULA's PSL height.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck
Committee Members: Dr. Paul Gendron and Dr. Karen Payton, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Dr. Kathleen E. Wage, George Mason University; Dr. Piya Pal, University of Maryland
*For further information, please contact Dr. John R. Buck at 508.999.9237, or via email at jbuck@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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12:30 PM
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1:45 PM
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Over 25 Group
- Location: Counseling Center
, AUD. ANNEX Room 101
- Contact: Counseling Center
- Description: Over 25 Group: A process group focused on growth, insight, and mutual support for graduate students and older undergrads. Meets Tues. from 12:30 to 1:45pm.
Led by Dr. Cate Perry and Dr. Mika MacInnis.
If interested, call 508 999 8650.
- Topical Areas: Students, Counseling Center
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Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
- Location: University Art Gallery
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
Date: April 12-April 30, 2016
Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm
We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon.
Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft.
UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30.
The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience.
This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication.
This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors.
The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm.
For more information, please contact
Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu
or
Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu
You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550
- 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, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences & Events
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3:00 PM
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Internship Info Session
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
- Contact: Career Development Center
- Description: Why do an internship? How do you find one?
All types of internships are available for all majors. Come to an Internship Info session and find out how to get started finding and securing the right internship for you! Preregister on CareerLink via the UMassD portal or call the Career Development Center at 508.999.8658 for further information.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center
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6:30 PM
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7:30 PM
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Expressive Arts Therapy Workshop for Survivors of Sexual Violence
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality
- Description: Facilitated by The Women's Center, Inc. This organization uses art therapy as a tool for healing.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality
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