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Friday, October 9, 2015
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HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'.
Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo.
Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race.
Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression.
royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD.
- Link: https://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, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
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Mentoring Research Students in Science and Engineering
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: Office of Faculty Development
- Description: Feeling overwhelmed by supervising research students for the first time? Are you frustrated that the advising strategies that your advisor used are not effective here at UMass Dartmouth? Would you like to learn about new strategies for mentoring your graduate research assistants? The Office of Faculty Development is running a discussion for early career science and engineering faculty starting out as research mentors. The discussion group will be led by John Buck (ECE) and Tracie Ferreira (BNG). The group will meet on the second Friday and fourth Tuesday of each month to discuss readings on research mentoring strategies and to share experiences and challenges. Lunch will be provided. Contact Prof. John Buck (jbuck@umassd.edu, x9237) with questions or to sign up.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic.
- Link: https://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, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
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Gandhi Lecture Series 2015
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Contact: Center for Indic Studies
- Description: Cultivating a lived practice of nonviolence
'Be the change you wish to see in the world' an often used quote by Mahatma Gandhi leads us to the conclusion that true social transformation is rooted and entwined in individual transformation.
What are the underlying principles that connect individual transformation and cultural transformation? What might these principles look like expressed in our daily lives? What can we do individually and collectively to create the world we choose to live in?
Kit Miller has served as the director of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence since 2009. Her prior position was as director/celebrator of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication in Oakland, California. Kit has been learning about and organizing for nonviolence for the past 22 years in a variety of capacities. She draws on Gandhian and Kingian nonviolence, as well as nonviolent communication, the Work that reconnects and permaculture for direction and daily practice in her life and work. In addition to leading the Institute and teaching nonviolence, she works on community projects related to restorative justice, sustainability and race as applications of nonviolence in Rochester. Kit co-leads nonviolence retreats each year in various sites around the world. She has 3 children and is grateful to have been happily married for 24 years to her husband David.
- Topical Areas: University Community, Indic Studies, Lectures and Seminars
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CANCELLED:
Blending Learning: Finding the Mix
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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CANCELLED:
Getting Started in myCourses
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: This face-to-face workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the teaching and learning features of (myCourses) Blackboard Learn. You will learn about the roles an instructor plays in the online environment and identify key attributes for success. From there, you will learn how to set up the Course Menu, your students' access point to tools and content, and how to create Content Areas that contain materials, tools, and resources. You will have the opportunity to add a course structure to your development course, allowing you to learn about Blackboard Learn tools and features as you experience them in the course environment. You will become familiar with some common start-up tasks, such as creating announcements, adding a syllabus, adding calendar entries, and setting up assignments Finally, you will view the course as a student to become familiar with how the course environment appears to your own students. As a student, you will learn how to access and navigate through tools and content.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
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Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 114
- Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center
- Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor.
- Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
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A Journey Through the Thread / Viaje Al Hilo
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: An exhibition of contemporary designed handmade Mexican rugs
Traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston.
Viaje Al Hilo is a traveling exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, at UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus (Crapo Gallery & Lecture Hall).
Designed by young Mexican textile designer Marisol Centeno for her Bi Yuu brand, these rugs tell many stories, weaving together the traditional and the contemporary, expressing the inspiration and emotion through a careful combination of color, texture and form.
Bi Yuu works with extraordinary artisans from Teotitlan del Valle, designing and implementing a collaborative working method. Additionally, the company contributes to the artisan's local economy, utilizing local working methods and raw material from the area with the long and proud Oaxacan textile.
Marisol Centeno (Mexico City, 1985) studied textile design at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her work blends artisan craft and principles of contemporary design. In 2012, she founded Bi Yuu, a brand specializing in rugs and woven goods with a strong ethic of social responsibility and an aesthetic vision that combines quality with cutting edge design. Currently, Bi Yuu offers six collections and collaborates with 20 artisans.
Marisol participated in the Social Design Roundtable as well as the Second Conference of Collaborative Design Practices, organized by Ana Elena Mallet at CaSa in Oaxaca. She has exhibited widely at venues including: Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, CENART, and the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. In 2013, she was recognized as the "Best Designer" in the "Hand Made" category by the magazine CASAVIVA. Her work has been published in Folio, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest and Código. She is a current member of Comex's new Trend Forecast ColorLife 16.
- Link: https://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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ECE Seminar* Speaker: Dr. Marco F. Duarte, UMass Amherst
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: Topic: PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN COMPRESSIVE SENSING
Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
Abstract:
Compressive sensing (CS) implements simultaneous sensing and compression of sparse and compressible signals based on randomized dimensionality reduction. To recover a signal from its compressive measurements, standard CS algorithms seek the sparsest signal representation in some discrete basis or dictionary that agrees with the measurements. Many applications feature signals that can be represented using a small number of continuous-valued parameters. Such problems have initially been addressed in CS through the design of parametric dictionaries that collect a set of signal observations corresponding to a discretized set of parameter values. These approaches, however, suffer either from resolution limitations due to discretization or from poor performance due to the high coherence of the dictionary, the mismatch between the dictionary and the signal (which may not necessarily be sparse), or both.
This talk will introduce several techniques for compressive parameter estimation (CPE) that aim to alleviate the aforementioned issues, using the time delay estimation and frequency estimation problems common in radar imaging as running examples. First, we use manifold models to characterize the map from parameter space to signal space and employ manifold-based interpolation for parametric dictionaries. In a second approach, we introduce the concept of earth mover's distance for parametric signal representations to directly measure the performance of parameter estimation and leverage it using specially tailored algorithms. Finally, we leverage the connection between approximate message passing methods and denoising algorithms for sparse signals to design compressive parameter estimation approaches based on statistical parameter estimation algorithms. The use of these algorithms allow us to forego the need for a discretized model. We will review the benefits and shortcomings of these proposed alternatives.
Portions of this work are joint with Hamid Dadkhahi, Karsten Fyhn, Dian Mo, and Shermin Hamzehei.
Biography:
Marco F. Duarte is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received the B.Sc. degree in computer engineering (with distinction) and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rice University in 2009. He was an NSF/IPAM Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University from 2009 to 2010, and in the Department of Computer Science at Duke University from 2010 to 2011. His research interests include machine learning, compressed sensing, and sensor networks. Prof. Duarte received the Presidential Fellowship and the Texas Instruments Distinguished Fellowship in 2004 and the Hershel M. Rich Invention Award in 2007, all from Rice University. He coauthored (with C. Hegde and V. Cevher) the Best Student Paper at the 2009 International Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS).
The Seminars is open to the public free of charge.
*For further information, please contact Dr. John 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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Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission.
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015.
After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music.
As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today."
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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