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Friday, December 4, 2015
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE By: Sureshreddy Byreddy
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Cost: free
  • Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
  • Description: TOPIC: A VIDEO WATERMARKING APPROACH USING DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: There are more and more internet applications that require multimedia delivery. However, the multimedia delivery poses a significant challenge to multimedia ownership protection. For example, online multimedia can be easily redistributed and copied without its ownership permission. There is a strong need to protect the copyright of multimedia content in many application scenarios. Digital video watermarking is one of major techniques that are used for copyright protection. In this technique, a text or an image could be embedded into the video as a proof of its ownership. In this project, I investigated and implemented a video watermarking approach based on Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). In the approach, a watermark is inserted into the video and is also extracted for its owner to claim the copyright of the video. To test the strength of the watermark, certain attacks such as rotating and resizing the video are performed on watermarked video. The Peak Signal Noise Ratio (PSNR) and normalized correlation are also measured to demonstrate the performance of the watermarking approach. 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. Lance Fiondella, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, Department of Computer and Information Science
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, University Community, Electrical and Computer Engineering
«  11/18 - 12/18  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Gift of Giving Food Drive
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Cost: n/a
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: 7th annual "Gift of Giving" Food Drive In the spirit of giving, the Student Affairs Office and the Center for Religious & Spiritual Life are collecting non-perishable food items to help our "Students Helping Students" Food Pantry and local charities. Items collected will be distributed to those charities in greatest need. All non-perishable food items will be accepted, but the following items are in greatest demand: peanut butter, jelly, cereal, oatmeal, dry pasta, tuna fish, canned meat, Spaghettios, ravioli, canned pasta, soup, rice, dry beans, powdered milk, snack bars, gluten-free products. Also accepting the following clothing items: socks, hats, gloves, mittens, scarves. LOOK FOR DONATION BINS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: Student Affairs, Campus Center, Suite 221 Foster Admin Buidling, 1st floor All academic buildings, first floors Claire T. Carney Library, Circulation Desk area CVPA Star Store, lobby Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, lobby UMass Law, lobby One CAN CAN make a difference!
  • Topical Areas: University Community, General Public
«  11/17 - 12/8  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • IGNITING THE PASSION II
  • Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford
  • Cost: Free Admission
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Select Works by Young Apprentices Nov 17 - Dec 8 Closing Reception: Tuesday, Dec 8, 4-6 pm, Artist Talk 5 pm Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth Eric Lintala / Cassie Remillard Anthony Fisher / Jonathan Gavin-Patterson Bryan McFarlane / Lizzy Santoro Richard Creighton / George Carmo Elena Peteva / Matt Meserve Stacy Latt Savage / Erin Wheary Andrew Nixon / Kris Valcorba Pam Hoss / Christina Hoang Anthony Miraglia / Victoria Arons Alison Wells / Melissa Masse Suzanne Schireson / Sheila O'Brien Donald Beal / Sarah Richard Marc St. Pierre / Cameron Aguiar Joseph Moniz / Casey Collins Ellen Lewis Watson / Hailey Angione Adrian Tio / Sam Brun An exhibition of Fine Arts faculty at the College of Visual and Performing Arts and their students, entitled "Igniting the Passion II" is being held at the UMass Dartmouth, CVPA Campus Gallery through December 8th. This show features work by all Fine Arts faculty alongside select works by their students in the media areas of Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, and Sculpture. This exhibition is based on the idea that the best teachers are those who are deeply involved in pursuing a personal art form, subject, or medium. Students, in turn, grasp this passion and grow to become strong, inspired artists in their own right. This is one of the most rewarding experiences in academia. The mission of the Department of Fine Arts is to maintain an environment where artists are committed to the pursuit of teaching, research, and creative work. This faculty of professional artists provides a high-quality studio education to students at the foundation, undergraduate, and graduate levels through formal, aesthetic, technical, and intellectual training. Faculty members prepare students to become creative artists, pursue graduate study, or engage in Fine Arts-related professions through the attainment of their BFA and MFA degrees. The closing reception for the "Igniting the Passion II" exhibition will be held on Tuesday, December 8th, from 4 pm to 6 pm with artist talks at 5pm. CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth, College of Visual and Performing Arts 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 Gallery Hours: Monday through Thursday 10 am to 4 pm, Friday 10 am to noon www.umassd.edu/cvpa www.facebook.com/FineArtsCVPA www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
  • Link: https://www.facebook.com/FineArtsCVPA
  • 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
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY: Navya Mandava
  • Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
  • Cost: Free
  • Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
  • Description: SUBJECT: MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY: Navya Mandava TOPIC: TRUST SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: This project considers two-party trust sensitivity analysis in social networks, where the trust is a key basis for interactions among different parties. Based on sensitivity measures, the objective of the trust sensitivity analysis is to determine direct links that contribute the most to a trust relationship between two indirectly-connected parties in the network. In this project, both Monte-Carlo simulations and analytical methods are implemented using two different sensitivity measures (Birnbaum's measure and critically important factor) for the two-party trust sensitivity analysis. Analysis of several illustrative example social networks are presented. 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. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Xiaoqin Shelley Zhang, Department of Computer and Information Science *For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing at 508.999.8883, or via email at lxing@umassd.edu.
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Electrical and Computer Engineering
«  11/24 - 12/8  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Hanukkah Celebration
  • Location: Campus Center
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: Festive Lighting of the Hanukkah Menorah, and Latkes (potato pancakes) and suvganiyot (jelly donuts) will be served at the Campus Center,first floor, Faculty Club. All are welcome. Sponsored by the Center of Jewish Culture at UMass Dartmouth. Contact Rabbi Satlow at jsatlow@umassd.edu with any questions
  • Topical Areas: University Community, Center for Jewish Culture
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • RESEARCH COMPONENT OF PHD QUALIFIER EXAM BY: Qisi Liu
  • Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
  • Cost: Free
  • Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
  • Description: SUBJECT: RESEARCH COMPONENT OF PHD QUALIFIER EXAM BY: Qisi Liu TOPIC: RISK AND RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT FOR CLOUD-RAID SYSTEM LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: Cloud computing systems are becoming an important and influential aspect of the computing world and are being used in various applications such as Google Drive, Amazon EC2 and Dropbox. In this presentation, risks and failures of different cloud components as well as their causes and effects are first investigated. Risk and reliability modeling and assessment are then considered for cloud-RAID storage systems. Particularly, an analytical method integrating Markov chains and multi-valued decision diagrams is developed for the risk reliability analysis of cloud-RAID systems. A detailed case study is presented. 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. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Haiping Xu, Department of Computer and Information Science *For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing at 508.999.8883, or via email at lxing@umassd.edu.
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Electrical and Computer Engineering
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Global Awareness Education and Action: Climate Resiliency Summit
  • Location: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
  • Cost: Free
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: The Global Awareness Education and Action (GAEA) Summit is a two-day program focusing the impacts of climate change on the region. Sponsored by UMass Dartmouth, the Island Foundation, and the New Bedford Whaling Museum in collaboration with seven daily newspapers located south of Boston, the GAEA Summit will convene a region-wide conversation that brings together scientists, policy makers, business leaders, and citizens from all 54 cities and towns to discuss the issues in a manner that educates and mobilizes individuals and communities. Register by sending an email with your name, affiliation, and contact information to climate@umassd.edu. You may also contact Adrienne Wartts at awartts@umassd.edu for more information.
  • Link: climate.umassd.edu
  • Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology
«  11/25 - 2/14  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Wendy Wahl: ConTexts / Exhibition
  • Location: University Art Gallery
  • Contact: University Art Gallery
  • Description: Wendy Wahl: ConTexts. Paper in 2D and 3D Reception: AHA! Night, Dec 10, 6-8 pm, Artist Talk 7 PM The exhibition ConTexts at the University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents a series of work by Wendy Wahl created from re-purposed encyclopedias. Her 2D works, made of hundreds of rolled paper strips glued onto a wooden panel, are sculpted into complex, repetitive reliefs. When light hits, they create an amazing universe that changes in surprising ways as the visitor walks by, often revealing an underlying geometry. In Wahl's newest work created for the exhibition, she uses the tops of the pages with golden edges taken from old Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedias. Ms. Wahl's 3D pieces, enhanced by shadow-producing light and made from cut pages released from its binding, might remind visitors of underwater creatures with tentacles reaching out from the walls or into the gallery space. ConTexts brings new and inspiring meaning to the phrase 'reading a page'. For the last ten years Wendy Wahl's studio work has included a series that is created from thousands of pages of discarded and some now out of print volumes that include the Encyclopaedia Britannica, World Book, Collier's, Funk and Wagnalls and a variety of Dictionaries. The outcome of this work is an expression of her view of the connections between nature and culture. Wahl's interest is considering the associations between the tree of life, defined as the patterns of relationships that link all earthâ's species and the tree of knowledge, defined as the connected branches of human thought realized in the form of writing and speaking. This work is part of an ongoing experiment that uses the potency of printed text on paper. She is using a cultural artifact as her material for many reasons that include its unique physical qualities, the meanings that it carries and to recognize its existence. By restructuring familiar elements that in a particular format belongs to a collective consciousness, Wahl is commenting on an aspect of our station in time. Wendy Wahl's work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of private and public collections including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY and the RISD Museum. In 2010, she was selected for Networks, a project documenting Rhode Island artists through video and exhibition. The same year, she was commissioned to create a piece for the entrance of SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art exposition) at the Park Avenue Armory, NY. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, the Newport Art Museum, RI and Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. She has received artist fellowship awards from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the US Ambassador to Tashkent, Uzbekistan selected her work for his residence through the Art in Embassy Program. She has been recognized in numerous publications including Art News, Boston Globe, Casa Vogue, Providence Journal, Metropolis, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, the Britannica blog, the Curated Object and The Wall Street Journal. Currently she is a lecturer at The New School - Parson's, Department of Constructed Environments. She received an MAE in Textile Art from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Art from California State University at Northridge. She resides in Rhode Island with her husband, John Dunnigan, and their daughter, Hannah. Wendy Wahl was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961 . The exhibition is curated by Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and is open through Feb 14, 2016. University Art Gallery UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/universityartgallery www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Gallery exhibitions are open Mon-Sat from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sun 9 am to 5 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month). Closed for holidays on Nov 26, Dec 25 and Jan 1. Free admission.
  • Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1632707470317313/
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Poetry, Visual Arts

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