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Friday, October 29, 2021
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8:00 PM
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10:00 PM
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Spaces of Rest Media Nights Spruce 130
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Spaces of Rest will be weekly collaborative practices of resting and reflecting. These spaces will be for students to come together to share space through engaging with meditation, media, and conversations. The media nights will be moments of reading, watching, or listening to sci-fi and Afrofuturist content.
*Enter Spruce Hall through the main entrance facing Parking Lot 8. Please remember to keep your face covering on at all times you are inside a building.
For more info - https://spacesofrest.weebly.com or email Clareese Hill, Artist in Residence at chill5@umasss.edu
Clareese Hill is the 2021-2022 UMass Dartmouth CVPA Artist in Residence. She is a practice-based researcher. She explores the validity of the word "identity" through her perspective as an Afro-Caribbean American woman and her societal role projected on her to perform as a Black feminist academic. She has performed lectures at Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths University of London, University of Sussex, CUNY Graduate Center, The Chicago Art Department, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn. She has exhibited her research internationally in Chicago, New York, California, London, France, and cyberspace. Clareese was a 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future fellow (Phase One). Clareese has published academic essays in THEOREM Journal, Architecture and Culture Journal, and has an upcoming article in Antennae, The Journal of Nature and Culture. Clareese holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).
- Topical Areas: Students, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Student Affairs
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3:00 PM
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4:00 PM
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Financial Aid Help Labs: Library 128
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- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Financial Aid Services wants to remind all students to file their FAFSA! Join the Financial Aid Services Street Team for FA Help Labs on Wednesdays from 3 to 4 p.m. and Fridays from 3 to 4 p.m. in Library 128 for help filing your FAFSA and learning more about financial aid.
Contact Mark Yanni
myanni@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Financial Aid
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10/25
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Fall Into Your Major Instagram Takeover!
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: 0
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Are you a new freshman or a sophomore thinking about possibly declaring or changing your major? Or, are you super happy with you major but you want to add on a minor or a double major. Students are taking over @umassd Instagram account to discuss their majors between Oct 25th and Oct 29th. Learn about majors and minors, and university support systems to help you explore your options. Visit the Fall Into Your Major website found at: https://www.umassd.edu/studentsuccess/major/
When there view different students representing their majors and fill out an interest form to get more information.
- Link: https://www.umassd.edu/studentsuccess/major/
- Topical Areas: Students, Academic Affairs, Advising, College Now, Undergraduate Admissions, Academic Resource Center, Center for Access & Success, Counseling Center, Writing and Reading Center, Student Affairs
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11:00 AM
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10/31
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Halloween Weekend
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- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Join us at The Grove for a Halloween weekend!
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing
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11:00 AM
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ECE Master of Science Thesis Defense By: Abigail Rachel Keith
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: Topic: Analysis and Implementation of INFOTAXIS as a Practical Strategy to Maximize Target-Search Efficiency
Location: Dion 114
Zoom Teleconference: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/94433745094
Please contact Dr. John R. Buck via email at jbuck@umassd.edu for Meeting ID and Passcode.
Abstract:
Traditionally, search strategies are categorized into one of two types: explorative and exploitative. Explorative search strategies search by exploring an area without using gathered information to guide their search; this strategy type functions best when there is high clutter, which makes detections untrustworthy. Exploitative search strategies search by trusting available information and using it to guide their search; this strategy type functions best when there is low clutter, which makes detections, and thus, available information, more trustworthy. Infotaxis melds the two types of search strategies together by using explorative tactics in high clutter density and exploitative tactics in low clutter density to detect targets faster than established search strategies. It achieves this by maximizing information gain through maximizing entropy reduction. Infotaxis selects which grid cells it measures each iteration by calculating which cell will reduce the amount of entropy or uncertainty the most. Previously, infotaxis has been used to search for a target based on passive odor sensing. This thesis tests a version of infotaxis that instead uses active sensing to capitalize on available information and in turn, speed up the search process. This thesis demonstrates that infotaxis is faster than traditional search strategies and can be implemented into a searching robot using ultrasonic sensors. Through constructing a MATLAB search strategy simulation, the speed of infotaxis is compared to three other search strategies: Maximum A Posteriori (MAP), cycling in order and random searching. Infotaxis is found to be faster than cycling in order and random searching under all tested conditions, and it is slightly faster than MAP when the probability of detection, PD, decreases. Infotaxis is implemented into a real search for a single target by programming an iRobot Create 2 to search a linear row of ten cells with the infotaxis method using an HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor to make detections. With PD = 0.7 and a probability of false alarm, PD = 0.1, the robot finds the target with infotaxis 100% faster than MAP. By implementing infotaxis using a robot and ultrasonic sensor, this thesis demonstrates that infotaxis can be used as a search strategy in the real world, outside of simulations.
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 J. Gendron, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UMASS Dartmouth; Dr. Karen Payton, Professor Emerita, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UMASS Dartmouth; Dr. Amir Habboosh, Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Technologies; Dr. Wu-Jung Lee, Senior Oceanographer, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington
*For further information, please contact Dr. John R. Buck via email at jbuck@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Mechanical Engineering (MNE) Seminar on 10/29/21
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- Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department
- Description: Mechanical Engineering (MNE) SEMINAR
DATE:
October 29, 2021
TIME:
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
LOCATION: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/96411224622?pwd=dStHeXhscHBZczE5UHVDek1YYUJ2Zz09
Meeting ID: 964 1122 4622
For Passcode, please contact: hling1@umassd.edu or scunha@umassd.edu
SPEAKER:
Dr. David Murphy, Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida
TOPIC:
Flapping Flight in Air and Water: Bio-Inspiration from Tiny Insects and Sea Butterflies
ABSTRACT:
The flapping of wings is a common locomotion technique for tiny animals in both air and water. Insects flap their wings to fly in air, and zooplanktonic marine snails called sea butterflies flap wing-like appendages (called parapodia) to "fly" in water. Further, some tiny insect species are able to locomote via wing flapping in both air and water. Despite the thousand-fold difference in density between air and water, the flight systems of these very different animals show surprising similarities in how the wings move and in how they generate lift. These similarities point towards the possibility of designing a bio-inspired micro-aerial vehicle capable of aerial and aquatic flapping flight, but the fluid dynamics of such flight systems are not well understood. Here I describe our experimental efforts to understand this locomotion system.
BIO:
Dr. David Murphy began as an Assistant Professor in the USF Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2016. He was awarded a National Academies of Science Gulf Research Program Early Career Research Fellowship in 2017 and received an NSF CAREER award in 2019. His research focuses on biological, ecological, and environmental fluid mechanics, and his work has taken him from Antarctica to Bermuda. Dr. Murphy received his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2012 from the Georgia Institute of Technology and subsequently served as postdoctoral fellow in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He also received an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MPhil in Biological Science from Cambridge University. He completed a double BS in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
For more information please contact Dr. Hangjian Ling, MNE Seminar Coordinator (hling1@umassd.edu).
All are welcome.
Students taking MNE-500 are REQUIRED to attend!
All other MNE BS and MS students are encouraged to attend. EAS students are also encouraged to attend.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, SMAST, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Lectures and Seminars
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Virtual Peer Advising
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- Contact: International Programs Office
- Description: Would you like to talk to a student about what it's like to study abroad? What were classes like? What was the best and most challenging aspect? Would you do it again? Stop by our Zoom room with your questions!
Zoom Link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/94877677116?pwd=RklyZzNuMld4eEJZNkRPdzNHdnkzdz09
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Study Abroad
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s).
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
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