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Friday, October 22, 2021
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UMass Brut Free Public Events - October 22, 2021
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: FREE
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The UMass Brut collaboration between UMass Dartmouth and UMass Amherst is sponsoring several free public events on October 22, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
On the path between the UMD Library and the College of Visual and Performing Arts, artist Daniel DeLuca will install sculptural, participatory structures (frames with chalkboards) and will invite pedestrians and UMass Brut symposium participants to respond to their encounter with UMD's theatrical 'brutalist' architecture (designed by renowned architect Paul Rudolph).
At 6:00 P.M. inside CVPA's voluminous atrium, and in conjunction with the closing of the Norman Ives exhibition, enjoy Kelvin Dickinson's presentation, "A Discovery of Opposites: Paul Rudolph & the Poetics of Brutalism at UMass Dartmouth." Mr. Dickinson, President of the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation, will pause during his lecture so CVPA painting instructor David Burr can present a participatory artwork.
In it, he will invite listeners to experience Rudolph's cavernous and cave-like spaces by following a 3,000-foot rope 'drawing' that winds through the CVPA.
At the conclusion of the presentation (or just after sunset), step outside for a video projection event celebrating the UMD campus. The series of videos, a montage of colorful images accompanied by sound, will be projected on the Maclean Campus Center and CVPA exterior walls. The videos will highlight the campus history, architecture, and expansion, and the University's connection to local communities.
The work is produced by the students in Professor Mark Millstein's Video Projection Mapping class in the Art and Design Department of the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
This evening event is part of a two-day collaborative symposium titled, "Brutalism + the Public University: Past, Present and Future" sponsored by UMass Dartmouth and UMass Amherst. Take a moment to register for this unique symposium that brings together a team of nationally renowned scholars interested in concrete Brutalist architecture and preservation of the architectural icons.
Free to the UMass community and enrolled college students. Be sure to register for the Symposium this Friday, October 22 (8 am-8:30 pm) at UMass Dartmouth and Saturday, October 23 (8 am-5:30 pm) at UMass Amherst.
Space is limited, but we're holding a seat for you. for more details, visit UMassBrut at https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/umassbrut/umassbrut_symposium.
- Link: https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/umassbrut/umassbrut_symposium
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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Brutalism & the Public University Past, Present and Future
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 122, Grand Reading Room
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Modern twentieth century architecture has always inspired a variety of passionate responses, especially the "brutalist" buildings at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and Amherst. To explore their architectural heritage and its preservation, the two campuses will hold a two-day symposium, Brutalism + the Public University: Past, Present, and Future on October 22 and 23.
The symposium, part of the UMassBrut collaborative, will provide a unique platform that brings together a team of distinguished scholars, industry professionals, artists, and passionate citizens with an interest in the preservation of mid to late twentieth-century architecture. The symposium's goal is to create a dynamic, cross-disciplinary conversation among all participants on how to provide stewardship of these buildings for the future. Each day will feature professional workshops, scholarly lectures, guided campus tours, public art exhibitions, and creative activities (including video projections on the architectural facades).
Participants will discuss Brutalist architecture (history and design) and explore the issues of preservation and adaption unique to these modernist concrete structures. Both campuses contain extensive examples of mid-century Brutalist concrete architecture by world-renowned modernist architects including Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, Kevin Roche, Hugh Stubbins, and Edward Durell Stone. These landmark structures will be accessible in Dartmouth on Friday, October 22, and in Amherst on Saturday, October 23.
Keynote presentations on both days will include Chandler McCoy and Ana Paula Arato Gonçalves of the Getty Conservation Institute's Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative. Speakers include faculty from UMass and visiting faculty from Brown, Harvard, Roger Williams, Rutgers, Columbia and the University of South Carolina. Other speakers include distinguished professionals from the fields of architecture, historic preservation, engineering, construction, lighting, graphic, interior design, and professional staff from UMass and the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance.
The UMassBrut group, organizers of the symposium, consists of UMass Dartmouth and UMass Amherst faculty, staff, students, and interested parties dedicated to celebrating, preserving, and reimagining mid-century Brutalist public architecture. The group will continue to organize events and engage others in the UMass system and the public at large.
Contact: Allison Cywin at acywin@umassd.edu.
- Link: https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/umassbrut
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Students, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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Virtual Peer Advising
- Location: > See description for location
- 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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Biology Department Seminar, Catherine Matassa, Viewing food chains from the middle-out
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: Biology Seminar Series
- Description: Location: LARTS 108
Speaker: Catherine Matassa, University of Connecticut
Title: Viewing food chains from the middle-out: how prey responses to predation risk affect top-down and bottom-up processes
Abstract: Predators can drive trophic cascades by consuming their prey but also by causing prey to engage in anti-predator behaviors such as reduced feeding rates or habitat shifts. However, the energetic costs of anti-predator behaviors require that prey carefully balance the need to avoid both predation and starvation. While a growing body of theory predicts predator-sensitive prey foraging behavior, empirical work has been necessary to identify the mechanisms that link anti-predator behaviors to their population-, community-, and ecosystem-level consequences. My research on benthic marine communities demonstrates that the cascading effects of "fear" on prey behavior and physiology can be more pronounced and more dynamic than the numerical effects of predators on prey density. This contrast arises because predation risk influences not only the intensity of prey foraging impacts, but also when, where, and how prey gather and utilize energy from lower trophic levels. Emerging from the ecology of fear is a "middle-out" perspective: the cascading effects of predators and the flow of energy and nutrients to higher trophic levels ultimately depend on the organisms that connect the tops and bottoms of food chains. Because most species are in the middle of food chains (and must therefore balance foraging-predation risk trade-offs), understanding how fear and other environmental stressors interact will be necessary to effectively predict and manage the impacts of climate change and trophic downgrading on marine ecosystems.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Students, Graduate
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar on 10/22/21 by Dr. Jing Wang, SDE Amazon Inc.
- Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115,
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department
- Description: Mechanical Engineering (MNE) SEMINAR
DATE:
October 22, 2021
TIME:
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
LOCATION:
Charlton College of Business (CCB), Room 115
SPEAKER:
Dr. Jing Wang, SDE Amazon Inc.
TOPIC:
Deformation of a Compliant Wall in a Turbulent Boundary Layer
ABSTRACT:
The interactions between a compliant wall and turbulent or laminar boundary layer have been investigated extensively for over 60 years. Most of the studies are focused on turbulent drag reduction or noise suppression. With the development of 3D flow diagnostic techniques like tomographic PIV, or Shake-The-Box, it's able to measure the 3D flow including 3D velocities and 3D pressure field coupled with the compliant surface deformation. Among them, 3D pressure is difficult to measure directly and is forcing the deformation, thus, it's calculated indirectly from 3D velocities. In this talk, I will first present a robust and accurate GPU-based method for direct integration of velocity field to obtain the 3D pressure. This method is applied to the experiment of turbulent channel flow over a compliant surface. The experiment utilized a relatively stiffer compliant wall with Young's modulus of 1 Mpa and had a center-line flow speed (Uc) of 2.5 m/s. The resulting deformation amplitude is too small (20 nm) to affect the near wall flow field, thus a one-way coupling between the flow and the deformation is observed. The deformation has two modes, the fast mode move with Uc and slow mode is advecting at 0.72Uc. Statistics show the positive slow mode deformation is correlated with low pressure which resides in a vortical structure and the negative deformation is located at sweep ejection transition where there is a high pressure. Aiming at revealing the two-way coupling of deformation and turbulent boundary layer, we redesigned the experiment based on the Chase (Chase 1991) model prediction. Careful selections of freestream velocity (U0 = 6.0 m/s) and compliant surface Young's modulus (180 kPa) ensures the deformation amplitude is comparable to the wall unit. In this experiment, a spanwise propagating deformation mode which is aligned in the streamwise direction is observed. This mode does not move with the flow and seems to be associated with the shearr wave. Another mode of deformation advects downstream with 0.66U0 and is preferentially aligned in the spanwise direction. Different with turbulent flow over a rough wall, the near wall velocity profile showing a sharp increase of velocity gradient at 10 wall units. These findings are consistent with recent DNS results by Rosti and Brandt (2017).
BIO:
Dr. Jin Wang received his Bachelor of Science at University of Science and Technology of China in 2012. Then he moved to Johns Hopkins University to pursue his PhD degree in Whiting School of Engineering under the supervision of Professor Joseph Katz focusing on flow diagnostics and turbulent flow over compliant surfaces. Dr. Wang received his PhD degree in 2019.
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 encouraged to attend.
Thank you,
Sue Cunha, Administrative Assistant
Department of Mechanical Engineering
scunha@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Lectures and Seminars
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Natural Shocks: A Play by Laura Gunderson
- Location: Main Auditorium (Angus Bailey Auditorium)
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: $5 for non students
- Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality
- Description: Natural Shocks is a suspenseful one woman show starring Kelly Robertson about a woman trapped in her basement waiting out an approaching tornado... or is it a tornado?
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Women and Gender Studies, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Theater, Corsairs Care, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 20 Cent Fiction, Theater Company, Student Affairs
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Spaces of Rest Media Nights Spruce 130
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Media Night Spruce 130 or 128, Friday 8pm-10pm
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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Financial Aid Help Labs: Library 128
- Location: > See description for location
- 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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AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS
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- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford.
For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography.
Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice.
Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York.
University Art Gallery
UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts
Star Store Campus
715 Purchase Street
New Bedford, MA 02740
Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries
www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery
Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director
gallery@umassd.edu
(508) 999-8555
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am – 6 pm.
Free and open to the public
- Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
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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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AMANDA MEANS: LIGHT YEARS
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is delighted to host a career survey of the work of renowned U.S. artist Amanda Means at the University Art Gallery in Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford.
For over forty years, Amanda Means has created a body of work that has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium with her celebrated Leaf, Flower, Water Glass, and Light Bulb series of images. Means has been a darkroom innovator throughout her career: adapting a 19th century camera for use as an enlarger, photographing objects without the use of negatives, working with a large-format Polaroid camera, and creating a series of remarkable abstracts working only with light and photographic materials. The artist's darkroom alchemy was cited by the Guggenheim Foundation in awarding Means their prestigious Fellowship in 2017 for her contribution to contemporary photography.
Our survey exhibition, Means' first retrospective, includes examples of work from all phases of her career. Alongside key pieces from her color Polaroid Light Bulb and silver gelatin Water Glass works, we are excited to be showing some of the artist's early prints and works on paper, as well as important examples of her black and white Flower and Light Bulb works. This affords a unique opportunity to view Means' most celebrated images in the broader context of her overall practice.
Amanda Means is a graduate of Cornell University and SUNY Buffalo, and is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, and her work is included in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Switzerland. The artist is represented by JHB Gallery, New York, and lives and works in Beacon, New York.
University Art Gallery
UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts
Star Store Campus
715 Purchase Street
New Bedford, MA 02740
Facebook and Instagram: @UMassDartmouthGalleries
www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery
Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director
gallery@umassd.edu
(508) 999-8555
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am – 6 pm.
Free and open to the public
- Topical Areas: General Public, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
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Master of Science Thesis Defense and Research Component of PhD Qualifier Exam By: Savas Erdim
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: Topic: Designing a Covariance Matrix Tapered MVDR Beamformer that is Universal Over Notch Width
Location: DION 109
ABSTRACT:
Adaptive beamformers suppress interferers and reduce background noise by adjusting the complex array weights in response to the received array data. Practical adaptive beamformers like the minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer balance these two competing requirements while maintaining unity gain for the desired look direction. The MVDR beamformer places sharp notches in the location of the interferers to minimize the interferer output power. For stationary sources, MVDR is an optimal beamformer, but the performance of MVDR degrades in the presence of moving interferers. Interferers moving at different bearing rates reside inside beamformer resolution cells for different durations, challenging MVDR's ability to place accurate notches in the interferer direction. Consequently, the moving interferer is generally no longer within the single sharp notch location. Covariance Matrix Taper (CMT) MVDR mitigates moving interferers by creating wider notches in the beampattern. However, the CMT increases the notch width by a fixed amount, and the best notch width depends on the unknown bearing rate of each interferer which may change over time. A single fixed CMT notch width cannot suppress all moving interferers perfectly. Therefore, the need for different notch widths for different bearing rates leads us to the possibility of designing a universal algorithm for the notch width parameter. The universal CMT beamformer asymptotically achieves performance rivaling or exceeding the performance of the best fixed notch width CMT beamformer in a set by computing its array weights as a performance weighted blend of the array weights for the fixed notch width beamformers.
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. Dayalan P. Kasilingam and Dr. Paul J. Gendron, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UMASS Dartmouth
*For further information, please contact Dr. John R. Buck via email at jbuck@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: Alumni, General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Virtual Study Abroad Advising
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: International Programs Office
- Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Would you like to start planning your study abroad experience? Join us on zoom to discuss opportunities. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis.
Zoom link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/98493726095?pwd=QUEySVNkTVdnS0hUNm94Q1NqQ0FkQT09
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Study Abroad
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