Events May 18 May 18 11:00AM DEOS PhD Dissertation Defense: "Waves and Vortices in the Ocean - From Theory to Practice" by Bailey Remy DEOS PhD Dissertation Defense by Bailey Remy SMAST East 101-103 May 18 May 18 11:15AM From Seizure to Courtroom: A Blockchain Framework for Verifiable Evidence Chain of Custody CIS Master's Thesis Defense by Christopher Alves Dion 311 May 18 May 18 1:00PM Master of Science Thesis Defense by Marisa Gay A Framework for Measuring Sustainability in Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment by Marisa Gay Conference Room Seng 104 & Teams May 18 May 18 2:30PM RAG-Powered Customer Insight Generation for E-Commerce Using LLMs, Vector Search, and an End-to-End MLOps Pipeline DSC Master's Thesis Defense by Sai Surya Teja Medisetty Online - Zoom May 18 May 18 9:00PM Civil and Environmental Engineering Master's Project Presentation Review on PFAS remediation methods in water; destructive vs. non-destructive techniques SENG 104 May 19 May 19 10:00AM ELEE Oral Comprehensive Exam for Doctoral Candidacy by Sofia Obando-Vasquez ECE Department - Oral Comprehensive Exam for Doctoral Candidacy Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A May 19 May 19 1:00PM MNE/ISE MS Project Presentation by Mr. Sanath Raju (Sanath K P) Topic: Optimization of Mechanical Properties Using Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) ZOOM (for link, please contact: scunha@umassd.edu) May 19 May 19 4:00PM Quantum Computing with Superconducting Qubits DSC Thesis Defense by Manish Yadav Dion 311 and Zoom May 20 May 20 10:00AM Fishery Interactions, Capture Stress, and Post-Release Survival of Three Prohibited Shark Species in the Northeast U.S. DFO PhD Proposal Defense by Lindsay L. Graff SMAST East 101-103 May 20 May 20 12:00PM Hub-Based Memory Poisoning: Query-Blind Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented LLM Agents CIS Master's Thesis Defense by Aidan Root Dion 311 May 21 May 21 10:00AM Undergraduate & Graduate Student Commencement Ceremony I Ceremony for SMAST, Engineering, & CCB Cressy Field May 21 May 21 4:00PM Doctoral Commencement Ceremony All doctoral students from all schools and colleges (excluding Law students) Main Auditorium 1 2 > >> Launch UMassD events calendar Take the next step Contact form Tell us more about how the Business Engagement Center can help your business grow. Complete this contact form, or contact one of our team members.