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Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences "Optical water classification of global oceans" Jianwei Wei, Senior Remote Sensing Scientist, Global Science and Technology, Inc., NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) at College Park, Maryland Wednesday, October 9, 2024 12:30pm-1:30pm Remote presentation Stream of lecture available in SMAST E 101-102 and via Zoom Abstract: Satellite ocean reflectance data cover diverse water types from coastal waters to open oceans. Spectral classification of these reflectance data allows for distinguishing and grouping of water bodies with characteristic bio-optical/biogeochemical features. In this talk, I will present the new optical water class products for global oceans. The new model accounts for the hyperspectral reflectance spectral shapes and resolves the global aquatic system into two dozen water classes. These classes are separable with distinct bio-optical and biogeochemical properties, such as light absorption and scattering coefficients, Chl-a, diffuse attenuation coefficient, and suspended particulate matter. The in situ and satellite matchup data show that the satellite water class data are accurate, especially in open oceans. The satellite water classes not only exhibit features comparable to the Longhurst ocean provinces but have captured additional aspects of the water classes, including the seasonality of ocean basins. The representation of coastal/inland environments is considerably improved. How to use the water class products is always appealing. With demonstrations, the water class data are used as an indicator of the subtropical ocean gyre expansion and of the coastal water quality fluctuations. To date, the global water class data have been generated at daily and monthly levels from multiple satellites: VIIRS/SNPP, OLCI/Sentinel-3, SGLI/GCOM-C, etc. The experimental data are freely accessible. Join Zoom Meeting https://umassd.zoom.us/j/97440069270?pwd=L2Z1bDZESTFCKzJYZWduYVhWenYvZz09 Meeting ID: 974 4006 9270 Passcode: 428029 For additional information, please contact Callie Rumbut at c.rumbut@umassd.edu
Flu Clinic hosted by Student Health Services. Flu clinic is located on the second floor of the Grove in the private dining room. Flu clinic is open to all STUDENTS! Appointments can be made on the Student Health Portal or by calling 508-999-8982. Walk-ins also welcome!
Abstract: It is perhaps surprising to ask the question "When does the empire begin?" of a text like Os Lusadas that is about the historical arrival of Vasco da Gama from Lisbon in Calicut, India, at the end of the fifteenth century. This lecture will look at how the poem imagines pre-arrival moments through the use of classical mythology and how these moments highlight the complicated entanglements of literature and empire. In these episodes of dreams, rumors, and sexualized fantasies, we see that Cames envisages the written and spoken word as not so much an accompaniment to empire as its enabling prerequisite. If national stories are told in a particular way, the poem suggests, they might make imperial dominion a foregone conclusion. Simon Park's research focuses on the history, literature, and the visual arts of the Portuguese-speaking world in the Early Modern period. He is the author of Poets, Patronage, and Print in Sixteenth-Century Portugal: From Paper to Gold (Oxford University Press, 2021), which examines how poets thought of themselves in professional terms and used poetry to negotiate their social status and financial success in the 1500s, when poetry's worth (and that of its practitioners) was regularly contested. His current book projects include Wreckers, a rereading of disaster stories from the "Age of Discoveries" as a way of imaginatively "unlearning" imperialism, and a second project that explores the use of art and material culture to articulate and justify Portuguese dominion in Africa, Asia, and South America through the prism of the systematic failure of such undertakings.
Join us for adult coloring and conversation about bodies and sex. Tea & treats provided.
Mechanical Engineering (MNE) SEMINAR DATE: October 11, 2024 TIME: 2pm-3pm LOCATION: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 426 (LIB-426) SPEAKER: Dr. Joshua Carberry, Assistant Teaching Professor Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth TOPIC: Contemporary Applications for Large Language Models and Other AI Modalities ABSTRACT: Recent years have seen the explosion of popularity of applications leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to provide users with features and functionalities beyond the capabilities of traditional computing solutions. In particular, large language models (LLMs) have surged to the forefront of AI research and development following the release of powerful user applications like ChatGPT, Microsoft CoPilot, and Google Gemini, and xAi Grok. Leveraging unique architectures and large-scale training data, these LLM-based applications provide a chat interface that enables users to engage AI chatbots on a litany of subjects, in contrast to the one-subject expertise provided by traditional solutions. Over the past few years, LLM-based applications have demonstrated superior understanding and utility across a wide range of subjects from language translation to law to medicine to programming. Increasingly, AI chatbots are used to assist with tasks like business communications and programming. In this talk, we will give a high-level overview of the history and mechanisms behind transformer-based large language models and the efforts that go into training these architectures. Furthermore, we will review the performance of contemporary models on a wide range of language-based tasks. Finally, we will introduce some creative or otherwise unconventional tasks that explore the capabilities and limits of LLMs. BIO: Dr. Joshua Carberry is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and lab manager for the Concurrent Software Engineering Laboratory (CSEL). Dr. Carberry received his Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science (Computer Science and Information Science option) in 2024 at UMassD. Before earning the PhD, he received a Master's degree in Computer and Information Sciences at UMassD in 2022. Dr. Carberry's work primarily focuses on natural language processing using artificial intelligence and deep learning, with a focus on text classification and understanding for clinical healthcare text. Other research interests include computer vision for image classification as well as software reliability techniques for improving the reliability of critical cloud services. For more information, please contact Habibor Rahman, PhD, MNE Seminar Coordinator (mrahman15@umassd.edu). All are welcome. Students taking MNE-500 are REQUIRED to attend! All other MNE students are encouraged to attend. EAS students are also encouraged to attend. Thank you!
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The Search is an innovative small group series that tackles the key questions of every human heart. In seven beautifully filmed episodes, Chris Stefanick and experts from multiple fields of science, medicine, psychology, art, and religion examine our place in the larger story of existence. Whether you're a practiced inquirer or a jaded skeptic, The Search will speak to you. You may be reassured by some parts, and challenged by others. Either way, you'll find a lot here to think about. And when all is said and done, life's questions demand to be answered. Free Dinner in the PDR (private dining room on the top floor of the Grove (please register so we can prepare)at 5:30pm Program at 6pm Are you ready for The Search?
Join us to learn about the upcoming election & LGBTQI issues. Lunch provided.
The exhibition titled "You Have No Choice" presents the work of the world-renowned architectural illustrator Tamotsu "Tommy" Yamamoto (Kyoto, 1946 Boston, 2012) at UMass Dartmouth CVPA Campus Gallery, including a collection of his personal artworks and professional architectural renderings. The newly established Tamotsu Yamamoto Scholarship is awarded to the outstanding student who demonstrates strong potential in interior design. Originally established at Mount Ida College in 1999, the UMass Dartmouth Interior Architecture + Design program now has $500,000.00 that can begin to distribute scholarships annually. Marking this significant occasion, Associate Professor of Interior Architecture + Design Dr. Rose Botti-Salitsky curated an exhibition of Professor Yamamoto's architectural renderings and artwork that is open from October 1 to November 23, 2024 with the reception on Thursday, October 17, 4.30pm to 7pm at CVPA Campus Gallery. Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director (vlevitt@umassd.edu)
Topic:Enhancing Light-Matter Interaction Through Engineering Electromagnetic Fields, -- Toward high-performance infrared (IR) photodetectors and focal plane array (FPA) Speaker: Dr. Xuejun Lu, Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) Lowell, Massachusetts Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A Zoom Conference Link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/95530531512 Meeting ID: 955 3053 1512 Passcode: 691285 Abstract: Light-Matter Interaction plays critical roles in many photonics devices. In this seminar, I will discuss two approaches to enhance light-matter interaction, i.e., surface plasmonic resonance and optical antenna, as well as their applications in achieving high performance mid-IR and longwave IR photodetectors and FPAs. Device working principles and the enhancement mechanism through engineering electromagnetic fields will be presented. Biography: Dr. Xuejun Lu is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University Massachusetts Lowell (UML). He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas Austin in 2001. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the microelectronic research center, UT Austin from 2001 to 2002 and a Senior Engineer at Finisar from 2002 to 2003. He joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University Massachusetts Lowell as an assistant professor in 2003. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2008 and full professor in 2013. His research interests include: Surface plasmonics and optical antenna enhanced mid-wave and longwave infrared (MWIR/LWIR) photodetectors and focal plane arrays (FPA), Multi-color (band) IR sensors; Flexible thin-film transistors; Stand-off remote chemical sensor; Optical antenna enhanced avalanche photodiode (APD), Optical antenna induced strong light-matter interaction, Single quantum dot emitters; LWIR Electro-optic modulators based on intersubband transitions; High-quality ultra-uniform quantum dot and III-V material growth techniques. The Seminar is open to the public free of charge. *For further information, please contact Dr. Yifei Li via email at yifei.li@umassd.edu.
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