Events Apr 24 Apr 24 7:30PM Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory Open House Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory Open House Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory Field Apr 27 Apr 27 2:00PM Unsupervised Autoencoder-Based Anomaly Detection for Storm Formation Using Onboard Time-Series Data 聽 CIS Master鈥檚 Thesis Defense by Snehashish Srivastava Dion 311 Apr 27 Apr 27 3:30PM National Cybersecurity Center & ECE Seminar CSEC jointly with COE National Cybersecurity Center & ECE Seminar. Speaker: John Petrozzelli, Director, MassCyberCenter, Boston, MA Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 222 Apr 28 Apr 28 1:30PM EAS Doctoral Proposal Defense by Vrutant Vikasbhai Mehta The Astrophysics of Helium-Ignited Binary White Dwarf Merger Type Ia Supernovae TXT 105 Apr 29 Apr 29 10:30AM Data Science MS Thesis Defense by Adithi Madduluri Evaluating the impact of data drift on deep learning models for bitcoin price forecasting Virtual Apr 29 Apr 29 10:30AM "Evaluating the Impact of Data Drift on Deep Learning Models for Bitcoin Price Forecasting" Data Science MS Thesis Defense by Adithi Madduluri via Zoom: please contact Adithi Madduluri (amadduluri@umassd.edu) or Dr. Yan (dyan@umassd.edu) for the zoom link and passcode Apr 29 Apr 29 12:30PM SMAST DEOS Seminar: "Coastal Cities: Managing Urban Impacts Below the Waterline" by Katherine Dafforn April 29, 2026 - SMAST DEOS Seminar: "Coastal Cities: Managing Urban Impacts Below the Waterline" by Katherine Dafforn SMAST East 101-103 Apr 29 Apr 29 1:00PM ELEE Research Component of PhD Qualifier Exam by Temegni Ulrich Bertaud ELEE Research Component of PhD Qualifier Exam by Temegni Ulrich Bertaud Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A Apr 29 Apr 29 3:00PM SMAST Seminar - DFO "Novel Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture Projects in the Gulf of Maine, Gulf of Mexico, and the Northern Mariana Islands" by Michael Chambers SMAST Seminar - DFO -April 29, 2026 by: Michael Chambers SMAST East 101-103 Apr 30 Apr 30 1:00PM DFO PhD Dissertation Defense: Beyond the observer's gaze DFO PhD Dissertation Defense: "Beyond the observer's gaze: an integrated approach to detection, estimation, and mitigation of observer and deployment effects in fisheries monitoring" presented by Debra Duarte. SMAST East 102-103 May 2 May 2 8:00PM Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory Open House Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory Open House Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory Field May 5 May 5 11:00AM Mechanical Engineering / Industrial Systems Engineering MS Project Presentation by Myriam Iralien Floating System for Microplastic Removal: Design and Feasibility Analysis ZOOM (for the Zoom link, Meeting ID, and Passcode, please contact: mrahman15@umassd.edu -or- scunha@umassd.edu May 6 May 6 10:30AM EAS Doctoral Dissertation Defense by Guancheng Zhou Towards Diagnosis, Fairness, and interpretation of Machine Learning Algorithms LIB 314 May 6 May 6 11:00AM CPE Master of Science Thesis Defense by Brent Rubell - ECE Department CPE Master of Science Thesis Defense - ECE Department Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A May 6 May 6 1:30PM Joint Data and Computational Science Seminar Series: Graph-theoretic properties of mitochondrial tubular networks Talk by Professor Gary Davis of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth TXT105A May 6 May 6 1:00PM Physics Master of Science Thesis Defense by Anudeep Davuluru Quark Confinement from Generalized SU(3) and Holographic Models under Constraints SENG 201 May 6 May 6 2:45PM Physics Master of Science Thesis Defense by Chackochan Joji Pathway to Type Iax Supernovae: 3D Hydrodynamical Sim. of Oxygen-Neon and Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarfs SENG 201 May 7 May 7 9:30AM Finding Malfunctions in UAV鈥檚 Physical Sensors using Reinforcement Learning; Sensor Fusion v. Raw Data CIS Master's Thesis Defense by Margaret Battersby Dion 311 and Teams (https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/2719811093827?p=KtSBWMxZOo55nt9oIu) May 7 May 7 9:30AM Physics Master of Science Thesis Defense by Chackochan Joji Pathway to Type Iax Supernovae: 3D Hydrodynamical Sim. of Oxygen-Neon and Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf SENG 201 May 7 May 7 9:30AM Tree based gravity solver for 3D hydrodynamical simulations of binary white dwarfs merger type Ia supernovae Physics Master of Science Thesis Defense by Slevin Christian SENG 201 May 7 May 7 11:00AM Physics Master of Science Project Presentation by Bhaskar Verma Rapid Quality Assessment of Gravitational-Wave Glitch Reconstruction Using Machine Learning SENG 201 May 7 May 7 10:00AM Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Menaka Konara Design, Fabrication, Experimental Study of Light-Actuated, Biocompatible, Multi-functional Microbots SENG-110 (Science & Engineering Building, Room 110 / Materials Science Lab) May 6 May 7 11:53AM Electrical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Brent Rubell Thesis Defense by Brent Rubell Lester W. Cory COnference Room, Science and Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A May 8 May 8 10:00AM DFO MS Thesis Defense: Sink or Source? by Andie Painten DFO MS Thesis Defense "Sink or Source? The attraction versus production theory at an offshore wind farm using black sea bass as a case study" by Andie Painten SMAST East 101-103 May 8 May 8 10:00AM Mechanical Engineering / ISE MS Project Presentation by Mr. Sanath Kosuru Padmanabha Raju (Sanath K P) Study Microstructure & Mechanical Properties TIG Weldments Dissimilar Aluminum Alloys... ZOOM May 8 May 8 1:30PM Surrogate Modeling of Atlantis: Deep Learning Approaches for Predicting and Forecasting Biomass DSC Master's Thesis Defense by Vishnu Selvaraj Online May 11 May 11 10:00AM Benchmarking of Memory Fragmentation Metrics on Real Allocation Traces CIS Master's Thesis Defense by Andrew Bajumpaa Dion 311 and Teams (https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/28305274898079?p=Hq5YC1bJl1SW8ioWEn) May 11 May 11 4:00PM Emulating Marine Ecosystem Dynamics: A Machine Learning Approach For Biomass Prediction And Forecasting DSC Master's Thesis Defense by Ajmal Abbas Online/Teams (https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/210134622120814?p=HF1gXRarGipViGBpda) May 13 May 13 11:00AM BMEBT MS Thesis defense by Shrimathi Venugopalakrishnan Evaluation of extracellular vesicles released by 3D spheroids and 2D conventional cell culture of the SKOV3 ovarian cancer cell line by Shrimathi Venugopalakrishnan Textiles 011 May 14 May 14 10:30AM Stable and Compute-Resource Efficient Learning with Spiking and Quantum Neural Networks: Methods and Insights CIS Master's Thesis Defense by Jacob Fronzaglia Dion 311 May 14 May 14 10:00AM Mechanical Engineering MS Project Presentation by Mr. Joshua Letizia Research and Development of a Reengineering Plan for an Aluminum Extrusion Facilty SENG-110 (Materials Science Lab) -and- on ZOOM (for Zoom info, please contact: scunha@umassd.edu) May 14 May 14 12:00PM Masters thesis defense by Aiden Morgado Heterologous Expression of Chitinolytic Genes in C. necator for Chitin utilization by Aiden Morgado Textile Building 219 May 15 May 15 11:00AM BMEBT MS Thesis Defense by Abid Neron BMEBT MS Thesis Defense by Abid Neron TEX 219 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 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 Load More See all events