Transportation Seminar Series
All meetings will be in Gunness Student Center, Marcus Hall at 1:00pm unless noted otherwise
Fall 2016
Transportation in the 21st Century
William G. Paille, P.E., Director of Transportation Services, BSC Group
| September 15 | 1:00pm | Gunness Student Center |
New All Electronic Toll Collection on the MassPike
Peter Cavicchi, MassDOT
| September 22 | 1:00pm | ELab 305 |
UMTC Moving Together Conference
| September 29 | Boston Park Plaza, Boston, MA |
FENG Lecture: “Drought and Global Change – Lessons from California”
Dr. Jay R. Lund, Director of the Center for Watershed Studies and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis
| October 6 | 4:00pm | Amherst Room, Campus Center |
TANG Lecture: “Generational Advancement in Additive Technology”
Dr. Barry Siadat ’79 PhD, ChE, Cofounder and Managing Director, SK Capital Partners
with John M. Steitz, CEO, Addivant Corporation
| October 13 | 4:00pm |
Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union |
The Massachusetts Transportation System and the Challenges that Lie Ahead
Jeffrey B. Mullan, Partner, Foley Hoag LLP (former Secretary, MA DOT)
| October 18 | 1:00pm | Gunness Student Center |
Air Traffic Control Systems and Surface Management Challenges
Marcus Smith, Lead Multi-Disciplinary Systems Engineer
The MITRE Corporation
| October 27 | 1:00pm | ELab 305 |
MassDOT UAS research results
Michael Plotnikov, Research Fellow, UMTC
| November 3 | 1:00pm |
Gunness Student Center |
How I Planned for my Job at Uber Even though It Never Existed Before
Heather Rothenberg, Lead, Uber’s Trust and Safety Research, Standards, and Risk Teams
| November 8 | 3:45pm |
Gunness Student Center |
Title TBD
Megan Ryerson, Assistant Professor, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
| November 10 | 1:00pm |
Gunness Student Center |
TBD
| November 17 | 1:00pm |
Gunness Student Center |
Cyber Security: Connected Vehicle, Autonomous Control, and Vulnerabilities
Michael Dinning, Director of Multi-Modal Partnerships, USDOT Volpe Center
| December 1 | 1:00pm |
ELab 305 |
TBD
| December 8 | 1:00pm |
ELab 305 |
Spring 2017
Faculty and Student introduction and your chance to suggest speakers/topics for future transportation seminars
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January 26 |
1:00pm |
Gunness Student Center |
Transportation from a Public Health Perspective
Krystal Pollitt, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Science’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences
| February 2 | 1:00pm |
Gunness Student Center |
Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Drinking Water in Crisis: Lead, Lignin, and Legionella
Dr. David Reckhow, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
| Wednesday, February 8 | 1:00pm |
Gunness Student Center |
The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem | Implications for Population and Health Research
Mei-Po Kwan, Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
| February 16 | 1:00pm | ELAB 305 |
Exploring Data at the Intersection of Healthcare and Transportation
Moumita Dasgupta, Principal Investigator of Smart Transit for Healthcare project and Teaching fellow at Amherst College at the Department of Physics and Astronomy
| February 23 | 1:00pm |
Gunness Student Center |
Addressing Data Challenges for Bicycle Crash Analysis
Dr. Eleni Christofa, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering at UMass Amherst
| March 2 | 1:00pm | ELab 305 |
Development of a Smart City at Union Point: Opportunities for Autonomous Vehicle Research and Applications
Ryan Blackmon, Vice President of Advanced Technologies/Assistant General
Tom Ber, Union Point Abstract
| March 9 | 1:00pm |
Gunness Student Center |
Student Symposium
| March 23 | Student Symposium in Brooklyn, NY |
CityLines: A Hybrid Hub-and-Spoke System for Urban Transit Services
Yanhua Li, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department and Data Science Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
| March 30 | 1:00pm |
Gunness Student Center |
Managing Risks to Infrastructure with Real-Time Monitoring of Performance
Ms. Winger has served 19 years in the transportation industry and will share valuable lessons learned from her experiences
Dr. W. Allen Marr, PhD, PE, DGE, NAE of Geocomp
| April 6 | 1:00pm |
Gunness Student Center |
Women’s Transportation Seminar Speaker Series
WTS host Susan Nichols, Director of Environmental Planning for VHB
| April 13 | 1:00pm |
Gunness Student Center |
TBD
TBD
| April 20 | 1:00pm |
ELab 305 |
William Boyer Lecture
Secretary Pollack
| Wednesday, April 26 |
3:00pm |
Bernie Dallas Room, Goodell Building |
Title TBD
Elizabeth (Betty) Deaking
| April 27 | 1:00pm |
Gunness Student Center |