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
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 |