Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, October 13, 2003

 

Speakers:

Mon., Oct. 13, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.

Monday Evening Seminar:

"Tunneling Spectroscopy Study of Thin Gate

Dielectrics," Wei He, Electrical Engineering.

Adviser Prof. T.P. Ma.

Refreshments at 3:30 pm outside Mason 211.

Wed., Oct. 15, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.

Solid State and Optics Seminar:

"A Cooper Pair Box Coupled to a Superconducting

Stripline Resonator A Route Towards On-chip Cavity

Quantum Electrodynamics," Dr. Andreas Wallraff,

Applied Physics.

Host Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.

 

Wed., Oct. 15, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.

Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:

"Sphere Packings, Jamming, and Order Metrics,"

Prof. Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University.

Hosts Prof. Jerzey Blawzdziewicz and

Prof. Corey O’Hern.

 

Wed., Oct. 15, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.

Department of Chemical Engineering

2003 Fall Barnett F. Dodge Lecture:

"Thin Film Forces Measurement, Theory, and Simulation,"

Prof. Clayton J. Radke, Chemical Engineering, University of

California at Berkeley.

Host Prof. Paul Van Tassel.

 

Thurs., Oct. 16, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:

"Rotating Trapped Atoms and Non-Abelian Statistics,"

Prof. Nicholas Read, Physics and Applied Physics.

Fri., Oct. 17, 115 pm, Mason 211.

Special Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar

"Moore's 'Promise' and Microcomputer Development,"

Mr. Stanley Mazor, Silicon Valley Innovator (patents),

Inventors Hall of Fame.

Host Prof. T.P. Ma.

 

Job Market for Scientists and Engineers:

The Department of Economics and Yale University Press

invite you to a three-day seminar, "Working at the Endless

Frontier The Job Market for Scientists and Engineers,"

by Prof. Richard B. Freeman, Department of Economics,

Harvard:

Mon., Oct. 13, 
   "What is Different about the Science and Engineering Job Market?"

Tues., Oct. 14, 
   "Producing and Using Knowledge."

Wed., Oct. 15, 
   "Who Owns Science and Engineering?"

All talks will be at Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, 400 pm.

 

New Staff:

Felix Benjamin ("Ben") McManus '78 joined us 9/8 as

Administrative Assistant in Electrical Engineering. He has a

Yale B.A. in sociology and was the office manager at Good Work

Associates, an organizational development consulting firm in New

Haven, until it closed in 2001. Since then, he has worked at Yale.

Mr. McManus has two teenage sons, the younger of whom is being

home-schooled by his wife, Tatiana McManus. Mr. McManus is

a runner and participates in local road races; in '96, he ran (and

finished!) the Cape Cod Marathon.

 

Final doctoral examination:

Oct. 8, Athinodoros Georghiades: "From Few to Many

Generative Appearance-Based Models for Face Recognition."

Committee: Prof. Peter Belhumeur, Prof. Roman Kuc,

and Prof. James Duncan.

 

ACS Certificate of Merit to EnvE grad student:

Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Sharon Walker

has received word that she was awarded a Certificate of

Merit by the American Chemical Society for her presentation

of "The Role of Lipopolysaccharide Composition on Bacterial

Adhesion and Detachment under Flow Conditions" at the

Annual ACS Meeting last March in New Orleans. This

award recognizes the high quality and significance of work

presented by members of the Environmental Chemistry Division.

Her Adviser is Prof. Menachem Elimelech.

 

Connecticut Nanotech Initiative Symposium:

Yale Engineering is one of the Supporting Organizations of the

Connecticut Nanotech Initiative Symposium, to be held at the

University of Connecticut, Jorgensen Auditorium, Storrs, CT,

Thurs., Oct. 16, 900 am to 500 pm. Among the speakers will be

Prof. Mark Saltzman, BME, Bio/Pharma Session, and

Prof. Mark Reed, EE & AP, Education/Outreach Session.

 

Come again?

"'My client is an electrician with a spotless criminal record,'"

[James] Diamond [a lawyer] told the News-Times of Danbury."

New Haven Register 10/10/03, p. A6.

 

End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 597

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