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SPEAKERS SCHEDULE

April 2005
as of April 28
Fri., April 1 
4:00 pm 
Dunham 
Fifth Floor  Conference Room 
 
Center for Systems Science Seminar:
"Silicon on Sapphire Technology: Systems and Devices"
Prof. Eugenio Culurciello
Electrical Engineering
Yale
Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra 
Sat., April 2 
10:30 am 
Becton 
Davies Auditorium 
15 Prospect Street  
"Science Saturday" series: 
(for 7th graders and up and open to the general public. 
Other talks in the series April 9, April 16, and April 23):

"Mapping the Universe: A Quest for Dark Matter"
Prof. Priya Natarajan
Astronomy
Host: Prof. Ainissa Ramirez
Mon., April 4 
10:00 am 
Mason 107  
Special Mechanical Engineering Seminar: 
"Stochastic Modeling in Robotics and Biomolecular Mechanics" 
Prof. Yu (Joe) Zhou
Johns Hopkins University 
Baltimore, MD 
Host: Prof. Marshall Long
Tues., April 5 
11:00 am 
Becton 
4th Floor Alcove 
Solid State and Optics Seminar: 
"Exploiting Quantum Capacitance for Quantum Measurements"
Dr. Christopher M. Wilson 
Chalmers University
Gothenberg, Sweden

Refreshments at 3:30 pm
Host: Prof. Daniel Prober
Wed., April 6  
1:00 pm  
Mason 107   
Solid Sate and Optics Seminar: 
"Flux Quibits and Readout Device with Two Independent Flux Lines" 
Prof. Britton Plourde 
Department of Physics
Syracuse University
Host: Prof. Michel Devoret
Wed., April 6 
2:30 pm 
Mason 107 
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar: 
"Processing and Mechanical Behavior of Nanocomposite Thin Films"
Prof. Robert C. Cammarata
Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University

Refreshments 2:15 pm 
Host: Prof. David Wu
Sat., April 9  
10:00 am-4:00 pm   Mason Laboratory  
Yale Department of Chemical Engineering and Connecticut Separation Science Council 
Symposium in Honor of the Late Professor Csaba Horváth

-Podium presentations*

-Poster session*

-Keynote talk* at 3:15 pm by Dr. Lloyd Snyder 
who will be presented with the 2005 CSSC (Connecticut Separation Science Council) Csaba Horváth Medal for his in-depth perceptions and studies in liquid chromatography.

*Complete program at http://www.cssconline.org/Meetings/Csaba_Horvath_2005.asp

Yale Engineering faculty pay no registration fee but should RSVP by Thurs., April 7 to <barbara.skolones@yale.edu>  

Sponsors: Department of Chemical Engineering and Connecticut Separation Science Council 
Thurs., April 7  
1:00 pm 
Sloane 
Physics Lab  52 
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Tunneling between Two Laterally Coupled Quantum Hall Systems"
Prof. Woowon Kang
University of Chicago
Host: Prof. Steven Girvin
Fri., April 8 
noon 
Mason 107 
Biomaterials Seminar Series: 
"Biomaterials for the central nervous system" 
Prof. Erin Lavik
Biomedical Engineering

A light lunch will be provided
Host: Prof. Paul Van Tassel
Sat., April 9  
10:30 am 
Becton 
Davies Auditorium 
15 Prospect Street  
"Science Saturday" series: 
(for 7th graders and up and open to the general public. 
Other talks in the series April 16 and April 23):

"Weird New Life on Earth"
Prof. Michael Donoghue
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Prof. Ainissa Ramirez
Wed., April 13 
1:00 pm 
Mason 107
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Probing Electronic Properties at the Single Molecule Level on Silicon Surfaces"
Prof. Mark C. Hersam
Northwestern University
Host: Prof. Mark Reed
Wed., April 13 
2:30 pm 
Mason 107 
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar: 
"Mechanical Contact at Small Length Scales"
Prof. William Unertl
University of Maine

Refreshments at 2:15 pm
Host: Prof. Udo Schwarz
Thurs., April 14 
4:00 pm 
Mason 211 
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar: 
"Engineering and Biotechnology Strategies for Nerve Repair"
Prof. Christine Schmidt
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Texas, Austin
Host: Prof. Lisa Pfefferle
Fri., April 15 
noon 
Mason 107 
Biomaterials Seminar Series: 
"Ferrofluids as Materials for Highly Sensitive Biomolecular Recognition"
Prof. Hür Köser 
Electrical Engineering

A light lunch will be provided
Host: Prof. Paul Van Tassel
Fri., April 15 
4:00 pm 
Dunham 
Fifth Floor  Conference Room 
 
Center for Systems Science:
"Connections Between Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorial Optimization Problems"
Prof. Sekhar Tatikonda
Electrical Engineering
Yale 
Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra 
Sat., April 16 
10:30 am 
Becton 
Davies Auditorium 
15 Prospect Street  
"Science Saturday" series: 
(for 7th graders and up and open to the general public. 
Last talk in the series is April 23):

"Tissue Engineering: Growing New Organs in a Dish" 
Prof. Erin Lavik 
Biomedical Engineering
Host: Prof. Ainissa Ramirez
Mon., April 18 
4:00 pm  
Mason 107  
Monday Evening Seminar:
"Two-dimensional Soot Pyrometry with a Low-cost Digital Camera"
Blair Connelly
Applied Physics 
Yale

Refreshments at 3:30 pm
Adviser: Prof. Marshall Long
Wed., April 20  
1:00 pm  
Mason 107 
 
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Micromachined Solid Immersion Lenses and Optical Antennas for Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy"
Prof. K. Crozier
Harvard 
Host: Prof. Steven Girvin
Wed., April 20 
2:30 pm 
Mason 107 
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar: 
"TBA"
Prof. Alain Karma
Northeastern University

Refreshments
Host: Prof. David Wu 
Wed., April 20 
4:00 pm 
Mason 211 
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar and
2005 Spring Barnett F. Dodge Lecture
"
Fluidic Self Assembly and the Network of Things"
Prof. Sangtae Kim
Department of Chemical Engineering
Purdue University
Host: Prof. Paul Van Tassel
Fri., April 22    
11:30 am  
Watson 500  
"Research Issues in Sensor and Actuator Networks:
   Data Fusion, Fault Diagnosis and Control"
Prof. Heikki Koivo
Head of the Control Engineering Laboratory
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Host: Prof. Andreas Savvides
Sat., April 23 
10:30 am 
Becton 
Davies Auditorium 
15 Prospect Street  
"Science Saturday" series: 
(for 7th graders and up and open to the general public. 
Last talk in the series):

"Environment and Health: What's Worth Worrying About" 
Prof. John Wargo
Forestry & Environmental Studies
Host: Prof. Ainissa Ramirez

Mon., April 25 
4:00 pm 
Mason 107 

Monday Evening Seminar:
"TBA"

Jason Hoffman
Applied Physics 

Yale

Refreshments at 3:30 pm

Adviser: Prof. Charles Ahn

Wed., April 27 
1:00 pm 
Mason 107  
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Random Matrix Theory and Error Correction for Realistic Quantum Computation"
Dr. Dima Shepelyansky
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
Université Paul Sabatier, France
Host: Prof. Douglas Stone

Thurs., April 28  
1:00 pm  
Sloane 
Physics Lab 52  

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Fermi Gas with Feshbach Resonant Interactions"

Prof. Victor Gurarie
University of Colorado

Host. Prof. Nicholas Read

Fri., April 29  
2:30 pm  
Mason 211  
Department of Mechanical Engineering 
The Aris and Bessie B. Phillips Lectureship in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics:
"A Description of Strain-Driven Formation of Semiconductor Nanostructures"
Prof. L. B. Freund
Brown University

Reception to follow in the Mason Lobby
Host: Prof. Ainissa Ramirez
Fri., April 29  
4:00 pm 
Dunham 
Fifth Floor  Conference Room 
Center for Systems Science:
"Design Considerations for Dynamic Location Discovery in Ubiquitous Environments"

Prof. Andreas Savvides
Electrical Engineering
Yale

Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra 

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