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SPEAKERS SCHEDULE

December 2004
as of December 6

Wed., Dec. 1 
11:00 am  
Anlyan Center N135 
Yale Medical School  Congress Avenue 
and Cedar Streets

 

Department of Biomedical Engineering Research Seminar Series: 
"Better Images of the Thinking Brain" 
Dr. Douglas Noll
Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Host: Prof. Todd Constable
Wed., Dec. 1 
1:00 pm 
Mason 107 
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Effects of Phonon Quantum Confinement in Freely Suspended Quantum Dots" 
Dr. Eva Weig
LMU 
Munich, Germany
Host: Prof. Robert Schoelkopf
Wed., Dec. 1 
 
2
:30 pm 
Mason 107 
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Particle Segregation in Collisional Grain Flow"
Prof. Jim Jenkins 
Cornell University

Refreshments are served at 2:15 pm
Host: Prof. Corey O'Hern
Thurs., Dec. 2 
1:00 pm 
Sloane 
Physics Lab 52 
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: 
"Charge Density Waves in 2D Electrons: Wigner Crystals, Bubbles, and Stripes"
Prof. Rupert Lewis
Florida State University
Host: Prof. Steven Girvin
Thurs., Dec. 2 
1:00 pm 
Watson 500  
Computer Engineering Seminar Series:
"Low Cost Alternate Testing of Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF: Circuits and Systems Fault Models and Test Strategies"
Prof. Abhijit Chatterjee 
School of Electrical and ComputerEngineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Host Prof. Yiorgos Makris
Fri., Dec. 3 
11:15 am 
Becton 
4th floor alcove  
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Bulk excitations in Bose-Einstein Condensation: 
Beyond Bogoliubov"
Dr. Nadav Katz
Weizmann Institute of Science 
Rehovot, Israel
Hosts: Prof. Michel Devoret and Prof. Robert Schoelkopf
Fri., Dec.
9:00 am-5:00 pm 
held at 
TWO locations

 

Robert M. Langer Graduate Student Symposium:

Graduate Student Presentations
Becton Faculty Lounge

9:00 am, Jeffrey McCutcheon, 
"A Novel Ammonia-Carbon Dioxide Forward (Direct) Osmosis Desalination Process"

9:20 am, Marie Schreiber, 
"The Influence of the Order of Reagent Addition on NDMA Formation: Implications for Chloramine Speciation and NDMA Formation Pathways"

9:40 am, Jane Hill, 
"Microbial Cycling of Organo-phosphorus by Redox Zone: Chesapeake Bay Eutrophication"

10:00 am, Michael Sanders, 
Assessing the Reversibility of Organic Compound Sorption to Natural Organic Matter Solids: A Novel Approach Using Isotope

Lunch Break

Featured talk:
1:00-2:00 pm, Dunham 220. 
"Strategies for Understanding A Bug's Life: Interactions of Motile Bacteria with Surfaces," Prof. Roseanne Ford, University of Virginia

Coffee Break, 2:00-2:20 
Becton Faculty Lounge vestibule

Graduate Student Presentations continue in the
Becton Faculty Lounge

2:20 pm, Jun Wang,
"Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Au Growth on Ge(001)
"

2:40 pm, Alana Leahy-Dios,
"Molecular and Thermal Diffusion Coefficient Measurements of Binary and Ternary Hydrocarbon Mixtures
"

3:00 pm, Kjetil Braathen Haugen, 
"On Measurement of Thermal Diffusion Coefficients in Multicomponent Mixtures
"

3:20, Barbara La Mantia,
"Dynamics of a Laser-Ignited Premixed Bubble in a Viscous Liquid
"

3:40, Yuan Chen,
"Mechanism of Cobalt Cluster Size Control in Co-MCM-41 During Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Synthesis by CO Disproportionation
"

4:00-5:00 pm, Closing Reception 
Becton Faculty Lounge vestibule
Host: Department of Chemical Engineering
Mon., Dec. 6 
4:00 pm 
Mason 107 
Monday Evening Seminar:
"MOCVD growth and Characterization of III-Nitride Nanostructures"
Jie Su
Electrical Engineering
Adviser: Prof. Jung Han
Tues., Dec. 7 
4:00 pm 
Mason 107 
Graduate Student Seminar: 
"Indexing Vertebral Shapes"
Xiaoning Qian
Biomedical Engineering

Refreshments at 3:45 pm
Adviser: Prof. Hemant Tagare

Wed., Dec. 8 
11:00 am 
Becton 
Faculty Lounge  

Department of Biomedical Engineering Research Seminar Series:
"High-throughput Approaches to Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering"
Dr. Daniel Anderson 
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Host: Prof. Erin Lavik
Wed., Dec. 8 
1:00 pm 
Mason 107 
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Ultrafast Quantum Control" 
Prof. Philip H. Bucksbaum
University of Michigan
Host: Prof. Steven Girvin
Wed., Dec. 8 
4:00 pm 
Watson 500 

Communications and Networking Seminar:
"TBA"
Prof. Sergio Servetto
Cornell University
Host: Prof. Sekhar Tatikonda
Thurs., Dec. 9 
1:00 pm 
Sloane 
Physics Lab 52 
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Chiral spin resonance and spin-Hall conductivity in the presence of the electron-electron interactions"
Dr. Maxim Khodas 
Weizmann Institute
Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev
Fri., Dec. 10 
11:00 am 
Watson 200  
Computer Engineering Seminar Series:
"Taming Complexity Through Abstraction and Hierarchy Applications to Test and Verification"
Prof. Jacob A. Abraham
Computer Engineering Research Center
The University of Texas at Austin
Host: Prof. Yiorgos Makris
Fri., Dec. 10 
noon 
Mason 107 

Biomaterials Seminar Series: 
"Possible Titanium Biomaterials in Marine Organisms" 
Prof. Ann Valentine
Chemistry


A light lunch will be provided
Host: Prof. Paul van Tassel

 

Mon., Dec. 13 
4:00 pm 
Mason 107
 
Monday Evening Seminar:
""Spiral-shaped Microlasers"
Grace Chern
Physics Department

Refreshments at 3:30 pm
Adviser: Prof. Richard Chang  
Wed., Dec. 15 
2:00 pm 
Mason 107
 
Solid State and Optics Seminar Series:
"Shells and Super Shells in Metal Nanowires"
Prof. Charles A. Stafford
University of Arizona
Hosts: Prof. Yoram Alhassid and Prof. Robert Schoelkopf
Thurs., Dec. 16  2:00 pm 
Rosenfeld Hall 101  109-111 Grove St.  (enter through Temple Street door ONLY)  
Electrical Engineering Seminar: 
"Biological Large Scale Integration" 
Prof. Steven Quake 
California Institute of Technology
Host: Prof. Hür Köser.

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