Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, January 12, 2004

 

Speakers:

 

Mon., Jan. 12, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.

Monday Evening Seminar:

    "Modulation of the Transport and Magnetic Properties of

    Ultrathin La1-xSrxMnO₃Films using Ferroelectric Field Effect,"

    Xia Hong, Electrical Engineering.

    Adviser: Prof. Charles Ahn.

    Refreshments at 3:30 pm outside of Mason 211.

 

Tues., Jan. 13, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.

Graduate Student Seminar:

    "Microfabrication for a Meso-scale Combustor,"

    Xiaohui Li, Mechanical Engineering.

    Adviser: Prof. Mark Reed.

    Refreshments at 3:45 pm.

 

Wed., Jan. 14, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.

Solid State and Optics Seminar:

    "Quantum Computing with Electrons on Helium, and

    What can be Learned by Constructing Disorder,"

    Prof. Mark Dykman, Michigan State University.

    Host: Prof. Michel Devoret.

 

Wed., Jan. 14, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.

Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:

    "A Linear Plasmid Carries Vinyl Chloride Biodegradation

    Genes in Nocardioides JS614," Prof. Tim Mattes, Cornell.

    Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech.

 

SynThesis, ENAS 996, team wins competition:

    Last December, Ms. Natalie Jeremijenko, ME, received a

    letter ["congratulations to you and your teammates on a very

    inventive and innovative submission"] that a SynThesis team

    won the Graham Foundation competition to design the Park of

    the Future. The Yale design was one of six winning designs

    (from CA, NY, IL-two winners, MA, and CT) selected from among 

    104 designs entered in the competition. The SynThesis team also

    received $2,000 to prepare their presentation for a February exhibition

    in Chicago and publication of the winning designs.

 

    The Yale team members were Isabelle Chumfong '03 (ChE), MEng '04;

    Ryan Hutchinson '03 (ChE), '04 M.S.; William Kavesh MFA (Design

    Research Associate in Ms. Jeremijenko's lab); Janette Kim (Lecturer

    in Design and Architecture, RPI, and visiting critic for the Engineering

    Design program at Yale); Peter Kops '03 (BME), MEng '04; Laura

    Kurgan (Faculty, Architecture, Princeton, and visiting critic at the

    Engineering Design program at Yale); Lawton Laurence '04 (ME);

    Kate Orff (Lecturer, Planning and Design, Columbia).

 

Engineering building construction schedule:

    We can track the progress of the new Engineering Research Building

     at <www.eng.yale.edu/project-schedule.htm>

 

Sandia National Laboratories to recruit:

    Sign up for an interview for a permanent position (citizenship

    required), a postdoctoral appointment, or a summer

    undergraduate internship (citizenship required):

 

        Graduate students and postdoctorals

        sign up with <cara.gibilisco@yale.edu>

 

        Undergraduates

        sign up with <yuri.shane@yale.edu>

    Sandia representatives will be on campus Jan. 27-30.

 

Course on technology & identity, new:

    Dr. Bonnie Kaplan of the School of Medicine Center for Medical

    Informatics, Department of Anesthesiology, Technology

    and Ethics Working Research Group (Chair), and the Yale

    Interdisciplinary Bioethics Program announces a new

    course of possible interest to Engineering students--

    CSBK 375b"Technology and Identity: Human Relationships

    withTechnology." Topics will be examined through historical,

    sociological, cultural, policy, scientific, and utopian writings.

    Technological examples will be taken from artificial intelligence,

    robotics, nanotechnology, and genetic engineering.

 

Women Faculty Forum offers dinner and panel:

    RSVP by Jan. 12 to <rachel.thomas@yale.edu> if you are

    a member of the Yale community and would like to attend

    a free buffet dinner (6:00-7:00 pm) and a panel discussion on

    "What Can the Corporate World Teach Academia?" Panelists are

    from the MIT Sloan School of Management, the Legal Affairs magazine,

    Yale School of Management, and the Yale Vice President of

    Finance and Administration and former President and CEO of

    Proctor & Gamble. When and where: Jan. 15, Whitney Humanities

    Center, 53 Wall Street, Room 208. See

    <www.yale.edu/wff/structureseries>

 

Too much of you came back from vacation?

    Not to worry! "The skin requires a certain amount of fat to look

    smooth, turgid and toned." Dr. James Lyons, Plastic Surgery, in

    "For Young-Looking Skin, Keep on Eating Those Carbs," Scripps

    Howard News Service, June 23, 2003.

 

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