End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, January 30, 2006

Speakers:

Mon., Jan. 30,
11:00 am, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Special Chemical Engineering Seminar:
   "Engineering Novel Medical Aerosols,"
   Dr. Jennifer Fiegel, Engineering and Applied
   Science, Harvard.
   Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech.

Wed., Feb. 1, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
   "Photon Emission Microscopy of CMOS Integrated
   Circuits," Dr. Stanislav Polonsky, IBM T.J. Watson
   Research Center.
   Host: Prof. Daniel Prober.

Wed., Feb. 1, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.
Chemical Engineering Seminar:
   "Protein Engineering Via Incorporation of
   Nonnatural Amino Acids," Prof. Inchan Kwon,
   Department of Chemical Engineering, Caltech.
   Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech.
   Refreshments at 3:30 pm, Mason mezzanine.

Thurs., Feb. 2, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
   " Vortex Lattices and Vortex Liquids in Atomic Bose Gases,"
   Dr. Nigel Cooper, University of Cambridge, UK.
   Host: Prof. Steven M. Girvin.
 
Receives NSF Career Award:
   Prof. Sekhar Tatikonda, EE, has been awarded a
   National Science Foundation Career Award for his
   project "Cooperative Control under Communication
   Constraints.” Prof. Tatikonda will use the $400,000
   award for developing theory to analyze and design
   algorithms to control large networks of interacting
   agents that communicate in a nearest-neighbor fashion
   over potentially noisy communication channels.
 
Final doctoral examination:

  
Ratna Oetama--“Experimental Investigation on
   Particle Dynamics Near an Interface in the Presence
   of Nonadsorbing Macro-Ions.” Committee: Prof. John Walz,
   Prof. Paul Van Tassel,
and Prof. Jerzy Blawzdziewicz
   Fri., Feb. 3, 10:00 am, Mason 107.
 
Graduate student receives ACS award:
  
Alexis de Kerchove received an American Chemical
   Society Division of Environmental Chemistry Graduate
   Student Award. About 25 awards are given each year,
   based on the academic record, research productivity,
   and future goals of candidates. The awardees receive
   publicity in EnvirofACS Environmental Science and
   Technology, a year’s subscription to Environmental
   Science and Technology and as year’s membership in
   the Environmental Division of ACS. De Kerchove's
   faculty adviser is Prof. Menachem Elimelech.
 
YEDT thrilled with turnout:

   The Yale Engineering Design Team recruitment party
   attracted 38 prospective members! YEDT would welcome
   even more participants, including innovation-minded,
   non engineering majors. Get more information from
   < jonathan.hartman@yale.edu>
Terrence Myelle ’09 ME,
   is YEDT president and Prof. David LaVan, ME, is the
   faculty adviser. Sample YEDT by coming to Yale Junk
   Wars III, see below.
 
Yale Junk Wars III:
   Participation is open to whatever undergraduate and
   graduate students sign up first for one of the 30 slots
   with Projects Coordinator
Drausin Wulsin ’07 BME
   <drausin@yale.edu>
   When: Teams will build their contraptions (the assignment
   will be announced on site) from a huge pile of junk
   Sat., Jan. 28, noon to 6:00 pm.
   Where: Mason basement (enthusiastic observers invited!).
   Competition, judging (by YEDT members), and pizza:
   6:00 to 9:00 pm at an as yet secret location (get to
   Mason Basement by 5:30 pm).
 
Engineering Library demos:
   Learn to use EndNote and RefWorks. These bibliography
   managers help you to organize your research and
   create footnotes, citations, formatted bibliographies,
   also to save references from research databases, add
   notes and keywords, insert citations into a document,
   and format bibliographies.
   Fri., Feb. 3, 2:00 pm.
 

Happy birthday!
  
Theresa Evangeliste, Administrative Assistant in
   Applied Physics, and her husband Marcus Evangeliste
   welcomed into their lives a baby boy on January 24.
   Baby Nicholas, his parents, and his older brother, also
   Marcus, are happy and doing well.
 
Filling in:
  
Ms. Carol Allen will fill in at Applied Physics until
   Ms. Evangeliste returns from maternity leave May 1.

End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 684

Current Engineering Bulletin