Speakers:
Wed., Oct. 19, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Bending the Quantum Hall Effect: Metal-insulator Transition in One Dimension,"
Dr. Matthew Grayson, Walter Schottky Institut,
Technische Universität, München, Germany.
Host: Prof. Steven Girvin.
Wed., Oct. 19, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Diffusion Paths and Multiphase Microstructures,"
Prof. John Morral, Ohio State University.
Host: Prof. David Wu.
Refreshments at 2:15 pm.
Thurs. Oct. 20, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 56.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
" Find Your Partner or Expel Your Competitor: Exotic Pairing States in Fermionic Superfluids with Unbalanced Pairing Species,"
Prof. Kun Yang, Florida State University.
Host: Prof. Steven Girvin.
IBM Faculty Award:
Prof. Lisa Pfefferle, ChE, has received a
2005 IBM Faculty Award for the “quality of
your program and its importance to our industry.”
In recognition of achievement, the highly
competitive award includes a check for $40,000.
A member of CASE:
Add to the list of our faculty who are members
of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
Prof. Mark Reed, Harold Hodgkinson Professor of
Engineering and of Applied Science and Professor
of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics.
Prof. Reed was elected to CASE in 1995 and served
this year on CASE’s CT Science Talent Search
Judging Committee.
Thinking of Graduate/Professional School?
Seniors should flock (others can come too) to the
Engineering Student Center Thurs., Oct. 20, 3:30 pm,
to hear "Getting into Graduate or Professional School:
A Conversation with Local Experts" featuring
Prof. Daniel Prober, AP, Director of Graduate
Admissions, Ms. Cara Gibilisco, Graduate Registrar,
and Mr. Jonathan Bau of Career Services. The sponsors
are the Faculty of Engineering and Tau Beta Pi,
Noah Kalman '06, President. Refreshments.
Doctoral area exams and new staff members:
Future Bulletins will announce who has recently
taken a doctoral area exam and will introduce
our new staff members.
Science Saturdays:
The 3rd in the "Fun Science Lectures for Kids"
series is "Science in the Swamps: What Frogs Are
Telling Us" by Prof. David Skelly, Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology. Sat., Oct. 22, 10:30 am-noon,
Davies Auditorium. The organizer of the series is
Prof. Ainissa Ramirez, ME.
ChE grad student/YES co-president invites:
Ben Boese, 5th year ChE graduate student and
co-president of the Yale Entrepreneurial Society,
invites engineering students, faculty, and staff to
the Silliman Common Room Wed., October 19, 8:00 pm,
to learn how to prepare for the Y50K (as in $50,000)
competition. Mr. Henry Bolanos, Lecturer in the Faculty
of Engineering and the holder of many patents, will
share his know-how about developing products for
market. You will also receive pointers about building
an effective team and other winning strategies to
improve your chances in the YES competition in spring.
Also, YES has announced a Y2K executive summary
competition ($2,000 to three best executive summaries)
to serve as a warm-up for the Y50K full business plan
competition. Visit < www.yes.yale.edu>
Would you be a New Haven Science Fair mentor?
Could you donate one hour per week between late
October and March to mentor a New Haven kindergartener
to 12th grader working on a project? Their projects
will be exhibited at the New Haven Science Fair in
Yale Commons next March. Mentors receive a printed
mentor guide full of helpful mentoring advice and
also ongoing guidance from a very nice mentor coordinator
who is a seasoned science teacher. Engineering
contributed nine mentors last year (70 mentors in all,
from Yale, Bayer, etc.). Some proposed projects: How
robots respond to stimuli, Hydrogen fuel and model
cars, Chemical engineering (no topic listed),
Electrolysis and electricity, Recycled water, etc.
Visit www.nhsciencefair.org/ and contact
Ms. Lise Orville, <lorville@aol.com>
"Away messages" on email:
Samples provided by Jim Shelton in the New Haven
Register, 10/13/05: "Don’t judge a book by its movie,"
"I think of class as nap time with background noise."
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End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 671