Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, October 18, 2004
Speakers:
Mon., Oct 18, 4:00
pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
"Superconducting Niobium Microbridge as
Sensitive
Power Detector," Daniel Santavicca, Applied
Physics.
Host: Prof. Daniel Prober.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm.
Wed.,
Oct. 20,
1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Transport and Scanned Probe Investigations
on
Chemically Derived Nanostructures," Prof.
Hongkun
Park, Chemistry and Physics, Harvard.
Host: Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.
Wed.,
Oct. 20,
2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Ferromagnetic Shape-Memory Alloys," Prof.
Sam Allen, MIT.
Hosts: Prof. Ainissa Ramirez and Prof. David Wu.
Wed.,
Oct. 20, 4:00
pm, Mason 211.
Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Non-Equilibrium Effects in Capillary Pressure
Relationships for Two-phase Flow in Porous
Media,"
Prof. M. Hassanizadeh, Earth Sciences, Utrecht
University, The Netherlands.
Host: Prof. Abbas Firoozabadi.
Thurs.,
Oct. 21,
1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Random Shapes and Random Maps: A Case for
Stochastic Loewner Evolution," Prof. Ilya
Gruzberg,
University of Chicago.
Host: Prof. Nicholas Read.
Thurs.,
Oct. 21,
3:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"A
Tour of Nanoscience Research at Sandia National Laboratories,"
Dr. Julia Phillips, Director, Physical and Chemical
Sciences Center, Sandia National Laboratories.
Hosts: Prof. Mark Reed and Dean Paul Fleury.
Doctoral
area examination:
Abigail Lubow--"Drift-Dominated InAlAs
Avalanche Photodiode."
Committee: Prof. Jerry Woodall, Prof. Jung Han, and
Prof. Janet Pan.
Tues., Oct. 19, 2:15 pm, Becton 508
(this exam was originally slated for Oct. 12).
Engineering
students only:
The first in the series "Life after Yale
Engineering Degree"
lunches and informal chats between Engineering
undergraduate
and graduate students and alumni who put their
education
to good use will be Thurs., Oct. 21, noon to 1:30 pm
in the
Becton Faculty Lounge. The guest will be Julia
Phillips '77, '81 Ph.D.,
Director of the Physical, Chemical, and Biomolecular
Sciences
Center, Sandia National Laboratories. All Engineering
students are invited, but remember R.S.V.P. to
<Eric.Mitchell@yale.edu>
Be
a mentor!
Graduate students and undergraduates are invited to
work with New Haven kids (pre-kindergarten to 12th
grade,
your choice) developing science projects for a
Science Fair to
be held in Woolsey Hall/Commons next March. The
mentoring
will be from October to March, Thursdays, 2:00 to
3:00 pm, at
Wilbur Cross High School (the Yale shuttle will take
you to
within four blocks). Mentors receive a mentor book
and assistance.
You can help with research and project development,
serve as
a judge, help with writing. Your helpful presence may
persuade
some kids to think of studying Engineering! For more
information,
contact science teacher Ms. Lise Orville, 562-1516.
Sign up at
<www.nhsciencefair.org/html/mentor_form.html>
Prof. Daniel Prober, AP, has been involved
with this effort, as has
Prof. Ainissa Ramirez, ME. The late Prof.
Robert Apfel, ME,
was a Co-founder of this Science Fair and its
mainstay until his
death at the age of 59 in 2002. Visit
http://www.eng.yale.edu/news/Apfel-in-memory.htm
Run
for a seat on the ESC:
All Engineering undergraduates are eligible to run
for Vice
President, Secretary, or Activities Director of the
Engineering
Student Council. For information about the duties of
each
position, contact <jason.hsueh@yale.edu>
Submit your
nomination (or self-nomination) by sending a
~100-word
statement to <jason.hsueh@yale.edu> by Sun.,
Oct. 17, 11:59 pm.
Elections will be via e-mail and voting will close
Wed.,
Oct. 20, 11:59 pm.
Google
on campus and looking to hire:
Google representatives will give a talk Oct. 21 at
the
McDougal Center, Room 119; they will also interview
for
positions in Silicon Valley, Santa Monica, New York,
Switzerland (Zurich), India (Bangalore) and Japan
(Tokyo).
They are looking for: B.S., M.S. or PhD in computer
science
or equivalent, experience with Unix/Linux or Windows
environments, and C++ or Java development. If
interested,
email your resume and transcript to <collegejobs+yale@google.com>
with the subject line "Software
Engineer-Yale." Find out
more at <www.google.com/jobs/eng/sw.html>
End
of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 636