Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, October 20, 2003
 
Speakers:
 
Wed., Oct. 22, 11:00 am, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Department of Biomedical Engineering Seminar:
"Cell Instructive Materials for Tissue Engineering,"
Prof. David A. Mooney, Biologic and Materials Sciences
and Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University
of Michigan.
Hosts: Dr. Christopher Breuer and Prof. Mark Saltzman.
 
Wed., Oct. 22, 100 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Solitons in Nonlinear Photonic Lattices," Dr. Jason
Fleischer, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
Department of Physics, Haifa, Israel.
Hosts" Prof. Richard Chang and Prof. Daniel Prober.
 
Wed., Oct. 22, 230 pm, Mason 107.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar
"Sphere Packings, Jamming, and Order Metrics,"
Prof. Eric R. Weeks, Emory University.
Host: Prof. Corey O’Hern.
 
Wed., Oct. 22, 400 pm, Mason 107.
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Chloroacetamide Herbicides Structural Influences
on Environmental Chemistry and Fate," Prof. A. Lynn
Roberts, Geography and Environmental Engineering
and Environmental Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University.
Host Prof. William Mitch.
 
Thurs., Oct. 23, 100 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Do Vortices Have Mass?" Prof. James Anglin, MIT.
Host: Prof. Steven Girvin.
 
Yale-New Haven Biotechnology day:
The Yale Biotechnology Student Interest Group has
organized a day of talks on science, business, and the
ethics of commercializing new technologies
Fri., Oct. 24, 930 am- 500 pm, New Haven Lawn Club,
193 Whitney Ave. Prof. Erin Lavik, BME moderates a
panel on "The Commercialization of Stem Cell and Cloning
Technologies." The agenda is at
<www.yale.edu/biotech/reception/agenda.html>
Registration fee for students, postdocs, and faculty is $15.00.
 
Final doctoral examination:
Tolga Eren "Rigid Formations of Autonomous Agents."
Committee: Prof. Peter Belhumeur, Prof. Stephen Morse,
and Prof. Rimas Vaisnys. Mon., Oct. 20, 11:00 am,
Dunham 514 (Conference Room).
 
Prof. Pan on NBC from coast to coast:
Next week, NBC local news stations will air an interview (day
not available at this time) with Prof. Janet Pan, EE and AP,
in her lab working on a new kind of optical emitter for
fiber-optics. A video of the interview (QuickTime and RealPlayer
format) and the story are posted at
<www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3? language=english&type=article&article_id= 218392083>
More detailed accounts of Prof. Pan's work appeared in Opto &
Laser Europe (May 8), Compound Semiconductor (May 12),
Science News (May 31), Photonics Spectra (June), Nature
Materials (June), Laser Focus World (July), and on online
news websites, Nature Science Update (May 4), Technology 
Research News (June), and HighTechOnline (in German, August 20).
 
Dr. Gherasimova's art at 25 Science Park:
Maria Gherasimova '02 Ph.D., postdoc in EE, grows crystals
in an effort to develop more energy-efficient semiconductors.
As she strives to grow flawless crystalline films in a reactor,
the imperfections, magnified by a Nikon microscope up to
1,000 times, fascinate her. View Dr. Gherasimova's glimpses
of the beauty of imperfections Fri.-Sun., Oct. 24-26, at
the Artspace exhibit at 25 Science Park, space #373.
 
$25,000 to $27,000 for grads between 19 and 26
The application deadline is in early November, so hurry
and check out <TheChurchillScholarships.com/>
 
WISAY Mentoring Program:
EnvE graduate student Sharon Walker and Ms. Sandra Yulke,
Engineering Development Officer, are mentors in the Women
in the Sciences at Yale program, WISAY. A student fills out
a questionnaire, is matched with a mentor with similar
interests, and the two women meet once or twice a month
to talk about the undergraduate's studies, choices of future
careers, grad school, etc. WISAY also hosts events for all
participants in the mentoring program. If interested,
contact <ann.miller@yale.edu>
 
Never seen it written?
When you hit it off just right, you have great "rapport"
(it's a French word).
 
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