Faculty of
Engineering Bulletin for Monday, October 24, 2005
Speakers:
Tues., Oct. 25,
4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Graduate Student Seminar:
"Analysis of Drops Coalescence in the Presence
of External Flow," Piero Santoro, Chemical Engineering.
Adviser: Prof. Michael Loewenberg.
Tues., Oct. 25,
4:00 pm, Watson
500.
Communications and Networking Seminar:
"A Realization Theory for
Hidden Markov Models"
Dr. M.
Vidyasagar, Tata Consultancy Services,
Hyderabad,
India.
Host: Prof.
A. Stephen Morse.
Wed., Oct. 26, 11:00 am, Malone 101.
Department of Biomedical Engineering Research Seminar:
"Directed Tissue Formation using Inductive Scaffolds,"
Prof. Lonnie D. Shea, Chemical & Biological Engineering,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Host: Prof. Mark Saltzman.
Wed., Oct. 26, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"When Obsessions Collide: Golf and Physics,"
Prof. Robert Grober, Applied Physics.
Host: Prof. Daniel Prober.
Wed., Oct. 26, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Collids in External Field," Dr. Charles Reichhardt,
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Host: Prof. Eric Dufresne.
Wed., Oct. 26,
4:00 pm, Mason 211.
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Lead in Washington DC Drinking Water. An Engineering
Tale of Health, Wealth, and Stealth,"
Prof. Marc A. Edwards, Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Virginia Institute of Technology.
Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech.
Thurs., Oct. 27, 1:00 pm, Sloane
Physics Lab 56.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"TBA," Prof.
Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Harvard University.
Host: Prof. Steven Girvin.
Fri., Oct. 28,
4:00 pm, Dunham 514.
Center for Systems Science Seminar:
"New Strategies for Segmenting Ultrasound Images,"
Prof. Hemant D. Tagare, Diagnostic Radiology and Electrical
Engineering.
Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra.
IBM Faculty Award:
Prof. Daniel Prober, AP, 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. Yale is the only university
to receive two IBM Faculty Awards this year. The
other recipient of this award was Prof. Lisa Pfefferle, ChE.
A talk in Brazil:
Prof. Kumpati Narendra, EE, spent Oct. 16-19 at
the VI Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais in Natal,
Rio Grande del Norte, Brazil. The event is Brazil's
largest academic Intelligent Systems and Applications
gathering. Prof. Narendra gave a Plenary Talk on
"Intelligent Control Systems.”
Science Saturdays:
The last in the "Fun Science Lectures for Kids"
series will be "How to See a Black Hole" by
Prof. Charles Bailyn, Astronomy.
Sat., October 29, 10:30 am-noon, Davies Auditorium.
The organizer of the series is Prof. Ainissa Ramirez, ME.
Recent doctoral area examinations:
David Routenberg--“Molecular
Electronic Devices:
From Switches to Sensors.” Committee: Prof. Mark Reed,
Prof. T.P. Ma, and Prof. Jung Han.
Sept. 30.
Jia Fang--“Sensor Network
Localization Using Global
Rigidity.” Committee: Prof. Stephen Morse, Prof. Roman
Kuc, and Prof. Andreas Savvides.
Sept. 30.
William Greene--“Constrained Non-rigid
Registration.”
Committee: Prof. James Duncan, Prof. Lawrence Staib,
and Prof. Xenophon Papademetris.
Sept. 30.
Tania Henry--“Gallium Nitride
Nanowire Growth Using
Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition for Nanoscale
Devices.” Committee: Prof. Jung Han, Prof. Janet Pan,
and Prof. Mark Reed.
Sept. 30.
Amy Scouten--“A Comparison of Venous
CBV, Total CBV,
and CBF at 3T for Assessing the Origins of BOLD fMRI.”
Committee: Prof. Robert Constable, Prof. James Duncan,
and Prof. Douglas Rothman.
Sept. 30.
Dimitrios Lymberopoulos--“Sensor
Networks for
Understanding Behaviors.” Committee: Prof. Andreas
Savvides, Prof. Roman Kuc, and Prof. Stephen Morse.
Sept. 30.
Guo-Jie Ga--”Understanding
the Frequency Distribution
of Collectively Jammed States.” Committee: Prof. Corey
O'Hern, Prof. Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Prof. Eric Dufresne,
and Prof. Michael Loewenberg.
Oct. 3.
Google in Dunham:
Mon., Oct. 24, 5:00-6:30 pm, come to Dunham 220 to
enjoy pizza and to find out how some Stanford grad
students started what grew into the world's largest
search engine ("Googol" is the mathematical term for
a 1 followed by 100 zeros). Google representatives
will be recruiting, so bring your resume. For information
about the Google Corporation, visit
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google.com/corporate/facts.html>
End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 672