Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, October 25, 2004
Speakers:
Mon., Oct. 25, 4:00
pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
"Fabrication of Single Electron
Devices,"
Michael Metcalfe, Physics Department.
Adviser: Prof. Michel Devoret.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm.
Tues., Oct. 26, 4:00
pm, Mason 107.
Graduate Student Seminar:
"Tunneling Spectroscopy Study of Thin Gate
Dielectrics,"
Wei He, Electrical Engineering.
Adviser: Prof. T.P. Ma.
Refreshments at 3:45 pm.
Wed., Oct. 27, 11:00
am, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Department of Biomedical Engineering Research Seminar:
"Biomechanics of Engineered Heart Valve
Tissues,"
Prof. Michael S. Sacks, Biomedical Engineering,
University of Pittsburgh, PA.
Host: Prof. Mark Saltzman.
Wed., Oct. 27, 1:00
pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Electronic Structure of
Oligo(phenylene-ethynylene)s
Chemisorbed on Gold," Dr. Roger van Zee,
National
Institute of Standards and Technology.
Host: Prof. Mark Reed.
Wed., Oct. 27, 2:30
pm, Mason 107.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Deformation-Assisted Transformations in
Nanocrystalline and Amorphous Alloys,"
Prof. Michael Atzmon, University of Michigan.
Host: Prof. David Wu.
Wed., Oct. 27, 4:00 pm, Mason
211.
Department of Chemical Engineering
2004
Fall John M. Henske Lecture:
"Drinking Water Distribution: Processes that
Degrade its Quality," Prof. Vernon Snoeyink,
Civil
and Environmental Engineering, University of
Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign.
Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech.
Wed., Oct. 27, 4:00
pm, Watson 500.
Communications and Networking Seminar:
"Distributed Coordination and Swarming of Mobile
Agents: From Bird Flocking to Synchronization
of Coupled Oscillators," Prof. Ali Jadbabaie,
University of Pennsylvania.
Host: Prof. Sekhar Tatikonda.
Thurs., Oct. 28, 1:00
pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Nonlinear Transport Near Quantum Critical
Points,"
Prof. Shivaji Sondhi, Princeton University.
Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev.
Symposium on Computational Biology:
"A
Look to the Future," Mon., Oct. 25, 9:00-3:30 pm,
Anlyan Center, Congress Avenue, New Haven.
Sponsors: Provost's Office, Biological Sciences
Advisory
Committee, Biomedical Engineering, and 18 other
Yale departments and programs. For more information,
contact <charlene.bloch@yale.edu
Senior Advisory Committee visits:
Mon.,
Oct. 18, the Engineering Senior Advisory
Committee was on campus to meet with Dean Fleury and
our Departments' Chairs. The visitors also enjoyed
lunch
at the Quinnipiac Club with undergraduates, Dean
Fleury,
the Chairs, and the Director of Educational Affairs.
For Engineering students only:
The
next "Life after Yale Engineering Degree" lunch and
informal chat for Engineering undergraduate and
graduate
students with alumni who have put their Yale
engineering
education to good use is Fri., Oct. 29, noon to 1:30
pm in
the Becton Faculty Lounge. The guest will be Donald
Hudson '55 EE, founder of Integrated Genetics,
<www.eng.yale.edu/eng150/Hudson>
All Engineering
students are invited, but do R.S.V.P. (it stands for
the
French "rpondez, s'il vous plat" or
"reply, please" and
means we need to know if you are coming) to
<eric.mitchell@yale.edu>
YCESC has new officers:
The
Yale College Engineering Student Council officers
for 2004-05 are:
President: Gary
Green '06, SY;
MB&B major
who does a lot of work with
BME,
Secretary: Geoffrey
Schreiner '06, ES,
EE major,
Treasurer: Jason
Hsueh'05, PC,
AP&CS major,
Activities Director: Elizabeth
Broomfield '08,
BR, major
as yet undecided.
NSBE-Y offers "a little help":
The
National Society of Black Engineers-Yale chapter
says to come and get a little help with your resume
and cover letter Wed., Oct. 27, 7:00 pm,
African-American
House Library, 211 Park Street at a "Resume and
Cover
Letter Workshop" sponsored by NSBE-Yale and UCS.
Bring your resume and cover letter to the workshop.
End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 637