Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, October 31, 2005
Speakers:
Tues., Nov. 1,
4:00 pm, Sterling Hall of Medicine B-145.
CM Physiology and Bioimaging Sciences Seminar:
"Cryo-electron Microscopy: Prospects and Challenges,"
Prof.
Pawel Penczek, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of Texas at Houston., TX.
Host: Prof. Frederick Sigworth.
Tues., Nov. 1,
4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Graduate Student Seminar:
"Vortex-flame Interaction in the Counterflow Geometry,"
Giuliano Amantini, Mechanical Engineering.
Adviser: Prof. Alessandro Gomez.
Wed., Nov. 2,
1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Metal-insulator Transition in a Weakly Interacting
Many-electron System with Localized Single-particle
States," Prof. Igor Aleiner, Columbia University.
Host: Prof. Douglas Stone.
Wed., Nov. 2,
2:30 pm, Mason 107.
"Molecular Scale Tribology Studies using Atomic Force
Microscopy," Dr. Andre Schirmeisen, University of
Münster Laboratory, Germany.
Host: Prof. Udo Schwarz.
Refreshments at 2:15 pm.
Fri., Nov. 4,
4:00 pm, Dunham 514.
Center for Systems Science Seminar:
"Single Neuron and Neuronal Ensemble Contributions
to Neuronal Population Codes," Prof. Mark Laubach,
Department of Neurobiology.
Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra.
How research will help U.S.:
David A. LaVan, ME, was among 12 faculty members from
various universities who were invited to participate
in a focus group at the National Academies in Washington, DC,
last August on how research will help the U.S. "successfully
compete, prosper, and be secure in the global community
of the 21st Century." The group was convened by a
congressionally-mandated committee that included Nobel
Prize winners Steven Chu, Joshua Lederberg, and Robert
Richardson, Yale president Levin, president Dan
Mote of the University of Maryland, Charles Vest, past
president of MIT, Norman Augustine, the former CEO of
Lockheed-Martin, and others.
Will participate in $12.3 million
research grant:
Prof. Eric Dufresne, ME, is one of two scientists from
Yale, along with Prof. Thomas Pollard, Chair of Molecular,
Cellular and Developmental Biology, on a research team
of 17 cell biologists and physical scientists that
received a $12.3 million, five-year grant as part of
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for
Medical Research to further multidisciplinary medical
research on how cells interact with their environments.
The team will develop methods to quantitatively measure,
model, and manipulate live cells.
Doctoral area examinations:
Weiwei Deng--"Fundamentals
and Applications of
Multiplexing Electrospray." Committee: Prof. Alessandro
Gomez, Prof. Juan de la Mora, Prof. Marshall Long, and
Prof. Mitchell Smooke.
Oct. 3.
Yufang Xi--"Optimal
Resource Allocation in Wireless
Multi-hop Networks." Committee: Prof. Edmund Yeh,
Prof. Stephen Morse, Prof. Sekhar Tatikonda, and
Prof. Richard Yang.
Oct. 4.
Prasanta Pal--"Jamming
in Quasi One Dimensional System."
Committee: Prof. Corey O'Hern, Prof. Eric Dufresne,
Prof. Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, and Prof. Michel Devoret.
Oct. 4.
Tamara Chib--"Single
Protein Unfolding with the
Atomic Force Microscope." Committee: Prof. Simon Mochrie,
Prof. Robert Grober, and Prof. Lynne Regan.
Oct. 4.
Recruiting:
Sandia Laboratories representatives will be on campus
Tues.-Fri., Nov. 1-4.
Undergraduates should register
with <eric.mitchell@yale.edu >;
graduate students should
contact <cara.gibilisco@yale.edu
> U.S. citizenship is not
required for postdoctoral appointments but is required
for permanent positions, see <www.sandia.gov
>
MIT Lincoln Laboratories: If you wish to have
an interview
Fri., Nov. 11
with representatives of MIT Lincoln Laboratories,
sign up by Fri., Nov. 4
with
<erica.brossard@yale.edu > of the
Engineering Dean’s Office and submit a resume. Lincoln Labs
are recruiting graduate students only and require U.S.
citizenship.
What is a professional?
"…my favorite (definition) at the moment is that professionals
are people who can do what they have to when they don’t feel
like it." From an address by David Pease, Dean of the School
of Art, to the Graduate and Professional Students Assembly
in 1987.
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of Engineering Bulletin 673