Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, October 4, 2004
Speakers:
Wed., Oct. 6, 1:00
pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Static Buckling and Actuation of Free-Standing
Mesoscopic
Beams," Stephen M. Carr, Dartmouth University.
Host: Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.
Wed.,
Oct. 6,
2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"From Glass to Gel: The Physics of Attractive
Colloids,"
Prof. David Reichman, Columbia University.
Host: Prof. Corey O'Hern.
Wed.,
Oct. 6,
4:00 pm, Mason 107
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Probing the Micromechanics and Nanoscale
Interactions
of Colloidal Gels using Optical Tweezers," Prof.
Eric Furst,
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of
Delaware.
Host: Prof. John Walz.
Fri.,
Oct. 8,
noon, Mason 107.
Biomaterials Seminars Series:
"Microfabrication to Manipulate and Investigate
the Biological World,"
Prof. David LaVan, Mechanical Engineering.
Host: Prof. Paul van Tassel
A light lunch will be provided.
Recipient
of the 2005 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award:
Prof. T.P. Ma, Chair of EE, has been honored
with the
2005 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award "For
contributions to the
development and understanding of CMOS gate
dielectrics."
The award consists of a bronze medal, a certificate,
and an
honorarium of $10,000. The awarding ceremony will be
held at the IEDM (International Electron Device
Meeting)
in December of 2005.
Doctoral
area examinations:
Yueyue
Hu--"The
Use of Hyaluronic Acid for Anti-Cancer
Drug Delivery in Treatment of Glioma."
Committee: Prof. Mark Saltzman, Prof. Erin Lavik,
Prof. John Walz, and Professor Russell
Matthews.
Tues., Oct. 5, 2:00 pm, Mason 321B.
Huiqiong
Wang--"Studies
on the Electronic Properties of the
Interfaces Between Fe3O4 and Other Transition Metal
Oxides.
Committee: Prof. Victor Henrich, Prof. Eric
Altman, and
Prof. Sohrab Ismail-Beigi.
Tues., Oct. 5, 3:00 pm, Becton 508.
If
you want your mail delayed, list the street:
Mail addressed to you at Yale with only a P.O. Box
number
will reach you quickly, because US Postal Service
sorting
machines sort this mail directly into the right box.
Your mail
will be delayed, however, if it's addressed to your
street address
(or a box number and a street address). The latter
mail is thrown
into large hampers which are then transported to Yale
Campus Mail
to be sorted by hand. It's a lose/lose situation: the
delay may be of
of several days and the cost to the University for
this unnecessary
sorting is considerable.
For quickest delivery,
give your address as:
Name
Department, Yale University
P.O. Box _ _ _ _ _ _
(6-digits)
New Haven, CT 06520- _ _ _ _
(last 4 digits of box number)
For package delivery give only the street
address.
Physics
students invite Engineering students:
Physics students invite Engineering students to win
$100 in
a Yale Physics T-Shirt Design Competition. Designs
for the
T-shirt should include the words "Yale" and
"Physics" at least
once (and as often as you wish). You may use the
design on
the back of the shirt or not, your choice. Deadline:
Mon., Oct. 4
(by the end of the day). Submit the design to
<sps-submissions@panlists.yale.edu> (panlists
is correct).
Yale
babysitting services:
If you need babysitting services, take a look at
www.yale.edu/babysitting/
Pooper
scoopers or a receptacle?
Most everyone believes in the right of smokers to
destroy
their own lungs but many are unhappy about the
cigarette
butts trashing our elegant courtyard between Becton
and
Dunham. Opinions vary about how to deal with the
mess.
"Smokers should take their nasty butts with
them!" insists
one indignant observer. The softer-hearted
(wishy-washy liberals?)
say that the administration should provide a
nice-looking receptacle
for the discarded detritus of the nasty addiction.
What do you
think? (Yes, it has been suggested that the problem
would
disappear if people stopped smoking).
End
of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 634