Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday

Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, October 6, 2003
Speakers:
Mon., Oct. 6, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.
Monday Evening Seminar:
"Quantum Magnetism in LiHoF4," Prabuddha Chakraborty,
Physics.
Advisor: Prof. Steven Girvin.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm.

Tues., Oct. 7, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"TBA” Dr. James Miller, Combustion Research Facility,
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA.
Host: Prof. Alessandro Gomez.

Tues., Oct. 7, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Graduate Student Seminar:
"Coordination of Distributed Intelligent Systems," Jie Lin,
Electrical Engineering.
Refreshments preceding the talk.

Wed., Oct. 8, 11:00 am, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Biomedical Engineering Seminar:
"Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) for Communication and Control,"
Prof. Jonathan R. Wolpaw, MD, Laboratory Chief, Laboratory of
Nervous system Disorders, New York State Department of Health
and SUNY.
Host: Prof. Mark Saltzman.

Wed., Oct. 8, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Korolev and the Early History of the Soviet Space (chemical
rocket propulsion) Program," Dr. James Harford, Executive
Director Emeritus, American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics, Washington, DC.
Host: Prof. Daniel Rosner.

Wed., Oct. 8, 4:00 pm, Watson 400.
Communications and Networking Seminar:
"Some Trade-offs in Sensor Networks," Prof. Anthony
Ephremides, University of Maryland.
Host: Prof. Edmund Yeh.

Thurs., Oct. 9, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Entangled Hanbury Brown Twiss Effects with Edge States,"
Prof. Markus Büttiker, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Host: Prof. A. Douglas Stone.

Thurs., Oct. 9, 3:45 pm, Watson 000.
Electrical Engineering Seminar:
"Sub-lithographic Semiconductor Computing Systems,"
Prof. Andre Dehon, California Institute for Technology.
Host: Prof. Richard Lethin.

New Staff:
Susan Pannella joined us 6/16 as Administrative Assistant
in Mechanical Engineering. She has worked at Yale more
than six years (Development, Religious Studies, and Epidemiology
and Public Health). She expects to earn her Associate Degree
in Business at Gateway Community College May 2004.
Ms. Pannella is the mother of a son and a daughter; the latter
received an M.S. from the Yale School of Nursing in '01.

Nancy Bennett joined us 7/28 as Administrative Assistant in
Biomedical Engineering. She has been at Yale since 1985,
mostly in the Medical School. A graduate of Southern Illinois
University, Ms. Bennett is active in affordable housing initiatives
and enjoys playing the piano. Her only daughter is a dancer
pursuing her career in New York.
(In the next issue-- more new Staff)
Final doctoral examination:
Arthur Hersel, "The Development of High Speed Separation
Systems for the Miniaturization of Liquid Chromatography."
Committee: Prof. Csaba Horváth, Prof. Lisa Pfefferle,
Prof. John Walz, and Prof. Menachem Elimelech.
Tues., Oct. 7, 11:00 am, Mason 321b.

Prof. Prober taught teachers:
On the 4th floor of Becton, Prof. Daniel Prober, AP & Phys,
taught a seminar during the summer on "Physics in Everyday
Life" to a group of New Haven teachers taking courses in
the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

Engineering Student Council:
On ESC's agenda: a monthly open forum, several events this
semester for mentors and mentees, and a meeting with
Dean Fleury. Council officers meet once a week and are
eager for suggestions about anything regarding engineering students.
President: Joshua Buck '04,
Vice President: Jason Hsueh '05,
Treasurer: Yaw Adjei-Poku '04,
General Secretary: Kathryn Johnson '04,
Professional Development Director: Gary Green '06.

Engineering Library Workshop:
Find out what to do to receive regular email notices of newly
published research from Web of Science, Compendex, INSPEC,
and other article databases. Tues., Oct. 7, 4:00 pm.

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