Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, November 28, 2005

Speakers:
Mon., Nov. 28, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
   "Triple Quantum Dots," Prof. Andy Vidan, Physics
   Department, Harvard University.
   Host: Prof. Jack Harris.
   Refreshments at 3:30 pm.

Tues., Nov. 29, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Graduate Student Seminar:
   "Potential Consequences of a Shift to Lead-Free Solder,"
   Jaimee Dong, Applied Physics, Yale.
   Adviser: Prof. Thomas A. Graedel.

Tues., Nov. 29, 4:00 pm, Watson 500.
Communications and Networking Seminar:
   "Formations, Rigidity, and Persistence,"
   Prof. Brian D. O. Anderson, Australian National
   University and National ICT Australia Canberra ACT,
   Australia.
   Host: Prof. Stephen Morse.

Wed., Nov. 30, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
   "Genechips: A Quest for Meaningful, Quantitative Data,"
   Dr. Glenn Held, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
   Yorktown Heights, NY.
   Host: Prof. Simon Mochrie.

Wed., Nov. 30, 11:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Department of Biomedical Engineering Research Seminar:
   "Controlling the Cell Microenvironment,"
   Prof. Lonnie D. Shea, Department of Chemical and
   Biological Engineering, Northwestern University,
   Evanston, IL.
   Host: Prof. Mark Saltzman.

Wed., Nov. 30, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
   "Synthesis of Functional Nanoparticles of Flame:
   Hard or Soft Agglomerates," Prof. Sotiris E. Pratsinis,
   Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).
   Host: Prof. Alessandro Gomez.

Wed., Nov. 30, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.
Department of Chemical Engineering John McLanahan Henske Lecture:
   "Models for Water and Sediment Quality Criteria for
   Metals and Toxic Organic Chemicals: Toxicological and
   Chemical Interactions," Prof. Dominic M. DiToro,
   Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
   University of Delaware.
   Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech.

Wed., Nov. 30, 4:00 pm, Watson 500.
Computer Engineering Seminar:
   "Aristotle’s Dream: A Language for Action, The Behaviorome
   Project," Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos, Computer Vision
   Laboratory, University of Maryland.
   Host: Prof. Andreas Savvides.

Fri., Dec. 2, 8:30 am-5:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge and Dunham Lab.
Robert M. Langer Chemical Engineering Symposium:
   Thirteen graduate student presentations in the Becton
   Faculty Lounge. At 1:00 pm, in Dunham 220,
   Keynote Speaker Prof. Paula Hammond of MIT will speak on
   "Exploration of Macromolecular Self Assembly in Thin
   Films: From Electrochemistry to Drug Delivery”. The
   complete program is at
  < www.eng.yale.edu/news/Langer-Symposium-2005.htm>
 
Final doctoral examination:
   Xia Hong­"Ferro­electric Field Effect Studies of
   the Colossal Magne­toresistive Oxide La_1-xSr_xMnO₃."
   Committee: Prof. Charles Ahn, Prof. T.P. Ma, and
   Prof. Victor Henrich.
   Mon., Nov. 28, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
  Prof. Ramirez on memory metals:
   If you missed the story by Abram Katz in the New Haven
   Register, 11/20, about Prof. Ainissa Ramirez’, ME,
   research on "memory alloys" (they could make a
   dented car smooth itself out to its former shape!),
   see < www.eng.yale.edu/news/ramirez-nhregister.htm>
 
Writing Workshop for graduate students:
   You will find out what causes some writing to be
   easy to understand and other writing to be annoyingly
   complicated. You will also learn what you should do
   to write more clearly. The workshop will be held
   Fri., Dec. 2, 1:00 pm, in Mason 107 and is limited
   to 30 students. The instructor will be Steven Schoemaker
   from the Graduate School. Reserve your space with
   < sandra.tranquilli@yale.edu>
 
If you have wondered about it:
   The central mural in the Sterling Library depicts
   Alma Mater (Yale). On her right stand Light (bearing
   a torch) and Truth (naked). The other figures represent
   Science, Labor, Music, Divinity, Literature, and the
   Fine Arts. The mural was painted in 1932 by William
   Leffingwell ’24 BFA, a professor of painting at the
   Yale School of Fine Arts. He described the painting
   as "symbolizing the inspiration that directs the
   University’s spiritual and intellectual efforts."

End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 677