Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, December 1, 2003

 

Speakers:

 

Mon., Dec. 1, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.

Monday Evening Seminar:

"Structure and Dynamics of Self Assembling Block Copolymers,"

Peter Falus, Physics.

Adviser Prof. Simon Mochrie.

Refreshments at 3:30 pm.

 

Tues., Dec. 2, 4:15 pm, Watson 200.

Applied Math Seminar:

"Evolution of MatLab," Dr. Cleve Moler, Chairman

and Chief Scientist, The MathWorks.

Host Prof. Martin Schultz.

Refreshments at 4:00 pm.

 

Wed., Dec. 3, 11:00 am, Becton Faculty Lounge.

Biomedical Engineering Seminar:

"Extra- and Intracellular Transport Barriers to Effective

Drug and Gene Delivery," Prof. Justin Hanes, Department

of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns

Hopkins University.

Host Prof. Mark Saltzman.

 

Wed., Dec. 3, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.

Solid State and Optics Seminar:

"Light in Asymmetric Resonant Cavities Chaos, Tunneling

and Localization," Prof. Evgenii Narimanov, Department

of Electrical Engineering, Princeton.

Host Prof. A. Douglas Stone.

 

Wed., Dec. 3, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.

Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:

"Heat and Mass Transfer at the Nano-Scale," 

Prof. John M Kincaid, State University of New 

York at Stony Brook.

Host Prof. Jerzy Blawzdziewicz.

 

Wed., Dec. 3, 3:00 pm (Note special day and time!), Sloane Physics Lab 52.

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:

"Recent Neutron Scattering Studies of Complex Oxides,"

Prof. Martin Greven, Stanford University.

Host Prof. Subir Sachdev.

 

Wed., Dec. 3, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.

Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:

"Chemically Functionalized Nanosized Islands on Solid

Surfaces using Self-assembled Monolayers," Prof. Alexander

Couzis, Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of CUNY.

Host Prof. John Walz.

 

Thurs., Dec. 4, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:

"Kagome Spin Liquid," Dr. Assa Auerbach, Technion, Israel.

Host Prof. R. Shankar.

 

Congratulations:

The Environmental Research and Education Foundation

(EREF) has awarded its 2003 Francois Fiessinger Scholarship

to Yale Environmental Engineering graduate student Michael

Sander, Prof. Joseph Pignatello is his Adviser, in recognition

of his achievements and potential for future contributions to

the environmental scientific community. "Mr. Sander's research

will provide insight into soil and contaminant physics that is

sure to impact the development of effective remediation strategies

and the establishment of environmental risk and cleanup standards,"

said Dr. Michael Cagney, president of EREF. For more on EREF,

visit<www.erefdn.org>

 

NYT Magazine spots Ms. Jeremijenko's robot dogs:

A story in the New York Times Magazine, 11/16/03, p. 78, by Cory

Doctorow on the "new commercial home-robots market" selected

"five robots truer than most." One of the five was Ms. Natalie

Jeremijenko's, ME, feral robot dogs that can detect areas

with a high concentration of toxins. "We give them [robot dogs]

brain transplants," the story quotes Ms. Jeremijenko, "so that

they do something useful instead of barking the national anthem

or begging for plastic bones." At Yale, students build feral dogs

in Ms. Jeremijenko's MENG 386a class.

 

Grader/TA wanted:

Prof. Ainissa Ramirez, ME, needs a graduate Grader/TA

for her spring term course, MENG 285b "Introduction to Materials

Science." The course will focus on atomic structure,

bonds, crystallography, mechanical properties of chemical

materials, phase diagrams and microstructure, and electronic

properties of materials. The Grader/TA should be comfortable

with the concepts of solid materials. Contact Prof. Ramirez

at 2-2156 or <ainissa.ramirez@yale.edu>

 

Faculty with individual web pages:

Please include a link to the Faculty of Engineering

website, <www.eng.yale.edu>

 

The holidays and personal mail"

Yale's policy is that your personal mail and packages should

go to your home address.

 

Speaking/presentation tip:

"In order to relax before speaking, visualize your audience

giving you a standing ovation." Media Training Worldwide.

 

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