- Faculty of Engineering
Bulletin for Monday, December 19, 2005
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- Speakers:
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- Mon., Dec. 19,
4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
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"Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: Quantum Optics with Circuits,"
David Schuster, Physics Department.
Host: Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm.
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- Tues., Dec. 20,
11:00 am (note date and time), Becton 4th floor alcove.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
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"Quantum
Capacitance for Quantum Computation,"
Prof. Christopher M. Wilson, Chalmers University of Technology.
Host: Prof. Daniel Prober.
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- George S. Axelby
Outstanding Paper Award:
- Prof. A. Stephen Morse,
EE & CS, was the recipient of the 2005 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper
Award for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control during 2003 and 2004 (winners are chosen on "originality,
potential impact on the theoretical foundations of control, importance and
practical significance in applications, and clarity"). The awarding ceremony
was held Dec. 14 in Seville, Spain, at the joint 44th IEEE Conference on
Decision and Control and European Control Conference ECC 2005 (CDC-ECC). The
winning paper, "Coordination of Groups of Mobile Autonomous Agents using
Nearest Neighbor Rules" [48( 6), 988-100 (2003)], was co-authored with
A. Jadbabaie and
J. Lin. Dr. Lin received his Ph.D. at Yale two years ago and
is now at Xerox. Dr. Jadbabaie was a Postdoc at Yale three years ago and is
now on the EE faculty at UPenn. Prof. Morse received his first Axelby Award
in 1993. Prof. Kumpati
Narendra,
EE, won the Axelby Award in 1988. Transactions on Automatic Control
is the leading control journal in the world.
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- Speaking of awards:
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At the International Federation of Automatic Control Congress (IFAC is the
largest organization devoted to automatic control) last June,
Prof. Stephen Morse
received the IFAC 2005 Theory/Methodology Prize for "Switching Between
Stabilizing Controllers," a paper co-authored by
J. P. Hespanha and
published in Automatica, IFAC's main journal. Dr. Hespanha received
his Ph.D. from Yale (also a Becton Prize) in the mid 1990s and is now on the
EE faculty the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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- Prof. Ma
and Prof. Ahn
to participate in INDEX:
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Yale is one of seven universities forming the Institute for Nanoelectronics
Discovery and Exploration (INDEX), along with the State University of New
York-Albany, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard, MIT, Purdue, and
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. INDEX will focus on the development of
nanomaterial systems; atomic-scale fabrication technologies; predictive
modeling protocols for devices, subsystems and systems; power dissipation
management designs; and realistic architectural integration schemes for
realizing novel magnetic and molecular quantum devices.
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- How about this
Sophomore!
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The co-authors of the just-published (online) "Electronic Properties of InN
Nanowires," Applied Physics Letters, 87, 253103 (2005), are
Guosheng Cheng, Eric Stern, Daniel Turner-Evans, and Mark A Reed.
Daniel Turner-Evans
is Class of ’08.
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- Before video games:
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"At nine….(he) placed various objects in turn—an apple, a pencil, a chess
pawn, a comb—behind a glass of water and peered through it at each
studiously: the red apple became a clear-cut red band bounded by a straight
horizon, a half a glass of Red Sea, Arabia Felix. The short pencil, if held
obliquely, curved like a stylized snake, but if held vertically became
monstrously fat—almost pyramidical. The black pawn if moved to and fro,
divided into a couple of black ants. The comb, stood on end, resulted in the
glass’s seeming to fill with beautifully striped liquid, a zebra cocktail."
From Pnin (1957) by Vladimir Nabokov.
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- See you in 2006:
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The next Engineering Bulletin will reach you next year.
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