Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday

Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, December 6, 2004

Speakers:

Mon., Dec. 6, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
    "MOCVD Growth and Characterization of III-Nitride
    Nanostructures," Jie Su, Electrical Engineering.
    Adviser: Prof. Jung Han.

Tues., Dec. 7, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Graduate Student Seminar:
    "Indexing Vertebral Shapes," Xiaoning Qian, Biomedical
    Engineering.
    Adviser: Prof. Hemant Tagare.
    Refreshments at 3:45 pm.

Wed., Dec. 8, 11:00 am, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Department of Biomedical Engineering Research Seminar Series:
    "High-throughput Approaches to Drug Delivery and Tissue
    Engineering," Dr. Daniel Anderson, Chemical Engineering, MIT.
    Host. Prof. Erin Lavik.

Wed., Dec. 8, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
    "Ultrafast Quantum Control," Prof. Philip H. Bucksbaum,
    University of Michigan.
    Host: Prof. Steven Girvin.

Wed., Dec. 8, 4:00 pm, Watson 500.
Communications and Networking Seminar:
    "Network Information Flow with Correlated Sources,"
    Prof. Sergio Servetto, Cornell University.
    Host: Prof. Sekhar Tatikonda.

Thurs., Dec. 9, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
    "Chiral Spin Resonance and Spin-Hall Conductivity
    in the Presence of the Electron-electron Interactions,"
    Dr. Maxim Khodas, Weizmann Institute of Science,
    Rehovot, Israel.
    Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev.
Fri., Dec. 10, noon, Mason 107.
Biomaterials Seminar Series:
    "Possible Titanium Biomaterials in Marine Organisms,"
    Prof. Ann Valentine, Chemistry.
    Host: Prof. Paul van Tassel.
    A light lunch will be provided.

Prof. Woodall receives prestigious honor:
    "For pioneering contributions to the liquid-phase epitaxy
    in the GaAs/AlGaAs systems, including applications to
    photonic and electronic devices," IEEE has named
    Prof. Jerry Woodall, EE, the recipient of the
    2005 IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal. In the past few
    years, Prof. Woodall has also been honored with the
    Federation of Materials Societies' 2002 National Materials
    Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Award and the
    National Medal of Technology.

ME poster nominated for award:
    From among thousands of posters at the Materials Research
    Society (MRS) conference in Boston, MA, Nov. 30, some were
    nominated for the MRS poster award. Among them was
    "Crystallization and Phase Transformations in Amorphous
    NiTi Thin Films on Micromachined Membranes" co-authored
    by Prof. Ainissa Ramirez, ME, and ME Postdoctoral Associate
    Dr. Hai Ni and Research Associate Dr. Hoo-Jeong Lee. In the end,
    the prize went to someone else, but our ME co-authors came
    home beaming.

Come, consider, invest:
    Come to the presentations by students in EAS 323a "Creativity
    and New Product Development"
    Tues, Dec. 7, 9:00 am to noon and 1:00 to 4:00 pm, Dunham 220.
    Adviser: Mr. Henry Bolanos. Eleven teams will present
    their new products. Come, ask questions, and (who knows?) maybe
    find a promising new product to invest in.

EE Senior Project Presentations:
    Fri., Dec. 10, 1:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.

Mobil robot contests in Davies Auditorium:
    Two-student teams will race their custom-designed
    mobile robot (one robot per team) in Davies Auditorium
    Thurs., Dec. 9, 7:00-9.30 pm:
       Race One: Analog race, where the robots do a line-following
       slalom controlled by fast analog circuitry.

       Race Two: Microcontroller race, where students program
       the resident microcontroller to find its way out of a maze.
       This is a contest of strategy as the robot does not know its
        initial orientation within the maze.
    The best time wins in both races. Prizes in each race category.
    Course: EENG 227L, "Circuits and Electronics Laboratory."
    Advisers: Prof. Janet Pan and Mr. Edward Jackson.
Reserve the date:
    Dean Fleury requests the pleasure of the company of Engineering
    faculty, graduate students, and staff at the Faculty of Engineering
    HOLIDAY PARTY
    Wed., Dec. 15, 5:30-7:30 pm, Presidents Room, Woolsey Hall.
    RSVP <eric.mitchell@yale.edu>

Engineering Library hours in December:
    Dec., 19, Sun.,               Closed
    Dec., 20-22, Mon.-Wed., 8:30 am-5:00 pm
    Dec., 23-31, Thurs.-Fri.,   Closed

Promises promises:
    Two years ago, Congress endorsed a plan to double the amount
    of allocations for the National Science Foundation. But this past
    Nov. 20, Congress allocated $5.473 billion, and NSF found itself
    with $205 million (2%) less than last year. NYT, Nov. 30.

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