Faculty of Engineering
Bulletin for Monday, February 13, 2006
Speakers:
Tues., Feb. 14,
4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Graduate Student Seminar:
"Neural Testing of Mixed-Signal/RF Circuits,"
Haralampos Stratigopoulos, Electrical Engineering.
Adviser: Prof. Yiorgos Makris.
Refreshments at 3:45 pm.
Wed., Feb. 15,
1:00
pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Tailoring
the Nanometer-Scale Structure and Properties of Dilute Semiconductor
Alloys,?
Prof. Rachel Goldman, University of Michigan.
Host: Prof. Mark Reed.
Wed., Feb. 15,
4:00 pm, Mason 211.
Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Pulling, Squeezing, and Heating Biomolecules:
What Happens and Why We Do It," Dr. Thomas Knotts,
Chemical and Biological Engineering, University
of Wisconsin at Madison.
Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm, Mason mezzanine.
Thurs., Feb. 16,
10:00 am, Becton 4th floor alcove.
Special Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Collective
Effects in Transport through Single-molecule Devices,?"
Prof. Jens Koch, Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Host: Prof. Steven M. Girvin.
Thurs., Feb. 16,
1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"High Temperature Metals and Insulators,"
Dr. Vadim Oganesyan, Physics.
Host: Prof. Steven M. Girvin.
Thurs., Feb. 16,
4:00 pm, Watson 500.
Computer Engineering Seminar:
"ICs at Light Speed: Merging VLSI with Photonics,"
Prof. Alyssa Apsel, Cornell University.
Host Prof. Eugenio Culurciello.
Fri., Feb. 17,
9:30 am, Becton 4th floor alcove.
Special Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Superconducting Tunnel Junction X-ray Spectrometers for Synchrotron
Science, or The Chemistry of Dilute Samples," Dr. Stephan Friedrich,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Host: Prof. Daniel Prober.
Fri., Feb. 17,
4:00 pm, Dunham 5th floor Conference Room.
Center for System Science Seminar:
"Hidden Markov Models for Molecular Motors,"
Prof. Frederick J. Sigworth, Cellular and
Molecular Physiology and Biomedical Engineering,
Yale University.
Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra.
Elected:
Prof. Menachem Elimelech, Roberto C. Goizueta
Professor of Environmental and Chemical Engineering,
has been elected a member of the National Academy of
Engineering (NAE). Prof. Elimelech is Chair of the
Department of Chemical Engineering and Director
of the Environmental Engineering Program.
Final doctoral
examination:
Paul Ivancic--"Cervical
Spine Injury during
Simulated Automobile Collisions."
Committee: Prof. Manohar Panjabi, Prof. Jacek
Cholewicki, and Prof. Jonathan Grauer.
Wed., Feb. 15, 3:00 pm, Hope Memorial Building 216,
315 Cedar Street.
E-books at Engineering
Library workshop:
Get an overview of the e-book collections available
for science and engineering users. Collections
include Books24x7 (computing), Ebrary (books on
many topics), Knovel, EngNetBase (engineering
reference books), and more.
Wed., Feb. 15, 3:00 pm.
Trial access this month;
should we subscribe?
Sample the SPIE Digital Library and let
<andy.shimp@yale.edu>
know whether you think
that we should subscribe to this database for
research on optics and photonics. This digital
library provides access to more than 200,000 full-text
technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference
Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than
17,000 new technical papers are added every year.
Yale's subscription includes papers in electronic
imaging and processing, micro- and nano-technologies,
and optics and electro-optics. You can access the
SPIE Digital Library at <http://www.spiedl.org/>
or from the Yale Library website,
<http://www.library.yale.edu/science/subject/engineering.html>
Yale?s trial access is during February.
Helping out in the
community:
Prof. Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, AP and Phys, and AP
graduate student
Huiqiong Wang,
served as judges
at the Connecticut State Scholars Academy Science
Fair in New Haven Jan. 31.
Where would you like to
work?
A listing of academic and research positions in
many countries <http://www.career.edu/>
End of Faculty of
Engineering Bulletin 686