Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, February 16, 2004

 

Speakers:

 

Wed., Feb. 18, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.

Solid State and Optics Seminar:

    "Hydrated Cobalt Oxide as a Strongly Correlated

    Superconductor," Prof. Patrick Lee, MIT.    

    Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev.

 

Wed., Feb. 18, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.

Mechanical Engineering Seminar:

    "Biorubber for Vital Tissue Engineering," Prof. Yadong

    Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology.

    Host: Prof. David LaVan.

    Refreshments at 2:15 pm.

 

Wed., Feb. 18, 4:00 pm, Watson 400.

Communications and Networking Seminar:

    "Designing a Low-Loss, Low-Delay Internet with

    Service Differentiation," Prof. Srisankar Kunniyur,

    University of Pennsylvania.

    Host: Prof. Sekhar Tatikonda.

 

Thurs., Feb. 19, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:

    "The Quantum Kapitza Pendulum," Dr. Saar Rahav,

    Technion, Israel.

    Host: Prof. Steven Girvin.

 

National Academy of Engineering elects:

    Prof. Csaba Horváth, Roberto C. Goizueta Professor

    of Chemical Engineering, has been elected to NAE

    "For pioneering the concept and the reduction to practice

    of high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) and for

    leadership in the development of bioanalytical techniques."

 

    Julia M. Phillips '77 MS, '81 Ph.D., Director, Physical

    and Chemical Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories,

    Albuquerque, NM, was elected "For leadership and

    distinguished research in the epitaxy of dissimilar

    materials."

   

    Faculty members previously elected to NAE are:

    Dean Paul A. Fleury; Prof. Thomas E. Graedel, FSE,

    ChE, EnvE, G &G; Prof. T. P. Ma, EE; Prof. A. Stephen

    Morse, EE & CS, Prof. Katepalli Sreenivasan, ME & Math;

    Prof. Jerry M. Woodall, EE.

 

AP "feral dogs" story goes global:

    The Associated Press ran a story on Ms. Natalie

    Jeremijenko's, ME, "feral dogs" that track volatile

    organic compounds and dangerous toxins. Papers across

    the country picked up the story, and it also circulated

    internationally on the Internet. Ms. Jeremijenko was

    inundated with invitations from concerned communities

    inviting feral dog pack releases, state and federal agencies,

    sensor companies offering equipment, educational

    institutions interested in incorporating the project into

    robotics curricula, and offers to donate toy dogs. The

    Wall Street Journal, 2/10/04, version says: "Ms. Jeremijenko's

    project has inspired others, who plan to sic robotic

    dogs on sites in Belarus that were in the path of

    radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear plant,

    on sites in Australia used for atomic testing in the

    1950s and on radioactive waste sites in Idaho."

 

Town Meeting with Graduate Students:

    Dean Fleury will host a Town Meeting for ENAS

    graduate students to discuss the graduate program

    with Dean of the Graduate School Peter Salovey and

    Associate Dean Richard Sleight.

    Wed., Feb. 18, 4:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.

 

$1,000 to winning teams, teams forming Feb. 24:

    The prizes will be awarded at the debate finals during

    a day-long symposium, "Voting in an e-Democracy," 

    sponsored by the Office of the Connecticut Secretary

    of State and Yale, to be held at Yale Fri., April 2.

    Teams of Yale students will debate the pros and cons

    of online and Internet voting. The winning team will

    receive $500, runner up team--$300, and semi-finalist

    teams will receive $100 each. All teams, of course, will

    win the hearts and minds of cheering multitudes. :)

 

    Debaters should come to network and form teams 

    Tues., Feb. 24 (for location, visit www.eng.yale.edu/debates

    Prof. Robert Grober, AP, is in charge

    of the debates.

 

They went to be judges:

    Prof. Michael Loewenberg, ChE, Ivan Galea, AP grad student,

    and ChE grad student Piero Santoro served as judges at the 
    Wilbur Cross High School science fair Feb. 5.

 

YUWO to learn about Engineering:

    Tues., Feb. 17, members of YUWO, Yale University

    Women's Organization, are coming to the Becton Faculty

    Lounge to hear Dean Paul Fleury discuss the new

    department of Biomedical Engineering and the new,

    Cesar Pelli-designed Engineering Research Building.

 

Boom and shake:

    Expect vibrations and noise the week of Feb. 16th as piles

    are driven into the ground to build a temporary retaining

    wall for pouring the concrete footings and foundation of

    the new Engineering building. 

 

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