Faculty of Engineering
Bulletin for Monday, March 20, 2006
Speakers:
Mon., March 20,
4:00
pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
"Structure of Fe3O4 (100) Surface and its Interfaces
with NiO (100) and CoO (100) Overlayers," Huiqiong
Wang, Applied Physics.
Adviser: Prof. Victor Henrich.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm.
Mon., March 20,
4:00 pm, Watson 500.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Seminar:
"Delay, Feedback, and the Price of Ignorance,"
Prof.
Anant Sahai, University of California at Berkeley.
Hosts: Prof. Edmund Yeh and Prof. Sekhar Tatikonda.
Tues., March 21,
10:15 am, Mason 107.
Special Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Toward Nanoelectromechanical Single-Molecule Sensing,"
Prof. Kamil L. Ekinci, Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering,
Boston University.
Host: Prof. Udo Schwarz.
Wed., March 22,
1:00 pm, Engineering Student Center.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"The Early History of Cryogenic Research at Yale,"
Prof. Robert G. Wheeler, Applied Physics.
Host: Prof. Daniel Prober.
Wed., March 22,
1:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Design and Development of MEMS Devices for Detection
of Hazardous Materials," Prof. Ioana Voiculescu,
Mechanical Engineering Department, City College
of New York.
Host: Prof. David LaVan.
Wed., March 22,
4:00 pm, Dunham 5th floor Conference Room.
Computer Engineering Seminar:
"Analog Signal Processing for Low-power Sensor
Systems," Prof. Paul Hasler, University of Michigan.
Host: Prof. Eugenio Culurciello.
Thurs., March 23,
10:30 am, Mason 107.
Special Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Microstructural Stability of Amorphous AI Alloys
during Intense Deformation," Dr. Rainer J. Hebert,
University of Wisconsin.
Host: Prof. Udo Schwarz.
Thurs., March 23,
1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"The
'Magnetized Superfluid' in the BCS-BEC Crossover,"
Prof. Austen Lamacraft, Oxford University, England.
Host: Prof. Vadim Oganesyan.
Fri., March 24,
4:00
pm, Dunham 5th floor Conference Room.
Center for Systems Science Seminar:
"Membranes, Ions, and Behavior: Cellular Physiology
of Neural Circuits," Prof. Michael Nitabach,
Physiology.
Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra.
Major European prize for
our researcher:
Information next week.
Community involvement:
"The New Haven Schools Science Fair was a big success,"
exults Ms. Lise Orville, Mentor Coordinator for the
Fair, who is totally wiped out from all the work involved.
We'll find out next week how many of the judges and
mentors at the Fair (held March 13 and 14 in the
Yale Commons) were from Yale Engineering. One of
the prizes at the annual Fair is The Robert E. Apfel
Award for Best Hypothesis, given in memory of the late
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Chair of the
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chair of the
Council of Engineering (precursor of the Faculty of
Engineering), and one of the founders and always an
enthusiastic mentor and judge of the New Haven Schools
Science Fair.
Collegiate Inventors
Competition:
Open to undergraduate and graduate students. The
prizes are $25,000, $15,000, and $10,000. Advisers
receive $3,000. Finalists get an all-expenses-paid
trip to Washington, DC, in October to present their
invention to the judges. Deadline: June 1. Yale
Engineering has had winners in 1999 (two winners!),
1998, 1996, and 1993. Time to shine again! Get the
specifics from
www.invent.org/collegiate
For student, faculty, and
staff radio hams:
Yale's radio club, W1YU, is being revived
Wed., March 22, 7:30 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge,
says Dr. Martin Ewing, former Director of
Engineering IT. Everyone is invited. Specifics at
<www.yale.edu/w1yu/welcome.html>
If you missed the real
thing:
You can enjoy two pictorial views of our National
Engineers Week Trivia Tournament at
<www.eng.yale.edu/news/natl-eng-week-06-page.htm>
End of Faculty of
Engineering Bulletin 691