Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, March 27, 2006

Speakers:

Mon., March 27, noon, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
   "Scanning Probe Microscopy and Novel Biological
   Applications," Dr. Ping-Cheng Zhang, Canada
   Nanotech Company, Richmond, B.C., Canada.
   Host: Prof. David LaVan.

Mon., March 27, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
   "Scattering from Micro-particles and Direct
   Coupling of Micro-resonators," Gustavo Fernandes ‘09,
   Physics.
   Adviser: Prof. Richard Chang.
   Refreshments at 3:30 pm.

Wed., March 28, 11:00 am, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Department of Biomedical Engineering Research Seminar:
   "Elucidating Neutrophil/Extracellular Matrix
   Interactions: A Bioengineering Approach," Dr. Angelica L.
   Gonzalez, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s
   Hospital, Pediatrics-Leukocyte Biology, Children’s
   Nutrition Research Center, Houston, TX.
   Host: Prof. Mark Saltzman.

Wed., March 29, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Theory of Ferroelectric Perovs-kite Ultrathin Films and Superlattices,"
   Prof. David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University.
   Host: Prof. Sohrab Ismail-Beigi.

Thurs., March 30, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
   "Shot Noise in the Quantum-to-Classical Crossover Regime,"
   Stefan Rotter, Applied Physics.
   Host: Prof. A. Douglas Stone.

Fri., March 31, 4:00 pm, Dunham 5th floor Conference Room.
Center for Systems Science Seminar:
   "Negative Feedback Control of Temporal Learning
   in Perirhinal-Amygdala Circuits," Prof. Thomas
   Brown, Psychology.
   Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra.
 
Public tribute by former graduate students:
   Come and hear former graduate students pay tribute
   to Professor Emeritus Richard Barker as he is
   being celebrated for his significant contributions
   to Yale’s Microelectronics Program.
   Sat., March 25, 2:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.
 
ROP Highlights of 2005:
   Reports on Progress in Physics (ROP) is highlighting
   12 articles that ROP editors consider as the best
   articles published in ROP in 2005. These papers
   received the highest praise from ROP’s international
   referees and had a high number of downloads from
   the journal’s website. One of the twelve papers
   was “Electron Tunneling in Self-assembled Monolayers”
   (Vol. 68, No. 3) by former postdocs in EE Dr. Wenyong
   Wang and Dr. Takhee Lee and Prof. Mark Reed, EE.
 
Those who lent a hand:
   The following helped out at the New Haven Schools
   Science Fair as Judges: Prof Erin Lavik, BME, and
   ChE graduate students Tonya Byrd and Jennifer Phelps.
   The following helped as Mentors: Prof. Eugenio
   Culurciello, EE, Prof. Erin Lavik, graduate students
   Steven Jay, BME, Jennifer Phelps, ChE, and Caroline
   Howe ’07. Also helping as Judges at a science fair
   that sent some winning projects to the New Haven
   Schools Science Fair were graduate students
   Hui-Qiong Wang, AP, and Liyang Song, EE, as well
   as Dr. Yang Yun, postdoc in ChE, all of whom
   assisted through CRISP (Center for Research
   Interface Structures and Phenomena), a part of
   NSF’s MRSEC at Yale. Dean Paul Fleury will be
   the keynote speaker April 11 at the New Haven
   Schools Science Fair mentor appreciation dinner
   at Amarante’s restaurant.
 
Could you volunteer?
   Tues., April 11, Engineering will host a Girls in
   Engineering Day (take a look at the first “Day”
   < http://www.eng.yale.edu/news/girl-Engineering-Day.htm>)
   and we need tour guides. We also need "role models"--
   female engineering undergraduates, graduate students,
   or postdocs who would be willing to share why they
   chose their major or field of study. Tour guides
   and role models are needed some time between
   10:30 am and noon. Contact <eric.mitchell@yale.edu>
 
Learn to be a better teacher:
   Fri., March 31, 10:15 am-3:00 pm, HGS, 320 York St.
   Faculty panel on teaching across disciplines,
   exhibition of innovations and initiatives,
   < www.yale.edu/mcdougal/teaching>
 
25 hours per week until July 1:
   Communications Consultant needed to coordinate,
   develop, maintain, and deliver electronic and
   printed communications materials and communications.
   For specifics, contact <jane.livingston@yale.edu >

End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 692