Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, March 29, 2004
Speakers:
Mon., March 29, 11:00
am, Watson 500.
"Multiple Supply and Threshold Voltage CMOS
Circuits,"
Mr. Volkan Kursun, Ph.D. candidate, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of
Rochester, NY.
Host: Prof. A. Stephen Morse.
Mon.,
March 29, 4:00
pm, Mason 211.
Monday Evening Seminar:
"Photon Counting Detectors for Submillimeter
Astronomy,"
John Teufel, Physics.
Adviser: Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm outside Mason 211.
Wed.,
March 31, 11:00
am, Watson 500.
"Self-Regulating Power-Aware Interconnection
Networks,"
Mr. Li Shang, cand. Ph.D., Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University.
Host: Prof. A. Stephen Morse.
Wed.,
March 31,
1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Electron Spin Resonance and Mesoscopic
Electron Transport:
Applications to Spintronics," Prof. Prabhakar
Bandaru,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of
California at San Diego.
Host: Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.
Wed.,
March 31,
2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"(Quantum)-Mechanical Engineering at the
Picometer Scale:
The Atomic Force Microscope," Dr. Franz
Giessibl, University
of Augsburg, Germany.
Host: Prof. Udo Schwarz.
Refreshments at 2:15 pm.
Wed.,
March 31,
4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Gelation for Block Copolymer Micelles:
Analogies to 'Sticky'
Colloids," Prof. Surita Bhatia, Chemical
Engineering,
University of Massachusetts.
Host: Prof. John Walz
Wed.,
March 31, 4:00
pm, Watson 400.
Communications and Networking Seminar:
"Optimal Control of Spin Systems," Prof.
Navin Kaneja,
Harvard University.
Host: Prof. Sekhar Tatikonda.
Thurs.,
April 1,
1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Quantum Frustration of Decoherence in Some
Open
Quantum Systems," Antonio Castro Neto, Boston
University.
Host: Prof. R. Shankar.
Fri.,
April 2, starting
9:30 am, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
All-Day
Symposium:
"Voting in an e-Democracy" (www.eng.yale.edu/evoting).
The Honorable Susan Bysiewicz, Connecticut
Secretary of State,
will introduce the program. Speakers: Prof. Charles
Stewart III,
Professor of Political Science, MIT; Dr. Eric
Fischer,
Congressional Research Service; Dr. Rebecca Mercuri,
Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University;
and Dr. David Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore
National
Laboratories.
4:00 pm, Finals
of the Yale Undergraduate Debates
on Technology and Society on "Voting in an
e-Democracy."
Sponsors of the event: Yale Faculty of Engineering
and
Yale Office of New Haven and State Affairs.
Fri.,
April 2,
11:00 am, Watson 500.
"Collaborative and Reconfigurable Embedded
Systems,"
Mr. Soheil Ghiasi, Ph.D. candidate, Computer
Science Department, UCLA.
Host: Prof. A. Stephen Morse.
One
of only 26 nationwide:
Prof. Janet Pan, EE & AP, is one of only
26 young
researchers nationwide selected to receive the
Office of Naval
Research Young Investigator Award. The ONR Young
Investigator Program states that "awardees
have both
submitted outstanding research proposals and
possessed
outstanding records of prior professional
accomplishments....
ONR's Young Investigator awards are intended to
confer
honor upon awardees beyond the research funding
being
provided." The honor is accompanied by funding
for three
years.
Fridays
with Harley Davidson:
Prof. David LaVan, ME, announces three
special
undergraduate seminars on engine design Fridays
March 26, April 2, and April 9 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm
in Dunham 220. The first two seminars will consist
of the dissection of a classic Harley Davidson
air-cooled twin
and of the new Harley Davidson water-cooled engine
(Revolution),
both donated by Harley Davidson, and of a
discussion led by
Prof. LaVan. At the April 9 seminar, the manager of
Harley
Davidson's Revolution Powertrain, Mr. Jeff
Coughlin, will
discuss the engines above and engineering at Harley
Davidson in general. Everyone is invited.
Thanks!
The Olin-Yale-Bayer-New Haven Science Fair thanks
Prof. Daniel Prober, AP, and Ivan Galea,
ENAS grad student,
for organizing judges and mentors from Yale
Engineering for the Fair.
End
of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 618