Faculty of Engineering
Bulletin for Monday, March 6, 2006
Speakers:
Mon., March 6,
4:00
pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
"Quantum Activation out of a Metastable State
in a Sriven Oscillator," Rajamani Vijayaraghavan,
Applied Physics.
Adviser: Prof. Michel Devoret.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm.
Tues., March 7,
2:30
pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Special Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"BMG-A High Strength Metal that Can be Processed
like Plastics," Dr. Jan Schroers, California Institute
of Technology.
Host: Prof. Udo Schwarz.
Wed., March 8,
1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Synthesis and Electrical Characterization of
Group IV Semiconductor Nanowires," Prof. Joan M.
Redwing, Pennsylvania State University.
Host: Prof. Mark Reed.
Thurs., March 9,
2:30 pm, Becton 408.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Multi-Scale Modeling of Materials: A Path
Towards a Unified Perspective," Dr. David Reynolds,
Department of Physics, University of Texas-Austin.
Host: Prof. Corey O'Hern.
NSF Career Grant:
Prof. Eric Dufresne, ME, ChE & Phys, has received
an NSF Career Grant for his proposal "Self-Assembly
and Direct Fabrication of Stimuli-Responsive
Colloidal Materials Governed by Proteins." His
research will seek to mimic nature and use proteins
to create new materials that interact dynamically
with their environments. The award is $400,000.
On the cover:
ACS Environmental Science & Technology, the premier
journal in the field, highlighted on its February 14 cover
“A Vista for Microbial Ecology and Environmental Biotechnology,”
a paper co-authored by Prof. Jordan Peccia, ChE & EnvE.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS:
The February 21 cover of one of the world's premier
publications highlighted an article describing recent
work by Prof. Erin Lavik, BME& ChE, and Yale School of
Medicine collaborators.
Poster award:
There were 800 posters from U.S. and Argentina, Brazil,
Canada, China, Japan, Ireland, Israel, Russia, South
Africa, South Korea, and Turkey, and only 11 winners of a
Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Poster Award last
fall. One of the winners was “Poly(Ethylene Glycol)/Poly(L-Lysine)
Hydrogels Promote Formation Of a Microvascular Network,” with
3rd year BME graduate student
Millicent Ford
as first author
(she will receive a certificate and a check). Prof. Erin Lavik,
BME & ChE, was the Faculty Adviser. Winners will be honored
at the 2006 BMES fall meeting in Chicago.
Doctoral area
examination:
Blair Connelly“Quantitative Characterization of Steady
and Time-Varying, Sooting, Laminar Diffusion Flames Using
Optical Techniques.” Committee: Prof. Marshall Long,
Prof. Mitchell Smooke, and Prof. Richard, Chang.
Feb. 28.
Submit a CRISP “seed”
proposal:
CRISP, the Yale NSF-MRSEC Center for Interface Structures
and Phenomena, invites proposals for “seed” research in
interface structures and phenomena. The CRISP Seed Committee
will provide $20,000 per year for two years, primarily for equipment.
Funding for student support is possible. Deadline: April 1.
For specifics, visit <
http://www.eng.yale.edu/aphy/crisp-seed.htm>
or contact any member of the Seed Committee: Prof. Charles Ahn,
Prof. Sean Barrett, Prof. Victor Henrich, or Prof. John Tully.
National Engineers
Week Trivia Tournament:
A hilarious “Jeopardy”-style contest in Davies Auditorium ended
National Engineers Week with students cheering on their
departmental teams Men in Black (AP: Prof. Shankar, Prof.
Ismail-Beigi),
Hall and Oats (BME: Prof. Saltzman, Prof. Levene),
Atoms’ Family
(ChE: Prof. Haller, Prof. Loewenberg), Team Z Mismatch
(EE, Prof.
Köser, Prof. Yeh), Earth and Sky (EnvE: Prof. Mitch,
Prof. Peccia), and
The Burninators (ME: Prof. Smooke, Prof. Dufresne). The
teams
competed answering student-generated questions on home repair,
celebrity
gossip, geography, musical instruments, engineering, and robots.
Yale Engineering Design Team's
James Salzano ’06
was the suave MC.
The Burninators clinched the prize with an answer to "This is
the solution to this differential equation: y”+6y’+13y=0." A look
at the fun event is provided by ME graduate student
Weiwei Deng,
<
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~wd65/trivia/>
End of Faculty of
Engineering Bulletin 689