Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, April 26, 2004
Speakers:
Wed., April 28,
1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Detection of Electronic Ordering in High-Tc
Cuprates,"
Prof. Ali Yazdani, Materials Research Laboratory,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Host: Prof. Charles Ahn.
Wed.,
April 28, 4:00
pm, Mason 107.
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Oxidation by Manganese (Hydr)Oxide
Surfaces:
Structure-Reactivity Relationships," Prof.
Alan T. Stone,
Department of Geography and Environmental
Engineering,
Environmental and Aquatic Chemistry, Johns
Hopkins
University.
Host: Prof. William Mitch.
Thurs.,
April 29,
1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Breakdown of the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson
Paradigm
at Quantum Phase Transitions," Prof. Subir
Sachdev,
Physics & Applied Physics.
Host: Prof. R. Shankar.
Fri.,
April 30,
4:00 pm, Dunham Fifth Floor Conference Room.
Center for Systems Science Seminar:
"Sample-Based Planning, Control, and
Verification,"
Prof. Michael Branicky, Case Western Reserve
University.
Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra.
Yale
High Performance Computing Symposium:
Subject: Large scale
computational efforts in bioinformatics,
robotics, computer science, combustion,
neuroscience et al.
Speakers from ME, CS, ITS, Phys, Chem, Astronomy,
CS/EE,
Pfizer, MIT, Rocketcalc. Schedule at www.yale.edu/hpc/
April 29, 8:30-4:00,
Sloane Physics Lab,
April 30, 8:30-5:00,
Becton Center & Dunham Lab.
No free. Continental breakfast and lunch
provided.
Solar
car on its way to Greece:
April 20, Team Lux shipped the "The John
Lee" to Greece
and the 11-member race crew will fly to Greece
May 17.
"The John Lee" will participate in
"Phaeton," the Olympiad's
768 km [477 miles] solar car race May 22 that
starts and ends
in Athens. The crew consists of ME, EE, Physics,
and Biology
majors and Freshmen and Sophomores. The president
of Team
Lux and also the captain of "The John
Lee" is David M.
Johnson '04 BME. Visit http://solar.eng.yale.edu/pictures.html
Senior
Project Presentations
AP--Thurs., April 29, 10:00 am-noon,
Becton 4th floor alcove.
BME--Mon.,
April 26, 12:30-3:30 pm, Dunham 220.
ChE--Mon., May 3, 2:00-4:00
pm, Becton 508.
EE--Thurs., April 29, 9:00
am-5:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.
EnvE--Fri., April 30,
1:30-5:00 pm, Mason 107.
ME--Fri., April 30,
2:00-6:00 pm, Mason M 211.
This
year, it's mines:
Thurs., April 29, 4:30 pm, Davies Auditorium,
Becton Center,
ME 185 students will lock robots in the
"Robot Wars 2004"
competition. The robots will have two minutes to
disarm
or remove "mines" from the game board.
The "mines,"
distributed on three terrains, are sensitive to
shock and
tilt and can "explode" (lights and a
buzzer) but can be
disarmed with a magnetically actuated system and,
mechanically, by being lifted with a plunger.
Prizes for the
top scoring robots and fun, pizza, and dessert
for everyone else.
Instructor: Prof. David LaVan.
CT-N
broadcast "e-Voting in a Democracy":
April 12 and 13, the Connecticut Network
[unedited coverage
of Connecticut state government deliberations and
public
policy events] broadcast on the Internet and
public
access channels the April 2 all-day Yale
symposium
on electronic voting co-sponsored by the Faculty
of
Engineering and the Office of New Haven and State
Relations.
Served
on organizing committee:
Ms. Lorraine Ragusa, Administrative
Assistant in ME, served
on the Administrative Professionals Appreciation
Day committee
that organized the April 21 day-long celebration
for Yale support staff.
Bravo!
Sibo Wang, the 10th grade daughter of Ms.
Lieyang Zhou, FoE IT
Specialist, and Gang Wang, Associate Director of
International
Students and Scholars, won first prize and $400
for prose in
the annual Thornton Wilder prose and poetry
competition at
the Miller Library, Hamden. The competition drew
46 contestants
from 13 area high schools.
End
of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 622