Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, May 10, 2004
Speakers:
Mon., May 10, 4:00
pm, Mason 211.
Monday Evening Seminar:
"Epitaxial Growth of Complex Oxides on
Semiconductors,"
Agham Posada, Physics.
Adviser: Prof. Charles Ahn.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm.
Mon.,
May 10, noon, Becton 4th Floor Alcove.
Special Applied Physics Seminar:
"Operation of a Solid State Quantum Bit:
Quantronium II,"
Prof. Denis Vion, CEA-Saclay, France.
Host: Prof. Michel Devoret.
Tues.,
May 11, 4:00 pm, Mason 104.
Graduate Student Seminar:
"Constraints for Non-rigid Registration,"
Eliezer Khan,
Biomedical Engineering.
Adviser: Prof. Lawrence Staib.
Refreshments at 3:45 pm.
Wed.
May 12,
11:00 am, Dunham 5th floor Conference Room.
Center for Systems Science Seminar:
"Intelligent Robot Systems," Mr. John
Evans,
John M. Evans LLC, Newtown, CT.
Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra.
Thurs.,
May 13,
1:00 pm, Mason 211.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Experiments in Quantum
Electro-Mechanics,"
Prof. Keith Schwab, Laboratory for Physical
Science,
University of Maryland.
Host: Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.
American
Academy of Arts & Sciences elects:
Dean Paul Fleury, Frederick W. Beinecke
Professor
of Engineering and Applied Physics and Professor
of Physics, and Prof. Steven Girvin,
Professor of
Physics and Applied Physics, were elected Fellows
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Election to the Academy is one of the highest
honors
in the United States. Founded in 1780, the Academy
"…has elected as Fellows…the finest minds
and most
influential leaders from each generation, including
George Washington and Ben Franklin in the
eighteenth century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo
Emerson in the nineteenth, and Albert Einstein and
Winston Churchill in the twentieth." The
Academy's
more than 4,500 members include more than 150 Nobel
laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners.
Final
doctoral examination:
Dejing Dou--"Ontology Translation by
Ontology Merging
and Automated Reasoning."
Committee: Prof. Drew McDermott, Prof. A. Stephen
Morse,
and Prof. Joan Feigenbaum.
Thurs., May 13, 2:00 pm, Watson 500.
Doctoral
area examinations:
--Rajamani Vijayaraghavan--"Josephson
Bifurcation Amplifier."
Committee: Prof. Michel Devoret, Prof. Daniel
Prober,
and Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.
May 4.
--Christine DeLorenz--"3D Brain Shift
Compensation for
Neurointerventions."
Committee: Prof. James Duncan, Prof. Lawrence
Staib,
and Prof. Hemant Tagare.
May 5.
So,
who finally won?
The April 29 "2004 Robot Wars," a double
elimination game,
started at 4:30 pm with 30 robots and finished
after 11:00 pm.
Final results:
1st:
Chris Crane '07, undeclared major
2nd:
Jake Velker '07, undeclared major
3rd:
Joe
Aphinyanaphongs, '07, undeclared
People's
Choice:
Daniel Berman '05, PoliSci
Faculty
Choice:
Quentin Lindsey 07, ME
The
final eight:
Crane, Velker, Aphinyanaphongs, Lindsey,
Berman, along with Melissa Jeffries '05, BME; Arjun
Rajagopal '04, Econ; and Jacob Miller '07, undeclared major.
Special
recognition:
James Cooke III, graduate TA, and
Justin Elliott '05, Ryan McClendon '04, and Jeff Warren,
all who helped with the class.
Thanks
for all your help, Jeanette Murdock:
"It is with regret that I announce the
retirement of Jeanette
Murdock on May 14," writes Mr. Andy
Shimp, Engineering
Librarian. Ms. Murdock started at Yale 38 years
ago. She
held various positions at the Sterling Library, the
Kline Science
Library, and, since 1989, the Engineering and
Applied Science
Library, where she was Manager of circulation and
technical
services. We wish her much joy in her home and
garden projects,
with her family, and in her volunteer work.
Engineering
Library summer hours:
May 11 to August 31:
Mon.-Fri. 8:30 am-5:00 pm
Sat.
1:00 pm-5:00 pm
Sun.
Closed
Closed: Mon., May 31, and Mon., July 5.
End
of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 624