Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, May 3, 2004
Speakers:
Tues., May 4, 4:00
pm, Mason 107.
Graduate Student Seminar:
"MOVPE fabrication of III-V Nanostrucures,"
Jie Su,
Electrical Engineering.
Adviser: Prof. Jung Han.
Refreshments at 3:45 pm.
Wed.,
May 5,
1:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Department of Biomedical Engineering Seminar:
"Implantable Neural Probe Systems for Cortical
Neuroprostheses," Prof. Daryl R. Kipke,
Department
Ann Arbor, MI.
Host: Dr. Mark Laubach.
Prof.
Chang elected to CASE:
The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
has elected Prof. Richard K. Chang, AP and
Phys,
to membership in the ~200-member body.
Condolences
to Prof. Alessandro Gomez, ME, and to
Mr. Glenn Weston-Murphy, ME,
upon the loss of their fathers.
Doctoral
area examinations:
(a
partial listing)
Celeste
Yang--"Using
Confocal Microscopy to Study
Misfolding of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide."
Committee: Prof. Robert Grober, Prof. Victor
Henrich,
and Prof. Richard Chang.
April 6.
Michael
Sander--
"Irreversibility of Organic Compound
Sorption to Natural and Engineered Organic Matter
Solids."
Committee: Prof. Menachem Elimelech, Prof. James
Saiers,
and Prof. Joseph Pignatello.
April 9.
Benjamin
Boese--"Natural
and Engineered Nucleic Acids
as Molecular Receptors." Committee: Prof.
Ronald
Breaker, Prof. John Walz, and Prof.
Paul Van Tassel.
April 16.
Jaimee
Dong--"What
Are The Technological Consequences
of a Transition to Lead-Free Solder?"
Committee: Prof. Thomas
Graedel,
Prof. Menachem Elimelech, and Prof. Robert
Gordon.
April 29.
Ryan
Munden--"Electrical
Characterization of Semiconductor
Nanowires."
Committee: Prof. Mark Reed, Prof. T.P. Ma, and
Prof. Jung Han.
April 29.
Giuliano
Amantini--"Experimental
and Computational
Study of Two-Dimensional Methane Counterflow
Diffusion
Flames."
Committee: Prof. Alessandro Gomez, Prof.
Mitchell
Smooke, Prof. Marshall Long, and Dr. Beth
Anne Bennett.
April 29.
Weipeng
Li--"Growth
and Characterization of Gate Dielectrics
for Si and GaN." Committee: Prof. T.P. Ma,
Prof. Jung
Han, and Prof. Janet Pan.
April 30.
Yanxiang
Liu--"Advanced
Dielectrics for Non-Volatile Memories."
Committee: Prof. T.P. Ma, Prof. Janet Pan, and
Prof.
Jung Han.
April 30.
Ermelinda
Harper--"Tungsten:
A Temporally and Spatially
Resolved Quantitative Stocks and Flows
Analysis."
Committee: Prof. Thomas Graedel, Prof. William
Mitch, and Prof. Robert Gordon.
Mon., May 3, 10:00 am, Environmental Sciences
Center 110.
2nd
Granular Materials Workshop:
Prof. Eric Dufresne, ME, and Prof. Corey
O'Hern,
ME and Phys, organizers of the workshop, invite
submissions
of 15-minute talks and poster sessions. Deadline:
May 21.
Specifics at <www.eng.yale.edu/ohernlab/>
Postdoctoral
position:
Prof. Mark Reed, EE, seeks to fill a
postdoctoral
position in nanoscale device and mesoscale physics.
Required: Experience in device fabrication
and
characterization, cryogenic and milliKelvin
techniques,
and low noise instrumentation. Contact <mark.reed@yale.edu>
Collegiate
Inventors Competition:
Grand prize: $50,000;
graduate student award: $25,000;
undergraduate student award: $15,000.
Adviser honorarium: $5,000.
Deadline: June 1.
Details at <www.invent.org/collegiate>
Y-IEEE
officers for 2004-05:
Chair: Stephen Tully, Davenport '05, Vice
Chair: Jose R. Fuentes '06,
Treasurer: Geoffrey Schreiner '06, SysOp:
Todd Schneider '06.
Faculty Adviser: Prof. Peter Kindlmann.
Consulting?
Faculty, is your consulting information current?
<www.eng.yale.edu/faculty/consulting.html>
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