Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, May 5, 2003

 

Speakers:

 

Mon., May 5, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.

Monday Evening Seminar:

    "New Microwave-based Amplification Scheme for

    Superconducting Qubit Readout, Part II: Experimental Results,"

    (Part I: Principle, April 2), Dr. Irfan Siddiqi, QuLab, Applied Physics.

    Faculty Adviser: Prof. Michel Devoret.

    Refreshments at 3:30 pm.

 

Wed., May 7, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.

Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:

    "QCM-STM Studies of the Nanoscale Dynamics of 'Model System'

    and 'Real-World' Lubricants in Extreme Environments,"

    Prof. Jackie Krim, Physics Department, University of North Carolina.

    Host: Prof. Udo Schwarz.

    Refreshments at 2:15 pm.

 

Thurs., May 8, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:

    "Junctions of Three Quantum Wires and the Dissipative Hofstader

    Model," Dr Masaki Oshikawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

    Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev.

 

Wilbur Cross Medal:

    Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and Nobel Prize Laureate

    John Fenn '40 Ph.D. will be honored with the Wilbur Cross Medal

    at Commencement.

 

To receive the Yale Mentoring Award:

    Prof. Michael Loewenberg, ChE, will be one of three faculty

    recipients of the 2003 Yale Mentoring Award. More than 100 faculty

    members were nominated for this distinction.

 

New crop of graduate students:

    Our new graduate students are from Brazil, Canada, China,

    Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway,

    Singapore, Turkey, and the US. They did their undergraduate work

    at Bates College; Brown, Hong Kong University of Science and

    Technology, India Institute of Technology, Instituto Tecnológico

    y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (Mexico), Johns Hopkins,

    Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany), Penn State,

    Michigan State, MIT, McMaster University (Canada), Mount Holyoke,

    National Taiwan University, National University of Singapore, Peking

    University (China), Rensselaer, Rice, Queens University (Canada),

    Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University (China),

    Yale, also at the Universities of Auckland (New Zealand), California 

    (at Berkeley, at San Diego), Patras (Greece), Pennsylvania,

    Rochester, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Ph.D. area examinations:

    -Eliezer Kahn: "Constraints and User Interactivity in Non-rigid

    Registration." Committee: Prof. Lawrence Staib, Prof. James

    Duncan, and Prof. Roman Kuc.

       Mon., May 5, 10:00 am, Brady Memorial Laboratory 333.

 

    -Nathalie Tufenkji: "Macroscopic and Microscopic Aspects of Microbial

    Transport and Deposition in Porous Media." Committee:

    Prof. Menachem Elimelech, Prof. John Walz, and Prof. Paul  

     Van Tassel.

           Mon., May 5, 10:00 am, Mason 107.

 

    -Ning Xu, "Studies of Sheared Liquids Near Jamming." Committee:

    Prof. Corey O'Hern, Prof. Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, and Prof. John Walz.

           Fri., May 9, 3:00 pm, Becton 508.

 

Engineering wows AYA Assembly LXII delegates:

    The feedback from the Alumni Delegates at the April 25-26 AYA

    Assembly (that for the first time ever focused on Engineering) has

    been exceptionally positive, especially about the student panel. So,

    let's hear it for Seniors Tiffanee Greene, BME, George Malcolmson, ME,

    Jennifer Michelstein, EE, and Prashant Premkumar, ME/Econ.

 

Sophomore at the North Pole:

    Murray Carson '05 ME had been to Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Jamaica,

    the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, France, and Egypt. Last April 19-26,

    he went to Norway and the North Pole as part of a 26-person expedition,

    led by a NASA scientist, to verify the thickness of the ice. Carson had

    never before been so impressed by the importance of every team member

    doing his/her job reliably; it was also the first time he had eaten food

    (like bread and chicken) that was frozen solid.

 

Grad School Dean's Spring Reception:

    Dean Peter Salovey invites students, faculty, and staff to a Spring

    Reception "featuring good music, tasty refreshments and lively

    conversation." Tues., May 6, 4:30-6:00 pm, in the HGS courtyard or,

    if it rains, in the Common Room.

 

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