Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday

Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, September 15, 2003

Speakers:

Wed., Sept. 17, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Pseudogap Physics in the Cuprates," Prof. André-Marie
Tremblay, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada.
Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev.

Wed., Sept. 17, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Friction Mechanism at the Nanoscale," Prof. Martin Müser,
University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Host: Prof. Udo Schwarz.

Wed., Sept. 17, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Chromatography of Biopolymers Using Retained Gradients,"
Prof. Douglas Frey, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering,
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
Host: Prof. Csaba Horváth.

Thurs., Sept. 18, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Impurity Quantum Phase Transitions: Theories and
Applications," Prof. Matthias Vojta, University of
Karlsruhe, Germany.
Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev.

Senior Advisory Committee:
Dean Paul Fleury announces the formation of the new
Faculty of Engineering Senior Advisory Committee:

Robert Birgeneau '65 M.S., '66 Ph.D.,
President, University of Toronto.

Jeffrey Bleustein,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Harley-Davidson, Inc.

George David,
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, United
Technologies Corporation.

Michael Jordan '57 B.E,
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer,
Electronic Data Systems, Past Chairman Luminant,
Worldwide Corporation, Retired Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, CBS Corporation.

Thomas L. Kempner '50 B.E.,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Loeb Partners
Corporation.

Ralph R. Peterson,
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer,
CH2M HILL.

Henry B. Schacht '56 B.S., '88 M.A.H.,
Director and Senior Advisor, Lucent Technologies,
Past Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Lucent
Technologies.

Ivan Selin '56 B.E., '58 M.Eng, '60 Ph.D.,
Chairman, National Museum of American History,
Past Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Frederick P. Stratton '61 B.S.,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Briggs and
Stratton Corporation.

Several members of the Senior Advisory Committee were
on campus Tues., Sept. 9. Hosted by Dean Fleury, they
spent time with the Chairs and the DGS, President Levin
and Provost Hockfield, and enjoyed lunch with students.

More new faculty:
Andreas Savvides, Lecturer Convertible of Electrical Engineering.
Ph.D. Sept. 2003 UCLA.
Research interests: Networked embedded systems, self-configuring
wireless sensor networks and applications, low power distributed
algorithms for sensor networks and ubiquitous computing.
Other interests: Tennis, soccer, hiking.

Paul Van Tassel, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Ph.D. 1993 University of Minnesota.
Research interests: Interfacial behavior of biomacromolecules,
biomaterial interactions with proteins and cells, materials
containing biomolecular/biomimetic structure, bioseparations,
biosensing, adsorption in templated porous materials,
templated molecular recognition, optical waveguide lightmode
spectroscopy, molecular computer simulation, statistical mechanics.
Other interests: Wife, Karissa, eight-months-old son Alex, film,
and French language and culture.

(In the next issue: New Staff and Researchers).

Doctoral area examination:
August 13, Sukalyan Bhattacharya: "Dynamics of Colloidal
Particles in Confined Geometry."
Committee: Prof. Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Prof. John Walz,
and Prof. Corey O'Hern.

Welcome to our new graduate students:
Faculty, graduate students, researchers, and staff are cordially
invited to welcome our 49 new graduate students
Fri., Sept. 19, 5:00-7:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.

In case you don't know or have forgotten:
We announce Faculty of Engineering-sponsored speakers
as soon as their engagement is finalized. Visit
<www.eng.yale.edu/news/index.html> and click
on Speakers, month-at-a-glance.

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