Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, September 22, 2003

Speakers:
Mon., Sept. 22, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
    "The Surfaces and Interfaces of Metal Oxides," Huiqiong
    Wang, Applied Physics.
    Adviser: Prof. Victor Henrich.
    Refreshments at 3:30 pm.

Wed., Sept. 24, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
    "Materials with Negative Permittivity and Negative
    Permeability," Prof. Robert Grober, Applied Physics.
    Host: Department of Applied Physics.

Wed., Sept. 24, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:
    "Molecular Interactions between Microbes and Surfaces,"
    Prof. Terri Camesan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
    Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech.

Thurs., Sept. 25, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
    "Spin and Pseudospin Quantum Computation," Prof. Sankar
    Das Sarma, University of Maryland, Baltimore.
    Host: Prof. Steven Girvin.

Among world’s 100 Top Young Innovators:
    Technology Review, MIT’s Magazine of Innovation, has listed
    Prof. Erin Lavik, BME, and Prof. Ainissa Ramirez, ME,
    among the world's 100 Top Young Innovators under the age of 35
    whose work will have a profound impact on the world.

    Prof. Lavik focuses her research on new approaches to repairing
    spinal cord injury and retinal degeneration. Prof. Ramirez has
    developed novel materials for microelectromechanical systems
    (MEMS) by exploring how materials thinner than a human hair
    behave mechanically; she has also discovered metals that can
    strongly bond with hard-to-bond surfaces, such as glass and
    diamond. For more, see <www.eng.yale.edu/news/MIT-100-2003.htm>

    Prof. Lavik and Prof. Ramirez will be honored Sept. 24-25 at
    the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT. Dean Paul Fleury,
    Ms. Sandra Yulke, Engineering Development Officer, and several
    Engineering alumni will be on hand to celebrate the occasion.

    The initial MIT Technology Review list of 100 world-class
    innovators under the age of 35 was announced in 1999 and included
    Ms. Natalie Jeremijenko, ME, cited for her innovations at the
    intersection of art and technology, and Gregg Favalora ’96
    (later the founder of Actuality Systems) who was cited for his work
    on 3-D displays. Mr. Favalora’s prototype (his EE senior project,
    Adviser: Prof. Peter Kindlmann) 3-D display's breadboard
    circuit assemblages have been operating in the Becton basement
    opposite the elevators since 1996!

New Researchers
    Applied Physics:
    Dr. Etienne Boaknin, University of Toronto, Canada
    Dr. Johannes Majer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
    Dr. Hakan Tureci, Yale

    Chemical Engineering:
    Dr. Peter Fong, Yale
    Dr. Lev Sarkisov, Northwestern

    The names are followed by the home institution or by the university in
    which the person has just received their doctoral degree.
    (More new researchers and new staff in the next issue)

To welcome our newcomers:
    Dean Paul Fleury invites our faculty, staff, and their spouses
    to the Quinnipiac Club Thurs., Sept. 25, 5:00-7:00 pm
    to welcome our new faculty and staff.
    RSVP 2-4200.

It started with a gift from a Chemical Engineering alumnus:

    Robert Langer 45WE B.E., '52 D.Eng, made a gift designated
    for research activities to his former department. Prof. John
    Walz, ChE Chair, invited graduate students to consider how best
    to use the gift. The graduate student planning committee has
    been meeting every other week since early April and the result
    will be a Symposium Oct. 3 (see next issue) featuring research
    presentations by 13 graduate students, a plenary speaker, and
    a booklet of abstracts and speaker biographies. Planning committee:
    Ermelinda Harper (EnvE), Chair, Ratna Oetama, Jeffrey McCutcheon,
    Zachary Kuznar (EnvE), Jane Hill (EnvE), Tonya Byrd, and
    Benjamin Boese.
    
Engineers Abroad: Study and Internships Opportunities:
    The Office of International Education and Fellowships Programs and
    Undergraduate Career Services invites you to explore Engineering study 
    and internship opportunities abroad and to hear Engineering students 
    share their Engineering study/internship experiences in other countries.
    Wed., Sept 24, 4:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.

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