Faculty of Engineering
Bulletin for Monday, September 26, 2005
Speakers:
Wed., Sept. 28,
2:15 pm, Mason 107.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Mechanics of Red Blood Cell Shapes,"
Prof. Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Clark University.
Host: Prof. Eric Dufresne.
Wed., Sept. 28,
4:00 pm, Mason 211.
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Ultraviolet Light: Beyond Water Disinfection,"
Prof. Karl G. Linden, Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Duke University.
Host: Prof. William Mitch.
Thurs., Sept. 29,
1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 56.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Charge
Transport in Single-Crystal Organic Transistors,"
Prof. Michael E. Gershenson, Rutgers University.
Host: Prof. Daniel Prober.
Welcome, new researchers:
Electrical Engineering:
Dr. Shubohashish Datta,
Visiting Fellow, comes
to us from LightSpin Technologies, Bethesda, MD;
his Ph.D. is in EE from Princeton,
Dr. Kyong Kon Kim,
Postdoctorate Associate,
from Wake Forest University, NC, where he
received his Ph.D. in chemistry,
Dr. Snehasis Mukhopadhyay,
Visiting Fellow, from
Indiana University-Purdue University; his Ph.D.
is from Yale,
Dr. Sun Il Shim,
Postdoctoral Fellow, from South
Korea University,
Dr. Pengguang Yu,
Visiting Fellow, currently
Senior Engineer at 454 Life Sciences, Branford;
his Ph.D. is from Harbin Institute of Technology.
More new researchers in the next Bulletin.
Doctoral area examinations:
James Bertram--"A
Multi-polymer Synthetic Platelet
for Spinal Cord Injury." Committee: Prof. Erin Lavik,
Prof. Mark Saltzman, and Prof. Steven Segal.
Mon., Sept. 26, 11:00 am, Malone Engineering Center 415.
Kai Loon Chen--
"Aggregation of Emerging Nano-particles
in Aquatic Environments." Committee: Prof. Menachem
Elimelech, Prof. William Mitch, Prof. Paul Van Tassel,
and Prof. Eric Dufresne.
Mon., Sept. 26, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Jian Ni--
"Probabilistic Graphical Models and
Applications in Communication Networks." Committee:
Prof. Sekhar Tatikonda, Prof. Edmund Yeh, Prof. David
Pollard, and Prof. Yang R. Yang.
Mon., Sept. 26, 2:30 pm, Dunham 514.
Kjetil Haugen--"Methodology
for Measuring Thermal
and Molecular Diffusion Coefficients in Multicomponent
Mixtures." Committee: Prof. Abbas Firoozabadi,
Prof. Michael Loewenberg, and Prof. Jerzy Blawzdziewicz.
Tues., Sept. 27, 1:00 pm, Mason 321b.
Miaomiao Wang--"IET's
Study of High-k Gate Dielectrics."
Committee: Prof. Ma, Prof. Jung Han, and Prof. Janet Pan.
Thurs., Sept. 29, 9:30 am, Becton 3rd floor Alcove.
Liyang Song--"Charge
Trapping in High-k Films." Committee:
Prof. T.P. Ma, Prof. Jung Han, and Prof. Janet Pan.
Thurs., Sept. 29, 5:00 pm, Becton 3rd floor Alcove.
Deepti Bathula--"Structure-Influenced
fMRI Analysis."
Committee: Prof. Duncan, Prof. Lawrence Staib, and
Prof. Xenophon Papademetris.
Thurs., Sept. 29, 11:00 am, Brady Memorial Laboratory 333.
Published by Dover:
Prof. Kumpati Narendra's, EE, pioneering Stable
Adaptive Systems, co-authored in 1989 by Anuradha
Annaswamy (then his advisee at Yale and now a
professor at MIT), was reissued this past summer,
unabridged, by Dover Publications. The first
edition was published by Prentice-Hall.
Landed in the U.S. before he
had left Japan:
Sept. 11, Prof. Roman Kuc, EE, gave an invited paper,
"Cybernetic Model for Monitoring Early Dementia from
Vehicle Operation Data," co-authored by Steve Tully '05 EE,
at the 7th Annual Conference of Japan Society for
Early Stage of Dementia, at Tokai University, Japan.
Prof. Kuc landed in New York before he had left Japan
(his flight left Narita, Japan, at 5:45 pm and landed
in JFK at 5:15 pm on the same day).
For some a reminder, for
others--news:
The comma goes inside the quotation marks. Think
of poor little comma as being included by the
quotation marks (rather than given the cold shoulder).
End of Faculty of Engineering
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