Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, September 27, 2004
Speakers:
Tues., Sept. 28,
1:00 pm, Becton 3rd floor alcove.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Magnetotransport and Tunneling Study of the
Semimetals:
Graphite and Bismuth," Mr. Xu Du, University of
Florida.
Host: Prof. Charles Ahn.
Wed.,
Sept. 29,
1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Electron and Nuclear Spin Dynamics in
Ferromagnet-Semiconductor
Heterostructures," Prof. Paul Crowell,
University of Minnesota.
Host: Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.
Wed.,
Sept. 29,
2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Integrated, Nano-mechanically Regulated MEMS
Atomic Clock,"
Prof. Albert Pisano, University of California at
Berkeley.
Host: Prof. Ainissa Ramirez.
Thurs.,
Sept. 30,
1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Simple Physics in Complex Fluids," Prof.
Eric Dufresne,
Mechanical Engineering.
Host: Prof. Steven Girvin.
Final
doctoral examination:
Ivan
Galea--"Permeability
of Foams with Surfactant-Covered Interfaces."
Committee: Prof. Michael Loewenberg, Prof. Jerzy
Blawzdziewicz,
Prof. Corey O'Hern, and Prof. Boa Teh Chu.
Sept. 27.
Doctoral
area examinations:
Ming
Cao--"Coordination
of an Asynchronous Multi-Agent System
via Averaging."
Committee: Prof. Stephen Morse, Prof. Jerry
Woodall, and
Prof. Jung Han.
Sept. 28.
Dechao
Guo--"Mobility
Characterization of High-k Gated MOSFETs."
Committee: Prof. T.P. Ma, Prof. Janet Pan, and
Prof. Jung Han.
Thurs., Sept. 30, at 3:30 pm, Becton
508.
Named
Distinguished Lecturer for 2004:
Prof. Mark Saltzman, Chair of Biomedical Engineering
and Goizueta Foundation
Professor of Chemical and and Biomedical Engineering,
was named the
Biomedical Engineering Society Distinguished Lecturer
for 2004.
This is the Society's highest award. Prof. Saltzman
will deliver the
opening lecture at the annual meeting of the Society
in Philadelphia
October 14.
New
Staff:
Eric
Mitchell
started Aug. 31 as Administrative Assistant in the
Dean's Office. He joined us from Yale Human
Resources. On his
own time, Mr. Mitchell is working toward his B.A. in
Business
Administration at Albertus Magnus, is involved with
teen ministry
at his church, and was the Operations Manager for
security in 2003
and 2004 for the four-day Gospelfest which attracts
about 4,000 participants
to Goffe Street Park. He and his wife, Stacye who is
a childcare counselor
at Children's Center in Hamden, just celebrated their
1st anniversary.
ESC:
The Engineering Student Council is composed of the
leaders of
our undergraduate Engineering organizations:
AIChE, Claire Conly '05.
ASME needs leader.
BMES: Biomedical Engineering Society, Maya Kotas '05
and Melissa Jeffries '05.
IEEE, Stephen Tully '05. "NSBE-Yale, Kimballe
Campbell '05.
SWE, Society of Women Engineers, needs leader.
TAU BETA PI, Mirtcho Spassov '05.
Team Lux, Ryan Wickre '05.
Yale Engineering Design Team, James Salzano '06 and
Daniel Wiznia '06.
YSEA-Undergraduate Chapter, Julia Lauper '06.
Yale Scientific Magazine, HyoJin Rosaria Chiang '05.
YSEES: Yale Students for Environmental Engineering
and Sustainability,
Amanda Chavez '05.
Engineering
tours:
Claire Conly '05 is in charge of Engineering tours,
given Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays, www.eng.yale.edu/undergraduate/tours.htm
Yale
ID? Park free:
For the rest of this year, when you fly from
Tweed-New Haven
Airport show your Yale ID when checking in and you
may park for free.
This offer will not apply during the Thanksgiving
holidays and the
Christmas and New Year's holidays in December.
But
is it true?
Check politicians' statements for accuracy at a site
provided by the
Annenberg Public Policy Center of the
University of Pennsylvania
at <www.factcheck.org>
Everyone
is entitled:
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but
not to their own facts."
The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
End
of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 633