Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, September 29, 2003

Speakers:
Tues., Sept. 30, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar (note the day):
    "Nonlinear Quantum Resonances in Atom Optics,"
    Dr. Shmuel Fishman Technion, Israel.
    Host: Prof. Yoram Alhassid.

Wed., Oct. 1, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
    "Momentum Resolved Tunnel Spectroscopy: A Tool to
    Investigate Interaction Physics at Quantum Hall Edges,"
    Dr. Matthew A. Grayson, Walter Schottky Institut, Technische
    Universität München, Germany.
    Host: Prof. Steven Girvin.

Wed., Oct. 1, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
    "Simulation and Modeling of Noise Generation by Subsonic
    Turbulent Shear Flows,” Dr. Marios C. Soteriou, United
    Technologies Research Center.
    Host: Prof. Alessandro Gomez.

Wed., Oct. 1, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:
    "Dynamic Contact Line with Disjoining Pressure, Large
    Capillary Numbers, Large Angles and Pre-wetted, Precursor,
    or Entrained Films," Prof. George J. Hirasaki, Chemical
    Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX.
    Host: Prof. Abbas Firoozabadi.

Fri., Oct. 3, 8:30 am, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Robert M. Langer Graduate Student Symposium:
    Presentations
    by Yale Chemical Engineering graduate students in the
    Becton Faculty Lounge before and after the plenary speaker.

    Plenary Speaker:
    1:00 pm, Dunham 220.
    "Helical, Biomimetic Polypeptoids as Stable Therapeutic Biomaterials,"
    Prof. Annelise Barron, Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University.

    Reception: 4:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.
    Host: Prof. John Walz.
    Sponsor of the Symposium: Robert M. Langer 45WE B.E., '52 Deng.

More new Researchers:
    Electrical Engineering:
        -Robert Koudelka, Yale
    Mechanical Engineering:
        -Dr. Marcus Liebmann, University of Hamburg, Germany;
        -Sergei Filatyev, University of Michigan;
        -Mikhail Noskov, Yale;
        -Dr. Eligiusz Wajnryb, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    The names are followed by the home institution or the university
    in which the person has just received his doctoral degree.

Next week--new Staff.
 
American Academy of Arts & Sciences elects:
    Prof. Michel Devoret, AP and Phys, has been elected a
    Fellow of the AAAS.

From our Engineering Bulletin backlog:
    -In June, A. Stephen Morse, EE & CS, was elected a member
    of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, CASE.
    Previously elected to CASE: 
    Robert E. Apfel, ME (deceased, 2002)
    Prof. Richard Barker, Professor Emeritus EE and AP
    Dean Paul Fleury, AP and Phys
    Prof. Thomas E. Graedel, Industrial Ecology, ChE, and Geophysics
    Prof. Gary Haller, ChE and AP
    Prof. Victor Henrich, AP and Phys
    Dr. Pierre Hohenberg, AP and Phys
     Prof. Csaba Horváth, ChE
     Prof. Tso-Ping Ma, EE and Phys
    Prof. Kumpati Narendra, EE
    Prof. Mark Reed, EE and AP
     Prof. John C. Tully, Chem and Phys and AP
     Prof. Peter Wegener, Professor Emeritus ME
     Prof. Robert G. Wheeler, Professor Emeritus AP and Phys
    Prof. Werner P. Wolf, Professor Emeritus AP and Phys
    Prof. Jerry Woodall, EE and AP (resigned)

    -July 10, Dean Fleury testified at a hearing of the U.S.
    House of Representatives Committee on Science Subcommittee
    on Energy. The subject was "Competition for Department of
    Energy Laboratory Contracts: What is the Impact on Science?"

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.

Excellence:
    "An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent
    philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because
    it regards that as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in
    philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good
    plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories
    will hold water," John Gardner (Excellence, Can we Be Equal and
    Excellent Too? p. 86), founder in 1970 of Common Cause (citizens'
    advocacy group).

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