Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, April 10, 2006

Speakers:

Mon., April 10, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Special Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
   “ Revival of the Kondo Effect in the Nano-World,”
   Prof. Karyn Le Hur, University of Sherbrooke, Canada.
   Host: Prof. Ramamurti Shankar.

Mon., April 10, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
   "Microfluidic-based Aerosol Identification,"
   Hermes Huang, Applied Physics.
   Adviser: Prof. Richard Chang.
   Refreshments at 3:30 pm.

Wed., April 12, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
   "The Atomic Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect: A Step in Quantum Atom Optics,"
   Prof. Alain Aspect, Institut d'Optique, Orsay
   University, France.
   Host: Prof. Michel Devoret.

Wed., April 12, 1:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Electrical Engineering Seminar:
   "Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biological
   Systems," Prof. Selim Unlu, Electrical, Computer
   and Biomedical Engineering, and Physics,
   Boston University.
   Host: Prof. Hür Köser.

Wed., April 12, 2:30 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Electrical Engineering Seminar:
   "Genetically Engineered Materials and Systems-Lessons
   from Mother Nature for Technology and Medicine,"
   Prof. Mehmet Sarikaya, Materials Science and
   Chemical Engineering, also Director, Genetically
   Engineered Materials Science and Engineering
   Center, University of Washington.
   Host: Prof. Hür Köser.

Wed., April 12, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.
Department of Chemical Engineering John McLanahan Henske Lecture:
   "Risky Business: Assessing Biological Agents
   of Concern in the Environment Advances in
   Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment,"
   Prof. Joan Rose, Michigan State University.
   Host: Prof. Menachem Elime-lech. Reception at 3:15 pm.

Thurs., April 13, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
   "Dielectric Microcavity Lasers: A System with
   Classical and Quantum Chaos," Prof. A. Douglas
   Stone, Applied Physics.
   Host: Prof. Vadim Oganesyan.

Thurs., April 13, 2:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar:
   "Skin-like Electronics," Prof. Stephanie P. Lacour,
   Science, University of Cambridge, UK.
   Host: Prof. Jung Han.
 
Our new Senior Administrator:
   Harley Pretty joined us April 3 as Senior
   Administrator. Mr. Pretty has been at Yale since 1981,
   initially working part-time while finishing his
   business administration degree at Quinnipiac College
   (now, University). Later, he assumed increasing
   responsibilities in the Physics Department and the
   Safety Office. He left for Princeton in 1998 to
   serve as the Manager/Director of Operations of
   a laboratory but came back in 2001 as the
   Administrator of the Physics Department. Mr. Pretty
   has done graduate work in the MBA program at
   the University of New Haven and serves on Hamden's
   Board of Youth Hockey and Board of Youth Lacrosse;
   he also coaches Lacrosse for 3rd and 4th graders.
   Harley and Elizabeth Pretty are the parents of
   Jenny, 15, Harley, 13, and Trevor, 9.
 
“Outstanding Student” scholarship:
   Graduate student Yu "Shawn" Xiang, ME, was one
   of only 200 Chinese students worldwide (50 in
   the U.S.) to receive a 2005 National (Chinese)
   Outstanding Overseas Student Scholarship" of
   $5,000 from the China Scholarship Council,
   affiliated with China’s Ministry of Education.
   Xiang’s Adviser is Prof. David LaVan, ME.
 
Winners:
   Betsy Scherzer ’07 and Caroline Howe ’07,
   EnvE students, have won Morris K. Udall Fellowships
   of $5,000, awarded to students with leadership
   potential in the environmental field.
 
“Girls in Engineering Day”:
   Tues., April 11, 9:30 am-1:30 pm, 75 Greater
   New Haven Area high school students will be
   touring our labs, listening to our female
   engineering majors discuss their decision to
   major in engineering, doing projects, and
   attending presentations about brain shift
   during neurosurgery, squishy physics, lasers
   and medicine, how failure leads to success,
   and more.
 
Pick up insights and skills:
   Students and faculty are invited to a two-part
   “Interactive Seminar on Practical Business Skills”
   by Dr. Stephen Kramer, Technology Manager, Pratt & Whitney.
   Sat., April 8, 11:00 am– 3:00 pm and
   Wed., April 12, 5:30-9:00 pm. Food will be served.
   Sponsored by Tau Beta Pi and Faculty of Engineering.
   If you have questions, contact <Noah.Kalman@yale.edu>

End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 694