- Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, October 8, 2001
Speakers:
Mon., Oct. 8, 4:00 pm, Mason 107. - Monday
Evening Seminar:
- "Advanced
in Polymer Based Micro-Photonics: Lasers, Electrooptic, Devices and
Nonlinear Photonic Crystals," Prof. Joseph Zyss,
Laboratoire de Photonique Quantique et Moléculaire CNRS and
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Cachan, France. Host:
Prof. Richard Chang.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm.
-
- Tues.,
Oct. 9, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
- Graduate
Student Seminar:
- "Reciprocity-based
Stereo Vision: Recovering 3D Structure
from 2D Image Data by Expoliting the Symmetry of Surface Reflectants,"
Todd Zickler, Electrical Engineering.
Adviser: Prof. Peter Belhumeur.
Refreshments at 3:45.
-
- Wed.,
Oct. 10, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
- Solid
State and Optics Seminar:
- "Molding
the Flow of Light," Prof. John Joannopoulos, MIT.
Host: Prof. Werner Wolf
Wed.,
Oct. 10, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.- Mechanical
Engineering Seminar:
- "Chemistry
of High-Temperature Ignition and Detonation of Hydrocarbons,"
Dr. Forman A. Williams, University of California at San Diego.
Host:
Prof. Ira Bernstein.
-
- Thurs.,
Oct. 11, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
- Solid
State and Optics Seminar:
- "Nonequilibrium
Dynamics of Pinned Elastic Lattices: Moving Smectic and Transversely
Driven Charge-Density Waves,"
Prof. Leo Radzihovsky, University of Colorado.
Host: Prof. Steven Girvin.
-
- Fri.,
Oct. 12, 4:00 pm, Dunham Fifth Floor Conference Room.
- Center
for Systems Science Seminar Series:
- "Optimal
Queue Control in Multi-Access Communications,"
Prof. Edmund Yeh, Electrical Engineering.
-
- Prof.
Ahn wins Packard Fellowship:
- Prof.
Charles Ahn, AP & Physics, has won a Packard
Fellowship
- for
Science and Engineering. The Fellowship provides $125,000
- per
year for five years (the Fellow's regular salary continues to be
paid by the university) and the university receives $12,500
compensation for administrative costs.
- Packard
Fellowships are awarded to the nation's most promising
young professors to pursue their research with few funding restrictions
and limited paperwork requirements. Our Applied Physics department
may be the only department in the country
with three active Packard Fellows; our other Packard Fellows are
Prof. Robert Grober and Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.
-
- Our
newest Phi Beta Kappa:
- Jasmina
Hasanhodzic MC '02, a double major in Electrical Engineering and
Applied Mathematics with a 3.96 average, has been elected to Phi
Beta Kappa.
-
- Work
on the oldest U.S. college science journal:
- All
students, especially undergraduates, are invited to the weekly
meetings of the Yale Scientific Magazine Wednesdays, 7:00-8:00 pm, Dunham 102. "We brainstorm ideas
for themes, articles, etc. And we end with individual editing, where
the editors talk to writers specifically about their articles,"
says editor-in-chief Stanley Lo MC '02.
- NSBE-Yale
announces officers:
- The
National Society of Black Engineers at Yale has already
held three meetings and announces its new officers
-
-Tiffanee Green, President, JE '03
-
-Leah Walker, Vice-President, JE '03
-
-Lindsey Greene, Secretary, TD '04
-
-Kyle Brooks, Treasurer, ES '04
-
-Boma Brown-West, Programs Chair & Historian,
BK '03
-
- Juma Mbwana, Academic Excellence, Chair, MC
'03
-
-Nathan Hood, Pre-College Initiative, Chair,
SM '04
Yale IEEE invites to first fall meeting: - Tues.,
Oct. 9, 8:00 pm, Becton C0 31. Chair: Mike Liu WM '02
EE/CS says: Meet EE, CS, Math, other Engineering majors; non-group
IV majors are welcome; discuss: demonstrations (perhaps a
home-theatre demo?), projects (amateur radio station, Tivo Hacks,
home-grown laser tag?); other: upgrades and maintenance
(wireless Ethernet? upgrades to Joyce? our very own web server?).
For more, visit joyce.eng.yale.edu
-
- Microsoft
is interested in you:
- A
Microsoft Senior Recruiting Coordinator will be interviewing on
campus Oct. 22 and 23. If you are interested, e-mail your resume to
Ms. Heather Raschko at Heathecr@Microsoft.com Information about
positions at www.Microsoft.com/college/
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- Engineering
Library Instruction:
- Learn
to select the best databases for engineering and computer science
research and techniques for efficient searching for journal
articles. Tues., Oct. 9, 4:00 pm.
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- End
of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 522
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