Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, November 19, 2001
 
Speaker:
Mon., Nov. 19, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
   "Negative Differential Resistance Molecular Devices,"
   Wenyong Wang, Physics. Adviser: Prof. Mark Reed.
 
Prof. Nicholas Read wins Buckley Prize:
   The American Physical Society has announced that the
   2002 Oliver E. Buckley Prize has been awarded to
   Prof. Nicholas Read, Professor of Physics and Applied
   Physics at Yale University, to Prof. Jainendra Jain of
   Pennsylvania State University and to Dr. Robert Willett
   of Bell Laboratories. The Buckley Prize was bestowed in
   acknowledgment of the importance of their research in
   measuring and explaining certain novel states of matter
   that are produced in semiconducting heterostructures at
   low temperature and high magnetic field. Prof. Read and
   Dr. Jain were recognized for their theoretical work and
   Dr. Willett for his experimental work.
 
   The Buckley Prize was endowed in 1952 by AT&T Bell
   Laboratories to recognize outstanding theoretical or
   experimental contributions to condensed matter physics.
 
   Eighteen Buckley Prize recipients went on to win the
   Nobel Prize in Physics or Chemistry.
 
NSBE-Yale members on the go:
   Four or five members of the National Society of Black Engineers
   at Yale will attend the parent NSBE's 2001 Region One
   25th Anniversary Fall Regional Conference (Region One includes
   CT, MA, NJ, NY, RI, and Canada) at the Sheraton Stamford
   Hotel in Stamford, CT, Nov. 16-18. The conference focuses on
   "Integrating Technology & Tradition." Get more information at
   www.nsbe.org/region1/programs/conferences/frc/index.html
 
Noise in the Engineering Library:
   There will be some construction in the Engineering Library
   Monday through Wednesday, Nov. 19-21. During that time,
   there will be no public access to the
   -Lower level: Right rear Reading Room
   -Upper level: Book stacks A-QA76.
   If you need material from these areas, the library staff will assist you.
 
Engineering Library recess hours:
   Closed: Sat. & Sun., Nov. 17 and 18
   Open: Mon.-Wed., Nov. 19-21, 8:30 am-5:00 pm
   Closed: Thurs.-Sat., Nov. 22-24
   Regular hours resume Sun., Nov. 25, 2:00-10:00 pm.
 
Book Bank:
   If you have some books that you may not read again, drop them
   off at the New Haven Community Book Bank in the Chapel
   Square Mall. The books will be available for free to people
   who have no books at home and who are not in the habit of
   using the library (but book lovers are welcome too). The Book
   Bank also distributes the books to non-traditional locations
   like police substations, soup kitchens, boys and girls clubs,
   churches, neighborhood businesses, and other places where
   people gather. More than 400 books have already been
   distributed to children, and children's books are always in
   short supply. The Book Bank is part of the New Haven Reads
   literacy campaign.
 
Intellectual groceries:
   "Books are intellectual groceries," said Charles Negaro (New Haven
   Register 11/9/01), owner of Atticus Bookstore & Café on Chapel
   Street and of Chabaso Bakery which grew out of Mr. Negaro
   baking European breads for Atticus. The demand for Chabaso
   Bakery breads has been spreading and Chabaso Bakery now
   ships its breads to groceries and restaurants throughout
   Connecticut and to New York ($2.7 million in sales in 2000).
 
                                 Have a great
             THANKSGIVING!
                      
                     

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