Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for
Monday, March
19, 2001
Speakers:
Mon., March 19,
4:00 pm, Mason 107
. Monday Evening Seminar:
"Propagation
Dynamics of Phase Dislocation in a Bessel
Light Beam," Prof.
Ulrich T. Schwarz, Department of Physics,
Universität Regensburg,
Germany. Host: Prof. Robert Grober.
"Science,
Technology and Politics," D. Allan Bromley, Sterling
Professor of the Sciences and the former Dean of Engineering.
A
reception will follow in the Presidents Room, Woolsey Hall.
Fri., March 23, 3:30 pm, Mason 211.
"Scaling Theory of
Hall-Petch Relation for Multilayers,"
Dr. Lawrence Friedman,
Netherlands Institute for Metals
Research, Delft Technical
University.
Host: Prof. Marshall Long. Refreshments will be
served.
Open Forum
with Prof. D. Allan Bromley:
Faculty and
students are invited to the Becton Faculty
Lounge to meet with
former Dean of Engineering D. Allan Bromley
Thurs., March
22, at 2:30 pm (prior to the Sheffield Lecture).
An interesting
start to the informal discussion might be
Prof. Bromley's March 9 New
York Times opinion editorial,
copies of which are available
from the main office of each
of our departments and at the
Engineering Library.
Prof. Reed shares in $7.676 million grant:
DARPA has
granted $7.676 million for a Molecular
Computer, to be developed
jointly by researchers from
Yale, Rice, Penn State, North Carolina
State University,
SRI, and the University of South Carolina. Prof.
Mark Reed, EE,
will receive ~$1.736M for the Yale portion of
the research.
Prof. Reed's
high school advisee wins another $100,000:
17-year
old high schoolstudent Mariangela Lisanti from
Westport, CT, who did her research at Yale under the
guidance of Prof.
Mark Reed, EE, has won a$100,000
scholarship
from Intel for "Conductance Quantization in
Gold
Nanocontacts." The Intel Science Talent Search,
America's oldest and most prestigious pre-college science
competition, is sometimes referred to as the "Junior Nobel
Prize."
Ms. Lisanti studied the use of single atoms or molecules
to
fabricate electronic devices; she developed a new
measurement
apparatus that enables data acquisition at
an unprecedented rate
and is applicable to a wide range
of studies.
Last December, Ms. Lisanti was the winner of the $100,000
scholarship in the (national) Siemens Westinghouse Science
and Technology Competition for her research done at Becton
Center with Prof. Reed.
Frontiers of Science and Engineering 2001:
More than
100 high school students came to Sheffield-Sterling-
Strathcona
Hall, Room 114 on Saturday, March 10, to hear
a talk on
"Error-Free Data Transmission in the Digital
Information
Age," given by Prof. Roman Kuc, EE. The March 17
talk
is by Prof. Dana Angluin, CS, on "Can Computers
Learn?"
Prof. Mark Reed, EE, will speak on
"Microelectronics:
The Final Frontier" on Saturday,
March 24.
Grants for innovation in teaching:
Faculty may apply for
Instructional
Innovation Grants, IIG,
for updating curricula and
assisting with instructional
innovation (e.g., inventive use of
technology in teaching
and learning), see www.yale.edu/iig or
contact IIG program
coordinators at IIG@yale.edu Deadline: Wed.,
March 21.
Yale Entrepreneurial Society
seeks leaders:
YES
seeks leaders for many positions in 2001-02.
YES is an
800-member organization that promotes
entrepreneurship in New
Haven and the Yale community.
Anyone connected with Yale (student,
professor, C&T, M&P,
or alumnus/a) or with New Haven may
apply. The application
form is at www.yes.yale.edu If you need any
questions
answered, contact YES Vice President Evan
LePatner
<evan.lepatner@yale.edu> The deadline is March 25.