Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday

Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, September 17, 2001

This issue of the Engineering Bulletin reached
you on a day of national mourning for

September 11, 2001


Speakers: Wed., Sept. 19, 1:00 pm, Mason 107. Solid State and Optics Seminar:: "Physical Realizations of Quantum Bits: Trapped Ions," Prof. Steven M. Girvin, Physics Department, Yale. Host: Prof. Werner Wolf.
Wed., Sept. 19, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:: "Like-charge Attraction between Colloidal Particles: Thermodynamics or Hydrodynamics?" Dr. Todd Squires, Harvard. Host: Prof. Ira Bernstein.
Wed., Sept. 19, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.
Chemical Engineering Seminar:: "In Vivo Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Neurochemistry and Diabetes," Prof. Douglas Rothman, Yale School of Medicine. Host: Prof. Michael Loewenberg.
Thurs., Sept. 20, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:: "Mott-insulator--Metal transition in quasi-1D," Dr. Alexei Tsvelik, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev.
More doctoral examinations since May:: Christopher White, June 11. Thesis: "High Reynolds Number Turbulence in Small Apparatus." Committee: Prof. Katepalli Sreenivasan, Prof. Boa-Teh Chu, Prof. Michael Loewenberg.; Naisheng Yao, July 23. Thesis: "Synthesis and Characterization of Pt/Sn-MCM-41 Petroleum Reforming Catalysts." Committee: Prof. Gary Haller, Prof. Lisa Pfefferle, Prof. Eric Altman, Prof. Victor Henrich.; Emily Wen, Sept. 7. Thesis: "Column Engineering and Applications in Capillary Electrochromatography." Committee: Prof. Csaba Horváth, Prof. Lisa Pfefferle, Prof. John Walz.
New staff:: Theresa Remeika joined Applied Physics on May 28 as an Administrative Assistant. She has been with Yale over ten years in administrative positions at the School of Medicine.
Faculty, old and new, please review:: Are you listed in the research areas in which you are doing research? Should any research areas be added or deleted? See www.eng.yale.edu/research/research_areas.html
Undergrads will be able to take it in 2002:: Both sections of ENAS 323a, Creativity and New Product Development, taught by Mr. Henry Bolanos, Engineering and Applied Science, are full (60 students total). Seniors and students on the waiting list from last April made the cut. You can sign up for the course for fall 2002. Next spring, Mr. Bolanos will teach this course at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (he had taught it there in 2000). Mr. Bolanos plans to turn his trip into an adventure: fly to Santiago, Chile, then sail to Buenos Aires, Argentina, then take the boat around Cape Horn and fly from there to New Zealand.
NIH, also Psychology:: Prof. John C Gore, AP and Radiology, has been re-appointed for a four-year term to the Diagnostic Radiology Study Section, National Institutes of Health; he has also received a joint appointment in the Yale Department of Psychology.

Our input at Access Yale:: At the Access Yale expo held on the Cross Campus courtyard on Sept. 11, celebrating Yale products and services for students and employees with disabilities (voice recognition, text to speech conversion, computer based note-taking capabilities, wireless products amplifying sound, print magnification, a foot mouse, books on tape), Engineering was represented by a power wheelchair with obstacle-avoidance sonars, developed by Prof. Roman Kuc, EE and Chair of the Advisory Committee for Resources for Students and Employees with Disabilities, and by a soft-terrain-access beach chair, a Senior's design project for which Mr. Glenn Weston-Murphy, ME, had been the adviser.
Busy end of summer:: In August, Prof. Kumpati Narendra, EE, gave an invited talk at the Larry Ho Symposium at Harvard (8/23) and the Keynote Address at the Symposium on Intelligent Systems, University of Virginia (8/28). He was to give a Plenary talk in Slovenia (9/20) at the European Commission's School on Multi-Agent Control, but September 11 changed his plans.
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