- Faculty of
Engineering Bulletin for Monday, January 14, 2002
- ENGINEERING
SESQUICENTENNIAL
-
150 years of
- ENGINEERING
EDUCATION AT YALE
-
1852-2002
- Speakers:
- Wed., Jan.
16, 1:00 pm,
Mason 107.
- Solid State and
Optics Seminar:
- "Low
Temperature Quasiparticle Transport in d-wave Superconductors,"
Dr. Adam C. Durst, MIT.
Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev. Prof. Subir Sachdev.
-
- Wed., Jan.
16, 2:30 pm,
Mason 107.
- Mechanical
Engineering Seminar:
- "Large-Eddy
Simulations Using Wall-Layer Models,"
- Prof. Ugo
Piomelli, Mechanical Engineering, University
- of Maryland,
College Park.
- Host: Prof.
Alessandro Gomez.
-
- Thurs., Jan.
17, 1:00 pm,
Sloane Physics Lab 52.
- Condensed
Matter Physics Seminar:
- "Quantum
Oscillation in Mesoscopic Superconductors: Effects
- of Disorder and
Sample Topology," Prof. Ying Liu, Pennsylvania
- State
University.
- Host: Prof.
Subir Sachdev.
-
- Promoted:
- Jacek
Cholewicki
has been promoted to Associate Professor
- of Orthopaedics
and of Mechanical Engineering.
-
- Appointed:
- Dr. Bon Ki
Ku has been
appointed Postdoctoral Associate
- in Mechanical
Engineering, 1/02-1/03, and will be working
- with Prof.
de la Mora, ME. Dr. Ku joins us from the
- Department of
Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced
- Institute of
Science and Technology, South Korea.
-
- Much to
celebrate:
- The pleasant
news reached Professor Emeritus Werner Wolf, AP & Phys,
- that his first
graduate advisee David Landau '67 Ph.D., who is now
- Professor and
Director for Simulational Physics at the University of
- Georgia, has
been awarded the 2002 Aneesur Rahman Prize for
- Computational
Physics by the American Physical Society. During
- his 39 years at
Yale, Prof. Wolf, Becton Professor of Engineering
- and Applied
Science and Raymond J. Wean Professor of Engineering
- and Applied
Science, has been the advisor to 17 Ph.D.'s. Prof. Wolf retired
- Dec. 31, 2001.
-
- Prof. Wolf has
held numerous administrative positions at Yale. He
- chaired the
Department of Engineering and Applied Science, 1976-1981,
- and in 1981
played a decisive role in its reorganization into four
- departments
under the umbrella of the Council of Engineering; he
- then chaired
the Council of Engineering from 1981 to 1984. He served
- as the Chair of
the Department of Applied Physics, Director of Graduate
- Studies,
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Applied Physics, and
- the Director of
Educational Affairs for the Faculty of Engineering
- and was very
active, in 1991-92, in persuading the University to
- commit to
strengthening engineering education at Yale.
-
- Prof. Wolf is
presently celebrating his retirement with his
- wife, Dr.
Elizabeth Wolf, in the sun and waters of Belize.
-
- Retired:
- Theresa
Remeika,
Administrative Assistant in Applied Physics retired
- Dec. 31. She
had been at Yale over ten years.
-
- Doctoral
area exam:
- The examination
of Nicholas Oleng took place Dec. 17. Title of the
- presentation:
"Decentralized Adaptive Control." Faculty Committee:
- Prof.
Kumpati Narendra, Prof. Roman Kuc, Prof. Rimas Vaisnys.
-
- The year
started in Ireland:
- The
international commitments of Prof. Kumpati Narendra, EE,
started
- Jan. 7-10 in
Ireland, where he helped to set up the newly founded Hamilton
- Institute at
the National University of Ireland in Maynooth. Ireland's
- Science
Foundation had awarded an initial $5.8 million grant to support
- the Institute's
mission of developing into a world-class center for research
- in systems
science. Prof. Narendra is the senior member of the four-member
- Hamilton
Institute Advisory Committee and will deliver the inaugural
- lecture of the
Hamilton Institute in the fall.
-
- Want to be
pleasantly surprised?
- Visit Davies
auditorium.
-
- Someone
said:
- "Most
people don't recognize opportunity, because it comes disguised
- as hard
work."
-
- End of
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