Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday

Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, February 25, 2002

Speakers:
Mon., Feb. 25, 2:00 pm, Mason 107.
Mechanical Engineering Special Seminar:: "Multi-scale Characterization of Soft Matter with Scattering Techniques," Dr. Howard Wang, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.
Host: Prof. Marshall Long.

Mon., Feb. 25, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:: "Single Transistor Ferro-electric Memory Device," Jin-Ping Han, Electrical Engineering.
Advisor: Prof. T.-P. Ma.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm in the Mason Lounge.

Wed., Feb. 27, 1:00 pm, Mason Lab 107. Solid State Seminar:: "Superconductivity of MgB2 from First Principles,"
Prof. Hyoung Joon Choi, Physics, University of California, Berkeley.
Host: Applied physics Faculty Search Committee.

Wed., Feb. 27, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:: "Lattice-Boltzmann Simulations of Particle-Fluid Systems,"
Prof. Anthony JC Ladd, Chemical Engineering, University of Florida.
Host: Prof. Jerzy Blawzdziewicz.

Wed., Feb. 27, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:: "Simulation of Surfactant Templated Nanoporous Materials,"
Prof. Flor Siperstein, Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University at Raleigh.
Host: Prof. Lisa Pfefferle.

Thurs., Feb. 28, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:: "Contractor Renormalization of the Hubbard Model and Frustrated Antiferromagnets," Dr. Ehud Altman, Technion, Israel.
Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev.

Fri., March 1, 3:00 pm, Dunham 5th Floor Conference Room.
Center for Systems Science Seminar:: "Stability of Systems of Self-driven Particles Undergoing Phase Transition," Prof. A. Stephen Morse, Electrical Engineering.

Congratulations:: Prof. Janet Pan, EE, has been awarded an "NSF Faculty Early Career Award" (formerly the "NSF Young Investigator Award") for her proposal "Fundamental Physics and Device Issues of Novel GaAs Thermophotovoltaic Cells.'' The funding is for five years.

2nd Goizueta Professorship, Scholarship Fund:: A $3.5 million grant from the Goizueta Foundation will endow The Goizueta Foundation Senior Faculty Chair in Chemical Engineering and a Goizueta Scholarship Fund for Hispanic/Latino students whose families live in the U.S. The Foundation's first endowed professorship at Yale was The Roberto C. Goizueta Professorship in Chemical Engineering, presently held by Prof. Csaba Horváth.; Deeply committed to civic service, Roberto Goizueta established (1992) the Goizueta Foundation to provide financial assistance for educational, cultural, religious, and charitable institutions.; Roberto Goizueta '53 (ChE) came to the U.S. as a refugee from Cuba and went on to become Chairman of the Board and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company from 1981 until his death in 1997. He was a committed alumnus and was elected a Yale Gordon Grand Fellow in 1984, was the University's inaugural Sheffield Fellow in 1996, and received a Doctor of Humane Letters from Yale University in 1997 in honor of his outstanding leadership in the business world.

Final doctoral examination:: The examination of Vito Santoro will take place Thurs., Feb. 28, 10:30 am, Mason 107. Thesis: "The Interaction of Laminar Vortices with Diffusion Flames." Faculty committee: Prof. Alessandro Gomez, Prof. Mitchell Smooke, Prof. Marshall Long, and Prof. Daniel Rosner.

YSEES for the "environmental" century:: The Yale Society for Environmental Engineering and Sustainability, YSEES, intends to "foster an environmentally educated community with a spirit of global stewardship…as we head into what could be the 'environmental' century." The founding officers are; President: Kevan Moffett TC '02; Vice President: Ian Malloch SM '02; Secretary: Regina Sieber BK '02; Treasurer: Brenden McEneaney JE '02; Special Events: Amber Roegner ES '02; The next YSEES meeting is Fri., March 1, 1230 pm,; Silliman Fellows Lounge (off the SM common room).; Visit www.yale.edu/ysees/; The faculty adviser is Prof. Roger Ely, ChE.

Summer 10-week research opportunities:: - Vanderbilt School of Engineering, Nashville, TN:
The NSF-funded "Reliability and Risk Engineering and Management Program" accepts applicants with a GPA 3.0 and provides a $5,000 stipend. Deadline: March 1.
See www.reliability-studies.vanderbilt.edu/igert_web/; - The University of Connecticut Health Center:
Paid internships available for next year's Juniors interested in the biomedical or biological sciences. Deadline: March 15. See http://grad.uchc.edu under "Undergraduate Summer Research."

MIT Lincoln Laboratory drew a crowd:: Fifty-one undergraduate and graduate students attended the MIT Lincoln Laboratory presentation.