Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, March 25, 2002 

Speakers:

 

Mon., March 25, 4:00 pm, Mason 107. 

Monday Evening Seminar: 

   "Identification of Material Science Limitations to High 

   Speed Performance in GaAs Light Emitting Diodes," 

   Thomas Boone, Electrical Engineering. 

   Advisor: Prof. Jerry Woodall. 

   Refreshments at 3:30 pm in the Mason Lounge.

 

Tues., March 26, 4:00 pm, Dunham 5th Floor Conference Room. 

Electrical Engineering Seminar: 

   "Dimensioning the Wavelength Converters of an Optical 

   Packet Switch and the Classical Occupancy Problem," 

   Dr. Philip Whiting, Mathematical Research Center, Bell 

   Labs, Lucent Technologies. 

   Host: Prof. Edmund Yeh.

 

Tues., March 26, 4:00 pm, Mason 107. 

Graduate Student Seminar: 

   "Permeability of Foams with Surfactant-Covered Interfaces," 

   Ivan Galea, Chemical Engineering.

   Advisor: Prof. Michael Loewenberg.    

   Refreshments at 3:45 pm in the Mason Lounge.

 

Wed. March 27, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.    

Solid State and Optics Seminar: 

   "Whispering-gallery Modes in Polygonal-shaped Dielectric 

   Resonators," Dr. Jan Wiersig, Max Planck Institut, Dresden, Germany. 

   Host: Applied Physics Search Committee.

 

Wed., March 27, 2:30 pm, Mason 107. 

Mechanical Engineering Seminar: 

   "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows," 

   Prof. Joel Koplik, Levich Institute, City College of New York. 

   Host: Prof. Jerzy Blawzdziewicz.

Wed.., March 27, 4:00 pm, Mason 211. 

Chemical Engineering Seminar: 

   "A New Human Lung Cell Culture Model for Studying 

   Particulate Metal Compounds," Dr. John Wise, Epidemiology 

   and Public Health, School of Medicine. 

   Host: Prof. Lisa Pfefferle.

 

Thurs., March 28, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52. 

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: 

   "Dissipative Transport due to Spinwave Scattering in the 

   Quantum Hall Effect," Prof. Andrew Green, Oxford University. 

   Host: Prof. Steven Girvin.

 

Fri., March 29, 11:00 am, Mason 107.

Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:

   "Linking Mechanics to Biochemistry in Biology and Medicine: 

   Exploring the Science of Molecular to Cellular Biomechanics 

   with a Novel Bioseparation Microtechnology," Dr. Philip LeDuc,

   Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. 

   Host: Prof. John Walz.

 

 Reappointed: 

   President Levin has re-appointed Prof. Gary Haller, ChE & Chem, 

   and Prof. Victor Henrich, AP & Phys, for another five-year term 

   as, respectively, Master of Jonathan Edwards College and Associate 

   Master of Trumbull College. 

 

Doctoral area examination: 

   Candidate: James Beaty. Subject: "Automated Polyp Detection 

   in CT-based Virtual Colonoscopy." Faculty committee: 

   Prof. Hemant Tagare, Prof. Roman Kuc, Prof. James Duncan. 

   Tues., March 26, 3:00 pm, Brady Memorial Laboratory, Room 333.

 

Quite a choice! 

   To do graduate study in Electrical Engineering, Jasmina Hasanhodzic '02, 

   an Electrical Engineering/Applied Math major, has been offered an MIT 

   Presidential Fellowship, a Gordon Wu Fellowship at Princeton, a 

   three-year fellowship at Berkeley, full fellowships from Yale, Harvard, 

   and Purdue, and a Caltech Atwood Fellowship. Note: MIT Presidential 

   Fellowships were awarded to "only a few" of the more than 2,800 applicants 

   this year and the Gordon Wu Fellowship is the most prestigious Princeton 

   School of Engineering and Applied Science award to an incoming graduate 

   student. 

 

   For doctoral study in Applied Mathematics, she has been offered Brown 

   and Cornell Fellowships. 

   Being the Yale senior with the highest grades in the sciences/engineering, 

   Division IV, she will receive the Yale Science and Engineering 

   Association Senior High Scholarship Award. 

 

   Jasmina Hasanhodzic came to the U.S. from Bosnia-Herzegovina 

   (where her family lives) in 1995 to attend high school. 

 

Condolences: 

   Jayne Miller, Administrative Associate for Applied Physics, lost her

   stepfather to cancer March 9. 

 

Appreciates the concern: 

   Prof. Jerry Woodall, AP & EE, who was taken ill while in England 

   on a research-related visit, feels well again and appreciates everyone's 

   concern.

 

Engineering Library resumes normal hours: 

   Monday  Thursday: 8:30 am-10:00 pm

   Friday: 8:30 am-5:00 pm

   Saturday: 1:00 pm-5:00 pm

   Sunday: 2:00 pm-10:00 pm

 

End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 542