Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, January 20, 2003
Speakers:
Mon., Jan. 20, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
"Femtosecond-Pulse-Excitation Spectroscopy in
Aerosol
Particles and Droplets" Dr. Veronique Boutou,
Applied Physics.
Adviser: Prof. Richard Chang.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm.
Wed., Jan. 22, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Two-dimensional X-ray Waveguides," Dr. Franz
Pfieffer,
Institute for X-ray Physics, Georg-August Universität,
Göttingen, Germany.
Host: Prof. Simon Mochrie.
Thurs., Jan. 23, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Interior Gap Superfluidity and a New Quantum
Transition,
Realizable in Cold Fermi Atoms on a Lattice,"
Prof. W. Vincent
Liu, MIT.
Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev.
Welcome:
Dr. Paul Van Tassel has been appointed Associate
Professor
in Chemical Engineering, starting Jan. 1. Prof. Van
Tassel
received his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, in
1993,
and was an Associate Professor at Wayne State
University
prior to joining the Yale Faculty of Engineering. Prof.
Van
Tassel's research interests are bioseparations,
capillary
electrophoresis, colloidal forces, templated porous
materials,
and biomaterials.
Faculty busy updating their homepages?
Our Webmaster is looking forward to the avalanche
of revised
copy for faculty webpages (any day now, yes?).
Please e-mail your revisions to <elona.vaisnys@yale.edu>
or send your marked-up hard copy to Dunham 234.
Yale observes Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day:
In observance of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day,
there will
be no classes Mon., Jan. 20, (Monday classes met Fri.,
Jan. 17)
and our Business Office and the Engineering Library
will
be closed.
Summer internships at universities:
The NSF/SRC Engineering Research Center for
Environmentally
Benign Semiconductor Manufacturing is offering
engineering
research internships at the University of Arizona,
Arizona State,
Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Cornell for nine weeks (June 2
to Aug. 1).
Students do research together with professors and
graduate
students in the fields of chemical and environmental
engineering,
materials science and engineering, optical science,
electrical and
computer engineering, and chemistry. They also explore
the
development of alternative chemistries for various
processes and
for treatment and recycling of water and wastewater.
Interns
receive a stipend of $2,500, housing, and travel
expenses
reimbursement. Deadline: March 15. See
www.erc.arizona.edu/Education/REU/reu.html
Pacific NW small liberal arts college invites:
George Fox University seeks applicants for a new
faculty
position in applied physics and for various other
positions,
see www.georgefox.edu/offices/academic_affairs/positions.html
Engineering Library workshop:
Introduction to Engineering and Computer Science
Databases
(online databases for finding books, journal articles,
and
full-text papers). Thurs., Jan. 23, 4:00 pm.
E-books, full text:
Yale users can access books on two new databases:
Books24x7, a database of more than 1,700 books
on computing
and information
technology, <http://library.books24x7.com/>
and
Knovel, a collection of more than 150
engineering reference books,
<http://www.knovel.com/>
The Engineering Library subscribes to the sections on
chemical
engineering, mechanical engineering, semiconductors,
and
electronics. If you have questions, contact <andy.shimp@yale.edu>
Ubiquitous, invisible, and least understood:
"Automatic control has been called both the
ubiquitous
technology and the invisible technology…(it) also
regularly
wins the LUT (least understood technology) award. Ask
any
control researcher what his parents think he does for a
living.
Ask any control faculty member what his dean thinks he
does for a living." Prof. A. Stephen Morse, EE/CS.
End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 571