Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, February 28, 2005
Speakers:
Tues., March 1,
4:00 pm, Brady Memorial Lab 333, 310 Cedar Street.
Graduate Student Seminar:
"Automated Polyp Detection using Computed
Tomography(CT),"
James Beaty, Biomedical Engineering.
Adviser: Prof. Hemant Tagare.
Refreshments at 3:45 pm.
Wed.,
March 2,
1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Ferroelectric
Domain Dynamics as a Disorder-controlled Creep Process,"
Prof. Patrycja Paruch, University of Geneva.
Host: Prof. Charles Ahn.
Wed.,
March 2,
2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Dissipation Structure in Turbulent Gas-Phase
Jet Flows:
A Discussion of Measurement Resolution and
Length-Scales,"
Prof. Noel Clemens, University of Texas at Austin.
Host: Prof. Marshall Long. Refreshments.
Thurs.,
March 3,
1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Interaction Matrix Element Fluctuations in
Quantum
Dots," Prof. Lev Kaplan, Tulane University.
Host: Prof. Yoram Alhassid.
Professor's dissertation wins national award:
Prof. William Mitch, EnvE, was one of the
two winners
of the Association of Environmental Engineering and
Science
Professors (AEESP) 2004 Doctoral Dissertation Award
for a
Ph.D. dissertation. The award consists of a plaque
and $1,000
for the honoree and $500 for the dissertation
advisor, in this
case, Prof. David Sedlak at the University of
California
at Berkeley. Prof. Mitch's dissertation research
focused on
"Prevention of the Formation of N-nitrosodimethylamine
(NDMA)
during Wastewater Chlorination."
Final
doctoral examination:
Zhong Tao--"Tunneling Descent: A New
Strategy for Active
Contour Segmentation of Ultrasound Images."
Committee:
Prof. Hemant Tagare, Prof. Lawrence Staib, Prof.
Roman
Kuc, and Prof. James Duncan.
Fri., March 4, 10:00 am, Brady Memorial Laboratory
333.
Doctoral
area examination:
Jian Xu--"Microfluidic Device for
Chemotaxis." Committee:
Prof. Hür Köser, Prof. Mark Reed, Prof. T.P.
Ma, and
Prof. Mark Saltzman. Feb. 21.
"Life
After a Yale Engineering Degree" lunch:
Engineering undergraduate and graduate students are
invited
to have a discussion at lunch with Mr. P. Douglas
Shears '91 B.S.,
Staff Engineer, Evaporative Emission Controls
Group,
Briggs & Stratton Corporation, Milwaukee, WI.
Lunch will
be in the Engineering Student Center, 10
Hillhouse Avenue
(ground floor), Tues., March 1, noon to 1:30 pm.
RSVP to <eric.mitchell@yale.edu>
Engineering
alumnus to deliver U.S. mail:
The U.S. Postal Service will release a series of
four stamps in
2005 called "American Scientists." One of
the four scientists to
be honored is Josiah Willard Gibbs. Gibbs received
the first U.S. Ph.D.
in engineering, conferred by Yale in 1863. J.
Willard Gibbs (1839-1903)
later taught at Yale, and his final resting place
is in the Grove Street
Cemetery. A good introduction to J. Willard Gibbs
is at
<www.uh.edu/engines/epi119.htm>
and also
<www.uh.edu/engines/epi1483.htm>
The other scientists in the "American
Scientists" series are geneticist
Barbara McClintock, mathematician John von Neumann,
and physicist
Richard Feynman. The unveiling of the stamps will
be at Yale May 5.
More information will be provided as it becomes
available.
Will
represent us at the Coalition for Diversity:
Felix "Ben" McManus,
Administrative Associate for ChE, is the
Engineering representative at the Yale Coalition
for Diversity.
The Coalition strives "to celebrate, not
simply tolerate, the
differences within the body of our
organization."
End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 652