Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, March 21, 2005

Welcome back from
Spring Break!

Speakers:

Wed., March 23
,
Break!

Speakers:

Wed., March 23
, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar and
2005 Spring John M. Henske Lecture:

    "Formation, Regulation and Control of Disinfection By-Products
    in Drinking Water," Prof. Philip C. Singer, Director, Drinking
    Water Research Center, Department of Environmental
    Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina
    at Chapel Hill.
    Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech.

Wed., March 23,
4:00 pm, Watson 400.
Communications and Networking Seminar:
    "A Network Coding Approach to Information Transmission,
    Compression and Security in Networks," Dr. Tracey Ho,
    Wireless Research Laboratory, Bell Laboratories.
    Host: Prof. Edmund Yeh.


Fri., March 25,
noon, Mason 107.
Biomaterials Seminar Series:
    "Designing Proteins with Pre-specified Stabilities and
    Activities," Prof. Lynne Regan, Molecular Biophysics and
    Biochemistry.
    Host: Prof. Paul Van Tassel.
    A light lunch will be provided.

Welcome:
   
Prof. Richard Carson is joining us as Professor of
    Biomedical Engineering and Diagnostic Radiology.
    He was previously with the National Institutes of Health
    in Bethesda, MD. The welcoming reception will be
    held Tues., March 22, 5:00 pm, in the Becton Faculty Lounge.


"Science Saturday" talk for young people:
   
Sat., March 26, 10:30 am, Becton, Davies Auditorium,
    15 Prospect Street: "Emotional Intelligence: Is There Anything
    To It?" Prof. Peter Salovey, Dean of Yale College.
    Host: Prof. Ainissa Ramirez.

Final doctoral examination:
   
Jim Chen--"Membrane Filtration of Interacting
    Colloidal Particles: Mechanisms, Modeling, and Applications."
    Committee: Prof. Menachem Elimelech, Prof. John Walz,
   
and Prof. Paul Van Tassel.
    Mon., March 21, 9:00 am, Mason 107.

Microelectronics & optoelectronics symposium:
   
Giving invited talks March 17 at the 14th Annual
    Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics and Optoelectronics
    in Davies Auditorium were Prof. Eugenio Culurciello, EE,
    Prof. Hür Köser, EE, and Prof. Ainissa Ramirez, ME.
    One of the sponsors of the Symposium was the Yale Center
    for Microelectronics Materials and Structures. Its director is
    Prof. T.P. Ma.

"American Scientists" unveiling date changed:
   
The date of the unveiling ("First Day of Issue") at Yale of the
    US Postal Service "American Scientists" series of stamps
    (among them of J. Willard Gibbs who received the first Ph.D.
    in engineering in the U.S. in 1863 at Yale) has been changed
    to May 4. The specifics will be forthcoming when the event gets
    closer.

FoE represented at New Haven science fair:
   
Our faculty and graduate students helped out in a big way at
    the Fair as judges and in other capacities. Our goodwill
    ambassadors were Prof. Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, AP, Prof. Ainissa
    Ramirez
, ME, and Prof. Daniel Prober, AP, also graduate
    students Tonya Bird, ChE, William Greene, BME, Jane Hill, EnvE,
    Jennifer Phelps, ChE, Chad Rigetti, AP, Eric Stern, BME,
    and Julie Julie Wyatt, Phys (Prof. Devoret's advisee, so we're
    claim her). :)


Business Office closed:
   
The Business Office will be closed for Good Friday.

What can make it happen:
   
"Positive action can make assumptions come true." Anonymous.

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