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.
End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 655