Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, April 4, 2005
Speakers:
Mon., April 4,
10:00
am, Mason 107.
Special Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Stochastic Modeling in Robotics and
Biomolecular Mechanics," Prof. Yu (Joe) Zhou,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Host: Prof. Marshall Long.
Tues., April 5,
11:00
am, Becton 4th floor alcove.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Exploiting Quantum Capacitance for Quantum
Measurements," Prof. Christopher M. Wilson,
Chalmers University, Gothenberg, Sweden.
Host: Prof. Daniel Prober.
Wed., April 6,
1:00
pm, Mason 107.
Solid Sate and Optics Seminar:
"Flux Quibits and Readout Device with Two
Independent Flux Lines," Prof. Britton Plourde,
Department of Physics, Syracuse University.
Host: Prof. Michel Devoret.
Wed., April 6, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Department
of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Processing
and Mechanical Behavior of Nanocomposite
Thin Films," Prof. Robert C. Cammarata, Department
of Materials Science and Engineering and Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University.
Host: Prof. David Wu.
Refreshments 2:15 pm.
Thurs., April 7,
1:00
pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Tunneling
between Two Laterally Coupled Quantum Hall Systems,"
Prof. Woowon Kang, University of Chicago.
Host: Prof. Steven Girvin.
Fri., April 8,
noon,
Mason 107.
Biomaterials Seminar Series:
"Biomaterials for the Central Nervous
System,"
Prof. Erin Lavik, Biomedical Engineering.
Host: Prof. Paul Van Tassel.
A light lunch will be provided.
Sat., April 9,
10:30
am, Becton, Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect Street.
Science Saturdays:
"Weird New Life on Earth," Prof. Michael
Donoghue,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Host: Prof. Ainissa
Ramirez.
More talks in the series April 16 and April 23.
In honor of the late Professor Csaba Horváth:
The
Department of Chemical Engineering and the
Connecticut Separation Science Council (CSSC) are
co-sponsoring a
Symposium in Honor of the late Professor Csaba Horváth
Sat., April 9, 10:00 am-4:00 pm in Mason Laboratory.
The keynote speaker, Dr. Lloyd Snyder, will be
presented
with the 2005 CSSC Csaba Horváth Medal for his
in-depth perceptions and studies in liquid
chromatography.
The symposium will also feature podium presentations
and a poster session. Engineering faculty do not need
to pay a registration fee but should RSVP
by Thurs., April 7, to <barbara.skolones@yale.edu>
The complete program of the Symposium is at
<http://www.cssconline.org/Printable/CSSC_April_2005_Final.pdf>
More faculty named to endowed chairs:
Prof.
Steven M. Girvin has been named the Eugene
Higgins Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied
Physics. He is a theoretical physicist who studies
the quantum mechanics of large collections of atoms,
molecules and electrons that are found in
superconductors,
magnets and transistors. More at
<www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n23/story6.html>
Prof. A. Douglas Stone has been named the
Carl A. Morse Professor of Applied Physics. He is a
theoretical physicist with interests in solid-state and
optical/laser physics. More at
<www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n23/story7.html>
Assistive:
April
6, 4:15 pm, ISPS, 77 Prospect St (corner Trumbull).
"Robots Among Us? The Challenges of Assistive
Interactive
Robotics," Prof. Maja Mataric, Computer Science,
Neuroscience; Director, USC Center for Robotics and
Embedded Systems (CRES), Co-Director, Robotics Research
Lab, University of Southern California.
Dinner at 5:45 pm (reservations: <carol.pollard@yale.edu>)
followed by discussion.
Yale Scientific cover in March issue of PRISM:
The
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
publishes PRISM (circulation ~13,000 but readership
by professors quite a lot more). PRISM's March issue
features an article that highlights the benefits for
students of doing the reporting, editing, layout,
marketing,
and everything else that is part of publishing an
engineering magazine. The PRISM article is illustrated
by the covers of three college engineering student
magazines,
among them the Yale Scientific. If you could use some
benefits that come from working on a college
engineering
magazine, get in touch with the Yale Scientific at
<www.yalescientific.org>
End of the Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 657