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Faculty of Engineering
Bulletin for Monday, May 2, 2005
Speaker:
Fri., May 6,
4:00 pm, Dunham Fifth Floor Conference Room.
Center for Systems Science:
"Construction of Structured and Unstructured
Overlays,"
Prof. Arvind Krishnamurthy, Computer Science.
Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra.
Invited leading expert:
Prof. Mark Reed, EE, has been invited as a
leading
expert in the field to give a short course on "Nano
and Molecular Electronics" at the NSTI 2005 Nano,
Industrial Impact Workshop, May 8 in Annaheim, CA.
New
Yale-IBM facility dedicated:
Dean Paul Fleury and Dr. Tilak Agerwala, Vice
President,
Systems, IBM Research, officiated at the
ribbon-cutting
ceremony April 27 of the new Yale-IBM Parallel
Computing
Facility in Becton 202. The new and sophisticated
computing equipment at the Yale-IBM Parallel
Computing
Facility is a mini module of IBM’s Blue Gene, the
world's most powerful high performance computing
cluster being installed at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory.
"American Scientists"
stamps to be unveiled at Yale:
Wed., May 4, 1:00 pm, at Luce Hall, the US Postal Service
will unveil a series of four US postage stamps dedicated
to four exceptional scientists: Yale’s Josiah Willard Gibbs
1863 Ph.D.,
http://www.eng.yale.edu/news/web_tracks/Gibbs-stamp.htm
Richard Feynman, John von Neumann, and Barbara
McCllintock.
The event is open to the public.
President Richard Levin will speak at the ceremony and
Dean Paul Fleury will be the master of ceremonies. Also
speaking at the ceremony will be a member of the US Postal
Service Board of Governors, the designer of the stamps,
the consultant for the Gibbs stamp, and a relative of
each scientist being honored, including a distant cousin
of Gibb--neurologist John Willard Gibbs M.D.,Ph.D.
Following the unveiling ceremony, a reception will be
hosted
in the Luce Hall Common Room by President Levin and Dean
Fleury.
It will be possible to acquire the new stamps and the
special First Day of Issue cancellation at the event.
The stamps go on sale at post offices nationwide May 5.
We will also have a Gibbs exhibit in the exhibit space on
the ground level of Dunham, courtesy of our Engineering
Librarian Andrew Shimp.
EnvE grad
student wins NSF fellowship:
Anna Stirgwolt, a first year graduate student in
Environmental
Engineering, has won a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
for research on pathogen removal from water, especially
by way of low cost, low energy wastewater treatment
technologies
to be put to use in developing countries. Anna Stirgwolt
came to Yale from Johns Hopkins with a double major in
Chemical Engineering and Spanish. Her adviser is
Prof. Menachem Elimelech, EnvE.
Many years of experience
at Yale:
Among Yale staff who were honored April 11 at the annual
Long-Service Recognition Dinner at the University Commons
were Jayne Miller, AP, with 35 years and Arlene
Ciociola, EE,
with 25 years at Yale.
Last senior project
presentations:
ME presentations are Mon., May 2, 9:00-noon, Mason 211.
Engineering Student Council announces goals:
The Council’s goals for the next academic year are:
--New mentoring program between upper- and
underclassmen.
--Programs for engineers planning careers in
industry, research, law, medicine,
business, and the arts.
--Increased involvement of Yale alumni.
--Internship, study/work abroad, and other career
programs.
--Trips to local engineering, design, and industrial
companies.
And here are the new Board members who
will make it happen in 2005-06:
President: Geoff Schreiner
Vice President: Liz
Broomfield
Events Chair: Adam Weber
Treasurer: Vadim Tsipenyuk
Secretary: Diana Liao
Professional Development
Director: Gary Green
Public relations/publicity
chair: Jose Fuentes
End of Faculty of
Engineering Bulletin 661
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