Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, May 9, 2005

Speakers:

Mon., May 9,
1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar and
Center for Quantum Information Physics, CQUiP, Distinguished Visitor Lecture:
   "Quantum Repeater: Quantum Optics and Solid State Implementations,"
   Dr. Peter Zoller, Institute of Theoretical Physics,
   University of Innsbruck, Austria.
   Host: Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.

Tues., May 10, 2:00 pm, Mason 211.
Solid State and Optics Seminar and
Center for Quantum Information Physics, CQUiP, Distinguished Visitor Lecture:
   "A Tutorial on Ion Trap Quantum Computing and Gates,"
   Dr. Peter Zoller, Institute of Theoretical Physics,
   University of Innsbruck, Austria.
   Host: Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.

Tues., May 10, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Graduate Student Seminar:
   "Reliability of High-k Materials," Huiming Bu,
   Electrical Engineering.
   Adviser: Prof. T.P. Ma.
   Refreshments at 3:45 pm.

Wed., May 11, 11:00 am, Becton 3rd-floor alcove.
Center Semiconductor Technology Seminar:
   "World's Smallest 6T-SRAM Cell for CMOS Technology,"
   Dr. Jeffrey Sleight, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
   Host: Prof. T.P. Ma.
 
Welcome:
  
Vanessa Epps has joined us 5/2 as Administrative Assistant
   in Electrical Engineering. Prior to coming to Yale, she
   worked at the New Haven Job Corps Center and earlier had
   studied business management and administration at Hudson
   Community College in Jersey City, NJ. Ms. Epps loves reading
   and playing basketball with her sports-minded sons Dwight, 19, 
   a Sophomore and football player at Springfield College,
   Springfield, MA, and Denzel, 16, a Sophomore at Hillhouse
   High School, where he plays football, basketball, and baseball.
 
Final doctoral examination:
   Xiaoning Qian--"Shape Indexing and Its Optimization in Medical
   Image Databases." Committee: Prof. Hemant Tagare, Prof. James
   Duncan, Prof. Lawrence Staib,
and Prof. Edmund Yeh.
   Mon., May 9, 10:00 am, Brady Memorial Laborator 333, 310 Cedar Street.
 
American Scientists stamps unveiling at Yale:
   The unveiling May 4 was an event to remember! and we will
   have pictures and text (probably after Commencement) on
   www.eng.yale.edu for all to enjoy. For the time being, see
   the relatives of Josiah Willard Gibbs and Dean Paul Fleury
   at the Gibbs gravesite in Grove Street Cemetery and also
   the Gibbs stamp, www.eng.yale.edu/news/web_tracks/Gibbs-roses.htm
   And do go to see the Gibbs exhibit that
Andrew Shimp,
   Engineering Librarian, has mounted in an exhibit case between
   Dunham and Becton.

They won the s(Energy) competition:
   Annemarie Baltay '05, Applied Math, Saybrook, finished First
   in the s(Energy) 2005 ME 185 Robot competition and was
   declared Energy Czar. Ho Ming Chiu '08, still deciding on
   a major (it might be Engineering), Branford, was a close
   second. Congratulations on innovative conceptualizing
   and effective designing and implementation.
 
IEEE announces officers for 2005-06:
   Chair: Jose Fuentes '06
   Vice Chair: Ajay Kishore '07
   Secretary: John Kearney '07
   Treasurer: Arvind Bhaskar '07
   Recruitment Chair: Jonathan Schwarz '06
   Social Chairs: Matthew Herpich '07 & Muhammad Farooqui '07.
 
To the Editor:
   "I do not know if this is standard procedure, but I
   know you are the person who puts out the newsletter for
   the engineers, and as senior projects draw to a close I
   wanted to send a special thanks out to a man who has been
   instrumental in the completion of all of our senior
   projects in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Nick Bernardo
   runs the machine shop in Mason and has gone out of his way
   for almost everyone in the Department in one way or another
   to help us out. He comes in early, sets times, and comes up
   with innovative new ideas, all of which are above and beyond
   his job description. I wanted to let him know we appreciate
   him very much, and I hoped to do that through the newsletter.
   Would it be possible for you to put a big thank you to him
   from the Mechanical Engineering undergrad seniors in the
   next newsletter? Thanks!
                        Very Respectfully, Justin Elliott."
 
Engineering Prizes winners:
   To be announced next week.
 
Engineering Library summer hours:
   Summer hours start Wed., May 11, end Tues., Aug. 30.
   Mon. - Fri.  8:30 am - 5:00 pm,
   Sat.          1:00 pm - 5:00 pm,
   Closed: Sundays and
              Mon., May 30 (Memorial Day) and
              Mon., July 4 (Independence Day).

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