Volume 11, Issue 5
October 8, 2008
In this issue:
Effective Search Practices Workshop on Oct. 28
The CU-ADVANCE Center and the Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble will conduct a session for department chairs and search committee chairs and members on effective practices for faculty searches. If your department plans to conduct a search in Academic Year 2008-09 and you did not attended this workshop last year, please plan to attend. Last fall over 100 individuals attended the workshops, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
To accommodate busy schedules, two sessions will be held on October 28 in McManus Lounge in Hollister Hall. The first session will include breakfast at 8:15, with the program scheduled from 8:30-10:30. The second session will include lunch at 11:30, with the program from noon-2:00.
If you are chairing a search committee, please ask your search committee members to attend. We look forward to seeing you on October 28.
Please confirm your attendance with the
CU-ADVANCE Center.
Engineering and society: Communicating with the public Oct. 17
Why should your research be the "best kept secret?" Find out on October 17 how to get coverage for your research and make sure it's done right. Longtime Chronicle of Higher Education editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed Scott Jaschik leads a panel discussion on "Engineering and Society: Communicating with the Public," 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in 700 Clark Hall.
Symposium on Computing Challenges Oct. 12-14
Nearly a trillion nanoscale devices can fit on a single chip--orders of magnitude more than what's possible with conventional technology. Co-sponsored by the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science and the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, this symposium brings together people with hardware, software, neuroscience, physics, and mathematics perspectives to discuss the key problems and the possible approaches to solutions for effectively harnessing the trillions of devices possible at the nanoscale.
This event will be at the ILR Conference Center. For a schedule, and to register for the symposium, please see the
symposium website.
Science publishing forum Oct. 9
Cornell University Library will sponsor a forum for debate on the dynamics of science publishing in the early 21st century. Four panelists--an academic researcher, a science librarian, a commercial publisher, and a university publisher--will offer their candid assessment and professional perspective on the state of the STM publishing industry and its impact on authors, libraries, and the consumers of science scholarship.
This discussion, open to all, will be held on Thursday October 9, 2008 from 3-4:30 p.m. in 102 Mann Library.
more info
or contact Engineering Librarian
John Saylor.
9th Annual Nanobiotechnology Symposium Oct. 27
This event showcases the latest advances in research at the interface of nanotechnology and the life sciences - an opportunity to meet with faculty, researchers and students, as well as industrial partners and colleagues from the entire nanobiotechnology community. This full day meeting (8:30am - 6:00pm) will include presentations from invited speakers and a poster session to engage attendees in lively and detailed discussion.
8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., G10 Biotechnology Building
more info
TAM presents Strogatz lectures
TAM is hosting a 12-week seminar series on chaos, consisting of 24 lectures that TAM Prof. Steve Strogatz filmed with the Teaching Company. Each week will feature two 30-minute lectures. No background is needed; the lectures are elementary and aimed at a general audience. The seminars will be held on Mondays at 4:30 p.m. in 205 Thurston Hall; the first was presented on September 22.
more info
Awards and honors in the Engineering community
The BEE Soil and Water Group has received the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) Partnership Award for Mission Integration. CSREES annually recognizes exemplary work from a team at a land-grant university or other cooperating institution or organization supported by CSREES.
Staffing Updates
Steve Miller has joined the Office of Information Technology. He is our new classroom technology coordinator and, in conjunction with the department staff and our student employees, will be responsible for maintaining and upgrading instructional technology in our 39 resource 25 classrooms. Steve comes to use after being a signals and network analyst and a program manager for the National Security Agency. After leaving the military he moved back to Ithaca and is now continuing his education while working for us half time. There are already several Steve Miller's on campus so be careful about sending email to the right one. His netid is sum6 and his middle name is Uriah. In Oracle Calendar, you can enter his given name Steven Miller or sum6.
Hayley Harris has joined the college as assistant director of human resources in the college. Hayley's knowledge and experience are a great fit for this position. She has many years of HR experience at Yale University working most recently in the central HR department. Prior to that she was an HR manager working closely with faculty and staff in the School of Medicine's academic departments of diagnostic radiology and genetics. Hayley is a highly accomplished cellist and holds a B.M. from Boston University and a M.Phil from Yale. We will be working on opportunities for her to meet you soon.
Hayley's. contact information is 255-6050, 247 Carpenter Hall.
Mattin's Cafe hours for fall break
Mattin's Cafe in Duffield Hall will operate on a reduced schedule over fall break as follows:
7 a.m.-3 p.m., Friday, Oct 10 7 a.m.-2 p.m., Monday-Tuesday, Oct 13-14
resume regular hours, Wednesday, Oct 15 7 a.m.-8 p.m. M-Th, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. F
Guest speakers and seminars
Biophysics Colloquium
Wednesdays, 4:30 p.m., 700 Clark Hall
Refreshments at 4:15 outside of 700 Clark
8 Oct Assoc. Prof. Chris Xu, Cornell AEP: "Simultaneous spatio-temporal focusing in multiphoton microscopy"
BME 5010
Thursdays, 3:35 - 4:25 p.m., 155 Olin Hall
9 Oct. Jon Rowley, Ph.D., Director of Cell Therapy R&D Lonza Walkersville, Inc., "Working in the Regenerative Medicine Industry: Opportunities for Biomedical Engineers in Cell-based Therapeutic Bioproduction
16 Oct. Craig Wheeler, President and CEO, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc., TBA
BME 7900
Wednesdays, 4:15 - 5:15 p.m., 226 Weill Hall
8 Oct. Asst. Prof. Changhuei Yang, Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology: "Novel optical approaches for biomedical applications from dime-size microscopes to time-reversal based suppression of tissue turbidity"
15 Oct. Asst. Prof. Yingxin Gao, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, TBA
Biophysics Colloquium
Wednesdays, 4:30 p.m., 700 Clark Hall
Refreshments at 4:15 outside 700 Clark
8 Oct. Assoc. Prof. Chris Xu, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, "Technology development for deep tissue optical imaging"
22 Oct. Prof. Alan S. Waggoner, Director, Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center, Carnegie Mellon University, "Synthesis of new fluorogenic cyanine dyes and incorporation into biophysical imaging"
CAM Colloquium
Fridays, 3:30 p.m., 655 Rhodes Hall
Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes
17 Oct. Alain Karma, Northeastern University (Joint with IGERT Program in Nonlinear Systems), "Can Mathematics help to Understand and Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death?"
24 Oct. Hinke Osinga, University of Bristol and CAM Visiting Scientist, "Resetting Behavior of Bursting in Secretory Pituitary Cells"
CEE Seminars
Thursdays, 4:30 p.m., 366 Hollister Hall
Refreshments at 4:15 pm
9 October Prof. Dennis Lettenmaier, University of Washginton, "Opportunities in large scale hydrological modeling: the role of remote sensing"
16 October Prof. Edward Bouwer, Johns Hopkins University, "Prospects for Managed Underground Storage of Recoverable Water"
23 October Prof. Richard Palmer, Department Head, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: "Calculating the Impacts of Climate Change on Water Supply in the Puget Sound - Engineering Evaluations and Interactions with the Public"
EAS Special Seminar
Wednesday, 8 Oct., noon-1 p.m., 3158 Snee Hall Dr. Terry Wallace, Principal Associate Director for Science and Technology, and Engineering Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Global climate, treaties, and national security science"
EAS Seminar
Wednesdays, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m., 2146 Snee
Refreshments at 3:00 p.m. in the Reading Room.
15 Oct. Charlotte Pearson, Cornell University, "Tree Rings and Volcanic Eruptions: Potential of the Dendrochronological Archive for Absolute Dates for Past Volcanic Eruptions"
Financial Engineering Seminar
Thursdays, 11:40 a.m., 253 Rhodes Hall (unless stated otherwise)
9 Oct Prof. Gerardo Hernandez-del-Valle, Columbia University, "On The Brennan-Schwartz Process, Self-Similar P.D.E.'s And The Density Of Averaged Geometric Brownian Motion"
16 Oct Prof. Richard Marin, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, TBA
23 Oct Prof. Kasper Larsen, Carnegie Mellon University, "A Note on the Existence of the Power Investor's Optimizer"
MSE Seminar
Thursdays, 4:30 p.m., 140 Bard
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. in Bard Lounge
9 Oct. Prof. Bill Bailey, Columbia University, TBA
16 Oct Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, University of California - Santa Barbara, "Nanostructures in Organic Semiconductors and the Energy Challenge"
23 Oct Prof. Padma Gopalan, University of Wisconsin, "Structure-property Relationships in Organic Electro-optic Materials"
MAE Colloquium
Tuesdays, 4:30 p.m., B17 Upson
Refreshments at 4:15 in Upson Lounge
21 Oct. Asst. Prof. Yingxin Gao, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, TBA
Nanobiotechnology Center Seminar Series
Tuesdays, Noon, G01 Biotechnology Building
Light refreshments served; feel free to bring your lunch
21 Oct. Mandy Esch, Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, "Developing in vitro Cell Culture Analogs for Cancer Metastasis and Toxicity Studies"
ORIE Colloquium
Tuesdays, 4:15 p.m., 253 Rhodes Hall
Refreshments at 3:45 in 258 Rhodes
28 Oct Prof. Assaf Zeevi, Columbia University, TBA
TAM Seminars
Wednesdays, 4:30 p.m., 205 Thurston Hall
Refreshments at 4:15 p.m. in 206 Thurston
8 Oct. John M. W. Bush, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Fluid Trampoline: Droplets Bouncing on a Soap Film"
15 Oct. Martin Z. Bazant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, "Induced-Charge Electrokinetic Phenomena"
22 Oct. Prashant Mehta, Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering,University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, TBA
29 Oct. Ralph D. Lorenz, Space Department, Planetary Exploration Group, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, TBA
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