Volume 11, Issue 4
September 24, 2008
In this issue:
- Awards and honors in the Engineering community
- TAM presents Strogatz lectures
- Engineering and society: Communicating with the public
- Mattin's Cafe hours for fall break
- Child-care grant deadline September 26
- Guest speakers and seminars
Awards and honors in the Engineering community
Prof. Darrell G. Schlom, MSE, has been selected as a co-recipient of the 2008 Materials Research Society Medal with Professor James Scott, University of Cambridge. The MRS Medal is awarded for outstanding recent discovery or advancement that is expected to have a major impact on the progress of any materials-related field. The medal and cash prize will be presented at the MRS fall meeting in Boston in December.
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 information on the lecture series online
Engineering and society: Communicating with the public
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.
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
Child-care grant deadline September 26
Reminder: Child-care grant applications for faculty, staff, and benefits-eligible postdoctoral associates are due September 26. Visit the Web site for applications and eligibility information.
Guest speakers and seminars
Friday, noon, 5130 Upson Hall
Lunch to be provided at noon; talk begins at 12:15 p.m.
26 Sep
Prof. Arnon Lotem, Tel-Aviv University: Risk taking, learning, and strategy choice: Experiments with humans, bees, and sparrows
Wednesdays, 4:30 p.m., 700 Clark Hall
Refreshments at 4:15 outside of 700 Clark
1 Oct
Douglas S. Scherr, MD, associate professor of urology, The Ronald Stanton Clinical Scholar in Urology, associate attending urologist, clinical director of urologic oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College: Changing the paradigm of human cancer diagnostics
8 Oct
Assoc. Prof. Chris Xu, Cornell AEP: Simultaneous spatio-temporal focusing in multiphoton microscopy
Thursdays, 3:35 - 4:25 p.m., 155 Olin Hall
25 Sep
Assoc. Prof. Michael R. King, Cornell BME: Receptor-mediated adhesion of circulating cells
2 Oct
Tim Laske, senior director, Medtronic: TBA
Wednesdays, 4:15 - 5:15 p.m., 226 Weill Hall
24 sep
Asst. Prof. Alyosha Molnar, Cornell ECE: What radios can tell us about the retina (and vice versa)
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
Fridays, 3:30 p.m., 655 Rhodes Hall
Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes
26 Sep
Timothy Hall, senior scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies: Statistical modeling of North Atlantic hurricanes: Landfall and climate
3 Oct
Assoc. Prof. Lauren Meyers, University of Texas at Austin: Network perspectives on epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics
Thursdays, 11:40 a.m., 253 Rhodes Hall (unless stated otherwise)
10 Oct
Prof. Ravi Mazumdar, University of Waterloo: Multidimensional diffusions with state dependent reflections: Boundary behavior and stability
Tuesdays, 4:30 p.m., B17 Upson
Refreshments at 4:15 in Upson Lounge
30 Sep
Daniel J. Inman, G.R. Goodson Professor and director, Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech: Morphing, monitoring, and harvesting
Tuesdays, Noon, G01 Biotechnology Building
Light refreshments served; feel free to bring your lunch
30 Sep
Elizabeth Strychalski, Cornell AEP (Craighead Research Group): Nanoslit devices for biomolecular manipulation and analysis
7 Oct
Sang-Beom Lee, chief researcher, bioenabled nanoproducts, NanoDynamics Life Sciences: Nanotechnology based antimicrobial surfaces
Tuesdays, 4:15 p.m., 253 Rhodes Hall
Refreshments at 3:45 in 258 Rhodes
30 Sep
Prof. Dawn Woodard, Cornell ORIE:Spatial inference of nitrate concentrations in groundwater
Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m., 406 Malott Hall
Refreshments following the seminar in 301 Malott
24 Sep
Fang Yao, Univ. of Toronto: Functional approach for sparse generalized longitudinal data
Wednesdays, 4:30 p.m., 205 Thurston Hall
Refreshments at 4:15 p.m. in 206 Thurston
24 Sep
Assoc. Prof. Assad A. Oberai, Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Inverse problems in mechanics
1 Oct
Gang Bao, College of Engineering, Georgia Technical Institute: Engineering molecular probes for gene detection in living cells
8 Oct
John M. W. Bush, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The Fluid Trampoline: Droplets Bouncing on a Soap Film
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