Fall 2005

Friday, September 30, 4:10p.m., Room 466, Packard Lab.  The Seminars in Engineering Science series of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics presents an address by Mr. Steve Hand, Senior Metrologist at MAGLEV, Inc. on "High Accuracy Laser Measurement Systems".

Friday, October 14, 4:10p.m., Room 466, Packard Lab.  The Seminars in Engineering Science series of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics presents an address by Dr. Ihab Girgis, Princeton University, on "Flow Control with Energy Addition".

Friday, October 21, 4:10p.m., Room 466, Packard Lab.  The Seminars in Engineering Science series of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics presents an address by Lt. Col. Rhett Jeffries, United States Air Force, on "Air Force Office of Scientific Research: A Review of the Turbulence and Rotating Flows Program".

Friday, October 28, 4:10p.m., Room 466, Packard Lab.  The Seminars in Engineering Science series of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics presents an address by Dr. Joseph C. Mollendorf, State University of New York at Buffalo, on “A Fluid/Solid Model for Predicting Slender Body Deflection in a Moving Fluid”.

Tuesday, November 1, 9a.m., Room B-131, Iacocca Hall.  The Seminar Series of the Emulsion Polymers Institute and Center for Polymer Science and Engineering presents an address by William Engisch, graduate student in Department of Chemical Engineering on “Online Conductivity and Stability of Emulsion Polymerizations”.

Friday, November 4, 4:10p.m., Room 466, Packard Lab.  The Seminars in Engineering Science series of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics presents an address by Dr. Michael L. Walker on “Control of Tokamak Plasmas”.

Friday, November 11, 4:10p.m., Room 466, Packard Lab.  The Seminars in Engineering Science series of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics presents an address by Mr. Rogers Smith, National Test Pilots School of Mojave, California on “SR-71 and ‘Skunk Works’ of Kelly Johnson”.

Friday, November 11, 2:30p.m., Sinclair Auditorium.  The Spencer C. Schantz Distinguished Lecture Series of the Department of Industrial and System Engineering presents an address by Dr. William R. Pulleybank, Vice President, Center for Business Optimization, within IBM's Business and Consulting Services, on "BlueGene, Cyberscience and Business Optimization".

Tuesday, December 6, 4p.m., Sherman Fairchild Center's Oberkotter Auditorium, 270 Lewis Lab, Physics Building.  The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science presents an address by Dr. Carlos Bustamante, professor in the departments of Physics, Molecular & Cell Biology, and Chemistry of the University of California, Berkeley, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute on "Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Packaging of DNA by Single Particles of Bacteriophage Phi 29 Studied One Molecule at a Time".
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