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January 2009
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1/2, Friday

Registration fees without penalty due to Bursar's Office for spring semester
by 4:00 p.m.

1/5, Monday

First day of classes for spring semester

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Kimberly Burns
12:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Coupled Multi-Group Neutron Photon Transport for the Simulation of High Resolution Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Applications
Committee: Dr. Nolan Hertel, Chair (NRE), Dr. Farzad Rahnema (NRE), Dr. Bojan Petrovic (NRE), Dr. C.-K. Chris Wang (NRE), Dr. Wm. David Kulp III (PHYS), Dr. Eva Lee (ISYE)

1/6, Tuesday

Deadline for faculty to identify graders for spring semester
Complete and e-mail attached form to Dimetra. Grader Form

1/7, Wednesday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Jonathan Clausen
3:00 p.m.
IPST Building, Room boardrm
Title: The Effect of Particle Deformation on the Rheology and Microstructure of Noncolloidal Suspensions
Committee: Dr. Cyrus Aidun, Chair (ME), Dr. Paul Neitzel (ME), Dr. Marc Smith (ME), Dr. Victor Breedveld (CHBE), Dr. Jeff Morris (CUNY)

1/8, Thursday

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MS&E Building, Room 3201A
Title: Next Generation Safeguards Initiative
Speaker: Greg Cefus, Ben Cross and Jeff Jay (Savannah River National Laboratory)

1/9, Friday

Last day to pay registration fees without penalty due to Bursar's Office for spring semester
by 4:00 p.m.

Last day to register for new and continuing students (Phase II)

Last day to register or make schedule changes for spring semester

1/12, Monday

Pizza Party Information Session for The InVenture Prize @ Georgia Tech
http://inventureprize.gatech.edu

Woodruff School Undergraduate Committee Meeting
4:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 201
For more information, contact Dr. Jon Colton at Jonathan.colton@me.gatech.edu

1/13, Tuesday

Spring semester meeting for graders
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Graders must attend this meeting in order to be hired. If attendance is not possible, contact Dimetra to make alternative arrangements.

1/15, Thursday

Deadline to submit applications for the 2009 COPE Graduate Student Fellowship
for more information, contact Veronique Bredas at (404) 385-6052 or veronique.bredas@chemistry.gatech.edu

Deadline to submit preliminary proposals for the FY10 IPST Industry Consortium-Sponsored Research Program
Submit as a Word document. See attached Excel budget sheet. For more information or if you have questions, contact Frank Murray at 404-894-9592 or frank.murray@ipst.gatech.edu

Deadline to submit applications for Jefferson Science Fellowships from The National Academies
Must be a U.S. citizen to apply; a security clearance will be required for fellows. View www.national-academies.org/jsf for an application and more details

Last day for undergraduate and graduate engineering students to submit a Letter of Intent for the CIMIT (Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology) $150.000 Prize for Primary Healthcare
View www.cimit.org for more information about the prize and entry procedures

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MS&E Building, Room 3201A
Title: The Global Nuclear Future Realities and Opportunities
Speaker: Thomas L. Sanders (President Elect of the American Nuclear Society & Sandia National Laboratories)

1/16, Friday

Deadline to submit proposals for the Emtech Bio Seed Grand Program

Deadline to submit internal proposals for the NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program
Submit proposals to Dr. Mark Allen at mallen@gatech.edu. For more information on the program, go to: http://www.nsf.gov?publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf09519 or the attached solicitation.

FOCUS Scholars Program: Woodruff School Presentation
9:15 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Contact Dave Rosen at rosen.gradprog@me.gatech.edu for more information or see the FOCUS web site at www.focus.gatech.edu

FOCUS Fellows Programs: Woodruff School Presentation for Ph.D. students and Post-docs interested in academic positions
1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Contact Dr. Dave Rosen at rosen.gradprog@me.gatech.edu for more information or see the FOCUS web site at www.focus.gatech.edu

1/19, Monday

MLK Holiday (no classes)

1/21, Wednesday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Audric Saillard
9:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Modeling and simulation of high-temperature oxidation of metallic alloys: oxide scale growth, stress development and influence of alloy composition.
Committee: Dr. Mohammed Cherkaoui, Chair (ME), Dr. David L. McDowell (ME), Dr. Richard W. Neu (ME), Dr. Preet Singh (MSE), Dr. Esteban P. Busso (Ecole des Mines de Paris)

1/22, Thursday

Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

1/23, Friday

The Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Myeongsub Kim
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Development of Non-Intrusive Microscale Optical Thermometry Techniques for Measuring Liquid-Phase and Wall-Surface Temperature
Committee: Dr. Minami Yoda, Chair (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Michael Schatz (Physics), Dr. Don Webster (CEE)

1/26, Monday

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
12:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: The Nuclear Energy Institute's Clean Energy America
Speaker: Amy Roma and Andrew Dewey (Clean Energy America)

HPC Seminar
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 1116 East
Title: Automatic Performance Analysis for Terascale Systems
Speaker: Michael Gerndt (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

1/27, Tuesday

Bioengineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Suddath Seminar Room 1128
Title: Toward Predictive Models of Multicellular Dynamics
Speaker: Anand R. Asthagiri (California Institute of Technology)

SIAC Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Executive Classroom
Title: Research in Healthcare and Public Health Surveillance
Speaker: Kwok Tsui (Georgia Tech)

Woodruff Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Innovative Surface Technologies for Advanced Engineering Applications: From Super-hard and Low-friction Coatings to Super-fast Surface Treatments

Materials Science and Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Non-Spherical Colloids Under Confinement:: A Structural Diversity Approach to Photonic Materials
Speaker: Chekesha M. Liddell (Cornell University)

1/28, Wednesday

Mechanical Engineerging Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Analysis of Phonon Transport in Polyethylene Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Speaker: Asegun S. Henry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

1/29, Thursday

Preliminary competition for The InVenture Prize @ Georgia Tech
http://inventureprize.gatech.edu

Materials Council Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Demonstration of CES Edupack Materials Selection Software for Use in Education and Research (A Webinar Presentation)

Clark-Atlanta University Physics Department Seminar
3:00 p.m.
McPheeters-Dennis Hall, Room 143 (Clark-Atlanta University)
Title: High Resolution Coherent 2D Spectroscopy
Speaker: Peter C. Chen (Spelman College)

1/30, Friday

Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Seminar
2:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 2447
Title: Quantum Computers and the Future of Quantum Chemistry
Speaker: Ken Brown (Georgia Tech)

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