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October 2008
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10/1, Wednesday

Alternate Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115

Georgia Tech Honors Program Lecture
7:30 p.m.
LeCraw Auditorium, Georgia Tech College of Management (Fifth and West Peachtree Streets)
Title: The Future of Science is Art: Or What We Can Learn About the Brain From A 19th Century French Chef and Kanye West
Speaker: Jonah Lehrer (Author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist)

10/3, Friday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Thomas Harman
1:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Waste Heat Recovery in Data Centers: Ejector Heat Pump Analysis
Committee: Dr. Yogendra Joshi, Chair (ME), Dr. Sheldon Jeter (ME), Dr. S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME)

Woodruff School Family Weekend Open House
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, all floors and on the lawn

10/6, Monday

Benefits Open Enrollment for 2009 Begins
Enrollment is web-based through TechWorks (News & Announcements) For more information, contact benefits@ohr.gatech.edu or (404) 894-1417

10/7, Tuesday

Materials Seminar
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Liquids in Carbon Nanotubes: From Basic Science to Multifunctional Cellular Probes
Speaker: Yury Gogotsi (A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute)

10/8, Wednesday

First day of written Ph.D. Qualifying Exams

10/9, Thursday

There will be no written Ph.D. Qualifying Exams on this day

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Pysics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Klaus Advanced Computing Building (KACB), Room 116W
Title: Cold Fusion is Warming Up
Speaker: John L. Russell Jr., Ph.D. (Retired)

10/10, Friday

Deadline for early registration for the 2008 Women's Leadership Conference
Registration is $25 for faculty and staff. Go to www.gtwlc.com for registration and other information.

Written Ph.D. Qualifying Exams continue

Benefits Fair
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom
For more information, contact benefits@ohr,gatech.edu or (404) 894-1417

10/13, Monday

Aerospace Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MK Conference Room 317
Title: Coal to Clean Energy
Speaker: Professor Ezra Bar-Ziv

10/13, Monday - 10/14, Tuesday

Mid-Term break (no classes)

10/15, Wednesday

The Robotics and Intelligent Machines Seminar Series
12:00 p.m.
Technology Square Research Building, Rooms 132-134
Title: Slipping the Surly Bonds of Earth: Intelligent Navigation and Collaboration For Air Vehicles
Speaker: Sanjiv Singh (Carnegie Mellon University)

Alternate Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115

10/15, Wednesday - 10/17, Friday

Written Ph.D. Qualifying Exams continue

10/16, Thursday

GTPRIND Colloquium
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: An Investigation of the Lifetime-Limiting Defects in CZT
Speaker: Gary Tepper (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Cosponsored by G.W. Woodruff School of Nuclear & Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs

Meeting of the Woodruff School Faculty Development Committee
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210

10/17, Friday

Woodruff School Undergraduate Committee Meeting
4:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 431
If you have any items to add to the agenda, contact Professor Jonathan Colton

10/20, Monday - 10/24, Friday

Oral Ph.D. Qualifying Exams

10/23, Thursday

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Hydrodynamics and Interfacial Phenomena in Separations of Nuclear Materials
Speaker: Costas Tsouris (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

College of Engineering-Structural Mechanics Seminar Series
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Size Effect in the Deformation and Failure of Metallic Glasses
Speaker: Ju Li, University of Pennsylvania)

10/23, Thursday - 10/24, Friday

ABET Visit to Georgia Tech Savannah (ME Program)

10/23, Thursday - 10/25, Saturday

Georgia Tech Homecoming Weekend

10/23, Thursday - 10/28, Tuesday

ABET Visit to the Woodruff School (Atlanta Campus)

10/24, Friday

Deadline for faculty to let the Office of Student Services know which Textbooks will be used in spring semester 2009 classes. Contact Norma Frank

Deadline for regular registration for the 2008 Women's Leadership Conference
Registration is $30 for faculty and staff. Go to www.gtwlc.com for registration and information

Manufacturing Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Auditorium
Title: Material and Friction Characterization in Forming
Speaker: Jian Cao (Northwestern University)

CSE Seminar
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 2447
Title: Computational Mathematics for Large-Scale Data Analysis
Speaker: Alex Gray (Georgia Tech)
For more information please contact Dr. Alex Gray; agray@cc.gatech.edu

10/27, Monday

HPC/DLS Seminar
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
KACB, Room 1116 East
Title: Computer Science Issues for Large Scale Scientific Applications
Speaker: Gabrielle Allen (Louisiana State University)
For more information please contact Pablo Laguna; plaguna@g

Woodruff School Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program
4:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Environmental Radiochemistry: Actinide Cycling, Signatures, Sources, and Separations
Speaker: Sue B. Clark (Washington State University)

10/28, Tuesday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Logan McLeod
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Hydrogen Permeation Through Microfabricated Palladium-Silver Alloy Membranes
Committee: Dr. Andrei Fedorov, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Levent Degertekin (ME), Dr. J. Rhett Mayor (ME), Dr. Meilin Liu (MSE), Dr. William Koros (CHBE)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Houri Johari
1:00 p.m.
Tech Square, Room 113A
Title: Micromachined Capacitive Silicon Bulk Acoustic Wave Gyroscopes
Committee: Dr. F. Levant Degertekin, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Farrokh Ayazi (ECE), Dr. Suresh K. Sitaraman (ME), Dr. Peter J. Hesketh (ME), Dr. Paul Kohl (CBE)

IAESTE United States Coffee Break
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Speaker: Mike Jackson, University Relations Manager
Visit www.iaesteunitedstates.org for more information on this intern exchange program

10/29, Wednesday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Michael Shannon
10:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Room Suddath
Title: An Accelerator Benchmark Air Scatter Experiment
Committee: Dr. Nolan Hertel, Chair (ME), Dr.Chris Wang (ME), Dr. Chaitanya Deo (ME), Dr. William Kulp (PHYS), Dr. Adam Stulberg (INTA), Dr. James Jones (Idaho National Lab.) ()

Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

The George W. Woodruff School of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Program
11:00 a.m.
The Georgia Tech Student Center Theater
Title: The Current Resurgence in Nuclear Energy: A Talk by America's Chief Nuclear Safety Regulator
Speaker: Dale E. Klein (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

10/30, Thursday

Microsystems Packaging Research Center Distinguished Lecture Series
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 201
Title: Trends and Challenges of the Second Level Interconnects (SLI) of Electronic Packaging
Speaker: Hong Xie (Intel Corporation)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Serminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Room 116W
Title: Monte Carlo Computations in Proton Therapy
Speaker: Dragan Mirkovic (The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by George Nelson
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Computational Characterization of Diffusive Mass Transfer in Porous Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Components
Committee: Dr. Comas Haynes, Co-Chair(GTRI), Dr. William Wepfer (ME), Dr. Andrei Fedorov (ME), Dr. Chris Paredis (ME), Dr. Mielin Liu (MSE), Dr. Amyn Teja (ChBE)

James R. Carreker Distinguished Lecture
3:30 p.m.
Van Leer Building Auditorium
Title: Founding and Growing into a Billion Dollar technology-Driven Company
Speaker: James Truchard (National Instruments)
Information: Deborah Milliner, 404.894.2273

10/31, Friday

ASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE)
Boston, Massachusetts
(The last day of this meeting is Thursday, November 6th.) Go to www.asme.org for more information.

Deadline for faculty to submit proposals for the Living Learning Communities Program
For more information, see www.undergradstudies.gatech.edu/11c. Send questions to Dr. Dana Hartley at hartley@gatech.edu or Dan Morrison at dan.morrison@housing.gatech.edu

Halloween Coffee (and Tea) Social for Woodruff School Faculty
8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Love Building, 2nd floor atrium
This is a Woodruff School Faculty Development Committee Event

College of Engineering Structural Mechanics Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: The Effect of Materials Science and Engineering on the Performance of Mechanical Systems
Speaker: Jeff Calcaterra (Wright Patterson Air Force Base)

Joint Aerospace and Strategic Energy Institute Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Guggenheim Aerospace Engineering Building, Room 442
Title: Energy Scenarios and Gas Turbine Challenges
Speaker: Hans-Juergen Kiesow (Siemens Energy)

CSE Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 2447
Title: Computing Surprise
Speaker: Alberto Apostolico (Georgia Tech)
For more information please contact Dr. Alberto Apostolico (axa@cc.gatech.edu)

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