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October 2009
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10/1, Thursday

How to Get a Fellowship Workshop with Drs. Jeff Donnell and Paul Neitzel
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114

NRE/MP Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: Advanced Variance Reduction Methods and Their Implementation
Speaker: Dr. Douglas Peplow (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Open Forum on Energy and the Environment: The Impact of CO2 on Global Climate Change --
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Ford ES&T Building, Room L1255
Title: A New CO2 Capture Platform: Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials for Gas Treatment
Speaker: Sunho Choi (Georgia Tech)
Food and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu

10/2, Friday

Woodruff School Graduate Meeting
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115

10/2, Friday - 10/3, Saturday

The Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy
Atlanta, Georgia Institute of Technology
For more information, go to atlantaconference@pubpolicy.gatech.edu

10/5, Monday - 10/6, Tuesday

Student Recess

10/6, Tuesday

Woodruff School Faculty Retreat
More details will be available soon
All day

Woodruff School Strategic Planning Meeting
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
More details to follow at a later date.

10/8, Thursday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Ashlie Brown
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Improved Thermal Energy Utilization through Coupled and Cascaded Cooling Cycles
Committee: Dr. Srinivas Garimella, Chair (ME), Dr. Sheldon Jeter (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME)

NRE/MP Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: Simulation Tools for Computational Continuum Mechanics and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Speaker: Dr. Emilio Baglietto (CD-ADAPCO)

10/9, Friday

Last day to withdraw from individual courses with a grade of W for fall semester

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Rajesh Prasannavenkatesan
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Microstructure-Sensitive Fatigue Modeling of Heat Treated and Shot Peened Martensitic Gear Steels
Committee: Dr. David L. McDowell, Chair (ME), Dr. Richard W. Neu (ME), Dr. Min Zhou (ME), Dr. Ken Gall (MSE), Dr. Gregory B. Olson (Northwestern University) (MSE)

10/12, Monday

Discussion and Book Signing for Ray Anderson's (IE 1956) new book: Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose Doing Business by Respecting The Earth
5:00 p.m.
Georgia Tech Barnes & Noble Bookstore

10/13, Tuesday

Job Search Strategies Workshop for Woodruff School Graduate Students with Ralph Mobley (Georgia Tech Career Services)
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
See www.careerservices.gatech.edu for more information about their services

10/14, Wednesday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Joel Boerckel
9:00 a.m.
Molecular Science and Engineering, Room 3201A
Title: Effects of In Vivo Mechanical Stimulation on Bone Regeneration and Vascular Growth
Committee: Dr. Robert Guldberg, Chair (ME), Dr. Andres Garcia (ME), Dr. Rudy Gleason (BME), Dr. Robert Taylor (BME), Dr. Evan Zamir (ME)

10/15, Thursday

Deadline for degree petitions to be accepted by the Registrar
Departmental deadlines may vary, so please check.

NRE/MP Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: Dynamic Micro Multi Leaf Collimator Dosimetry
Speaker: Mr. George Andl (Elekta)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Soumyadipta Basu
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer at Nanometer Distances
Committee: Dr. Zhuomin Zhang, Chair (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Peter Hesketh (ME), Dr. David Citrin (ECE), Dr. Andrew Peterson (ECE)

10/16, Friday

Deadline for deciding which textbook to use in spring 2010 classes
Contact Norma Frank at norma.frank@me.gatech with your selection

Deadline to submit applications for the December 6-12th Informational Visit on Regenerative Energies in Germany: State-of-the-Art and Opportunities for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
For more information and an application, go to: www.daad.org/p=sciencetour

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Konrad Rykaczewski
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Electron Beam Induced Deposition (EBID) of carbon interface between carbon nanotube interconnect and metal electrode
Committee: Dr. Andrei Fedorov, Chair (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (ME), Dr. Vladimir Tsukruk (MSE), Dr. Azad Naeemi (ECE)

Alternate Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Kanthi Latha Bhamidipati
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Detection and Elimination of Defects during Manufacturing of High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membranes
Committee: Dr. Tequila Harris, Chair (ME), Dr. Jonathan S Colton (ME), Dr. Marc K Smith (ME), Dr. Carson Meredith (ChBE), Dr. Comas Haynes (GTRI)

10/21, Wednesday

Georgia Tech Benefits Fair
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom

10/22, Thursday - 10/24, Saturday

Conference on Integrative Learning:
Atlanta, Georgia
Title: Addressing the Complexities
Register online through September 30th at www.aacu.org Note: Georgia Tech is a member institution so there is a $50 dicount on the registration fee

10/22, Thursday - 10/30, Friday

Woodruff School Ph.D. Written Exams

10/23, Friday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Thibaut Autrusson
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Nonlinear Ultrasonic Guided Waves for Quantitative Life Prediction of Structures with Complex Geometries
Committee: Dr. Karim Sabra, Chair (ME), Dr. Michael Leamy (ME), Dr. Laurence Jacobs (CEE)

Woodruff School Senior Honors Open House
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Love Building Atriums

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Heidi Khalil
1:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Changes in the Mechanical Behavior of Nitinol Following Variations of Heat Treatment Duration and Temperature
Committee: Dr. Kenneth Gall, Chair (MSE/ME), Dr. David McDowell (ME), Dr. Naresh Thadhani (MSE)

10/26, Monday

Georgia Tech benefits open enrollment begins
The last day of open enrollment is November 20th

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Ryan Manger
1:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 114
Title: A Generic Biokinetic Model for C-14 Labelled Compounds
Committee: Dr. Nolan Hertel, Chair (NRE), Dr. Chris Wang (NRE), Dr. Bernd Kahn (NRE), Dr. Eva Lee (ISyE), Dr. Keith Eckerman (UTennKnox), Dr. Armin Ansar (CDC-Atlanta)

Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi
2:00 p.m.
College of Computing/Klaus Building, Room 1116E
Title: Half a Century of Control Theory: A Personal Perspective
Speaker: Dr. Petar Kokotovic (Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Chen-Chih Peng
3:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114A
Title: Interfaces and Control Systems for Intuitive Crane Control
Committee: Dr. William Singhose, Chair (ME), Dr. Nader Sadegh (ME), Dr. Jun Ueda (ME)

10/27, Tuesday

Woodruff School Faculty Development Committee Coffee Hour
9:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Contact Yogendra Joshi at Yogendra.joshi@me.gatech.edu for more information

10/28, Wednesday - 11/10, Tuesday

Registration for Spring Semester 2010 for continuing students (Phase I)

10/29, Thursday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by David Bark
8:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Room 3319
Title: Numerical and In Vitro Mechanistic Evaluation of Two-Phase High Shear Platelet Accumulation in Thrombosis
Committee: Dr. David Ku, Chair (ME), Dr. Kenichi Tanaka (Emory: CME), Dr. Luca Gerardo-Giorda (Emory: MATHCS), Dr. Larry McIntire (BME), Dr. Cheng Zhu (ME)

Manufacturing Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Multiscale Manufacturing and Dynamics Laboratory: An Overview
Speaker: Prof. O. Burak Ozdoganlar (Carnegie Mellon University,Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering)

NRE 8011/8012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: A New Single-Crystal Filtered Beamline for Neutron Capture Therapy Research
Speaker: Dr. David Nigg (Idaho National Laboratory)

10/30, Friday

Guest Speaker
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: SET-BASED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN EXPLORATION
Speaker: Dr. Carolyn Conner Seepersad (The University of Texas at Austin)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Angela Sodemann
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: A Study on Productivity Enhancement in High-Speed, High-Precision Micromilling Processes
Committee: Dr. Rhett Mayor, Chair (ME), Dr. Shreyes Melkote (ME), Dr. Charles Ume (ME), Dr. Jan Shi (ISYE), Dr. Burak Ozdoganlar (ME)

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