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November 2008
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11/2, Sunday

Deadline to submit proposals for round 2 to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Awards: Science Info Grants
Go to www.gcgh.org/explorations for more information.

11/3, Monday

First Day to submit an intent to compete for The InVenture Prize @ Georgia Tech
See http://inventureprize,gatech.edu for all the details.

GTPRIND Colloquium
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
IBB, Room 1128 (Suddath Room)
Title: Active Inspection Techniques for the Real-Time Detection, Identification and Quantification of Fissionable Materials
Speaker: Alan W. Hunt (Idaho State University)

High Performance Computing Distinguished Lecture Series
11:00 a.m.
KACB 1116
Title: Multiscale Simulation of the Human Arterial Tree on the Teragrid
Speaker: George Karniadakis (Brown University)
For more information please contact Pui-Kuen Yeung

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Manas Bajaj
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Knowledge Composition Methodology for Effective Analysis Problem Formulation in Simulation-based Design
Committee: Dr. Christiaan J.J. Paredis, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Russell S. Peak (PSLM Center, MARC), Dr. David Rosen (ME), Dr. David McDowell (ME), Dr. Charles Eastman (COA, COC), Dr. Steven J. Fenves (NIST)

11/4, Tuesday

Materials Science Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Carbon Nanotubes in Energy Applications for Sustainable Energy Future (from basic science to application)
Speaker: Ilia Ivanov (University of Tennessee @ Knoxville)

11/5, Wednesday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Haifeng Li
10:30 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: An Evanescent-Wave Based Particle Image Velocimetry Technique
Committee: Dr. Minami Yoda, Chair (ME), Dr. Cyrus Aidun (ME), Dr. Victor Breedveld (ChBE), Dr. Andrei Fedorov (ME), Dr. Cheng Zhu (BME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by George Shoukry
4:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: State-Space Realization for Nonlinear Systems
Committee: Dr. Nader Sadegh, Chair (ME), Dr. Ye-Hwa Chen (ME), Dr. Xu-Yan Chen (MATH)

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

11/6, Thursday

College of Engineering Advisory Board Meeting

Last day of the ASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE)
Boston, Massachusetts
This conference begins on Friday, October 31. See www.asme.org

Automation and Mechatronics Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Auditorium
Title: How to Formulate the Equations of Motion of Constrained Mechanical Systems?
Speaker: Ye-Hwa Chen (Georgia Tech)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Room 116W
Title: Multiscale Materials and Transport Modeling in Nuclear Engineering
Speaker: Jacob Eapen (North Carolina State University)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Lei Wang
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Modeling of the Armature-Rail Interface in an Electromagnetic Launcher with Lubricant Injection
Committee: Dr. Richard F. Salant, Chair (ME), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME), Dr. Scott Bair (ME), Dr. Richard S Cowan (MARC), Dr. Waymond R Scott (ECE)

RoboJackets General Meeting and Presentation
7:00 p.m.
Van Leer Building, Room W200
Title: The Mars Science Lander
Speaker: Norman Ahmad (JPL)

11/6, Thursday - 11/8, Saturday

Society of Women Engineers Annual Conference and Career Fair (WE08)
Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland
View www.swe.org for more details.

11/7, Friday

Benefits Open Enrollment Period Ends
For additional information, contact benefits@ohr.gatech.edu or (404) 894-1417

College of Engineering Awards Banquet
By invitation only

Woodruff School Advisory Board Meeting
MRDC Building, Room 4211
This is an all day meeting

Computations Science and Engineering/Seminar Announcement
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 2447
Title: Challenges in High-Accuracy Computational Chemistry
Speaker: C. David Sherrill (Georgia Tech)

11/7, Friday - 11/8, Saturday

Georgia Tech 2008 Women's Leadership Conference
View www.gtwlc.com for more information

11/10, Monday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Michael Budnitzki
9:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Influence of the Environment and Alumina Coatings on the Fatigue Degradation of Polycrystalline Silicon Films
Committee: Dr. Olivier Pierron, Chair (ME), Dr. David McDowell (ME), Dr. Richard Neu (ME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Ankit Somani
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Advanced Thermal Management Strategies for Energy Efficient Data Centers
Committee: Dr. Yogendra Joshi, Chair (ME), Dr. Karsten Schwan (COC), Dr. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Charlotte Kotas
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Acoustically Induced Fluid Flows in a Model Fish Ear
Committee: Dr. Minami Yoda, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Peter Rogers (ME), Dr. Don Giddens (BME), Dr. Fotis Sotiropoulos (CE, UMN), Mr. David Trivett (ME), Dr. Jeannette Yen (Biology)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Thomas Beechem
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Metrology of GaN Electronics Using Micro-Raman Spectroscopy
Committee: Dr. Samuel Graham, Chair (ME), Dr. Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb (ME), Dr. Alan Doolittle (ECE), Dr. Srinivas Garimella (ME), Dr. Dan Green (RFMD Inc.), Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (ME)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Richard Malak
12:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Using Parameterized Efficient Sets to Model Alternatives for Systems Design Decisions
Committee: Dr. Chris Paredis, Chair (ME), Dr. Bert Bras (ME), Dr. David Rosen (ME), Dr. Leon McGinnis (ISYE), Dr. Ruchi Choudhary (COA)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Hoda Amani Hamedani
1:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 295
Title: Optimization of Deposition Parameters in Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis for Fabrication of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathode
Committee: Dr. Hamid Garmestani, Co-Chair(MSE), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Meilin Liu (MSE)

11/10, Monday - 11/14, Friday

Acoustical Society of America Meeting
Miami, Florida
For more information, go to www.aip.org

11/11, Tuesday

ARCS (Atlanta Chapter) Awards Luncheon for Graduate Students
By invitation only

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Jiantao Zheng
2:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 401
Title: Interfacial Fracture of Micro Thin Film Interconnects Under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading
Committee: Dr. Suresh Sitaraman, Chair (ME), Dr. Levent Degertekin (ME), Dr. David McDowell (ME), Dr. Rao Tummala (ECE), Dr. Z.L. Wang (MSE), Dr. Gilroy Vandentop (Intel)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Elisabeth Gayton
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Thermal Performance of the Gas-cooled Divertor Plate Concept
Committee: Dr. Said Abdel-Khalik, Co-Chair(NRE), Dr. Minami Yoda (ME), Dr. S. Mostafa Ghiaashiaan (ME)

11/11, Tuesday - 11/13, Thursday

Georgia Tech Power Over Prejudice Summit
Student Center Ballroom
For more information, see www.antiprejudice.org/volunteers.html or call (404) 894-2561

11/12, Wednesday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Fang Kong
9:00 a.m.
Whitaker Ford Building, Room 2110
Title: Study of integrin a5b1 and fibronectin interaction under force
Committee: Dr. Cheng Zhu, Chair (BME), Dr. Andres Garcia (ME), Dr. Levent Degertekin (ME), Dr. Larry McIntire (BME), Dr. Ron Fox (PHY)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Vishwanath Subramaniam
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Computational analysis of binary-fluid heat and mass transfer in falling films and droplets
Committee: Dr. Srinivas Garimella, Chair (ME), Dr. William Wepfer (ME), Dr. Sheldon Jeter (ME), Dr. Tim Lieuwen (AE), Dr. Tom Fuller (CHBE)

11/13, Thursday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Guillaume Rannou
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: lattice-Boltzmann method and immiscible two-phase flow
Committee: Dr. Cyrus K. Aidun, Chair (ME), Dr. S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Marc K. Smith (ME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Joel Neff
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Investigation of the Effects of Process Parameters on Performance of Gravure Printed ITO on Flexible Substrates
Committee: Dr. Shreyes Melkote, Chair (ME), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME)

Woodruff School Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building Auditorium
Title: Professor Parker Goes to Washington: The Role of Engineers in Public Policy
Speaker: Johne Parker (University of Kentucky)
This even is sponsored by Woodruff School Graduate Women. For more information, contact Janine Johnson

Health Systems Institute Seminar
12:00 p.m.
Technology Square Research Building
Title: Everyday Life: Themes From An Exploratory Field Study of the Mood Phone
Speaker: Margie Norris (Intel)

Woodruff Coloquium
3:00 p.m.
MaRC Building Auditorium
Title: Convergence of Engineering and Physics: Energy Conversion at Nano Scale
Speaker: Fritz B. Prinz (Stanford University)

11/14, Friday

Last day to submit an intent to compete for The InVenture Prize @ Georgia Tech
See http://inventureprize.gatech.edu for all the details.

ME 2110 (Creative Decisions and Design) Student Design Competition
MaRC Building, Atriu, Auditorium, and Room 114
(Judging of projects) 5:00 p.m. (Competition begins) 6:15 p.m. Contact Dr. Rhett Mayer for more information

Woodruff School Undergraduate Committee Meeting
2:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 431

11/17, Monday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Kenneth Dupont
1:30 p.m.
IBB Building, Room 1128
Title: HUMAN STEM CELL DELIVERY AND PROGRAMMING FOR FUNCTIONAL REGENERATION OF LARGE SEGMENTAL BONE DEFECTS
Committee: Dr. Robert Guldberg, Chair (ME), Dr. Andrés García (ME), Dr. Evan Zamir (ME), Dr. Johnna Temenoff (BME), Dr. Alex Peister (Morehouse - Biol)

11/17, Monday - 11/18, Tuesday

Internationalization of Research and Graduate Studies and Its Implications in the Transatlantic Context
Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center

11/18, Tuesday

Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

Materials Science and Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Novel Architectures of Hybrid Tandem Solar Cells with Carbon Nanotube Interlayers and Quantum Dots
Speaker: Anvar Zakhidov (University of Texas at Dallas)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Hong Sun
3:15 p.m.
IPST Building, Room 521
Title: The Effect of Hydrodynamic Stress on Plant Embryo Development
Committee: Dr. Cyrus Aidun, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Ulrika Egertsdotter (Biology), Dr. Janet Allen (ME), Dr. Evan Zamir (ME), Dr. Jeannette Yen (Biology)

11/19, Wednesday

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

11/20, Thursday

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Room 1116W
Title: Modeling of Plasmonic Heating from Individual Gold Nanoshells for Near-Infrared Laser-Induced Thermal Therapy
Speaker: Seong-Kyun Cheong (Georgia Tech)

11/21, Friday

Computational Science and Engineering Division/Seminar Announcement
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 2447
Title: Grid Computing for Public Health
Speaker: Leslie Lenert (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)

11/24, Monday

Afternoon social in honor of Professor Tim Patterson
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Refreshments will be served

11/25, Tuesday

First day to register to compete for The InVenture Prize @ Georgia Tech
See http://inventureprize.gatech.edu for more information.

Georgia Tech Women's Forum
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Student Center, Room 319
N2T: Discovering the Benefits of Tea. Gain insight into the world of specialty teas as Adrianne Prysock shares her knowledge of the many health benefits of tea. Feel free to bring your own lunch, RSVP to Michele Yager at michele.yager@chemistry.gatech.edu by Friday, November 21.

11/27, Thursday - 11/28, Friday

Thanksgiving Holiday (no classes)

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