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February 2008
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2/1, Friday

Deadline to submit applications for the second review cycle of the National Research Council of the National Academies Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards.
For detailed information, view www.nationalacademies.org/rap . Direct questions to the NRC at 202-334-2760 or rap@nas.edu

Deadline to submit applications for the National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Awards
View www.national-academies.org/rap or call the NRC at (202) 334-2760

2/4, Monday

Deadline to submit applicatioons for the 2008 Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership (STEP) Program for graduate fellows and undergraduate interns
Due by noon - Contact Donna Llewellyn at 404-894-2340 or donna.llewellyn@cetl.gatech.edu if you have any questions

2/5, Tuesday

Work Abroad Program Job Fair
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom

Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Lunch will follow meeting

Meeting of the Georgia Tech General Faculty, General Faculty Assembly, and the Academic Senate
3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Student Center Theater (on ground floor)
All faculty members are invited to attend

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by David Scarborough
3:00 p.m.
Knight Bldg, Room 317
Title: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of a Fuel System Tuner for the Suppression of Combustion Driven Oscillations
Committee: Dr. Ben Zinn, Chair (ME), Dr. Tim Lieuwen (ME), Dr. Ari Glezer (ME), Dr. Peter Rogers (ME), Dr. Jeff Jagoda (AE)

2/6, Wednesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Thomas Newton
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Investigation of the effect of process parameters on the formation of recast layer in wire-EDM of Inconel 718
Committee: Dr. Shreyes Melkote, Chair (ME), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME), Dr. Steven Liang (ME)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Sang Il Lee
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 431
Title: Fundamental Study of Void Formation for Application of Flip Chip Package Assembly Process
Committee: Dr. Daniel Baldwin, Chair (ME), Dr. Jonathan S. Colton (ME), Dr. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Jack Moon (MSE), Dr. Rao Tummala (EE)

Meet and Greet the New School Chair
12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

Welcome to Dr. Bill Wepfer, School Chair
12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
This event is for faculty and staff only.

Woodruff School Instructional Lab Committee (ILC) Meeting
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3319
Contact Zhuomin Zhang with any questions

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

2/7, Thursday

Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
9:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220

Aerospace Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series
11:00 a.m.
Guggenheim Building, Room 442
Title: Futures of Energetics
Speaker: Dennis Bushnell (NASA Langley Research Center)

NRE/MP Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: CSA Laser Scanning in the Nuclear Industry
Speaker: Amadeus M. Burger (CSA, Inc.)

Woodruff Seminar
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Physics of Coalescing Drops at Planar Interfaces
Speaker: H. Pirouz Kavelpour (University of California)

Woodruff School Faculty Lunch Sponsored by Ford Motor Company
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
This event is for Woodruff School academic faculty and academic professionals. For more information, contact Tom Lawley

2/11, Monday

Woodruff School Undergraduate Committee Meeting
MaRC Building, Room 431
Meeting begins at 4:10 p.m.

2/12, Tuesday

Materials Science Seminar
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Nanotechnology for Cheaper and More Durable Fuel Cells
Speaker: Yushan Yan (University of California - Riverside)

NRE/MP Seminar Series
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Radiobiology and Toxicology of Po-210
Speaker: Richard Toohey (Health Physics Society)

2/13, Wednesday

Deadline for graduate students to submit abstracts for the 4th Annual Graduate Student Symposium (Competitive Research)
Go to gss2007.sga.gatech.edu to submit an abstract online

Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Academic Matters and Appeals)

Meeting of the Student Chapter of the Acoustical Society of Ameria (ASA)
4:30 p.m.
Couch Building, Room 115
For more information, contact Dr. Erica Ryherd or Ken Marek at kmarek@mail.gatech.edu

2/14, Thursday

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Managing Patient Motion in Image Guided Radiation Therapy
Speaker: Eduard Schreibmann (Emory University School of Medicine)

2/15, Friday

Deadline for Progress Report Grades for 1000 and 2000 level courses for spring term

Woodruff School Faculty Development Committee Meeting
4:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220

2/15, Friday - 2/16, Saturday

Woodruff School Graduate STudent Recruiting Weekend
Title: Contact the Woodruff School Office of Student Services at (404) 894-3204 for more information
By invitation only.

2/15, Friday - 2/17, Sunday

Pi Tau Sigma (ME Honor Society) National Convention
For more information, contact Janet Allen at janet.allen@me.gatech.edu

2/18, Monday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Wei Tan
2:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 401
Title: Development of Convective Reflow-Projection Moiré Warpage Measurement System and Prediction of Solder Bump Reliability on Board Assemblies Affected by Warpage
Committee: Dr. I. Charles Ume, Chair (ME), Dr. Wayne Book (ME), Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (ME), Dr. C. F. Jeff Wu (ISYE), Dr. Yeong Kim (ECE), Dr. Jiahui Pan (Akrometrix, LLC)

2/19, Tuesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Victoria Garcia
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 401
Title: Effect of Dislocation Density on Residual Stress in Edge-Defined Film-Fed Growth Silicon Wafers
Committee: Dr. Steven Danyluk, Chair (ME), Dr. Shreyes Melkote (ME), Dr. Ajeet Rohatgi (ECE)

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Complex Fluids Under Confinement and Flow
Speaker: Amy Shen (Washington University)

2/20, Wednesday

Medical Physics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Environmental Science & Technology Building, Room L-1114
Title: Circular Reconstruction and Scatter Correction in X-ray Cone-Beam CT
Speaker: Lei Zhu (Stanford University)

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

Ken Paulson, Editor of USA Today
4:00 p.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts
Title: Rebooting America: News for a New Generation
Tickets are free to students, faculty, and staff at the Student Center box office

2/21, Thursday

Woodruff Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Opportunities in Thermal Transport Processes Research at NSF
Speaker: Patrick Phelan (National Science Foundation)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MS&E Building, Room 3201A
Title: History of the Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor - Mapping Its Role in the Evolving Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
Speaker: Eric Loewen (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy)

2/22, Friday

Deadline to submit nominations for the 2008 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowships for Science and Engineering
Submit nominations electronically to kathy.mims@carnegie.gatech.edu. View http://www.packard.org/genericDetails.aspx?RootCatID=3&CategoryID=152 for more details.

2/25, Monday

Nuclear Engineering Seminar
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Modeling of Multiphysics Problems in Nuclear Reactors
Speaker: Pablo Rubiolo (Westinghouse Electric Company)

2/25, Monday - 2/29, Friday

Woodruff School Written Ph.D. Qualifying Exams

2/26, Tuesday

The Jack M. Zeigler Outstanding Educator Lecture
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: The Case for Liberal Engineering
Speaker: Jonathan Colton (Georgia Tech)
A reception will be held after the lecture

2/27, Wednesday

Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Petitions)

Georgia Tech Women's Forum
12:00 p.m.
Student Center, Room 301
Title: Amy Lathi, from My Girlfriend's Kitchen, will provide tips on preparing healthy meals in a hurry.
February General Meeting

ADVANCE Team Career Coaching Session
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Global Learning Center, Rooms 334 and 335
Male and female faculty at any stage of their career can attend as advisees. Bring CV in standard format. Call Mary Ann Ingram at 894-9482 or mai@ece.gatech.edu for more information.

2/28, Thursday

Institute Graduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Academic Matters)

Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
9:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220

TI:GER (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results) Information Session for Ph.D. Students
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
College of Management at Tech Square, Room 316
Contact Miya Smith at (404) 385-3275 for additional details.

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201-A
Title: Sensitivity, Uncertainty, and Adaptive Simulation Methodologies for Large-Scale Computational Models
Speaker: Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (North Carolina State University)

Woodruff School Colloquium
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
MaRC Building Auditorium
Speaker: Regis Matzie
More information will be available in January

2/29, Friday

Last day in spring semester to drop a course with the grade of W

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Kyle Webber
10:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Effect of Domain Wall Motion and Phase Transformations on Nonlinear Hysteretic Constitutive Behavior in Ferroelectric Materials
Committee: Dr. Christopher Lynch, Chair (ME), Dr. Arash Yavari (CEE), Dr. Rick Neu (ME), Dr. Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb (ME), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Rosario A Gerhardt (MSE)

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