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February 2009
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2/2, Monday

Woodruff School Undergraduate Committee Meeting
4:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 201
Contact jon.colton@me.gatech.edu to add items to the agenda

2/3, Tuesday

Bioengineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Suddath Seminar Room 1128
Title: Functional Materials in Regenerative Medicine and Immunotherapeutics
Speaker: Jeff Hubbell (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

2/4, Wednesday

IBB Seminar
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Suddath Seminar Room 1128
Title: Towards an Abiotic Biology
Speaker: Andrew D. Ellington (Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin)

2/4, Wednesday - 2/7, Saturday

Annual Pi Tau Sigma (ME Honor Society) National Convention
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Contact Janet Allen (faculty advisor) at janet.allen@me.gatech.edu for more information

2/5, Thursday

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Heat Triggered Drug Release From Thermally Sensitive Liposomes: Implications for Drug Delivery and Tumor Physiology
Speaker: Ashley Manzoor (Duke University)

Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Multiscale Modelling of Dynamic Damage by Micro-Voiding: Application to Impact Tests on Tantalum
Speaker: Alain Molinari (Paul Verlaine University, Metz, France)

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: Global Climate Change and Its Impacts on Georgia
Speaker: J. Curry (School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech)
Food and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu

2/6, Friday

CSE Seminar
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 2447
Title: Parallel Discrete Event Simulation on Metacomputing Systems
Speaker: Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Tech)

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

2/10, Tuesday

Deadline to submit applications for the 2009-2010 Graduate STEP Fellowship Program
Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident to apply. Contact Donna Llewellyn at 404-894-2340 or donna.llewellyn@cetl.gatech.edu for more information or go to www.cetl.gatech.edu

PRIND Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Novel Radiochemical and Material Techniques for Nuclear Forensics
Speaker: Ken Czerwinski (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Academic Senate and General Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Student Center Theater
All faculty members are invited to attend. The agenda can be found at: http://www.facultysenate.gatech.edu/GFGFAAS2009-021009-Agenda.htm

2/11, Wednesday

IBB Director Candidate's Seminar
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Suddath Seminar Room 1128
Title: Convergence of Biology and Biomechanics in the Pathogenesis of Vascular Disease
Speaker: W. Robert Taylor (Emory University School of Medicine)

2/12, Thursday

Deadline for graduate students to submit abstracts for the 7th Annual Georgia Tech Graduate Technical Symposium sponsored by the Black Graduate Student Association at Georgia Tech
Go to www.gtbgsa.org/gt2 for more information. Send an email to symposium@gtbgsa.org if you have any questions

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MSE Building, Room 3201A
Title: Overview, Applications, and Ongoing Development of the SCALE Code System
Speaker: Cecil Parks (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

2/13, Friday

Progress report grades due for 1000 and 2000 level courses for spring semester

2/13, Friday - 2/14, Saturday

Woodruff School Graduate Student Recruiting Weekend
By invitation only. Contact Trudy Allen

2/16, Monday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Soumyadipta Basu
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Near-Field Radiative Energy Transfer and Measurement of Thermal Emission from Nanostructures
Committee: Dr. Zhuomin Zhang, Chair (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Peter J. Hesketh (ME), Dr. David S. Citrin (ECE), Dr. Andrew F. Peterson (ECE)

2/17, Tuesday

Finalists announced for The InVenture Prize @ Georgia Tech
See http://inventureprize.gatech.edu

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Toward Numerical Simulations of Compressible Multiphase Flows with Applications to Shockwave Lithotripsy and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability
Speaker: Eric Johnsen (Stanford University)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Justin Pounders
12:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: A Coarse Mesh Transport Methodology for Reactor Transient Problems
Committee: Dr. Farzad Rahnema, Chair (NRE), Dr. Bojan Petrovic (NRE), Dr. Wilfred van Rooijen (NRE), Dr. Dingkang Zhang (NRE), Dr. Thomas Morley (MATH), Dr. Benoit Forget (MIT), Dr. Ougouag (INL)

2/18, Wednesday

Georgia Tech Women's Forum
12:00 p.m.
Student Center, Room 301
Title: Black Women Who Dared to Dream: A Scrapbook of Visionaries
Speaker: Stephanie Ray, Associate Dean of Student Affairs
February General Meeting. Feel free to brint your own lunch or stop by the many establishments in the GT Student Center on your way to the meeting. RSVP: Contact Michele Yager at michele.yager@chemistry.gatech.edu by Thursday, February 12th.

2/19, Thursday

IBB Director Candidate's Seminar
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Suddath Seminar Room 1128
Title: Enabling Biotechnologies for Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration
Speaker: Robert E. Guldberg (Georgia Tech)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Research and Development Activities to Support the Expansion of Nuclear Energy
Speaker: Robert (Bob) Wham (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

2/20, Friday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Jason Mayeur
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Generalized Crystal Plasticity with Application to Enhanced Descriptions of Grain Boundaries
Committee: Dr. David L. McDowell, Chair (ME/MSE), Dr. Richard W. Neu (ME/MSE), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Naresh N. Thadhani (MSE/ME), Dr. Douglas J. Bammann (Mississippi State University)

2/23, Monday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Frederic Pons
8:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115
Title: Electrical contact material arc erosion: Experiments and Modeling towards the design of an AgCdO substitute.
Committee: Dr. Mohammed Cherkaoui, Chair (ME), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Ting Zhu (ME), Dr, Erian Armanios (AE), Dr. Hanchen Huang (MANE)

Talk by Astronaut Eric Boe (a Georgia Tech alumnus)
11:00 a.m.
Student Center Theater
More details are found at http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/newsbriefs.html?m=02&y=2009#n2580

2/23, Monday - 2/27, Friday

Ph.D. Written Qualifying Exams

2/24, Tuesday

Materials Science
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: The Chemorheology of Resins Undergoing Conversion and Its Effect on Stratification in Resin Composites: Lay Title: Keeping The Bananas Suspended in the Jello
Speaker: Brian J. Love (The University of Michigan)

2/25, Wednesday

Deadline for submissions to the 4th Annual Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium and Awards
This event is open to all undergraduate students doing research for pay, credit, or volunteer. Go to www.undergradresearch.gatech.edu for more information. Contact Karen Harwell at karen harwell@carnegie.gatech.edu if you have any questions about this event

2/26, Thursday

Deadline for Woodruff School faculty to submit undergraduate course teaching preferences for AY09-10 to Jianmin Qu, Associate Chair for Administration. Submit at least three choices and the preferred semester. Also, Research Area Groups should submit the group's plan for offering graduate courses with suggested instructors.

Deadline to submit preliminary proposals for the NSF Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE) Program
GT can submit three preliminary proposals. Contact Steve McLaughlin at 404-385-3383 for more information. See http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09505/nsf09505.htm?govDel=USNSF_25

Manufacturing Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Auditorium
Title: An Overview of the Research at the Samll Scale Systems Integration and Packaging (S3IP): A New York Center of Excellence
Speaker: Bahgat Sammakia (Binghamton University)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: The Increased Dose Exposure to the US Population from Diagnostic Procedures and Its Issues
Speaker: Randall Mill (Northeast Georgia Medical Center)

Fulbright Information Workshop for Faculty by Anne Boris from the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Student Center Commons, Piedmont Room
If you are interested in attending, RSVP to Kelley Folkening at kelley.folkening@oie.gatech.edu; a boxed lunch will be served to those who respond.

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Nima Salajegheh
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Weighted Probability Approach for Modeling Surface to Bulk Transition of High Cycle Fatigue Failures Dominated by Primary Inclusions
Committee: Dr. David L. McDowell, Chair (ME), Dr. Richard W. Neu (ME), Dr. Hamid Garmestani (MSE), Dr. Naresh N. Thadhani (MSE), Dr. James Larsen (AFRL)

Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Faith, Hope and Innovation
Speaker: Dennise L. Riddle

2/27, Friday

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

The Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
9:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220

Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Nonlinear Analysis of Laminated Composite Structures Using A Refined Shell Finite Element
Speaker: J. N. Reddy (Texas A&M University)

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