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March 2009
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3/1, Sunday

Deadline to submit applications for the Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Science Program (SURE) at Georgia Tech for those thinking about going to graduate school
May 26th - July 31st (2009 program dates) Call or write Dr. Gary May at (404) 894-2902 or gary.may@ece.gatech.edu. Also, view: http://www.sure.gatech.edu

Deadline for Georgia Tech faculty and staff to submit applications for the Georgia Tech Faculty Women's Club Scholarship program
Go to www.gtfwc.gatech.edu for more information and to obtain an application

3/1, Sunday - 3/31, Tuesday

GT Women's Resource Center: Women's Awareness Month: Shar the Passion. Change the World
See http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/wam for the scheduled activities. Contact the Women's Resource Center at www.womenscenter.gatech.edu

3/2, Monday

For more information, go to atlantaconference@pubpolicy.gatech.edu

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Shaheen Dewji
11:00 a.m.
MS&E (CHEM), Room 3201A
Title: Assessing Internal Contamination after a Radiological Dispersion Device Event using a 2x2-inch Sodium-Iodide Detector
Committee: Dr. Nolan Hertel, Chair (ME/NRE), Dr. Chris Wang (ME/NRE), Dr. Armin Ansari (CDC)

The Inaugural Thomas R. Williams Lecture
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
LeCraw Auditorium
Title: When Will We Get Out of This Mess?
Speaker: Gary Shilling (A. Gary Shilling & Co. Inc, Investiment Advisors and Economic Consultants)
Reception to follow the lecture

3/2, Monday - 3/6, Friday

Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Exams

3/3, Tuesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Adelaide Duroux
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Estimation of Guided Waves From Cross-Correlations of Diffuse Wavefields for Passive Structural Health Monitoring
Committee: Dr. Karim Sabra, Chair (ME), Dr. Massimo Ruzzene (AE), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME)

Women's Awareness Month: Take Back the Night
8:00 p.m.
Meet at the GT Campanile

3/5, Thursday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Adelaide Duroux
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Estimation of guided waves from cross-correlations of diffuse wavefields for passive Structural Health Monitoring
Committee: Dr. Karim Sabra, Chair (ME), Dr. Massimo Ruzzene (AE), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME)

GT Emergency Preparedness full-scale test of its emergency notification systems
11:00 a.m.
Various locations throughout campus. For more information, visit www.gatech.edu/emergency. THIS IS ONLY A TEST

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MS&E Building, Room 3201A
Title: The Politcal Geography of the AQ Khan Network and Implications of the Non-Proliferation Regime
Speaker: Justin Hastings (Georgia Tech)

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 Plaeoclimate Perspective on Global Warming
Speaker: K. Cobb (School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech)
Food and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu

3/6, Friday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Sarah Engelbrecht
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Design of Meso-Scale Cellular Structure for Rapid Manufacturing
Committee: Dr. David Rosen, Chair (ME), Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (ME), Dr. Seung-Kyum Choi (ME)

3/6, Friday - 3/9, Monday

Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Region D Conference
Atlanta, Georgia Institute of Technology
View http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org

3/7, Saturday - 3/8, Sunday

Women's Awareness Month: Women's Day of Service to the Atlanta community
All volunteers get a tee-shirt and Chick-fil-A breakfast. Sign up at http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/wam/dos

3/7, Saturday - 3/10, Tuesday

14th Annual Hilton Head Workshop on Heart Valve Biology and Tissue Engineering
See www.hiltonhead.gatech.edu for more information about these workshops

3/9, Monday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Ryder Winck
11:15 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Fabric Control for Feeding into an Automated Sewing Machine
Committee: Dr. Wayne Book, Chair (ME), Dr. Steve Dickerson (ME), Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman (PTFE)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Robert Kelm
12:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: In-Water Neutron and Gamma Dose Determination for a New Cf-252 Brachytherapy Source
Committee: Dr. Chris Wang, Chair (NRE), Dr. Nolan Hertel (NRE), Dr. Sang Hyun Cho (NRE)

HPC Seminar
1:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 1116W
Title: Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Mammalian Genomes
Speaker: Jian Ma (University of California at Santa Cruz)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Adam Cardi
1:30 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114A
Title: On the Development of a Dynamic Cutting Force Model with Application to Regenerative Chatter in Turning
Committee: Dr. Steven Liang, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Matthew Bement (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Dr. Shreyes Melkote (ME), Dr. Rhett Mayor (ME), Dr. Paul Griffin (ISYE), Dr. Chen Zhou (ISYE)

3/10, Tuesday

Take-A-Prof To Lunch
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom
The cost is $7 for both means. Invite your favorite professor, TA, or GT staff member. RSVP at www.fun.gatech.edu by March 3rd to guarantee a seat.

Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

3/10, Tuesday - 3/12, Thursday

Spacecraft Thermal Control Workshop
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California
For more information, view www.aero.org/conferences/stcw/

3/11, Wednesday

Last day degree petitions can be accepted by the Registrar. Departmental deadlines may vary

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Jeffrey Olson
8:30 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Modeling and Design of a Hemodialysis System
Committee: Dr. David Rosen, Chair (ME), Dr. David Ku (ME), Dr. Chris Paredis (ME)

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Multi-Scale Approaches to Exploring the Active Regulation of Lymphatic Function
Speaker: James Brandon Dixon (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Ryan Austin
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Modeling the shock-induced deformation and chemical reaction of inorganic powder mixtures
Committee: Dr. David L. McDowell, Chair (ME, MSE), Dr. Yasuyuki Horie (AFRL), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Naresh N. Thadhani (MSE, ME), Dr. Min Zhou (ME, MSE)

Georgia Tech and Saint Joseph's Translation Research Institute
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Invention: The Convergence of Law, Science, and the Flash by Tina Williams McKeon (Fish and Richardson, Intellectual Property, Corporate Litigation) and Eureka!...Now What Do I Do? Approaches to Medical Device Development by Aaron Kaplan (Dartmouth Medical School)

Women's Awareness Month: Red Dress Fashio Show
7:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom
Heart disease is the #1 killer of women in the U.S. GT women student leaders strut their stuff in this fashion show benefiting the American Heart Associate. Tickets available at http://epay.gatech.edu/C2073-ustores/web/product-detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=1397

3/12, Thursday

Woodruff Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Room 1128
Title: The Interaction of Mechanical and Biologic Factors in the Regulation of Bone Formation, Repair and Adaptation
Speaker: Steven A. Goldstein (University of Michigan)

The Strategic Energy Institute/Woodruff School Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Challenges in America's Energy Future - the Role of Universities and National Laboratories
Speaker: Sidney M. Gutierrez (Director, Nuclear Energy & Global Security Technology, Sandia National Labs)

3/12, Thursday - 3/13, Friday

7th Annual Georgia Tech Graduate Technical Symposium [GT]2 sponsored by the Black Graduate Student Association at Georgia Tech
See www.gtbgsa.org/gt2 for all the details

3/12, Thursday - 3/13, Friday

7th Annual Georgia Tech Graduate Technical Symposium [GT]2 sponsored by the Black Graduate Student Association at Georgia Tech
See www.gtbgsa.org/gt2 for all the details

3/12, Thursday - 3/14, Saturday

GT RoboJackets FIRST Robotics Peachtree Regional Competition
Gwinnett Civic Center, Duluth, Georgia
For more information, see www.robojackets.org

3/13, Friday

Deadline for faculty to volunteer to help at the Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 2nd in the Georgia Dome
Contact Dimetra Diggs-Butler (dimetra.diggsbutler@me.gatech.edu) to tell her of your interest.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Thomas Wilson
10:00 a.m.
Montgomery Knight Building (AE), Room 317
Title: A Multi-Coil Magnetostrictive Actuator: Design, Analysis, And Experiment
Committee: Dr. Ben T. Zinn, Chair (ME), Dr. Wayne J. Book (ME), Dr. Ari Glezer (ME), Dr. Jerry M. Seitzman (AE), Dr. Yedidia Neumeier (AE)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Shelby Highsmith
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Crack Path Determination in Proportional and Non-proportional Mixed-Mode Fatigue
Committee: Dr. Steve Johnson, Chair (MSE/ME), Dr. Richard Neu (ME/MSE), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Thomas Sanders (MSE), Dr. Naresh Thadhani (MSE/ME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Mark Elton
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: An Efficient Haptic Interface for a variable displacement pump controlled excavator
Committee: Dr. Wayne Book, Chair (ME), Dr. Harvey Lipkin (ME), Dr. Chris Paredis (ME)

CSE Seminar
2:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 2447
Title: PDE Models and Wavelet Inpainting
Speaker: Haomin Zhou (Georgia Tech)

Invention Studio Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2211 & 2nd Floor Atrium
For more information, contact Dr. Craig Forest at cforest@gatech.edu

3/13, Friday - 3/14, Saturday

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

3/16, Monday - 3/20, Friday

Spring break (no classes)

3/18, Wednesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Roxanne Moore
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Variable Fidelity Modeling as Applied to Trajectory Optimization for a Hydraulic Backhoe
Committee: Dr. Chris Paredis, Chair (ME), Dr. Bert Bras (ME), Dr. Seung-Kyum Choi (ME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Aleksandr Kerzhner
3:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: A Computational Design Synthesis Method for Hydraulic Systems using Graph Grammars
Committee: Dr. Chris Paredis, Chair (ME), Dr. Leon McGinnis (ISYE), Dr. Dirk Schaefer (ME)

3/19, Thursday

Deadline to RSVP for the poster session at the 2009 F. L. Bud Suddath Symposium on Future Research Direction so Bioscience and Bioengineering
Contact floyd.wood@ibb.gatech.edu or 404 385-4084 if you have any questions or require more information.

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Xiayun Zhao
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Process Planning for Thick-film Mask Projection Stereolithography
Committee: Dr. David W. Rosen, Chair (ME), Dr. Martha A. Grover (ChBE), Dr. Suman Das (ME)

3/20, Friday

Deadline to submit educational program development proposals for 2010 to DLPE
Proposals should be aimed at fostering innovative ideas for non-credit professional educational. Programs and distance-delivered credit offerings. Please fee free to contact Bill Holm (bill.holm@dlpe.gatech.edu) or Terrye Schaetzel (terrye.schaetzel@dlpe.gatech.edu) if you have questions about the RFP.

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Gregory Graf
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Development of Specialized Base Primitives for Meso-Scale Conforming Truss Structures
Committee: Dr. David Rosen, Chair (ME), Dr. Seung-Kyum Choi (ME), Dr. Chris Paredis (ME)

3/23, Monday

Deadline to submit applications for the 2009 Atlantis Program on Cooperation in Higher Education and Vocational Training
View http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/extcoop/us/2009/call_us_eu_2009.htm for more information and applications.

The Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
8:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115
Contact Min Zhou at min.hou@me.gatech.edu if you have something to discuss prior to the meeting.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Wei Chen
10:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Room 1128
Title: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Binding, Unfolding, and Global Conformational Changes of Signaling and Adhesion Molecules
Committee: Dr. Cheng Zhu, Chair (ME/BME), Dr. Ting Zhu (ME), Dr. Evan Zamir (ME), Dr. Stephen Harvey (BIOL), Dr. Nicholas V. Hud (CHEM)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Pierre-Olivier Theillet
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Influence of Frequency and Environment on the Fatigue Behavior of Monocrystalline Silicon Thin Films
Committee: Dr. Olivier N. Pierron, Chair (ME), Dr. Ting Zhu (ME), Dr. Richard W. Neu (ME)

3/24, Tuesday

Georgia Tech Alumni Association Career Fair
All day, Cobb Galleria Center
for more deails, go to www.gtalumni.org

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Energy Conversion in Nanomaterials
Speaker: Li Shi (University of Texas at Austin)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Scott Kasprzak
12:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Small-Scale Polymer Structures Enabled By Thiol-Ene Copolymer Systems
Committee: Dr. Ken Gall, Chair (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. Olivier Pierron (ME), Dr. Karl Jacob (PTFE), Dr. Joseph Perry (CHEM)

Suddath Symposium and Poster Session
3:30 p.m.
IBB Building, Suddath Seminar Room
Speaker: Eric Horowitz
Reception to follow in the IBB atrium

3/25, Wednesday

First day to register for summer semester for continuing students (Phase I)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Christopher Miller
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 295
Title: Set-Up and Evaluation of Laser-Driven Miniflyer System
Committee: Dr. Naresh Thadhani, Chair (MSE), Dr. Suman Das (ME), Dr. Mario Fajardo (Eglin AFB)

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Designing Bulk Metallic Glass Matrix Composites with High Toughness and Tensile Ductility
Speaker: Douglas C. Hofmann (Cal Tech)

3/26, Thursday

Final competition for The InVenture Prize @ Georgia Tech
See http://inventureprize.gatech.edu

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Daxue Wang
9:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Dynamic Analysis of Constrained Object Motion for Mechanical Transfer of Live Products
Committee: Dr. Kok-Meng Lee, Chair (ME), Dr. Shreyes N.Melkote (ME), Dr. A.Bruce Webster (UGA)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Abel Valdes
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 401
Title: Development Of Laser Ultrasonic And Interferometric Inspection System For High Volume Online Inspection Of Micro-electronic Devices
Committee: Dr. I Charles Ume, Chair (ME), Dr. Kyriaki Kalaitzidou (ME), Dr. J. Rhett Mayor (ME)

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Auditorium
Title: Buildings Energy Efficiency and System Operations
Speaker: Sriram Somasundaram (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

The College of Computing Robotics and Intelligent Machines Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Technology Square Research Building, Room 113
Title: Port-Based Robotics
Speaker: Stefano Stramigioli (IMPACT Institute)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: History and Relevance of the Russian Health Studies Program
Speaker: Barrett Fountos (Ofice of Health, Safety/Security, U.S. Department of Energy)

3/27, Friday

Deadline for academic faculty to let Norma Frank know the textbook you will use for fall 2009 classes
contact norma.frank@me.gatech.edu.

Deadline to make a reservation for the Annual Faculty/Staff Honors Luncheon on April 15, 2009
Tickets are $14 each. Go to www.events@comm.gatech.edu to make a reservation.

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Chenjie Wang
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: The Design Exploration Method for Systems Adaptive Design
Committee: Dr. Janet K. Allen, Chair (ME), Dr. Farrokh Mistree (ME), Dr. Seung-Kyum Choi (ME)

Structural Mechanics Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Fracture Mechanics Assessment of Crack Growth Duringn Offshore Pipeline Installation
Speaker: Hugo Alejandro Ernst (Tenaris-Siderca R&D Center, Argentina)

3/29, Sunday

3rd ING Georgia Marathon, Half-Marathon and Wheelshair Half-Marathon
GT has the opportunity to win $1,000 for the best hydration station. GT was 4th in 2008 behind Emory, Georgia State and Agnes Scott. The GT hydration station is the last leg of the race and will be located on our campus. Volunteers are needed for set up, cheering, water distribution, and break down. All prize money will support GT health and recreation activities. See https://techworks.psauth.gatech.edu/gt_data/content/ING_Final_2009_Flier.doc for more information. Contact Ricky Livingston at ricky.livingston@health.gatech.edu with any questions.

3/29, Sunday - 3/30, Monday

Women's Awareness Month: Eve Endler's The Vaina Monologues
This is a benefit performance. Tickets are $7 for students and $10 for others. For show times and ticket information visit www.cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/wav/vm

3/30, Monday

Deadline to submit proposals/call for papers as part of the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)/Georgia Tech Strategic Alliance
Papers must be no longer than 5 pages, single spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman font, with one-inch margins. Contact lauren.s.pinson@saic.com for more information or to submit papers.

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Robert Kupkovits
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Thermomechanical Fatigue Behavior of the Directionally-Solidified Nickel-Base Superalloy CM247LC
Committee: Dr. Richard W. Neu, Chair (ME), Dr. David L. McDowell (ME), Dr. W. Steven Johnson (MSE)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Fang Li
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 401
Title: Study of Stress Measurement Using Polariscope
Committee: Dr. Steven Danyluk, Chair (ME), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Shreyes Melkote (ME), Dr. Ajeet Rohatgi (ECE), Dr. Dennis Hess (ChBE)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Syed Shah
1:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115
Title: Vision Based 3D Obstace Detection Using A Single Camera for Robots/UAVs
Committee: Dr. Harvey Lipkin, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Eric Johnson (AE), Dr. Nader Sadegh (ME)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Erick Alley
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Influence of Microstructure in Rolling Contact Fatigue of Bearing Steels with Inclusions
Committee: Dr. Richard Neu, Chair (ME), Dr. David McDowell (ME), Dr. Min Zhou (ME), Dr. Ken Gall (MSE), Dr. Arun Gokhale (MSE), Dr. E. Buddy Damm (TIMKEN)

InVenture Prize Final Competition
7:00 p.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts
This event is open to the public. Two ideas will be selected; $15,000 in prizes will be awarded. See http://inventureprize.gatech.edu

3/31, Tuesday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Sergey Tereshko
9:30 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 401
Title: Study of Space Charge Layers of Hydrocarbon-based Lubricants at Au Surfaces
Committee: Dr. Steven Danyluk, Chair (ME), Dr. Peter Hesketh (ME), Dr. Minami Yoda (ME), Dr. Valeria Milam (MSE), Dr. Dennis Hess (CHBE)

Georgia Tech Women's Forum 2009 Scholarship Awards Luncheon
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Molecular Science and Engineering Building (MS&E), 3rd Floor Atrium
Optional lunch from St. Charles Deli's $8.50. Brown baggers are welcome. RSVP by Friday, March 27 to Michele Yager at michele.yager@chemistry.gatech.edu

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