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April 2008
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3/26, Wednesday - 4/1, Tuesday

Early Registration for Summer Term 2008

4/1, Tuesday

Deadline for readmission applications for Summer Term 2008 [The deadline for readmission applicants with an academic standing or review was February 1, 2008.]

Deadline to register for the NSF Summer Institute on High-Rate Nanomanufacturing (June 2-5, 2008) and Energy Challenge and Nanotechnology (June 23-26, 2008)
http://www.tam.northwestern.edu/summerinstitute/Home.htm for additional information

Deadline to submit a graduate thesis

Woodruff Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Matrix Elasticity as a Determinant in Stem Cell Fate
Speaker: Dennis Discher (University of Pennsylvania)

Materials Seminar
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Basic Science of Liquids and Glasses: Understanding the Glass Transition
Speaker: Dr. Takeshi Egami (University of Tennessee)

4/2, Wednesday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Radu Cazan
10:00 a.m.
IPST Building, Room 521
Title: Dynamics of Turbulent Swirling Flows Induced by Twisted Tapes in Circular Pipes
Committee: Dr. Cyrus Aidun, Chair (ME), Dr. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Ari Glezer (ME), Dr. Minami Yoda (ME), Dr. Donald Webster (CEE), Dr. Jerry Seitzman (AE)

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

4/3, Thursday

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Thermocapillary Convection During Evaporation
Speaker: Fei Duan (University of Toronto, Canada)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Gold Nanoparticle-Aided Radiation/Thermal Therapy: Basic Concepts and Current Development
Speaker: Sang Hyun Cho, (Georgia Tech)

4/4, Friday

ADVANCE Conference - Cross-Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women Faculty
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
IBB Building, Atrium
Title: Empowering Diversity and Excellence in the Academy
Speaker: David Hall (Northweaster University School of Law)

Manufacturing Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Auditorium
Title: Small-Scale Nanopositioners for Nano-Scale Research and Manufacturing
Speaker: Martin L. Culpepper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

4/4, Friday - 4/5, 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

4/8, Tuesday

Annual Woodruff Distinguished Lecture
11:00 a.m.
CANCELLED
Due to illness this lecture has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled at a later date.

Annual Woodruff School Spring Banquet
6:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom
Tickets are $3.00. Go to the Office of Student Services, MRDC Building, Room 3112 to purchase tickets.

4/9, Wednesday

Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Petitions)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Cyril Babinet
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Next Generation of Current Sensors for Aeronautics: Preliminary Designs
Committee: Dr. Jianmin Qu, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Mohammed Cherkaoui (ME), Dr. Nico Declercq (ME)

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

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Geometric Modeling in Computer-Aided Nano-Design
Speaker: Yan Wang (University of Central Florida)

Sigma Xi (Georgia Tech Chapter) Awards Banquet
6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Ferst Place Dinning Room (Student Center, 3rd Floor)

4/9, Wednesday - 4/22, Tuesday

Early Registration for Fall Term 2008

4/10, Thursday

Deadline to submit proposals for the Georgia Tech Energy Seed Funding Program
Send proposals to Mary Hallisey (mary.hunt@energy.gatech.edu) at the Strategic Energy Institute.

Institute Graduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Academic Matters)

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Information
11:00 a.m.
Success Center, Clary Theater

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Non-Invasive Real-Time Molecular Imaging of Cancer in Vivo Using Conjugated Quantum Dots
Speaker: Sunil Krishnan (The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center)

Georgia Tech Faculty/Staff Honors Luncheon
12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom
For more information, contact Laura Staub at 404-894-7613

4/11, Friday

Woodruff School Faculty Coffee Break
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Atrium
Sponsored by the Woodruff School Faculty Development Committee for Academic faculty members

Woodruff School MEMS Social
11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Food, drinks, and two talks

4/12, Saturday

36th Annual Dean Griffin Pi Mile 5k Road Race
7:00 a.m.
Georgia Tech Campus, Tech Tower Lawn
Race begins at 8:00 a.m.. Register onlin at http://gtalumni.org/site/Page/PiMile

4/14, Monday

The Course/Instructor Opinion Survey for Spring 2008 opens and runs through the end of finals week, Friday, May 2nd
6:00 a.m.
Report problems to CETLhelp@gatech.edu with CIOSE in the subject line

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Nathan Young
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: A Co-Evolutionary Multi-Agent Approach for Designing the Architecture of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Machines
Committee: Dr. Mervyn Fathianathan, Chair (ME), Dr. Chris Paredis (ME), Dr. Shreyes Melkote (ME)

Woodruff Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Mechanical Engineering in Micro/Nano System Revolution
Speaker: Liwei Lin (University of California)

Woodruff School Faculty Awards and Promotions Reception
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

4/15, Tuesday

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

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Surajit Kumar
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Fluidic and Dielectrophoretic Manipulation of Tin Oxide Nanobelts
Committee: Dr. Peter Hesketh, Chair, (ME), Dr. F. Levent Degertekin (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. Zhong L. Wang (MSE), Dr. Rosario Gerhardt (MSE), Dr. Martha Gallivan (ChBE)

GT Off-Road New Car Unveiling
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
For more information, please contact Michael Dam at 404-483-4250 or Micael.dam@gatech.edu or R. J. Dowdy at (407) 402-9955. See also http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/minibaja/

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Matthew Determan
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Thermally Activated Miniaturized Cooling System
Committee: Dr. Srinivas Garimella, Chair (ME), Dr. Sheldon Jeter (ME), Dr. William Wepfer (ME), Dr. Tom Fuller (ChBE), Dr. Mark Allen (ECE)

Materials Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Interactive Substrates: What Polymer Grafted Layers Can Do?
Speaker: Igor Luzinov (Clemson University)

4/16, Wednesday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Dong Yang
9:30 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Stress Assisted Corrosion Cracking of Carbon Steel Tubes under Industrial Boiler Conditions
Committee: Dr. Preet M. Singh, Co-Chair(MSE), Dr. Richard W. Neu (ME), Dr. W. Steven Johnson (ME), Dr. Timothy F. Patterson (ME), Dr. Hamid Garmestani (MSE)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Thomas Johnson
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Integrating Models and Simulations of Continuous Dynamic System Behavior into SysML
Committee: Dr. Chris Paredis, Chair (ME), Dr. Russell Peak (MaRC), Dr. Dirk Schaefer (ME)

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

4/17, Thursday

Georgia Tech Student Honors Luncheon
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom
For more information, contact Gus Giebelhaus at 404-894-6828

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Nolecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Positron Emission Tomography in Drug Development
Speaker: Jonathon A. Nye (Emory University)

Georgia Tech Academic Senate Meeting
3:00 p.m.

Woodruff School Colloquium
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: The Segway Personal Transporter: How a 21st Century Machine Provided a Renaissance Education in Technology and Human Behavior
Speaker: John Morrell (Yale University)

Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Distinguished Lecture
3:30 p.m.
To be announced
Title: Computing, Business, and Operations Research: The Next Challenge
Speaker: Dr. William Pulleyblank, Vice President (IBM Global Business Services)
Visit http://www.isye.gatech.edu/news-events/dis for more information

When the Whistle Blows ... A Remembrance Ceremony
6:00 p.m.
Tech Tower Lawn adjacent to North Avenue
Rain location: Bill Moore Student Success Center, 219 Uncle Heinie Way

4/17, Thursday - 4/19, Saturday

FIRST Robotics Championship
8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Georgia Dome and World Congress Center, Atlanta
See http://www.usfirst.org for more details

4/18, Friday

Georgia Tech Earth Day Celebration
10:30 a.m.
Student Center Campanile, Outdoor Stage
Entertainment by Dr. Dr. Mr. MD, featuring Woodruff School faculty member, Dr. Paul Neitzel

Research and Community Building Day at Georgia Tech Savannah
1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
GT Savannah Campus, PARB 126
Dinner and regreshments will be served. Register at Barbara.bower@me.gatech.edu or (912) 963-2627

Structural Mechanics Seminar Series
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Dynamics of Highly Flexible Structures Including Post-Buckling
Speaker: Lawrence Virgin (Duke University)

4/21, Monday

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

Woodruff School Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Tribosonics - Ultrasound to Study Contact and Lubrication in Machine Elements
Speaker: Rob Dwyer-Joyce (University of Sheffield, UK)

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Modeling and Simulation in Design
Speaker: Mahesh Mani (National Institute of Standards Technology)

4/22, Tuesday

Deadline to apply for cross registration for Summer Term 2008

Aerospace Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Guggenheim Building, Room 442
Title: Highly Nonlinear Solitary Waves in Granular Systems
Speaker: Chiara Daraio (Caltech)

ASME Spring Picnic
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Burdell Plaza (adjacent to the Love Building)

Georgia Tech Women's Forum
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
GT Student C. enter, Room 301
April Earth Day General Meeting. Amy Ellen Kise will discuss choices we can make to create healthy living environments. RSVP by Friday, April 18th to Shondra Carter

Georgia Tech Academic Senate and Academic Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m.
Student Center Theater (ground floor)
All faculty members are invited to attend

4/23, Wednesday

Spring Commencement (Ph.D. Ceremony)

4/24, Thursday

Deadline to submit National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) Proposals
For complete details see, http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08540

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Baris Bicen
9:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Micromachined Diffraction Based Optical Microphones and Intensity Probes with Electrostatic Force Feedback
Committee: Dr. Levent Degertekin, Chair (ME), Dr. Jerry Ginsberg (ME), Dr. Kenneth Cunefare (ME), Dr. Oliver Brand (ECE), Dr. Ronald Miles (Binghamton University)

Georgia Tech High-Performance Computing Research Symposium
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Klaus Advanced Computing Building Atrium
This event is open to faculty and their students, and includes a free buffet lunch and refreshments. RSVP to Carolyn Young, cyoung@cc.gatech.edu

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Introduction to the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System
Speaker: Jeff Portell and Matthew McGinnis (Accuray, Inc.)

ME 4182 (Capstone Design) Poster Session
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Atrium

4/25, Friday

Last day of classes for spring semester

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Dinesh Bansal
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Tribological Investigation of Sliding Electrical Contacts - with Application to Electromagnetic Launchers
Committee: Dr. Jeffrey Streator, Chair (ME), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME), Dr. Richard Neu (ME), Dr. Richard Cowan (MARC), Dr. Naresh Thadhani (MSE), Dr. Thiery Blanchet (RPI-ME)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Mark Varady
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Fuel Reformation and Hydrogen Generation in Direct Droplet Impingement Reactors
Committee: Dr. Andrei Fedorov, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Levent Degertekin (ME), Dr. Alexander Alexeev (ME), Dr. Christopher Jones (ChBE), Dr. Tom Fuller (ChBE)

Structural Mechanics Seminar Series
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Experimental Techniques to Assess the Role of Microstructure in the Very High Cycle Fatigue Behavior of Structural Alloys
Speaker: J. Wayne Jones (University of Michigan)

4/28, Monday

Grade Entry Page Opens
Access through BuzzPort or OSCAR (http://oscar.gatech.edu). For more assistance, email comments@registrar.gatech.edu

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Molecular Biomechanics: New Opportunities and Challenges
Speaker: Gang Bao (Georgia Tech)

4/28, Monday - 5/2, Friday

Final exams for spring semester

4/29, Tuesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Robert Thiets
7:00 a.m.
Tech Square, Room S-400
Title: A Method for Developing a Triple-Bottom-Line Business Case for the Implementation of Alternative Fuels
Committee: Dr. Bert Bras, Chair (ME), Dr. Leon McGinnis (ISYE), Dr. Sheldon Jeter (ME)

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

4/30, Wednesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Jeremy Dawkins
10:30 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Influence of Crystallographic Orientation in Normal and Sliding Contacts
Committee: Dr. Richard Neu, Chair (ME), Dr. Jeffrey Streator (ME), Dr. Itzhak Green (ME)

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

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Reza Haji Aghaee Khiabani
3:30 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Experimental and Numerical Study of Heat Transfer in Nano/Micro Multi-Component and Complex Fluids with Applications to Heat Transfer Enhancement
Committee: Dr. Cyrus Aidun, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. David Bader (CC), Dr. Thorsten Stoesser (CEE)

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