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September 2009
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8/30, Sunday - 9/2, Wednesday

2009 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences
Omni San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California
View http://www.asmeconferences.org/idetc09/ for more information

9/1, Tuesday

Deadline to submit Proposals for the DOE Office of Science Early Career Awards
Contact Carole McGuire at cmcguire@lewis-burke.com for additional details.

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Eric Burgett
10:00 a.m.
Neely Building, Room 114
Title: Novel Neutron Detectors
Committee: Dr. Nolan E. Hertel, Chair (NRE), Dr. Chris Wang (NRE), Dr. Chaitanya Deo (NRE), Dr. Christopher Summers (MSE), Dr. Ian Ferguson (ECE), Dr. Tony Hill (NE - Idaho National Laboratory), Dr. Mike Heffner (NE - Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

NRE/MP Fall Picnic
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
MaRC Building Lawn
This event is cancelled

9/2, Wednesday

Visit to the Woodruff School by President Bud Peterson
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
MaRC Building Auditorium
More details will follow at a later time.

9/3, Thursday

Institute Graduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Academic Matters)

Inauguration of President Peterson as Georgia Tech 11st president
11:00 a.m.
Alexander Memorial Coliseum
In the afternoon there will be a series of strategic planning conversations at various times and location across campus. See: www.gatech.edu/Vision for more information.

COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Phonon Transport in Semiconductor Superlattices
Speaker: Prof. Alan McGaughey (Carnegie Mellon University)

Open Forum on Enegy 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 new CO2 Capture Platform: Hollow Fiber Sorbents for Post-Combustion Recovery
Speaker: R. Lively (Georgia Tech)
Food and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu

9/4, Friday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Sead Dzebo
9:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Investigation of Methods to Improve Process Performance in Centerless Grinding of Inconel 718 and Ti-6Al-4V Superalloys
Committee: Dr. Shreyes Melkote, Chair (ME), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME), Dr. Kyriaki Kalaitzidou (ME)

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

9/7, Monday

Labor Day Holiday (no classes)

9/8, Tuesday - 9/9, Wednesday

Georgia Tech Resume Blitz
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
See www.careerservices.gatech.edu for more information.

9/10, Thursday

Georgia Tech Career Focus
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom
This is a Career Services event; for more details contact marge.dussich@success.gatech.edu

NRE/MP Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: The MC21 Monte Carlo Code, and its use in Comparing Models for Bound Hydrogen Scattering
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Sutton (Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory)

9/11, Friday

Georgia Tech Career Services Resume Blitz
11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
See www.careerservices.gatech.edu for additional information.

9/14, Monday

GT Courtesy Listing
2:00 p.m.
Molecular Science and Engineering Building Building, Room 3201A
Title: Job Creation in the Nuclear Renaissance
Speaker: Christine Todd Whitman (CASEnergy Co-Chair, Former EPA Administrator and New Jersey Governor)

GT Courtesy Listing
3:00 p.m.
Student Services Building, Auditorium Building, Room 117
Title: Math at Top Speed (Exploring and Breaking Myths in the Drag)
Speaker: Dr. Richard Tapia (Rice University)

9/14, Monday - 9/15, Tuesday

Georgia Tech Fall Career Fair
All Day - See www.careerservices.gatech.edu for more details.

9/15, Tuesday

ASM Atlanta Chapter Meeting with Dr. Richard Bradt of the University of Alabama
6:00 p.m.
IPST Building
RSVP by Monday, September 14 at noon to Shirley Manchester shirley.manchester@mse.gatech.edu, 404-894-3012, or Gautam Patel 404-407-7635, gautam.patel@gtri.gatech.edu

ASME (Student Chapter) Career Fair
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Atrium

9/16, Wednesday

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room Auditorium
Title: Working for a Start-Up: Real World Experiences
Speaker: Dr. Rebeccah Brown (Spine Medica LLC)

9/17, Thursday

NRE/MP Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: Toward Adaptive Radiation Therapy
Speaker: Dr. Lei Zhu (GA Institute of Technology, Medical Physics)

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

9/18, Friday

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Condensation in Microchannels
Speaker: Prof. John Rose (Queen Mary University, London UK)

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

9/21, Monday

Order of the Engineer, Georgia Tech Link Meeting for engineering seniors, graduate students and professors
6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
For more information go to http://www.order-of-the-engineer.org

9/22, Tuesday

Deadline to submit 3-page pre-proposals for a High Performance Computing Grant Program with ORNL to the Provost's Office
More information can be found at http://www.orau.org/consortium/programs/hpc/index.htm Submissions go to: svpri@provost.gatech.edu

North Avenue Research Area (NARA) Open House (Labs of Yogendra Joshi and Srinivas Garimella)
More details will follow

Lecture by Gen. Charles Duke, Apollo 16 LM Pilot
11:00 a.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts
This lecture is free, but tickets are required. Please go to the GT Student Center Box Office to pickup a ticket.

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Robotics - A Transformative Technology
Speaker: Dr. Henrik Christensen (Georgia Tech, College of Computing)

Workshop for Woodruff School Graduate Students on How To Get a Job In Industry with Professor Richard Salant
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

GT Courtesy Listing
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Phase Equilibrium in the Pd-Hydrogen System
Speaker: Dr. Ricardo B. Schwarz (Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

9/23, Wednesday

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room Auditorium
Title: Standing in balance: translating motor intentions into motor commands in animals, humans, and robots
Speaker: Dr. Lena Ting (Georgia Tech, Biomedical Engineering)

9/24, Thursday

Acoustics & Dynamics Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: S-matrices, Localization and Mesoscopics in Structures and Rooms
Speaker: Dr. Richard Weaver (University of Illinois)

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: NSF Opportunities for Thermal Transport Researchers
Speaker: Dr. Theodore (Ted) Bergman (National Science Foundation)

9/25, Friday

Progress report grades due for 1000 and 2000 level courses

Woodruff School Open House Celebrating Family Weekend
MRDC Building
More details will be available at a later date

COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Effects of Panel Stiffness on Slamming Responses of Composite Hull Panels
Speaker: Dr. Mark Battley (Centre for Advanced Composite Materials, University of Auckland, New Zealand)

9/25, Friday - 9/26, Saturday

Georgia Tech Family Weekend 2009
More details will be available soon. See www.familyweekend.gatech.edu

9/28, Monday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by George Nelson
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Computational Characterization of Diffusive Mass Transfer in Porous Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Components
Committee: Dr. William Wepfer, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Comas Haynes (GTRI), Dr. Andrei Fedorov (ME), Dr. Christiaan Paredis (ME), Dr. Meilin Liu (MSE), Dr. Amyn Teja (ChBE)

9/29, Tuesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Jordan Rader
9:15 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Loss of Normal Feedwater ATWS for Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Using RETRAN-02
Committee: Dr. Said I. Abdel-Khalik, Chair (ME), Dr. S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Nolan E. Hertel (ME)

Resume Workshop for Woodruff School Graduate Students with Ralph Mobley (Georgia Tech Career Services)
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
See www.careerservices.gatech.edu for more information about their services

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