Guide to Graduate Study in Area V: Materials and Devices

Announcements: Area IV and V Fall Open House: Fall 2008

The Area IV and V Fall 2008 Open House has already happened, Sept. 26, 2008. Please see the information below for details.

Schedule of Events:
3:00 pm Social mingling and treat selection.
3:10 pm Welcome from Area IV/V chair, Prof. Leslie Kolodziejski

Faculty / Research Staff Presentations (Areas IV and V):
3:15 pm Prof. Jeffrey Lang, “MEMS and Electromechanics”
3:25 pm Prof. Martin Schmidt, “Microsystems for Medical Monitoring”
3:35 pm Prof. Karl Berggren, “Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication”
3:45 pm Prof. Franco Wong, “Entanglement for Quantum Communications and Quantum Metrology”
3:55 pm Prof. James Fujimoto, “Biomedical Monitoring with Optical Coherence”
  —short 5 minute break—
4:10 pm Prof. Alan Grodzinsky, “Biomedical Electromechanics and Arthritis”
4:20 pm Prof. James Kirtley, “Ship Propulsion System”
4:30 pm Prof. Fatih Yanik, “High Throughput Technologies for Regenerative Neuroengineering”
4:40 pm Prof. Tomas Palacios, “Transforming Electronics: New Nitride and Graphene Devices”

Faculty/Research Staff Contact Information:
(listed in order of appearance at the Open House)
Prof. Leslie Kolodziejski, leskolo@mit.edu, bldg. 36-287, Tel: 617 253-6868
Prof. Jeffrey Lang, lang@mit.edu, bldg. 10-176, Tel: 617 253-4687
Prof. Martin Schmidt, schmidt@mtl.mit.edu, bldg. 39-521, Tel: 617 253-7817
Prof. Karl Berggren, berggren@mit.edu, bldg. 36-219, Tel: 617 254-0272
Dr. Franco Wong, franco@new2.mit.edu, bldg. 36-473, Tel: 617 253-8131
Prof. James Kirtley, kirtley@mit.edu, bldg. 10-098, Tel: 617 253-2357
Prof. James Fujimoto, jgfuji@mit.edu, bldg. 36-361, Tel: 617 253-8528
Prof. Alan Grodzinsky, alg@mit.edu, bldg. NE47-377, Tel: 617 253-4969
Prof. Ratih Yanik, yanik@mit.edu, bldg. 36-834, Tel: 617 253-1583
Prof. Tomas Palacios, tpalacios@mit.edu, bldg. 39-567B, Tel: 617 254-2395

Fall 2008 MNSS Seminar Series Lineup:
The Micro/Nano-technology Seminar Series is a multi-departmental School of Engineering seminar series focused on fundamental micro- and nano- Technology and its applications in sensing and actuation, thermal and life sciences and energy, among many. It is co-sponsored by the Department of Engineering, MEMS@MIT, RLE and MGH. Seminars are on Thursdays at 3pm (refreshments at 2:45pm) in 36-428 on the MIT Campus.
date
seminar speaker
seminar title
Thursday, Oct. 9 Prof. Michael Strano, MIT Imaging ROS signaling pathways from live cells at the single molecule level: optical amplicfication and multi-modality from carbon nanotube n-IR fluorescent sensors.
Thursday, Oct. 16 Prof. Liwei Lin, Univ. of CA, Mechanical Eng. in Micro/Nano System Revolution?
Thursday, Oct. 23 Dr. Aravind Padmanahan, Honeywell Micro and Nano-enabled Instrumentation for Gas and Chemical Sensing
Thursday, Nov. 6 Prof. Ashwin Seshia, Univ. of Cambridge Enhanced electrical interfaces for micro- and nano-mechanical resonators
Thursday, Nov. 13 Prof. Kenny Breuer, Brown University The Physics and Engineering of Bacterial Microfluidics
Thursday, Dec. 4 Prof. Elisabeth Smela, Univ. of Maryland TBA
SPONSORS MIT.MEMS@MIT | http://mtlweb.mit.edu/researchgroups/mems/
Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT | http://www.rle.mit.edu.
Department of Mechanical Engineering | http://www-me.mit.edu.
Center for Engineering in Medicine, BioMEMS Resource Center |
For more information, go to http://www.rle.mit.edu/mnss or contact Patrick Doyle (pdoyle@mit.edu), Carol Livermore (livermor@mit.edu), Joel Voldman (voldman@mit.edu), or Chadwick Collins (chadcoll@mit.edu).

Other Seminar Series of Interest:

MTL Seminars: Tuesdays, 4:00 pm in 34-101. http://mtlweb.mit.edu/news/seminars/
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar Series: Wednesdays, 11:00 am in 36-428 http://www.rle.mit.edu/oqe/seminar/
OSA/CIPS Graduate Seminar Series: Thursdays, noon in 36-428 http://www.rle.mit.edu/cips/GRADSemFall2004.htm
For more seminar information go to: http://www.eecs.mit.edu/grad/area5/seminars.html