What: NRE 8011/8012 Seminar Who: Dr. Juswald Vedovi, GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy When: Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: Thermal-Hydraulic Stability Analyses and Methodologies in BWRs

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Bradley Efron, Stanford University's School of Humanities and Sciences When: Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 4:30 PM Where: ISyE Building Room Atrium Title: Learning from the Experiences of Others

What: Seminar Who: Dr. Ardalan Vahidi, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University When: Friday, September 24, 2010 at 11:00 AM Where: Whitaker (BME) Building Room 1103 Title: "Predictive Energy Management in Networked Vehicles: Exploiting Traffic and Terrain Preview for Fuel Saving"

What: Mechanical Engineering Seminar Who: Dr. Warren Seering, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, Cambridge, MA When: Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 11:00 AM Where: MARC Building Room Auditorium Title: Thoughts on Meeting the Needs of Undergraduate Engineering Students

What: Seminar Who: Prof. Xianfan Xu, Purdue University When: Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 3:00 PM Where: Love Building Room 299 Title: ENERGY TRANSFER IN NANOSCALE ENERGY CONVERSION MATERIALS

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Jing Shi, Professor of Physics at University of California - Riverside When: Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 3:00 PM Where: MiRC Building Room 102 A and B Title: Tuning Charged Impurity Scattering in Graphene with Nanoparticles

What: NRE 8011/8012 Seminar Who: Dr. Ji Chen, Emory When: Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 (3rd flr) Title: Measuring Left-Ventricular Dyssynchrony by Phase Analysis of Gated SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

What: Mechanical Engineering Seminar Who: Dr. Allan Kirkpatrick, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO When: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 11:00 AM Where: MARC Building Room Auditorium Title: ASME Vision 2030 - Creating the Future of Mechanical Engineering Education

What: NRE 8011/8012 Seminar Who: Dr. Jeffrey Favorite, Los Alamos National Laboratory When: Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 (3rd Flr) Title: Adjoint-Based Eigenvalue Sensitivity to Geometry Perturbations, and a Warning

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Kathleen Kagley, Clemson University When: Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 11:00 AM Where: Library Building Room Wilby Title: Designing Assignments that Promote Creative Thinking