Baetjer Colloquium
The Baetjer Colloquium is so named in honor of Edwin G. Baetjer, II one of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department’s first aeronautical graduates (Class of 1943). With the outbreak of World War II, Edwin Baetjer served his country as a flight engineer and was killed in action during a mission on July 29, 1944. His uncle, Edwin G. Beatjer, presented a gift to Princeton University in 1945 in memory of his nephew and namesake, specifying that the gift be used to support a seminar series in our department. The Baetjer Colloquium continues as the department’s most prestigious seminar series.
The bequest to the University also established the Special Collection of Aeronautical Engineering Books previously housed in the Forrestal Center Library, and a Memorial Conference Room was built at Forrestal in his honor.
- Speaker: P. S. Krishnaprasad, University of Maryland
Date/Time: Friday, April 20, 2012, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Bowen Hall Room 222
Previous Lecturers in the Series
| David J. Srolovitz, A*STAR | Material Properties in Codimension Greater than Zero |
2010 Fall |
| Dr. Eduardo Sontag, Rutgers University | Dynamics and Control Problems in Systems Biology | 2009 Fall |
| Prof. Tom Mallouk, Penn State University | A nanoscience Approach to photocatalysis and solar cells | 2009 Spring |
| Prof. Eric Mazur Harvard University | Wrapping Light Around Hair Subcellular Surgery and Nanosurgery |
2007 Fall |
| Prof. Earl Dowell, Duke University | Globalization, Mature and Not so Mature Technologies, and the Role of Education Reduced Order Models in Unsteady Aerodynamics, Aeroelasticity and Molecular Dynamics |
2007 Spring |
| Prof. Monica Overa de la Cruz, Northwestern University | Charged Marcromolecules: Solutions, Aggregates and Gels Surface Pattern Formation in Self-Assembled Heterogeneous Molecules; Co-Assembled Cationic and Anionic Peptide |
2005 Spring |
| Prof. Robert P. Lucht, Purdue University | Challenges and Opportunities for Optical Techniques for Probing Reacting Flows: New Techniques and the Impact of New Laser Systems on Old Techniques Nonlinear Optical Techniques for Sensitive, Selective, and Quantitative Detection of Chemical Species: Applications and Modeling of Nonliniear Optical Process |
2004 Spring |
| Prof. William D. Nix, Stanford University | Mechanical Properties of thin Films Modeling Plasticity in Polycrystalline Thin Films on Silicon Substrates |
2002 Fall |
| Prof. Philip Russell, University of Bath | Photonic Crystal Fibers: Sieving, Caging, and Delivering Light to Order The Curious Behavior of Light in Photonic Crystals | 2001 Fall |
| The Edwin G. Baetjer, II Colloquium in the Aeronautical Sciences | Prof. W.G. Berl, Johns Hopkins University Prof. Francis H. Clauser, Johns Hopkins University Prof. Richard Courant, New York University Prof. Stanley Cousin, Johns Hopkins University Mr. Coleman DuP. Donaldson, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Prof. Louis G. Dunn, Cal Tech Mr. Gottfried Guderely, US Air Force Mr. Robert Hage, Boeing Airplane Company Dr. R. Havens, Naval Research Laboratories Prof. Nicholas J. Hoff, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn |
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| Scientists and Engineers brought to Princeton on the Edwin G. Baetjer, II Colloquium | Prof. Arthur Kantrowitz, Cornell Prof. L. S. G. Kovasznay, Johns Hopkins Prof. Paco Lagerstrom, Cal Tech
Prof. Hans W. Liepmann, Cal Tech Prof. M. J. Lighthill, University of Manchester Prof. C. C. Linn, MIT Prof. G. H. Markstein, Cornell Mr. J. W. Mullen, II, Experiment Inc. Dr. G. B. Schubauer, Bureau of Standards Prof. W. R. Sears, Cornell Mr. Igor Sikorski, Engineering Manager, Sikorski Aircraft Division, United Aircraft Company Dr. H. S. Tsien, Cal Tech |
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| Scientists and Engineers brought to Princeton on the Edwin G. Baetjer, II Colloquium |
Dr. Theodore Von Karmen, Chairmen, Scientific Advisory Board, US Air Force Mr. Edward Warner, President, International, Civil Aviation Organization Mr. K. G. Wilkinson, British European Airways Prof. Glenn C. Williams, MIT Prof. K. Wohl, University of Delaware Prof. Fritz Zwicky, Cal Tech |
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| Engineers from Industry who have directed a course in Airplane design under the Edwin G. Baetjer, II Lectureship |
Mr. Robert E. Hage, Boeing Airplane Company Mr. Ernest Greenwood, Chance Vought Aircraft Company Mr. Stanislaus Rogalski, Chase Aircraft Company |
