February 2016 - BNC-all - ecn.purdue.edu

CHE 666 - Methods in Catalysis
by Turner, Jaime J 09 Jul '16

09 Jul '16

Dear all, Please find attached the course description for CHE 666 – Methods in Catalysis taught by Dr. Dmitry Zemlyanov. Dr. Rosa Diaz will give two lectures about Microscopy. They will cover Photoemission and Auger Spectroscopy, Diffraction and EXAFS, Microscopy and Related Techniques, and The Vibrational Spectroscopies. Thank you Jaime Turner Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Email: jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> Phone: 765-494-3509

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Missing I-Phone (Gold)
by Totten, Mary J 07 Apr '16

07 Apr '16

Everyone, I am looking for an I-phone that was left in the cleanroom this morning. If you have found it, could you please bring it to my office BRK 1220. Thank you, Mary Jo Totten Birck Nanotechnology Center Discovery Park/Purdue University 1205 West State Street BRK 1220 West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 (765) 496-1173 "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." --Mark Twain

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BNC e-news for the week of February 29th
by Anthrop, Heather L 28 Feb '16

28 Feb '16

BIRCK CLOSURE Card Readers on Student Offices INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL REFRIGERATOR SEMINAR VOICEMAIL BIRCK CLOSURE NOTICE: The BNC will be completely closed for one day on March 17, 2016 from 12:01AM to 11PM. Only people involved in the shutdown will be allowed in the building during the shutdown. All offices, laboratories, and the cleanroom will be closed. All chemicals and research inside fume hoods will need to be placed in closed containers prior to March 17, 2016 from 12:01AM This is an advance notice on March 17, 2016 from 6AM to 9PM Purdue Physical Facilities Department will complete an emergency power interruption to fix a high voltage power issue with our center’s fire pump controller. Per safety codes, power to the fire pump transfer/control was hardwired directly from the electrical substation to the fire panel when the building was constructed. This wiring bypasses our main switchboard and provides no lockout point for the fire panel. Therefore, for safety reasons the electric substation providing power to the fire pump has to be shutdown. The affected substation also supplies power to one of the building’s three, 3000 amp switchboards. Only essential personnel will have access to the building during the power outage since the building will be without fire protection during that time. All CLEANROOM and LABORATORY research work will be suspended and building access closed during power outage. All exhausted hoods, vacuum systems, and/or toxic gas systems will be shut down, and chemicals inside fume hoods will need to be placed in closed containers prior to March 17, 2016 from 12:01AM. General areas that will be affected by the power outage are listed below. - All chemical exhaust systems for the labs and cleanroom. - Building ambient temperature and humidity control o Offices o General laboratories o Cleanroom o Atrium - Office power and lighting (all computers will lose power) - Atrium power and lighting - Card reader system Systems NOT affected by the power outage are listed below. - Emergency power (on emergency generator power) - UPS power (on emergency generator power) - Equipment emergency power (on emergency generator power) - Cleanroom research equipment power (power from a different switchboard) - Laboratory research equipment power (power from a different switchboard) Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Mark Voorhis Building Manager Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center Office: (765) 494-3036 Card Readers on Student Offices A suggestion we received this week from the user survey involved installing card readers on student office doors. This would alleviate the need to carry keys in the case where an office mate leaves and locks the door. This idea was investigated and a cost estimate was generated. To install a single card reader takes labor and material to buy the card reader hardware and mount it near the door, run & connect wires through the door frame, and reconfigure the software on the card reader system to recognize new inputs. For each office door the cost is approximately $3500. We have 19 student office doors, so the total cost would be $66,500. We understand the convenience improvements but the high cost of implementation prohibits us from pursuing this suggestion. Thanks for the good ideas, please keep them coming. International Travel If you are traveling internationally, we urge you to check to see if the region to which you plan travel currently is involved in a Zika Virus outbreak. More information associated with the Zika Virus can be found on the CDC website<http://www.cdc.gov/zika/> and on the World Health Organization’s<http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/zika/en/> website. We urge you to please travel safely and responsibly, taking appropriate precautions as you deem necessary. Contact Information: Austin Oldham <mailto:oldhama@purdue.edu> , Policy Administrator, Risk Management, 67440 REFRIGERATOR Everything from the refrigerator and freezer in the kitchen will be trashed at 8 AM March 18. Since the power is off we have no way to determine if the food stayed cold so it will have to be trashed. Take it home before the 17th if you do not want it trashed. Questions or concerns please see Nancy Black. SEMINAR Nanoscale Thermal/Thermoelectric Energy Conversion (NT-TEC) Seminar Speaker: Sheng Yu Jin (from prof. Gary Cheng's group) Topic: Laser-assisted Electrochemical deposition of Thermoelectric materials deposition Date: Thursday, March 3 2016 Time: 12-1pm Location: Birck 1001 VOICEMAIL Old Voicemail System: With your new phones came a new voicemail system. We will be deleting all old voicemails next Wednesday March 2nd. If you have any questions, please let me know ASAP. Mary Jo Totten 6-1173

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Purdue relaxes parking rules as snow continues; urges use of parking garages
by Anthrop, Heather L 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

<http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/>[Purdue signature]<http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/><http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/> February 24, 2016 Purdue relaxes parking rules as snow continues; urges use of parking garages WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - As heavy snow continues to fall in the area, Purdue University Parking Facilities is relaxing enforcement in most campus parking garages and surface lots to encourage students and staff to move parked vehicles off nearby streets. The relaxed enforcement is already underway and will expire at 7 a.m. Friday (Feb. 26), said Holly Alexander, manager of Purdue Parking Facilities. "We encourage staff and students to move their vehicles to these garages and lots to make street clearing quicker and safer for road crews," Alexander said. The university is currently running under a normal operating schedule, and any status changes would be announced to the university community via the Purdue Alert system, said Carol Shelby, senior director of environmental health and public safety. Shelby said that if adverse weather necessitates any change in operational status for the West Lafayette campus, special procedures pertaining to classes, operations, parking, pay and/or attendance become effective. Those procedures are outlined in this memo<http://www.purdue.edu/ehps/emergency_preparedness/docs/2015%20West%20Lafaye…>. Available campus parking garages are the Wood Street Garage, Marsteller Street Garage, Northwestern Avenue Garage, University Street Garage, McCutcheon Garage and Harrison Street Garage. The Grant Street Garage will maintain normal operations. Students in Purdue residence halls are encouraged to use the McCutcheon Garage or University Street Garage. Sources: Holly Alexander, 765-494-9315, haalexander(a)purdue.edu<../../../Users/zinkb/Desktop/haalexander(a)purdue.edu> Carol Shelby, 765-494-7504, schelby(a)purdue.edu<mailto:schelby@purdue.edu>

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NT-TEC seminar, Prof. Ali Shakouri, Thermoelectric Properties of Composite and Inhomogeneous Materials
by Amirkoushyar Ziabari 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Reminder: Nanoscale Thermal/Thermoelectric Energy Conversion (NT-TEC) Seminar Speaker: Professor Ali Shakouri Thermoelectric Properties of Composite and Inhomogeneous Materials Date: Thursday, Feb 18 2016 Time: 12-1pm Location: Birck 1001 Sincerely, Amir Koushyar Ziabari Graduate Research Assistant Electrical Engineering Department Birck Nano-Technology Center Purdue University Mail Stop: Birck Nano-Technology Center 1205 W. State St. Rm. 1234 West Lafayette, IN 47906 Office Phone: +1 (765) 496-3344 Email: aziabari(a)purdue.edu "There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit." Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882) ________________________________ From: Amirkoushyar Ziabari Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 5:52 PM To: Amir Koushyar Ziabari; Ali Shakouri Cc: Jaime J Turner; Kerry Maize; Yee Rui Koh; Amr Mohammed Shahat Mohammed; Liang Guo (lguo(a)purdue.edu) Maryam Parsa; SangHoon' 'Shin; tsfisher(a)purdue.edu; Kazuaki Yazawa; Xianfan Xu (xxu(a)ecn.purdue.edu) Xiulin Ruan (ruan(a)purdue.edu) Mark Lundstrom; Alejandro Strachan; amarconn(a)purdue.edu; Supriyo Datta (datta(a)ecn.purdue.edu) Luna Lu; yong chen; Peide Ye; Muhammad A Alam; Saeed Mohammadi (saeedm(a)purdue.edu) Yu Gong; Xufeng Wang; ewitkosk(a)gmail.com; Hossein Pajouhi; ssadasi(a)purdue.edu; park249(a)purdue.edu; Morteza Kayyalha; zjacob(a)purdue.edu Subject: Weekly nanoscale thermal/thermoelectric energy conversion (NT-TEC) seminars (Thursdays 12noon-1pm; Birck 1001) Dear all, Hope you had a wonderful holidays and started off a great 2016. We would like to continue our weekly NT-TEC meetings from Thursday Jan 14. We have not yet decided on the presenters, and we would appreciate if you/your students volunteer to present your research in the related areas and help us keep these meetings moving, so everybody can benefit and learn from the multidisciplinary environment we work in. Here is the link to excel sheet in the google drive that shows all the available dates. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16zKlzNRD2cpLdR1obus9uoxLQj9YEMAC5lC… You may either mark the desired date in this file using your Gmail account, or you can send me the appropriate date and the presenter's information and I will add them to the list. Thanks a lot, Sincerely, Amir Koushyar Ziabari Graduate Research Assistant Electrical Engineering Department Birck Nano-Technology Center Purdue University Mail Stop: Birck Nano-Technology Center 1205 W. State St. Rm. 1234 West Lafayette, IN 47906 Office Phone: +1 (765) 496-3344 Email: aziabari(a)purdue.edu "There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit." Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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BNC E-news for the week of Feb. 22nd
by Anthrop, Heather L 19 Feb '16

19 Feb '16

SEMINAR SYSTEM OUTAGE VB-6 Seminar As Co-chair of the 2016 Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) for Noble Metal Nanoparticles, it is my pleasure to invite your department's graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to participate in this seminar by submitting an abstract for a research poster or an oral presentation. The seminar will take place at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA during the weekend of June 14-15, 2016. The GRS program is a series of highly successful and unique opportunities for early career scientists to discuss their current research and build informal networks with their peers that may lead to a lifetime of collaboration and scientific achievement. Each seminar is held in conjunction with a related Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and takes place the weekend immediately prior to the GRC. Topics for this seminar include nanoparticle synthesis, biomedicine, catalysis, and plasmonics. The deadline to apply for an oral presentation is March 18, 2016. The deadline to apply for a poster presentation is May 21, 2016. Spots are limited, so we encourage applicants to submit their abstracts early. The application form includes is an option to apply for the related GRC, which we highly encourage for faculty and students alike. Just visit the website below and select 'Online Application' in the top right corner: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=15374 If you would like more information or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or my fellow chairs, Amanda Goodman (amanda.m.goodman(a)rice.edu<mailto:amanda.m.goodman@rice.edu>) and Chris DeSantis (cjd7(a)rice.edu<mailto:cjd7@rice.edu>). Best regards, Lisa V. Brown Energy Research Group NIST Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology Office: 301-975-4557 Lab: 301-975-4280 Cell: 713-256-0178 lisa.brown(a)nist.gov<mailto:lisa.brown@nist.gov> http://www.nist.gov/cnst/brown.cfm System Outage Notification of Scheduled Campus Firewall Services System Outage - ITaP Change Management RFC #5663 WORK TO BE PERFORMED: From 12:00 AM to 1:00 AM on Thursday, 2/25/16, the ITaP Data Networks Team will be performing scheduled work that will impact the campus Firewall System. AFFECTED CLIENTS: The following campus departments and services will be impacted by this maintenance: 1. AGIT 2. BBC (Bindley Bio Center) 3. BIO (Biology) 4. COP (College of Pharmacy) 5. ECN 6. General NAT Service for 10.X address space 7. IDAP 8. ITCR Labs and TIC sites 9. KRAN (School of Management) 10. ITIS NetMgmt 11. USDA 12. IT Video (STEW Broadcast studios) 13. VoIP 14. Wireless SCOPE OF WORK: Affected Client(s) should plan for a 1-minute network outage to occur at some point during the scheduled outage window for services running through the campus firewall. If you have any questions or concerns about this work please don't hesitate to let us know. Thanks much. Duane =============================== Duane Kyburz, Network Engineer Purdue University - ITaP, IT Infrastructure Services Data Networks Team Office: 765-496-8226 Mobile: 765-490-4755 Fax: 765-494-6620 Email: storm(a)purdue.edu<mailto:storm@purdue.edu> =============================== VB-6 In this week's survey a user expressed frustration with VB-6 uptime and availability, suggesting that we acquire a second EBL tool to supplement the VB-6 when it is down. There continues to be active discussions on the correct strategy for Birck in terms of e-beam lithography tools and capabilities. This is not an easy decision as these tools typically cost more than $2M, so the decision has to be weighed carefully. We don't expect a direction to be established in the near term, but deliberations are now ongoing. Recently the Birck VB-6 has enjoyed a good period of uptime, and we're working with Raith/Vistec to continue to diagnose and fix the cause of random gun trips.

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REMINDER: PhD Tech Talk by Intel is today from 5-6:30PM in Birck 2001
by NSAC 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

Dear Graduate Students: This is a reminder that a PhD Tech talk by Intel will take place today from 5:00PM-6:30PM in Birck 2001. Sincerely, NSAC Officers On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:58 PM, NSAC <nsac(a)purdue.edu> wrote: > Dear Graduate Students: > > There will be a PhD Tech Talk by Intel this Wednesday, February 17th from > 5:00PM-6:30PM in Birck 2001. > Please bring your resume along and use the opportunity to network with the > Intel representatives. See the attached flier for details. > Refreshments will also be Provided by Intel. > > Sincerely, > NSAC Officers >

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Canceled: PhD Tech Talk by Intel
by Shaimaa I Azzam 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

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PhD Tech Talk by Intel
by Shaimaa I Azzam 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

There will be a PhD Tech Talk by Intel this Wednesday, February 17th from 5:00PM-6:30PM in Birck 2001.

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PhD Tech Talk by Intel on Wednesday February 17 from 5-6:30PM in Birck 2001
by NSAC 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Dear Graduate Students: There will be a PhD Tech Talk by Intel this Wednesday, February 17th from 5:00PM-6:30PM in Birck 2001. Please bring your resume along and use the opportunity to network with the Intel representatives. See the attached flier for details. Refreshments will also be Provided by Intel. Sincerely, NSAC Officers

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