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BNC E-news for the week of May 1st
by Turner, Jaime J 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Spring PM Shutdown - May 1, 2017 - May 5, 2017 The Birck Nanotechnology Center will be undergoing a semi-annual preventive maintenance and service shutdown May 1 through May 5, 2017. Air handling systems, exhaust systems, toxic gas delivery, and monitoring systems will be down beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, May 1 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 5. The BNC staff will be performing appropriate preventive maintenance on the process equipment at this time as well. All CLEANROOM research work will be suspended until the maintenance activities are completed and all systems are returned to normal. Only authorized personnel will be allowed to enter the cleanroom during this time period. In addition, the laboratory areas will also be affected by this systems maintenance. As such, all LABORATORY activities that involve exhausted hoods, vacuum systems, and/or toxic gas systems will be down beginning 7 a.m. Monday, May 1 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 5. However, work that involves taking standard electrical measurements may be carried out in the LABS provided that fluctuating air temperature and humidity do not affect the readings. No chemical work will be allowed during this period. It is anticipated that the building and process tool maintenance will be completed by the end of the day on Friday, May 5. Please check iLabs for equipment status and availability. For long-term research planning, please refer the following future dates for our future preventive maintenance shutdowns. Week of Oct 16, 2017 Week of April 30, 2018 Week of Oct 15, 2018 Week of April 29, 2019 Seminars/Workshops Bagwell Lecture 9th Edition - John Rogers, Northwestern University Tuesday, May 2nd 11:00am - 12:00 p.m. Burton Morgan room 121 http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php?view=2207 User Information Dear Birck Students, With the Preventive Maintenance shutdown next week the cleanroom will be closed for most of the week. Please take this opportunity to tidy up your Birck office space with your office mates. Discard trash, unused boxes, clutter, etc. Also, if you have small refrigerators or other appliances it would be a great time to clean them out and around them. Remember we conduct many tours here at Birck and we would like to continue to showcase not only our outstanding cleanroom and labs, but also our great graduate students and their office facilities. Thanks for your support in this! Awards and promotions. Purdue University's Board of Trustees approved faculty promotions. Effective August 14, 2017, except as noted. Congratulations! To Research Associate Professor Mykhailo Povolotskyi, research associate professor at Birck Nanotechnology Center (July 1) To Research Professor Kazuaki Yazawa, research professor at Birck Nanotechnology Center (July 1) To Associate Professor Peter Bermel, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering To Full Professor Zhihong Chen, professor of electrical and computer engineering Minghao Qi, professor of electrical and computer engineering Xiulin Ruan, professor of mechanical engineering Alumnus from Birck Nanotechnology Center - Baratunde "Bara" A. Cola at George Institute for Technology was awarded Alan T. Waterman Award which is the nation's highest honor for early career scientists and engineers. This marks only the second time in the award's 42-year history that NSF selected two recipients in the same year. Link: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=191610 Congratulations to the 2017 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award - Mikhail Shalaginov, Ph.D. candidate, Research assistant.

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PQC Workshop Today, 12-5pm in MRGN 121/MANN
by Turner, Jaime J 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

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Condensed Matter Seminar for Friday, April 28, 2017, 3:30pm in PHYS 203
by Turner, Jaime J 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

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Thursday Talk: Prof. Francesco Ciccarello
by Black, Nancy Lee 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

This Thursday (April 27th), we will have a Purdue Quantum Center theory seminar in Birck Nanotechnology Center at 11:00 am in Room 2001. The speaker is Prof. Francesco Ciccarello. Title: What is Markovian and non-Markovian in Quantum Mechanics: new approaches and viewpoints Title: What is Markovian and non-Markovian in Quantum Mechanics: new approaches and viewpoints Abstract While in classical physics the notion of what is Markovian or not is well defined, this is not the case when it comes to open quantum systems. What makes a quantum dynamics Markovian or non-Markovian (NM)? Traditional answers to this question involve the celebrated Lindblad master equation (ME) and/or the ability of an open dynamics to be governed by a time-local ME. The last few years, yet, witnessed a thorough revision of such concepts with the aim to establish in a rigorous way exact criteria for assessing whether or not a dynamics is NM and even quantifying its degree of quantum “non-Markovianity”. This resulted in a number of “non-Markovianity measures” that have been put forward. Based on these and a number of theoretical advancements, the lack of a Lindblad ME or time-local ME turns out not to be a reliable criterion. For instance, there are Markovian dynamics that are not described by a Lindblad ME, while, on the other hand, many open dynamics that are strongly NM can be shown to effectively obey a time-local ME. After reviewing these new concepts, in the last part of the talk I discuss a problem where they are used to tackle the question as to whether or not the dynamics of a qubit undergoing single-photon scattering in a waveguide is Markovian. It turns out that, in the infinite-waveguide case, the dynamics is NM when the photon-wavepacket width is comparable with the qubit-field coupling rate. In the semi-infinite waveguide case (mirror-like boundary condition), this source of non-Markovianity adds to that due to the photon delay time (owing to the finite qubit-mirror distance). Bio Francesco Ciccarello is an Italian Assistant Professor (“Ricercatore”) at University of Palermo, Italy and member of NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. He is currently a Fulbright Research Scholar at Duke University, Duhram, NC, in the Harold Baranger group. He works within the broad area of quantum information, his present research interests being focused on open quantum systems theory, waveguide QED and cavity QED. In recent years, he in particular made contributions to quantum collision models, quantum correlations beyond entanglement and scattering-based implementations of quantum information processing tasks.

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NSAC Workshop on 3d Printing
by Aveek Dutta 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

Dear all, Please join us at the NSAC workshop on 3D printing today in BRK 1001 from 2pm. There will be a lecture by Chang Yoon followed by lab demonstration.. Refreshments are provided. Regards, Aveek Dutta Graduate Research Assistant Birck Nanotechnology Center Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University

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Prof. John Rogers - 9th Edition Bagwell Lecture Tuesday, May 2nd, 11am in MRGN 121
by Turner, Jaime J 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

[cid:image001.png@01D2BCDA.D55A19F0] Jaime Turner Administrative Assistant to the Director 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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NSAC Workshop on 3D Printing
by Aveek Dutta 21 Apr '17

21 Apr '17

Dear all, The Nanotechnology Student Advsiory Council will be organising a workshop on 3D printing on Monday April 24, 2017 from 2-4pm in BRK 1001. The workshop will be presented by Chang Yoon. The presentation will be for 30-45 mins followed by a lab demonstration. Refreshments will be provided. Hope to see you all there. Best, Aveek Dutta Graduate Research Assistant Birck Nanotechnology Center Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University

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BNC E-news for the week of April 24th
by Willison, Sheryl L 21 Apr '17

21 Apr '17

Spring PM Shutdown - May 1, 2017 - May 5, 2017 The Birck Nanotechnology Center will be undergoing a semi-annual preventive maintenance and service shutdown May 1 through May 5, 2017. Air handling systems, exhaust systems, toxic gas delivery, and monitoring systems will be down beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, May 1 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 5. The BNC staff will be performing appropriate preventive maintenance on the process equipment at this time as well. All CLEANROOM research work will be suspended until the maintenance activities are completed and all systems are returned to normal. Only authorized personnel will be allowed to enter the cleanroom during this time period. In addition, the laboratory areas will also be affected by this systems maintenance. As such, all LABORATORY activities that involve exhausted hoods, vacuum systems, and/or toxic gas systems will be down beginning 7 a.m. Monday, May 1 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 5. However, work that involves taking standard electrical measurements may be carried out in the LABS provided that fluctuating air temperature and humidity do not affect the readings. No chemical work will be allowed during this period. It is anticipated that the building and process tool maintenance will be completed by the end of the day on Friday, May 5. Please check iLabs for equipment status and availability. For long-term research planning, please refer the following future dates for our future preventive maintenance shutdowns. Week of Oct 16, 2017 Week of April 30, 2018 Week of Oct 15, 2018 Week of April 29, 2019 Ariba orders update Please double check your orders for correct item amounts. Concur travel update When traveling, please use the Concur Mobile app to upload your receipts. This will make it easier to do your expense report as all receipts are pre-loaded into Concur. Link: https://www.concursolutions.com/nui/appcenter/listings/550353cc99066b13221b… Seminars Kamaran Mohseni Seminar Observable Divergence and Curl Theorems and Their Applications in Physics Tuesday, April 25th 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. BRK 1001 Abstract: https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php?view=2293 Bagwell Lecture 9th Edition - John Rogers, Northwestern University Tuesday, May 2nd 11:00am - 12:00 p.m. Burton Morgan room 121 http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php?view=2207 Have a great week! Sheryl Willison Administrative Assistant Birck Nanotechnology Center

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Dr. Uli Lemmer Seminar TODAY at 9:30am in BRK 1001
by Turner, Jaime J 21 Apr '17

21 Apr '17

[cid:image001.png@01D2BA7D.59C00340] Jaime Turner Administrative Assistant to the Director 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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Looking for FLIR EX 320 IR Camera
by Voorhis, Mark L. 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

We are looking for a portable FLIR EX 320 IR Camera. If you have information on location of the camera please let me know. [Image result for Flir EX 320 IR Camera images] Best Regards, Mark Voorhis Building Manager Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center Office: (765) 494-3036

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