July 2021 - BNC-all - ecn.purdue.edu

Season's Greetings
by Shakouri, Ali 24 Nov '21

24 Nov '21

Dear All, As the year is coming to close, we reflect on unprecedented events that have impacted all of our lives. This is a difficult situation with self isolation and physical distancing, especially for many of our international students and researchers who are thousands of miles away from their families. There are some who have been personally impacted with the loss of family members and millions who are in economic hardship. During these difficult times, we appreciate unique gifts and contributions from each member of our community. We are fortunate to have dedicated students, staff and faculty who went out of their ways and regular responsibilities to help each other. We managed to keep Birck operational for critical research between April and June. Our dedicated staff and faculty developed standard operating procedures for all labs and cleanroom that are shared by more than 500 users across campus. Thanks to everybody who has been careful and extra vigilant, we had a smooth operation during the Fall semester. We would like to thank everybody's great contributions and hope you will have safe and healthy end of the year holidays and best wishes for the New Year 2021. Sincerely, Ali, Zhihong and Sunil [cid:image002.png@01D6D3A2.91AE72E0]

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REMINDER: Bindley and Birck Joint Virtual Seminar: Dr. Wen Jiang, TODAY Thurs., July 29th | 11am - 12pm | Zoom
by Turner, Jaime J 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

REMINDER: Bindley & Birck Joint Virtual Seminar | Dr. Wen Jiang | TODAY | 11:00am via Zoom [cid:image001.png@01D77D6C.41A52180]

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BNC E-news: Week of July 26th, 2021
by Turner, Jaime J 26 Jul '21

26 Jul '21

[cid:image006.jpg@01D685C3.FA345960] Seminars /Workshops / Events Bindley and Birck Joint Virtual Seminar Dr. Wen Jiang "Technology Challenges in seeing how molecules work at atomic resolution in a cell-structural biology today, tomorrow and later"<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php?view=3669> Thursday, July 29th | 11:00am - 12:00pm Zoom: https://purdueedu.zoom.us/j/99221627543?pwd=YUkvdy9aR1R5OTAxUVpFNzVVNTlRdz09<https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/99221627543?pwd=YUkvdy9aR1R5OTAxUVpFNzVVNTlRdz…> BNC Faculty Seminar Series (will resume fall semester, 2021) Previous Talks: https://engineering.purdue.edu/Intranet/Groups/BNC/FacultySeminars Birck Events<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php> and Birck News<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/news/index.php> Birck Nanotechnology Center Advanced Capabilities [cid:image004.jpg@01D78220.76326EE0]Plasma-Therm Apex HDPCVD SLR (High Density Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition) Deposition Capabilities: * Silicon Dioxide (170°C, SiH4/O2/Ar) * Silicon Nitride (150°C, SiH4/N2/Ar) * Amorphous Silicon (170°C, SiH4/Ar) * Silicon Carbide (Future Capability) Features: * Lower Temperatures (10-170°C) * Ammonia-Free Nitride * Fast! (100nm/min SiO2) * Highly Automated (Load/Start/Unload) * 600W Bias, 1000W ICP Power Supplies * 4" Wafer Size Location: Cleanroom R Bay Contact: Rich Hosler (hosler0(a)purdue.edu<mailto:hosler0@purdue.edu>) Please visit the Birck Wiki<https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/BNCWiki/> to learn about the wide array of fabrication and characterization equipment at the facility Opening in OxideMEMS lab Sunil Bhave's OxideMEMS Lab <https://engineering.purdue.edu/oxidemems/publications.html> explores inter-domain coupling in Opto-mechanical, Spin-Acoustic and Atom-MEMS devices. PhD, Postdoctoral and Research Associate positions are available in these areas: · Superconducting qubit and cryo-CMOS circuits · Resonators and switches · MEMS-engine for LIDAR · Piezo-on-nitride transducers for atom-mechanics Expertise in many and most of Microfabrication, PiezoMEMS, Photonics, Quantum Mechanics, Microwave circuits, PCB design, ADS/HFSS, Comsol, Python and Labview is required. Please send CV to bhave(a)purdue.edu<mailto:bhave@purdue.edu> if you are interested.link<http://interested.link> ECN: Planned Power Outage on July 31st A large number of ECN Servers that are housed in the MATH building will need to be powered down while electrical work is completed to accommodate additional power for the supercomputing cluster "Anvil". The work is expected to start Saturday, July 31st BEFORE 8AM, and the outage is expected to last 16 hours. This means that almost all ECN services will be unavailable during that timeframe. If you plan on working on this day, please make arrangements to copy data offline/elsewhere. If you need assistance, please reach out ASAP via https://www.purdue.edu/ECN/ContactUs . Instructors - If your summer students use ECN services, please forward this message to them as well. Please expect one more emailed reminder for this outage on July 30th. -Sundeep ECN BNC Purchasing Procedures and Virtual Conference Registrations With the start of the new semester quickly approaching and also seeing a rise in the number of personal reimbursements being submitted I wanted to send a gentle reminder of Birck's purchasing procedures and how to register for virtual conferences and workshops. Please remember that instead of using your personal card for work related purchases, they should be purchased either through Ariba using Purdue's pre-approved vendors or with a departmental credit card. Purdue is a tax exempt organization and when purchasing through Ariba or with a departmental credit card, taxes are deducted. The following link outlines the BNC purchasing procedure along with the purchase request form: https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/for-birck-users/order.php. Brenda Meador (meador3(a)purdue.edu<mailto:meador3@purdue.edu>) or Nancy Black (blackn(a)purdue.edu<mailto:blackn@purdue.edu>) can then help you to place the order. When registering for a virtual conference or workshop please reference the below instructions provided by Purdue's travel department. Online Conference and Workshop Registrations * A travel waiver is not required for online conference or workshop registrations. Fees of $1,000 or more should be reviewed by the appropriate business office before the conference or registration is booked. * Online conferences should be paid by: * Individuals who have a Purdue Travel Card: * Request a temporary card increase using the online form.<https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_29btpe6iXd002b3?_ga=2.21922812…> * Enter the conference fee in the "Single Transaction $$ Increase to" field. * Select attend a Virtual Conference. * Submit the form. * Individuals without a Purdue Travel Card: * Department Purchasing Card should be used. * If the charge does not go through, contact pcard(a)purdue.edu<mailto:pcard@purdue.edu> for assistance. The Merchant Category Code (MCC) may need to be opened for the card to post. If you have any questions on BNC purchasing or virtual conference registrations, please feel free to contact Brenda, Nancy or myself. Jaime Turner Follow us on Facebook and Twitter [Facebook icon]<https://www.facebook.com/nano.purdue.edu/> [Twitter icon] <https://twitter.com/BNCPurdue> Jaime Turner Lead Administrative Assistant to the Director | Birck Nanotechnology Center BRK | 1205 W State Street | West Lafayette, IN 47907 o: 765-494-3509<tel:7654943509> | m: 765-491-3064<tel:7654913064> | jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> [83324AA6]<https://www.purdue.edu/>

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BNC Purchasing Procedures and Virtual Conference Registrations
by Turner, Jaime J 23 Jul '21

23 Jul '21

Good afternoon, I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer so far! With the start of the new semester quickly approaching and also seeing a rise in the number of personal reimbursements being submitted I wanted to send a gentle reminder of Birck’s purchasing procedures and how to register for virtual conferences and workshops. Please remember that instead of using your personal card for work related purchases, they should be purchased either through Ariba using Purdue’s pre-approved vendors or with a departmental credit card. Purdue is a tax exempt organization and when purchasing through Ariba or with a departmental credit card, taxes are deducted. The following link outlines the BNC purchasing procedure along with the purchase request form: https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/for-birck-users/order.php. Brenda Meador (meador3(a)purdue.edu<mailto:meador3@purdue.edu>) or Nancy Black (blackn(a)purdue.edu<mailto:blackn@purdue.edu>) can then help you to place the order. When registering for a virtual conference or workshop please reference the below instructions provided by Purdue’s travel department. Online Conference and Workshop Registrations * A travel waiver is not required for online conference or workshop registrations. Fees of $1,000 or more should be reviewed by the appropriate business office before the conference or registration is booked. * Online conferences should be paid by: * Individuals who have a Purdue Travel Card: * Request a temporary card increase using the online form.<https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_29btpe6iXd002b3?_ga=2.21922812…> * Enter the conference fee in the "Single Transaction $$ Increase to" field. * Select attend a Virtual Conference. * Submit the form. * Individuals without a Purdue Travel Card: * Department Purchasing Card should be used. * If the charge does not go through, contact pcard(a)purdue.edu<mailto:pcard@purdue.edu> for assistance. The Merchant Category Code (MCC) may need to be opened for the card to post. If you have any questions on BNC purchasing or virtual conference registrations, please feel free to contact Brenda, Nancy or myself. Thank you and have a great weekend! Jaime Turner Lead Administrative Assistant to the Director | Birck Nanotechnology Center BRK | 1205 W State Street | West Lafayette, IN 47907 o: 765-494-3509<tel:7654943509> | m: 765-491-3064<tel:7654913064> | jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> [83324AA6]<https://www.purdue.edu/>

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Bindley and Birck Joint Virtual Seminar: Dr. Wen Jiang, Thurs., July 29th | 11am - 12pm | Zoom
by Turner, Jaime J 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

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BNC E-news: Week of July 19th, 2021
by Turner, Jaime J 19 Jul '21

19 Jul '21

[cid:image006.jpg@01D685C3.FA345960] Seminars /Workshops / Events nanoHUB is excited to announce the next workshop in the Summer 2021 session of our Hands-on Data Science and Machine Learning Training Series. Series information. Our series is aimed at active researchers and educators and designed to introduce practical skills with online, hands-on activities that participants will be able to incorporate in their own work. Hands-on activities will use nanoHUB cloud computing resources, negating the need to download or install any software. All that is required of the audience is an internet connection and an hour to spare for the demonstration. After the training sessions, you will be able to continue using nanoHUB for research or education. Registration links and material for prior workshops can be found at the workshop webpage: https://nanohub.org/groups/ml/handsontraining Please register soon as seats are limited. Share with any colleagues who may be interested. Title: A Machine Learning aided hierarchical screening strategy for materials discovery Date: July 21st, 2021, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EST Speaker: Anjana Talapatra, Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory Register here (limited seats): https://nanohub.org/groups/ml/handsontraining Abstract: One of the most basic approaches to problem solving is to conceptualize the problem at different abstraction levels and translate from one abstraction level to the others easily, i.e., deal with them hierarchically. This concept is especially applicable to the field of novel materials discovery, wherein large candidate domains can be quickly and efficiently explored by hierarchically discarding irrelevant candidates. In this tutorial, we illustrate this approach using the example of wide band gap oxide perovskites. We will sequentially search a very large domain space of single and double oxide perovskites to identify candidates that are likely to be formable, thermodynamically stable, exhibit insulator nature and have a wide band gap. To this end, we will build four machine learning (ML) models: three classification and one regression model using experimental and DFT-calculated training data. The tutorial will discuss best practices for building ML models, commonly encountered pitfalls and how best to avoid them. BNC Faculty Seminar Series (will resume fall semester, 2021) Previous Talks: https://engineering.purdue.edu/Intranet/Groups/BNC/FacultySeminars Birck Events<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php> and Birck News<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/news/index.php> Birck Nanotechnology Center Advanced Capabilities [cid:image002.jpg@01D77CA1.49AB4920]Keyence 950F Digital Microscope<https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/BNCWiki/Keyence+VHX-950F+Digital+Micro…> * Two lenses with magnification from 20x to 2000x * Anti-vibration control * Multiple image viewing options and 3D viewing and measuring Location: Cleanroom N Bay Contact: Bill Rowe (wrowe(a)purdue.edu<mailto:wrowe@purdue.edu>) Please visit the Birck Wiki<https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/BNCWiki/> to learn about the wide array of fabrication and characterization equipment at the facility Opening in OxideMEMS lab Sunil Bhave's OxideMEMS Lab <https://engineering.purdue.edu/oxidemems/publications.html> explores inter-domain coupling in Opto-mechanical, Spin-Acoustic and Atom-MEMS devices. PhD, Postdoctoral and Research Associate positions are available in these areas: * Superconducting qubit and cryo-CMOS circuits * Resonators and switches * MEMS-engine for LIDAR * Piezo-on-nitride transducers for atom-mechanics Expertise in many and most of Microfabrication, PiezoMEMS, Photonics, Quantum Mechanics, Microwave circuits, PCB design, ADS/HFSS, Comsol, Python and Labview is required. Please send CV to bhave(a)purdue.edu<mailto:bhave@purdue.edu> if you are interested.link<http://interested.link> Purchasing Catalog Updates In an effort to provide the best quality and value for campus customers, Procurement Services has named Fastenal, Ferguson/HP and Kirby Risk as the preferred suppliers for Maintenance Repair Operations (MRO) products. Updated Ariba catalogs with these preferred suppliers and negotiated pricing are now available. These strategic partners were selected during a robust solicitation process to help meet the University's need for various supplies, including cleaning, safety, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and general MRO hardware. A breakdown of the supplies and the new preferred vendors is as follows: * Cleaning supplies - Ferguson/HP * Electrical supplies - Kirby Risk * General MRO hardware supplies - Ferguson/HP * HVAC supplies - Fastenal * Plumbing supplies - Ferguson/HP * Safety supplies - Fastenal Purchases that would have previously gone through any of the below providers should now be submitted through one of the above catalog suppliers. * Duncan Supply * Grainger * Graybar Electric * Interline Brands * McMaster Carr * Motion Industries * MSC * Newark Electronics Additionally, Office Depot is now Purdue's preferred supplier for computer accessories and peripherals<https://www.purdue.edu/procurement/purchasing/catalog-orders/computers-equi…>. The Ariba catalog has been updated with discounted pricing for these products and is currently available for purchase under Office Depot. These purchases were previously supported by GovConnection. The Fisher Scientific catalog<https://www.purdue.edu/procurement/purchasing/catalog-orders/laboratory-sup…> has also been updated to include Qiagen and Sigma-Aldrich products. All new or updated catalogs are available in Ariba, and the previously used supplier catalogs have been removed. If an item previously purchased cannot be purchased from one of the current catalogs, a non-catalog order<https://www.purdue.edu/procurement/purchasing/non-catalog-orders/index.php> may be submitted for the item. Contact information for these suppliers can be found on the Procurement Services website<https://www.purdue.edu/procurement/purchasing/catalog-orders/index.php>. NSAC Elections [cid:image004.jpg@01D77CA1.49AB4920] Fall Grad Course [cid:image009.png@01D76125.C0ACE700] Follow us on Facebook and Twitter [Facebook icon]<https://www.facebook.com/nano.purdue.edu/> [Twitter icon] <https://twitter.com/BNCPurdue> Jaime Turner Lead Administrative Assistant to the Director | Birck Nanotechnology Center BRK | 1205 W State Street | West Lafayette, IN 47907 o: 765-494-3509<tel:7654943509> | m: 765-491-3064<tel:7654913064> | jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> [83324AA6]<https://www.purdue.edu/>

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Lost/Found Keys in Birck Kitchen
by Turner, Jaime J 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

Hello all, A set of car keys was left in the Birck kitchen today (elephant keychain and mini mouse key). Please come to BRK 1027 to pick them up, I will be here until 4:30pm. Thank you! Jaime Turner Lead Administrative Assistant to the Director | Birck Nanotechnology Center BRK | 1205 W State Street | West Lafayette, IN 47907 o: 765-494-3509<tel:7654943509> | m: 765-491-3064<tel:7654913064> | jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> [83324AA6]<https://www.purdue.edu/>

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BNC E-news: Week of July 12th, 2021
by Turner, Jaime J 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

[cid:image006.jpg@01D685C3.FA345960] Seminars /Workshops / Events nanoHUB is excited to announce the next workshop in the Summer 2021 session of our Hands-on Data Science and Machine Learning Training Series. Series information. Our series is aimed at active researchers and educators and designed to introduce practical skills with online, hands-on activities that participants will be able to incorporate in their own work. Hands-on activities will use nanoHUB cloud computing resources, negating the need to download or install any software. All that is required of the audience is an internet connection and an hour to spare for the demonstration. After the training sessions, you will be able to continue using nanoHUB for research or education. Registration links and material for prior workshops can be found at the workshop webpage: https://nanohub.org/groups/ml/handsontraining Please register soon as seats are limited. Share with any colleagues who may be interested. Title: A Machine Learning aided hierarchical screening strategy for materials discovery Date: July 21st, 2021, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EST Speaker: Anjana Talapatra, Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory Register here (limited seats): https://nanohub.org/groups/ml/handsontraining Abstract: One of the most basic approaches to problem solving is to conceptualize the problem at different abstraction levels and translate from one abstraction level to the others easily, i.e., deal with them hierarchically. This concept is especially applicable to the field of novel materials discovery, wherein large candidate domains can be quickly and efficiently explored by hierarchically discarding irrelevant candidates. In this tutorial, we illustrate this approach using the example of wide band gap oxide perovskites. We will sequentially search a very large domain space of single and double oxide perovskites to identify candidates that are likely to be formable, thermodynamically stable, exhibit insulator nature and have a wide band gap. To this end, we will build four machine learning (ML) models: three classification and one regression model using experimental and DFT-calculated training data. The tutorial will discuss best practices for building ML models, commonly encountered pitfalls and how best to avoid them. BNC Faculty Seminar Series (will resume fall semester, 2021) Previous Talks: https://engineering.purdue.edu/Intranet/Groups/BNC/FacultySeminars Birck Events<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php> and Birck News<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/news/index.php> Birck Nanotechnology Center Advanced Capabilities [cid:image002.jpg@01D77723.BDB93030]Keyence 950F Digital Microscope<https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/BNCWiki/Keyence+VHX-950F+Digital+Micro…> * Two lenses with magnification from 20x to 2000x * Anti-vibration control * Multiple image viewing options and 3D viewing and measuring Location: Cleanroom N Bay Contact: Bill Rowe (wrowe(a)purdue.edu<mailto:wrowe@purdue.edu>) Please visit the Birck Wiki<https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/BNCWiki/> to learn about the wide array of fabrication and characterization equipment at the facility New Engineering Staff Member Please welcome Dan Witter, our newest member of the Birck Engineering Staff! Dan comes to us with a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has worked for Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, he had a NASA Internship at Ames Research Center, and he worked in Quality Assurance for W. L. Gore and Associates. Additionally he served as a Metallurgical Intern at Climax Molybdenum Company, as a Lab Safety Manager for Chem-E-Car at the University of Arizona, and as a radio DJ. Dan will be working as a deposition engineer in the Scifres cleanroom. Please say hello and welcome Dan to the Birck team. Ron Reger Post Doc Position Postdoctoral positions are available at the optical super-resolution microscopy lab, directed by Dr. Fang Huang at Purdue University, Biomedical Engineering Department. The candidates are expected to spearhead innovations related to one of the two areas of research focus: 1. Fluorescence nanoscopy through tissue specimens. We develop novel imaging instruments and analytical methods to visualize intra- and extra-cellular structures at the nanoscale in thick specimens such as tissues or small animals. In the past, the team developed novel Adaptive Optics and PSF engineering methods to super-resolve brain sections (Nature Methods, 15, 583-586, 2018), deep learning framework for multiplexed single molecule analysis (Nature Methods, 15, 913-916, 2018) and INSPR (in situ PSF retrieval) technology to expand applicability of super-resolution imaging system from cells to tissues (Nature Methods, 17, 531-540, 2020). 2. Molecular resolution imaging of live cells. We seek to develop unconventional ultra-high resolution systems that synergistically combines ideas from engineering and physics such as interferometric/4Pi single molecule detection (Cell, 166, 4, 1028-1040, 2016), applied statistics (Nature Methods, 10, 653-658, 2013; Nature Methods, 14, 760-761, 2017) and coherent pupil function (Communications Biology, 3, 220, 2020) to significantly advance the achievable resolution limit for fixed and living specimens. The Huang lab also collaborate extensively with cell biologists, neuroscientists, and chemists to tackle fundamental biological questions in areas such as cytokinesis, epigenetics, neural circuits, and cell motility. We apply our imaging technologies to reveal disease mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease, autism, and cancer. A list of the group's recent work can be found here: https://www.fanghuanglab.com/publications.html. The lab's research is mainly funded through awards from NIH, DARPA and BRAIN Initiative. The applicant will have a PhD related to one (or more) of the areas in optics, microscopy, applied statistics or signal/image processing. Experiences in optical design and instrumentation, microscopy data analysis, or optical theory will be helpful. Inquiries and applications (including CV, name/email address of 2-3 referees, and reprints of 2 most significant publications) should be directed to: Fang Huang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University fanghuang(a)purdue.edu<mailto:fanghuang@purdue.edu> Web: https://www.fanghuanglab.com<https://www.fanghuanglab.com/> Applications will be stay open until filled. Fall Grad Course [cid:image009.png@01D76125.C0ACE700] Follow us on Facebook and Twitter [Facebook icon]<https://www.facebook.com/nano.purdue.edu/> [Twitter icon] <https://twitter.com/BNCPurdue> Jaime Turner Lead Administrative Assistant to the Director | Birck Nanotechnology Center BRK | 1205 W State Street | West Lafayette, IN 47907 o: 765-494-3509<tel:7654943509> | m: 765-491-3064<tel:7654913064> | jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> [83324AA6]<https://www.purdue.edu/>

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hands-on workshop of machine learning
by Turner, Jaime J 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

Dear Colleagues, nanoHUB is excited to announce the next workshop in the Summer 2021 session of our Hands-on Data Science and Machine Learning Training Series. Series information. Our series is aimed at active researchers and educators and designed to introduce practical skills with online, hands-on activities that participants will be able to incorporate in their own work. Hands-on activities will use nanoHUB cloud computing resources, negating the need to download or install any software. All that is required of the audience is an internet connection and an hour to spare for the demonstration. After the training sessions, you will be able to continue using nanoHUB for research or education. Registration links and material for prior workshops can be found at the workshop webpage: https://nanohub.org/groups/ml/handsontraining Please register soon as seats are limited. Share with any colleagues who may be interested. Title: A Machine Learning aided hierarchical screening strategy for materials discovery Date: July 21st, 2021, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EST Speaker: Anjana Talapatra, Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory Register here (limited seats): https://nanohub.org/groups/ml/handsontraining Abstract: One of the most basic approaches to problem solving is to conceptualize the problem at different abstraction levels and translate from one abstraction level to the others easily, i.e., deal with them hierarchically. This concept is especially applicable to the field of novel materials discovery, wherein large candidate domains can be quickly and efficiently explored by hierarchically discarding irrelevant candidates. In this tutorial, we illustrate this approach using the example of wide band gap oxide perovskites. We will sequentially search a very large domain space of single and double oxide perovskites to identify candidates that are likely to be formable, thermodynamically stable, exhibit insulator nature and have a wide band gap. To this end, we will build four machine learning (ML) models: three classification and one regression model using experimental and DFT-calculated training data. The tutorial will discuss best practices for building ML models, commonly encountered pitfalls and how best to avoid them. Alejandro Strachan Deputy Director, nanoHUB (2020 R&D 100 winner) -- Alejandro Strachan Professor of Materials Engineering, Purdue University Network for Computational Nanotechnology - nanohub.org<http://nanohub.org> Center for Predictive Materials and Devices (c-PRIMED)

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Reminder: Birck-Specific Changes Related to Research Space Capacity Memo
by Reger, Ronald K 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

Dear Birck Research Community, Per Dr. Theresa Mayer’s announcement below, research spaces across campus are opening up to pre-COVID capacities. This is great news for the whole Purdue research enterprise and specifically for Birck this means several changes are taking place, per the following: 1. Effective immediately the Birck laboratories will not have capacity limits. Door signs stating the capacity limits have been removed, and scheduling time in PASS to work in the labs is no longer required. 2. Also effective immediately SOP reviews to gain access to the building and to specific labs will no longer be necessary. Contact tracing can still be done using our card-reader system. 3. The seven person limit in the cleanroom gowning room is eliminated. 4. The one person limit in our air showers is still strongly encouraged, but not an absolute requirement. 5. On Monday, June 28th the Birck facility itself returned to pre-COVID access, meaning that the public doors will be unlocked from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm on weekdays. Other times the building will be locked per our former procedure. 6. Since face masks are still required for non-vaccinated people after July 1 we will retain the mask supply and safety glasses at the entrance until July 30. 7. In the cleanroom, those who are not vaccinated will still be required to wear a face mask under their cleanroom veil. 8. Prolonged office work in BRK by laboratory researchers is no longer actively discouraged. Laboratory researchers are encouraged to utilize BRK office space as needed and most appropriate for their work. 9. The 6 foot social distancing at all times is no longer an absolute requirement, but please continue to respect the personal space of others. 10. Consultation and meetings may utilize BRK conference rooms as long as they adhere to posted capacity limits. These limits may be further relaxed in the future. 11. Fume hoods may be used by multiple individuals, provided additional individuals have obtained verbal permission from the user(s) currently working in the hood. We have all been looking forward to when some of our COVID restrictions could be relaxed, and this is a welcome start to returning to normal research operations. Thank you, The Birck Leadership Team From: purdueresearch(a)purdue.edu<mailto:purdueresearch@purdue.edu> <purdueresearch(a)purdue.edu<mailto:purdueresearch@purdue.edu>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 7:02 PM To: Reger, Ronald K <rreger(a)purdue.edu<mailto:rreger@purdue.edu>> Subject: Corrected: Research Space 100% Capacity [https://mailimages.purdue.edu/spacer.gif]<https://maillinks.purdue.edu/t/41548411/1496292279/80194456/0/124711/?72f79…> View as a Web page<https://maillinks.purdue.edu/t/41548411/1496292279/87056097/0/124711/?b44ed…> [https://mailimages.purdue.edu/spacer.gif] [nameplate] [https://mailimages.purdue.edu/spacer.gif] A previous version of this message went out in error. We apologize for any confusion. Dear Research Community, We are pleased to announce that effective immediately, research spaces can return to pre-COVID-19 operations, with the exception of the continued use of face masks. Face mask usage will become optional for those who are vaccinated, beginning July 1. This will enable researchers to return to 100% capacity in their research spaces. As a result, any layout, scheduling, or other changes implemented to accommodate COVID-19 can be rescinded and these components of Research Space SOPs will be unnecessary. In conjunction with this, IRB approval will no longer require an approved Research Space SOP. However, we ask that you continue to keep your personnel lists updated through the SOP portal<https://maillinks.purdue.edu/t/41548411/1496292279/87051312/0/124711/?x=1fd…> to facilitate continued tracking of any research COVID-19 cases, particularly as we implement this relaxation of protocols. Should you require the support of Facilities to modify your research spaces, this can be accomplished through a work order. In response to these or any other changes implemented across campus, you should not be tracking or requiring proof of vaccination from others in your group. In alignment with Protect Purdue policies, we expect individuals to take personal responsibility for following guidelines. This decision has been made with input from the Protect Purdue Leadership Team and the Medical Advisory Team and affects all researchers, regardless of vaccination status. Around this time last year, we were beginning to re-open research spaces and allow researchers back into their labs under COVID-19 restrictions. Because of your diligence in following the protocols developed in your SOPs, we are thrilled that we are in the position to re-open operations. Thank you for your flexibility, hard work, and dedication during this time. Should you have any questions, please contact Michelle Dennis at mlong1(a)purdue.edu<mailto:mlong1@purdue.edu>. 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