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Graduate Student Office Temperatures
by Anthrop, Heather L 09 May '16

09 May '16

Graduate Student Office Temperatures A user wrote on this week's survey that sometimes the graduate student offices here at Birck are uncomfortably cool, especially when spending long hours in the office. They were asking to raise the office temperature by 2C - 3C to be more comfortable. Mark Voorhis, the Birck Building Manager, said office temperatures are individually controllable and can be adjusted up or down depending on the preferences of the occupants. He has a building monitoring system and he took a quick reading of several office temperatures showing various set points to be 70F - 75F with actual temperatures tracking the set points closely. So if you're uncomfortable with office temperatures, and your office mates agree, please contact Mark or Mary Jo to request a change and they will accommodate the request.

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Seminar featuring Austin J Minnich from California Institute of Technology
by Anthrop, Heather L 09 May '16

09 May '16

Austin J. Minnich Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics California Institute of Technology Seminar Friday, May 13th at 2:00 pm in Birck 2001 Heat under the microscope: Uncovering the microscopic processes that govern thermal transport Thermal transport is a ubiquitous process that incorporates a wide range of physics and plays an essential role in nearly every technological application, ranging from space power generation to consumer electronics. In many solids, heat is carried by phonons, or quanta of lattice vibrations. Compared to other energy carriers such as electrons or photons, the microscopic transport properties of thermal phonons remain remarkably poorly understood, with much of our understanding still based on semi-empirical studies from over fifty years ago. In this talk, I will describe our efforts to uncover the microscopic processes that govern thermal transport by phonons. In particular, I will describe how our advances in computation and experiment have enabled the first direct measurements of thermal phonon transmission coefficients at solid interfaces. I will demonstrate how these insights are advancing applications ranging from thermoelectric waste heat recovery to radio astronomy. Austin Minnich is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley in 2006 and his PhD from MIT in 2011, after which he started his position at Caltech. He is the recipient of a 2013 NSF CAREER Award and a 2015 ONR Young Investigator Award. His research interests focus on understanding the fundamental processes governing heat transport and using these insights to advance technologies for space exploration, consumer electronics, and energy conversion. [Macintosh HD:Users:aminnich:Pictures:2008:Graduation:IMG_0691 copy.JPG]

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Alert: Notice of Vibration & Gates Road Work near BNC
by Weaver, John R 09 May '16

09 May '16

BNC researchers - Please Note: There will be significant vibration events over the next two weeks. Please plan your research work accordingly. Steel beams for the new Flex Lab facility will be driven into the ground, likely causing vibration events at the BNC. All work will be performed between 7:00 am and 3:30 pm. The days that this work will be performed are: This week: Thursday, May 12th; Friday, April 13th; Next week: Monday, May 16th; Tuesday, May 17th; Wednesday, April 18th; Thursday, April 19th; Friday, April 20th. In addition, as of today Gates Road will NOT provide access to the rear of the BNC. It will be open only to the Bindley Biosciences Center and DLRC docks. Access to the BNC dock for large trucks will be provided by the temporary road that opens onto Nimitz Drive. All other access to the rear of the BNC is through the southwest parking lot at the end of Marshall Drive. Thank you in advance for you cooperation during this College of Engineering project. John [cid:image001.png@01D1A9D7.0D3169E0] From: Tom Lernihan [mailto:TLernihan@pepperconstruction.com] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 9:38 AM To: Nikolaidis, Natasha N <nnikolai(a)purdue.edu>; Rudolph, Stephen G <sgrudolph(a)purdue.edu>; Schlegel, Sylvia L <sschlege(a)purdue.edu>; Shakouri, Ali <shakouri(a)purdue.edu>; Standifer, Anthony N <anstandifer(a)purdue.edu>; Voorhis, Mark L. <mvoorhis(a)purdue.edu>; Weaver, John R <jrweaver(a)purdue.edu>; Denecke, Jacob M <jdenecke(a)purdue.edu> Cc: Yuvaraaj S <yuvaraaj(a)pepperconstruction.com>; Chris Rayner <CRayner(a)pepperconstruction.com>; Nicholas Abrams <NAbrams(a)pepperconstruction.com> Subject: Flex Lab Facility - Notice of Vibration & Gates Road Work All, We wanted to provide an update to all of the adjacent buildings to the Flex Lab Facility that the following work will occur: Vibration Update: - Our contractors are expected to start the installing of the earth retention along the North side of Gates Road on Thursday May 12th This work will include the use of a vibratory attachment to an excavator to drive steel beams down 30' into the ground. - High vibration and Noise should be expected on the following dates & times: o Thursday, May 12th - 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM o Friday, April 13th - 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM o Monday, May 16th - 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM o Tuesday, May 17th - 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM o Wednesday, April 18th - 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM o Thursday, April 19th - 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM o Friday, April 20th - 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM Gates Road Work Update - Gates Road will remain open for full use of Truck and Vehicle traffic until Monday, May 9th 2016. - On Monday May 9th, fencing will be relocated, per the attached plan, that will prohibit delivery access to the Birck Nontechnology Center via Gates Road o Delivery to Bindley and Discovery Learning center will remain open at all times via Gates Road. o This revised fencing plan will remain in place for 6 - 12 months. Please let us know if there are any issues with this plan. Thanks, Tom Lernihan, LEED(r) AP BD+C Project Manager Pepper Construction of Indiana<http://www.pepperconstruction.com/> /// BREAKING GROUND Illinois . Indiana . Ohio . Texas T 317-681-5257 M 317-557-7330

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Notification of Re-Scheduled Brief Outages for ITaP Data Center Firewall Contexts - ITaP Change Management RFC #6009
by Totten, Mary J 09 May '16

09 May '16

WORK TO BE PERFORMED: From 11:00 PM to 11:59 PM on Thursday, 5/12/16, the ITaP Data Networks Team will be performing scheduled work that may cause a disruption of data network services for some clients. AFFECTED CLIENTS: It is possible that no noticeable disruption of services will occur during this scheduled work however if a service disruption does occur, all clients and services that utilize an ITaP Data Center firewall context will experience that disruption. SCOPE OF WORK: It is possible that no clients will experience a noticeable service disruption but if such does occur, affected client(s) should plan to experience a couple of service disruptions during the scheduled outage window, each disruption lasting up to 5 minutes in duration. 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 ===============================

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NOTICE - Cleanroom & Laboratories are Now Open
by Voorhis, Mark L. 06 May '16

06 May '16

All BNC Users - The preventive maintenance shutdown of the Birck Nanotechnology Facility has been completed successfully due to the efforts the BNC Engineering Staff and the Physical Facilities trades. The cleanroom and laboratories are now open for operation. Some equipment is still shut down for maintenance, or is in the process of being started back up. Please check Coral for individual equipment status. Thank you for your patience and understanding during this set of important preventive-maintenance procedures. BNC Management

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Seminar on bacteria and biofilms, Tuesday, May 3, 10:00am, ME2054
by Anthrop, Heather L 02 May '16

02 May '16

Bacteria and bacterial biofilms: Interplay of physical mechanisms and biofilm formation Dr. Aloke Kumar Tuesday, May 3 10:00 am ME2054 Abstract Bacteria in natural and artificial environments often reside in self-organized, integrated communities known as biofilms. Understanding and controlling the growth of biofilms, which are inevitable in most aqueous systems, promises to hugely impact biomedical, industrial and environmental applications. Today there exist fundamental gaps in the understanding of interplay of physical mechanisms and biofilm processes due to the inherent heterogeneity and multi-scale nature of these biological soft materials. Over the last few years, my group has focused on fundamental understanding of biofilm growth and their control using micro-fluidic platforms. In particular, we have discovered that biofilms, in the presence of low Reynolds number flows, degenerate into filamentous structures governed primarily by the viscoelastic nature of biofilms. Formation of such streamers is an important puzzle in the field and microfluidic devices offer a degree of control previously unavailable to study them. About the speaker: Dr. Aloke Kumar is currently the Canada Research Chair in Microfluidics for Biological Systems and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. Prior to that, he was the Wigner fellow at Oak Ridge National Labs, Tennessee, USA. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 2005 and his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA in 2010. He is also the editorial board member of the Nature publishing house journal Scientific Reports. If you're interested in meeting with Dr. Kumar, please reply to Steve Wereley (wereley(a)purdue.edu<mailto:wereley@purdue.edu>). Dr. Kumar will be available for meetings on Tuesday, May 3, and Wednesday, May 4. Steve Wereley, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Birck Nanotechnology Center, Room 2019, 1205 West State Street Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907 phone: 765/494-5624, fax: 765/494-0539 web page: http://engineering.purdue.edu/~wereley

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FW: Flex Lab Facility - Notice of Vibration & Gates Road Work
by Weaver, John R 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Update from Pepper Construction on the Flex Lab facility and the impact on the BNC: Significant vibration expected Friday, Monday, and Tuesday from 7:00 am - 3:30 pm. Please plan your research accordingly. Monday, May 2, test borings will be done on Gates Drive behind the BNC electrical yard. Traffic will be maintained and flagmen will be present. Please limit traffic on this day to large trucks as much as practical to prevent traffic backups. Monday, May 9, Gates Road will close for an estimated 6 - 12 months. Access to the BNC Docks and Gas Delivery area will be as follows: Normal traffic: Harrison St. to Marshall Drive, through southwest parking lot to dock area Large truck traffic: Harrison St. to temporary drive to dock area. Please use this driveway only for large trucks. Please see the attached map for details. John Weaver Strategic Facilities Officer From: Tom Lernihan [mailto:TLernihan@pepperconstruction.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 2:57 PM To: Nikolaidis, Natasha N <nnikolai(a)purdue.edu>; Rudolph, Stephen G <sgrudolph(a)purdue.edu>; Schlegel, Sylvia L <sschlege(a)purdue.edu>; Shakouri, Ali <shakouri(a)purdue.edu>; Standifer, Anthony N <anstandifer(a)purdue.edu>; Voorhis, Mark L. <mvoorhis(a)purdue.edu>; Weaver, John R <jrweaver(a)purdue.edu>; Denecke, Jacob M <jdenecke(a)purdue.edu> Cc: Yuvaraaj S <yuvaraaj(a)pepperconstruction.com>; Chris Rayner <CRayner(a)pepperconstruction.com>; Nicholas Abrams <NAbrams(a)pepperconstruction.com> Subject: Flex Lab Facility - Notice of Vibration & Gates Road Work All, We wanted to provide an update to all of the adjacent buildings to the Flex Lab Facility that the following work will occur: Vibration Update: - Our contractors will be installing a temporary stone road as seen in the attached drawing. This work will include the use of vibratory compacting equipment. - High vibration activities expected on the following dates & times: o Friday, April 29th - 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM o Monday, May 2nd - 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM o Tuesday, May 3rd - 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM Gates Road Work Update - Gates Road will remain open for full use of Truck and Vehicle traffic until Monday, May 9th 2016. - On Monday May 9th, fencing will be relocated, per the attached plan, that will prohibit delivery access to the Birck Nontechnology Center via Gates Road o Delivery to Bindley and Discovery Learning center will remain open at all times via Gates Road. o This revised fencing plan will remain in place for 6 - 12 months. o See attached for proposed signage plans - On Monday, May 2nd, a crew will potholing 2 locations to verify the existing tunnel and utilities as shown on the attached plan. o This work will not shut down any deliveries to Birck or Bindley o Construction flagmen will be provided on Monday May 2nd to direct traffic as required. o Holes will filled with stone for regular vehicle traffic by the end of the day. Please let us know if there are any issues with this plan. Thanks, Tom Lernihan, LEED(r) AP BD+C Project Manager Pepper Construction of Indiana<http://www.pepperconstruction.com/> /// BREAKING GROUND Illinois . Indiana . Ohio . Texas T 317-681-5257 M 317-557-7330

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Vibration Alert - Flex Lab Construction Project
by Voorhis, Mark L. 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

All BNC Users - We were notified today that contractors will start for installing the temporary road behind the center. This will involve a high vibration activity that would start tomorrow and continue through the 4th of May. The work will be limited to 7am-3:30pm. It is very possible that the BNC may experience vibration during this process. Please be aware of this possibility and organize your work accordingly. Also, please notify us if you experience any vibration issues in your research as a result of this work. Thank you in advance for your understanding during this Purdue University Physical Facilities (PUPF) project.

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3D Cell Culture Training Course - June 16 & 17 2016
by Kwok, Tim 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

Dear Fellow Scientists, The 3D Cell Culture Core (3D3C) facility is proposing a first hands-on training workshop for basic 3D cell culture techniques on June 16 and 17, 2016. The purpose of 3D cell culture is to place cells in an environment in which they reproduce physiologically relevant features of real tissues. There is a wide range of techniques involved in the setup of the 3D cell culture. The workshop in June will cover some basic techniques for work with tumors or certain other tissues that require the formation of masses or spheroids; advanced and specialized techniques of 3D culture for other types of tissue architectures and coculture techniques will be covered via additional workshops in the future. For details on the content, prerequisite and registration regarding the “Basics of 3D Cell Culture” see below and the flyer attached. What is referred to ‘spheroid’ culture using gels is relatively simple to set up and is used in many studies for cancer research. The June workshop will cover the setup of spheroid culture using drip and thick embedding methods with EHS (engelbreth-holm-swarm)-derived gel, better known as Matrigel type of gel, as it is the most widely used gel at the moment, but the workshop will cover the use of gels (natural, like collagen I better suited for the study of invasive tumors for instance, and artificial) in general. It will also cover using serum-free medium, dislodging multicellular structures from hydrogel-based 3D culture and preparing 3D cultures for immunolabeling. The prerequisite for the workshop is sufficient knowledge in standard (2D) cell culture techniques and, of course, REM biosafety training and blood-borne-pathogen training. If you are interested in the workshop, please contact me for information and registration. The workshop is limited to SIX participants. The deadline for registration is May 20, 2016. In closing, each model can be tailored to the need of a particular study. Therefore, there is more than techniques involved; there is a way of thinking. At 3D3C we hope to trigger interest in this process and help you optimize ongoing and future research projects that make use of cell culture. Sincerely, Tim Kwok Facility Manager 3D Cell Culture Core (3D3C) Facility Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University ________________________________ [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b7d6d1ffee56a866e499104cf/images/5432b8a7-526…]

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NanoDays 2016: A Giga Thank you!
by Peroulis, Dimitrios 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

Dear all, NanoDays 2016 (https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/nanodays) earlier this month was a great opportunity for all of us to help impact a lot of lives. Over 200 individuals and groups worked hard to make this event a big success. Listing everyone here would make this email too long; I hope, though, you will get the chance to check out this link https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/nanodays_contributors to find out more about that. I would like to express our big thank you to everyone for selflessly contributing to this important event! As I am sure you have personally experienced, it makes a big difference for many kids and their families! I particularly wanted to thank Dr. Swati Pol and Ms. Jaime Turner for successfully leading this effort. It would simply have been impossible without their countless hours of work. This year we had over 1000 participants in NanoDays, which is a 35% increase than last year. It includes over 170 volunteers, Girls scouts, K-12 grade students, home schools, teachers, parents and general audiences on all three days, April 13-15, 2016. Also, there were research booths organized by 7 faculty (Professors Alexandra Boltasseva, Jong Hyun Choi, Vilas Pol, Vladimir Shalaev, Daniel Suter, Jeffrey Youngblood, Alex Wei, Dana Weinstein, Xianfan Xu) and 4 groups (nanoHub, NSAC, OSA/SPIE & ELSS) which was specifically appreciated by our visitors. On behalf of the Birck Center, a Giga Thank you for NanoDays 2016 to all! Dimitri

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