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Secretary & Copier
by Black, Nancy Lee 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Good morning to all - Please direct your secretarial issues, request, and/or concerns to me today. Annie, Melissa and Katie as well as the 2 student workers will not be here today. Do let me know if you have any needs I will be happy to assist. I plan to be at the front Atrium most of the day. Phone there is 43509. Also, please note the copier in Rm 1022 is down and service has been called. Thanks, Nancy Black Secretary Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 (765) 494-8675 Email: blackn(a)purdue.edu From: Allain, Monica M.C. Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 8:12 AM To: Black, Nancy Lee Cc: Clawson, Trina A; Eberhard, Amy B Subject: All by ourselves Hello everyone, Nancy and I are it for today! Katie and Melissa are both out sick. Nancy can you send something out to the faculty to let them know. Although I doubt they're in the center we should still send something out. Thanks. ~ Monica M. Cortez Allain, Ph.D. ~ ************************************************************ Monica M. Cortez Allain, Ph.D. Managing Director Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Phone: (765) 494-5138 Fax: (765) 496-8299 ************************************************************

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Deborah Starewich's new position
by James Cooper 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

To the BNC community, I would like to let you know that as of December 1, 2010, our administrative assistant, Deborah Starewich, will be moving to a new position with Purdue University. The entire Birck community has benefited from Deb's loyal and dedicated service, and we wish her well in her new position. -- Jim Cooper, Interim Director Birck Nanotechnology Center

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Hawk Attacks
by Weaver, John R 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

There have now been four reported hawk attacks on people walking through the grassy area to the west of the BNC. This is contrary to normal hawk behavior, especially during this time of year. We have been working with Purdue Pest Control, and they are working with USDA-APHIS Wildlife personnel in an attempt to eliminate this hazard. Until this situation is rectified, please be aware of the situation and take appropriate precautions. PUPF suggests carrying an umbrella or like object that would allow you to fight off an attack should one occur. We will keep you apprised of any progress in mitigating this situation. John John R. Weaver Facility Manager Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University (765) 494-5494 jrweaver(a)purdue.edu

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Please Help: Fluke 971 Relative Humidity & Temperature Meter
by Weaver, John R 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

We are looking for a yellow Fluke 971 relative humidity & temperature meter (picture attached). If you have seen this or know of its location please let me know. "BRK" marked on the back of the meter. Thank you, Mark Voorhis Building Manager Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center Office: (765) 494-3036 mvoorhis(a)purdue.edu

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weekly memo: October 25, 2010
by Deborah Starewich 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

What happened to the weekly memo? Beginning November 1, 2010, you will no longer receive the "weekly memo" from us in your inbox. The decision to eliminate the memo was due to the following: • We have heard from several of you that your inboxes are crowded enough and you do not read it. • We noticed that our click-through rate for the memo was near zero for the past six months - meaning virtually no one clicked on the "read more" links in the e-mail! • There are better ways to bring you the news and events happening at the BNC! Read on for details. If you wish to continue to read the memo, you have several options to do so. Please choose the option that works best for you. 1. Visit this page (and bookmark) anytime for up-to-date information. 2. Subscribe to our RSS feed through Outlook , or any RSS reader. 3. Subscribe to our RSS feed through Internet Explorer , Mozilla Firefox , or Apple Safari . Click on the links for directions on how to do this. RSS feeds will be updated weekly. The URL for this RSS feed is: http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/BNCannouncements.xml (Click on this link to see if your web browser displays RSS feeds). Take a brief (4 question) survey to help make BNC announcements better. Thanks!

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Weekly memo: 10.18.10
by Deborah Starewich 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

A change to the weekly memo . . . Beginning November 1, 2010, you will no longer receive the "weekly memo" from us in your inbox. The decision to eliminate the memo was due to the following: • We have heard from several of you that your inboxes are crowded enough and you do not read it. • We noticed that our click-through rate for the memo was near zero for the past six months - meaning virtually no one clicked on the "read more" links in the e-mail! • There are better ways to bring you the news and events happening at the BNC! Read on for details. If you wish to continue to read the memo, you have several options to do so. Please choose the option that works best for you. 1. Visit this page (and bookmark) anytime for up-to-date information. 2. Subscribe to our RSS feed through Outlook , or any RSS reader. 3. Subscribe to our RSS feed through Internet Explorer , Mozilla Firefox , or Apple Safari . Click on the links for directions on how to do this. RSS feeds will be updated weekly. The URL for this RSS feed is: http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/BNCannouncements.xml (Click on this link to see if your web browser displays RSS feeds). Take a brief (4 question) survey to help make BNC announcements better. Thanks!

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Cleanroom and Laboratories Open
by Weaver, John R 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

The preventive maintenance shutdown has been completed successfully and ahead of schedule, due to the efforts of Mark Voorhis, the 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 equipment status. Thank you for your patience and understanding during this set of important preventive-maintenance procedures. John John R. Weaver Facility Manager Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University (765) 494-5494 jrweaver(a)purdue.edu

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Weekly Memo: 10.11.10
by Deborah Starewich 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

To ensure you receive your BNC Weekly Memo e-mails, please add bnc-all(a)ecn.purdue.edu to your address book. Current issue is at http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/mondaymemo.html The BNC Monday Memo BNC News week of October 11, 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS PHOTOCOPIER/PRINTER MOVES The photocopiers/printers from BRK 1222 and BRK 2020 will be moved on Monday, October 11. The color machine in BRK 1222 will be moved to the second floor atrium area, just west of Birck 2001. The black and white machine in BRK 2020 will be moved to BRK 1222. An ECN training session to show users how to connect to the newly located machines will be held on Thursday, October 8, at 11:00AM, in Birck 1001 . Several members of the staff and the Birck Ambassadors are planning on attending this session to be prepared to assist users in the connection. If you are interested in learning for yourself, please plan on attending. BUILDING TEMPERATURES Birck offices and the atrium may be cool on the morning on October 12 , from 6:00AM to 11:00AM. Depending on the outside weather conditions and the length of repairs to the system, we may see temperatures as low as 55° to 60°. Please plan for warm clothing, as needed. SHUTDOWN The semiannual shutdown of the BNC will take place Tuesday through Friday, October 12-15, 2010. The CLEANROOM and LABS will be closed at 12:01 AM Tuesday morning. If all goes well, it will reopen at 8:00 AM Friday morning. If issues arise, it may be closed for some or all of Friday, October 15. Please remove all material from fume hoods prior to the cleanroom and lab closing. The startup times for the cleanroom and laboratories apply to the facility, not necessarily the equipment. Please check Coral for equipment downtime and startup times. Mark Voorhis (765) 494-3036 SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS [Purdue] visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date seminar/workshop information. Monday, 10.11.10, 9:00AM to 4:30PM, MRGN 121: Company Fund Raising Boot Camp: Real World Advice for Starting a Company. [ MORE ] Tuesday, 10.12.10, 9:30AM to 2:30PM, Stewart Center: "Agilent's Innovations Tour" [ Flier ] Thursday, 10.14.10, 4:30PM, ME 161: "Challenges in Aerospace Propulsion (including saving the planet)," by Professor Stephen D. Heister, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, School of Mechanical Engineering (by Courtesy), Purdue University, Director, Rolls-Royce UTC in High Mach Propulsion. Refreshments served 4:00PM, ME 254. [MORE ] Friday, 10.15.10, 10:30AM, BRK 1001: "Research Programs and Emerging Opportunities at NSF with Emphasis Upon the ECCS Division," R.J. Trew, Division Director, Electrical, Communications, and Cyber-Systems (ECCS) Division, Engineering Directorate, National Science Foundation. Adobe connect: https://gomeet.itap.purdue.edu/trew/ [ MORE ] UPCOMING Monday and Tuesday, 10.18.10 and 10.19.10, Symposium on Breast Cancer Prevention: Nutrition, Communication, and Public Policy. Registration includes all meals and coffee breaks: $175 or $100 for students and breast cancer advocates. Website Tuesday, 10.28.10, 2:00PM, MRGN 121: "Faculty Entrepreneurship — University Startup Models," by Gerard Eldering, Founder and President, Innovate Tech Ventures. Refreshments following in Venture Cafe. Office of Technology Commercialization Director's Forum [ MORE ] Monday, 11.08.10, 9:00AM, MRGN 129: “SPECT/PET of Molecules and Organs in Action at sub millimeter resolution," by Dr. Freek J. Beekman, Delft University of Technologies [ FLIER ] Monday, 11.08.10, 10:00AM - 3:00PM, MRGN 129 workshop; Bindley 158 scanning & reconstruction demo: "Whole Animal Imaging with mSPECT/mCT," presented by the Bindley Imaging Group (BIG) [ FLIER ] Wednesday and Thursday, 11.10.10 and 11.11.10, 9:00AM to 5:00PM, Stewart Center West Foyer: "Traveling Technology Experience," by by Professor Aaron Cichanover, Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel [ MORE ] Wednesday, 11.10.10, 10:30AM, Fowler Hall: "Drug Development in the 21st Century: Are we going to cure all diseases?" by Professor Aaron Cichanover, Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel [ MORE ] SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS [External] Wednesday, 10.13.10, 5:30PM, Barnes and Thornburg, 11 S Meridian Street, Indianapolis: "Indiana Companies to Watch: Entrepreneurial Policy Town Hall Meeting." RVSP to Rita Reese at rreese(a)isbdc.org or 888.472.3244 by October 6th [ MORE ] Monday and Tuesday, 10.25.10 and 10.26.10, Virginia Tech: Workshop on the Impact of pen-based Technology in Education. www.wipte.org [ MORE ] Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 11.08.10 to 11.10.10: SBIR National Conference, "Making Connections," Oklahoma City. [ WEBSITE ] “Syntheses, Characterizations and Applications of Oxide Nanocomposites Materials” (International Session E, presented in English) in MRS-J Academic Symposium to be held on Dec. 20-22, 2010 in YOKOHAMA, JAPAN. ================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS 20th MRS-J Academic Symposium Dec. 20-22, 2010 in YOKOHAMA, JAPAN Syntheses, Characterizations and Applications of Oxide Nanocomposites Materials (International Session E) Register and submit your abstract at http://mrs-j.org/home/en/guidesympo/ The 2011 World Congress on Electronics and Electrical Engineering [WCEEENG 2011] : Monday through Thursday, 04.04.11 to 04.07.11 , Cairo, Egypt Full Paper Submission Deadline (Dec. 31, 2010) [ MORE ] 19th International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering, 07.24.11 to 07.30.11, Shanghai, China http://www.icce-nano.org [ MORE ] FUNDING FY12 Washington Projects Call for White Papers due to OVPR by Friday, October 15, 2010. [ MORE ] LIMITED SUBMISSION: NSF Scalable Nanomanufacturing (SNM) [ MORE ] See http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10618/nsf10618.htm for the full solicitation. The Core Pilot funding opportunity is open for applications through October 18, 2010. The guidelines and application are available on the Indiana CTSI HUB – log in using your university username and password and go to https://www.indianactsi.org/grants . [ MORE ] PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS Faculty, staff, and students who have fever or other influenza symptoms should seek medical care. PLEASE DO NOT REPORT TO WORK WHILE ILL. Birck Nanotechnology Center staff will be notified of an emergency situation by telephone in the order set out in the BNC’s Phone Tree. BNC faculty members will receive an e-mail message from Monica Allain or Jim Cooper. Members of the Faculty (Professors and Research Professors) are responsible for contacting each of their group members, including graduate students, undergraduate researchers, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists. Specific instructions should be conveyed by phone if possible. All graduate students should register for the Purdue University e-mail alert system at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/mail.html . Additional information for pandemic and emergency preparation may be found at www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/faculty and http://www.purdue.edu/emergency_preparedness LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE Editorial policy: personal information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc., included with permission [ More ] "Isaac Wildeson and Caitlin Burger got married on 10/2/2010" [ PHOTO ] Submit items for memo of the week of October 18, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY , 10.15.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi(a)purdue.edu Other BNC info: Purdue Home Page BNC Home Page BNC Users Forum Links to Discovery Park Centers Bindley Bioscience Center Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Cyber Center Discovery Learning Research Center Global Sustainability at Purdue: Center for Environment Energy Center Purdue Climate Change Research Center Oncological Sciences Center Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Sign up to be: Media Expert Community Speaker

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FW: CANCELED-* electrical shutdown MSEE
by Reger, Ronald K 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Dear Birck Users, Due to unforeseen circumstances, the electrical shutdown of the MSEE scheduled for this Saturday, October 9th, has been postponed to a later date (see attached memo). Please disregard my previous note about Coral being suspended/shut down this Saturday. The Coral servers will remain active so please log into Coral as usual throughout this weekend. Thanks for your understanding. Ron From: John Coy [mailto:jcoy@purdue.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 12:26 PM To: Reger, Ronald K Subject: Fwd: CANCELED-* electrical shutdown MSEE Begin forwarded message: From: "Christopher N. Deckard" <cnd(a)ecn.purdue.edu<mailto:cnd@ecn.purdue.edu>> Date: October 7, 2010 10:46:39 AM GMT-04:00 To: John Coy <jcoy(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jcoy@purdue.edu>> Subject: Fwd: Fwd: CANCELED-* electrical shutdown MSEE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FYI MSEE Buillding Occupants, I received the following Memorandum below in regards to the Electrical shutdown that was scheduled for the MSEE building this Saturday. This shutdown has been canceled and will need to reschedule after we have had a chance to look at the calendar. When this shutdown takes place we will need to shut down the building for 6-8 hours and No one will be allowed in for safety reasons because the lights will be off. If you have any dates that will not work with your research please get those times to me ASAP. They need for us to have the meters installed before the end of the year and the dates that they can do the work are filling up quickly. One more bit of information that I need to pass along is next Monday and Tuesday October 11th and 12th the maintenance folks will be working on several of the air handlers in the MSEE building and the EE building. You will notice the Air Conditioning going on and off at times. One of the Main air handlers for the MSEE building will be down for most of the day on Monday. The unit # is ACB-4. Please take a look at the Link below to locate the areas that ACB-4 takes care of. https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/MSEEairhandlers MEMORANDUM TO: R. E. McMains FROM: T. L. Graham DATE: October 7, 2010 RE: *CANCELLED-* electrical shutdown MSEE The electrical shutdown at MSEE scheduled for Saturday, October 9, 2010, has been *canceled. *It will be re scheduled at a later date to tie in the electric meter. This shutdown was requested by Leon DeCamp. Cc Dave Rowe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.12 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyt3U8ACgkQ+zGkEDwn8UYMkACeN3ahU3PgGgy/TCd8CQX6CMzf SNoAoIMZmqY6k8Xj2TzZrtwjshTEpMrV =zARL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Coral Unavailable on Saturday, October 9
by Reger, Ronald K 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Dear Birck Users, Due to the complete electrical shutdown of MSEE on Saturday, October 9, from 7:30 - ~ 4:30 (per the attached memo from ECN) we at the Birck Nanotechnology Center will experience a disruption of Coral services for the same time period (the Coral servers are located within MSEE). THIS SHOULD NOT AFFECT RESEARCH TOOL AVAILABILITY HERE AT BIRCK. Because Coral will be down during this time period we will require all users of Coral-interfaced tools to manually fill out log sheets near the equipment. This manual logging will begin Saturday morning and continue until power has been restored to MSEE and the Coral servers brought back on-line. Thank you for your patience during this brief Coral disruption/outage. If you have any questions, please contact coral(a)ecn.purdue.edu. Ron ----------------------------------------------------------- MESSAGE FROM ECN: All, You are receiving this email because you have an account on an ECN maintained computer. Please be aware that there will be an electrical outage in MSEE that is scheduled for Saturday, October 9th, from 7.30am until 4.30pm. Since this will affect the major backbone of the ECN systems, please plan for a significant disruption of ECN services during this time. Amongst other things, this includes web services, email, file services, licensing, remote logins, print services, windows logins... Please let me know if you have any questions, I will pass them on to the appropriate people. Thanks, - -Sundeep Rao - -- ========================================================== Sundeep Rao Engineering Computer Network Senior Site Manager 465 Northwestern Avenue Purdue University Phone: (765) 494-4326 West Lafayette, IN 47907 Fax: (765) 494-3356 ========================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyjXvsACgkQE4l/1ur1RrqqNQCfa66E93wSrynsG/3anatEG5Yw WEcAoJeumIZqlBiNR005BtWmbPjdk0EG =e4le -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ecnannounce-list mailing list Ecnannounce-list(a)ecn.purdue.edu https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/mailman/listinfo/ecnannounce-list

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