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Birck Living: January Issue
by Starewich, Deborah S. 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Deborah S. Starewich Administrative Assistant to Tim Sands, Director Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 1205 W. State Street West Lafayette IN 47907-2057 765-494-3509 Fax 765-496-8383 www.nano.purdue.edu

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probe station #2
by Dave Lubelski 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Probe Station #2 is now operational. Staff

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NIH Grants.gov workshops
by Brown, Stacy L. 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Now that 2007 is here and the February 5th NIH deadline is approaching, we want to remind you of the following opportunity. If you are unable to attend the workshops, you may also set up a time to meet one-on-one with a Pre-Award Manager. NIH Grants.gov Proposal Submission Workshops Have you ever wondered if there is something you can do to increase the chances of your proposal being accepted on the first submission? Sponsored Programs Pre-Award Services can help! We are offering many opportunities for assistance with the upcoming February 5th NIH Grants.gov deadline. These workshops will cover: Getting started with Grants.gov Software needs Commons Login Website Downloading Form - by - form instructions Step - by - step for each section Appropriate forms for your type of submission What happens after submission? Grants.gov Validation Commons Validation Examples of common errors from past submission experience Please RSVP to Jeff Buchanan (jbuchanan(a)purdue.edu) and let him know which specific workshop you wish to attend. See options listed below: January 15 STEW 202 2:00-5:00 p.m. January 18 STEW 313 1:00-4:00 p.m. January 19 STEW 202 10:00-12:00 noon January 23 STEW 322 9:00-12:00 noon January 24 STEW 202 9:00-12:00 noon For specific content questions, please contact Jenny Siemers at jsiemers(a)purdue.edu.

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Landscaping Update
by John Weaver 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

The landscaping around the Birck Nanotechnology Center is wrapping up for the winter. The contractor has indicated that the sidewalks should be turned over to us no later than January 15, 2007. The fences will come down and we will have normal access to the BNC. I think we all will say, "FINALLY!" This is about two weeks later than the original plan, but there were circumstances that caused the delays. That means that we have a little over a week to put up with the current situation. I would like to ask everyone to be patient. Please use the proper routes - don't go onto the construction site and don't prop open locked doors at Birck. Above all, please respect our facility - don't go through the mud to take a "short cut" into the building. Thank you for your patience during this project. The work will resume in the Spring, but we will always have multiple access points - it won't be like it has been up to this time. It will be obvious when the fences come down, but I will also send out an e-mail letting you know when we have full access restored. John John R. Weaver Facility Manager Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University (765) 494-5494 jrweaver(a)purdue.edu

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Post Doc Position
by Bashir, Rashid 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

<<post doc 2007.pdf>> ========================================== Rashid Bashir, Ph.D. Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering & School of Mechanical Engineering (by Courtesy), Purdue University Faculty Scholar, Room 2019 Birck Nanotechnology Center, 1205 State Street, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 (765) 496-6229 (Tel), (765) 494-6441 (fax) (765) 418-9228 (Cell-Purdue) <https://engineering.purdue.edu/LIBNA>https://engineering.purdue.edu/LIBNA ===========================================

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Molecular Cytometry Facility holiday hours
by Starewich, Deborah S. 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

To all Bindley Bioscience Center & Birck Nanotechnology Center personnel: The Molecular Cytometry Facility would like to notify you that the majority of our personnel will be out of town for the holidays between Friday, December 22nd until Wednesday, December 27th. For those of you who require access to our labs, BIND 233, please be aware that the labs will be locked and secured for the holidays beginning today at 5 PM. For those of you with approved training, lab keys, and Bindley access, please feel free to work in our facilities whenever you wish. Pre-approved research operations will be allowed to continue as usual. Please make sure that all doors are locked and all lights except emergency room lights are turned off after you have finished your work. Our Bioanalytical Chemist, Christy Cooper, will be back in the labs on Wed., Dec. 27th. In the event of an emergency or you need help at anytime, please contact Dr. James Leary (jfleary(a)purdue.edu Office: x42780 Home: 463-4246) or Lisa Reese (lreece(a)purdue.edu Home: 446-4269 Cell: 532-5932). We will be staying in town for the holidays and will get back with you as soon as possible. May all of you have the best Winter Holidays possible! -MCF Team Christy L. Cooper Bioanalytical Chemist Department of Basic Medical Sciences School of Veterinary Medicine Bindley Bioscience Center Room 227/233 1203 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 (765) 496-2674 clcooper(a)purdue.edu

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Mail times Friday December 29th
by MaryJo Totten 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Hi Everyone, Please make a note that there will only be only mail pickup on Friday December 29th at 8:00AM. Please make sure that any mail or packages will be in the mailroom by 8:00AM. Thank you, Mary Jo Totten Operations Clerk Birck Nanotechnology Center Discovery Park/Purdue University (765) 496-1173

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2006 Christmas Holiday Schedule.xls
by Weaver, John R 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Attached is the final holiday schedule for December, 2007. We were able to cover most - but not all - of the times where we were seeking volunteers. John Weaver

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REMINDER: Nano Seminar: Douglas Werner, Pennsylvania State Univ., Dept. of Electrical Eng., 12/19/06, @ 3:45 PM, BRK 2001 (Applications of Frequency Selective Surfaces in the Design of Metamaterials)
by Annie Cheever 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

"Applications of Frequency Selective Surfaces in the Design of Metamaterials" Tuesday, December 19, 2006 3:45 PM Birck Nanotechnology Building, Room 2001 Douglas H. Werner, Professor and Director The Computational Electromagnetics and Antennaes Research Lab (CEARL) Pennsylvania State University, Department of Electrical Engineering, http://labs.ee.psu.edu/labs/dwernergroup/ Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) are well known in the literature for their filtering characteristics at microwave and millimeter wave frequencies. Traditional FSS filters are comprised of a doubly periodic metallic screen printed on a dielectric substrate and are sometimes referred to in the infrared (IR) as metallodielectric photonic crystals (MDPCs). Metallodielectric FSS have also been synthesized at microwave frequencies to exhibit metamaterial properties such as artificial magnetic conducting, negative refractive index and zero refractive index behavior. This research naturally extends to synthesizing negative index metamaterials (NIM) and zero index metamaterials (ZIM) in the IR and optical bands. For applications at visible wavelengths, metallic losses can degrade the performance of metallodielectric FSS, whereas low loss dielectric materials are readily available. Thus, all-dielectric FSS (DFSS) are also being investigated for filtering applications in the near-IR and optical regimes. This talk will provide an overview of research in the area of FSS-based metamaterials, with an emphasis on work being done at the Pennsylvania State University Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab (PSU CEARL). Other types of novel metamaterials under development by the PSU CEARL group will also be discussed. An emphasis will be placed on the computational modeling tools developed specifically for the analysis and design optimization of electromagnetic metamaterial performance. Dr. Douglas H. Werner received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and the M.A. degree in mathematics from The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), University Park, in 1983, 1985, 1989, and 1986, respectively. He is a Professor in the Pennsylvania State University, Department of Electrical Engineering. He is also the director of the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab (CEARL) http://labs.ee.psu.edu/labs/dwernergroup/ as well as a member of the Communications and Space Sciences Lab (CSSL). He is also a Senior Scientist in the Computational Electromagnetics Department of the Applied Research Laboratory and a faculty member of the Materials Research Institute (MRI) at Penn State. Dr. Werner was presented with the 1993 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Best Paper Award and was also the recipient of a 1993 International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award. In 1994, Dr. Werner received the Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory Outstanding Publication Award. He was a co-author (with one of his graduate students) of a paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation which received the 2006 R. W. P. King Award. He has also received several Letters of Commendation from the Pennsylvania State University Department of Electrical Engineering for outstanding teaching and research. Dr. Werner is a former Associate Editor of Radio Science, an Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, a Fellow of the IEE and the IEEE, a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), URSI Commissions B and G, the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. He has published numerous technical papers and proceedings articles and is the author of eight book chapters. He edited a book entitled Frontiers in Electromagnetics (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2000). He has also contributed a chapter for a book entitled Electromagnetic Optimization by Genetic Algorithms (New York: Wiley Interscience, 1999) as well as for the book entitled Soft Computing in Communications (New York: Springer, 2004). He has recently completed work on a new book (co-authored with Randy Haupt) entitled Genetic Algorithms in Electromagnetics to be published by Wiley. He has also recently completed an invited chapter on "Fractal Antennas" for the new edition of the popular Antenna Handbook published by McGraw-Hill. He was the recipient of a College of Engineering PSES Outstanding Research Award and Outstanding Teaching Award in March 2000 and March 2002 respectively. He was also recently presented with an IEEE Central Pennsylvania Section Millennium Medal. His research interests include theoretical and computational electromagnetics with applications to antenna theory and design, phased arrays, microwave devices, wireless and personal communication systems, wearable and e-textile antennas, frequency selective surfaces, electromagnetic wave interactions with complex media, metamaterials, electromagnetic bandgap materials, zero and negative index materials, fractal and knot electrodynamics, tiling theory, neural networks, genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization. Host: Vlad Shalaev, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, (49855, shalaev(a)purdue.edu) SPONSORED BY: Birck Nanotechnology Center, Bindley Bioscience Center, Discovery Park, The NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing, The Network for Computational Nanotechnology, VEECO, NCN Student Leadership Council, Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, School of Chemical Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Annie Cheever, Area Secretary School of Electrical and Computer Engineering acheever(a)purdue.edu Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center, Room 2027 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Phone: 765-496-8327 Fax: 765-496-6443 http://www.nano.purdue.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Town Hall Meeting -- CANCELLED
by Starewich, Deborah S. 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Please be advised that the December Town Hall Meeting, originally scheduled for Thursday, 12.21.06, has been CANCELLED. On behalf of Tim Sands and the Management Team, we take this opportunity to send wishes for a great break and all the best for 2007. Deborah S. Starewich Administrative Assistant to Tim Sands, Director Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 1205 W. State Street West Lafayette IN 47907-2057 765-494-3509 Fax 765-496-8383 www.nano.purdue.edu

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