Dear All, I would like to thank all of our staff, students and faculty who worked very hard to organize an outstanding BNC Research Review on Wednesday. Monica has been focusing on the event in the last 2-3 months with great leadership. Angie, Jaime and all of the secretaries helped arrange the logistics. They worked late on Tuesday and early on Wednesday to make sure everything is ready. John Weaver, Ron Reger and their staff dedicated a lot of their time. I also would like to thank all of the faculty who did a great job to showcase the high impact research at the Center. It was impressive to see the depth and breadth of our research activities. I am sure there are many other very interesting projects that we didn’t have the opportunity to cover because of time limit. I look forward to hear from each of our resident and affiliated faculty about their latest achievements and research priorities. I enjoyed very much the poster session. Our students, postdocs and staff scientists put a lot of time to summarize their research and BNC’s capabilities. I hope this provided the opportunity for various groups to identify new areas for cross-disciplinary collaborations. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or comments on how we could improve the event in future years or any other ideas about the operation of the Birck Center. Thanks again, Ali From: bnc-all-bounces@ecn.purdue.edu [mailto:bnc-all-bounces@ecn.purdue.edu] On Behalf Of Shakouri, Ali Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 5:59 AM To: 'bnc-all@ecn.purdue.edu' Subject: [BNC-all] BNC Research Review and Open House (Oct. 10th) Dear All, I look forward to see you at BNC Research Review and Open House on Wednesday October 10, 2012. The agenda is given below. This is an opportunity to hear about some the latest research in the center and to interact with our students/researchers during the poster session. Dr. Supratik Guha, Director of Physical Sciences at IBM will be our keynote speaker (8:45-9:30am) and we will have a panel 2:30-3:30pm. We will hear from Beverly Davenport Sypher (Vice Provost for Academic Affairs), Melba Crawford (Associate Dean for Research in College of Engineering), Nick Giordano (Physics Head) and Anil Bajaj (Mechanical Engineering Head). The panel will give an overview of the cluster hire initiatives at Purdue and hiring priorities in various departments. They will also discuss about opportunities/challenges for interdisciplinary research. Dick Schwartz has kindly agreed to moderate the panel. If you haven’t done so, please confirm your attendance by registering (by Monday 10/8, noon): https://purdue.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0BxCfx2Bh0AisBL I know everybody is very busy. Thank you very much in advance for your time. Best regards, Ali 8:30 – 8:45 Welcome by Ali Shakouri MRGN 121 8:45 – 9:30 Keynote speech – Supratik Guha, IBM Director of Physical Sciences MRGN 121 9:30 – 10:00 Joerg Appenzeller, ECE MRGN 121 10:00 – 10:30 Vladimir Shalaev, ECE MRGN 121 10:30 – 10:45 Break 10:45 – 11:15 Joseph Irudayaraj, ABE MRGN 121 11:15 – 11:45 Dimitrios Peroulis ECE MRGN 121 11:45 – 12:30 Break, Bring lunch back MRGN 121 12:30 – 1:00 Yuan Yao, Food Science MRGN 121 1:00 – 1:30 Tim Fisher, ME MRGN 121 1:30 – 2:00 Arvind Raman, ME MRGN 121 2:00 – 2:30 Mike Manfra, Physics and Materials MRGN 121 2:30 – 3:30 Panel Discussion Opportunities in interdisciplinary research: Beverly Davenport Sypher, Melba Crawford, Nick Giordano, Anil Bajaj, Dick Schwartz (moderator) MRGN 121 3:30 – 4:00 Break 4:00 – 6:00 Poster session-Open to all Graduate Students BRK Atrium