To ensure you receive your BNC Weekly Memo e-mails, please add bnc-all@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 April 5, 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS 4th Annual BNC Research Review Monday, April 19, 2010, 9:30-4:30 MRGN 121 The annual Birck Research Review is an opportunity to showcase your research to students, colleagues, and visitors from industry, academia, and government. The review also provides an excellent opportunity for your students to gain and develop presentation skills. [ More ] International Research Exchange in India Summer or Fall 2010 Call for Applications The BNC has established a new graduate student and postdoctoral exchange program with the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) and GE Global Research's John F. Welch India Technology Centre in Bangalore, India. For more information about the program, please visit: http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/JNCNE/ . [ Details ] FACULTY NEWS KUDOS! Professor Alexandra [Sasha] Boltasseva has been awarded a DURIP grant for a Glancing Angle Deposition System for Transformation-Optics Devices. This is a unique and very critical device for the MURI project on transformation optics where Sasha is a co-PI along with Prof. Shalaev. The system will be installed in BNC. GRADUATE STUDENTS Graduation Link from the homepage, on the left-hand side, "Are you graduating in May/Dec?" We will begin videotaping our graduating Birck students this week. We want to highlight our graduates at the BNC Research Review (Monday, 19 April 2010) and at the BNC Graduation Celebration (Thursday, 13 May 2010). If you are graduating, please let us know! SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information Friday, 04.09.10, 3:00, BRK 1001: "Gas Electrostatic Discharge in Capacitive RF-MEMS and Its Role in Degradation and Failure," by Alina Alexeenko, Assistant Professor, School of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Purdue University. [ More ] Friday, 04.09.10, 3:30PM, PHYS 203: "Solid-State Optical Refrigeration: Lasers Running in Reverse," by Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico. Refreshments will be served at 3:00PM in PHYS 242. [ More ] UPCOMING Monday, 04.19.10, 3:00PM, MRGN 129 : "Radiation nanofocusing using tapered metal gaps," by Sergey Bozhevolnyi, Institute of Sensors, Signals and Electrotechnics (SENSE), University of Southern Denmark [ More ] Reverse Osmosis Week Seminars included in this event: RO Operation and Maintenance : Apr 19, 2010; BRK 2001 RO Monitoring & Troubleshooting : Apr 20, 2010; BRK 1001 Interpreting Water Analyses : Apr 21, 2010; BRK 1001 Expert Troubleshooting of Membrane Systems : Apr 22, 2010; BRK 1001 Expert Biofouling Control : Apr 23, 2010; BRK 1001 [ More ] Wednesday, 04.28.10, 3:30PM, MRGN 129: "Are relations P=hk and E=mc2 simultaneously compatible with principle of wave-particle duality?" by Victor Veselago, A.M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. [ More ] December 15-17, 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii! Pacifichem 2010. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 5 APRIL 2010. [ Flier ] [ Website ] FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES We are pleased to share with you the funding opportunity for seed grants to promote scientific cooperation with France: The French Embassy to the United States is happy to introduce a Start-up Fund aimed at providing seed money to professors and administrators willing to explore new transatlantic collaborations. Collaborations may be research based and/or education based, such as student exchanges, joint programs, dual degrees, research collaboration, etc. The seed money can be used to fund traveling and lodging costs as well as any other expense aimed at exploring and setting up new collaborations, or strengthen existing ones. [ More ] LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE Purdue Relay for Life Hosted by Colleges Against Cancer April 10-11th 6pm-6am in the RSC Sign up your team today! relay.org/purdueuin 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 Tim Sands. 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 Editorial policy set: personal information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc. [ More ] Submit items for memo of the week of April 12, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY , 04.09.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@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