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BNC Newsweek of April 5, 2010ANNOUNCEMENTS
4th Annual BNC
Research Review [More]
International Research Exchange in India
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 [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.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES We are pleased to share with you the funding
opportunity for seed grants to promote scientific cooperation with
France: [More]
LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE Purdue Relay for Life
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]
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