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 MemoBNC News week of June 14, 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS Candidate for Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:00-10:00 a.m. Room 121 Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Dr. Ramamoorthy Ramesh Professor and Plato Malozemoff Chair in Materials Science & Engineering and Physics University of California, Berkeley Vision for the Future of the Birck Nanotechnology Center There will be a reception immediately following the presentation in the Morgan Commons NEW PROCESS TO REQUEST OFFICE SPACE: faculty, students, guests Faculty may request a BNC office or student/postdoc/visitor desk on-line at the Birck website nano.purdue.edu/Resources/office-request.php . This electronic request must be completed by the faculty member for both a BNC Office and for a student desk. GRADUATE STUDENTS Collegiate Inventors Competition -- Only a Few Weeks Left! -- Deadline June 25 There are only a few weeks left to submit your invention or groundbreaking patentable research to the Collegiate Inventors Competition. Previous winners of the Competition have gone on to receive MacArthur Foundation grants, form start-up companies, gain honor and recognition for their work in national publications and receive prestigious fellowships. If you are a Graduate or Undergraduate student with a proven idea, you could be next! [ More ] SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information Monday, 06.14.10, 10:00AM, MRGN 129: “Uncertainty Quantification and Model Validation in Mechanical System Behavior Prediction,” by Sankaran Mahadevan, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director, NSF-IGERT Doctoral Program in Risk and Reliability Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. [ More ] Monday, 06.14.10, 1:30PM, Martin Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering, Room 1001: "Vision for the Future of the Energy Center," by Dr. Wallace E. Tyner, James and Lois Ackerman Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University. Candidate for Director of the Energy Center. UPCOMING Thursday, 07.08.10, 10:00AM, BRK 1001: "Transformative Power Semiconductor Technologies to Impact 21st Century Energy Economy, and Space and Defense Electronics," by Krishna Sheniai, PhD, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Toledo [ More ] 6th MPM Workshop, 08.09.10 and 08.10.10, University of New Mexico. Information available on-line . Register by 06.30.10. The 2010 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CiSE2010), 12.10.10 to 12.12.10, Wuhan, China. http://www.ciseng.org/2010 OPPORTUNITIES Call for User Proposals: The Molecular Foundry Call for Proposals Begins: Monday, June 14, 2010 Submission Deadline: Thursday, July 15, 2010 Projected Award Date: Friday, October 4, 2010 Dear Colleagues, The Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), a Department of Energy (DOE) national nanoscience user facility, is currently accepting requests for user access to its instruments, capabilities and skilled technical staff from scientists and engineers who are seeking to enhance their own research projects. Requests from potential users, in the form of web-based standard proposals, must be received not later than July 15, 2010 to be considered in our current semiannual call cycle. [ More ] EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Post doc positions: ORNL Scanning Probe Microscopy for Functional Imaging, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [ Flier ] DISCOVERY PARK The Discovery Park Viewbook is now live and available at the Discovery Park homepage. We are proud to inform you that the Discovery Park electronic viewbook is now available on the homepage. [ 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 Editorial policy set: personal information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc. [ More ] Submit items for memo of the week of June 21, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY , 06.18.10, 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. 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