BNC News

week of January 18, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS

UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY: Monday, 01.18.10.

The mandatory All-User Meetings for the Birck Nanotechnology Center will be held on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 5:30 PM and Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 5:30 PM in MTHW 210.  
 
Matthews Hall is located on the northeast corner of State and University Streets, about four blocks east of the Birck Nanotechnology Center.
 
The meetings should last approximately 90 minutes.
 
Please note that attendance at one of these meetings is mandatory for all people who work in the BNC laboratories and/or cleanroom.  Those who have offices in the BNC but do not work in the laboratories and cleanroom are invited to attend, but attendance is not mandatory.
 
Please arrive on time!  If you arrive late, you will not be admitted to the meeting.
 
Thanking you in advance for your participation,
 
John
 
John R. Weaver
Facility Manager
Birck Nanotechnology Center
Purdue University
(765) 494-5494
jrweaver@purdue.edu

Recycle City Telephone Directories: your new directory should have been delivered last week. You may drop off your old phone book to BRK 1220 for recycling.

TOURS/VISITORS

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SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

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Weekly Nano/Energy Journal Club: [Interested?]

Thursday, 01.21.10, 11:00AM, BRK 1001: "Advanced Thermoelectric Materials for Addressing Grand Challenges: Global Energy and Thermal Management," by Douglas Dudis, PhD, Principal Research Chemist, Thermal Sciences and Materials, Air Force Research Laboratory (ARFL) [More]

Thursday, 01.21.10, 3:30PM, ME 256: "Atomistic Scale Thermal Transport in Amorphous Materials and Its Interfaces," by Ajit K. Roy, Senior Materials Research Engineer at the Thermal Sciences and Materials Branch, the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). [More]

Friday, 01.22.10, 3:00PM, BRK 1001: "Nano Particle Technology for Reconfigurable MEMS Contact Surfaces," by Dr. Andrey Voevodin, Technology Advisor for Thermal Science & Materials, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) [More]

UPCOMING

Purdue Global Food Security Summit: Monday, Feb. 8. The summit would build on the Purdue contributions to global food security, especially the work of the two Purdue World Food Prize Laureates, Phil Nelson and Gebisa Ejeta. To facilitate planning, if you are interested in participating please email Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer, Professor of Agricultural Economics and copy my assistant Carole Braund. [More]

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announces programs that are soliciting applications for financial assistance for FY 2010. [Details]

The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) has released its request for applications for the 2010 Collaboration in Biomedical/Translational Research (CBR/CTR) Grant Program. A summary of the program and the application can be accessed at: http://www.indianactsi.org/funding/cbrctr [additional info]

Collaborative water research projects with Notre Dame faculty: Informational Meeting, 03.01.10, 10AM, MRGN 129. [additional info]

KUDOS

"Micro and Nano Particle Manipulation Using Optically Modulated Electrokinetic Flows," a paper by Stuart J. Williams, Aloke Kumar, and Steven Wereley, was recently submitted to the ASME 2009 2nd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference held at Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai, China, on December 18-21, 2009 was selected as one of 3 "Excellent Papers" from among the 340 papers accepted for presentation at the conference (see below and attached for the announcement of the award). The Conference is sponsored by the ASME Heat Transfer Division and Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU).

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

Submit items for memo of the week of January 25, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 01.22.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu