BNC News

week of January 11, 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

[More]

POSTER PRINTING: Morgan 233 will be staffed, once again with students who will print your posters. There is no charge for this service. [More]

ISS news: effective 1 January 2010, ISS will be mailing (instead of faxing) the prevailing wage request to central Department of Labor (DOL) office to obtain the prevailing wage for H-1B applications. [More]

KUDOS

Professor Joerg Appenzeller, ECE, for a 2009 IBM Faculty Award.

Professor Mark Lundstrom, ECE, was presented with an IEEE Award at the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium. The van der Ziel Award was established in honor of Professor Aldert van der Ziel for his long and distinguished career as an educator and a research scientist. Past recipients of the Aldert van der Ziel Award include Arthur Milnes, Lester Eastman, Herbert Kroemer (Nobel Laureate), Michael Shur, Marvin H. White, James D. Plummer, and Ben Streetman.

Young Purdue Researchers Honored by NSF: Purdue's recipients this year are Yong Chen, Demetra Evangelou, Kevin Gurney, Matthew Jones, Krista Nichols, Dev Niyogi, Zheng Ouyang, Jeffrey Rhoads, Ann E. Rundell, Chih-Chun Wang, Chen Yang, Dabao Zhang and Xiangyu Zhang. [Details]

Professor Vladimir Shalaev has won the 2010 Willis E. Lamb Award for his pioneering studies of optical metamaterials and plasmonic nanostructures. The award honors Willis E. Lamb, Jr., famous laser scientist and 1955 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics. [about Dr. Lamb]

TOURS/VISITORS

visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information

Tuesday, 01.12.09, 1:00PM, BRK1001: "Controlling light on the nanoscale," by Nikolay I. Zheludev, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton. [More]

UPCOMING

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]

OPPORTUNITIES

2 nanotechnology opportunities -- department of energy, January 2010. Vincent Caprio reports that his week a few weeks ago on the website for Advanced Research Project Agency - Energy drew a lot of interest and has an important update notification. [More]

LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE

Ella Mary Coy arrived on December 19th, born to John and Jen Coy. Ms. Coy weighed in at 7 pounds, 9 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. John tells us that "less than 25 min from the time we got to the room until Ella announced her arrival with a hearty cry." [Photo]

Camille Elise Allain arrived on Tuesday, 01.05.10. Birck's newest baby girl weighs 6 pounds, 10 ounces and measures 18.5 inches long. All are well. [Photo]

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 18, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 01.15.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu