BNC News

March 30, 2009

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BNC Annual Research Review

April 6, 2009 - 1:00 p.m - 5:30 p.m.

Please join us for this event. Register now.

Poster presenters must register here. Space is limited. Registration open until Friday, April 3 at 12 p.m.

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Cleanroom & Laboratory Shutdown

The cleanroom and laboratory shutdown originally scheduled for April 7-9 has been postponed. Details forthcoming.

Course Announcement:

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION
Fall 2009
(ME 59700)
Professor A. Martini

Prepare engineers and scientists to address problems they will encounter when studying atomic-scale physical phenomena. [See Flyer]

BNC-Violations: Do not move BNC furniture

Furniture is being moved during the weekends into Birck 1201 conference room (multiple offenses) and it is not returned to its proper location. If this problem continues the privilege of open-use conference rooms will be suspended. To avoid damaging BNC furniture we ask that it not move for any reason.

TOURS/VISITORS

3.30.09 – Matt Falls and family from 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. with Felice Butler

3.30.09 – Purdue’s For Me Tours from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

4.2.09 – College of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. with Candiss Vibbert, Charles Buck, and Tim Sands

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

Women's International Research Engineering Summit (WIRES) - Barcelona - Spring 2009

A summit that will enable meaningful and sustained research exchanges and sustained research exchanges among female engineers among female engineers

• Engineering Faculty
  
• Researchers from Industry
  
• Program Directors from Funding Agencies
  

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AFOSR Sponsored Energy Harvesting Workshop -- April 16, 2009

AFOSR is planning to make 5-year investment for the basic research on the subject of "Energy Harvesting from Environment for Aerospace Platforms." Dr. Hugh DeLong, Dr. Les Lee, and Dr. Charles Lee are seeking for your inputs and comments for this vision. If you or your colleagues are interested in applying for single-PI or multi-disciplinary team research grants on the subject in near future, I encourage you to attend a one-day workshop on April 16th.


The workshop will be held at the Westin Arlington Gateway on April 16, 2009

http://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1513

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Future Workshop: Modern STEM Concepts for Teachers

Support your local teacher. Discovery Park and the Wabash Valley Education Council are planning a teachers workshop for upper elementary teachers based on state core science standards for grades 4-6. [Read More]

“Squeezing Photons (and Sound) Into Metamaterials”

Friday, April 3, 2009; 3:00 PM
Birck Nanotechnology Center, Room 2001

Nicholas Xuanlai Fang
Dept. of Mechanical Science and Engineering & the Center for Nanoscale
Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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Modeling of Squeeze-film Damping in MEMS Based on Rarefied Flow Simulations

Xiaohui (Sandy) Guo
Purdue University
School of Aeronautics and  Astronautics

Friday, April 3, 2009
3:00pm
Birck 1001

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OPPORTUNITIES

2009 Grant Application for: Cross-disciplinary Semiconductor Research (CSR)

Overview

SRC-GRC is soliciting grant applications in Cross-disciplinary Semiconductor Research.
The goal of CSR is to foster exploratory, multi-disciplinary, high-risk university research leading to novel high-payoff solutions for the science and technology challenges faced by the semiconductor industry at and beyond the time horizons of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). Successful CSR projects will offer innovative and, hopefully, disruptive solutions to the challenge of enabling exponential gains in cost/performance benefits provided by the semiconductor industry for the foreseeable future, and may lead to novel applications for this industry and may enhance the population of non-traditional researchers/out of box thinkers working with the SRC.

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Limited Submission Competition: IMR-MIP

The National Science Foundation has just released a solicitation for the Instrumentation for Materials Research – Major Instrumentation Projects (IMR-MIP). A description of the project follows:

This program provides support for the design and construction of major instruments costing more than $4 million but less than $20 million. The program also supports the development of detailed conceptual and engineering design for new tools for materials preparation or characterization at major user facilities. Such instruments may include, for example, neutron beam lines, synchrotron beam lines, and high field magnets, as well as development of detectors and preparation environments necessary to support materials research. [Read More]

Request for Volunteers -- NIBIB and NIH Peer Review Panels

Foreseeing an extraordinarily high demand for peer reviewers to review grant applications in response to the initiatives from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the NIBIB is soliciting volunteers from the extramural community willing to serve on NIBIB and NIH peer review panels this summer and in the future. Note that applicants being reviewed by one peer review panel can participate as a reviewer on a different review panel. If you are interested in serving, please send us your contact information, including full name with middle initial, degree(s), institutional affiliation(s), email address, telephone number(s), keywords describing your area of expertise, and a copy of your CV as at email attachment to nibibreviewer@mail.nih.gov. [More]

SBIR/STTR Training on April 13 in MRGN 121

AMIPurdue and Purdue's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship cordially invite Purdue faculty, staff, and students to attend a "how-to" tutorial and hands-on session about the SBIR/STTR proposal application process. This program is free and includes lunch.

Submit items for memo of April 6, 2009 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 04.03.09, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu