BNC News

week of October 26, 2009

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BIRCK ANNUAL REVIEW: SAVE THE DATE!!!

Monday, 04.19.10, 9:30AM to 4:30PM, MRGN 121. We are planning the next annual review and will pass information along to you as it becomes available. Please mark your calendars now so that you are able to take part in this annual event.

POSTER PRINTING

An EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) Resource provides a poster printer, which is housed in the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship building (room 233).  This resource is not a part of Discovery Park.  The EPICS group provides students each semester to print posters for any faculty, staff, or student of the Purdue community.  There is no charge for this service. [More]

Student Exchange Program with India
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The BNC has recently established a new graduate student and postdoc 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/. We are now seeking applications from researchers interested in 8–20 week experiences at JNCASR during the Spring 2010 semester. [More]

Introduction to XPS: What you should know about X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy?

An upcoming 2-day workshop will be held on December 10 and 11, 2009 from 8AM to 5PM in Morgan 129. [Details/flier/and REGISTRATION] Questions should be directed to Dr. Monica Allain.

STUDENTS: let us know if you will be graduating soon; complete the short on-line questionnaire. THANKS!

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

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

Thursday, 10.29.09, 4:30PM, ME161: "Optical BioMEMS Microfluidic Technologies for Hand-Held, Point-of-Care, Medical Devices," by James F. Leary, PhD, SVM Professor of Nanomedicine and Professor of Biomedical Engineering. [Flier]

Friday Journal Club

If you have an interest in the science of nanoscale energy transport/conversion or in nanoscale approaches to energy conversion devices (thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, solid-state lighting, etc.), please join us
on Fridays at lunchtime for informal "journal club"-style discussions. Students, faculty, research staff and postdoctoral researchers are welcome. [More]

UPCOMING

Friday, 11.06.09, 10:00AM, BRK 2001: "Opto-fluidic Platform for High Throughput Single Cell Manipulation," by Eric P. Y. Chiou, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California at Los Angeles [More]

NEXTRANS conference: 11.16.09 Memorial Union. IN STEP, IN LINE, ON TIME: Regional Strategies for Trade, Security, & Mobility Challenges at the U.S. - Canada Border [flier]

Nanotechnology Seminar Series: Monday, 11.16.09, 3:00PM, BRK 1001: "Physical Vapor Deposition: The good, the bad, & the ugly," by Dr. Aamer Mahmood, Microfab Research Engineer, Birck Nanotechnology Center [More]

Monday, 11.16.09, 4:30PM, MRGN 121: "Bottom of Pyramid Opportunity: Entrepreneurial and Corporate Models," by Avisek Das, Director, Business Development, North America, Tata Sons Limited. Global Entrepreneurship Week [Flier]

Discovery Lecture Series: 11.17.09, 3:30, MRGN 121: Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, UK will present "Transformaton Optics at Optical Frequencies." [Flier]

Thursday and Friday, 12.10 and 12.11.09, 8AM to 5PM: "Introduction to XPS: What should you know about X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy?" by Dmitry Zemlyanov, Surface Science Application Scientist, Birck Nanotechnology Center. [Flier] [Register]

Global Venture Challenge, March 24-26, 2010, Oak Ridge, TN. [Flier]

DISCOVERY PARK

Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition
DEADLINE EXTENDED to 11/9/09

The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and Krannert School of Management are pleased to announce the 23rd annual Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition to be held on February 23, 2010. [Register] [Flier] [Questions?]

6th Annual Life Sciences Business Plan Competition
 
Tuesday, 11.10.09, MRGN 121. [Schedule]

White Elephant & Bake Sale: Support the United Way [More]  

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is pleased to invite applications from your University for the Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme 2009/10 [details]

LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE

A new nanotechnology nano-scientist has arrived: Denis Zemlyanov, was born on Wednesday, 10/14/2009, weighing 9 lb and 5 oz. Both he and his mother are just fine.

PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS

FLU SHOTS available [Flier]

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 (personnel should have a copy on hand in their offices and homes; contact Deborah Starewich, if you do not have the most recent copy; distributed on Thursday, 09.13.09). 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 November 2, 2009 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 10.30.09, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu