BNC News

week of March 22, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BNC Preventive Maintenance Shutdown: Sunday, 05.02.10, 10PM, to Friday, 05.07.10, 3PM. Six-week notice.

The BNC will be shut down during the week of May 2 for preventive and corrective maintenance activities.  This shutdown will be more extensive than previous shutdowns – major electrical work will take place that will shut down electrical power to the building during the early morning hours of May 3.  It is expected that this work will be complete prior to 8:00 AM on Monday, May 3.

Please note that the cleanroom and the building exhaust systems will be down for the entire week.  No chemicals or hazardous gases may be used during this period.

[Tentative Schedule]

NANODAYS, Friday and Saturday, 04.02.10 and 04.03.10

The Nanodays committee would like posters to display for the high school students, attending Nanodays April 2 and 3. They would also like left-over wafer samples and images (SEM, AFM, SPM, ... ) of devices produced here at Purdue. Please contact John Wilcox at with donations.

Birck Annual Research Review: Monday, 04.19.10, 9:30-4:30, MRGN 121 and Birck Atrium/1001.

Student posters due Wednesday, 04.14.10

[Register, by 04.14.10] [Additional Info]

GRADUATE STUDENTS

ARE YOU GRADUATING? Please complete a brief questionnaire.

HOLD THE DATE! 05.13.10 . . . Birck Graduation Celebration! Details forthcoming.

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

Wednesday, 03.24.10, 3:30 refreshments, 3:45 seminar, ARMS 1010: "Controlling and Manipulating Ferrogagnetism with an Electric Field Using Multiferroic Oxide Heterostructures," by Dr. R. Ramesh

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Thursday, 03.25.10, 11:00AM, BRK 1001: Raman Spectroscopy Roundtable: “Raman Spectroscopy in Nanoscale Science and Engineering" REGISTER

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Thursday, 03.25.10, 7:00PM, PMU, South Ballroom: "Leadership in Crises: Lessons from Katrina and Haiti," by Admiral Thad Allen, Commandant, US Coast Guard.

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UPCOMING

Tuesday, 03.30.10, 2:30, BRK 2001: "Polymer Solar Cells: Recent Results and Development," by K.S. Narayan, Molecular Electronics Lab, JNCASR, Bangalore, India

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Tuesday and Wednesday, 03.30.10, 8:00-5:00, and 03.31.10, 8:00-Noon: 3rd Annual Purdue Systems Integrity for Defense Technology Summit, PMU. Registration is free.

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Wednesday, 04.14.10, 5:00-7:00PM, First Floor Atrium, Hall for Discovery and Learning Research: Discovery Park Student Poster Session & Reception, with remarks by Provost Timothy D. Sands at 6:00PM

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Lockheed Martin - 2010 University Research Initiative - RFP

UPDATE: Lockheed did not specify any budget range and also welcom project abstracts/proposals with optional second year.

We received a recent announcement from Lockheed Martin informing us of their 2010 University Research Initiative – RFP.  Attached please find the Call for Abstracts Instructions (Guidelines), Strategic Technology Threads, and the Abstract Template.
 
Considering the potential interest in this solicitation, and in order to comply with Lockheed Martin’s “strongly suggested” recommendation that only three abstracts be submitted by a university, please submit your abstract for this competition to Lisa Muncy at no later than midnight EST on Tuesday, March 30, 2010.  If we receive more than three abstracts, we will immediately convene the internal review committee to determine which abstracts may go forward for the April 9, 2010 deadline.  This process also will allow us to comply with the sponsor’s request that a single point-of-contact e-mail all abstracts, as this office will assume that responsibility.
 
Please contact Sue Grimes (4-5858) or Lisa Muncy (4-0743) if you have questions about this submission process.
 
Again, the submission of your abstract needs to be sent to Lisa Muncy no later than midnight EST on Tuesday, March 30, 2010.

Sincerely,
John Schneider

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

Editorial policy set: personal information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc. [More]

Submit items for memo of the week of March 29, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 03.26.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu