BNC News

week of April 26, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BNC Preventive Maintenance Shutdown: Sunday, 05.02.10, 10PM, to Friday, 05.07.10, 3PM.

PLEASE POWER DOWN YOUR COMPUTERS BEFORE LEAVING ON FRIDAY, 04.30.10.

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]

Call for Papers: 18th Annual International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering (ICCE), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, July 4-10, 2010

ICCE-18 is still accepting NEW paper titles at ICCE-18 Anchorage, so please inform interested professors, researchers, especially students, and junior faculty members, who need visibilities to present papers.   Interested authors should submit tentative paper title immediately, and then submit detailed two page short papers to David Hui, each page has two column format, and short papers must have  graphs to show results. See here for details.

KUDOS

To Sean Scott, winner of the Annual Research Review Poster Competition and a $300 award.

Sean's poster was titled, "A Capacitively - Loaded Mems Slot Element for Wireless Temperature Sensing of up to 300 --- Sean Scott/Dimitrios Peroulis."

Honorable Mention went to "Nitride Metal Semi Conductor Superlattices for High temperature Solid State- Energy Conversion -- David Ewoldt, Robert Wortman, Tom Sands and Jeremy Schroeder."

Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's competition.

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

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

Monday April 26, 2010, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship: Confused about how and when to write an invention Disclosure?
 
End the confusion and Register Today for our free workshop at
 
nano.purdue.edu/bootcamp.php
 
Eyah Barash, the Chief Intellectual Property counsel to Endocyte, a drug-discovery company based in Purdue’s Research Park, will provide information on patents & company development and Karen White, Assistant Director with the Office of Technology Commercialization, will provide information on filing IP disclosures, patents, and licensing.
 
SPACE IS LIMITED----REGISTER TODAY!

CANCELED - Wednesday, 04.28.10, 3:00PM, MRGN 129: "Are relations P=hk and E=mc2 simultaneously compatible with principle of wave-particle duality?" Victor Veselago, AM Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Tuesday, 05.11.10: LabVIEW Seminars

Register now for the National Instruments LabVIEW Hands-On and Embedded Design Hands-On Seminars in Lafayette on Tuesday, May 11th.
Introduction to LabVIEW and Computer-Based Measurements Hands-On Seminar
- 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Embedded Design Using LabVIEW Real-Time & FPGA Hands-On Seminar
- 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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Monday & Tuesday, 5.24-25.10, STEW 218: "Frontiers in Bioenergy Symposium"

Keynote Speaker: Bruce Dale, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University

Other speakers include Billy Glover, Boeing Commercial Airplanes; Edward Lyford-Pike, Cummins; Mike Himmel, National Renewal Energy Laboratory; Hans Blaschek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Robert Brown, Iowa State University; Jim Dumesic, Institute for Atom-efficient Chemical Transformation

The 5th Annual Symposium at Purdue University will cover an overview of the agronomic, fuel infrastructure and economic context of biofuels production, and focus on second-generation and third-generation (drop-in) advanced biofuels from biological and chemical/thermal conversion pathways. The meeting is hosted jointly by two recently funded DOE-Office of Science “Energy Frontier Research Centers” (C3Bio and IACT) and sponsored by Purdue University.

Registration is required:  www.conf.purdue.edu/bioenergy

Questions, contact Luanne Ludwig @ lml@purdue.edu  (765-494-2276)

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 May 3, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 04.30.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu