To ensure you receive your BNC Weekly Memo e-mails, please add bnc-all@ecn.purdue.edu to your address book. Current issue is at http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/mondaymemo.html The BNC Monday Memo BNC News week of April 19, 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS 4th Annual BNC Research Review Monday, April 19, 2010, 9:30-4:30 MRGN 121 and Birck The annual Birck Research Review is an opportunity to showcase your research to students, colleagues, and visitors from industry, academia, and government. The review also provides an excellent opportunity for your students to gain and develop presentation skills. [ More ] 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 ] Possible Vibration at BNC Work is commencing on the enclosure for the Acid-Waste Neutralization (AWN) system. While the impact on any operations at BNC should be minimal, there will be some activities early in the project that could cause some vibration. This activity will take place at the southwest corner of the BNC. This work will be done on concrete that is not connected to the BNC – any vibration would be transmitted through the ground. The closest vibration-sensitive equipment is the Vistec e-beam writer, about 35 feet away. Next would be the Titan TEM and the Raith e-beam, both about 175 feet away. Weather permitting, the work will begin next Thursday, 22 April 2010, and last until the following Wednesday, 28 April 2010. Most of the activities will involve saw cutting, which should have no vibration impact. In some cases, however, a jackhammer will be used, and in all cases a backhoe and/or front loader will be used for the concrete removal. A more detailed schedule follows. Work will take place from 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM weekdays. No work will take place on weekends. Please contact Mark Voorhis if you experience any vibration-related issues. Thank you for your understanding during this necessary construction effort. Recycling The facilities staff has placed recycling bins at the end of each wing inside the galleys. Since it is the end of the semester and some of you are cleaning your offices, we are placing them there for your convenience. Please let us know if you have filled any of them and we will get it replaced as soon as possible. These will be going back to Purdue Recycling in a couple of weeks. If you have any confidential recycling, we can get you a confidential recycling bin. Contact Mary Jo Totten or Se'Andra Donaldson for assistance. GRADUATE STUDENTS FINAL CALL: Ambassador Program leaders needed! If you are interested in earning a travel grant up to $500, please contact Deborah Starewich BY FRIDAY, 04.23.10 to set a brief [15- to 30-minute] with Dr. Monica Allain, our Managing Director. [ Program Description ] [ Call Out Presentation ] SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information Monday, 04.19.10, 3:00PM, MRGN 129 : "Radiation nanofocusing using tapered metal gaps," by Sergey Bozhevolnyi, Institute of Sensors, Signals and Electrotechnics (SENSE), University of Southern Denmark [ More ] Reverse Osmosis Week Seminars included in this event: RO Operation and Maintenance : Apr 19, 2010; BRK 2001 RO Monitoring & Troubleshooting : Apr 20, 2010; BRK 1001 Interpreting Water Analyses : Apr 21, 2010; BRK 1001 Expert Troubleshooting of Membrane Systems : Apr 22, 2010; BRK 1001 Expert Biofouling Control : Apr 23, 2010; BRK 1001 [ More ] UPCOMING Wednesday, 04.28.10, 3:30PM, MRGN 129: "Are relations P=hk and E=mc2 simultaneously compatible with principle of wave-particle duality?" by Victor Veselago, A.M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. [ More ] Wednesday, 06.09, and Thursday, 06.10.10, Fourth Advanced Materials Characterization Workshop. This workshop will provide a critical, comparative, and condensed overview of mainstream analytical techniques for materials characterization with emphasis on practical applications. [ flier ] FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Request for Proposals: Ford College Community Challenge, Ford Motor Company Fund. The Ford Motor Company Fund is reaching out to colleges and universities to request proposals for a third round of an innovative grant-making initiative: The Ford College Community Challenge (Ford C3). This one-time special program seeks to work with partner higher education organizations to catalyze community-building projects that address pressing local needs. [ RFP ] LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE 6th Annual FAMILY CAREGIVER FAIR: Wednesday, 05.12.10, 11:00AM to 1:00M, Purdue Memorial Union South Ballroom. [ flier ] 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 April 26, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY , 04.23.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu Other BNC info: Purdue Home Page BNC Home Page BNC Users Forum Links to Discovery Park Centers Bindley Bioscience Center Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Cyber Center Discovery Learning Research Center Global Sustainability at Purdue: Center for Environment Energy Center Purdue Climate Change Research Center Oncological Sciences Center Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Sign up to be: Media Expert Community Speaker