BNC News

week of July 12, 2010

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Seminar in Technology Realization: ENTR 500 - MGMT 590 - TECH 581. Mondays:  4:30 to 6:00 PM; MRGN 121

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TOURS/VISITORS

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SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

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Thursday, 07.15.10, 9:30AM, ARMS 3115: “Phonon thermal conduction in nanostructured materials via molecular dynamics and coarse grain dynamics simulation," by Ya Zhou, MSE Final PhD with Professor Alejandro Strachan

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

The Nanomanufacturing (NMS) and Interconnect & Packaging (IPS) Science areas of the SRC Global Research Collaboration are soliciting white papers in the following research categories: NMS Categories [Patterning; Nanoengineered Materials; Metrology/Nanocharacterization] and IPS Categories [Packaging; Back End Processes; Packaging/Back End Processes Overlapping Areas].
 
NMS Call Information
For NMS, contracts will be awarded as early as January 1, 2011.  Two-page white papers addressing the challenges specified in the NMS research needs document must be submitted via the SRC website between August 2 – 9, 2011, with a deadline of 3 pm ET on Monday, August 9. No email submissions will be accepted. White papers not meeting these requirements will not be considered.

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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 Jim Cooper.

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 July 19, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 07.16.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu