BNC News

week of February 1, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NanoDays! April 2 and 3, 2010: graduate students and faculty needed to support this activity. [More] Please contact Caitlin Burger to see how you may be involved with this activity.

H-1B news: prevailing wage requests [More]

Recycle campus envelopes! Our business office needs your extra campus envelopes. Please bring any that you have to the clerks in BRK 1014.

Freezer/Refrigerator -- BRK kitchen: Clean out scheduled for Friday, 02.04.10. Due to space constraints, please do not keep more than two items in the freezer at a time and remember to label each item with your name and the date. Items not labeled will be discarded.

Birck Vending Machines: You may report any issues with Birck's vending machines to Melissa Marris or Debbie King; please be specific by stating the exact problem you are experiencing. [More]

FACULTY NEWS

Kudos to Suresh Garimella for being chosen for this year's Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Institute [IIT Madras]. [More]

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

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

Friday, 02.05.10, 12:00PM, MRGN 129: Scientific presentation, "Center for Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio) Research in Bindley," by Maureen McCann, PhD, Director, Department of Energy, Energy Frontiers Research Center: "C3Bio." Refreshments served.

Friday, 02.05.10, 3:00PM, BRK 1001: "Enabling Incompressible Flow Simulations with Large Time Step Sizes," Steven Dong, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University [Flier]

Friday, 02.05.10, 3:45, ARMS 1010: “The Challenges of Fabricating and Operating Solid State Microsensors for Trace Chemical Monitoring,” by Steve Semancik, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Refreshments served at 3:30. [More]

UPCOMING

Tuesday, 02.09.10, 1:00PM, BRK 2001: "Optimal matching of thermal vibrations into carbon nanotubes," by K.G.S.H. Gunawardana and Kieran Mullen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma. [Abstract]

Tuesday, 02.09.10, 3:00PM, BRK 2001: Prof. Moti Segev, distinguished professor from Technion, Isael will present a seminar. Information is forthcoming.

Mini Boot Camp: Company formation for faculty, 03.11.10, 9:00-1:00, BRK 1001 [More]

NINTH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC - PRACTICAL CONFERENCE "Research, Development and Application of High Technologies in Industry" 22-23 April 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia [More]

EMPLOYMENT

Tenure-track OR tenured faculty positions in the area of Materials and Energy in the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. [Announcement]

KUDOS . . .

to Tim Miller: reaching 30 years of service with Purdue. Congratulations, Tim, and thanks for all that you do for our Center.

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 February 8, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 02.05.10, to Jeff Goecker jgoecker@purdue.edu or Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu