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 October 4, 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS BIRCK BUSINESS OFFICE CLOSED THURSDAY, 10.07.10, IN THE AFTERNOON [room 1014] Business Office staff will use this time reorganizing after recent staff turnovers. Birck 1010 will be open during this time so that if there is a need to request a credit card for purchases, the students will still be able to get their items ordered. SHUTDOWN The semiannual shutdown of the BNC will take place Tuesday through Friday, October 12-15, 2010. The CLEANROOM and LABS will be closed at 12:01 AM Tuesday morning. If all goes well, it will reopen at 8:00 AM Friday morning. If issues arise, it may be closed for some or all of Friday, October 15. Please remove all material from fume hoods prior to the cleanroom and lab closing. The startup times for the cleanroom and laboratories apply to the facility, not necessarily the equipment. Please check Coral for equipment downtime and startup times. Mark Voorhis (765) 494-3036 BUILDING TEMPERATURES Birck offices and the atrium may be cool on the morning on October 12, from 6:00AM to 11:00AM. Depending on the outside weather conditions and the length of repairs to the system, we may see temperatures as low as 55° to 60°. Please plan for warm clothing, as needed. PHOTOCOPIER/PRINTER MOVES The photocopiers/printers from BRK 1222 and BRK 2020 will be moved on Monday, October 11. The color machine in BRK 1222 will be moved to the second floor atrium area, just west of Birck 2001. The black and white machine in BRK 2020 will be moved to BRK 1222. An ECN training session to show users how to connect to the newly located machines will be held on Thursday, October 8, at 11:00AM, in Birck 1001 . Several members of the staff and the Birck Ambassadors are planning on attending this session to be prepared to assist users in the connection. If you are interested in learning for yourself, please plan on attending. SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS [Purdue] visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date seminar/workshop information. Monday, 10.04.10, 1:30PM, BRK 1001: "Nanotechnology Activities in Colombia: A Perspective from the Excellence Center for Novel Materials," by Professor Pedro Prieto, Director of CENM, Center of Excellence for Novel Materials, Universidad del Valle Cali, Colombia. Adobe Connect Users: Talk 1 - https://gomeet.itap.purdue.edu/prieto1/ [ MORE ] Monday, 10.04.10, 1:30PM, MRGN 121: "Biophysical studies of virus particles and their maturation: Insights into elegantly programmed nano-machines," by Jack Johnson, Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute. Host: Richard Kuhn. Tuesday, 10.05.10, 1:30PM, BRK 1001: "Correlation Between Structural and Mechanical Properties of Nano-multilayer TiCN/TiNbCN Coatings," by by Professor Pedro Prieto, Director of CENM, Center of Excellence for Novel Materials, Universidad del Valle Cali, Colombia. Adobe Connect: Talk 2 - https://gomeet.itap.purdue.edu/prieto2/ [ MORE ] Wednesday, 10.06.10, 1:30PM, POTR 234, Fu Room: "Supervised Classification in Sensor Networks," by Dr. Kush R. Varshney, Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. [ MORE ] Thursday, 10.07.10, 1:00PM, BRK 1001: "Evolving Proteins to Withstand Boiling Temperatures: Applications," by N. Madhusudhana Rao, PhD, Deputy Director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India; Co-PI, Center for Nanomedical and Cellular Engineering [ MORE ] Thursday, 10.07.10, 3:00PM, MRGN 121: "Oil Spills: Safety and Communication," Discovery Lecture Series, Richard Harris, NPR News, Science Correspondent ; Deborah L. Grubbe, PE, Operations and Safety Solutions, LLC ; and Ana Unruh Cohen, Ph.D., Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and Staff Member for Massachusetts Representative Edward Markey. For additional information, please visit www.purdue.edu/dp/dls or contact Valerie Lawless, 765.494.3662 [ FLIER ] Thursday, 10.07.10, 4:30PM, Fowler Hall: "Energy Innovations in the 21st Century: Role of ARPA-E," by Arun Majumdar, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency –Energy (ARPA-E), U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC. 2010 Hawkins Memorial Lecture in Heat Transfer; refreshments, 4:00PM, West Faculty Lounge, PMU 250. [ MORE ] Thursday, 10.07.10, 4:30PM, ME 161 : "Traffic Noise Effects on Sleep and Recuperation," by Dr. Mathias Basner, MD, Assistant Professor of Sleep and Cronobiology in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Refreshments 4:00PM, ME 254 [ MORE ] UPCOMING Monday, 10.11.10, 9:00AM to 4:30PM, MRGN 121: Company Fund Raising Boot Camp: Real World Advice for Starting a Company. [ MORE ] Thursday, 10.14.10, 4:30PM, ME 161: "Challenges in Aerospace Propulsion (including saving the planet)," by Professor Stephen D. Heister, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, School of Mechanical Engineering (by Courtesy), Purdue University, Director, Rolls-Royce UTC in High Mach Propulsion. Refreshments served 4:00PM, ME 254. [MORE ] Monday and Tuesday, 10.18.10 and 10.19.10, Symposium on Breast Cancer Prevention: Nutrition, Communication, and Public Policy. Registration includes all meals and coffee breaks: $175 or $100 for students and breast cancer advocates. Website Tuesday, 10.28.10, 2:00PM, MRGN 121: "Faculty Entrepreneurship — University Startup Models," by Gerard Eldering, Founder and President, Innovate Tech Ventures. Refreshments following in Venture Cafe. Office of Technology Commercialization Director's Forum [ MORE ] Wednesday and Thursday, 11.10.10 and 11.11.10, 9:00AM to 5:00PM, Stewart Center West Foyer: "Traveling Technology Experience," by by Professor Aaron Cichanover, Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel [ MORE ] Wednesday, 11.10.10, 10:30AM, Fowler Hall: "Drug Development in the 21st Century: Are we going to cure all diseases?" by Professor Aaron Cichanover, Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel [ MORE ] SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS [External] Wednesday, 10.13.10, 5:30PM, Barnes and Thornburg, 11 S Meridian Street, Indianapolis: "Indiana Companies to Watch: Entrepreneurial Policy Town Hall Meeting." RVSP to Rita Reese at rreese@isbdc.org or 888.472.3244 by October 6th [ MORE ] Monday and Tuesday, 10.25.10 and 10.26.10, Virginia Tech: Workshop on the Impact of pen-based Technology in Education. www.wipte.org [ MORE ] Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 11.08.10 to 11.10.10: SBIR National Conference, "Making Connections," Oklahoma City. [ WEBSITE ] “Syntheses, Characterizations and Applications of Oxide Nanocomposites Materials” (International Session E, presented in English) in MRS-J Academic Symposium to be held on Dec. 20-22, 2010 in YOKOHAMA, JAPAN. ================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS 20th MRS-J Academic Symposium Dec. 20-22, 2010 in YOKOHAMA, JAPAN Syntheses, Characterizations and Applications of Oxide Nanocomposites Materials (International Session E) Register and submit your abstract at http://mrs-j.org/home/en/guidesympo/ The 2011 World Congress on Electronics and Electrical Engineering [WCEEENG 2011] : Monday through Thursday, 04.04.11 to 04.07.11 , Cairo, Egypt Full Paper Submission Deadline (Dec. 31, 2010) [ MORE ] 19th International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering, 07.24.11 to 07.30.11, Shanghai, China http://www.icce-nano.org [ MORE ] FUNDING FY12 Washington Projects Call for White Papers due to OVPR by Friday, October 15, 2010. [ MORE ] LIMITED SUBMISSION: NSF Scalable Nanomanufacturing (SNM) [ MORE ] See http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10618/nsf10618.htm for the full solicitation. The Core Pilot funding opportunity is open for applications through October 18, 2010. The guidelines and application are available on the Indiana CTSI HUB – log in using your university username and password and go to https://www.indianactsi.org/grants . [ MORE ] 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 October 11, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY , 10.06.10, 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. 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