MONDAY MEMO, September 24, 2007 **************** 1. Announcements **************** 1.1: Mark your calendars! 2nd Annual Boot Camp, Oct. 8 and 9, 9:00AM to 5:00PM; MRGN 121, open to faculty, staff, and student organizations. Day One: Key topics include: company formation, the importance of human capital, selling your idea, sources of capital, and company valuation. Also, hear about the experiences of the companies who won last year¹s event. Day Two: The morning session is devoted to presenting your company¹s ³quick pitch² to investors. The remainder of day two is for companies participating in the coaching sessions. No cost but registration is required: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/bdm/bootcamp/. For more information, contact Julie Goonewardene (jkgoonewardene@prf.org). 1.2: DURI Program Proposals due Tuesday, Oct. 9: The Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Internship (DURI) program is accepting proposals for research projects for the Spring 2008 semester. DURI involves Purdue undergraduates in the cutting-edge interdisciplinary research environment of Discovery Park. The program offers 50 internships per academic semester at the West Lafayette campus, funded through the Discovery Learning Center. Select interns to help advance your research from a pool of highly talented and motivated students. Mentor undergraduate students by fostering the exchange of ideas and creating new research opportunities. View additional information (including sample projects) and use the simple form to submit your project proposal online: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/duri <http://www.purdue.edu/dp/duri> . If you have any questions, please contact: Amy Childress; Intern Coordinator; Discovery Learning Center; 63590; childres@purdue.edu. 1.3: Asian Initiative Announces Grant Opportunities for Fall 2007: Purdue's Asian Initiative, together with the Office of International Programs, announces two grant opportunities for Purdue faculty collaborating with partners in India and China. The grant programs are designed to foster and develop ties between Purdue and its Asian counterparts. ³Asian Initiative Research² (AIR) grants are designed to support faculty in the development of research collaborations with strategic partners in India and China. Grants will be in the range of $5000$10,000 to support activities that produce early, tangible results with the potential to attract significant outside funding and support. ³Visiting Indian and Chinese Scholars² (VICS) grants were created to bring to the West Lafayette campus high-caliber scholars from strategic institutions in China and India for a period of up to one semester. The goal of this program is to stimulate substantive, world-class research collaboration between Purdue and Chinese and Indian institutions, and to strengthen faculty and student exchange with these institutions. Copies of the RFPs for these two programs can be found via Purdue's Office of International Programs: http://www.ippu.purdue.edu/aid/. For additional information, contact Matthew Sikora; Asian Initiative Coordinator; Office of International Programs; 47552; mvsikora@purdue.edu. **************** 2. Seminars **************** 2.1: Monday, September 24, 2:30: ³Understanding approach curves and scanned images in tapping mode AFM via VEDA,² Arvind Raman, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University; EE 317. ABSTRACT: Much information about the tip-sample material properties is buried in the amplitude and phase vs distance curves that are routinely acquired in tapping mode AFM. We will illustrate this with some example problems using the Dynamic Approach Curves (DAC) tool under VEDA- Virtual Environment for Dynamic AFM. Following this, we will use a few examples using the Amplitude Modulated Scanning (AMS) tool under VEDA to understand how imaging feedback parameters influence quality of images. BIO: Arvind Raman is Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering and the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University. He joined Purdue as an Assistant Professor in 2000. Earlier he earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (1999), an MSME from Purdue (1993) and a B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (1991). His interests lie in predicting and exploiting nonlinear dynamical phenomena in micro and nanosystems, and in coupled fluid-structural systems. Raman received the NSF CAREER award in 2002, the Purdue Teaching for Tomorrow award (2003), the Discovery in Mechanical Engineering award (2004), the College of Engineering's Outstanding Young Researcher award (2006), and is currently the BFS Shafer faculty fellow in Mechanical Engineering. 2.2: Tuesday, September 25, 2:30PM: ³Aviator vs. the Environment: Learning to Protect the Health of the High-Altitude Aviator during World War II,² Jay B. Dean, Professor, Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, Hyperbaric Biomedical Research Laboratory, College of Medicine, University of south Florida; MRGN 121. ABSTRACT. The air war of 1939-45 was a physiological war. Aviators flew non-pressurized planes to altitudes of 20,000-35,000 feet during long-range reconnaissance and bombing missions in order to evade enemy interceptors and anti-aircraft fire. Above 20,000 feet, aircrew performance was often impaired by hypoxia, decompression sickness (DCS), and hypothermia. Escaping from a disabled aircraft at high-altitude presented numerous physiological challenges to safe escape, including hypoxia, frostbite and the opening shock of the parachute. High-performance fighter aircraft subjected allied pilots to tremendous centrifugal forces during violent dog-fighting maneuvers that would leave them temporarily blinded and unconscious due to a reduction in brain blood flow. America would deploy its first pressurized bomber in the spring of 1944 (B-29 Superfortress) in the Pacific war to alleviate the physiological problems caused by reduced barometric pressure and cold. Pressurized flight, however, created a new problem; namely, it was unknown how aircrews would respond to explosive decompression at high-altitude following structural failure of their pressure cabin. If they survived decompression at 35,000 feet, how long did they have to don their oxygen masks before succumbing to hypoxia? Would the incidence of DCS increase? What were the physical forces during rapid decompression; specifically, was the ensuing wind blast during decompression great enough to inflict physical injury? Pioneering research on the physiologic effects of high-altitude and explosive decompression was conducted at the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, and several of the countries leading universities. Beginning with only 3 research laboratories in 1940, the nation's research program for high-altitude physiology would grow over the course of the war, such that it was without equal in the world by 1945 for providing protective flying equipment and training for allied aviators. By 1945, the high-altitude training program employed over 200 aviation physiologists running 65 altitude chambers at 45 Army airfields who indoctrinated more than 58,000 men per month in the physiologic effects of high altitude flight. Allied aviators were taught many procedures such as O2 discipline; prevention of DCS with 100% O2-prebreathing; appropriate use of bail-out O2 equipment in a high-altitude/low-opening parachute jump, which was necessary to avoid the opening shock of the parachute and to prevent hypoxia; use of the G-suit, which enabled pilots to withstand greater G-forces, and consequently to outperform their adversary in a dog-fight; and how to survive an explosive decompression. The successful aeromedical research and training programs established by these pioneering "physiological warriors" played a significant role in the Allies' air victory in the air war. The knowledge gained and the new practices established during the war years would propel the aviator into the jet age and lay the scientific foundation for space medicine in the post-war era. During the presentation, Dr. Dean will present archival photographs and film footage, much of which has never been published, from the original technical reports of the Wright Field Aero Medical Lab and the Ohio State University Laboratory of Aviation Physiology. 2.3: Thursday, September 27, 4:00PM refreshments; 4:30PM seminar: ³Structural Magnetotrictive alloys,² Dr. Alison Flatau, Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, ME 161. ABSTRACT: Magnetostrictive materials belong to the family of smart materials that are enabling major advances in noise, vibration and shape control and new approaches to structural health monitoring. An introduction to magnetostrictive materials will be presented, followed by an emphasis on the new structural magnetostrictive alloy Galfenol with discussion of current and potential applications that range from nano-and mems sensors to large scale sonar devices. The presentation will include a summary of on-going research in our ONR MURI Program that is focused on structural magnetostrictive alloys, a discussion of some of the challenges associated with transitioning this relatively new alloy (still in the process of being patented) to commercial scale production and thoughts on taking advantage of its unique structural attributes (e.g. ductility and a negative Poison's ratio) will be included in the presentation. BIO: Dr. Flatau joined the University of Maryland Aerospace Engineering Dept. in 2002 after serving as Program Director for the Dynamic Systems Modeling, Sensing and Control Program at the National Science Foundation from 1998-2002. Prior to that, she was on the Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics faculty at Iowa State University (1990-1998). Her experience also includes four years at the National Small Wind Systems Test Center in Golden, CO where she was a Senior Research Engineer. One of her key research activities is the development and application of magnetostrictive material actuators and sensors. A second research interest is active flow control. Since joining the University of Maryland, she has joined an active team of researchers in projects on rotorcraft and on the design and development of unmanned air vehicles with morphing capabilities using smart and multifunctional material actuation schemes. Dr. Flatau is currently the PI of an ONR MURI investigation, working with researchers from U. Maryland, U. Minn., Penn State, Va Tech, Rutgers, Ohio State and Iowa State on Structural Magnetostrictive Alloys. As the author of over 30 archival journal and book chapter contributions, Dr. Flatau currently serves as an Assistant Editor for the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (2002-present). Dr. Flatau is a Senior Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a Fellow of the ASME. 2.4: Friday, September 28, 3:30PM refreshments; 3:45PM seminar: ³Flow behavior of cast pur Mg and Mg-Zn alloys,² Gemma Mann, Engineering Education (ENE), INSPIRE, Purdue University; MSEE B12. ABSTRACT: It has been shown that the tensile and compressive behaviour of Mg alloys have two characteristics that set them apart from ferrous alloys and Al alloys. These differences appear to be significant for users of Mg alloys and their explanation also poses significant fundamental questions. The first characteristic is that yield in Mg starts at a far lower fraction of the 0.2% proof stress than it does in other alloys. The second characteristic is that unloading from the peak stress is highly non-linear in Mg alloys whereas in Al alloys and in steels unloading is linear. These two phenomena are important for designers of structural components. The alloys do not conform to the ideal of an elastic-plastic solid, and the non-linear behaviour may need to be taken into account in the appropriate numerical stress analysis codes. In a practical sense, therefore, it is necessary to quantify the behaviour. Tensile and compressive testing of alloys with various solute contents and grain sizes shows the effects of these parameters on the yield and flow of the material. At a more fundamental level, the microscopic mechanisms responsible for the behaviour were not previously understood. Microanalysis and hysteresis tests were aimed at determining the role of twinning in the deformation processes. BIO: Gemma Mann received her Bachelor of Science majoring in Physics with Honors at the University of Queensland, Australia, and has submitted for PhD in Materials Engineering. Her doctoral research was in cast magnesium alloys of different grain size and alloy content. She is currently a research associate in the Engineering Education (ENE) Department at Purdue University working for INSPIRE. ******************** 3. Birck Visitors ******************** 3.1: Monday, September 24, 9:00AM: Greater Elkhart Chamber of Commerce Visit/Tour, BRK 2001. 3.2: Thursday, September 27, 11:20AM: Indiana Economic Development Corporation 3.3: Thursday, September 27, 9:40AM: College of Science Office of Undergraduate Education 3.4: Saturday, September 29, 9:30AM: James Sperlik and family; Tom Scholl, venture capitalist ****************** 4. Funding Alerts ****************** 4.1: NSF-SIA/NRI Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Supplements to NSF Centers in Nanoelectronics (NSF 07-051); National Science Foundation (NSF); http://fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/110528. 4.2: Defense Sciences Research and Technology Nanostructured Materials for Power; United States Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); http://fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/110540. 4.3: Annual Showalter Trust Competition, per Dr. Charles Rutledge: proposals are for one year with a project period of July 1, 2008June 30, 2009. All guidelines, procedures, and instructions are available at http://www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/funding/showalter.html <http://www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/funding/showalter.html> http://www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/funding/kinley.html <http://www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/funding/kinley.html> . The Showalter Will specifies that the following areas of research would have priority for funding: 1) Air and water pollution research; 2) Research in the field of biochemistry; 3) Research for the control and prevention of disease; 4) Research for development of new technologies in food production; 5) Research in medical and biophysical instrumentation, including the adaptation of the modern computer in the measurement of biological processes, in the collection, recording, analysis, and interpretation of data. ****************** 5. Life on the Outside ****************** 5.1: How many apples do you have? Do you have the 5 apples needed to finalize the criteria for the Healthy Purdue Initiative? If you do, great! You will receive $250 (minus taxes) in 2008! You¹ve also learned new skills and techniques for a healthier lifestyle worth much more than $250. The deadline to earn five apples is November 9, 2007. That is 7 weeks from today. Please don¹t delay. Check how many apples you have earned: https://www2.itap.purdue.edu/bs/WorkLife/index.cfm; enter your career account login and password; click on ³Wellness Criteria Tracking² on the left side of the page; there will be checkmarks below the apples with dates that they were acknowledged. If you have any questions, Barbara J. Doremire; 43513; bjd@purdue.edu. 5.2: Welcome the newest Birck family member! Bridget Hines announces the arrival of Olivia Rose: Olivia entered the world at 5:45AM on Sunday morning. She is beautiful! 6 Lb 3 1/2 oz, 19 in. Pictures to come. Deborah S. Starewich Administrative Assistant to Timothy D. Sands, Director Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 765-494-3509 dstarewi@ecn.purdue.edu http://www.nano.purdue.edu/