WEEKLY MEMO, August 25, 2008 ****************** 1. ANNOUNCEMENTS ****************** 1.1: WELCOME BACK! The staff of the Birck Nanotechnology Center would like to extend a warm welcome to the new and returning students and faculty for the 20082009 academic year! We look forward to a very productive year supporting you in your research projects. Since many new users of the BNC will be joining us we wanted to remind you that much helpful and useful information is located on our website: www.nano.purdue.edu. Here you will find policies and procedures, equipment manuals and listings, training requirements & registration, links to important nanotechnology learning resources, and much more. We invite you to become very familiar with the content of the website and to take advantage of all it offers. Also please remember that requests for staff-supported experiments and materials, if made prior to 1:00PM to the appropriate engineering staff member via e-mail, has a much higher probability of being completed within that same day. We look forward to a very exciting and productive year! (Ron Reger, Process & Equipment Manager, Birck Nanotechnology Center) 1.2: WELCOME BACK CARRY-IN: Thursday, 08.28.08, 11:30-1:00PM, Birck Atrium. Fall Carry-in to celebrate the Fall Semester and Accomplishments from last year. Bring a dish and have lunch; table service to be provided. 1.3: ROOM RESERVATIONS: Remember new semester, new reservations required. Please access the RAT ( https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Resources/Tools/RAT/ ) system to reserve your meeting rooms for the semester (attachment includes instructions for using this website). 1.4: SHUTDOWN: There will be a preventive maintenance shutdown of the Birck Nanotechnology Center from October 6-10, 2008. The cleanroom and laboratories will be shut down during all (or at least most) of that week. There will be no temperature control in the offices on Monday and Tuesday, so we will be at the mercy of outdoor temperatures. More details are forthcoming, but this should serve as an advanced warning to the BNC community. (per John Weaver) 1.5: REMINDER: NEW SECRETARIAL ASSIGNMENTS: NANCY BLACK, BRK 2287, 48675, blackn@purdue.edu (NOTE: corrected e-mail) Faculty and Student support: Capano, Cooper, Datta, and Shalaev. Staff Support: Coy, Gardner, Grau, Hosler, Jurss, Kuhn, Lubelski, Mahmood, Miller, Reece, Reger, Rowe, Schwartz, Sharifi, Totten, Voorhis, Weaver, and Young. Secretarial back-up. ANNIE CHEEVER, Birck skywalk atrium, 68327, acheever@purdue.edu Faculty and Student Support: Alam, Bergstrom, Chappell, Chen, Clark, Fisher, Irudayaraj, Janes, Leary, Mohammadi, Narimanov, Peroulis, Ribbe, Savran, Wei, Wereley, Xu, Yang, Ye, and Ziaie. Secretarial back-up. MELISSA MARRIS, Birck atrium, 47053, lanem@purdue.edu Faculty and Student Support: Appenzeller, Bashir, Chang, Garimella, Kais, Lee, Lyanda-Geller, McNally, Moon, Qi, Raman, Rao, Reifenberger, Rokhinson, Schwartz, Stach, and Woodall. Staff Support: Drachev, Goecker, Starewich, Zakharov, and Zemlyanov. Secretarial back-up. 1.6: Scanning Probe Microscopy User group meeting: Friday, 08.29.08, 11:30AM, BRK 2001; PIZZA provided. Purdue University Scanning Probe Microscopy (PU-SPM) User Group meetings will be initiated with the Call out meeting on the 29th of August at Birck center Rm 2001. In the call out meeting, information will be provided about the PU-SPM community, its plan for the next year, and why it is beneficial to all the SPM users to join the PU-SPM User Group and attend the biweekly meetings. A schedule of this Fall¹s meetings, as well as speaker names and topics will be provided. Suggestions from the attendees about the PU-SPM activities or meetings schedule will be highly appreciated. Pizza and drinks will be provided. 1.7: FREE Vacuum Training Seminars offered by Varian Inc. on Sept. 16-17. Standard High and Ultra High Vacuum Seminar offered on Sept. 16 from 5:30-9:30pm and Advanced High and Ultra High Vacuum Seminar offered on Sept. 17 from 5:30-9:30pm. Registrants of advanced seminar are recommended to also attend the standard seminar. Seminars will be in room 1001 (NOT BIRCK) in the Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering (MJIS). Free dinner (pizza or sandwiches) will be provided. Contact Jeremy Schroeder (jlschroe@purdue.edu) to register. ******************** 2. TOURS/VISITORS ******************** 2.1: Thursday, 08.28.08, 2:15PM: PDS Biotech, with Tim Sands and Charles Buck. ***************************************** 3. SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS see below for descriptions, abstracts, and bios ***************************************** 3.1: UPCOMING: 09.25.08, 78:30PM, STEW 214ABC: ³Proposal Writing Workshop for Graduate Students,² by Peter E. Dunn (registration required). **************** 4. OPPORTUNITIES **************** 4.1: Postdoctoral Position: Scanning Probe Microscopy for Functional Imaging, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. https://www2.orau.gov/ORNL_POSTL ******************************* 5. ABSTRACTS/BIOS/DESCRIPTIONS for seminars/workshops lists above ******************************* 5.1: Register now! Proposal Writing Workshop for Graduate Students: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 78:30PM, STEW 214ABC. Peter E. Dunn, associate vice president for research and director of University research administration, will conduct the workshop. Online registration will be available at the Graduate School¹s Professional Development website (http://www.gradschool.purdue.edu/development/). Questions should be directed to Peter Dunn (46840; pedunn@purdue.edu). ***************** 6. DISCOVERY PARK ***************** 6.1: Learn about health care research at Regenstrief fall conference: The Regenstrief Center¹s fall conference, "Transforming Healthcare Delivery: Advancing Multidisciplinary Research at Purdue University," is an opportunity for Purdue researchers to learn about the progress of multidisciplinary health care research on campus, network with colleagues and students with similar research interests and establish multidisciplinary partnerships to pursue new health care research directions. Last year, more than 150 researchers attended. The 2008 conference will be held on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Purdue's Burton D. Morgan Center. Purdue graduate or undergraduate students are also invited to display health care-related research posters at the conference. Posters must be registered by Sept. 3 to be printed by the Regenstrief Center. The symposium is free to Purdue faculty, students, staff and collaborators. TO REGISTER for the conference and poster session, visit www.purdue.edu/rche/fall2008 (registration will close on September 10). Questions? Contact Mary Schultz with the Regenstrief Center at schultm@purdue.edu or (765) 494-9828. 6.2: Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition Callout: The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and Krannert School of Management are pleased to announce the 22nd annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition. The competition is open to graduate and undergraduate students of Purdue University. The Center invites interested students with a business idea to enter and to attend a callout on: September 9, 2008 or September 10, 2008, MRGN 121, 6:00-7:00PM. Questions will be answered and the registration process will be discussed. Students from all academic disciplines are encouraged to enter. Total Prize package to be awarded to Purdue students is $100,000. For additional Information, contact Jackie Lanter, lanter@purdue.edu, 4-6400.