BNC News

week of December 7, 2009

ANNOUNCEMENTS

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR XPS WORKSHOP! Student discount now available! [DOWNLOAD form here!] Thursday, and Friday, 12.10.09 and 12.11.09, 8:00AM to 5:00PM, MRGN 129: Introduction to XPS: What you should know about X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy? [Details/flier/and REGISTRATION] Questions should be directed to Monica Allain.

FIAP Student Travel Grant for the 2010 March Meeting. A travel grant of $1000 per student will be awarded to five 2010 March Meeting speakers. [More]

NSAC news

NSAC will be hosting Hot Cocoa Mondays on December 7 and 14 from 3 to 4PM in the Birck kitchen, located on the first floor. Stop by for a hot drink!

Watch for the Second Annual finals Week Game Night! More info to come.

TOURS/VISITORS

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

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

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

NOTE! Friday Journal Club is discontinued until January 2010, Spring semester. Watch here for updates.

Tuesday, 12.08.09, 3:00PM, BRK 2001: "Spin-orbit interaction of a photon: mutual influence of polarization and propagation," by B. Ya. Zeldovich, CREOL-UCF: Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers, University of Central Florida [More]

Wednesday, 12.09.09, 10:30AM, BRK 1001: “Harvesting Energy from Semiconductor Nanostructure-based Devices,” by Dr. Yue Wu, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University. [More]

Wednesday, 12.09.09, 12:30PM, WTHR 201: “Dopant Mapping and Correlated Functional Imaging of Semiconductor Nanowires,” by Professor Lincoln J. Lauhon, Northwestern University. [More]

Thursday, 12.10.09, 4:30PM, ME 161, Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar: "Microscale Power Generation and Propulsion: It's Not the Same as Big Devices Made Smaller," by Professor Paul D. Ronney, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California. Refreshments served at 4:00 in ME 254. [More]

UPCOMING

An Indo-US Joint Conference on "Infectious Diseases: Novel Strategies for Design & Development of Vaccines and Drugs", January 5-8, 2010 will be held at TIFR, Mumbai. [Website]

2010 IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices: April 16, 2010; Boise State University – Jordan Ballroom, Boise, Idaho. http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/boise/wmed2010/WMED2010.html

KUDOS

Leah H. Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, announces newly Named, Distinguished, and Faculty Scholars:

Timothy S. Fisher, School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty Scholar

Suresh Garimella, R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Distinguished Professor

Hugh W. Hillhouse, School of Chemical Engineering, Faculty Scholar

Eric A. Stach, School of Materials Engineering, Faculty Scholar

IEEE has elevated the following Birck resident faculty to Fellow status, as of Jan 1 2010:

Vlad Shalaev, for contributions to nanophotonics and the development of optical materials;

Joerg Appenzeller, for contributions to carbon nanotube transistors and circuits; and

Tim Sands, for contributions to metal/semiconductor interfaces and heterogeneous integration.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Open Postdoctoral Position: The Berkeley Thermoelectrics Group offers a postdoctoral position to investigate novel phonon transport mechanism in one-dimensional silicon structures. The postdoctoral researcher will have the opportunity to fabricate microheater devices, characterize silicon-based thermoelectric materials and verify phonon transport mechanisms predicted by theoretical models. [More]

LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE

Marine Toys for Tots gift drive: Donations collected through 12.10.09, MRGN 120. Visit www.toysfortots.org for additional information.

PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS

FLU SHOTS available

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 (personnel should have a copy on hand in their offices and homes; contact Deborah Starewich, if you do not have the most recent copy; distributed on Thursday, 09.13.09). 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

Submit items for memo of the week of December 14, 2009 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 12.11.09, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu