MONDAY MEMO, October 1, 2007
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1. Announcements
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1.1: Blood Borne Pathogen Training, Friday, 10.05, 3:00PM, BRK 1099.
1.2: 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 year’s event. Day Two: The morning session is devoted to presenting your company’s “quick pitch” 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).
1.3: Japanese interpretation services needed: Professor Masa Rao is seeking someone to facilitate interaction with a Japanese visitor who will be on campus October 25 & 26. A science or engineering background is preferred, particularly someone familiar with microfabrication or MEMS, if possible. If you’re interested, please contact Masa Rao, mprao@ecn.purdue.edu.
1.4: ATTENTION all Birck Nanotechnology Center Researchers: The Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council (NSAC) hosts a Birck Nanotechnology Center Seminar Series on Thursdays at 10:30AM (Fall 2007), in Birck 1001. The seminars should last approximately 45 minutes with 15 minutes for questions/comments. NSAC’s goals include a mixture of professors and graduate students presenting their research. Professors should plan on presenting an overview of their research at a level geared toward recruiting new grad students or reporting to a funding agency. Please note that presentations will be videotaped and posted to the BNC website in Breeze format. Graduate students may present on research or on a “journal club” article. Remember that these seminars are a great opportunity to practice your prelim or thesis defense before presenting to your committee. If you are giving a talk at an upcoming conference, this is a great opportunity to practice your presentation here first. If your talk is short (15–20 minutes), pair up with another grad and you both can present one Thursday. Interested parties should contact Annie Cheever; acheever@ecn.purdue.edu. If you have questions, please contact Annie or Kalapi Biswas (kgbiswas@purdue.edu, NSAC research awareness chair).
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2. Funding Opportunities
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2.1: 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.
2.2: Limited Submission Competition, NSF MRI, per Christine King: The annual submission deadline for the NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) is Thursday, January 24, 2008. As in previous years, each institution is limited to participating in no more than two instrument acquisition proposals, and in no more than one additional instrument development proposal. The URL for this competition is www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07510/nsf07510.htm. The MRI program is designed to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in science and engineering, and to foster the integration of research and education by providing instrumentation for research-intensive learning environments. Awards range from $100,000 to $2 million for the acquisition, development, and support of research instrumentation for shared inter- and/or intra-institutional use and in concert with private sector partners. Interns deadlines: Monday, October 29, Letters of Intent due to the OVPR; Monday, November 26, Preproposals due to the OVPR; Thursday, November 29, College preproposal rankings due to the OVPR. Note that letters of intent, preproposals, and rankings to the OVPR should be e-mailed to OVPRlimited@purdue.edu. Purdue’s limited submission policy and templates for letters of intent and preproposals may be found at http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi <http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi> . Please indicate clearly on letters of intent, and preproposals, whether the proposal is for acquisition or development. For any case in which the number of internal letters of intent received is no more than the number of proposals allowed by the sponsor, the OVPR will notify the PI that an internal preproposal will be unnecessary.
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3. Seminars
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3.1: Monday, October 1, 2:30, “ Plastic Deformation at Micron, and Submicron Scales,” by Marisol Koslowski, EE 317
Abstract: Most people experiences the way objects plastically deform on a macroscopic scale. From a car crash to the bending of a paper clip plastic deformation occurs in the form of a smooth flow as a response of an applied stress. But due to the constant shrinking on the dimensions of mechanical devices — such as micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) and micro electronic interconnects — the notion that plasticity is governed not by a steady flow but by the occurrence of intermittent avalanches of defects moving through the material is gaining increasing attention. To model the deformation of metallic materials at micron and submicron scales a continuum theory of dislocations is derived. Our simulations show the formation of structures and their influence in macroscopic deformation and the dependence on the yield stress on the characteristic size of the sample, known as the Hall-Petch effect. We also study the jerky character of dislocation motion and its analogy to earthquakes, biological systems, and other systems showing critical behavior.
BIO: Dr. Marisol Koslowski is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University. Previously she was a Technical Staff Member in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She received her B.S. degree in Physics in 1997 from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and her M.S in 1999 and her Ph. D. in Aeronautics in 2003 from the California Institute of Technology. Her research interests include computational solid mechanics, mechanical properties
of micro- and nano- structured materials. She currently works in the development of theoretical and numerical tools to study the reliability and performance of micromechanical systems. Dr. Koslowski received the Leon Heller award for a postdoctoral publication in Theoretical Physics from Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2006.
3.2: Thursday, October 4, 2:30-4:00, “New Dimension in Performance: Harnessing 3D Integration Technology,” by Kerry Berstein, KNOY B033
Abstract: Despite generation on generation of scaling, computer chips have remained essentially 2-dimensional. Improvements in on-chip wire delay, and in the total number of inputs and outputs has not been able to keep up with improvements to the transistor, and its getting harder and harder to hide it! 3D chip technologies come in a number of flavors, but are receiving lots of attention lately as a means of extending CMOS performance. Designing for three dimensions, however, forces us to look at formerly-two-dimensional integration issues quite differently. IBM as well as other companies and research institutions are developing ways of addressing these challenges. This talk will introduce major 3D concepts and IBM’s approach. A 3D “fly-through” movie of an actual IBM 3D design will be shown.
BIO: Kerry Bernstein is a Senior Technical Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hts., NY. He is currently Principal Investigator of IBM’s 3D Integration Program. Mr. Bernstein received the B.S degree in electrical engineering degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and joined IBM in 1978. He holds 50 US Patents, and is a co-author of 3 college textbooks and multiple papers on high speed CMOS. His interests are in the area of high performance / low power advanced circuits and technologies. Mr. Bernstein is an IEEE Fellow.
3.3: MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW! Tuesday, October 16, 6-8PM, “Crash Course: Putting Your Work Online at nanoHUB.org,” by Mike McLennan, MRGN 129; PIZZA PIZZA. If you have a laptop computer, bring it along, so you can follow along and try things out.
ABSTRCT: Do you have a talk, a simulator, a white paper, or a homework assignment that might be useful for others in the nanotechnology research/education community? Put it online at nanoHUB.org. During this 2-hour crash course, we’ll show you just how easy it is to get your work online: Publish your PDF/DOC files within minutes; go from PowerPoint slides to a published presentation in just a few hours; go from Matlab scripts or Fortran code to a published simulation tool in just a few days. Why bother? Employers and tenure committees want to see what you’ve accomplished during your research. Imagine pointing to dozens of resources online, and quoting statistics about the hundreds or even thousands of users that you’ve reached with your science!
Eat pizza and learn how to use nanoHUB.org as a publishing platform.
BIO: Michael McLennan received a PhD in 1990 from Purdue University for his dissertation on dissipative quantum mechanical electron transport in semiconductor heterostructure devices. He blended his expertise in physics with a love of software when he joined Bell Labs in 1992 to work on tools for semiconductor device and process simulation. He is co-author of Effective Tcl/Tk Programming and Tcl/Tk Tools. He also developed [incr Tcl], an object-oriented extension of Tcl, which is now used by thousands of developers worldwide on projects ranging from the TiVo digital video recorder to the Mars Pathfinder. Dr. McLennan joined Cadence Design Systems in 1998 as a Software Architect for their SimVision visualization and debugging environment. In 2004, he became a Senior Research Scientist at Purdue University, acting as the Software Architect for the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) and the nanoHUB.org web site. His latest project is the Rappture Toolkit, available at http://rappture.org.
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4. Birck Visitors
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4.1: Tuesday, October 2, Tsinghua University [the MIT of China], 10:00AM.
4.2: Tuesday, October 2, Dr. Kenneth Corenetta, Joe C. Christian Professor & Chairman of Medical & Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, 2:30
4.3: Thursday, October 4, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, 3:30.
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5. In the News
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5.1: Mike Roco praises Purdue: “The scientist regarded by his peers as the architect of the National Nanotechnology Initiative calls it ‘the front of the wave of scientific discovery’ for nanotech. Mihail Roco says Purdue University’s Network for Computational Nanotechnology represents ‘the premier network for modeling simulation’ in the nanotech industry. For more, visit:
http://www.midwestbusiness.com/news/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=18058 <http://www.midwestbusiness.com/news/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=18058>
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6. Purchasing Update
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6.1: SRM/OnePurdue Purchasing Update: view shopping carts other than your own! Through the efforts of the OnePurdue team, the Supply Chain team, and Purchasing Services we have found a tool that provides that functionality. All SRM users will have a new tab under “Purchasing Services” called “SRM Administration.” Under this tab, you will find a “Monitor Shopping Carts” function, which will allow you to look up any shopping cart in the SRM system. Depending on the other SAP roles you have you may also be able to delete shopping carts or line items within a shopping cart. If you are not the original requestor and changes to a shopping cart are identified using this functionality, please consult with the requestor or the requestor’s business office about the changes. This broad access and capability brings with it the expectation that you will only access those shopping carts for which you have a legitimate need to access and necessary changes are managed appropriately. If you have questions or need assistance using this feature, please contact the Purchasing Services Helpdesk, 47279; pshelpdesk@purdue.edu.
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/