March 2010 - Bnc-faculty-all-list

December 15-17, 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii! Pacifichem 2010, ON BEHALF OF ALEX WEI
by Starewich, Deborah S. 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

ABSTRACT DUE MONDAY, 04.05.10. Additional information may be found on the attached flier, or visit the Pacifichem 2010 website: http://www.pacifichem.org/

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BIRCK RESEARCH REVIEW, Monday, 04.19, 9:30-4:30, on behalf of JIM COOPER
by Starewich, Deborah S. 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

[cid:3352708753_36387413] 4th Annual BNC Research Review Monday, April 19, 2010, 9:30-4:30 MRGN 121 The annual Birck Research Review is an opportunity to showcase your research to students, colleagues, and visitors from industry, academia, and government. The review also provides an excellent opportunity for your students to gain and develop presentation skills. AGENDA 9:30, REGISTRATION (MRGN 121): Meet-and-greet 10:00, INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW: Jim Cooper, Interim Director 10:30, INDUSTRIAL ENGAGEMENT: Monica Allain, BNC Managing Director 2009 review of BNC external engagement. How to engage with BNC faculty, scientist & students. BNC Industrial Affiliates program. 11:15, INDUSTRIAL PRESENTATION: Nanovis Experience with Discovery Park and industrial collaboration. 12:00, POSTER SESSION (BRK Atrium): BNC students & Research Engineers Box lunches will be provided for all external guests (excluding BNC Resident Faculty, Staff, and Students). Tour(s) will be conducted. Video highlight: graduating students. 2:00, FACULTY PRESENTATIONS (MRGN 121): Professors Eric Stach (MatE), Dimitrios Peroulis (ECE), Alejandro Strachan (ME), Jenna Rickus (ABE), and Robert Moon (MatE) 4:25, CLOSING: Jim Cooper award presentations ATTENTION BIRCK FACULTY (1) Please encourage your student to prepare a POSTER on their work. Posters are due by Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Visit nano.purdue.edu for details pizza will be provided for presenters in BRK 1001 immediately following the research review. (2) GRADUATING students will be highlighted at the Review in a video to be shown in the Birck Atrium. If your student is graduating by December 2010, please have them register at nano.purdue.edu by April 4, 2010 to be included in the video. (3) Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to register at nano.purdue.edu (it’s free!) and attend as many of the sessions as possible. Visit the BNC website (nano.purdue.edu) for information about this event, and instructions for student poster preparation.

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AMBASSADOR CALLOUT: Tuesday, 03.30.10, 12:00, BRK 1001, ON BEHALF OF MONICA ALLAIN
by Starewich, Deborah S. 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

A call out for the graduate student Ambassador Program will be held at the Birck Nanotechnology Center TOMORROW — March 30, 2010 — in room 1001 at 12:00pm. Bring your lunch and learn about how you can take a leadership role as a BNC Ambassador. Ten-minute interviews will be conducted from 3–5pm on the same day: be sure to sign up at the call out.

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Staff with TIAA/CREF retirement plan WITH ATTACHMENTS, on behalf of DAVID JANES
by Starewich, Deborah S. 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

This is a follow-up to the retirement information I sent yesterday-- please forward (along with attachment) to BNC faculty and TIAA/CREF staff. Thanks Dave

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NCN: Welcome to Discovery Park: TODAY, Wednesday, 03.10, 3:00-4:30, BRK 1001 and Atrium
by Starewich, Deborah S. 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

[cid:3351057923_281644] NCN: Welcome to Discovery Park Wednesday, 03.10.10 3:00-4:30 BRK 1001 and Atrium Ganesh Hegde and Min Xu “Fermi Level pinning in III-V MOS structures (Theory+Experiment)” Jonathan Claussen “TBD” Aeraj ul Haque “Lab-on-a-chip Technologies for Fundamental Biology Research” Robert Wortman, Shuaib Salamat, and Ya Zhou “TE Superlattice : experiments, theory and models” David Lyvers “Localized Plasmon Modes in the Optical Properties of Gold Nanorod Arrays” [cid:3351057923_317453]

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NEED TWO STUDENTS: Wednesday, 03.10.10: NCN-BRK student event and reception
by Starewich, Deborah S. 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Does one of your students have a great research “story” that reflects teamwork between theorists and experimentalists? Birck and NCN are hosting a student event to welcome our NCN colleagues to Discovery Park. NCN already has a couple of students lined up to speak and we are interested in securing two Birck students. Please let me know by tomorrow if you have a student who will participate. Thanks! Deborah

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(REMINDER) Condolences to McNally family
by Schwartz, Melissa J 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Please let me know if you are interested in donating towards flowers. I am very sorry to inform that Professor Helen McNally's father passed away last evening. If you would like to help us send flowers to the family please give your donations to Melissa by noon Thursday. If you would like to send a card I do have her mailing address. Pl join me in sending our most sincere condolences to Helen and her family. Sincerely, Melissa Marris-Schwartz Secretary Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Phone: 765-494-7053 Fax: 765-496-8299 Email: lanem(a)purdue.edu www.nano.purdue.edu

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Condolences to McNally family
by Schwartz, Melissa J 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

I am very sorry to inform that Professor Helen McNally's father passed away last evening. If you would like to help us send flowers to the family please give your donations to Melissa by noon Thursday. If you would like to send a card I do have her mailing address. Pl join me in sending our most sincere condolences to Helen and her family. Sincerely, Melissa Marris-Schwartz Secretary Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Phone: 765-494-7053 Fax: 765-496-8299 Email: lanem(a)purdue.edu www.nano.purdue.edu

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