BNC Faculty Meeting - November 20th | 2pm - 3pm | via zoom
Dear BNC faculty, The next Birck faculty meeting is scheduled for November 20th from 2pm - 3pm via Zoom to give an overview of Birck operations, research and recharge. Below is the agenda along with Zoom information. I'll also follow up this email with a calendar invite. Agenda * New Faculty/Staff * Research highlights * Equipment installations and priorities * Updates from BNC Strategic Leadership Meeting * BNC communications (website, posters) * BNC faculty seminars, New faculty engagement * Financial update: * New grants, Recharge income, * New rates (subsidy in first quarter) * Birck Operations and Research * staff/scientists training data, work from home, * ticketing system/ wiki usage * soft material lab, EM operation, * cross-contamination matrix, * other updates? * Q&A ********************************************************************************* Join Zoom Meeting https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/94316473327 Meeting ID: 943 1647 3327 One tap mobile +16465588656,,94316473327# US (New York) 13017158592,,94316473327# US +(Germantown) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 943 1647 3327 Find your local number: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/u/aNjplwJVw ********************************************************************************** Thank you, Jaime Turner Lead Administrative Assistant to the Director | Birck Nanotechnology Center BRK | 1205 W State Street | West Lafayette, IN 47907 o: 765-494-3509<tel:7654943509> | m: 765-491-3064<tel:7654913064> | jjturner@purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> [83324AA6]<https://www.purdue.edu/>
Dear Colleagues, We will have our next Birck faculty virtual meeting tomorrow, Friday Nov. 20th, 2-3pm. See below the zoom information. I hope you will be able to participate. Please let Zhihong, Sunil or me know if you have any questions or comments. Best regards, Ali On Nov 4, 2020, at 1:58 PM, Turner, Jaime J <jjbiggs@purdue.edu<mailto:jjbiggs@purdue.edu>> wrote: Dear BNC faculty, The next Birck faculty meeting is scheduled for November 20th from 2pm – 3pm via Zoom to give an overview of Birck operations, research and recharge. Below is the agenda along with Zoom information. I’ll also follow up this email with a calendar invite. Agenda * New Faculty/Staff * Research highlights * Equipment installations and priorities * Updates from BNC Strategic Leadership Meeting * BNC communications (website, posters) * BNC faculty seminars, New faculty engagement * Financial update: * New grants, Recharge income, * New rates (subsidy in first quarter) * Birck Operations and Research * staff/scientists training data, work from home, * ticketing system/ wiki usage * soft material lab, EM operation, * cross-contamination matrix, * other updates? * Q&A ********************************************************************************* Join Zoom Meeting https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/94316473327 Meeting ID: 943 1647 3327 One tap mobile +16465588656,,94316473327# US (New York) 13017158592,,94316473327# US +(Germantown) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 943 1647 3327 Find your local number: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/u/aNjplwJVw ********************************************************************************** Thank you, Jaime Turner Lead Administrative Assistant to the Director | Birck Nanotechnology Center BRK | 1205 W State Street | West Lafayette, IN 47907 o: 765-494-3509<tel:7654943509> | m: 765-491-3064<tel:7654913064> | jjturner@purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> <image002.png><https://www.purdue.edu/> _______________________________________________ Bnc-faculty-all-list mailing list Bnc-faculty-all-list@ecn.purdue.edu<mailto:Bnc-faculty-all-list@ecn.purdue.edu> https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/mailman/listinfo/bnc-faculty-all-list
Dear Colleagues, Zhihong, Sunil and I appreciate very much those who took the time from their busy schedules and participated at the BNC faculty meeting yesterday. If you couldn’t make it, please review our powerpoint presentation and let us know your feedback or comments: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ts0x1ouuen34v5b/BNC_Faculty_Nov_2020print.pdf?dl=0 Couple of highlights: * There are exciting opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations with dozen of new faculty from six departments. You can learn more during BNC seminar series Thursdays 12noon-1pm (see viewgraphs 3-5, 54-55). * We are fortunate to bring many state-of-the-art tools and capabilities in the last 3 years (see viewgraphs 9-21, 32-37) * Our faculty have been very productive and brought $13M in grants since July 1st. * Due to COVID, our recharge income has been reduced. We are ramping up but please let us know if you see any bottlenecks or ideas to improve our operation. Visa delays have impacted many new graduate students. If helpful, our engineering and scientific staff will be glad to support your fabrication or characterization needs. * We are updating BNC tour posters for when we will be back to normal operation, hopefully soon. It will be great to showcase your research. Please contact Neil Dilley (viewgraph 51) Facility questions/ notices: * During Winter Break (Dec. 19-Jan. 3), university is closed. Birck cleanroom and laboratories will be open but we typically don’t allow hazardous gases or chemicals (see details in viewgraph 7). We are exploring if it is possible to have higher operation if faculty need to catch up on their research. Please let Ron Reger and Sunil know about your research plans during the winter break. Please send your input by Dec. 1st. * Please note the tentative HVAC interruption and cleanroom shutdown on Jan. 12th (viewgraph 8). It is real privilege to work with our outstanding faculty, students and staff. Please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any suggestions or comments to improve our operation, better serve our diverse users and help increase interdisciplinary collaborations. Best regards, Ali
Dear Colleagues, Birck's key strength, beyond a shared resource with the latest state-of-the-art tools and expert staff, is bringing together more than 500 students and faculty from diverse disciplines. It will be good to think and brainstorm about our long term impact and how we can nucleate future centers of excellence at Purdue. We know that to be successful, we should be proactive before call for center proposals come out (e.g. NSF STC, ERC, MRSEC; NIH; DoE EFRC; DoD or USDA).. We are all very busy at the end of a very unusual semester due to COVID-19. On the other hand, we should not lose sight that some of the initiatives with major impact for many generations (e.g. Morrill Act to establish land-grant universities and the establishment of national academy of science) were signed at very difficult times during the civil war. Last year more than 50 faculty were engaged in the planning for Birck Annex. As a follow up, Zhihong and I had one-to-one meetings with more than 20 department heads, associate deans for research and deans. Through these conversations, we identified couple of potential areas for future centers of excellence (see the attached viewgraphs). This list is not exhaustive but some initial ideas. Of course, with the current financial pressures, it is hard to think about Birck building expansion. Building and equipment are just tools, they should be consequences of our initiatives. If you are interested to be engaged in the discussion about future centers of excellence, I encourage you to attend one or both of the following virtual meetings: * Wednesday Dec. 16, 12-1:30pm (health, ag/food, biomedical, and water) * Thursday Dec. 17, 12-1:30pm (computing, communications, and energy; quantum and AI) Please let Jaime know if you are able to participate and which meetings. We plan to share additional brainstorming documents together with the zoom invitation. Also don’t hesitate to share your ideas about potential future centers of excellences (which societal grand challenges we can address? why Purdue? what are our top competitors and what others are doing? which future funding sources?) We look forward to hear from you. Best regards, Ali and Zhihong PS. Latest BNC faculty meeting viewgraphs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ts0x1ouuen34v5b/BNC_Faculty_Nov_2020print.pdf?dl=0 Some ideas from Birck 2050: Conference of the Future: https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/2050/
Dear Colleagues, Next week, we will have meetings about future centers of excellence leveraging Birck researchers and assets (see attached some initial ideas but this is not exhaustive). We will discuss about: (1) grant opportunities for small group proposals as well as major centers. (2) being ahead of the curve, identify funding priorities, help create new programs. (3) ideas about potential future centers of excellences (which societal grand challenges? why Purdue? top competitors? target funding sources?) If you haven’t done so already, please let Jaime know if you would like to participate at either or both of the meetings below and Jaime will share the zoom invite(s): * Wednesday Dec. 16, 12-1:30pm (health, ag/food, biomedical, water, soft materials/R2R manufacturing) * Thursday Dec. 17, 12-1:30pm (computing, communications, energy, micro/nano fabrication; quantum and AI) We look forward to hear from you. Best regards, Ali and Zhihong On Dec 2, 2020, at 2:36 AM, Shakouri, Ali <shakouri@purdue.edu<mailto:shakouri@purdue.edu>> wrote: Dear Colleagues, Birck's key strength, beyond a shared resource with the latest state-of-the-art tools and expert staff, is bringing together more than 500 students and faculty from diverse disciplines. It will be good to think and brainstorm about our long term impact and how we can nucleate future centers of excellence at Purdue. We know that to be successful, we should be proactive before call for center proposals come out (e.g. NSF STC, ERC, MRSEC; NIH; DoE EFRC; DoD or USDA).. We are all very busy at the end of a very unusual semester due to COVID-19. On the other hand, we should not lose sight that some of the initiatives with major impact for many generations (e.g. Morrill Act to establish land-grant universities and the establishment of national academy of science) were signed at very difficult times during the civil war. Last year more than 50 faculty were engaged in the planning for Birck Annex. As a follow up, Zhihong and I had one-to-one meetings with more than 20 department heads, associate deans for research and deans. Through these conversations, we identified couple of potential areas for future centers of excellence (see the attached viewgraphs). This list is not exhaustive but some initial ideas. Of course, with the current financial pressures, it is hard to think about Birck building expansion. Building and equipment are just tools, they should be consequences of our initiatives. If you are interested to be engaged in the discussion about future centers of excellence, I encourage you to attend one or both of the following virtual meetings: * Wednesday Dec. 16, 12-1:30pm (health, ag/food, biomedical, and water) * Thursday Dec. 17, 12-1:30pm (computing, communications, and energy; quantum and AI) Please let Jaime know if you are able to participate and which meetings. We plan to share additional brainstorming documents together with the zoom invitation. Also don’t hesitate to share your ideas about potential future centers of excellences (which societal grand challenges we can address? why Purdue? what are our top competitors and what others are doing? which future funding sources?) We look forward to hear from you. Best regards, Ali and Zhihong PS. Latest BNC faculty meeting viewgraphs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ts0x1ouuen34v5b/BNC_Faculty_Nov_2020print.pdf?dl=0 Some ideas from Birck 2050: Conference of the Future: https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/2050/ <FutureBirck_Dec2020.pdf>
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