Dear BNC faculty, Professor Yong Chen is organizing a faculty delegation from Purdue to visit Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM: http://nano.anl.gov/ ). The 1-day visit will be scheduled during the week of Jan 4-8, 2010. The purposes of the trip are to: 1) tour CNM user facilities 2) meet group leaders from various CNM research thrusts to explore possible future research collaboration (including pursuing joint funding). 3) discuss a planned Purdue-ANL nanoworkshop in the near future Any faculty member interested in attending this trip should email Melissa Marris (lanem@purdue.edu) Monica Allain (mallain@purdue.edu<mailto:mallain@purdue.edu>) , and indicate their available dates during the week of Jan 4-8. Thank you. ~ Monica M. Cortez Allain, Ph.D. ~ ************************************************************ Monica M. Cortez Allain, Ph.D. Managing Director Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Phone: (765) 494-5138 Fax: (765) 496-8299 ************************************************************