February 2014 - Bnc-grads-list

Nanodays Registration - Birck Grad Student participation requested
by Turner, Jaime J 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Dear Birck Grad Students, Please see below the registration information for this year's Nanodays. Our Director of Birck, Professor Shakouri is highly recommending participation by Birck's graduate students, so if you are at all able to volunteer please do so. NanoDays is a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering and its potential impact on the future. Discovery Park's Birck Nanotechnology Center has hosted NanoDays activities at Purdue since 2010, and we are in the planning stages for this year's events, which will take place April 9-12, 2014. There will be 4 NanoDays events this year: * Wednesday 6-8pm, April 9: Girl Scouts in Birck * Thursday, 9am - 1pm, April 10: Middle school students in Birck * Friday, 9am- 1 pm, April 11: High school students in Birck * Saturday 10am - 4pm, April 12: General Public at Spring Fest Our vision for NanoDays 2014 is to 1) show why nano research is relevant and important to students in grades 4-12, and 2) show the relationships between each research topic and some of the big ideas in nanoscience. There will be two types of activity team: 1) Research activity teams - based on Graduate Student Research A graduate student researcher will work with a few undergraduate students, and as a team they will create an engaging activity to communicate the importance of the research at a level appropriate for our audience, and show connections to the big ideas in nano. 2) Conceptual activity teams- based on the NanoDays kits Teams of students will facilitate activities from the NanoDays kits. These activities have been selected and extensively tested by education professionals. In addition to teaching important concepts in nanoscience, the concept teams will help students see the connections between the nano concepts and nanotechnology research. We need your help! Please volunteer to make this event a success. We are looking for: * Graduate students who do nano-related research * Undergraduate and graduate students with some science background who are interested in engaging students with nanoscience concepts. * Students who would like to help with other NanoDays tasks, such as giving tours, providing directions and general flow and crowd control. You do not need to be a science, engineering or technology major to participate, but some scientific background will help. Volunteers are expected to participate in approximately 4 hours of training before going "live", and are asked to commit to working for at least 2 hours during NanoDays, though attending for the entire event is encouraged. In return, you get to be part of one of the biggest events for the smallest science, one that will make a difference to hundreds of middle school and high school students. Developing and facilitating NanoDays activities will also look great on your resume. Last year, over 800 students visited NanoDays at Birck, so we need a large cadre of volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering, please sign up by following this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Hvnfy-tR2h8jE_KHsa0E_YYcmJ8l7uynA75dNC3ONM… We hope that you will volunteer to help with NanoDays 2014 at Purdue! Jaime Turner Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Email: jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> Phone: 765-494-3509

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Fwd: nsac - question
by Mikhail Shalaginov 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

Folks- Does anybody could help Selva? Thank you. -Misha ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vadivel Murugan, Selva Kumaran <icwebmaster(a)purdue.edu> Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:25 PM Subject: nsac - question To: "jjv(a)purdue.edu" <jjv(a)purdue.edu> Cc: "shalaginov(a)purdue.edu" <shalaginov(a)purdue.edu> Hi, I'm a PhD student in ECE at Purdue. I'm working on a project where there is need to make ALD on Si wafer. There is need for me to vacuum clean my wafer and my glassware. I've not used the involved solutions before (for example: Piranha and Aqua Regia solutions). So I'm in need of someone who could just show me how to clean my wafer using them so that I don't hurt myself when using them. I don't know any grad student who could help me on this. It will be helpful if you could at least suggest whom to contact for this. Thanks, Selva -- Mikhail Y. Shalaginov PhD student Research assistant Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 tel: +1 765 496 3350; fax: +1 765 496 2018 email: shalaginov(a)purdue.edu http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mshalagi/

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FW: Announcing the 2014 Noble Metal Nanoparticles GRS
by Turner, Jaime J 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

From: GRC Announcements [mailto:announcements@grc.org] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 9:35 AM To: mknapp(a)grc.org<mailto:mknapp@grc.org> Subject: Announcing the 2014 Noble Metal Nanoparticles GRS Dear Colleague, It is my pleasure to invite you to apply for the 2014 Noble Metal Nanoparticles Gordon Research Seminar (GRS), which will be held at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts during the weekend of June 14-15, 2014. This year we have invited a fantastic keynote speaker, Prof. Catherine Murphy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in addition to several mentors from academia, industry, and federal labs, to participate in an informal Q&A panel. As an attendee of the inaugural 2012 Noble Metal NPs GRS, we hope you will be interested in attending again this summer. We are also counting on you to help spread the word, so that we can reach out to an even more diverse audience with interesting new research! Attached with this email is a flyer we have prepared to announce the event. We hope that you could print out some copies and distribute them on departmental message boards, in addition to forwarding them by email to other student contacts in our research field. Of course we encourage you to first apply to the seminar and the related GRC that takes place the following week. In the spirit of the Gordon Conferences, we expect you to present your newest research findings in poster format. We will also select the best abstracts among interested applicants to fill in the oral presentation sessions of the weekend (so be sure to submit a good abstract!). Finally, a few applicants will be selected to serve as discussion leaders during the research sessions. As previous attendees with a good idea of how the seminar works, you would be excellent candidates either for an oral presentation or as a discussion leader, so please consider checking those boxes on the application! The application deadline to be considered for an oral presentation is March 14, 2014. The general deadline for a poster presenter is May 17, 2014. The online application can be found here by clicking 'Online Application' in the upper right panel: https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2014&program=grs_noble Please do not hesitate to contact myself or the associate chairs, Chris DeSantis (cdesanti(a)umail.iu.edu<mailto:cdesanti@umail.iu.edu>) and Lisa Brown (lisabrown(a)rice.edu<mailto:lisabrown@rice.edu>), should you have any questions or suggestions for the 2014 GRS. Best, Dr. Randy Carney Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine University of California Davis Medical Center 2700 Stockton Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95817 rcarney(a)ucdavis.edu<mailto:rcarney@ucdavis.edu> Follow GRC: Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/GordonResearchConferences/> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/GordonConf/> This email message from Gordon Research Conferences is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This email may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail and immediately and permanently delete this message and any attachments. Thank you.

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FW: Research Internship in Science & Engineering (RISE) program 2014
by Turner, Jaime J 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Greetings from Indo-US Science & Technology Forum! Indo-US Science & Technology Forum has been successfully running the Research Internships in Science & Engineering (RISE) program from last four years. The Program provides a unique opportunity for science, technology, engineering and medical students from the United States to undertake internship for a period of 3 months in national laboratories, federal research centers, academic research institutes and private R & D laboratories in India. The objective of the program is to provide students exposure to Indian S&T milieu, gain practical skills and develop collaborative networks. Internships are envisaged as a source of mutual cultural and professional enrichment for both the interns and their host institutions. The call for 2014 is currently on with submission deadline of 31 March 2014. Please find attached the announcement for the program. More information about the program is available on our website http://www.indousstf.org/RiseProgram/Home.html We will appreciate if you can share this information with interested students and faculty in your institution and help us in the successful outreach of the RISE program. Feel free to contact for any further information. Best regards, Smriti Dr. Smriti Trikha Senior Science Manager INDO-US S&T FORUM Fulbright House 12, Hailey Road New Delhi 110 001 Ph: 011 42691700 www.indousstf.org<http://www.indousstf.org>

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NSAC: Robert Sayer Presentation CANCELLED
by Alfredo Tuesta 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

Due to the snow emergency the presentation for today at 4:30PM in MRGN 121 has been cancelled. Alfredo NSAC Social Chair -- PhD Candidate Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street (Office 2234) West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057

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