November 2017 - Bnc-grads-list

[Mentoring_at_Purdue] Mentoring@Purdue Welcome Back Social! Only 1 Week Away!
by Vollmer, Dorothy L 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Hello everyone! I hope your first few days of classes are going well! Please join Mentoring@Purdue (M@P) for a Welcome Back Social on Wednesday, August 30th from noon-1:00pm at Leopold's Landing in Pfendler Hall! Catch up with faculty, staff, and students while having a bite to eat! M@P would like to invite all incoming and current graduate students, faculty, and staff to our annual welcome back social. This informal event is a great opportunity to meet new students, reconnect with returning students, and actively engage with potential peer and faculty mentors. Please join us for lunch, socializing, and learn how to get involved with Mentoring@Purdue! M@P aims to improve the quality of graduate education through fostering mentoring relationships between graduate students and faculty or staff members. Mentoring has played a crucial role in the success of many individuals, especially those that are generally underserved. The M@P program helps students grow professionally, academically, and personally to become successful individuals in their chosen area of study. M@P is designed to meet the mentoring needs of the mentors and mentees in the program through events, group forums, guest speakers, and workshops. As a participant in M@P, you will have numerous opportunities for academic and personal growth, support, encouragement, and assistance. M@P will provide training and guidance to both parties on how to have an effective mentor-mentee relationship. We look forward to meeting and reconnecting with you! [cid:image001.jpg@01D31C18.C38459A0] On behalf of the entire M@P team, Dottie Vollmer Master's Student Coordinator of On-Campus Activities, Mentoring@Purdue Program Youth Development and Agricultural Education Purdue University College of Agriculture **Mentoring@Purdue (M@P) reserves the right to use any photograph/video taken at any event sponsored by M@P, without the expressed written permission of those included within the photograph/video. M@P may use the photograph/video in publications or other media material produced, used or contracted by M@P including but not limited to: brochures, invitations, books, newspapers, magazines, television, websites, etc. To ensure the privacy of individuals, images will not be identified using full names or personal identifying information without written approval from the photographed subject. A person attending a M@P event who does not wish to have their image recorded for distribution should make their wishes known to the photographer, and/or the event organizers, and/or contact M@P at dvollme(a)purdue.edu, in writing of his/her intentions and include a photograph. M@P will use the photo for identification purposes and will hold it in confidence. By participating in a M@P event or by failing to notify M@P, in writing, your desire to not have your photograph used by M@P, you are agreeing to release, defend, hold harmless and indemnify M@P from any and all claims involving the use of your picture or likeness. Any person or organization not affiliated with M@P may not use, copy, alter or modify M@P photographs, graphics, videography or other, similar reproductions or recordings without the advance written permission of an authorized designee from M@P. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation! _______________________________________________ Mentoring_at_Purdue mailing list Mentoring_at_Purdue(a)lists.purdue.edu https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/mentoring_at_purdue

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NSAC Coffee hour
by PrabhuKumar Venthurumilli 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Dear all, We have NSAC Coffee hour this week, Neil Dilley (Research Scientist, Birck Staff) will give a talk on New tools for magnetism studies in the BNC Spintronics Lab. As researches at Birck, its good to know the new capabilities available at Birck. What: NSAC Coffee Hour talk When: Friday, November 10th, 2017 3:30 pm Where: BNC Atrium Speaker: Neil Dilley Topic: New tools for magnetism studies in the BNC Spintronics Lab Coffee and refreshments will be served. Also, please feel free to sign up for the Spring coffee hour slots in the Google sheet<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/5344678298c721bb50342f098fe753f8f03f6852?ur…> by clicking here<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/bb5c95004599369487c7b5413ddb588e28a1b512?ur…>. [cid:2bd9e0d4-67a0-4a49-8ca1-28a6d75b2c42] Regards Prabhu

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New NSAC TV and Microwave + This week coffee hour
by Sajid Choudhury 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

Dear All, Just wanted to share with you the good news that we won a PGSG Capital Improvement Grant award this year, and used the funding to purchase a new Microwave oven and a new TV for NSAC. The microwave usage instruction is printed and attached on top of it and please feel free to use it. Please join us this Friday for the NSAC coffee hour as we have our first coffee hour with the new TV. Andrea Montes, a visiting student working in Prof. Janes lab is going to talk about her research. *What: NSAC Coffee Hour talk* ** *When: Friday, November 3rd, 2017 3:30 pm* *Where: BNC Atrium* *Speaker: **Andrea Montes* Topic: Distribution of pores in PAA templates *We will have special snacks in the coffee hour, thanks to the GSOGA funding that we received.* Also, please feel free to sign up for the Spring coffee hour slots in the Google sheet <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/c036edd538caaa44e652a44e932e9e9a9272568f?ur…> by clicking here <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/0de99f20f774015d583f737c08f410a13e2efd16?ur…> . Sajid ‌ [image: Inline image 3][image: Inline image 4]

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IEEE Professor Talk by Ashraf Alam
by Yuqin "Sophia" Duan 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

Dear Birck Students, Please let me remind you that Purdue IEEE is holding a professor talk *tonight at 6:30pm at ME1009*. Professor Ashraf Alam will talk about "How a Synthesis of Biology and Electronics May Change the World as We Know It". Free Pizza and Soda will be provided. The flyer is attached here. If you are interested, please RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/8qyQSyxktXSCzE3K2 <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1CAWAJk2sAkKWFs1VHA0oDoDBouzA_lrcFds9i8dLB2LIN…> . We look forward to seeing you tonight! -Yuqin ------ Yuqin Sophia Duan Purdue IEEE Learning School of Electrical and Computer Engineering web.ics.purdue.edu/~duan35

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Food in BRK 1001
by Turner, Jaime J 21 Nov '17

21 Nov '17

Hi all, Leftovers from our staff carry-in is in BRK 1001, please feel free to go enjoy! Thanks! Jaime Turner Administrative Assistant to the Director Birck Nanotechnology Center | Room 1027 | W. Lafayette, IN Office: 765.494.3509 | Fax: 765.496.8383 | Email: jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> ______________________________________________________________ [cid:image001.jpg@01D362C7.3002CC20]

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[IMPORTANT]-Fighting "Tax and Jobs Act" Provisions Harming Graduate Students
by Sajid Choudhury 20 Nov '17

20 Nov '17

Dear all, I am forwarding this email to you, at the request of the Purdue Graduate Students Government. Please see the event dedicated to calling and addressing representatives. Thank you Sajid ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: PGSG VP-Operations <pgsg.vp.operations(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 1:29 AM Subject: [IMPORTANT]-Fighting "Tax and Jobs Act" Provisions Harming Graduate Students Dear GSO Presidents, My name is Vlad Podolsky and I am the Vice President of Operations for the Purdue Graduate Student Government. I ask that you take 5 minutes to please read the below as it is pertinent to every single graduate student in the country. If you are not a GSO president, please reply to this email letting me know who is the new one so we can update our contact list. As some of you may know, Congress is currently attempting to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which has provisions to repeal Sections 117(d), Section 127, Interest Payments on Qualified Education Loans, and Tuition and Related expanses. In short, this would mean: 1) An average Purdue, non-resident graduate student with a stipend of $15,000 and current tuition waiver would see a ~$4,705 or 263.77% increase in taxes owed from current levels. 2) The loss of the ability to deduct up to $2,500 in federal student loan interest from one's taxes 3) The elimination of tax-free employer paid education assistance of up to $5,250 per year Such changes would be detrimental to all graduate students. As such, PGSG is seeking to unite our graduate student population to fight these changes. We will be hosting a "Call Your Representatives Day" event ( https://www.facebook.com/events/150166155622271/ <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/9ee824d310b9013fcb66e05272b584caf0970c17?ur…>) on *November 27 starting at 1 pm at PGSC*. With this event, we want to encourage you and your groups to join PGSG and other graduate student organizations across the U.S. on this fight by reaching out to your representatives through phone calls, letters, Twitter feeds, and any form of communication you find appropriate. We will provide call scripts, sample tweets, and the contact information of our representatives and senators. At the same time, PGSG members will attend the event to provide support and guidance on this process. We would like for you to please encourage your GSO's members to attend, and if they cannot attend the event, please encourage them to take some time to contact their representatives wherever they may be at the time. Note that international students can also contact representatives since they are taxpayers. To help, I am attaching a letter from the PGSG president on the subject, sample tweets that can be sent, sample call scripts, and contact info for representatives and senators both in Indiana and other states. Please share this with the graduate students in your organization and departments to encourage them to make their voices heard! Thank you, Vlad Podolsky <https://mailtrack.io/> Sent with Mailtrack <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mailtrack-for-gmail-inbox/ndnaehg…>

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RSVP form for Bowling night
by Soham Saha 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Dear All, The SPIE and OSA student chapters, together with NSAC, are hosting a bowling social on Nov 17 6.30-9.00PM. There will be free Pizza. The first 15 people to show up will get free shoe rental. See you folks there! Sign-up in the following link! https://goo.gl/forms/k4FlvyznD2toRKP63 [https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/t3Fh7qB1WOAYNz4qpmZypzV7OKWnn8XCPUKenkP0U…]<https://goo.gl/forms/k4FlvyznD2toRKP63> Bowling Night Sign-Up<https://goo.gl/forms/k4FlvyznD2toRKP63> goo.gl Event Address: Union Rack and Roll at Purdue Memorial Union Contact us at spie(a)purdue.edu; osa(a)purdue.edu Soham Saha, President SPIE Student Chapter, Purdue University.

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AMO Special Seminar, Monday, Nov 20
by Turner, Jaime J 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Join for the emerging field of opto-mechanics and the highest Qxf product of any micromachined mechanical resonators to date! Topic: Ultrahigh Q mechanical resonators for quantum cavity optomechanics Speaker: Yeghishe Tsaturyan Time: Monday, 20 November 2017, 11:00 – 12:00 PM Location: PHYS 242 Over the past decade the field of cavity optomechanics has experienced remarkable progress and has emerged as a strong candidate for future quantum technologies. This progress has heavily relied on the ongoing experimental and theoretical studies of dissipation in micro- and nano-mechanical resonators. Most notably, stressed silicon nitride (SiN) resonators have generated a tremendous amount of interest and a large number of researchers in the nano- and optomechanics communities have devoted their time to study and perfect mechanical resonators based on stressed SiN thin films. In this talk I will present a novel approach to significantly improve the performance of SiN membrane resonators, suppressing radiation-, as well as intrinsic mechanical losses. This is achieved by localisation of vibrations by means of phononic crystal patterning of a stressed SiN membrane, which ultimately leads to a reduced curvature in the displacement field of the membrane and thus reduced losses due to bending. This “soft clamping” approach enables realisation of mechanical resonators with a Qf-product of (1.66 ± 0.02) ×10^14 Hz at room temperature, which is the highest reported value of any microfabricated mechanical resonator to date. Finally, I will present recent work in quantum cavity optomechanics conducted at the Niels Bohr Institute involving soft clamped resonators. These results pave the way for long-coherence quantum optical experiments involving macroscopic mechanical resonators. Best, Pen-Li (Ben) Yu, PhD Postdoctoral research associate Purdue University 765-496-2073<tel:(765)%20496-2073>

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Friday Coffee hour
by Shabnam Ghotbi 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Dear All, I hope you have had a good start to the new week. This week, Arpan Kundu from Professor Fisher's group is giving a lecture about Novel redox-active gel electrolytes for all-solid-state thermally chargeable super capacitors for the Friday's coffee hour. Coffee and refreshments will be served. ☕☕☕ So see you on Friday (11/17/17) at 3:30 pm. Also, please feel free to sign up for the Spring coffee hour slots in the Google sheet<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/5344678298c721bb50342f098fe753f8f03f6852?ur…> by clicking here<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/bb5c95004599369487c7b5413ddb588e28a1b512?ur…>. [cid:9b321061-4dff-40ee-9961-f116afbbe694] Best, Shabnam

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IEEE - ECE Professor Talk - Dr. Ashraf Alam, Tues. Nov. 28th @ 6:30pm in ME 1009
by Turner, Jaime J 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

Here is the information: "Purdue IEEE is hosting a professor talk with Professor Muhammad Ashraful Alam. Poster is attached here. Please come to his talk on Tuesday November 28th in ME 1009 at 6:30pm. Learn more about "How a Synthesis of Biology and Electronics May Change the World as We Know It". Free Pizza and Soda will be Provided. If you are coming, please RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/8qyQSyxktXSCzE3K2<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1CAWAJk2sAkKWFs1VHA0oDoDBouzA_lrcFds9i8dLB2LIN…>. Contact: dyq(a)purdue.edu<mailto:dyq@purdue.edu>. Looking forward to seeing you!" Thanks, -Yuqin Duan

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