Hi Everyone! This week, for NSAC | Coffee Hour Special Series, our interviewee is BNC Alumni Professor- Prof. Wenshan Cai. Prof. Cai received his PhD from Purdue University in 2008. In 2012, he joined the faculty of Georgia Institute of Technology as an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a joint appointment in Materials Science and Engineering. Prior to this, he has been a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. Prof. Cai was promoted to full Professor in 2021. Prof. Cai has published over 60 journal articles, which in total have been cited around 16,000 times. Prof. Cai has also authored the book- Optical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications along with our very own BNC Professor- Prof. Vladimir Shalaev. Prof. Cai is the recipient of several national and international distinctions, including the renowned OSA/SPIE Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award (2014), the CooperVision Science & Technology Award (2016) and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2017). Join us this Friday afternoon as shares Prof. Cai shares a part of his academic journey with us. An Interview with Prof. Wenshan Cai When: Friday 2:00 pm (Apr-23, 2021) Where: MS Teams: https://tinyurl.com/nsac-event-23-apr-2021 [cid:image001.jpg@01D73639.01A7D110] (Poster by Swati Shikha) Warm regards, Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council (NSAC) Due to COVID, Coffee Hour is moved online and will be held over MS Teams. NSAC aims at providing recognition to all our speakers, and strives to publicize BNC and the research being carried out here to a global audience. With the speaker's permission, the recorded Coffee Hour sessions will be uploaded on <https://www.instagram.com/nsacpurdue/> NSAC's Youtube channel<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJj86STjrLvgywovLbatD2g> for public access, with due credit to the speakers. All the interviewees will also receive a NSAC Coffee Mug as a token of appreciation. ________________________________________________________________________________ NSAC is a student organization that strives to enhance the communication among nanotechnology related people at Purdue. We have hosted a bunch of academic and social events in the past years, such as Coffee Hour, Fab Forum, interactive workshops, corn maze, etc. This year, owing to the special COVID-19 circumstances, NSAC will actively shift to virtual efforts to enhance the connections and communications within the community. Let's make nano 'bigger' and stronger together. ________________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_M2NhZjdkYzQtZTRlNy00OGIwLTlmMjUtMTI1MTMxNjA5NmUw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%224130bd39-7c53-419c-b1e5-8758d6d63f21%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2274c4e3d7-259e-4c17-8dc9-e23b7dcbc2b6%22%7d> Learn More<https://aka.ms/JoinTeamsMeeting> | Meeting options<https://teams.microsoft.com/meetingOptions/?organizerId=74c4e3d7-259e-4c17-8dc9-e23b7dcbc2b6&tenantId=4130bd39-7c53-419c-b1e5-8758d6d63f21&threadId=19_meeting_M2NhZjdkYzQtZTRlNy00OGIwLTlmMjUtMTI1MTMxNjA5NmUw@thread.v2&messageId=0&language=en-US> ________________________________________________________________________________