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Season's Greetings!
by Varma, Arvind 21 Dec '13

21 Dec '13

Dear Colleagues, In this festive season, I am writing to wish you happy holidays and a peaceful, healthy and prosperous 2014! Sincerely, Arvind Varma R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head of Chemical Engineering Purdue University

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Please remind all students to make multiple copies of documents
by Harrington, Michael P 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Just a suggestion to remind all students to make copies of any important documents - and save them in more than one location - especially when final papers/projects are coming due. Hardly a semester goes by that a panicked student doesn't bring me a flash drive (used to be floppy drives) with a deleted or corrupted document and ask for help retrieving it. Files stored on Atom are backed up nightly (this is your 'My Documents' folder on most ECN windows machines)> Thanks and have a good week. -Mike ******************** Mike Harrington Computer Facilities Manager Chemical Engineering Purdue University 765-494-6428 mph(a)purdue.edu

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Note about booking 3062B: Priority given to Graduate Student Oral Exams/Presentations
by Field, Catherine A 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Hello Everyone, I've been asked to send a note to let you all know that the department is going to be giving scheduling priority for conference room 3062B to graduate students who have to do their exams (Quals, Prelim, Defenses). This is because the room now has a new TV screen that works very well for power point presentations, and the administration would like graduate students who are doing their exams to have first priority when it comes to booking this room. The department will try to accommodate other requests, of course, but we just wanted to let you know that the grad students who are scheduling exams will be given first priority. Thank you. Best, Katie Catherine Field, Ph.D. Graduate Program Administrator/Counselor School of Chemical Engineering Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Room 1051 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2100 Phone: 765-494-4057 Fax: 765-494-0805 Email: field2(a)purdue.edu<mailto:field2@purdue.edu> Website: www.engineering.purdue.edu/ChE<http://www.engineering.purdue.edu/ChE>

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Fall Recognition Reception
by Heide, Karen Kay 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Dear All, The Fall Recognition Reception will be Thursday, December 12 from 3:30-4:30 in Henson Atrium. Please see invitation below. Karen [MC900104952[1]] School of Chemical Engineering Faculty, Staff & Graduate Students Fall Recognition Reception Thursday, December 12, 2013 3:30-4:30 p.m. Henson Atrium PLEASE R.S.V.P. BY TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013 Mrs. Karen Heide Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering Purdue University 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette IN 47907-2100 Phone: 765-494-4050 Fax: 765-494-0805 [http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~snpha/purdue_train3.gif]

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Graduate Seminar Announcement - Prof Cheng 12/5
by Ewing, Virginia G 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Graduate seminar series Prof. Stephen Z.D. Cheng College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering University of Akron "Giant Molecules Based on 'Nano-Atoms': A New Platform for Engineering Structures at Nanometer Feature Sizes" Thursday, December 5, 2013 9:00-10:15 a.m. FRNY G140 Reception at 8:30 a.m. in Henson Atrium Abstract: To create new materials with multiple functionalities for advanced technologies, control over their hierarchical structures and orders is vital for obtaining the desired properties. Our research focuses on a new route to build up materials via giant molecules based on "nano-atoms". We utilize molecular nano-particles (MNPs) to be the basic unit for "nano-atoms" which are compact and rigid, possess precisely-defined symmetry and surface functionalities. These NMPs may be polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS), [60]fullerene (C60), polyoxymatalates, and globular proteins. With the help of those accurately-defined surface functionalities to generate collective physical bonds to construct giant molecules which are precisely defined macromolecules. Giant moelcules include shape amphiphiles, giant polyhedra and giant surfactants etc. While these particles share some common features, they are intrinsically different in many ways, such as the overall shape, physical properties, and chemical composition. By diverse periphery functionalization, they serve as versatile "nano-atoms" for the construction of giant molecules with controlled hierarchical structures in multi-dimensions across different length scales. A large variety of thermodynamically stable and metastable hierarchal structures is observed in the bulk, thin-film, and solution states of these "giant molecules". All the results demonstrate that MNPs are unique elements for macromolecular science, providing a versatile platform for engineering nanostructures that are not only scientifically intriguing, but also technologically relevant. Bio: Stephen Z. D. Cheng received his Ph.D. degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York in 1985. His research interests are in the area of chemistry, physics and engineering of polymers and advanced functional materials including crystal structure, crystal morphology, transition thermodynamics, kinetics, molecular motions, liquid crystals, liquid crystalline polymers, hybrid materials and phase transitions of these materials with different shapes, chemical and physical architectures and interactions, as well as in nanoconfined environments. He is also in the developing researches in high performance polymers, conducting polymers, photovoltaics, and polymer photonics. He currently holds the Robert C. Musson and Trustees Professor and Dean, College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering at The University of Akron. More than 73 Ph.D. students and 23 M.S. students have been graduated from his research group. He has published 440 articles and one book titled "Phase Transitions in Polymers: The Role of Metastable States" in 2008, and given over 650 invited talks and lectures. He has served as a senior editor of Polymer, and members of editorial and advisory boards of more than ten scientific journals. In 1991, he received The Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. He was also the recipient of the American Physical Society John H. Dillon Medal (1995), the North American Thermal Analysis Society Mettler-Toledo Award (1999), the Education Ministry of China Cheung-Kong Scholar (1999), the TA-Instrument Award of International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (2004), the Cooperative Research Award of Division of Polymer Materials Science and Engineering of ACS (2005), the Polymer Physics Prize of American Physical Society (2013), and was elected to be a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1994, a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006), an Honorary Fellow of Chinese Chemical Society (2011), a Fellow of Division of Polymer Materials Science and Engineering of American Chemical Society(2012). In 2008, he was selected to be a member of the National Academic of Engineering of the USA.

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ITAP Career account drive issues causing login problems
by Harrington, Michael P 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

This morning ITAP is reporting problems with their 'career account' drives - this is being seen on the ECN network as a slowness on logins as the computers try to map the drives and are unable to (Your career account drive is usually mapped as your W drive or 'myhome.itap.purdue.edu\myhome' on some other letter). You also might see pop up messages from the computer about the inability to map certain drives. It appears now that things are running better. -Mike ******************** Mike Harrington Computer Facilities Manager Chemical Engineering Purdue University 765-494-6428 mph(a)purdue.edu

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Grades at Harvard
by Varma, Arvind 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Dear All, Everyone at Harvard is bright - the median grade there is an A-, and the most frequently awarded grade is an A. They're tough graders and should soften up! Arvind

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Be cautious of "Phishing" emails appearing from Blackboard
by Harrington, Michael P 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Hi, This is always going on but a reminder as the end of the semester approaches that you may get 'fake' emails that appear to come from blackboard or other official university sources that look real. They may contain links that even appear to go to legitimate Purdue web pages (however the actual URL is most likely NOT a Purdue url if you look at it by hovering your mouse over the link). Please DO NOT click on links you are unsure of and if you do - DO NOT enter you login and password information on pages you are not 100% sure are legitimate. If your account is compromised ITAP will lock it and you will have to contact them to have it unlocked. When in doubt you can forward any questionable email to cheq(a)ecn.purdue.edu and ask - if the email appears to be from ITAP or Blackboard you can always call ITAP at 765-494-4000 or email them at itap(a)purdue.edu to verify if the email is legitimate. If you have gone to such a site, entered your login info and realize it after the fact (usually because nothing happens), you should immediately change your career account password by going to ITAP's page - itap.purdue.edu and selecting the "security" item and then "change your password." PLEASE NOTE - when changing your password - if you have an exchange email account that you access from your phone or tablet - you MUST shut those devices off or put them in 'airplane' mode before changing your password - otherwise you will get locked out of your account as those devices retry with your 'old' password before you have updated them. This is a procedure you should now follow every time you change your password if you use your phone or tablet to view Purdue emails. The main reason this phishing happens, and will continue to happen, is that the 'bad guys' want access to University computers/resources. Once they have an account they can use they can then log in to systems on campus and reach out to other universities and organizations while appearing to be coming from a legitimate organization (Purdue). This is why they are now spending a lot of time and effort to create completely fake websites that look like real Purdue sites and make emails that seem real. Thanks, Mike Harrington ******************** Mike Harrington Computer Facilities Manager Chemical Engineering Purdue University 765-494-6428 mph(a)purdue.edu

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Seminar -retinal ganglion cells by Dr. Kwoon Wong
by Ewing, Virginia G 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Please circulate in your department. ______________________________________________________________ Colleagues, I have invited Dr. Kwoon Wong from the University of Michigan (http://www.kellogg.umich.edu/bios/wong.research.html) to give a seminar tomorrow . He was a graduate student of John Dowling and a postdoc with David Berson. In his seminar, Kwoon is going to discuss his physiological studies on the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs). Yuk Fai Leung Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences Purdue University LILY 2-236, 915 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 Tel: 765-496-3153 Fax: 765-494-0876 email: yfleung(a)purdue.edu<mailto:yfleung@purdue.edu> website: http://www.bio.purdue.edu/lab/leung/

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Graduate Seminar Announcement - Prof Floudas 12/3
by Ewing, Virginia G 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Graduate seminar series Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Princeton University "Discovery and Computational Characterization of Novel Materials for Shape Selective Separations: Theoretical Advances and Applications" Tuesday, December 3, 2013 9:00-10:15 a.m. FRNY G140 Reception at 8:30 a.m. in Henson Atrium Abstract: In silico discovery of novel materials such as zeolites and metal organic frameworks, MOFs, offers great promise towards the development of energy and cost efficient separation processes for a plethora of important applications that include carbon dioxide capture, natural gas purification, air separation, propane/propylene, ethane/ethylene, and xylenes separations. In this seminar, we will focus on recent theoretical and computational advances towards the prediction and characterization of zeolites and metal organic frameworks for shape selective separations and catalysis. Part 1 will introduce a geometric and optimization-based framework for the two-dimensional characterization, analysis, and screening of zeolites. Part 2 will address the three-dimensional computational characterization and shape selectivity of zeolites and MOFs. Part 3 will present a new framework for the selection of novel materials for application to carbon dioxide capture through pressure swing adsorption, PSA, and vacuum swing adsorption, VSA, technologies. Part 4 will present computational findings for the discovery of novel materials for natural gas purification from carbon dioxide lean and rich mixtures. Bio: Dr. Floudas is the Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. His research interests lie at the interface of chemical engineering, applied mathematics, and operations research, with principal areas of focus including chemical process synthesis and design, process control and operations, discrete-continuous nonlinear optimization, local and global optimization, and computational chemistry and molecular biology. Professor Floudas is the author of two graduate textbooks, Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Optimization (Oxford University Press, 1995), and Deterministic Global Optimization (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000). He has co-edited ten monographs/books, has over 289 refereed publications, and is the chief co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Optimization (2nd edition, Springer, 2008). He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors for teaching and research that include the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1988; the Bodossaki Foundation Award in Applied Sciences, 1997; the Best Paper Award in Computers and Chemical Engineering, 1998; the Aspen Tech Excellence in Teaching Award, 1999; the 2001 AIChE Professional Progress Award for Outstanding Progress in Chemical Engineering; the 2006 AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award; the 2007 Graduate Mentoring Award, Princeton University; Member of National Academy of Engineering, 2011; One thousand Global Experts, China 2012-2015; SIAM Fellow, 2013; TIAS Fellow and Eminent Scholar, 2013-14; AIChE Fellow, 2013; and National Award and HELORS Gold Medal, 2013.

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