[BNC-all] Monday Memo, October 1, 2007

[Deborah Starewich]

MONDAY MEMO, October 1, 2007
 
 
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1. Announcements
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1.1:  Blood Borne Pathogen Training, Friday, 10.05, 3:00PM, BRK 1099.
 
1.2:  Mark your calendars! 2nd Annual Boot Camp, Oct. 8 and 9, 9:00AM to
5:00PM; MRGN 121, open to faculty, staff, and student organizations. Day
One:  Key topics include: company formation, the importance of human
capital, selling your idea, sources of capital, and company valuation.
Also, hear about the experiences of the companies who won last year¹s event.
Day Two:  The morning session is devoted to presenting your company¹s ³quick
pitch² to investors.  The remainder of day two is for companies
participating in the coaching sessions.  No cost but registration is
required: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/bdm/bootcamp/.  For more information,
contact Julie Goonewardene (jkgoonewardene at prf.org).
 
1.3:  Japanese interpretation services needed:  Professor Masa Rao is
seeking someone to facilitate interaction with a Japanese visitor who will
be on campus October 25 & 26. A science or engineering background is
preferred, particularly someone familiar with microfabrication or MEMS, if
possible. If you¹re interested, please contact Masa Rao,
mprao at ecn.purdue.edu.
 
1.4:  ATTENTION all Birck Nanotechnology Center Researchers:  The
Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council (NSAC) hosts a Birck Nanotechnology
Center Seminar Series on Thursdays at 10:30AM (Fall 2007), in Birck 1001.
The seminars should last approximately 45 minutes with 15 minutes for
questions/comments.  NSAC¹s goals include a mixture of professors and
graduate students presenting their research. Professors should plan on
presenting an overview of their research at a level geared toward recruiting
new grad students or reporting to a funding agency.  Please note that
presentations will be videotaped and posted to the BNC website in Breeze
format.  Graduate students may present on research or on a ³journal club²
article.  Remember that these seminars are a great opportunity to practice
your prelim or thesis defense before presenting to your committee.  If you
are giving a talk at an upcoming conference, this is a great opportunity to
practice your presentation here first.  If your talk is short (15­20
minutes), pair up with another grad and you both can present one Thursday.
Interested parties should contact Annie Cheever; acheever at ecn.purdue.edu.
If you have questions, please contact Annie or Kalapi Biswas
(kgbiswas at purdue.edu, NSAC research awareness chair).
 
 
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2. Funding Opportunities
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2.1:  DURI Program Proposals due Tuesday, Oct. 9:  The Discovery Park
Undergraduate Research Internship (DURI) program is accepting proposals for
research projects for the Spring 2008 semester.  DURI involves Purdue
undergraduates in the cutting-edge interdisciplinary research environment of
Discovery Park.  The program offers 50 internships per academic semester at
the West Lafayette campus, funded through the Discovery Learning Center.
Select interns to help advance your research from a pool of highly talented
and motivated students.  Mentor undergraduate students by fostering the
exchange of ideas and creating new research opportunities.  View additional
information (including sample projects) and use the simple form to submit
your project proposal online:  http://www.purdue.edu/dp/duri
<http://www.purdue.edu/dp/duri> .  If you have any questions, please
contact:  Amy Childress; Intern Coordinator; Discovery Learning Center;
63590; childres at purdue.edu.
 
2.2:  Limited Submission Competition, NSF MRI, per Christine King: The
annual submission deadline for the NSF¹s Major Research Instrumentation
Program (MRI) is Thursday, January 24, 2008.  As in previous years, each
institution is limited to participating in no more than two instrument
acquisition proposals, and in no more than one additional instrument
development proposal.  The URL for this competition is
www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07510/nsf07510.htm.  The MRI program is designed to
improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training
in science and engineering, and to foster the integration of research and
education by providing instrumentation for research-intensive learning
environments.  Awards range from $100,000 to $2 million for the acquisition,
development, and support of research instrumentation for shared inter-
and/or intra-institutional use and in concert with private sector partners.
Interns deadlines:  Monday, October 29, Letters of Intent due to the OVPR;
Monday, November 26, Preproposals due to the OVPR; Thursday, November 29,
College preproposal rankings due to the OVPR.  Note that letters of intent,
preproposals, and rankings to the OVPR should be e-mailed to
OVPRlimited at purdue.edu. Purdue¹s limited submission policy and templates for
letters of intent and preproposals may be found at
http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi
<http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi> .  Please indicate clearly
on letters of intent, and preproposals, whether the proposal is for
acquisition or development.  For any case in which the number of internal
letters of intent received is no more than the number of proposals allowed
by the sponsor, the OVPR will notify the PI that an internal preproposal
will be unnecessary.
 
 
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3. Seminars
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3.1:  Monday, October 1, 2:30, ³ Plastic Deformation at Micron, and
Submicron Scales,² by Marisol Koslowski, EE 317
Abstract: Most people experiences the way objects plastically deform on a
macroscopic scale.  From a car crash to the bending of a paper clip plastic
deformation occurs in the form of a smooth flow as a response of an applied
stress.  But due to the constant shrinking on the dimensions of mechanical
devices ‹ such as micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) and micro
electronic interconnects ‹ the notion that plasticity is governed not by a
steady flow but by the occurrence of intermittent avalanches of defects
moving through the material is gaining increasing attention.  To model the
deformation of metallic materials at micron and submicron scales a continuum
theory of dislocations is derived.  Our simulations show the formation of
structures and their influence in macroscopic deformation and the dependence
on the yield stress on the characteristic size of the sample, known as the
Hall-Petch effect.  We also study the jerky character of dislocation motion
and its analogy to earthquakes, biological systems, and other systems
showing critical behavior.
BIO:  Dr. Marisol Koslowski is an assistant professor of Mechanical
Engineering, Purdue University. Previously she was a Technical Staff Member
in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She received
her B.S. degree in Physics in 1997 from the University of Buenos Aires,
Argentina and her M.S in 1999 and her Ph. D. in Aeronautics in 2003 from the
California Institute of Technology.  Her research interests include
computational solid mechanics, mechanical properties
of micro- and nano- structured materials.  She currently works in the
development of theoretical and numerical tools to study the reliability and
performance of micromechanical systems. Dr. Koslowski received the Leon
Heller award for a postdoctoral publication in Theoretical Physics from Los
Alamos National Laboratory in 2006.
 
3.2:  Thursday, October 4, 2:30-4:00, ³New Dimension in Performance:
Harnessing 3D Integration Technology,² by Kerry Berstein, KNOY B033
Abstract:  Despite generation on generation of scaling, computer chips have
remained essentially 2-dimensional. Improvements in on-chip wire delay, and
in the total number of inputs and outputs has not been able to keep up with
improvements to the transistor, and its getting harder and harder to hide
it! 3D chip technologies come in a number of flavors, but are receiving lots
of attention lately as a means of extending CMOS performance.  Designing for
three dimensions, however, forces us to look at formerly-two-dimensional
integration issues quite differently.  IBM as well as other companies and
research institutions are developing ways of addressing these challenges.
This talk will introduce major 3D concepts and IBM¹s approach.  A 3D
³fly-through² movie of an actual IBM 3D design will be shown.
BIO:  Kerry Bernstein is a Senior Technical Staff Member at the IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hts., NY.  He is currently Principal
Investigator of IBM¹s 3D Integration Program.  Mr. Bernstein received the
B.S degree in electrical engineering degree from Washington University in
St. Louis, and joined IBM in 1978.  He holds 50 US Patents, and is a
co-author of 3 college textbooks and multiple papers on high speed CMOS.
His interests are in the area of high performance / low power advanced
circuits and technologies. Mr. Bernstein is an IEEE Fellow.
 
3.3:  MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!  Tuesday, October 16, 6-8PM, ³Crash Course:
Putting Your Work Online at nanoHUB.org,² by Mike McLennan, MRGN 129; PIZZA
PIZZA.  If you have a laptop computer, bring it along, so you can follow
along and try things out.
ABSTRCT:  Do you have a talk, a simulator, a white paper, or a homework
assignment that might be useful for others in the nanotechnology
research/education community?  Put it online at nanoHUB.org.  During this
2-hour crash course, we¹ll show you just how easy it is to get your work
online:  Publish your PDF/DOC files within minutes; go from PowerPoint
slides to a published presentation in just a few hours; go from Matlab
scripts or Fortran code to a published simulation tool in just a few days.
Why bother?  Employers and tenure committees want to see what you¹ve
accomplished during your research.  Imagine pointing to dozens of resources
online, and quoting statistics about the hundreds or even thousands of users
that you¹ve reached with your science!
Eat pizza and learn how to use nanoHUB.org as a publishing platform.
BIO: Michael McLennan received a PhD in 1990 from Purdue University for his
dissertation on dissipative quantum mechanical electron transport in
semiconductor heterostructure devices.  He blended his expertise in physics
with a love of software when he joined Bell Labs in 1992 to work on tools
for semiconductor device and process simulation.  He is co-author of
Effective Tcl/Tk Programming and Tcl/Tk Tools. He also developed [incr Tcl],
an object-oriented extension of Tcl, which is now used by thousands of
developers worldwide on projects ranging from the TiVo digital video
recorder to the Mars Pathfinder.  Dr. McLennan joined Cadence Design Systems
in 1998 as a Software Architect for their SimVision visualization and
debugging environment.  In 2004, he became a Senior Research Scientist at
Purdue University, acting as the Software Architect for the Network for
Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) and the nanoHUB.org web site.  His latest
project is the Rappture Toolkit, available at http://rappture.org.
 
 
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4. Birck Visitors
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4.1:  Tuesday, October 2, Tsinghua University [the MIT of China], 10:00AM.
 
4.2:  Tuesday, October 2, Dr. Kenneth Corenetta, Joe C. Christian Professor
& Chairman of Medical & Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of
Medicine, 2:30
 
4.3:  Thursday, October 4, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, 3:30.
 
 
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5.  In the News
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5.1:  Mike Roco praises Purdue:  ³The scientist regarded by his peers as the
architect of the National Nanotechnology Initiative calls it Œthe front of
the wave of scientific discovery¹ for nanotech.  Mihail Roco says Purdue
University¹s Network for Computational Nanotechnology represents Œthe
premier network for modeling simulation¹ in the nanotech industry.  For
more, visit: 
http://www.midwestbusiness.com/news/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=18058
<http://www.midwestbusiness.com/news/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=18058>
 
 
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6.  Purchasing Update
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6.1:  SRM/OnePurdue Purchasing Update:  view shopping carts other than your
own! Through the efforts of the OnePurdue team, the Supply Chain team, and
Purchasing Services we have found a tool that provides that functionality.
All SRM users will have a new tab under ³Purchasing Services² called ³SRM
Administration.² Under this tab, you will find a ³Monitor Shopping Carts²
function, which will allow you to look up any shopping cart in the SRM
system.  Depending on the other SAP roles you have you may also be able to
delete shopping carts or line items within a shopping cart.  If you are not
the original requestor and changes to a shopping cart are identified using
this functionality, please consult with the requestor or the requestor¹s
business office about the changes.  This broad access and capability brings
with it the expectation that you will only access those shopping carts for
which you have a legitimate need to access and necessary changes are managed
appropriately. If you have questions or need assistance using this feature,
please contact the Purchasing Services Helpdesk, 47279;
pshelpdesk at purdue.edu.
 


Deborah S. Starewich
Administrative Assistant to Timothy D. Sands, Director
Birck Nanotechnology Center
Purdue University

765-494-3509
dstarewi at ecn.purdue.edu

http://www.nano.purdue.edu/



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