[BNC-all] WEEKLY MEMO, Monday, 08.04.08

Mon Aug 4 08:47:11 EDT 2008

WEEKLY MEMO, August 4, 2008

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1.  ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1.1:  Aamer Mahmood is officially joining the Birck Nanotechnology Center
staff as a Process and Equipment Owner, effective 1 August 2008.  Aamer is
known to most of the BNC family, as he has been working in the facility as a
post-doc for almost two years.  Aamer will be responsible for the processing
services now being offered, as well as testing and electrical
characterization equipment.  Aamer has his PhD from University of Texas, and
has over 15 years experience in industry and academia.  Please welcome Aamer
in his new role as a member of the BNC Engineering Staff.

1.2: Birck gets waxed J:  Please have all articles picked up off the floor
on the evening prior to the waxing date.  Thanks!
Monday, 08.04.08:  BRK 2092, 2088.
Tuesday, 08.05.08: BRK 2084; 2080.
Thursday, 08.07.08: BRK 2218, 2222.
Friday, 08.08.08:  BRK 2076, 2072.

Monday, 08.11.08:  BRK 2226, 2230.
Thursday, 08.14.08: BRK 2234, 2238.
Friday, 08.15.08:  BRK 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025, 2020.

Monday, 08.18.08:  BRK 2050, 2048, 2046, 2044.
Tuesday, 08.19.08: BRK 2042, 2040, 2038.
Wednesday, 08.20.08: BRK 2262, 2264, 2266, 2268.
Thursday, 08.21.08: BRK 2270, 2272, 2274, 2276.
Friday, 08.22.08:  BRK 2295, 2293, 2291, 2289.

1.3:  ICMR-ICMS Winter School in Bangalore, India; Location: Jawaharlal
Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India; Dates:
December 713, 2008.  The International Center for Materials Research (ICMR)
is pleased to announce a residential, one week Winter School on New Carbon
Materials and Functional Oxides, a partnership between the ICMR and the
ICMS, JNCASR.  The winter school will take place from December 7 to December
13, 2008 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research in
Bangalore, India.  The aim of this school is to bring young researchers and
scientists together to enable them to learn and to discuss the science of
complex organic and inorganic materials with focus on new carbon materials
and functional oxides.  Travel fellowships are available and local
hospitality will be provided.  Please visit the following website for
further details.  http://www.icmr.ucsb.edu/programs/winterschool2008.html
<http://www.icmr.ucsb.edu/programs/winterschool2008.html> .  If you have any
questions, please feel free to contact Jennifer Ybarra (Ybarra at icmr.ucsb.edu
<Ybarra at icmr.ucsb.edu> ).
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION IS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST.

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2.  TOURS/VISITORS
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2.1:  Tuesday, 08.05.08, 8:45-9:45AM: Tour, Office of the Dean of Students
2.2:  Thursday, 08.07.08, 11:00AM:  DuPont guests, with Ron Turco
2.3:  Friday, 08.08.08, 1:00PM:  Richard Carron and wife, ECE Alumnus

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3.  SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS
     see below for Abstracts/Bios
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3.1:  Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 1:30, MRGN 121:  ³Physics of Nanoscale
Transistors: An Introduction to Electronics from the Bottom Up,² by Mark
Lundstrom.

3.2:  Tuesday and Wednesday, August 5 and 6, Crowne Plaza Hotel and
Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN: ³Nanotechnology & the Environment.²
Agenda posted at http://www.conf.purdue.edu/nano

3.3:  MARK YOU CALENDARS NOW . . . Friday, September 12, 2008, 3:30PM,
Fowler Hall: ³The Roles of Short RNAs in Cancer and Biology,² by Dr. Phillip
A. Sharp, Nobel Laureate and Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.

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4.  OPPORTUNITIES
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4.1:  Internship/Co-op Positions: Micron Technology, Inc. has intership and
co-op positions open and are graduate and undergraduate engineering students
to send in their resumes. Please send résumés to erigney at micron.com
<erigney at micron.com> and brianblack at micron.com <brianblack at micron.com> .
For details of the company and location, visit
http://www.micron.com/jobs/northamerica/college/
<http://www.micron.com/jobs/northamerica/college/> .

4.2:  per Christine King:  Following our July 3 solicitation for internal
proposals for the limited submission NSF Science and Technology Centers
(STC) competition, we received six letters of intent, with all of the
submitters identifying Purdue as the lead institution.  As we may submit
three preproposals to NSF as lead institution, and may be included in an
additional two preproposals as a subcontractor, this e-mail serves as an
opportunity for those wishing to participate with another institution, with
Purdue as a subcontractor, to participate in the limited submission process.
For those hoping to participate as a subcontractor on another institution¹s
STC proposal, the internal deadlines are as follow: Monday, August 4:
Letters of Intent due to the OVPR; Monday, August 18: Preproposals due to
the OVPR. Please note: Letters of intent should be e-mailed to
OVPRlimited at purdue.edu <OVPRlimited at purdue.edu> . Purdue's limited
submission policy, the link to the RFP for this competition, the generic
template for letters of intent, and the template for STC preproposals, may
be found at http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi
<http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi> . One additional
requirement for this competition is that the lead institution for the
proposed project be identified on the template. Should the number of
internal letters of intent received be no more than two, the OVPR will
notify the PI(s) that an internal preproposal will be unnecessary.

4.3:  NSF 08-589 NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and
Engineering. URL for a Request for Proposals:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08589/nsf08589.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08589/nsf08589.htm?govDel=USNSF_25> .  The
Directorates for Engineering, Geosciences, and Mathematical and Physical
Sciences of the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science/Office
of Fusion Energy Sciences of the Department of Energy are continuing in
FY2009 the joint Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering begun
in FY1997. The goal of this three year (FY09-FY11) program initiative is to
enhance plasma research and education in this broad, multidisciplinary field
by coordinating efforts and combining resources of the two agencies. The
initiative will address fundamental issues in plasma science and engineering
that can have impact in other areas or disciplines in which improved basic
understanding of the plasma state is needed.

4.4:  Request for Proposals:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08591/nsf08591.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08591/nsf08591.htm?govDel=USNSF_25> .
Synopsis of Program:  The Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers
(I/UCRC) program develops long-term partnerships among industry, academe,
and government. The centers are catalyzed by a small investment from the
National Science Foundation (NSF) and are primarily supported by industry
center members, with NSF taking a supporting role in their development and
evolution. Each center is established to conduct research that is of
interest to both the industry and the center. An I/UCRC not only contributes
to the Nation's research infrastructure base and enhances the intellectual
capacity of the engineering and science workforce through the integration of
research and education, but also encourages and fosters international
cooperation and collaborative projects.
Please note that Purdue is eligible to submit only multi-university
proposals, as we currently have an active single university I/UCRC.

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5.  DISCOVERY PARK
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5.1:  Ice cream bars are for sale in the MRGN café from 8-3:00 everyday
August 4-15 (or until they are gone).  All proceeds to go to United Way
³Live United².  Buy a $1.00 ticket from Jackie Lanter, Sheryl Willison,
Shirley Tilford or Denny Heath; take your ticket to the MRGN Café for your
ice cream.

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6.  ABSTRACTS/BIOS
     see Seminars listed above
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6.1:  Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 1:30, MRGN 121:  ³Physics of Nanoscale
Transistors: An Introduction to Electronics from the Bottom Up,² by Mark
Lundstrom.
ABSTRACT:  The Network for Computational Nanotechnology is supported by the
National Science Foundation, Indiana 21st Century Fund, and ARO.  It has a
vision to pioneer the development of nanotechnology from science to
manufacturing through innovative theory, exploratory simulation, and novel
cyberinfrastructure.  Transistor scaling has pushed channel lengths to the
nanometer regime, and advances in nanoscience are opening up many new
possibilities for devices.  To realize these opportunities, our traditional
understanding of electronic devices needs to be complemented with a new
perspective that begins from the nanoscale.  My objectives in this talk are:
1) to describe a way of understanding MOSFETs that is much more suitable
than traditional approaches when the channel lengths are of nanoscale
dimensions, and 2) to introduce the ³bottom up² approach, a way of
understanding nanoscale electronics very generally.  This talk will provide
a starting point for those interested in exploring the electronics from the
bottom up approach through the resources of nanoHUB.org. For more
information, see:  http://www.nanohub.org/resources/5067.
BIO:  Prof. Lundstrom earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical
engineering from the Univ. of Minnesota in 1973 and 1974, respectively.  He
joined the Purdue faculty upon completing his doctorate on the West
Lafayette campus in 1980.  He is currently the Don and Carol Scifres
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Founding
Director of NSF Network for Computational Nanotechnology.  Lundstrom¹s
current research interests center on the physics and limits of small
electronic devices, especially nanoscale transistors, on carrier transport
in semiconductor devices and on numerical methods for device simulation.

6.2:  Tuesday and Wednesday, August 5 and 6, Crowne Plaza Hotel and
Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN: ³Nanotechnology & the Environment.²
Agenda posted at http://www.conf.purdue.edu/nano

6.3:  MARK YOU CALENDARS NOW . . . Friday, September 12, 2008, 3:30PM,
Fowler Hall: ³The Roles of Short RNAs in Cancer and Biology,² by Dr. Phillip
A. Sharp, Nobel Laureate and Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
BIO:  Phillip A. Sharp is Institute Professor at the David H. Koch Institute
for Integrative Cancer Research (formerly the Center for Cancer Research) at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine in 1993 for his landmark work on the molecular
biology of gene expression relevant to cancer and the mechanisms of RNA
splicing. His lab has now turned its attention to understanding how RNA
molecules act as switches to turn genes on and off (RNA interference). These
newly discovered processes have revolutionized cell biology and could
potentially generate a new class of therapeutics. Dr. Sharp¹s work has
earned him numerous cancer research awards and presidential and national
scientific board appointments. He is elected member of the National Academy
of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He is also the recipient of the
National Medal of Science. Dr. Sharp earned a B.A. degree from Union
College, KY, and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Illinois. He is
the cofounder of Biogen (now Biogen Idec) and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and
serves on the boards of both companies.

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