[BNC-all] WEEKLY MEMO, Monday, 09.22.08

Mon Sep 22 08:22:25 EDT 2008

WEEKLY MEMO, September 22, 2008
Submit items for memo of September 29, 2008 by 5 PM by FRIDAY, 09.26.08, to
dstarewi at purdue.edu

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1.  ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1.1:  NO ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEIVED FOR THIS POSTING.

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2.  NSAC NEWS
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2.1:  NSAC meeting and picnic, October 1st, 5:30 pm, at Squirrel Park
(southeast corner of State Street and Airport Road ‹ just to the west of
Birck).  NSAC (Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council) is holding its
monthly meeting at Squirrel Park.  A short meeting to discuss ways NSAC can
help improve research at Birck will be followed by a picnic.  All Birck
students, faculty, and staff are invited to both the NSAC meeting and
picnic.  So that we can order enough food, please let us know if you are
coming by signing-up on the following website:
http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/ZJGPLWNGLQDBFPPCNEPP/NSAC_PICNIC.  Please
RSVP by Friday, Sept. 26th.  For more information, visit
<http://bncnano.freeforums.org/ <http://bncnano.freeforums.org/> > ‹The NSAC
committee, Caitlin Burger, Cara Smith, John Wilcox, and Laura Biedermann

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3.  TOURS/VISITORS
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3.1:  NO TOUR INFORMATION RECEIVED FOR THIS POSTING.

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4.  SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS
     see item #6 below for descriptions, abstracts, and bios
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4.1:  Tuesday, 09.23.08, 1:30PM, Fowler Hall:  ³Ion/Ion Reactions in the Gas
Phase:  New Chemistry for Bio-analysis,² by Scott A. McLuckey, John A.
Leighty Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry. Reception 2:30PM,
Stewart Center Art Gallery.

4.2:  Tuesday, 09.23.08, 3:30PM, Fowler Hall:  ³Pursuing Dengue Virus: A
21st Century Scourge,² by Richard Kuhn, Professor and Head, Department of
Biological Sciences, and Gerald and Edna Mann Director of the Bindley
Bioscience Center.  Reception 2:30PM, Stewart Center Art Gallery.

4.3:  Thursday, 09.25.08, 4:30PM, ME 161: ³Funding Opportunities at the NSF
and Cooperative Control of Multi-agent Systems Under Realistic Constraints,²
by Suhada Jayasuriya, Program Director, Control Systems NSF/CMMI.
Refreshments served 4:00PM, ME 254.

4.4:  Thursday, 09.25.08, 78:30PM, STEW 214ABC:  ³Proposal Writing Workshop
for Graduate Students,² by Peter E. Dunn (registration required).

4.5:  Mark your calendars:  Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 7-9PM, Loeb Playhouse:
³A World of Uncertainty Thresholds and Dilemmas in Ecology,² Dr. James A.
MacMahon, Dr. Theo Colborn, and panelists David Neale, John Aviste, and
David Hillis.

4.6:  Mark your calendars:  Friday, October 10, 2008, 9:00AM-3:00PM, Burton
D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship:  ³Consumers and Technology
Symposium.²

4.7:  Mark your calendars:  Monday and Tuesday, October 13 and 14, 2008:
3rd Annual Company Fund Raising Boot Camp.

4.8:  Mark your calendars:  Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, October 16, 17,
and 18, 2008:  Frontiers in Biological Membranes, a symposium presented by
the Purdue University Center for Basic and Applied Membrane Sciences. For
program, registration, and travel information, visit
www.purdue.edu/research/pubams

4.9:  Mark your calendars:  2009 NanoTechnology for Defense Conference
www.usasymposium.com/nano/ <http://www.usasymposium.com/nano/> .  6-9 April
2009 in Burlingame, CA.  This premier event is committed to providing a
fertile and stimulating forum to enable attendees to discuss opportunities
afforded by recent nanotechnology innovations that impact defense and
dual-use technologies. This year¹s highlights include the Small Business
forum, Poster Session, and Exhibit Hall. Sessions include:  Nanomaterials
and Technology for Energy Generation and Storage; Nanomaterials and
Technology for Electronics and EM Sensing; Nanomaterials and Technology for
Structural Components; and The Interface between Nano/Bio and its Potential
Utility.

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5.  TAKE NOTE
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5.1:  PURDUE ENERGY CLUB CALL-OUT: Tuesdy, 09.23.08, 7:00PM, Rawls 1071.
Club is looking for people who are passionate about solving the world¹s most
complex energy challenges!  Open to all students, faculty, and staff.

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6.  ABSTRACTS/BIOS/DESCRIPTIONS
     for seminars/workshops lists above
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6.1:  Tuesday, 09.23.08, 1:30PM, Fowler Hall:  ³Ion/Ion Reactions in the Gas
Phase:  New Chemistry for Bio-analysis,² by Scott A. McLuckey, John A.
Leighty Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry.  Reception 2:30PM,
Stewart Center Art Gallery.
ABSTRACT:  The advent of ionization methods that enable the formation of
ions derived from large bio-molecules has revolutionized the practice of
analytical mass spectrometry, which is making key contributions to modern
molecular biology research.  This lecture relates these developments with
particular emphasis on ion/ion reactions involving multiply charged ions, a
class of chemical reactions being pioneered at Purdue.

6.2:  Tuesday, 09.23.08, 3:30PM, Fowler Hall:  ³Pursuing Dengue Virus: A
21st Century Scourge,² by Richard Kuhn, Professor and Head, Department of
Biological Sciences, and Gerald and Edna Mann Director of the Bindley
Bioscience Center.  Reception 2:30PM, Stewart Center Art Gallery.
The flaviviruses are an important group of human pathogens that are found
worldwide.  They include members such as hepatitis C virus, yellow fever
virus, West Nile virus, and dengue virus.  This talk will present an
overview of the dengue virus life cycle and describe increases in
understanding this important human pathogen and developing new intervention
strategies.

6.3:  Thursday, 09.25.08, 4:30PM, ME 161: ³Funding Opportunities at the NSF
and Cooperative Control of Multi-agent Systems Under Realistic Constraints,²
by Suhada Jayasuriya, Program Director, Control Systems NSF/CMMI.
Refreshments served 4:00PM, ME 254.
ABSTRACT:  In this talk, first I will give an overview of the programs
within the CMMI division at the NSF and describe the goals and opportunities
within the control systems program. Second, I will present some recent
research on the currently active topic of multi-agent formation control.
Considered is a class of distributed control problems that is dominated by
task coupling, dynamic constraints and actuator limitations. A geometric
formulation of the associated constraints provides a unifying framework for
a number of formation control problems including electronic attack, rigid
formation keeping, and formation reconfiguration. The proposed framework
advocates a shift in paradigm from the traditional TPBVP (Two-point Boundary
Value Problem) formulation to a sub-optimal approach that leads to
effective, real time control algorithms. In particular, it lends itself to
simultaneous on-line, real time, trajectory synthesis and tracking with
guarantees of dynamic feasibility, scalability and reduced computational
complexity. 
BRIEF BIO: Suhada Jayasuriya received his PhD from Wayne State University in
1982. He served on the faculty of Michigan State University until 1987 and
has been with Texas A&M University since then. Dr. Jayasuriya was elected
Fellow of ASME in 1994, received the Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award of ASME
in 1997, and the Outstanding Investigator Award of ASME¹s Dynamic Systems
and Control Division in 2002. He has held the Kotzebue endowed professorship
since 1994. Dr. Jayasuriya served as Head of the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at TAMU from 1997-2001, recruiting twelve new faculty members.
He has served as General Chair of 2005 American Control Conference, Chairman
of ASME¹s Dynamic Systems and Control Division (2002-2003), and is the
Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control.
Dr. Jayasuriya is currently serving as Director of the Control Systems
Program in the CMMI Division of the National Science Foundation. His
research interests have included frequency domain robust control synthesis,
vibration and flow control, nano-precision motion control, cooperative
control and sensor networks.

6.4: Thursday, 09.25.08, 78:30PM, STEW 214ABC: ³Proposal Writing Workshop
for Graduate Students,² by Peter E. Dunn (registration required).  Peter E.
Dunn, associate vice president for research and director of University
research administration, will conduct the workshop.  Online registration
will be available at the Graduate School¹s Professional Development website
(http://www.gradschool.purdue.edu/development/).  Questions should be
directed to Peter Dunn (46840; pedunn at purdue.edu).

6.5:  Mark your calendars:  Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 7-9PM, Loeb Playhouse:
³A World of Uncertainty Thresholds and Dilemmas in Ecology,² Dr. James A.
MacMahon, Dr. Theo Colborn, and panelists David Neale, John Aviste, and
David Hillis.
Discovery Lecture Series.  Who Should Attend:  Public, professionals, and
students interested in the environment and public health; natural resource
conservation, and management; and technology for environmental monitoring.
Dr. James A. MacMahon, trustee professor of biology and director of the
ecology center, Utah State University and Chairman of the Board, the
National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) will present ³Thresholds: How
Do We Predict the Unpredictable?² which provides an overview of NEON and his
internationally recognized work on ecological succession.  Dr. Theo Colborn,
professor emeritus, University of Florida, Gainesville; and President of the
Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX) will present ³The Male Predicament,²
discussing her work on the effects of chemicals that act as endocrine
diruptors and the unique challenges these contaminants pose to all living
organisms.

6.6:  Mark your calendars:  Friday, October 10, 2008, 9:00AM-3:00PM, Burton
D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship:  ³Consumers and Technology
Symposium.²
€  Explore the effect of the information technology age on the consumer
€  Discover opportunities for collaboration on issues concerning technology
and its influence on the service economy
€  Keynote Speaker:  A. ³Parsu² Parasuraman, School of Business, University
of Miami: ³Technology Readiness and Its Implications for Technology-based
Customer Service²
€  Faculty Presenters:  Randy Woodson, Provost; Richard Buckius, Vice
President for Research¹ Shannon Amberg, College of Agriculture; Richard
Feinberg, College of Consumer and Family Sciences; Athula Kulatunga, College
of Technology; Joseph Pekny, Department of Chemical Engineering; Gene
Spafford, CERIAS
€  Poster Session:  Graduate students are invited to present research
related to consumers and technology. Prizes awarded. 
Contact
mailto:%20wailor at purdue.edu <mailto:%20wailor at purdue.edu>  to register for
the poster session.  Cfr. Attachments to this memo for additional
information.
€  Registration required by October 6; There is NO CHARGE to attend the
symposium. Lunch is included.
€  For information and to register, visit: www.conf.purdue.edu/CTS
<http://www.conf.purdue.edu/CTS>

6.7:  Mark your calendars:  Monday and Tuesday, October 13 and 14, 2008:
3rd Annual Company Fund Raising Boot Camp. The purpose of the Boot Camp is
to educate Purdue faculty, staff, and students about company formation and,
in particular, the venture capital world from the Silicon Valley
perspective.  Michael Birck, Founder of Tellabs and a Purdue Trustee will
provide the keynote address over lunch on day 1.  If you would be interested
in learning more about this event or would like to register, please visit
the website at: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/bdm/bootcamp/
<http://www.purdue.edu/dp/bdm/bootcamp/> .

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