[BNC-all] BNC Weekly Memo - 3/30/2009

[Jeff Goecker]

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BNC News
March 30, 2009 
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BNC Annual Research Review 
April 6, 2009 - 1:00 p.m - 5:30 p.m.
Please join us for this event. Register now.
Poster presenters must register here. Space is limited. Registration open until Friday, April 3 at 12 p.m.
Visit website.
 
Cleanroom & Laboratory Shutdown

The cleanroom and laboratory shutdown originally scheduled for April 7-9 has been postponed. Details forthcoming.
 
Course Announcement:

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION
Fall 2009
(ME 59700)
Professor A. Martini

Prepare engineers and scientists to address problems they will encounter when studying atomic-scale physical phenomena. [See Flyer]
 
BNC-Violations:  Do not move BNC furniture
Furniture
is being moved during the weekends into Birck 1201 conference room
(multiple offenses) and it is not returned to its proper location. If
this problem continues the privilege of open-use conference rooms will
be suspended. To avoid damaging BNC furniture we ask that it not move
for any reason. 

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TOURS/VISITORS

3.30.09 – Matt Falls and family from 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. with Felice Butler 


3.30.09 – Purdue’s For Me Tours from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 


4.2.09 – College of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council  4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. with Candiss Vibbert, Charles Buck, and Tim Sands
 
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SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

Women's International Research Engineering Summit (WIRES) - Barcelona - Spring 2009

A summit that will enable meaningful and sustained
research exchanges and sustained research exchanges among female
engineers among female engineers
	* Engineering Faculty

	* Researchers from Industry

	* Program Directors from Funding Agencies

Download Flyer
More Info Here
 
AFOSR Sponsored Energy Harvesting Workshop -- April 16, 2009
AFOSR
is planning to make 5-year investment for the basic research on the
subject of "Energy Harvesting from Environment for Aerospace
Platforms." Dr. Hugh DeLong, Dr. Les Lee, and Dr. Charles Lee are
seeking for your inputs and comments for this vision. If you or your
colleagues are interested in applying for single-PI or
multi-disciplinary team research grants on the subject in near future,
I encourage you to attend a one-day workshop on April 16th.


The workshop will be held at the Westin Arlington Gateway on April 16, 2009

http://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1513
[Read More]
 
Future Workshop: Modern STEM Concepts for Teachers

Support
your local teacher. Discovery Park and the Wabash Valley Education
Council are planning a teachers workshop for upper elementary teachers
based on state core science standards for grades 4-6. [Read More]
 
“Squeezing Photons (and Sound) Into Metamaterials”
Friday, April 3, 2009; 3:00 PM
Birck Nanotechnology Center, Room 2001

Nicholas Xuanlai Fang
Dept. of Mechanical Science and Engineering & the Center for Nanoscale
Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

[Read more]
[Download Flyer]
 
Modeling of Squeeze-film Damping in MEMS Based on Rarefied Flow Simulations
Xiaohui (Sandy) Guo 
Purdue University
School of Aeronautics and  Astronautics

Friday, April 3, 2009
3:00pm
Birck 1001

[Read More]
[Download Flyer]
 
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OPPORTUNITIES

2009 Grant Application for: Cross-disciplinary Semiconductor Research (CSR)

Overview
SRC-GRC is soliciting grant applications in Cross-disciplinary Semiconductor Research.
The goal of CSR is to foster exploratory, multi-disciplinary, high-risk
university research leading to novel high-payoff solutions for the
science and technology challenges faced by the semiconductor industry
at and beyond the time horizons of the International Technology Roadmap
for Semiconductors (ITRS). Successful CSR projects will offer
innovative and, hopefully, disruptive solutions to the challenge of
enabling exponential gains in cost/performance benefits provided by the
semiconductor industry for the foreseeable future, and may lead to
novel applications for this industry and may enhance the population of
non-traditional researchers/out of box thinkers working with the SRC.
[More] 
 
Limited Submission Competition: IMR-MIP

The
National Science Foundation has just released a solicitation for the
Instrumentation for Materials Research – Major Instrumentation Projects
(IMR-MIP). A description of the project follows:

This program provides support for the design and construction of major
instruments costing more than $4 million but less than $20 million. The
program also supports the development of detailed conceptual and
engineering design for new tools for materials preparation or
characterization at major user facilities. Such instruments may
include, for example, neutron beam lines, synchrotron beam lines, and
high field magnets, as well as development of detectors and preparation
environments necessary to support materials research. [Read More]
 
Request for Volunteers -- NIBIB and NIH Peer Review Panels
Foreseeing
an extraordinarily high demand for peer reviewers to review grant
applications in response to the initiatives from the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the NIBIB is soliciting volunteers from
the extramural community willing to serve on NIBIB and NIH peer review
panels this summer and in the future. Note that applicants being
reviewed by one peer review panel can participate as a reviewer on a
different review panel. If you are interested in serving, please send
us your contact information, including full name with middle initial,
degree(s), institutional affiliation(s), email address, telephone
number(s), keywords describing your area of expertise, and a copy of
your CV as at email attachment to nibibreviewer at mail.nih.gov. [More]
 
SBIR/STTR Training on April 13 in MRGN 121
AMIPurdue and Purdue's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship cordially invite Purdue faculty, staff, and students to attend a "how-to" tutorial and hands-on session about the SBIR/STTR proposal application process.  This program is free and includes lunch.
 
 
 
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Submit items for memo of April 6, 2009 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 04.03.09, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi at purdue.edu
 
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