[BNC-all] Weekly Memo 09.14.09

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The BNC Monday Memo]   BNC News *week of September 14, 2009 * ANNOUNCEMENTS

*Semi-annual Preventive Maintenance Shutdown*: The Birck Nanotechnology
Center building and process tools will be undergoing preventive maintenance
and service during the week of October 5th, 2009. The *cleanroom will be
closed* beginning 7:00 AM *Tuesday, October 6, 2009*, and is expected to
reopen late Wednesday or early Thursday. In addition starting 7:00 AM on
Thursday, October 7, 2009, no laboratory work involving exhausted hoods,
biosafety cabinets or enclosures, vacuum systems, and/or gas systems can be
performed. Laboratories are expected to reopen late Thursday evening or
early Friday. Electrical measurements may be performed if they are not
affected by significant temperature excursions in the room. The *metallization
systems* require more extensive PM and cleaning so they will be taken
off-line beginning *Monday, October 5th* and will be brought back on-line as
the PMs are completed. The plasma etch systems, also requiring more
extensive work, will be taken off-line on Tuesday and brought back on-line
by Friday afternoon. As we work through this important PM activity, please
continue to check Coral for tool status and availability.

Additional shutdown specifics will be communicated once final details are
arranged. — John R. Weaver <jrweaver at purdue.edu>

*Copier/Printer Training sessions:* Tuesday, 09.15.09, 3:00PM, BRK 1222 and
Friday, 09.18.09, 10:00AM, BRK 1222. If you're interested in training,
please plan on attending one of these sessions. If the sessions are full, we
can set up additional sessions.

*Announcing the Friday Lunchtime Nano/Energy Journal Club (12 noon in 1001
BNC throughout the Fall semester)*

If you have an interest in the science of nanoscale energy
transport/conversion or in nanoscale approaches to energy conversion devices
(thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, solid-state lighting, etc.), please join us
on Fridays at lunchtime for informal "journal club"-style discussions.
Students, faculty, research staff and postdoctoral researchers are welcome.

When: 12-1:30, every Friday

Where: 1001 BRK

Lunch: Bring your own, or order ahead from Jimmy John's (have your order and
$$ to Deborah Starewich, dstarewi at purdue.edu, *by Thursday at 3PM*)

Format: one presenter will lead an informal critique/discussion of a recent
paper or work in progress. The presenter will send a copy of the paper to
Deborah a few days before the meeting, for distribution to the mailing list.

Mailing list: *If you would like to participate*, please send your email
address to Deborah<file:///Volumes/brkshare/Monday%20memos/dstarewi@purdue.edu>
.

Your commitment: If you are on the mailing list, and you have a Ph.D., you
will be expected to lead a discussion at sometime in the near future!
Graduate students are more than welcome to volunteer to lead a discussion as
well.

Timothy D. Sands <tsands at purdue.edu>

*Meet and Greet* NCN/PRISM/NSAC student at the BNC for the 1st Annual
NSAC/NCN/PRISM student cookout & carry-in! *ALL FACULTY, STUDENTS, & STAFF
ARE WELCOME*: Friday, 10.09.09, 4-7PM, volleyball and food at the west end
of building [outside].
[Flier<http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nanotechnology/NSAC-NCN-PRISM-Flier.pdf>]
[RSVP<http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/events.php?center=7&year=2009&month=10&day=9&id=232>
]

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*NSAC NEWS*

*NSAC T-Shirts Available for Purchase!*

Thanks to all who participated in the NSAC T-shirt design contest last
spring! Adina Scott was our winner and her design is now available to order.
The final T-shirt design is posted
here<http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nanotechnology/resources/nsac/Tshirt_design_2009.pdf>.
Please note that the T-shirt color is "Dark Heather" and is available in
both men's and women's sizes. Color and size information is posted on the
NSAC bulletin board located right outside the kitchen on the first floor of
the Birck Nanotechnology Center. T-shirts will cost $12 each.

To purchase T-shirts:

1. Fill out the order
form<http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nanotechnology/resources/nsac/T-Shirt_order_form.pdf>indicating
the shirt sizes you would like to order and their quantity.
2. Hand in your order form to either Caitlin Burger (BRK 2238) or Cara Smith
(BRK 1092) by Wednesday, September 30th, 2009. Payment will not be accepted
at this time.
3. NSAC will order the T-shirts. Once they have arrived, they will be
available for pickup, at which time you will be able to pay for the order
with CASH ONLY.

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*TOURS/VISITORS*

*visit nano.purdue.edu
<http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nanotechnology/>and refer to
"Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information
*

*Tuesday, 09.15.09, 3:00PM*: Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering guests; tour guide to be determined

*Wednesday, 09.16.09, 3:00PM*: Delegation from ECE NCKU Tiwan

*Friday, 09.18.09, 9:00AM: *North Central Indiana School Study Council

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*SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS*

*visit nano.purdue.edu
<http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nanotechnology/>and refer to
"Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information
*

*Wednesday, 09.16.09, 5:30PM, PFEN 241: *SF Fellowship Application Workshop,
by NSF Fellows Panel. Registration required:
www.gradschool.purdue.edu/workshops

The NSF Fellows Panel will consist of graduate students that authored
successful NSF Fellowship applications in 2009-2010. The NSF Fellowship
winner went through the same process last year as you are right now. The
Fellows will share their experiences with you and be available to answer any
questions you may have about the NSF Application and the process.

*Thursday, 09.17.09, 4:30PM, ME 161: *"Spacetime Discontinuous Galerkin
Models for the Dynamics of Materials," by Prof. Robert B. Haber, Mechanical
Science & Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Refreshments served in ME 254 at 4:00pm.

*Thursday, 09.17.09, 7:00PM, Fowler Hall, STEW, PIONEERS IN ENERGY LECTURE*:
"Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass: Technological Status,
Costs and Environmental Impacts — Report on Findings of Panel on Alternative
Liquid Fuels National Academy Study on America's Energy Future," by Dr.
Michael Ladisch.

*Friday, 09.18.09, 10:00AM-5:00PM, Indianapolis Museum of Art*: "Lugar
Collegiate Energy Summit."
[Agenda<http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/091409EnergySummit.pdf>]
Register <http://www.lugar.senate.gov/energy/summit>.

Senator Lugar is interested in building on college students’ interest in
energy and sustainability issues by bringing them together and giving them
the opportunity to learn from each other as well as experts in the energy
field.

Beyond the day of the conference, we would like to build a larger “Lugar
Energy Team” made up of students and businesses who are working together to
solve our nation’s energy challenges. Senator Lugar's office is prepared to
serve as a resource and champion, highlighting their work and helping when
possible.

*Friday, 09.18.09, 2:00PM, MRGN 129*: "Technology Innovation to Commercial
Translation: A case study for treatment of urethral stricture," by Dr.
Parasuram (Bala) Balasubramanian, Entrepreneur-in-residence, Discovery Park.

*Friday, 09.18.09, 3:00PM, BRK 1001*: "Computationally Efficient Bayesian
Inference Using Polynomial Chaos Expansions," by Youssef Marzouk, Boeing
Assistant Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. *Refreshments will be served.*

*Abstract*: Predictive simulation of complex engineering systems
increasingly rests on the interplay of experimental observations with
computational models. Key inputs, parameters, or structural aspects of
models may be incomplete or unknown, and must be developed from indirect and
limited observations. At the same time, quantified uncertainties are needed
to qualify computational predictions in the support of design and
decision-making. In this context, Bayesian statistics provides a foundation
for inference from noisy and limited data. Computationally intensive forward
models, however, can render a Bayesian approach prohibitive.

Polynomial chaos expansions, typically used in the forward propagation of
uncertainty, are an extremely useful tool in the inverse context as well. We
introduce a stochastic spectral formulation that accelerates the Bayesian
solution of inverse problems via rapid evaluation of a surrogate posterior
distribution. The posterior is constructed by either stochastic collocation
or stochastic Galerkin methods. Theoretical convergence results are verified
with several numerical examples---in particular, parameter estimation in
transport equations and in chemical kinetic systems. We also extend this
approach to the inference of spatially distributed quantities in a
hierarchical Bayesian setting, achieving dimensionality reduction via
Karhunen-Loeve representations of Gaussian process priors.

Finally, we discuss the utility of polynomial chaos expansions in optimal
experimental design---choosing experimental conditions to maximize
information gain in parameters or outputs of interest. A Bayesian
formulation of the design problem fully accounts for uncertainty in the
parameters and relevant observables.

*Bio*: Prof. Marzouk is the Boeing Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and
Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research
interests center on uncertainty quantification, inverse problems, and data
assimilation in complex physical systems. His research also emphasizes
application of these computational methodologies to reacting flow phenomena
in energy conversion/ propulsion systems and to subsurface flow and
transport processes.

*Monday, 09.21.09, and Tuesday, 09.22.09, MRGN 121 RSVP to lml at purdue.edu: *4th
Annual KIST [KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY]-PU Global Research
Laboratory (GRL) Symposium: "BioNanotechnology on a Global Stage"
[Agenda<http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/091409KIST.pdf>
]

*INCLUDES Monday, 09.21.09, 4:00PM, Fowler Hall, Reception
follows:*"Transformation of Science into Products-Process, Examples
and Trends in
Serving Diverse Markets at the Interface of Biology and Nanotechnology," by
Ken Bradley, ARCH Venture

*INCLUDES: Tuesday, 09.22.09, 10:00AM,* *Fowler Hall, Reception
follows:*"Bionanotechnology in 21st Century Healthcare," by Roderic I.
Pettigrew,
Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
(NIBIB)

*SAVE THE DATE!* *Tuesday, 09.22.09, 7:00PM, Fowler Hall, STEW, PIONEERS IN
ENERGY LECTURE*: "Sustainable Energy Solutions for a Limited Fossil Fuel
Future," by Dr. Rakesh Agrawal.

*CALL FOR PAPERS: deadline 09.30.09*: Asia-Pacific Power and Energy
Engineering Conf <http://www.scirp.org/conf/appeec2010/>. (APPEEC 2010) EI &
ISTP Indexed.

========================================================================
Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC 2010)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission Deadline: Sept. 30, 2009
http://www.scirp.org/conf/appeec2010
Chengdu, China March 28-31, 2010
=========================================================================

This conference is sponsored by IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES), Sichuan
University, Chongqing University, State Grid of China and Wuhan University.
The proceedings will be published by IEEE, all papers accepted will be
indexed by EI and ISTP. The technical areas to be covered:

   - Power Generation - Conventional and Renewable
   - Power Transmission and Distribution
   - Power System Management
   - Smart Grid

For more information about this conference, please contact: appeec at scirp.org

Journal Highlights
Energy and Power Engineering(EPE)
ISSN: 1949-243X (Print) 1949-3818 (Online)
EPE free online access: http://www.scirp.org/journal/epe

Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications (JEMAA)
ISSN: 1942-0730 (Print) 1942-0749 (Online)
JEMAA free online access: http://www.scirp.org/journal/jemaa
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*FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES*

**1. Selected funding opportunities:

- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations: Round 4 –
*deadline November 2*. http://www.grandchallenges.org/explorations The Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 4 of
Grand Challenges Explorations, a US $100 million initiative to encourage
unconventional global health solutions. Anyone can apply, regardless of
education or experience level. Grant proposals are being accepted on the
following topics: Create New Technologies for Contraception, Create New Ways
to Protect Against Infectious Disease, Create New Ways to Induce and Measure
Mucosal Immunity, Create Low-Cost Diagnostics for Priority Global Health
Conditions.

- 2010 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2). Application *Due
Date(s): October 27, 2009*.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-09-011.html The NIH
Director’s New Innovator (DP2) Award program was created in 2007 to support
a small number of early stage investigators of exceptional creativity who
propose bold and highly innovative new research approaches that have the
potential to produce a major impact on broad, important problems in
biomedical and behavioral research. The New Innovator Awards complement
ongoing efforts by NIH and its Institutes and Centers to fund early stage
investigators through R01 grants, which continue to be the major sources of
NIH support for early stage. Awards will be for up to $300,000 in direct
costs each year for five years. We anticipate that at least 33 awards will
be made in fiscal year 2010.

- State of Indiana Alternative Energy Projects Lt. Governor Becky Skillman
has announced the opening of the Alternative Power and Energy (APE) grant
program that will make $879,000 available to help offset the cost of
installing a variety of alternative energy technologies. The program is
designed to introduce alternative and renewable energy technologies to
specific sectors of energy consumers. Hoosier businesses, not-for-profit
organizations, municipalities and schools are all eligible to apply for
these grants. Technologies included in the program are Solar Water Heating
for domestic hot water or radiant heating, Solar Electricity, Wind Power,
Micro-hydro electricity and Biomass electricity and heating. Alternative
energy systems make use of non-fossil fuel resources to produce clean,
home-grown electricity and thermal energy. The program is administered by
the Indiana Office of Energy Development (OED). The grants are funded
through the U.S. Department of Energy and the State Energy Program, but are
not part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus funding.
Each grant is a maximum of $50,000 and will be awarded through a competitive
system. Applicants are required to match the grant amount with private
funding. Applications must be received by September 25, 2009. Grant awards
will be announced in October. OED has offered a similar program each year
since 2005. "In the last few years we have only been able to fund this
program at less than half of this year's amount, " said Brandon Seitz, OED
Director. "Increasing the number of grants and the size of each individual
grant will mean more potential applicants will consider this program.
" *Application
guidelines and required forms are available online at
www.Energy.IN.gov<http://www.energy.in.gov/>
*

2. ARRA (stimulus) funding and limited submissions:

- Information for Purdue researchers about ARRA funding opportunities and
requirements may be found at
http://www.purdue.edu/Research/vpr/recovery/index.shtml. New ARRA funding
opportunities are posted on this site as they are issued by the sponsors.

3. Funding resources: The OVPR website includes a link entitled Funding
Resources, which may be found at
http://www.purdue.edu/Research/vpr/funding/funding_resources.shtml. This
link includes two sections: “E-mail Alerts” and “Search Tools.”

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*DISCOVERY PARK*

*White Elephant Sale!* A white elephant sale is a sale of items (not
clothing) that are hiding and unappreciated in the wrong home. These
unappreciated items have been donated to and will be sold to raise money for
United Way. If you would like to donate items, please contact
Jackie<lanter at purdue.edu>,
Mary <file:///Volumes/brkshare/Monday%20memos/schultm@purdue.edu>, or
Nancy<blackn at purdue.edu>.
[Flier <http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nanotechnology/091409DP1.pdf.>]
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*PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS*

Faculty, staff, and students who have fever or other influenza symptoms
should seek medical care. PLEASE DO NOT REPORT TO WORK WHILE ILL.

Birck Nanotechnology Center staff will be notified of an emergency situation
by telephone in the order set out in the BNC’s Phone Tree (personnel should
have a copy on hand in their offices and homes; contact Deborah Starewich,
if you do not have the most recent copy; distributed on Thursday, 09.13.09).
BNC faculty members will receive an e-mail message from Monica Allain or Tim
Sands.

Members of the Faculty (Professors and Research Professors) are responsible
for contacting each of their group members, including graduate students,
undergraduate researchers, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists.
Specific instructions should be conveyed by phone if possible. All graduate
students should register for the Purdue University e-mail alert system at
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/mail.html.

Additional information for pandemic and emergency preparation may be found
at www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/faculty and
http://www.purdue.edu/emergency_preparedness

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*Submit items for memo of the week of September 21, 2009 by ****12 NOON****
on FRIDAY, 09.18.09*, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi at purdue.edu
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