[BNC-all] BNC Weekly Memo - April 26, 2010

[Jeff Goecker]

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BNC News
week of April 26, 2010
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

BNC Preventive Maintenance Shutdown: 
Sunday, 05.02.10, 10PM, to Friday, 05.07.10, 3PM.

PLEASE POWER DOWN YOUR COMPUTERS BEFORE 
LEAVING ON FRIDAY, 04.30.10.
The BNC will be shut down during the week of May 2 
for preventive and corrective maintenance activities.  This 
shutdown will be more extensive than previous shutdowns – major electrical work will take place that will shut down electrical power to the building during the early morning hours of May 3.  It is expected 
that this work will be complete prior to 8:00 AM on Monday, May 3.

Please note that the cleanroom and the building exhaust 
systems will be down for the entire week.  No chemicals or 
hazardous gases may be used during this period.
[Tentative Schedule]

 
Call for Papers: 18th Annual 
International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering (ICCE), 
Anchorage, Alaska, USA, July 4-10, 2010

ICCE-18 is still accepting NEW paper titles at 
ICCE-18 Anchorage, so please inform interested professors, researchers, 
especially students, and junior faculty members, who need visibilities 
to present papers.   Interested authors should submit tentative paper 
title immediately, and then submit detailed two page short papers to 
David Hui, each page has two column format, and short papers must have  
graphs to show results. See here 
for details.
 
 
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KUDOS
 
To Sean Scott, winner of the Annual Research 
Review Poster Competition and a $300 award. 
 
Sean's poster was titled, "A Capacitively - Loaded Mems Slot Element for Wireless Temperature Sensing of up to 300 --- 
Sean Scott/Dimitrios Peroulis." 


Honorable Mention went to "Nitride Metal Semi 
Conductor Superlattices for High temperature Solid State- Energy 
Conversion -- David Ewoldt, Robert Wortman, Tom Sands and Jeremy 
Schroeder."

Thanks to everyone who participated in this 
year's competition.
 
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SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

visit nano.purdue.edu and 
refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information

 
Monday April 26, 2010, Burton D. Morgan Center for 
Entrepreneurship: Confused about how and when to write an invention 
Disclosure?
 
End the confusion and Register Today for our free workshop at
 
nano.purdue.edu/bootcamp.php
 
Eyah Barash, the Chief Intellectual Property counsel to Endocyte, a 
drug-discovery company based in Purdue’s Research Park, will provide 
information on patents & company development and Karen White, 
Assistant Director with the Office of Technology Commercialization, will provide information on filing IP disclosures, patents, and licensing.
 
SPACE IS LIMITED----REGISTER TODAY!
 
CANCELED - Wednesday, 04.28.10, 3:00PM, MRGN 129: "Are relations P=hk and E=mc2 simultaneously compatible with principle 
of wave-particle duality?" Victor Veselago, AM Prokhorov Institute of 
General Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
 
Tuesday, 05.11.10: LabVIEW Seminars

Register now for the National Instruments LabVIEW Hands-On and Embedded 
Design Hands-On Seminars in Lafayette on Tuesday, May 11th.
Introduction to LabVIEW and Computer-Based Measurements Hands-On 
Seminar
- 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Embedded Design Using LabVIEW Real-Time & FPGA Hands-On Seminar
- 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
[More]
 
Monday & Tuesday, 5.24-25.10, STEW 218: "Frontiers in Bioenergy Symposium"

Keynote Speaker: Bruce Dale, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University

Other speakers include Billy Glover, Boeing 
Commercial Airplanes; Edward Lyford-Pike, Cummins; Mike Himmel, National Renewal Energy Laboratory; Hans Blaschek, University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign; Robert Brown, Iowa State University; Jim Dumesic, 
Institute for Atom-efficient Chemical Transformation

The 5th Annual Symposium at Purdue University will cover an overview of the agronomic, fuel infrastructure and economic 
context of biofuels production, and focus on second-generation and 
third-generation (drop-in) advanced biofuels from biological and 
chemical/thermal conversion pathways. The meeting is hosted jointly by 
two recently funded DOE-Office of Science “Energy Frontier Research 
Centers” (C3Bio and IACT) and sponsored by Purdue University.

Registration is required:  www.conf.purdue.edu/bioenergy

Questions, contact Luanne Ludwig @ lml at purdue.edu  (765-494-2276) 
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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. 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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information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc. [More]
 
Submit items for memo of the week of May 3, 
2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 04.30.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi at purdue.edu
 
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