[BNC-all] Weekly Memo: 03.08.10

[Deborah Starewich]

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The BNC Monday Memo	BNC News 
week of March 8, 2010 



ANNOUNCEMENTS 

NCN/BRK student event! 

March 10, 2010, 3:00PM to 4:30PM, BRK 1001 : Discovery Park welcomes NCN students. Refreshments will be served. Come and hear about the results of experimentalists and theorists working together! 



Department of Energy Announces $100 Million Available for Innovative Research Projects ARPA-E's 3rd funding opportunity to focus on grid-scale energy storage, electrical power technology, and building energy efficiency. 

[ More ] 



New “University Policy on Use of Vehicles” effective March 1, 2010. MVR Grading Grid for employees . MVR Grading Grid for volunteers and students . Please look at it and self-evaluate your driving record to make sure you have an acceptable driving record. 

[ More ] 






FACULTY NEWS 

Boot Camp: Company Formation: Thursday, 03.11.10, 9:00-1:00, BRK 1001 . More information / registration here 





SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS 

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



Tuesday, 03.09.10, 10:30-11:30, BRK 1001 : "Nanostructures for Photovoltaics: A Case Study in Silicon Nanowire Solar Cells," by Loucas Tsakalakos, Sr. Scientist and Project Leader, Mirco & Nano Structures Technologies, Thin Films Laboratory, GE Global Research 

[ More ] 





Wednesday, 03.10.10, 3:00-4:30, BRK 1001: Discovery Park and the Birck Center welcome NCN and its students with research presentations and reception. 

[ Invitation ] 



Thursday, 03.11.10, 3:00PM, ARMS 1109: "Multi-scale Modeling of Chemically Reacting Flows by Direct Simulation," by Deborah A. Levin, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University. Spring 2010 Colloquium Series, co-sponsored by NNSA PRISM Center and School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Informal coffee & cookie reception will be held prior to the lecture at 2:30 in the AAE/ARMS undergraduate lounge (directly in front of ARMS 3rd floor elevators). 

[ More ] 



Friday, 03.12.10, 12:00-1:30, BRK 1001 : NanoEnergy Literature Club. Mark Lundstrom will present the paper "Origin of Different Dependences of Open-Circuit Voltage on the Electrodes in Layered and Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaic Cells," by Chunfu Zhang, Shi-Wun Tong, Chang-Yun Jiang, En-Tang Kang, Daniel S. H. Chan, Senior Member, IEEE, and Chunxiang Zhu, Member, IEEE 

[ Download paper ] 



UPCOMING 


The Second Annual International Conference on the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (ICEIN 2010) will be held at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, CA on May 11-12, 2010. Abstract Submission Deadline has been extended to March 15, 2010 . 

[ Flier ] 



Fourth Advanced Characterization Workshop, 06.09.10 and 06.10.10, University of Illinois. 

[ Flier ] 




LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE 

Introduction to Making an iPhone and iPad App 

Apple presents a free seminar at Purdue about developing applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch and the new iPad. 

Join us on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in ME 161 

Apple consulting engineer Steve Hayman will lead the March 9 discussion. 

Read more / flier 



Healthy Happenings at West Lafayette [ flier ] 




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 




Editorial policy set: personal information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc. [ More ] 



Submit items for memo of the week of March 15, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY , 03.12.10, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi at purdue.edu 


		

	

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