[BNC-all] Birck Center's 10th anniversary, Oct. 30

[Shakouri, Ali]

Dear All,

I would like to thank everybody who contributed and/or participated at Birck Center's 10th anniversary event last Friday. We had outstanding speakers and a great poster session. It was a nice opportunity to hear how the initial ideas dating back to 1996 or so eventually led to BNC and to ponder about what we should do in the next 10 years and beyond. Jim Cooper, in a recent email, summarized very nicely:

"I just wanted to tell you that the Birck 10th anniversary celebration was, in a word, AWESOME. Nanotech Madness was a winner -- everybody enjoyed it. All the morning sessions were interesting, the poster session was great, ... . Please pass my congratulations to all who helped with the organization, planning, and execution. You outdid yourselves!"

I would like to thank the outstanding work of the organizing committee (lead by John Weaver, including Jaime Turner, Swati Pol, Mary Jo Totten, Donna Brown, Lyndsey Estes, Maria Longoria-Littleton, Nicole Kingma, Pam Burrof-Murr, Sarah Anderson, and Paul Sturm) who worked very hard for many months to prepare for this event. John's meticulous planning in every stage was essential. Dimitri Peroulis suggested and helped run many of the exciting activities (Nanotech madness, commercialization panel, tribute to students). Many of the staff from Ron Reger's and Mark Voorhis' teams were involved and worked hard to prepare the facility. Swati Pol and Nancy Black did a great job with many students in a major job to update all of the posters in the facility.

Joe Cychosz and his colleagues at nanoHUB have kindly recorded all of the presentations from last Friday and they will be available online shortly. As Mark Lundstrom highlighted, 10th anniversary event is just the beginning as we will be working to update our strategic plans in the coming months. This is a great opportunity to leverage synergies as Discovery Park's new Chief Scientist and Executive Director, Tomas Diaz de la Rubia, is preparing plans for DP2.0.

While this is fresh in your memory, I look forward to hear feedback and suggestions on what we should do to take BNC to the next level (anything from improving operations and logistics to strategic equipment updates, user facilities and new research directions).

Best regards,
Ali



From: Shakouri, Ali
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 9:17 AM
To: bnc-all at ecn.purdue.edu
Subject: Birck Center's 10th anniversary, tomorrow, Oct. 30

Dear All,

We are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Birck Nanotechnology Center tomorrow (Friday April 30th). Attached is the agenda, but I would like to highlight a few items.

Provost Deba Dutta will launch the event in Burton Morgan room 121 at 8am. Roger Howe, director of Stanford nanofabrication facility,  will be the keynote speaker. He will be sharing highlights of his research in thermionic energy conversion as well as talking about the future of shared university fabrication facilities. His talk will be followed immediately by a panel discussion on the directions that nanotechnology is headed. The panel will consist of Roger, former Purdue Provost and President of Virginia Tech Tim Sands, and our own Mark Lundstrom. The morning will close with talks about the history and prospects of the Birck Nanotechnology Center by key individuals involved in the leadership of the facility from its early days until present. President Martin Jischke will share his thoughts about initiating Discovery Park and BNC. Dick Schwartz, then Dean of Engineering, and Jim Cooper were the founding directors of the center; Rashid Bashir led the efforts at the intersection of bio and nanotechnology; Tim Sands was the second director of the center who expanded both collaboration and the interdisciplinary nature of the facility. At the end I briefly describe latest initiatives at BNC.

Everyone is invited to a luncheon in the Burton Morgan Café, honoring the students who have worked and are working in the BNC. A video of student experiences will be playing in the background as everyone has their lunch.

The afternoon kicks off with a short presentation on nanoHUB by NCN director, Gerhard Klimeck, followed by a series of very short presentations on faculty research in the BNC. 18 faculty members will talk about their research in an "elevator pitch" format. This will be followed by three startup companies from the BNC sharing their experiences with the support of the center. These will also be held at Burton Morgan.

At 3:30 pm we will move to the BNC atrium for a tribute to the BNC Staff. This will include a cake-and-punch reception. The day concludes with a very large poster session where students will share their current research in the facility.

I look forward to see you at the event tomorrow. I'm sure you will find the day both enjoyable and informative.

Cheers,
Ali



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