[BNC-all] BNC E-news for the week of March 14th

[Anthrop, Heather L]

BIRCK CLOSURE
REFRIGERATOR
Seminar

BIRCK CLOSURE
NOTICE: The BNC will be completely closed for one day on March 17, 2016 from 12:01AM to 11PM.
Only people involved in the shutdown will be allowed in the building during the shutdown. All offices, laboratories, and the cleanroom will be closed.  All chemicals and research inside fume hoods will need to be placed in closed containers prior to March 17, 2016 from 12:01AM

This is an advance notice on March 17, 2016 from 6AM to 9PM Purdue Physical Facilities Department will complete an emergency power interruption to fix a high voltage power issue with our center's fire pump controller.

Per safety codes, power to the fire pump transfer/control was hardwired directly from the electrical substation to the fire panel when the building was constructed. This wiring bypasses our main switchboard and provides no lockout point for the fire panel.  Therefore, for safety reasons the electric substation providing power to the fire pump has to be shutdown. The affected substation also supplies power to one of the building's three, 3000 amp switchboards.  Only essential personnel will have access to the building during the power outage since the building will be without fire protection during that time.

All CLEANROOM and LABORATORY research work will be suspended and building access closed during power outage.  All exhausted hoods, vacuum systems, and/or toxic gas systems will be shut down, and chemicals inside fume hoods will need to be placed in closed containers prior to March 17, 2016 from 12:01AM.

General areas that will be affected by the power outage are listed below.
-          All chemical exhaust systems for the labs and cleanroom.
-          Building ambient temperature and humidity control
o   Offices
o   General laboratories
o   Cleanroom
o   Atrium
-          Office power and lighting (all computers will lose power)
-          Atrium power and lighting
-          Card reader system

Systems NOT affected by the power outage are listed below.
-          Emergency power (on emergency generator power)
-          UPS power (on emergency generator power)
-          Equipment emergency power (on emergency generator power)
-          Cleanroom research equipment power (power from a different switchboard)
-          Laboratory research equipment power (power from a different switchboard)

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Mark Voorhis
Building Manager
Purdue University
Birck Nanotechnology Center
Office: (765) 494-3036

REFRIGERATOR
Everything from the refrigerator and freezer in the kitchen will be trashed at 8 AM March 18. Since the power is off we have no way to determine if the food stayed cold so it will have to be trashed. Take it home before the 17th if you do not want it trashed. Questions or concerns please see Nancy Black.

Seminar
It is once again our pleasure to extend a warm invitation to the 33rd Herbert C. Brown Lectures in Organic Chemistry at Purdue University.
Date:  Friday, April 15, 2016
Time:  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM (EST)
Location:  Stewart Center (STEW) 218

This year's event promises to be an exciting day celebrating and honoring the career of Professor H.C. Brown.  The program includes a diverse array of topics from the fields of synthetic and physical Organic Chemistry by a distinguished group of plenary speakers:


André B. Charette, Université de Montréal, "Synthesis of New Substituted Zinc Carbenoids and Their Application in Cyclopropanation Reactions"

Gary A. Molander, University of Pennsylvania, "Single Electron Processes to Enable Cross-Couplings"

Klaus Müllen, Max Planck Institute, "The Chemist´s Carbon Nanostructures as Functional Multitalents"

John A. Porco, Boston University, "Chemical Synthesis and Biological Studies of the Rocaglates and Derivatives"



All interested students, faculty, and scientists are welcome to attend.  Registration is free, and includes lunch for all participants who register by Friday, April 8, 2016.  We also encourage student participants to present their recent works at our poster session and competition, with prizes awarded for the best posters.



For more information about the H.C. Brown Lectures, please visit our website at: https://www.chem.purdue.edu/hcbrownlectures/.  We look forward to seeing you on April 15, 2016.



With best regards,



Chengde Mao, Chairman

mao at purdue.edu<mailto:mao at purdue.edu>



Herman Sintim, Co-Chair
hsintim at purdue.edu<mailto:hsintim at purdue.edu>

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