STATE FAIR NEW, per Valerie Lawless, DP Engagement Operations Manager:
Purdue Day at the State Fair will be held on Friday, August 15th, from
10:00AM-10PM. Volunteers are needed.
DP will have two tents this year, filled with two games: a corn-hole type
game, where visitors will toss their beanbags into one of the holes,
dedicated to each of the five buildings; and a ³spin the wheel² game with
trivia questions. The usual informational material and small prizes for
winners will be available.
Another activity DP will be doing is an ³Ask the Expert² game. The Œexpert¹
will solely be there for kids/adults to ask the questions they¹ve always
wanted to know and understand. DP seeks Œexperts¹ from among its managing
directors, researchers, or graduate students.
This year, DP will also be featured on the center stage at 5:30PM for a
³Purdue Discovery Park Grand Challenge² Game Show. The spot comes just
before the band and cheerleaders perform ‹ a great opportunity for DP to
showcase its research centers and facilities. Richard Couch, with CAM, will
³host² the show and will be advertising for contestants during the day
within our tents.
DP will provide volunteers/workers (non-exempt staff will be paid overtime)
with a complimentary ticket into the State Fair, as well as, a meal
ticket(s) for you for the duration of your ³shift.² Near the beginning of
August, a meeting with all the volunteers/workers will be held to discuss
the setup, games, and prizes; tickets and brochures will also be
distributed.
To volunteer, please contact VALERIE LAWLESS, 43662; dpengage@purdue.edu.
Bus transportation to/from Purdue/State Fair is available; sign up at the
following link: http://www.purdue.edu/events/state_fair/bus.shtml. Volunteer times are
coordinated with bus times, so that you can arrive on time for your shift
and leave a half hour before the bus leaves. If you choose to drive to the
fairgrounds yourself, the 38th Street lot is located on the south side of
38th Street across from the Main Gate and is $5/vehicle.
For a brief schedule of Purdue Day at the State Fair,
http://www.purdue.edu/events/state_fair/index.shtml.
Dress code for this year will be Purdue polo with khaki pants, Capri¹s, or
shorts. If you do not have a polo shirt, a Purdue t-shirt will be fine.
Please also remember to bring your nametag.

DoD Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
Deadline: 8/26/08 Funding: $40M for awards ranging from $50K-$1M*
Eligibility: DoD researchers https://www.fbo.gov/files/fc1/fc11a0d9b6d76960786ced1d1446a0d2.pdf?i=c505724b77fe4ca81eef358302c74b17

NSF Expeditions in Computing
Deadline: Preliminary: 9/10/08; full: 2/10/09
Funding: 3 awards up to $2M each per year for 5 years
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08568/nsf08568.htm

NSF CISE Cross-Cutting Programs: FY 2009 and FY 2010
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08578/nsf08578.htm

NSF Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Core Programs
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08576/nsf08576.htm

NSF Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF): Core Programs
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08577/nsf08577.htm

Multiple, same deadlines for all 3 programs, depending on project type
Multiple, same funding amounts for all 3 programs, depending on project type

DoE Office of Science Annual Notice
Deadline: 9/30/08
Funding: $400M total available
URL: http://www.science.doe.gov/grants/FAPN08-01.html

NIH Silvio O. Conte Centers for Basic and Translational Mental Health
Research (P50)
Deadlines: 9/23/08, 9/23/09, 9/23/10
Funding: $2,150,000 per year (if training component proposed)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-194.html

NIH NIGMS National Centers for Systems Biology (P50)
Deadlines: 10/24/08
Funding: $2 million per year for five years
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-GM-09-009.html

NIH Cancer Education Grants Program (R25)
Deadlines: Standard NIH dates apply
Funding: $300,000 per year for up to 5 years
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-120.html

NIH Centers of Excellence in Genomics Science (CEGS) (P50)
Deadlines: 5/25/08; 5/25/09; 5/25/10
Funding: $2 million per year plus specialized equipment if required, not to
exceed $500,000 over five years; an additional $300,000 direct costs per
year for the Minority Action Plan component
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-094.html

NIH Developing Centers for Intervention and/or Services Research
(DCISR) (P20)
Deadlines: 6/24 annually
Funding: $1,000,000 per year for 5 years
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-087.html

NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)
Deadlines: Usually March annually
Funding: $500,000 for one year
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-036.html

NSF Instrument Development for Biological Research (IDBR)
Deadlines: 9/5/08; 8/28/09
Funding: 2 year award; estimated $300k to $500k per award
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08566/nsf08566.htm

NIH/NSF Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
Deadlines: 2/26/08, 10/30/08, and 10/30/09
Funding: $250,000 per year for five years
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-NS-08-008.html

TIP Releases First RFP - Federal funds for University Research.
Deadlines: Proposals for the current TIP competition must be received by
NIST by 3 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. Proposers may submit proposals
by paper or electronically through the Grants.gov Web site. Review,
selection, and award processing is expected to be completed by the end of
November 2008.
Funding: NIST announced that, based on FY2008 funds, it expects to award
approximately $9 million in first-year funding for R&D projects focused on
new, efficient, accurate, low-cost and reliable sensors and related
technologies that provide quantitative assessments of the structural
integrity or degree of deterioration of bridges, roads, water mains and
wastewater collection systems.
URLs: http://www.nist.gov/tip/helpful.html
Additional information on the TIP competition includes: *The Federal
Register notice of the competition, which is available from the TIP Web site
at http://www.nist.gov/tip/helpful.html
*The TIP White Paper "Advanced Sensing Technologies for the Infrastructure: Roads, Highways, Bridges and
Water Systems," which outlines the civil infrastructure inspection and
monitoring elements of this competition, available from the TIP Web site at
http://www.nist.gov/tip/helpful.html; *The June 2008 Technology Innovation Program Proposal Preparation Kit,
which must be used to prepare a TIP proposal, available from the TIP Web
site at http://www.nist.gov/tip/helpful.html

Saturday, 07.19.08, 3:00-4:00: Herrick Lab¹s 50th Birthday Party tour
group

No meeting rooms? Research Groups housed in different offices? Use
ADOBE CONNECT! Adobe Connect is a VIRTUAL meeting room to use for GROUP
study and COLLABORATIVE class work. All Purdue faculty and staff have Adobe
Acrobat Connect accounts. Each Purdue student on campus owns a private
Connect virtual meeting room. Custom Connect training is available.
Activate your account and create your virtual meeting room in minutes at
Purdue¹s Adobe Connect faculty and staff page:
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/gomeet. Questions? Contact Donalee Attardo,
dattardo@purdue.edu.

OriginPro8 graphing and data analysis software: Purdue has a site
license for OriginPro8 graphing and data analysis software. Visit
http://www.originlab.com/ for software
specifications. Contact Cathy Kozlowski (Support Software Specialist) at
kozl@purdue.edu for more detailed information on downloading OriginPro8 to
ECN supported machines, other Purdue-owned computers, and personal
computers.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund has invited Purdue University to nominate
up to five candidates for its 2009 competition for the above program, which
provides clinically trained individuals with bridging support in basic
biomedical, disease oriented, translational, or molecular, genetic, or
pharmacological epidemiology research at North American degree granting
institutions. The CAMS program provides $700,000 over five years to bridge
advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty
service. The ideal candidate, who must hold an M.D., D.D.S., D.V.M.,
Pharm.D., or equivalent clinical degree, will be two years away from
becoming an independent investigator, have at least two years or more of
research experience, and have a significant publication record. Further
information is available at
http://www.bwfund.org/programs/CAMS/cams_apply.html. Internal deadlines
are as follows: Monday, August 4: Letters of Intent due to the OVPR;
Monday, August 25: Preproposals due to the OVPR. Please note: Letters of
intent, preproposals, and rankings to the OVPR should be e-mailed to
OVPRlimited@purdue.edu. Purdue's limited submission policy and template for
letters of intent may be found at
http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi. For any case in which the
number of internal letters of intent received is no more than the number of
proposals allowed by the sponsor, the OVPR will notify the PI that an
internal preproposal will be unnecessary.

Two 3-year postdoctoral positions in Plasma Nanoscience at CSIRO,
Australia (Deadline 18 July 2008).
The newly established Plasma Nanoscience Centre Australia based at CSIRO
Materials Science and Engineering, Lindfield (Sydney), NSW, AUSTRALIA is now
recruiting three highly-productive, ambitious researchers (2 Post doctoral
fellows are among them) with a range of complementary experimental,
theoretical, and computational skills to contribute to the project led by
CEO Science Leader Professor Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov on plasma-aided
fabrication of structural and functional nanomaterials, nanostructures, and
nanoscale assemblies. The research programme will involve close interaction
with the group led by Professor A. B. Murphy and other researchers at CMSE
and other divisions of CSIRO. You will be participating in cutting-edge
multidisciplinary research aimed at finding the most effective
plasma-related controls and developing advanced and versatile fabrication
approaches, processes and tools for the production of next-generation
nanomaterials. This research will involve a large-scale international
collaboration and is expected to result in a large number of publications in
high-impact international journals.

Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to familiarise themselves
with the plasma - aided nanofabrication techniques and approaches (see,
e.g., K. Ostrikov and A. B. Murphy, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., v. 40, p.2223,
2007; K. Ostrikov, Rev. Mod. Phys. v. 77, p. 489, 2007, and K.Ostrikov and
S. Xu, Plasma-Aided Nanofabrication: from Plasma Sources to Nanoassembly,
Wiley-VCH, 2007), that will be used in this project.

The positions are initially for 3 years with the possibility of further
fixed-term extension(s) for up to another 2 years and even longer, subject
to funds availability, performance and need. Outstanding performers may be
offered permanent positions at the end of their fixed-term appointments.
Salary and pension fund contributions (superannuation) are very competitive
internationally.

For further details about these positions, selection criteria and
instructions how to apply, please refer to
https://recruitment.csiro.au/asp/job_details.asp?RefNo=2008%2F669 or to
CSIRO Careers Website https://recruitment.csiro.au/asp/index.asp (key in the
Position Reference Number 2008/669). Applications must be uploaded through
this website.

If after reading the selection documentation you have any questions
specifically relating to this position, please contact Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov
via email: Kostya.Ostrikov@csiro.au .

COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT; ME 697W Micro and Nano Fluid Mechanics; Fall
Semester, Tu/Th 12:00-1:15; Instructor: Steve Wereley, Associate Professor,
ME. Microscopic flows are appearing everywhere these days. Despite their
prevalence in science and engineering fields, they are not well
understood‹in large part because the fluid mechanics intuition developed in
the study of macroscale flows frequently does not apply to microscopic
flows. This class will prepare engineers and scientists to address problems
they will encounter when studying the behavior of fluid flows in microscopic
domains. The course will concentrate on behaviors not typically important
at large length scales that become very important at small length scales,
such as Van der Waals forces, surface tension, and electrostatic forces. The
course will take a largely analytical approach to studying these flow
phenomena although some computational modeling will also performed.
Previous experience with graduate level fluid mechanics (i.e. Navier-Stokes
solutions) is essential. Some computational analysis of model problems may
be performed using commercial software (ANSYS or Fluent). Course
Objectives: To learn how fluids behave in microscopic domains that are
still large enough for continuum flow approximations to hold. To learn
where the continuum assumptions are no longer valid. To learn how to treat
sub-continuum fluid flows. Prerequisites by Topic: The student should be
of graduate standing. The student should have had experience with graduate
level fluid mechanics, in particular deriving and solving the Navier-Stokes
equations. Computer Usage: The students may need to use ANSYS, Matlab,
Fluent, or a comparable package, to perform some of the computations
necessary for the course. Assessment Methods: Grades will be based on
homework assignments, two projects, and a final exam. The relative weight
of these components is 25%, 50%, and 25%, respectively.

Please join the Business Office in welcoming Mary Jones. Mary will be
handling the credit cards, bi-weekly payroll as well as purchasing
activities through SRM. You can reach her via email at jones69@purdue.edu
or phone at 68253.

*BNC Recycling*: The recycling bins currently located in the BNC
Break Room (BRK 1072) have increasingly contained trash instead of
recycling. These containers are ONLY for aluminum cans, plastic bottles (#1
& #2), and news paper. All other items contaminate the recycling stream.
If trash is placed in these containers, the ENTIRE contents will be disposed
of as trash rather than being processed for recycling. ***If this problem
continues the facility will loose its recycling privileges!!!*** Please do
your part to assist the recycling effort at Birck.

Business Office ­ travel reminders: to speed the reimbursement
process, provide COST COMPARISONS. The spirit of the travel policy is as
follows: Travelers seeking reimbursement should incur the lowest reasonable
travel expense necessary to accomplish the business mission. Cost
comparison documentation can be either a written statement from a travel
agency or a printout from an online vendor, such as Expedia.com or
Orbitz.com. A cost comparison is a comparison of 'all' available flights on
'all' airlines. Therefore when obtaining a cost comparison from an online
vendor, the printout should be the first page of search results for dates
and times necessary to complete the business mission. In the event a
traveler has not provided a comparison obtained 'prior' to the trip, the
comparison will be established by the Central Travel Office. When we need
to find a comparison to meet the 'Drive Vs Fly' requirement, we will find
the airfare quote, then add $65.65 for mileage to airport plus parking for
number of business days times $8.50 and $70 for shuttle. Please review the
Cost Comparison policy:
http://www.purdue.edu/travel/Transportation/costcomparisonrequirements.html

A new funding opportunity, coordinated by the Indiana State Department
of Health, has just been released. Entitled the Indiana Spinal Cord & Brain
Injury Fund Research Grant Program, ³the overall objective of this program
is to foster and encourage research for the prevention, treatment, and cure
of spinal cord and brain injuries, including acute management, medical
complications, rehabilitative techniques, and neuronal recovery.
Collaborations are encouraged with Indiana-based researchers as well as
researchers located outside the state of Indiana, including researchers in
other countries.² The DEADLINE for submission of proposals is AUGUST 15.
The solicitation may be found at
http://www.purdue.edu/Research/vpr/funding/seedgrants.shtml. One
clarification: Purdue will not charge F&A (as stated in the RFA) for awards
made to its researchers under this program; rather, each proposal may be for
up to $60,000 in direct costs. If you have questions, please contact Cris
King (46706; hcking@purdue.edu).

Website

June 30th - July 8th: Mary Jo Totten will be out of the building.
Mail, shipping and receiving will be running as usual. Training, checking
out keys, and card access issues will be addressed when Mary Jo returns.
Please plan ahead if you are needing any students or visitors with those
needs. Contact Mark Voorhis, 43036 or mvoorhis@purdue.edu with questions or
concerns.

Wednesday, 06.18.08, 9:00AM: MEP 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Summer
Engineering Workshop.

Wednesday, 06.18.08, 9:15AM: Dr. and Mrs. CNR Rao.

Wednesday, 06.19.08, 9:00AM: MEP 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Summer
Engineering Workshop.

The field of semiconductor microelectronics is undergoing a transformation
to nanoelectronics. This transformation has been largely driven by a
"top-down" approach that extends concepts and techniques originally
developed for bulk semiconductors and large device to the new field of
nanoscale device technology. But to exploit the opportunities that
nanoscience presents, engineers will need to learn how to think about
materials, devices, circuits, and systems in a new way to complement
traditional, top-down understanding with new, "bottom-up" perspectives.
Electronics from the Bottom Up is designed to promote the bottom-up
perspective by beginning at the nanoscale, and working up to the micro and
macroscale of devices and systems. For electronic devices, this means first
understanding the smallest electronic device ­ a single molecule with two
contacts. For carrier transport, it means beginning at the nanoscale where
ballistic transport, atomistic effects, and stochastic effects dominate. For
MOSFETs, it means beginning with the "ultimate" MOSFET. Electronics from
the Bottom Up does not mean ab initio numerical simulations ­ it means
beginning with concepts and approaches that are both simple and sound at the
nanoscale rather than extrapolated from the microscale.

Nanocrystals, nanowires, nanotubes and nanofilms are some of the important
classes of nanomaterials. Chemistry has played a major role in the synthesis
and modification of these nanomaterials. In particular, the synthesis of a
large variety of nanocrystals and nanowires would have been impossible
without using chemical techniques such as solvothermal synthesis. The use
of templates and ionic liquids have been found useful for the synthesis of
inorganic nanomaterials. The liquid-liquid interface enables the generation
of ultra-thin films of materials, often in single crystalline form. After a
brief survey of some of the important synthetic strategies, solubulization,
functionalization and assembly of nanostructures, as well as a few of the
novel chemical approaches employed by us in the last few months will be
presented. These will include the use of fluorous chemistry wherein
nanocrystals, carbon nanotubes and other nanostructures are extracted or
solubulized in the most nonpolar medium possible, and the use of click
reaction and other methods employed for assembling nanostructures. Results
obtained recently on chemical investigations of graphene will be discussed.

Wednesday, 06.18.08, 3:30PM, Lawson 1142: "The United States and
India: Two Giant Democracies. Science, Policy, and Funding Opportunities."
Discovery Lecture Series. Introductory Remarks: Victor Lechtenberg;
"Today's Scientific Scenario and Tomorrow's Challenges: The Case for India,"
Dr. C.N.R. Rao; ³Rising Above the Gathering Storm," Dr. Gail Cassell;
"Funding Opportunities for Bilateral Activities between USA and India," Dr.
Arabinda Mitra. http://www.purdue.edu/dp/dls/US-India/

POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS IN CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL MICROSENSOR
RESEARCH AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY. Postdoctoral
Associateships will be available through several programs in 2008 (and 2009)
to qualified persons interested in doing research as part of an
interdisciplinary team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland. These positions at NIST are awarded
following competitive evaluations of applicants under programs administered
by the National Research Council (NRC). Research is done in an area of
common interest to the candidate and NIST advisor, but the Associate is
largely responsible for defining the specific problem to be studied.
Activities within the Chemical Microsensor Program at NIST offer interested
applicants a variety of advanced research opportunities relating to project
areas that include: Study of surface/interfacial chemical and electronic
effects, in gases and liquids, relevant to chemical and biochemical sensing
(including functionalization and nanoscale contacts); Nanoengineering of
materials (oxides, metals, polymers, organics, nanotubes, nanowires) for
solid state microsensors and microanalytical chemical and biochemical
systems; Design/fabrication of micromachined (MEMS/NEMS) devices as
microscale research tools and as microanalysis platforms; Application of
microscale devices, including microhotplate arrays, to investigate materials
processing/properties, transient phenomena and the kinetics of (bio)chemical
processes; Development of new sensing schemes for biochemical processes and
medical diagnostics; Study of new signal processing protocols (including
bio-inspired methods) for the rapid analysis of dense data streams.
Available research capabilities permit multi-technique surface analytical
characterization (XPS, UPS, TDS, AFM, etc.) as well as measurements of
electronic behavior and electrical transport properties. Ultrahigh
vacuum-based reactive sputter deposition hardware is also housed within the
Group, as are MEMS design software, microfabrication equipment, a CVD
system, SEM, and Sensor Testing Facility. Experience in areas such as
surface science, electrochemistry, materials science, biochemistry,
semiconductor electronics, micromachining, thin film science, or response
modeling is particularly suited to our projects, but is not mandatory. Most
positions are open only to U.S. citizens (although a joint NIH-NIST program
does not require US citizenship). Applications include a brief research
proposal. The programs provide successful applicants with a stimulating
research opportunity at a major government laboratory located 30 miles from
Washington, DC. In addition, stipends (base salary ~ $60,000) and benefits
are quite generous. For more information about our projects, equipment
capabilities or application procedures, please contact: Dr. Steve Semancik
Tel: 301-975-2606; NIST Fax: 301-975-2643; 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8362;
steves@nist.gov; Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8362.

Dear Deans, Department Heads, and Discovery Park and OVPR Center Directors,
Following up on the message below, this morning I spoke with Joan Frye at NSF, who will be the new program director for the STC competition. Dr. Frye stated that the new RFP for the STC will not be released in May, and that she’s hoping for early June. Also, when I asked about the eligibility limitations, she suggested the possibility that the institutional limitation on preproposals may be fewer than the five allowed for the last competition. Also, FYI, I’ve attached Arden Bement’s comments re: the STC in his February NSF FY2009 Budget Request to Congress.I hope this information helps a bit in your planning for this competition.

Bement’s budget comments on Feb. 4 re: STCs
Interdisciplinary research is alive and well at NSF, not only in the nature of the grants we fund, but also in our organizational structures and cross-Foundation partnerships. The 2009 budget request gives particular emphasis to interdisciplinary programs, centers, and multi-investigator grants.
In 2009, we plan to establish five to seven new Science and Technology Centers . The STCs tackle frontier problems of national and global importance by developing innovative partnerships among disciplines and with business and industry.

They speed the transfer of concepts for new technologies to the private sector. And, critically, they integrate research with the education of those who will be tomorrow's teachers and leaders in discovery and innovation.
At the beginning of my presentation, I emphasized the potential economic returns that can accrue from NSF investments.
However, there are other, vitally important returns: namely, those that serve national and global needs in energy, health, security and environment, and those that increase human understanding and wonder about the universe in which we live, from the smallest to the largest scales.

**NCN Student Research Symposium (NSRS), 2008**

DATE: Tuesday, May 27 2008

VENUE: Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship MRGN (located in the Discovery Park at Purdue, intersection of Jischke drive and State Street )

SCHEDULE:

Powerpoint Research Presentations (morning session): 10:00 am - 12:00 noon Lunch and Poster Presentation: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Powerpoint Research Presentations (afternoon session): 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

The Symposium will feature 8 research talks by experimentalists and 8 by thoereticians, each 15 min long (including questions).

CALL FOR POSTERS: You are invited to present a poster during the extended lunch session. You do not necessarily have to prepare a new poster. A poster that you may already have and would like to present is most welcome. It will be a great opportunity to share your research work with others and get feedback.

Please let Alicia Goodman, goodman@ecn.purdue.edu, know that you will be attending and your meal preference if you are a vegetarian by end-of-business Wednesday May 21, so that she can ensure you don't go hungry. Also let her know by the same day if you wish to present a poster during the NSRS lunch session and we will have a poster stand ready for you. All you have to do is bring the poster with you to the symposium.

Please email any individual queries you may have to apalaria@purdue.edu

We sincerely hope you will be able to join us for this most exciting event and perhaps also present a poster with some of your exciting research work.

Sincerely, Amrit Palaria (SLC, NCN@Purdue)

• BNC Support Survey

• Facility Reminders

• Change in BNC Acid Supplier

• New Photoresist Storage Policy in the Cleanroom

• Recent Additions to the BNC Equipment

Please see the attached slides or view the information on the BNC website (http://www.purdue.edu/dp/Nanotechnology/facilities/bnctownhall.php).

Ira Young (BNC Procurement Officer) will be on vacation next week (May 26th – May 30th). Standard chemical stocking will be maintained as normal. But please plan ahead for equipment stocks (beakers, tweezers, etc.).

CARD READERS 2nd FLOOR EAST: The BNC card reader system installation

is continuing on the **2nd Floor EAST** wing (BRK 20XX) this week. Some cutting and grinding can be expected as conduit and the card readers are mounted in the galley and on each lab door (BRK 2031, 2037, 2043, 2077, 2081, & 2087). Note, work on BRK 2043 & 2087 BSL2 labs are scheduled for Thursday and Friday (05/22-05/23) Researchers can expect to see electricians in their labs and in some cases may be asked to briefly suspend experiments as door strikers are installed.

If you have any issues or concerns please contact Mary Jo Totten (61173) or Mark Voorhis (43036).

Summer Project . . . Birck gets waxedJ: Is still on hold.

There will be some people around the building this week washing windows. They will be doing both inside and outside in the public area.

Additional information may be obtained from Gregory’s webpage

(http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/fnfal/)

The Olympus Nano-Imaging and Metrology Demonstration Series continues as a participant with Purdue University with a demonstration and hands on workshop highlighting the: LEXT OLS-3100 Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope System.

Where: Purdue University , Birck Nanotechnology Center , BRK1001 conference room

When: Friday, May 23rd, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Bring samples for analysis!

The LEXT laser confocal microscope system is specifically designed for industrial-based applications requiring high-magnification and high-resolution 3D imaging and measurement. The LEXT has lateral resolution of 120nm and Z-resolution of 10nm. It can achieve magnifications up to 14,400x and can provide real color images, as well as B&W laser images. It is ideal for metrology, surface analysis, roughness, corrosion, failure analysis, and more. The LEXT is designed to bridge the gap between a light microscope and an SEM in that:

-it can achieve higher magnification and resolution than a light microscope

-it can be used for brightfield, darkfield and DIC observations similar to a light microscope

-it is completely non-destructive

-easy to operate, no special training required

-analyses take minutes, no sample prep required

The LEXT has also been recognized recently for two prestigious awards:

1. 2006: The editors of Advanced Packaging gave the LEXT the award for "Best New Product" as a Quality Assurance / Management Tool.

2. 2007: Solid State Technology Magazine gave the LEXT the award for "Attendees Choice" for Best Cost of Ownership.

Refreshments Served

CARD READERS 2nd FLOOR EAST: The BNC card reader system installation

is continuing on the **2nd Floor EAST** wing (BRK 20XX) this week. Some cutting and grinding can be expected as conduit and the card readers are mounted in the galley and on each lab door (BRK 2031, 2037, 2043, 2077, 2081, & 2087).

The wiring and installation work in the **2nd Floor West** has been completed.

If you have any issues or concerns please contact Mary Jo Totten (61173) or Mark Voorhis (43036).

Purdue may submit three proposals for this competition. Because of the need for expediency, letters of intent were dropped from this competition. Remaining important dates are: Friday, May 2: Preproposals due to the OVPR; Thursday, May 8: Limited submission review committee meets to select Purdue’s proposals. Please note: Preproposals to the OVPR should be e-mailed to OVPRlimited@purdue.edu. Purdue's limited submission policy, as well as the template for the preproposal, may be found at http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi.

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Accepting Proposals for Innovation Award; Deadline: June 2, 2008 (Pre-proposals) Sept. 18 (full proposals); Info at: http://216.235.201.218/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=259#selection. A program of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with "high risk/high reward" ideas that have the potential to significantly impact the understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer. The award is specifically designed to provide funding for extraordinary early career researchers who have an innovative new idea but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding. It is not designed to fund incremental advances. The research supported by the award must be novel, exceptionally creative, and, if successful, have the strong potential for high impact in the cancer field. Applicants (including non-U.S. citizens) must be conducting independent research at a U.S. research institution. Basic and translational/clinical projects will be considered. Applications will be accepted from all scientific disciplines provided that the proposed research meets the selection criteria. Applicants with a background in multiple disciplines are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants must belong to one of the following categories: 1) Tenure-track Assistant Professors within the first three years of obtaining their initial Assistant Professor position (cutoff date is 1 June 2005); 2) Clinical Instructors and Senior Clinical Fellows (with an M.D.) who are pursuing a period of independent research before taking a faculty position; 3) Postdoctoral Fellows and highly motivated recent Ph.D. and M.D. graduates who are pursuing a period of independent research before taking a faculty position. The program awards between three and five new grants each year, with each recipient receiving $450,000 over three years.

4:3 GRC Call for White Papers in Modeling & Simulation of Nanoelectronic Materials, Processes, and Devices - Deadline June 16, 2008

The Device Sciences area of the Semiconductor Research Corporation Global Research Collaboration is soliciting white papers in Modeling & Simulation of Nanoelectronic Materials, Processes, and Devices. Two page white papers addressing needs in a new research needs document are due Monday, JUNE 16, 2008 at 3 PM ET/12 PM PT. A limited number of full proposals will be accepted based on the white paper submissions and a subset of these proposals will be selected for anticipated three-year contracts beginning January 1, 2009. Interested researchers should note the proposal and review schedule, needs document, and instructions for web-based white paper submissions on the SRC GRC Web site at:

http://grc.src.org/fr/S200803_Call.asp

BIO: George John was born (1962) in Kerala, the southwest costal state of India . After obtaining his Ph.D. (1993) in Chemistry from Kerala University , India under the mentorship of Dr. C.K.S Pillai, Regional Research Laboratory, Trivandrum , he held a postdoctoral position (1994) at the University of Twente , The Netherlands. Subsequently, he was a research scientist at the Agency for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan . In the fall of 2002 he joined the Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center as a research faculty and pursued his research interests in the area of soft materials. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Chemistry, the City College of the City University of New York. His research interests are in the broad area of organic and macromolecular materials chemistry; specifically includes biobased organic synthesis, self-assembled soft nanomaterials for functional applications, green chemistry, understanding growth mechanisms of nanostructures and designing new structures and multifunctional nanocomposites.

Friday, May 9, 2008, 9:30-10:30, BRK 1001 Dr. Ali Shakouri Baskin School of Engineering Univ. of California Santa Cruz

We review solid-state devices that allow direct conversion of heat into electricity. We describe fundamental and practical limits of conventional thermoelectric materials. Novel metal-semiconductor nanocomposites are developed where the heat and charge transport are modified at the atomic level. Potential to reach high power densities and high conversion efficiencies will be discussed. We also describe how similar principles can be used to reduce heating in optoelectronic devices and make micro refrigerators on a chip in order to remove hot spots in integrated circuits.

Biography:
Ali Shakouri is professor of electrical engineering at University of California Santa Cruz . He received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1995. His current research is on nanoscale heat and current transport in semiconductor devices, submicron thermal imaging, micro refrigerators on a chip and novel optoelectronic integrated circuits. He is the director of the Thermionic Energy Conversion center, a multi university research initiative aiming to improve direct thermal to electric energy conversion technologies. He received the Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 1999, the NSF CAREER award in 2000 and the UCSC School of Engineering FIRST Professor Award in 2004.

June 11 and 12, 2008: 2008 Advanced Materials Characterization Workshop organized by the Center of Microanalysis of Materials (CMM) at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory (FS-MRL) on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. The two-day event features lectures given by our FS-MRL scientists who are experts in the mainstream analytical techniques that are important for both academic and industrial research work. Please see more detailed information in the attachment. The workshop will be held in the room ESB190 on June 11 and 12, 2008, from 9 AM to 5:30 PM. Common analytical techniques such as x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning and transmission electron microscopy (SEM and TEM), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), atomic force microscopy (AFM), Rutherford backscattering (RBS), etc., will be covered in individual lectures. Each lecture will have a strong focus on practical applications and problem solving strategies. Our first workshop on this topic in May 2007 was attended by 200 participants who gave 99% positive feed back on the quality and usefulness of the lectures. This year’s workshop is an expanded two-day event with more detailed lectures, laboratory tours and demonstrations of the techniques. The $ 25 registration fee will include two full days of lectures and tutorials, laboratory tours, instrument demonstrations and lunches for both days of the event. Registration forms are available online (see also attached). Attendees do not need to be a current user of the CMM or FS-MRL facilities to register. Registration deadline is June 2, 2008. Information and registration form can be found in: http://cmm.mrl.uiuc.edu/Workshop2008/

Biofuels Symposium 2008 highlights sustainability, policy issues

You are cordially invited to attend the 2008 Biofuels Symposium hosted by the Energy Center at Discovery Park . The two-day event begins at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, May 19th with a plenary speaker and discussions on ethanol and biodiesel followed by a poster session and dinner. Tuesday, May 20th will include speakers on biofuels sustainability issues, policy perspective, and new frontiers in biofuels and bioenergy.

Experts will discuss research advancements and the policy and sustainability issues facing the ethanol and biodiesel industries during Purdue University 's Biofuels Symposium 2008 on May 19-20.

Speakers at the two-day event led by the Energy Center in Discovery Park will include top executives from the biofuels industry, government officials and leading academic researchers from Princeton and Purdue universities and the University of Massachusetts . Symposium events will be held in third-floor meeting rooms in Stewart Center.

Keynote speaker Jim Fischer, senior scientific advisor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Research Education, and Economics Mission Area, will kick off the event with his presentation, "Biofuels Research and Development Strategic Plan," at 1:15 p.m. May 19 in Stewart Center, Room 218.

Sessions on day one will continue through 5 p.m., and a poster session also is planned that day. The morning session May 20 carries the theme biofuel economic and policy issues, while the afternoon will focus on the new frontiers in biofuels and bioenergy for the bio-economy.

For the two-day schedule of the event sponsored by Discovery Park 's Energy Center , go to: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/energy/2008biofuels/program%20agenda.php.

A PDF version of a detailed agenda also can be downloaded at: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/energy/pdfs/bio_detailed_agenda_08.pdf.

Monday, May 5, 2008, 9:00: Prof. Paul Greenfield, President of the University of Queensland

Monday, May 5, 2008, 1:30: Jasper Manufacturing Group. Tour to begin in Burton Morgan and include Bindley Bioscience and Birck

Thursday, May 8, 2008, lunchtime: IEST visit; includes lunch and tour of Birck

Thursday, May 8, 2008, 8:00: Clarian Health Leadership Conference

Friday, May 9, 2008, 8:00-4:00, BRK 1001: Ali Shakouri, University of California , Santa Cruz

Summer Project . . . Birck gets waxed: Birck rooms 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025, 2044, 2046, 2048, and 2050 are scheduled for waxing this week. A reminder will be posted on the door of each room. Please place all items from the floor on top of your desk. The custodian crew thanks you for your cooperation.

The Refrigerator is now working properly.

If you have any issues or concerns please contract Mary Jo Totten (61173) or Mark Voorhis (43036).

per Cris King, SPS: Limited Submission Competition: NSF S-STEM. New
internal deadlines have been posted at
http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi for the National Science
Foundation¹s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (S-STEM) competition. The request for proposals is available at
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07524/nsf07524.htm. Internal deadlines
for the next competition are as follows: Monday, June 2: Letters of Intent
due to the OVPR; Monday, June 30: Preproposals due to the OVPR; Thursday,
July 3: Preproposal rankings due to the OVPR. Please note: Letters of
intent, preproposals, and rankings to the OVPR should be e-mailed to
OVPRlimited@purdue.edu. Purdue's limited submission policy and templates for
letters of intent and preproposals may be found at
http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi. For any case in which the
number of internal letters of intent received is no more than the number of
proposals allowed by the sponsor, the OVPR will notify the PI that an
internal preproposal will be unnecessary.

per Cris King, SPS: NSF STC Solicitation ‹ a significant upcoming
funding opportunity. The National Science Foundation plans to issue a new
solicitation for its Science and Technology Centers Program (STC) in May or
June of this year. Our expectation is that the RFP, when released, will
limit the number of preliminary proposals that may be submitted. In order
to allow adequate time for the development of successful proposals from
Purdue for this competition, this office will establish shorter-than-usual
internal deadlines for letters of intent and preproposals. It is our hope
that, through early determination of which faculty teams will be going
forward with preliminary proposals to NSF, your faculty will have more time
to work on their proposals, and we will be able to provide more
administrative support, as needed. Information about the STC program is
available at http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/programs/stc/

Congratulations go to VIKKI FAST on her new position with the Birck
Nanotechnology Business Office. Vikki will be assuming the responsibilities
of Monthly Payroll and Account Management. She will begin the transition
into her new position on Monday April 21st. She will continue to work on
tasks related to her current position until it has been filled.

Summer internship for a graduate student (MS or PhD candidates) in
Bangalore, India: An internship is available (all local expenses covered +
$3,500) to conduct research with the National Center for Biological
Sciences, India (http://www.ncbs.res.in/). NCBS
is a sister institution of Tata Institutional of Fundamental Research,
Mumbai (http://www.tifr.res.in/). Research activities are listed at
http://www.ncbs.res.in/researchncbs/groups.htm. Please contact Pankaj
Sharma (sharma@purdue.edu) with your interest and be sure to include your
resume.

The National Science Foundation has released a new solicitation for
the International Materials Institutes (IMI) program, which promotes
³fundamental materials research by coordinating international research and
education projects involving condensed matter and materials physics, solid
state and materials chemistry, polymers, metals, ceramics, electronic
materials, biomaterials and, in general, the design, synthesis, and
characterization of and phenomena in materials to meet global and regional
needs. The Institutes must be university-based and provide a research
environment that will attract leading scientists and engineers. The
Institutes' long term goal is the creation of a worldwide network in
materials research and the development of a generation of scientists and
engineers with enhanced international leadership capabilities. A critically
important aspect of an IMI is its potential impact on advancing materials
research on an international scale and developing an internationally
competitive generation of materials researchers, and this distinguishes an
IMI from other materials research centers that NSF supports.² The request
for proposals is available at
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08558/nsf08558.htm. For this
competition, Purdue may submit one proposal. Internal deadlines are as
follows: Monday, May 12: Letters of Intent due to the OVPR; Monday, June 9:
Preproposals due to the OVPR; Thursday, June 12: Preproposal rankings due to
the OVPR; Agency deadline: Tuesday, July 15. Please note: Letters of
intent, preproposals, and rankings to the OVPR should be e-mailed to
OVPRlimited@purdue.edu. Purdue's limited submission policy and template for
letters of intent may be found at
http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi. Those submitting for the
Resources Center component should so indicate on the letter of intent. For
any case in which the number of internal letters of intent received is no
more than the number of proposals allowed by the sponsor, the OVPR will
notify the PI that an internal preproposal will be unnecessary.

ABSTRACT: How to achieve global results via local action? This, in essence,
is the underlying challenge in many problems in modern information systems.
Belief Propagation (BP) has enjoyed tremendous empirical success in broadly
addressing this challenge, in a diverse array of applications: image
processing, decoding of channel codes, machine learning, statistical physics
etc. However, BP is a heuristic; the lack of precise guarantees on its
performance stands in stark contrast to its empirical success. In this talk
we expand the analytical understanding of BP, and widen its applicability,
by investigating its performance in a new domain: networking. We first
motivate how the fundamental structure of many networking problems makes BP
a natural fit for these problems, by focusing on three specific
applications: wireless scheduling, sensor network self-organization, and
resource allocation. We highlight its algorithmic simplicity, and
demonstrate its empirical performance. We then show that the setting of
networking problems allows for a deeper insight into BP itself. At the core
of our networking applications lie canonical combinatorial problems:
weighted matching and independent set. Our analysis reveals that, for these
problems, BP is precisely a fast distributed implementation of linear
programming. This insight has the potential to foster even better algorithms
for the large spectrum of applications that BP is already applied to. We
also demonstrate the first use of BP as a proof technique, using our
analysis to establish fundamental structural properties of random instances·
of weighted independent set problems. In conclusion, we comment on the
potential of BP as a generic framework for distributed algorithms, on
adapting it for new applications, and on the need for a richer exchange of
ideas between the fields of communications and statistical learning and
inference.

BIO: Sujay Sanghavi received his B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from liT
Bombay, after which he joined the University of lIIinois, Urbana-Champaign.
There he received an MS in Mathematics, and an MS and PhD in Electrical
Engineering. Sujay's graduate research focused on communication networks,
under the advice of Bruce Hajek. After graduating, Sujay jolned MIT as a
postdoc ln Alan WHIsky's group. where he works on large-scale statistical
inference and machine learning, and on their interactions with networking
and communications. Sujay's primary research interest is the development and
analysis of large-scale distributed algorithms for modern information
systems. using tools from probability, optimization and combinatorics. He
was a recipient of the Perry award in 2002, and the Mavis award in 2005,
while at UIUC.

ABSTRACT: Nanotechnology is impacting many fields including the electronics
industry and life sciences. Novel nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) are
being investigated for next generation electronics and sensors with superior
performance. Nanoscale instrumentation offers unprecedented capacities to
characterize complex biological systems with ultrahigh sensitivities. In the
first part of my talk, I will briefly review recent advances in NEMS and
present the development of a novel carbon nanotube-based bistable nanoswitch
for applications of memory elements and sensors. The unique
electromechanical behaviors of this device are demonstrated by multi-physics
modeling and in-situ SEM testing. Failure modes of the device captured by
our in-situ measurements will be discussed. In the second part of my talk, I
will present my recent work studying the elasticity and conformation of
single stranded adenine-based DNA and RNA molecules by single molecule
atomic force spectroscopy. I will focus on discussing direct measurements of
the mechanical strength of base-stacking interactions among adenines and the
elasticity of solvent driven molecular conformations.

BIO: Dr. Changhong Ke is currently an assistant professor in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Dr. Ke received his BS and MS from Beijing Institute of Technology (Beijing,
China) in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical
Engineering from Northwestern University in 2006. His PhD dissertation
focused on the development of a carbon nanotube-based bistable nanoswitch
for applications of memory elements and sensors. After finishing his PhD, he
worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University, where he conducted
research on the topics of measuring DNA/RNA elasticity using AFM-based
single molecule force spectroscopy and detecting radiation induced DNA
damage at the single molecule level by AFM imaging and pulling measurements.
Dr. Ke is a member of ASME and BPS.

ABSTRACT: In this talk, we will review the memory program and erase
operation of floating gate flash cells under both NAND and NOR architecture.
The reliability issues, such as cycling endurance, retention and array
disturbs will be reviewed next. Finally, the floating gate cell scaling
challenges will be discussed, and flash memories having newer charge storage
node (nitride, metal nanocrystals) will be reviewed.

BIO: Souvik Mahapatra received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from IIT
Bombay, India in 1999. He was with Bell Laboratories, Lucent technologies,
Murray Hill, NJ, USA during 2000-01. Since 2002 he is with the Department of
Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, India, and presently holds the post of
Associate Professor. His research interests are CMOS device and Flash memory
scaling and reliability. He has published more than 75 papers in
international journals and conferences, delivered invited talks in major
international conferences including the IEDM, and was a tutorial speaker at
IRPS. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Prince Cedza Dlamini, grandson of Nelson Mandela, is visiting campus to
promote our faculty and students engaging in Service Learning experiences in
South Africa and Swaziland. Prince Cedza has founded a non-profit
organization to promote and support exchanges between our two countries and
is focusing on several institutes of higher learning in Indiana, including
Purdue. Actually, many South African and Swaziland students attend Indiana
State University, though Purdue has a few attending here, too.

ABSTRACT: Several particulate processes such as emulsion polymerization and
granulation are characterized by a distributed population, the control of
which constitutes a means of inferential control of product quality. For
example, the control of particle size distribution of emulsion polymers
constitutes an inferential means to control the rheology and optical
properties of the polymers. The research challenges underlying distribution
control are the multi-scale nature of the processes and limitations in both
on-line measurements and manipulations. Optimal distribution control can be
achieved through use of population balance models that account for the
underlying particle rate processes including nucleation, growth, aggregation
and breakage. It is seen in our studies that the multi-scale control
problem is facilitated indeed through an explicit consideration of the
hierarchical nature of the process mechanisms in the controller
formulations. In this talk, issues and methodologies for model development,
numerical solution and controller formulation will be discussed, with
applications to polymerization and granulation processes.

BIO: Dr. Immanuel is a lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College
London. He has been in Imperial College since August 2003, after a PhD in
Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware and a post-doctoral
tenure at the University of California Santa Barbara. He has a Masters in
Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and
Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Anna University, India. His research
interests are in multi-dimensional and multi-scale population balance
models, model-based applied process control, and polymerization processes.
He is a committee member of the computer-aided process engineering division
of the Institute of Chemical Engineers in UK, and a voting member of the
working party on polymer reaction engineering of the European Federation of
Chemical Engineering.

ABSTRACT: Parametric excitations arise naturally in a variety of resonant
micro/nanosystems. While these excitations can render a number of
beneficial system characteristics, including nearly-ideal stopband rejection
and a lowered dependence on damping, full utilization of their potential
requires that the resonant devices be highly tunable, in both a linear and
nonlinear manner. This presentation will consider the modeling, analysis,
and experimental characterization of a representative nonlinear,
parametrically-excited, electrostatically-actuated microresonator.
Experimentally-verified tunings used to acquire desired nonlinear system
behaviors will be described and micro/nanoscale applications with distinct
promise, including frequency-selective switching and resonant mass sensing,
will be outlined. Ongoing research related to micro- and nanomechanical
parametric amplifiers operating in both linear and nonlinear frequency
response regimes will also be briefly discussed.

BIO: Jeffrey F. Rhoads is an Assistant Professor in the School of
Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and is a member of the Birck
Nanotechnology Center and Ray W. Herrick Laboratories at the same
institution. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, each in
mechanical engineering, from Michigan State University in 2002, 2004, and
2007, respectively. Dr. Rhoads' current research interests include the
modeling, analysis, predictive design, and characterization of resonant
micro/nanoelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) for use in chemical and
biological sensing, RF signal filtering, and inertial sensing systems, the
behavior of nonlinear, parametrically-excited systems and coupled
oscillators, and the behavior of mechanical and electromechanical parametric
amplifiers. Dr. Rhoads is a member of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

Friday, April 25, 2008, 3:30 refreshments, 3:45 Seminar, ARMS 1010:
³High-aspect-ration Micromachining of Titaniun: Enabling new functionality
and opportunity in micromechanical systems through greater materials
selection,² by Masa P. Rao.

ABSTRACT: Traditionally, materials selection has been limited in
high-aspect-ratio micromechanical applications, due primarily to the
predominance of microfabrication processes and infrastructure dedicated to
silicon. While silicon has proven to be an excellent material for many of
these applications, no one material can meet the needs of all applications.
This is especially evident in biomedical microdevice applications, where the
intrinsic brittleness of silicon limits its utility, thus illustrating the
need for development of viable alternatives. Titanium is particularly
promising in this regard, due to its toughness, biocompatibility, and
fatigue resistance. However, lack of sufficient fabrication capability has
limited its use in micromechanical systems thus far.

Recently, we reported the development of novel micromachining processes that
now enable realization of this promise. These processes, based on plasma
etching techniques derived from microelectronics manufacturing, provide for
the first time, the capability for fabrication of complex, micrometer-scale,
high-aspect-ratio structures in titanium. As such, these processes extend
the state of the art in titanium micromachining and do so in a manner that
is inherently scalable to low-cost/high-volume manufacturing. The focus of
this talk will be to detail these processes, their capabilities, and their
use in the fabrication of micromechanical devices for biomedical
applications.

BIO: Prof. Rao received his bachelors in Material Science and Engineering
from the University of Florida and his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from
the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Following graduation, he
accepted a position as a post-doctoral researcher in the Mechanical
Engineering Department at UCSB, where he was involved in the initial
development of plasma-based micromachining of titanium. He joined the School
of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in
January 2007. Prof. Rao¹s current research interests lie in the continued
development of titanium micromachining and its application towards
biomedical microdevices, as well as the development of other novel
microfabrication technologies for various applications. He has
authored/co-authored over 20 journal articles and conference proceedings,
and has presented lectures in fields ranging from ceramic composites for gas
turbine applications to MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) for
telecommunications and biomedical applications.

Tuesday, 04.22.08, 2:45: Happy Hollow Elementary School's Nanoscience
Club

Thursday, 04.24.08, 10:15: Jinsong Zhao, Tsinghua University

Thursday, 04.24.08, 4:00: Placido Navas, and staff with Foods &
Nutrition Department, Purdue

We hope that all groups interested in this program can participate in one or
more proposals led by Purdue or another organization, such as a US DOE
funded laboratory. Campus wide groups in the general areas of Bio Fuels
(Point of Contact: Sonny Ramaswamy sonny@purdue.edu), Thermal and Solar to
Electric (Point of Contact: David Janes janes@ecn.purdue.edu), Advanced
Nuclear Energy (Point of Contact: Ahmed Hassanein, hassanein@purdue.edu),
and others are already in a self-assembly process. The Energy Center is
helping to facilitate responses to this funding opportunity and can be
contacted for additional information (contact Ron Steuterman
steuterm@purdue.edu). The purpose of this message is to make you aware of
this opportunity, and to alert you to the limited submissions process. As
with any limited submissions competition, the university will use a standard
process to help encourage groups to work together and to select those
proposals that can go forward as one of the three Purdue-led submissions
(http://www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/proposal/docs/LimitedSubmissionProcessAp
ril2006ver3.doc). For this solicitation we are not requesting initial
letters of intent; however preproposals are due by Friday, April 25th.
Preproposals should conform to the template given at
http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi for the DoE EFRC
competitionŠ.and should make clear the objective of the proposal (the
breakthrough expected in a brief but convincing manner) and should clearly
address the key criteria in the DoE¹s Funding Opportunity Announcement.
Preproposals should also include information on the leadership team (up to 6
names), US DOE laboratory contacts (laboratory name and point of contact
information - we will not contact this person or laboratory using the
information you provide), corporate leveraging anticipated, and any internal
leveraging anticipated. We will try to involve as many groups as possible
in submission of proposals under either Purdue or government laboratory
leadership, or in proposals led by other universities. The information in
the pre-proposals will help in the identification of strong partners and
will also be used by the limited submissions review committee in the
determination of the three proposals that will be submitted with Purdue as
the lead organization. To submit a preproposal, to download the
pre-proposal template, and for additional information please visit Purdue¹s
limited submissions web site at
http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi

ABSTRACT: The demand of flip chip technology in high density packaging for
advanced electronic consumer products is growing rapidly. Due to the
decrease in device size and increase in functionality, electromigration has
now become the most serious reliability problem in flip chip solder joints,
especially the Pb-free. It has several unique features that are very
different from the electromigration in Al and Cu interconnects. Solder
alloy has a very small critical product of electromigration, thus it can
fail at 103 A/cm2. Owing to the line-to-bump geometry in flip chip, current
crowding occurs at the contact between the line and the bump and the failure
mode of electromigration is a pancake-type void formation at the cathode.
Again due to current crowding, whiskers can be squeezed out at the anode.
Joule heating due to Al or Cu interconnects can cause a very large
temperature gradient in the solder joint, so thermomigration accompanies
electromigration. In this talk, these reliability issues of flip chip
solder joints will be presented.

BIO: King-Ning Tu received his B. Sc. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from
National Taiwan University in 1960, M. Sc. degree in Materials Science from
Brown University in 1964, and Ph. D. degree in Applied Physics from Harvard
University in 1968. He spent 25 years at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
as Research Staff Member in Physical Science Department. During that period,
he also served as Senior Manager of Thin Film Science Department and
Materials Science Department for 10 years. In September 1993, he joined the
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA as full professor. He
was chairman of the Department for six years from 1998 to 2004. He is a
Fellow of American Physical Society, The Metallurgical Society (TMS), and an
Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK. He was
president of Materials Research Society in 1981. He received the Application
to Practice Award from TMS in 1988, the Distinguished Scientist Award from
the Electronic, Magnetic, and Photonic Materials Division of TMS in 2006,
and Humboldt Award for US Senior Scientists in 1996. He has been elected a
member of Academia Sinica, Republic of China in 2002. He has over 400
journal publications with citations over 10000 and h-factor of 58. He
co-authored a textbook on ³Electronic thin Film Science,² published by
Macmillan in 1992, and authored a book on ³Solder joint technology²
published by Springer in July 2007. His research interests are in
metal-silicon reactions, solder reactions, nanoscale reactions, polarity
effect of electromigration on interfacial reactions, and kinetic theories of
interfacial reactions. His website is http://www.seas.ucla.edu/eThinFilm/

Monday, April 14, 2008, 5:30PM, Beering 2280: ³The Role of Interior
Designers in Healthcare,² by Ana Maregatti