TOWN HALL MEETING to be held Thursday, 10.23.08, 1:30-3:00, in BRK 1001. Budget/Recharge information to be reviewed among other items of community interest. See you all there!

Getinge autoclave training

Friday, 10.24.08, 10-10:30am, in BIND 233A. To register, visit the training webpage located at: http://www2.itap.purdue.edu/bnc/training/.
Poster Printing
Poster Printing, from Valerie Lawless, DP Engagement: The poster printer, located in MRGN 233, is now available for staff and students to use. We have two new students, Joshua and Paula, that have the following office hours:
M-W 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and Thurs 9:45 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
M-F 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
They have been trained to use all the equipment within that room and are available to assist you with your printing needs during those specified office hour times.
If you need to use the poster printer outside of office hours, please check in with Valerie Lawless or Jackie Lanter in MRGN 120 suite. If your center sends a student that is not familiar with using the poster printer and it is not during office hours, a staff member from your area should accompany the student for access to be granted promptly.
Otherwise, a staff or student may email their file to the poster print staff and they will print it for you during office hours: judoma@purdue.edu or lin19@purdue.edu. Please allow 48 hours for them to print your poster and have it ready for you to pick up in MRGN 233. You can work with them to establish a pick up time as well.
Contact Valerie Lawless (lawlessv@purdue.edu) should you have any questions.

Monday, 10.20.08, 2:45PM: Northwest Indiana Forum, optional Discovery Park Tour with Candiss Vibbert

Wednesday, 10.22.08, 6:00PM: BremnerDuke HealthCare dinner, in Atrium.

Friday, 10.24.08, 3:00-5:00: Fall Preview days students and parents; self-guided tours.

Saturday, 10.25.08, 9:15AM: Dr. S. Rasoul Safavian, CTO, Bechtel Group, and ECE alumni tour, with Tim Sands

ABSTRACT: Recent progress of nano-biotechnology provides many new nanoscale tools for biological science research. Examples include new nanodevices (e.g. nanosensors, nanoprobes etc)[1] based on various nanomaterials (e.g., carbon nanotubes, nanowires, nanoparticles etc). This presentation will discuss how these nanoscale tools can be utilized for biophysics applications such as molecular sensing, cell signal monitoring, and control of cell growth/differentiation.[2] Future prospect and possible industrial applications of these tools also will be discussed. [1] Nature 425, 36 (2003); Nature Nanotechnology 1, 66 (2006); Nature Materials 7, 459 (2008). [2] Advanced Materials 19, 2530 (2007).
BIO: Seunghun Hong is currently an associate professor of physics at Seoul National Univ. (SNU) in Korea. He received his PhD in physics at Purdue University in 1998 and worked as a postdoc at Northwestern University. He was an assistant professor at Florida State University before he became a professor at SNU. His research interests include dip-pen nanolithography, CNT circuits, nano-sensors, and biomotors.

Monday, 10.20.08, 3:30 refreshments, 3:45 seminar, ARMS 1010: “Development of Piezoelectric Trimorph Actuators for High Fidelity Flat Panel Loud Speakers,” by William F. Shelley II, Emo Labs.

ABSTRACT: Piezoelectric ceramics have been around for more than 60 years, and the number of applications continues to grow. Yet, even with this history and variety of applications, our understanding of the properties of piezoelectric ceramics is still limited in certain cases. Each time a new application of piezoelectric ceramic emerges, pushing the envelope of performance, the user quickly realizes that there are many aspects of the piezoelectric ceramic, which are not fully understood or documented. At Emo Labs, we are developing high fidelity loud speakers driven by piezoelectric trimorph actuators. In this application, we are pushing the envelope in terms of operating conditions and expected performance of the piezoelectric actuators. In this talk, I will explain how our approach is unconventional and describe some unexpected aspects of the performance. I will also describe the methods we use to characterize the nonlinearities, losses, and failures of the piezoelectric actuators in this system.
High electric field nonlinearities of the piezoelectic, dielectric, and elastic properties for various commercial lead zirconate titanate (PZT) ceramics have been characterized and have been used in conjunction with analytical equations and finite element analysis to predict the performance of each PZT for a given design. High field piezoelectric, dielectric, and mechanical losses contribute to the self-heating of the bending actuator during operation, even leading to catastrophic failure when not designed properly. This phenomenon has been quantified by thermal runaway testing. Finally, failures of piezoelectric ceramics have been analyzed in conjunction with finite element analysis (FEA) to determine the principal stresses in the ceramic. The FEA stress analysis then resulted in design and operation changes aimed at reducing the maximum stresses. All of this information has been used to design in-situ long term reliability testing of the piezoelectric trimorph actuators.
Short Bio: William Shelley received his bachaelor’s degree (1997) and master’s degree (1999) in Materials Engineering from Purdue University. Throughout his career, he has worked with piezoelectric materials, starting with piezo actuator fuel injectors at Cummins Engine Co. For the next five years, he worked at Piezotechnologies in Indianapolis in R&D of piezoelectric materials. In that role, Mr. Shelley developed new piezoelectric products and compositions in the PZT, bismuth titanate, lead metaniobate, PMN-PZT, and PZN-PZT materials systems. During his time at Piezotechnologies, he authored and co-authored 3 successful reasearch grants totaling more than $2.6 Million for the develeopment of piezoelectric materials and devices. These grants helped support 5 Purdue MSE graduate students in collaborative research projects.
In 2006, Mr. Shelley joined the start-up Emo Labs, Inc. in Waltham, MA. Emo Labs is developing piezo driven flat panel speakers for integration with flat panel displays such as laptop computers and LCD monitors. In his current role, Mr. Shelley is designing piezoelectric trimorph bending actuators and studying their performance. Key issues include self-heating due to losses, nonlinearities in the piezoelectric properties, static and dynamic stress distribution, and long term reliability. In addition, Mr. Shelley is responsible for qualifying and choosing high volume piezoelectric ceramic/actuator suppliers in Europe and/or Asia for production.

Tuesday, 10.21.08, 12:00 Noon, MRGN 129: “New Approaches to Cancer Treatment: Early Detection, Individualized Care, Molecular Targeted Therapies, Genomics and Proteomics: An Introduction to the Hoosier Oncology Group Biorepository,” by Nasser Hanna, MD, chairman, Hoosier Oncology Group; Kristina Kirkpatrick, Correlative Research Coordinator.

This will be an informational session on the Walther Cancer Foundation funded Hoosier Oncology Group (HOG) Biorepository. Participants will learn what types of human blood and tissue samples are available; procedures for obtaining samples; communication of future sample availability; and how to make known your particular human sample needs.

Thursday, 10.23.08, 12:00 Noon – 5:00PM, Fowler Hall: The 6th Annual Garnet E. Peck Symposium, “Counterfeit Medicines: Current Approaches and Research Opportunities.”

The problem of counterfeit medications continues to threaten patient safety and the economic viability of drug development. Innovative methods to detect counterfeit medications and to prevent them from entering into the distribution system for pharmaceuticals are needed in order to assure the integrity of our medication supply. We believe that the academic environment at institutions such as Purdue University provides an opportunity to develop interdisciplinary approaches to the problem of counterfeit medications. To stimulate interest in the academic community and to identify research opportunities, we are pleased to host this special symposium, which is generously sponsored through an educational grant from Eli Lilly and Company. The objective of the symposium is to provide an overview of the key issues surrounding counterfeit medications and to identify research opportunities. We have assembled a team of experts in the field who will discuss current and emerging technology, as well as opportunities for future innovation.

Thursday, 10.23.08, 4:30PM, ME 161: “Flame Spreading Processes in a Fin-Slot Solid Propellant Rocket Motor Simulator with Applications to Space Shuttle Boosters,” by Kennth K. Kuo, Distinguished Professor of ME and Director of High Pressure Combustion Laboratory. Refreshments served 4:00, ME 254.

ABSTRACT: Propellant grains with fin-slots have been used in a variety of solid rocket propulsion systems; however, little work has been performed in understanding the overall ignition transient event in this region with complex geometry. In order to accurately predict the overall ignition transient for the reusable solid rocket motor (RSRM) of the Space Shuttle booster with multiple fin slots in the head-end segment, it is necessary to acquire detailed flow-field structure and energy transfer rates on the exposed propellant surfaces in the fin-slot region. This is due to the relatively slow flame spreading characteristics in the fin slots. A 1/10th scale pie-shaped fin-slot rocket motor with diagnostic ports was designed, fabricated, and tested to simulate the flame spreading event in the first segment of the fin-slot RSRM. Experimentally, flow-field visualizations were conducted for both inert and live propellants. Theoretically, CFD simulations were performed for modeling the flow-field structure in the test rig. Results were used to develop a correlation between the internal flow-field and heat-transfer within the fin-slot region. The calculated internal flow-field patterns were in agreement with those observed. The heat-transfer rates evaluated from a proposed correlation matched the measured heat-flux gauge data trend within the experimental error. Flame-spreading measurements were gathered using a high-speed digital camera and an array of 36 near-IR fast-response non-intrusive photodetectors. A correlation based upon the visual records and optical sensor data was developed to predict the flame-spreading event in the fin-slot region.
BRIEF BIO: Dr. Kenneth K. Kuo (Ph.D. from Princeton University) is an expert in combustion, rocket propulsion, ballistics, and fluid mechanics. He is a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also the Director of PSU’s High Pressure Combustion Laboratory, which is equipped with numerous advanced diagnostic instrumentations and test facilities for propulsion and combustion studies. Professor Kuo has directed about 80 research projects in rocket and gun areas for 36 years. He has edited ten books and authored Principles of Combustion published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 1986, and his second edition in 2005. He has published 444 technical articles. Seven of his papers won Best Paper Awards - four from AIAA, one from the 7-ISICP symposium, and two from the JANNAF community. Dr. Kuo served as Principal Investigator for the ARO-funded University Research Initiative (URI) grant on “Ignition and Combustion of High Energy Materials.” He is now serving as the Principal Investigator of an ONR-funded MURI project on Rocket Nozzle Throat Erosion Mitigation. He is a Fellow of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and also a Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers). He has received several awards for his work on solid propellants combustion processes. He delivered an invited von Kármán lecture in 1997. He also presented numerous invited lectures at different universities, including Stanford, UIUC, Princeton, UT-Austin, University of Washington, etc.

Friday, 10.24.08, 11:30AM, BRK 2001: “In situ Characterization of Biofilm Surfances Through Atomic Force Microscopy," by Zhen Huang, PhD student, Civil and Environmental Engineering

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to characterize biofilm surface for two different biofilms: Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Nitrosomonas europaea. The in situ morphology and roughness of the biofilm surfaces were obtained and analyzed by Atomic force microscopy (AFM). The thickness of the biofilms was measured by a high resolution CCD camera. The hydrophobicity of the bioflm surfaces was evaluated by analyzing the pull-off forces between hydrophobic (CH3) functionalized AFM tips and the biofilm surfaces. The results indicate that the surface roughness and thickness of the N. europaea biofilm was significantly greater than that of P. aeruginosa. The average pull-off force between the CH3 functionalized tips and P. aeruginosa and N. europaea were
2.64±1.46 nN and 0.28±0.78nN, respectively, which indicated that N. europaea biofilm was very hydrophilic but P. aeruginosa biofilm was weakly hydrophobic. The in situ characterization of biofilm surface will expand our understanding of biofilm attachment and development.

Funded International Research Experience for Students: Tuesday, 10.21.08, 4:30PM, ME 117, presented by Douglas Cook Graduate Research Assistant (ME). Looking for international experience while working on your graduate degree? The National Science Foundation offers fully funded international research collaboration opportunities through the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) program. Graduate students may travel to Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore or Taiwan for 8 weeks during the summer, to collaborate at foreign universities or institutes. This program covers travel and housing costs with a $5000 stipend. This is a great way to get global experience, travel, and learn new research skills from a foreign host institution.
Discovery Park will be hosting an info session on how to successfully apply for the EAPSI program. The session will provide an overview of the program, application advice, the perspective of previous EAPSI students, and a description of how you can use Purdue's overseas connections to craft a successful application.
View flyer: http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/events/NSF_EAPSI_Info.PDF
Read more about the program at: www.nsf.gov/eapsi

FLU SHOTS: Free flu shots are offered to benefit-eligible faculty and staff, graduate staff, official Purdue retirees, and their spouses/same-sex domestic partners. A PUID is required for check-in for employees, retirees, and spouses/same-sex domestic partners. Check http://www.purdue.edu/worklife to register for an appointment.
THURSDAY, October 23, 10AM-6PM, STEW 214 ABCD
FRIDAY, October 24, 7:30AM-3PM, IAF
TUESDAY, November 4, 8AM-3PM, STEW 218 ABCD
MONDAY, November 10, 9AM-4PM, FREH 2-1
SATURDAY, November 15, 8AM-1:30PM, Worklife Programs (PWF)
WEDNESDAY, December 3, 9AM-4PM, STEW 218 ABCD

New research field promises radical advances in optical technologies
EurekAlert
Shalaev's research is based at the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue's Discovery Park. The research is funded by the US Army Research Office. [More]

Getinge autoclave training for October: Friday, 10.17.08, 10-10:30am, in BIND 233A; Friday, 10.24.08, 10-10:30am, in BIND 233A. To register, visit the training webpage located at http://www2.itap.purdue.edu/bnc/training/.

POSTER PRINTING, from Valerie Lawless, DP Engagement: The poster printer, located in MRGN 233, is now available for staff and students to use. We have two new students, Joshua and Paula, that have the following office hours:
M-W 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and Thurs 9:45 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
M-F 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
They have been trained to use all the equipment within that room and are available to assist you with your printing needs during those specified office hour times.
If you need to use the poster printer outside of office hours, please check in with Valerie Lawless or Jackie Lanter in MRGN 120 suite. If your center sends a student that is not familiar with using the poster printer and it is not during office hours, a staff member from your area should accompany the student for access to be granted promptly.
Otherwise, a staff or student may email their file to the poster print staff and they will print it for you during office hours: judoma@purdue.edu or lin19@purdue.edu. Please allow 48 hours for them to print your poster and have it ready for you to pick up in MRGN 233. You can work with them to establish a pick up time as well.
Contact Valerie Lawless (lawlessv@purdue.edu) should you have any questions.

Wednesday, 10.15.08, 11:00AM: Robert Hamlen, consultant in the battery and electrochemistry fields; with Tim Sands.

Thursday, 10.16.08, 2:00PM: Dr. Paul Hommert, Hawkins Memorial Lecture in Heat Transfer, with Bara Cola.

Friday, 10.17.08, 1:00: Don Esses, 1973 ECE alum, with Tim Sands.

Friday, 10.17.08, 3:00-5:00: Fall Preview Days students and parents; self-guided tours.

Saturday, 10.18.08, 10:30AM: Fulbright Australia guests, with Pankaj Sharma.

ABSTRACT: As the need for affordable, reliable and lower carbon energy sources becomes a national and global imperative it is valuable to look both to the past and to the future, and explore the role that science and engineering has played. Events of 35 years ago brought energy, especially oil, to the forefront of national priorities. How do the conditions of 35 years ago compare and contrast with today? What can be learned from the impact of science and engineering on energy production, utilization and efficiency that can guide the research community as it confronts renewed national initiatives around energy? It is an economic and security imperative for the nation that the next 20 years see dramatic progress in the development of energy technologies. This progress will be led in large part by the engineers and scientists who are just beginning their careers. The Department of Energy’s national laboratories have held a key role in developing new energy sources and new approaches to energy conversion. Sandia National Laboratories has been a leader in energy technologies since the early 1970s. Early programs focused on coal gasification, solar thermal and geothermal energy technologies . Over the last decade wind energy and the transition to distributed sources of electricity have prompted new research and innovation. The importance of combustion as a fundamental process in energy conversion was recognized and continues to be pursued. Progress in these areas continues to be shaped by a balance between cost, performance and public acceptance. In the future the globalization of energy supply and demand, and the need for constraining the growth of carbon in the atmosphere, will place even greater stress on world energy systems. The complexities of the social and political environment will require that researchers take a systems approach and provide a range of options as well as key innovations. While progress in energy over the last generation may have been incremental, when compared to advances in information technologies, cumulatively great advances have been made in both energy and in the environment. The challenges the U.S. and the world face are how to accelerate energy innovation and how to diversify our energy options. I will suggest some new ways that the research and development communities can work to achieve these goals.

BRIEF BIO: Dr. Hommert is currently Vice President of Sandia’s California Laboratory, located in Livermore, CA. Principal programs of the division include; nuclear weapons stewardship, homeland security with a focus on WMD defense, including bio terrorism, combustion, hydrogen energy research, biofuels, cyber security and information systems. He also leads the laboratory’s Homeland Security & Defense Strategic Management Unit, which is focused on development of Sandia’s programs with the Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Hommert earned a B.S.M.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an M.S.M.E. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. In 2003, he received an outstanding alumnus award for professional excellence from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue.

Institute of Biological Engineering 2008 Annual Regional Student Conference: Friday, 10.17.08, social 6:00-8:00, PMU; and Saturday, 10.18.08, keynote speakers 10:30-11:30 and 1:30-2:30; student poster presentations 11:30-12:30. For further information, visit the Purdue IBE webpage at: http://www.engineering.purdue.edu/~ibe

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Dr. Richard Wagner is a former biology professor at Indiana University who is currently the chairman and CEO of Phylein, and president of Phycotransgenics. Phylein is a company whose primary focus is natural oils and biofuels. Current research at Phylein is concerned with hydrogen production in algal systems. Current Phycotransgenics research is on edible vaccines in the aquaculture industry. Dr. Wagner’s keynote presentation will take place on October 18th at 1:30 pm in Stewart 218.
Clyde Harris, Sr. is the CEO and Senior Technical Consultant for H&H Systems, International in Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Harris served as the Chief Electrical Engineer for Al Midhar and Amoumi in Alkhobar, and also worked as the senior project engineer for Al Harithy Engineering in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Seven of his seventeen years were in R&D of electrostatic precipitators, scrubber systems and air pulse bag houses, the remaining were in field service as well as some time with the Environmental Elements Corp. Mr. Harris’ keynote presentation will take place on October 18th at 10:30 am in Stewart 218.
Conference Location: Student Union Building
Friday, Oct. 17th: Social from 6:00-8:00 pm (hor d’oeuvres provided)
Saturday, Oct. 18th: Keynote speakers at 10:30-11:30 am and 1:30-2:30 pm (continental breakfast provided)
Student presentations and Poster Session from 11:30-12:30 pm

New Purdue/IU Collaborative Seed Grants Opportunity: A new seed grant funding opportunity is available for collaborations between Purdue, West Lafayette, and Indiana University faculty. Entitled Collaboration in Biomedical/Translational Research (CBR/CTR) Pilot Grant Program, this competition is similar to the previous Collaboration in Biomedical Research (CBR) competitions, and has a deadline of December 1, 2008. Visit http://www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/funding/seedgrants.shtml for updated information about this competition.

The new “Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)” is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08604. Some highlights of the changes since last year's solicitation are:
• Letter of Intent is no longer required or accepted
• Preliminary and full proposal deadlines have been revised:
Preliminary Proposal deadlines:
Type I: December 8, 2008
Type II: December 9, 2008
Full Proposal Deadline (by invitation only): May 20, 2009
Questions? cdi@nsf.gov or 703-292-8080.

The International Center for Materials Research (ICMR) at UC Santa Barbara announces its International Research Fellowship competition for the 2008-2009 academic year. ICMR International Research Fellowships support research visits to non-US laboratories for graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty affiliated with US Institutions. Typical durations are a few weeks - 3 months, with award amounts for travel and expenses of up to $5000; we anticipate that the applicant will continue to receive their regular salary support from their home institution. Conference travel is not supported.
How to Apply: Application materials, consisting of a 1-page description of the collaboration, emphasizing the nature and motivation for the international component, a short CV and (for students and postdocs) a letter of support from the advisor, should be sent to the ICMR Program Coordinator, Jennifer Ybarra (ybarra@icmr.ucsb.edu). Applications are welcome at any time, but should be received by October 30th for fullest consideration. Our funding structure prioritizes collaborations with countries that are not in Western Europe.

$100,000 Prize Package in 22nd Annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition: The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and Krannert School of Management are pleased to announce the 22nd annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition. The competition is open to graduate and undergraduate students of Purdue University. The Center invites interested students with a business idea to register at: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/Entrepreneurship/programs/competition/bdmCompetition/registration.php. Total Prize package to be awarded to Purdue students is $100,000. Additional Information: Jackie Lanter, lanter@purdue.edu, 4-1335.

Refrigerator in breakroom/kitchen scheduled for cleaning: FRIDAY, 10.10.08. Please label with your name and date anything that you do not want thrown away. Anything dated prior to 09.26.08 or without labels will be discarded.

Discovery Lecture Series. Who Should Attend: Public, professionals, and students interested in the environment and public health; natural resource conservation, and management; and technology for environmental monitoring. Dr. James A. MacMahon, trustee professor of biology and director of the ecology center, Utah State University and Chairman of the Board, the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) will present “Thresholds: How Do We Predict the Unpredictable?” which provides an overview of NEON and his internationally recognized work on ecological succession. Dr. Theo Colborn, professor emeritus, University of Florida, Gainesville; and President of the Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX) will present “The Male Predicament,” discussing her work on the effects of chemicals that act as endocrine diruptors and the unique challenges these contaminants pose to all living organisms.

Wednesday, 10.08.08, 10:00AM, BRK 2001: Lebconco Visit to BNC, with presentations. Lunch served – limited seating; RSVP to Annie Cheever (acheever@purdue.edu) by Monday, 10.06.08

Adam Keithley, Marketing Manager and Bob Applequist, Product Manager will be on hand for short presentations on glove boxes and hoods (specifically designed to handle nano particles work). They wish to learn as much as they can about Nanotechnology, our equipment uses, applications, needs and concerns. This is a great opportunity to interface with people within the lab industry for future requests and development concerning nano chemical equipment and devices. Labconco Corporation, (first named Laboratory Construction Company), was founded in 1925 by Ralph Callaway and Phil Goldfisch. The company's first product was a Kjeldahl Nitrogen Determination Apparatus, which agricultural laboratories used to test the protein content of feeds and grains. From humble beginnings as a one-product shop in a small garage in downtown Kansas City, Labconco employs over 200 associates at facilities in two locations and manufactures 16 different product lines. Labconco sells through a worldwide network of laboratory supply distributors. In 1996, Labconco received the prestigious President's "E" Award for excellence in exporting from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Many of our products carry CE Marking signifying electrical conformity for use in the European Community. GSA contracts are available to governmental agencies and other authorized entities. We have 3 state-of-the-art facilities at our Kansas City location to help you get to know our products first hand. The tri-level Auditorium, which is equipped with fully operational products for demonstration and training purposes, seats up to 100 people. The Demonstration Lab is a real laboratory where tests and methods are developed using our equipment. The Airflow Test Laboratory allows testing of new fume hoods and biological safety cabinets. Labconco is an ISO 9001 certified company that prides itself on the quality of our people and products. Labconco products adhere to high standards including ETL and NSF Standard 49. Labconco Corporation is pleased to announce it has received ISO 9001:2000 certification. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) established ISO 9001:2000 as a family of standards that state generic requirements for instituting a company's quality management system.

CONTACT INFO: Labconco Corporation (labconco@labconco.com); 8811 Prospect Avenue; Kansas City, Missouri 64132-2696; Toll free: 800-821-5525.

Thursday, 10.09.08, 4:30PM, ME 161: “The Big Dig meets SEA,” by Dr. Richard H. Lyon, Professor Emeritus, MIT. Refreshments served 4:00, ME 254.

ABSTRACT: The new Central Artery complex (the Big Dig) in Boston is nearly complete. Tunnels form a significant section of this project and the air within is exchanged by large fans housed in (mostly) underground vent buildings with stacks that extend upward a hundred feet or more. Since the tunnel route runs through downtown Boston, these large and unsightly concrete structures sit on prime property. Developers decided to build a hotel and condominiums that would sit upon the vent building and wrap around the exhaust stacks. The noise that might arise from the fans and travel into the hotel was of concern, and Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) was used to anticipate noise throughout the hotel, and the effectiveness of rubber pads in mitigating the noise. This presentation recounts the events of the project and the results of using SEA.
BRIEF BIO: Richard H. Lyon was born in Evansville, Indiana on August 24, 1929 to Chester C. and Gertrude B. Lyon. He attended Howard Roosa and Harper Elementary Schools and Benjamin Bosse High School in Evansville. In September 1948 he entered Evansville College (now University of Evansville) as a physics major. While a student he was elected to Sigma Pi Sigma honorary society in physics and Phi Beta Xi, honorary society in science. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Evansville College in June 1952. He has been a member of the Alumni Board and the Trustees of the University of Evansville. In September 1952 he entered MIT as a graduate student in physics. Initially he worked with Dr. T. F. Hueter on thick plate vibrations, and then did his Ph.D. thesis research under Prof. K. U.Ingard on the turbulent excitation of strings. In his final student year at MIT, he was elected to Sigma Xi, and held the Owens-Corning Fellowship in Acoustics. He received the Ph.D. in physics from MIT in June 1955.

Friday, 10.10.08, 3:30PM, ME 256: “Product Sound Quality—Anticipation and Assessment,” by Dr. Richard H. Lyon, Professor Emeritus, MIT. Refreshments served 2:30, ME 254.

ABSTRACT: Enforcement of regulations on product noise requires a simple metric like A-weighted sound Level. But the users of products judge the acceptability of sounds using a complex set of perceptions dependent on expectation, attitude, and context. Product designers need tools that will allow them to make component and materials choices that enhance the acceptability of the product sound. This presentation describes the approach I and my associates have used to provide such tools based on listening tests, physical measurements, and statistical design and analysis.

Friday, October 10, 2008, 9:00AM-3:00PM, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship: “Consumers and Technology Symposium.”

Explore the effect of the information technology age on the consumer
• Discover opportunities for collaboration on issues concerning technology and its influence on the service economy
• Keynote Speaker: A. “Parsu” Parasuraman, School of Business, University of Miami: “Technology Readiness and Its Implications for Technology-based Customer Service”
• Faculty Presenters: Randy Woodson, Provost; Richard Buckius, Vice President for Research’ Shannon Amberg, College of Agriculture; Richard Feinberg, College of Consumer and Family Sciences; Athula Kulatunga, College of Technology; Joseph Pekny, Department of Chemical Engineering; Gene Spafford, CERIAS
• Poster Session: Graduate students are invited to present research related to consumers and technology. Prizes awarded. Contact wailor@purdue.edu to register for the poster session.
• Registration required by October 6; There is NO CHARGE to attend the symposium. Lunch is included.
• For information and to register, visit: www.conf.purdue.edu/CTS

This message regarding the annual Showalter Trust Grant Competition is being sent on behalf of Dr. Richard Buckius, Vice President for Research to all academic deans, associate research deans, and DP/VPR associated Center Directors. All guidelines, procedures, and instructions are available on-line at the following URL: http://www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/funding/showalter.shtml.
Pre-proposal descriptions are due in this office no later than January 16, 2009. Please submit up to six of your college’s/school’s research abstracts (two pages maximum, including the title and investigator) for consideration of Showalter funding to Rhonda Hostetter through our Sharepoint website at: https://sp.itap.purdue.edu/vpr/showalter/.
The internal selection committee will meet and screen all pre-proposals to determine which investigators will be asked to submit full proposals. Full proposals will then be due by mid-April to be forwarded to the Showalter Trust Committee. Final award decisions by the Showalter Trust Committee are expected to be made in the spring.
Please direct questions or comments to Rhonda Hostetter, Office of the Vice President for Research, at 40901, or rhostett@purdue.edu.

Job: Senior Microfabrication Engineer, Nuvotronics, LLC., Blacksburg, VA.

OVERVIEW: Nuvotronics is a rapidly growing company in microfabrication and MEMS technology. Nuvotronics was formed in July 2008 through the acquisition of the Rohm and Haas microfabrication center, its operations, and intellectual property. We operate a 55,000 square foot facility with a complete 4" and 6" MEMS fab and packaging line. Our patented Polystrata process is creating disruptive value in micromanufacturing and microwave devices. Si-Pak wafer-scale hermetically packaged devices are creating new value for optoelectronics. Our contract MEMS services provide our customers with access to our foundry and engineering services for custom products. We are looking for a highly motivated individual to contribute to our continued growth and success. This position involves transition of microfabricated and MEMS products and processing from development into production and requires both process development, integration and manufacturing know-how.

REQUIREMENTS: Applicants should have a strong engineering background and at least 2 yrs hands-on experience in silicon processing, specifically photolithography, deposition, etching and wet processing. Must have experience with: MEMS, RF-MEMS, Accelerometers, or other similar products. BS/BA required, advanced degree preferred in a scientific discipline. Applicants must be US citizens, green-card holders or permanent residents.

RESPONSIBILITIES: DOE, SPC and critical inspections to ensure the processing of wafers meets tolerances. Sputtering, Evaporation, dry etch, wet etch, electroplating, projection and contact based photolithography, and Si and glass wafer bonding processes. Methods of MEMS testing, including automated electrical probing, optical test, and SEM characterization.
APPLICATION: Visit http://nuvotronics.com/career.php for details. Email, fax, or mail your cover letter, resume and application to: Nuvotronics, LLC; Attn: Human Resources, 3155 State Street, Blacksburg, VA 24060 Fax540-553-3717 e-mail: kyouker@nuvotronics.com

The Center for the Environment and the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship announce the 2008-09 Purdue University Student Environmental & Social Entrepreneurship Idea-to-Product ®Competition: Solve and prevent environmental and social problems through innovation and entrepreneurship. $10,000 in prizes to be awarded. Submit your team’s intent to participate by December 1, 2008 (notify us of interest by October 31 appreciated). Local Competition to be held at Purdue on March 7, 2009; National Competition to be hosted at Purdue April 4-5, 2009. For information about participating visit the Environmental competition Website: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/environment/I2P/. Contact Brent Ladd, laddb@purdue.edu with questions. For more information about the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative or the National Competition: http://innovate.ecn.purdue.edu. Contact Nancy Clement, nic@purdue.edu, with questions.

HOLD THE DATE: Friday, 11.21.08, Pfendler Hall Gallery, 3:00-5:00PM: PCCRC Fall Poster Session and Mixer. Come meet other faculty and students with research interests in climate change. As we have limited space to display posters, please send an email to gbauer@purdue.edu if you would like to reserve a spot.

Industrial Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Nanofabrication and Nanotechnology, PicoCal; Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan; Phone: 734-913-2608; Fax: 734-372-6318.

Overview: A Postdoc position is available in December 2008/January 2009 to develop MEMS probes for AFM/SPM, bio and other applications including some very exciting applications in nanotech. Research in collaboration with major universities including University of Michigan and Michigan State. Opportunities for publications. Possibility to serve as a PI on government grants. Founders are professors at major universities.

Requirements: Candidate must have prior microfab expertise. Work will be conducted primarily in cleanroom of the U. of Mich. Microfab. Process development and characterization skills, ability to communicate well, write proposals and reports, work independently, circuit design and testing, design and execution of experiments are essential. Prior experience with SPM tools, labview, working at the U of M clean-room, PhD in Electrical Engineering highly desirable. Minimum 2-year commitment.

Responsibilities: Mirofabrication, experimental set-up, product testing, AFM/SPM operation, labview programming, product quality control, publication writing, proposal grant writing, possibility for grant management.

Application: Send resume and contact information of 3 references to angelo@picocal.com

Requirements: B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering or similar discipline with a proven track record of MEMS process development and project management for at least five years. An excellent knowledge of MEMS processes, and sensor design and performance. A willingness to roll up your sleeves and an enthusiasm for your chosen work. The desire to play a leadership role in a small team of engineers dedicated to the goal of advancing the future of fluid sensor technology.

Responsibilities: Design and conduct experiments for process development and improvement. Develop processes and implement tooling and equipment for scaling up production. Maintain accurate documentation of experiments and processes. Plan and coordinate product/process transfer from an R&D lab to a MEMS foundry. Work with and in support of our Senior Process Engineer.

Application: If you are qualified for the requirements stated above, please send your resume and salary requirements to hr@rheosense.com. Competitive salary and benefits are offered.

Requirements: Minimum MS degree in Biomedical Engineering, EE, ME, Electro-mechanical engineering or Physics; PhD preferred. 0-5 yrs engineering experience developing scientific measurement equipment, preferably involving fluid flow in microfluidic and microcapillary components; silicon & glass MEMS components. Working knowledge of mechanical design CAD software, such as AutoCAD; working knowledge of electrical CAD software, such as PCAD. Maintain accurate and detailed documentation throughout all phases of research and development. Ability to perform multiple tasks efficiently and under self-direction; be able to prioritize tasks based on company requirements. Excellent language and technical writing skills in English. Computer literate: skilled with word processor, spreadsheet and e-mail software. Ability to work closely with other staff within a team environment.

Special requirements: Must be able to sit/stand 8 hours per day. Bend/stoop/reach on a regular basis during the work day.

Contact: ctull@theracellinc.com

We’re excited to remind you of a new ethics and science opportunity this year: the Ethics and Science seminar series. These small informal lunch-time seminars are an excellent opportunity for students to engage in dialogue with our distinguished guests. This will be available on our website at www.purdue.edu/bioethics

More information is available on our website at www.purdue.edu/bioethics

BIO: Mehdi M. Yazdanpanah is a Research Faculty Scientist at the University of Louisville (UofL) where his current research is devoted to developing applications of the selectively nanostructured alloys for probing and nanomanipulation of soft materials and live single cells. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering with honors from UofL (2006), where he studied directed self-assembly of nanostructures via Ga-M reactions. He also holds the B.S. degree in Physics from Sharif University of Technology (1998) and the M.S. degree in Physics from the Beheshti University, Iran (2001), where he designed and built a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Recently, he founded NaugaNeedles LLC where he is developing commercial products and applications of the selectively grown Ga-M nanostructures.

HOST: Ron Reifenberger/Laura Biederman (66494, rr@physics.purdue.edu)

• Explore the effect of the information technology age on the consumer
• Discover opportunities for collaboration on issues concerning technology and its influence on the service economy
• Keynote Speaker: A. “Parsu” Parasuraman, School of Business, University of Miami: “Technology Readiness and Its Implications for Technology-based Customer Service”
• Faculty Presenters: Randy Woodson, Provost; Richard Buckius, Vice President for Research’ Shannon Amberg, College of Agriculture; Richard Feinberg, College of Consumer and Family Sciences; Athula Kulatunga, College of Technology; Joseph Pekny, Department of Chemical Engineering; Gene Spafford, CERIAS
• Poster Session: Graduate students are invited to present research related to consumers and technology. Prizes awarded. Contact mailto:wailor@purdue.edu to register for the poster session.
• Registration required by October 6; There is NO CHARGE to attend the symposium. Lunch is included.
• For information and to register, visit: www.conf.purdue.edu/CTS

CALL FOR PAPERS, INVITED SESSIONS & EXPO: CSIE 2009 conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and all papers in the proceedings will be included in EI Compendex, ISTP, and IEEE Xplore. CSIE 2009 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances and new techniques in computer science and information engineering. CSIE 2009 consists of the following Technical Symposiums: Communications & Mobile Computing Symposium; Computer Applications Symposium; Computer Design & VLSI Symposium; Data Mining & Data Engineering Symposium; Intelligent Systems Symposium; Multimedia & Signal Processing Symposium; Software Engineering Symposium

Invited sessions offer focused discussions on specialized topics. A prospective invited session organizer should send a proposal, including a session title, a short synopsis, bio-sketch of the organizer with a publication list, to the appropriate Symposium Chair (visit the conference website for more details). In addition to research papers, CSIE 2009 also seeks exhibitions of modern products and equipment for computer science and information engineering.

Important Dates: Paper/Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30, 2008; Review Notification: November 15, 2008; Final Papers and Author Registration Deadline: December 7, 2008

Organizing Committee: General Chair: Adrian Martin, World Research Institutes, USA; Program Chair: Mark Burgin, University of California at Los Angeles, USA; Symposium Chairs: Masud H Chowdhury, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; Chan H. Ham, University of Central Florida, USA; Simone Ludwig, University of Saskatchewan, Canada; Weilian Su, Naval Postgraduate School, USA; Sumanth Yenduri, University of Southern Mississippi, USA. Publicity Chairs: Nitin Upadhyay, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), India; and David C. Wong, US Environmental Protection Agency, USA.

Monday, 09.29.08, 10:45AM: Patrick Wang, with Tim Sands

PURDUE ENERGY CLUB CALL-OUT: Tuesdy, 09.23.08, 7:00PM, Rawls 1071. Club is looking for people who are passionate about solving the world’s most complex energy challenges! Open to all students, faculty, and staff.

ABSTRACT: The advent of ionization methods that enable the formation of ions derived from large bio-molecules has revolutionized the practice of analytical mass spectrometry, which is making key contributions to modern molecular biology research. This lecture relates these developments with particular emphasis on ion/ion reactions involving multiply charged ions, a class of chemical reactions being pioneered at Purdue.

The flaviviruses are an important group of human pathogens that are found worldwide. They include members such as hepatitis C virus, yellow fever virus, West Nile virus, and dengue virus. This talk will present an overview of the dengue virus life cycle and describe increases in understanding this important human pathogen and developing new intervention strategies.

ABSTRACT: In this talk, first I will give an overview of the programs within the CMMI division at the NSF and describe the goals and opportunities within the control systems program. Second, I will present some recent research on the currently active topic of multi-agent formation control. Considered is a class of distributed control problems that is dominated by task coupling, dynamic constraints and actuator limitations. A geometric formulation of the associated constraints provides a unifying framework for a number of formation control problems including electronic attack, rigid formation keeping, and formation reconfiguration. The proposed framework advocates a shift in paradigm from the traditional TPBVP (Two-point Boundary Value Problem) formulation to a sub-optimal approach that leads to effective, real time control algorithms. In particular, it lends itself to simultaneous on-line, real time, trajectory synthesis and tracking with guarantees of dynamic feasibility, scalability and reduced computational complexity.

BRIEF BIO: Suhada Jayasuriya received his PhD from Wayne State University in 1982. He served on the faculty of Michigan State University until 1987 and has been with Texas A&M University since then. Dr. Jayasuriya was elected Fellow of ASME in 1994, received the Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award of ASME in 1997, and the Outstanding Investigator Award of ASME’s Dynamic Systems and Control Division in 2002. He has held the Kotzebue endowed professorship since 1994. Dr. Jayasuriya served as Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TAMU from 1997-2001, recruiting twelve new faculty members. He has served as General Chair of 2005 American Control Conference, Chairman of ASME’s Dynamic Systems and Control Division (2002-2003), and is the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control. Dr. Jayasuriya is currently serving as Director of the Control Systems Program in the CMMI Division of the National Science Foundation. His research interests have included frequency domain robust control synthesis, vibration and flow control, nano-precision motion control, cooperative control and sensor networks.

• Explore the effect of the information technology age on the consumer
• Discover opportunities for collaboration on issues concerning technology and its influence on the service economy
• Keynote Speaker: A. “Parsu” Parasuraman, School of Business, University of Miami: “Technology Readiness and Its Implications for Technology-based Customer Service”
• Faculty Presenters: Randy Woodson, Provost; Richard Buckius, Vice President for Research’ Shannon Amberg, College of Agriculture; Richard Feinberg, College of Consumer and Family Sciences; Athula Kulatunga, College of Technology; Joseph Pekny, Department of Chemical Engineering; Gene Spafford, CERIAS
• Poster Session: Graduate students are invited to present research related to consumers and technology. Prizes awarded. Contact wailor@purdue.edu to register for the poster session. Cfr. Attachments to this memo for additional information.
• Registration required by October 6; There is NO CHARGE to attend the symposium. Lunch is included.
• For information and to register, visit: www.conf.purdue.edu/CTS

The purpose of the Boot Camp is to educate Purdue faculty, staff, and students about company formation and, in particular, the venture capital world from the Silicon Valley perspective. Michael Birck, Founder of Tellabs and a Purdue Trustee will provide the keynote address over lunch on day 1. If you would be interested in learning more about this event or would like to register, please visit the website at: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/bdm/bootcamp/

Thursday, 09.18.08, 1:30: Crane executives, with Tim Sands.

Thursday, 09.18.08, 2:25: Purdue Cooperative Extension Service – Galaxy III Conference participants.

Friday, 09.19.08, 1:30: James J. Allen, PRISM Center presenter.

ABSTRACT: A recent study will be presented that describes the sound radiated from a simple, low-speed rotor. The sound is generated by dipole-like forces that result from the unsteady interaction between the rotating blades and the approach turbulence. A new theoretical formulation will be derived in order to show that the unsteady force spectra, and hence the radiated sound, can be predicted accurately if one properly accounts for the strong anisotropic nature of turbulence in the rotor duct.

BIO: Dr Scott Morris completed a BSME, MSME, MS - App. Math, and Ph.D, all at Michigan State University. He became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in 2002, and promoted to Associate Professor in 2008. He was a Faculty Fellow of the Office of Naval Research in 2003, and received the Young Investigator Award from ONR in 2004. He is director of both the turbomachinery research laboratory, and the experimental acoustic research laboratory at Notre Dame.

Special Operations Weaponry (Small Arms and Weapons); Gerald Carroll, Surface Ship Electronic Warfare Systems and Decoys; Darren Crum, Anti-Tamper Implementation (**Restricted to U.S. Citizens only due to the sensitivity of the topic). This is a great opportunity to hear about Crane’s activities and to learn about their needs, which could lead to research collaborations. Tentative Agenda: 8:00, Continental breakfast; 8:30, Introductions; 8:40, Jerry Carroll; 9:10, Dusty Wilson; 9:40, Trent Frady; 10:10, Break; 10:30, Chuck Zeller; 11:00, Darren Crum (**Restricted to U.S. Citizens only due to the sensitivity of the topic); 11:45-2:00, Boxed Lunch provided, Individual breakout sessions, Technical discussions.
If you have questions about the content of the meeting, please contact Cliff Wojtalewicz at wojtalew@purdue.edu or 496-2719.

BIO: James J. Allen worked as a graduate student at Herrick Laboratory receiving his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1981; he is a registered professional engineer in the state of New Mexico. Jim has been at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM since 1985 and has worked in MEMS technology for 13 years where he is currently a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the MEMS Device Technology department. He has published a number of papers in the areas of MEMS, dynamics and controls over his career. Dr. Allen holds 12 MEMS device patents, with 3 additional patents pending. He has recently published a book by CRC Press on MEMS design: Micro Electro Mechanical System Design, as well as contributed 2 book chapters on MEMS technology in other books. Dr. Allen was the chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) MEMS division 2006-2007 and is a Fellow of ASME.
For further information please contact Prof. Alina Alexeenko at: alexeenk@purdue.edu

The 6th Annual Garnet E. Peck Symposium, “Counterfeit Medicines: Current Approaches and Research Opportunities,” will be held at the Stewart Center on the afternoon of Thursday, October 23, 2008. At the end of the symposium Dean Svensson will announce a RFP to provide seed funding for innovative projects addressing this important topic. No charge; but please register. The symposium is funded by an educational grant from Eli Lilly and Company. Additional information: http://www.ipph.purdue.edu/peck/, which includes a link to the CEC registration website. Additional information, contact: Mary Ellen Hurt, Manager of Operations, Dept of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, 4-6788; mhurt@purdue.edu.

The problem of counterfeit medications continues to threaten patient safety and the economic viability of drug development. Innovative methods to detect counterfeit medications and to prevent them from entering into the distribution system for pharmaceuticals are needed in order to assure the integrity of our medication supply. We believe that the academic environment at institutions such as Purdue University provides an opportunity to develop interdisciplinary approaches to the problem of counterfeit medications. To stimulate interest in the academic community and to identify research opportunities, we are pleased to host this special symposium, which is generously sponsored through an educational grant from Eli Lilly and Company. The objective of the symposium is to provide an overview of the key issues surrounding counterfeit medications and to identify research opportunities. We have assembled a team of experts in the field who will discuss current and emerging technology, as well as opportunities for future innovation.

Postdoctoral Position in Experimental Nanophysics and Devices of Graphene

A full-time postdoctoral research position in the area of experimental nanophysics and devices is available immediately in Prof. Yong P. Chen's group, Quantum Matter and Devices Laboratory (www.physics.purdue.edu/quantum) affiliated with Birck Nanotechnology Center (www.nano.purdue.edu) and Department of Physics (www.physics.purdue.edu) at Purdue University.

Research for this postdoctoral position focuses on experimental studies on graphene (2D carbon), a novel material that holds enormous potential for both new physics involving "relativistic" quasiparticles in condensed matter systems and for applications in nanoelectronics or nanosensors. More detailed descriptions on available research projects can be found in www.physics.purdue.edu/quantum/research#graphene

The successful candidate will work closely with the PI in leading research projects and teams consisting of graduate and undergraduate students. Research projets will utilize the state-of-the-art facilities available at the Birck Nanotechnology Center (http://www.purdue.edu/dp/Nanotechnology/facilities/equipment-list.php). There will also be opportunities to collaborate with other faculty and staff in various departments in the colleges of science and engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center in a multi-disciplinary environment. The position is partially funded by both National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), a consortium of major semiconductor companies. Appointment will be initially made for one year and can be renewed for up to two more years. Career development assistance will be provided.

Requirements:
Recent/upcoming PhDs in experimental science or engineering with good background in solid state physics, devices or material science, and strong experimental skills in nano-fabrication including e-beam lithography.

Interested candidates should send a CV listing publications, research experiences, skills and interests, and contact information for 3 referees to yongchen@purdue.edu. Applications are reviewed as received till the position is filled. The starting date for this position can be Fall 2008 or Spring 2009.

Purdue University is an equal-opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and under-represented minorities. H-1 or J-1 visa options are available for international applicants.

FREE Vacuum Training Seminars offered by Varian Inc. on Sept. 16-17. Standard High and Ultra High Vacuum Seminar offered on Sept. 16 from 5:30-9:30pm and Advanced High and Ultra High Vacuum Seminar offered on Sept. 17 from 5:30-9:30pm. Registrants of advanced seminar are recommended to also attend the standard seminar. Seminars will be in room 1001 (NOT BIRCK) in the Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering (MJIS). Free dinner (pizza or sandwiches) will be provided. Contact Jeremy Schroeder (jlschroe@purdue.edu) to register.

Monday, 09.08.08, 11:30: Audible Acoustics Symposium (BME, Purdue), with Matias Zanartu.

Wednesday, 09.10.08, 11:20: N. Clay Robbins, President; Sara B. Cobb, Vice President, Education; Lilly Endowment, with Tim Fisher, Kyle Smith, Aalap Dighe, Babak Ziaie, and Teimour Maleki.

Thursday, 09.11.08, 3:30: Agriculture 101 class visit and tour, with Lesley Oliver.

BRIEF BIO: Dennis Hong is an Assistant Professor and the Director of RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory) of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. His research expertise lies in the area of novel robot locomotion mechanisms, design and analysis of mechanical systems, kinematics, and dynamics. He was the inventor of ‘whole skin locomotion’ for mobile robots inspired by amoeboid motility mechanisms, and pioneered in generating and utilizing everting motion for locomotion in soft body robots. His work on this area was awarded with the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2007, the Best Paper Award at the 13th International Conference on Advanced Robotics in 2007, and the Biomimicry Award at the 29th ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference in 2005. He also won the Outstanding Assistant Professor award at the College of Engineering in 2007 and the ASPIRES Award in 2004 at Virginia Tech, the ASME Freudenstein/GM Young Investigator Award in 2005, and was selected as a NASA Summer Faculty Fellow at JPL in 2005. Dr. Hong is also the faculty advisor for Virginia Tech’s team for RoboCup, and the co-team leader for team VictorTango for the DARPA Urban Challenge where they won third place and the $500,000 prize. Dr. Hong received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1994), his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University (1999, 2002). Dr. Hong also has a number of patents for novel robot locomotion mechanisms and devices for medical applications.

Online registration will be available at the Graduate School’s Professional Development website (http://www.gradschool.purdue.edu/development/). Questions should be directed to Peter Dunn (46840; pedunn@purdue.edu).

Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition Callout: The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and Krannert School of Management are pleased to announce the 22nd annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition. The competition is open to graduate and undergraduate students of Purdue University. The Center invites interested students with a business idea to enter and to attend a callout on: September 9, 2008 or September 10, 2008, MRGN 121, 6:00-7:00PM. Questions will be answered and the registration process will be discussed. Students from all academic disciplines are encouraged to enter. Total Prize package to be awarded to Purdue students is $100,000. For additional Information, contact Jackie Lanter, lanter@purdue.edu, 4-6400.

Register now! Proposal Writing Workshop for Graduate Students: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 7–8:30PM, STEW 214ABC. Peter E. Dunn, associate vice president for research and director of University research administration, will conduct the workshop. Online registration will be available at the Graduate School’s Professional Development website (http://www.gradschool.purdue.edu/development/). Questions should be directed to Peter Dunn (46840; pedunn@purdue.edu).

Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition Callout: The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and Krannert School of Management are pleased to announce the 22nd annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition. The competition is open to graduate and undergraduate students of Purdue University. The Center invites interested students with a business idea to enter and to attend a callout on: September 9, 2008 or September 10, 2008, MRGN 121, 6:00-7:00PM. Questions will be answered and the registration process will be discussed. Students from all academic disciplines are encouraged to enter. Total Prize package to be awarded to Purdue students is $100,000. For additional Information, contact Jackie Lanter, lanter@purdue.edu, 4-6400.

NEW SECRETARIAL ASSIGNMENTS ANNOUNCED:
NANCY BLACK, BRK 2287, 48675, nlblack@purdue.edu
Faculty and Student support: Capano, Cooper, Datta, and Shalaev.
Staff Support: Coy, Gardner, Grau, Hosler, Jurss, Kuhn, Lubelski, Mahmood, Miller, Reece, Reger, Rowe, Schwartz, Sharifi, Totten, Voorhis, Weaver, and Young.
Secretarial back-up.

ANNIE CHEEVER, Birck skywalk atrium, 68327, acheever@purdue.edu
Faculty and Student Support: Alam, Bergstrom, Chappell, Chen, Clark, Fisher, Irudayaraj, Janes, Leary, Mohammadi, Narimanov, Peroulis, Ribbe, Savran, Wei, Wereley, Xu, Yang, Ye, and Ziaie.
Secretarial back-up.

MELISSA MARRIS, Birck atrium, 47053, lanem@purdue.edu
Faculty and Student Support: Appenzeller, Bashir, Chang, Garimella, Kais, Lee, Lyanda-Geller, McNally, Moon, Qi, Raman, Rao, Reifenberger, Rokhinson, Schwartz, Stach, and Woodall.
Staff Support: Drachev, Goecker, Starewich, Zakharov, and Zemlyanov.
Secretarial back-up.

Tuesday, 08.19.08, 2:45-3:45PM: Hoosier Oncology Group/Advocates, with Charles Buck.

Wednesday, 08.20.08, 4:45-5:30PM: Raytheon, with Charles Buck.

Register now! Proposal Writing Workshop for Graduate Students: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 7–8:30PM, STEW 214ABC. Peter E. Dunn, associate vice president for research and director of University research administration, will conduct the workshop. Online registration will be available at the Graduate School’s Professional Development website (http://www.gradschool.purdue.edu/development/). Questions should be directed to Peter Dunn (46840; pedunn@purdue.edu).

per Christine King: Following our July 3 solicitation for internal proposals for the limited submission NSF Science and Technology Centers (STC) competition, we received six letters of intent, with all of the submitters identifying Purdue as the lead institution. As we may submit three preproposals to NSF as lead institution, and may be included in an additional two preproposals as a subcontractor, this e-mail serves as an opportunity for those wishing to participate with another institution, with Purdue as a subcontractor, to participate in the limited submission process. For those hoping to participate as a subcontractor on another institution’s STC proposal, the internal deadlines are as follow: Monday, August 4: Letters of Intent due to the OVPR; Monday, August 18: Preproposals due to the OVPR. Please note: Letters of intent should be e-mailed to OVPRlimited@purdue.edu. Purdue's limited submission policy, the link to the RFP for this competition, the generic template for letters of intent, and the template for STC preproposals, may be found at http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi . One additional requirement for this competition is that the lead institution for the proposed project be identified on the template. Should the number of internal letters of intent received be no more than two, the OVPR will notify the PI(s) that an internal preproposal will be unnecessary.

ABSTRACT: The Network for Computational Nanotechnology is supported by the National Science Foundation, Indiana 21st Century Fund, and ARO. It has a vision to pioneer the development of nanotechnology from science to manufacturing through innovative theory, exploratory simulation, and novel cyberinfrastructure. Transistor scaling has pushed channel lengths to the nanometer regime, and advances in nanoscience are opening up many new possibilities for devices. To realize these opportunities, our traditional understanding of electronic devices needs to be complemented with a new perspective that begins from the nanoscale. My objectives in this talk are: 1) to describe a way of understanding MOSFETs that is much more suitable than traditional approaches when the channel lengths are of nanoscale dimensions, and 2) to introduce the “bottom up” approach, a way of understanding nanoscale electronics very generally. This talk will provide a starting point for those interested in exploring the electronics from the bottom up approach through the resources of nanoHUB.org. For more information, see: http://www.nanohub.org/resources/5067.
BIO: Prof. Lundstrom earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the Univ. of Minnesota in 1973 and 1974, respectively. He joined the Purdue faculty upon completing his doctorate on the West Lafayette campus in 1980. He is currently the Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Founding Director of NSF Network for Computational Nanotechnology. Lundstrom’s current research interests center on the physics and limits of small electronic devices, especially nanoscale transistors, on carrier transport in semiconductor devices and on numerical methods for device simulation.

Tuesday and Wednesday, August 5 and 6, Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN: “Nanotechnology & the Environment.” Agenda posted at http://www.conf.purdue.edu/nano

MARK YOU CALENDARS NOW . . . Friday, September 12, 2008, 3:30PM, Fowler Hall: “The Roles of Short RNAs in Cancer and Biology,” by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Nobel Laureate and Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

BIO: Phillip A. Sharp is Institute Professor at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research (formerly the Center for Cancer Research) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993 for his landmark work on the molecular biology of gene expression relevant to cancer and the mechanisms of RNA splicing. His lab has now turned its attention to understanding how RNA molecules act as switches to turn genes on and off (RNA interference). These newly discovered processes have revolutionized cell biology and could potentially generate a new class of therapeutics. Dr. Sharp’s work has earned him numerous cancer research awards and presidential and national scientific board appointments. He is elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He is also the recipient of the National Medal of Science. Dr. Sharp earned a B.A. degree from Union College, KY, and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Illinois. He is the cofounder of Biogen (now Biogen Idec) and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and serves on the boards of both companies.

Thursday, 08.07.08, 11:00AM: DuPont guests, with Ron Turco

Friday, 08.08.08, 1:00PM: Richard Carron and wife, ECE Alumnus

Birck gets waxed J: Please have all articles picked up off the floor on the evening prior to the waxing date. Thanks!
Monday, 08.04.08: BRK 2092, 2088.
Tuesday, 08.05.08: BRK 2084; 2080.
Thursday, 08.07.08: BRK 2218, 2222.
Friday, 08.08.08: BRK 2076, 2072.

Monday, 08.11.08: BRK 2226, 2230.
Thursday, 08.14.08: BRK 2234, 2238.
Friday, 08.15.08: BRK 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025, 2020.

Monday, 08.18.08: BRK 2050, 2048, 2046, 2044.
Tuesday, 08.19.08: BRK 2042, 2040, 2038.
Wednesday, 08.20.08: BRK 2262, 2264, 2266, 2268.
Thursday, 08.21.08: BRK 2270, 2272, 2274, 2276.
Friday, 08.22.08: BRK 2295, 2293, 2291, 2289.

ICMR-ICMS Winter School in Bangalore, India; Location: Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India; Dates: December 7–13, 2008. The International Center for Materials Research (ICMR) is pleased to announce a residential, one week Winter School on New Carbon Materials and Functional Oxides, a partnership between the ICMR and the ICMS, JNCASR. The winter school will take place from December 7 to December 13, 2008 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India. The aim of this school is to bring young researchers and scientists together to enable them to learn and to discuss the science of complex organic and inorganic materials with focus on new carbon materials and functional oxides. Travel fellowships are available and local hospitality will be provided. Please visit the following website for further details. http://www.icmr.ucsb.edu/programs/winterschool2008.html. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jennifer Ybarra (Ybarra@icmr.ucsb.edu).
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION IS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST.

ABSTRACT: Thanks to the breakthroughs in the micro fabrication technology, numerous concepts of micro mobile systems including micro aerial vehicle, nano satellite and micro robot have been proposed. In order to activate these mobile systems, power sources that can deliver energy density far higher than that of the secondary batteries are required. I would like to review alternative ways to generate power and discuss the technical problems involved in each of the concepts; fuel cells, micro heat engines and thermo-electric generation. The research at KAIST in hydrogen generation by methanol re-forming and catalytic hydrolysis of chemical hydride will be explained in detail. Construction of PEM fuel cell with hydrogen generated from chemical hydrides will be described. To demonstrate this concept, a small UAV powered by the above-mentioned fuel cell was built and test-flight was successfully carried out. Problems with conventional combustion in a micro combustor will be discussed and ways to avoid these by catalytic combustion will be presented. Phenomenological difficulties of a micro heat engine based on combustion will be discussed. Catalytic decomposition of monopropellant can be used as an alter-native heat source that is transformed into power generation by turbines and thermovoltaic devices.
BIO: Professor Sejin Kwon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). No additional information.

Tuesday and Wednesday, August 5 and 6, Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN: “Nanotechnology & the Environment.” Agenda posted at http://www.conf.purdue.edu/nano

Tuesday, 07.29.08, 9:15-10:30AM: Qatar University, with Pankaj Sharma. Tour to begin in Morgan.

Wednesday, 07.30.08, 9:30-10:30AM: Burgett’s Child Care.

Wednesday, 07.30.08, 2:00-3:00PM: PRF Entrepreneurship Academy high-school camp, with Charles Buck, Chris Foster, and Candiss Vibbert.

Thursday, 07.31.08, 1:00-2:00PM: Duke Energy Visit.

The staff are in the process of installing equipment interlocks for the Coral system. These interlocks will prevent the equipment from functioning unless the user has enabled them in Coral. These interlocks are important from both a safety and fair-use standpoint. Any attempt to alter, tamper with, or otherwise defeat these interlocks will be cause for disciplinary action. Coral uptime is greater than 95%. If a situation occurs where you cannot operate the equipment due to Coral or the equipment interlock, please contact the staff member responsible for that equipment immediately. Do not under any circumstances, attempt to defeat the interlock. Instructions for Coral account creation and authorization can be found at: http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/coral.php

Need to use a computer in 2092? Computers are available to do masking and modeling. In addition, the “old” cleanroom AFM computer is here so that students may analyze images outside of the cleanroom. E-mail dpsite@ecn.purdue.edu and request that your home directory be copied to the BRK 2092 Sun stations.

Refrigerator in the Birck kitchen is scheduled to be cleaned on Thursday, 07.31.08. Please remove any items that you don’t want discarded. Items marked with name and dated after 07.25.08 will be saved.

Birck gets waxed J: Please have all articles picked up off the floor on the evening prior to the waxing date. Thanks!
Monday, 08.04.08: BRK 2092, 2088.
Tuesday, 08.05.08: BRK 2084; 2080.
Thursday, 08.07.08: BRK 2218, 2222.
Friday, 08.08.08: BRK 2076, 2072.

Monday, 08.11.08: BRK 2226, 2230.
Thursday, 08.14.08: BRK 2234, 2238.
Friday, 08.15.08: BRK 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025, 2020.

Monday, 08.18.08: BRK 2050, 2048, 2046, 2044.
Tuesday, 08.19.08: BRK 2042, 2040, 2038.
Wednesday, 08.20.08: BRK 2262, 2264, 2266, 2268.
Thursday, 08.21.08: BRK 2270, 2272, 2274, 2276.
Friday, 08.22.08: BRK 2295, 2293, 2291, 2289.

Video Conferencing Unit in BRK 2001 now appears on the RAT system. If you need to reserve this unit, please pick up the remotes from Annie Cheever and return them to her when you are done. Here are instructions on using the video polycom unit: IP Address: 128.46.221.190 (for your video conference participants); 3 remotes needed: Projector Remote, Polycom Camera Remote (pick up from A. Cheever), and Ceiling Camera Remote (pick up from A. Cheever); 1) Place video polycom unit where you want it in the room; 2) Turn on video polycom unit; will make a outer-space like sound; 3) Turn on projector using the projector remote; 4) Select input 3 to view room; select input 1 to view powerpoint presentation; 5) Using the polycom camera remote, key in the IP address to call -- be sure to include the periods, if you are calling another video polycom unit; select the "Call-Hang Up" key (green button on top of remote); 6) to hang up: press the "Call-Hang Up" key twice. VOLUME CONTROL: use polycom camera remote; PROBLEMS? try restarting the unit; call Joe Cychosz at 4-5944. For an audio connection, use the telephone polycom unit, too.

The Postdoctoral Office at Argonne National Laboratory is organizing a
Postdoctoral Research Symposium. The event will take place on September
11-12, 2008. Research papers, presented exclusively by postdoctoral
fellows, will be accepted in the following general research areas: Biology,
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Engineering, Environmental Science, Materials
Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Physics and High Energy Physics,
and Synchrotron Research. Presentations (oral and poster) are limited to
postdoctoral fellows. However, attendance to the symposium is open to senior
graduate students and faculty members. A poster session is also planned
along with a wine and cheese reception to promote networking among ANL
scientists, and academic and industrial professionals. The registration fee
is $95 and includes continental breakfast (both days), lunch (both days),
and the wine and cheese reception that will be held on Thursday evening,
September 11, 2008. All Symposium presenters and attendees are required to
pre-register. Registration information is available online at
http://www.dep.anl.gov/postdocs/symposium

HOLD THE DATE/REGISTER EARLY, IF POSSIBLE: Friday, September 26,
11:30AM, MRGN 121: "Indiana's Public Health Priorities," Judith A. Monroe,
State Health Commissioner. Registration is required for box lunch. RSVP
rche@purdue.edu.

Indiana is facing many public health challenges ranging from natural
disasters to an increasing burden of chronic disease. Solutions to these
challenges require systems-thinking and "all hands on deck." Dr. Monroe will
discuss the priorities of the Indiana State Department of Health and the
research questions posed by these challenges and priorities.

Judith Monroe was appointed by Governor Mitch Daniels as the Indiana State
Health Commissioner in March 2005. She is the President-elect of the
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and a member of the
Healthiest Nation Steering Committee to build an integrated 21st century
health system that values equity. In early 2007, Dr. Monroe partnered with
Purdue and led the design and implementation of the Indiana Public Health
System Quality Improvement Project to strengthen local public health
capacity, infrastructure and system performance. Monroe received her MD
from the University of Maryland and completed her residency in Family
Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. She fulfilled a four-year National
Health Service Corps commitment in Appalachia before joining the faculty at
Indiana University and subsequently directing the Family Medicine Residency
Program and Primary Care Center at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis.

HOLD THE DATE: Thursday, 08.28.08, 6:00PM, Black Sparrow, downtown
Lafayette: New Graduate Student Orientation/Birck Happy Hour. Everyone is
invited.

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

ABSTRACT: Magnetic recording aims to achieve recording densities of „ 1012
bits/in2 in the foreseeable future. Critical dimensions of the magnetic
domains and the sensors required to detect their flux at this density will
be of the order of 15nm or less. These nanoscale dimensions present major
materials and fabrication challenges to both the magnetic materials utilized
for storing the bits, and to the sensor devices. This talk will review
ongoing efforts to achieve highly uniform nanostructured magnetic recording
materials comprising magnetic grains (islands) of ¾ 5 nm in diameter,
segregated by a secondary non-magnetic phase. Mesoscopic sensors based on
GMR and TMR based ferromagnetic materials are expected to be inadequate for
sensing magnetic domains ¾ 15 nm on account of thermal instabilities (mag
noise) and spin-torque effects. Therefore, magnetic sensor devices employing
non-ferromagnetic materials are needed. Nanoscopic semiconductor quantum
well heterostructures offer a potential solution and I will describe our
ongoing research in this area.

BIO: Ernesto Marinero received his BSc and PhD degrees in Physics from
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. His research experience
has been gained through various appointments in Europe and the USA. This
includes basic and applied research at the Max Planck Institute in
Goettingen, Germany; Stanford University and the IBM and Hitachi Research
Centers in San Jose California. His technical expertise includes Materials
Science, Semiconductor Physics, Growth of Nanostructured Materials and Thin
Films, Laser Physics and Picosecond Phenomena, Laser-Materials Processing,
Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Hydrogen Quantum Chemistry,
Optoelectronics, Characterization and Metrology, Thin Film Corrosion and
Reliability, Magnetic Materials and Magnetic Recording Technology,
Phase-Change Storage and Nanoscale Sensor Device Physics and Fabrication.
His work has been widely published in the scientific literature and utilized
in IBM's and Hitachi¹s technology products. His original research is the
subject of numerous US, Asian and European patents. Marinero is currently
at the Hitachi San Jose Research Center and his research focuses on two key
areas: 1) synthesis of new nanostructured magnetic materials that and 2)
research on electron transport of mesoscopic devices based on semiconductor
2DEG heterostructures with particular emphasis on ballistic transport and
quantum transport. He is actively involved in collaborative research
programs with academic institutions in the USA, Mexico and the UK through
joint research programs in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

ASBSTRACT: Photon detectors have many important applications, such as
inheat sensing, digital cameras, solar cells and x-ray and gamma-ray
detection. So far, the most common detectors are based on elemental
semiconductors, such as Si and Ge. However, they are by no means perfect in
tackling some of the important problems facing the modern society. For
example, thin films solar cells are not yet as economical as coal/gas fired
power generators. For homeland security applications, high energy radiation
detectors are too bulky and require cryogenic cooling. In this talk I shall
describe a joint effort between theorists and experimentalists at Berkeley
to look for new semiconductor detectors with better performance than
existing detectors. On the experimental side, combinatorial techniques are
utilized to allow for fast growth and characterization of a large library of
new semiconductors synthesized by laser ablation. On the theory front,
computational techniques are developed to allow for the prediction ofall the
properties of semiconductors relevant to photon detection. By ³all², we mean
electronic, optical, vibrational, transport, magnetic anddefect properties.
While this ambitious project is still in progress, Ishall describe some new
and interesting results we have found in the well-studied zincblende- and
wurtzite-type semiconductors. We have obtained new insights into the effects
of transition and rare-earth metal dopants, such as Cu and Gd, on the
transport and magnetic properties of the host semiconductor.

ABSTRACT: With ³multiphysics modeling² we combine methods that have
different physical content in order to obtain a more complete view of an
applied problem. In materials science this can involve methods that bridge
length and time scales; in length from atomistic to macroscopic levels
through "electrons, atoms, grains and grids"; in time from femtosecond
electron dynamics to slow processes perceived by humans. The combination can
be obtained in terms of integrated algorithms or simply by piping datasets
from one model to the other. Quantum mechanics is central in many such
combinations as the microscopic light-matter interaction requires a quantum
description. In the first part of my talk I will therefore describe some
development in the quantum description of properties, in particular
so-called response theory. Its implementation in the context of density
functional theory, see e.g. [1], that is time-depdendent density functional
theory (TDDFT), has been very successful in recent years in calculations of
molecular properties also of quite large systems. Such applications cover a
large wavelength region, from the X-ray region, over the optical and
infrared regions and to the microwave and radiofrequency regions where
electron and nuclear magnetic resonance experiments are carried out. In the
final part of my talk I will bring up some contemporary research problems
where the multiphysics concept has been applied, like; design of materials
for optical control, where the combination of quantum mechanics (QM) and
classical electrodynamics is applied [1]; the design of electro-optical
switching materials through combination of QM and classical dynamics (QM and
MD) [2]; studies of multiphoton induced light emission in quantum dots with
QM coupled to statistical mechanics [3]; solvent effects on non-linear
effects with polarizable continuum models [4], i.e. combining QM with
dielectric theory. ([1] Density-functional theory of linear and nonlinear
time-dependent molecular properties, P. Salek, O. Vahtras, T. Helgaker, and
H. Ågren, J. Chem. Phys. 117, 9630 (2002). [2] A quantum mechanical -
electrodynamical approach to nonlinear properties: A. Baev, P. Welinder, R.
Erlandsson, J. Henriksson, P. Norman and H. Ågren, J. of Nonlinear Optical
Physics & Materials, 16, 157 (2007). [3] Electric field poled nonlinear
optical systems, Y. Tu, Q. Zhang, and H. Ågren J. Phys. Chem. B 111, 3591
(2007). [4] Dynamics of multiple-photon optical processes in semiconductor
quantum , Y. Fu, T.-T. Han, Y. Luo, and H. Ågren, J. Phys. Condens. Matter,
18, 9071 (2006). [5] Solvation of azide at the water surface: the
Polarizable Continuum Model approach, L. Bondesson, L. Frediani, H. Ågren,
and B. Mennucci, J. Phys. Chem., 110, 11361 (2006).) For further
information, please contact Prof. Kevin Webb, School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering: 494-3373; webb@purdue.edu

ABSTRACT: Performance of optical delay lines and nonlinear devices based on
slow wave propagation in photonic crystal waveguides in the presence of
higher order dispersion is analyzed and compared with other slow light
schemes, such as coupled resonators, media with electromagnetically-induced
transparence, surface plasmons, and optical amplifiers. It is shown that
higher order dispersion of gain and index severely limits the bit rate of
the system. Novel methods for increasing the bit rate are proposed and
analyzed. These methods range from mundane dispersion-compensation schemes
to the most elaborate methods using adiabatic changes and various parametric
processes. The conclusion is that the slow light is definitely anything but
a ³silver bullet² for most purported applications, there still might be a
practical niche for it.

BIO: Jacob B. Khurgin received MS in Optical Engineering from the Institute
of Fine Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia in 1979. Upon promptly
leaving that land in 1980, he joined the Philips Laboratories of NV Philips
in Briarcliff Manor, NY where he worked with a variable degree of success on
miniature solid-state lasers, II-VI semi-conductor lasers pumped with
E-beam, various display components, and coffee makers that do not explode.
Simultaneously, he was pursuing his graduate studies at Polytechnic
Institute of NY, where he had received his PhD in Electro-physics in January
1987. In January 1988, Dr. Khurgin joined the ECE department of Johns
Hopkins University where he is currently a Professor. His research
interests include physics of semi-conductor nanostructures, quantum devices,
semi-conductor lasers and amplifiers, nonlinear optics, optical
communications, microwave photonics, ultra-fast opto- electronics, and
others. He has authored in excess of 170 publications in technical journals
and a few book chapters. Prof. Khurgin is an OSA Fellow.

Possible seminar? Please contact me if you would be interested in
learning about “Real-time In-situ Sizing of Nanoparticle Aerosols Using
Differential Mobility Analysis.”

ABSTRACT for proposed seminar: The benefits of sizing aerosolized
submicrometer particles using differential mobility analysis have been well
documented. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has
been using this method to measure 0.1 μm Standard Reference Material (SRM)
particles for well over a decade [1]. This technique has unsurpassed
accuracy, especially for nanometer sizes and has a reported uncertainty of
approximately 1% of the particle size [2,3]. Lately, differential mobility
analysis is finding increased use in the in-situ near real-time sizing of
engineered nanoparticles synthesized by a variety of dry-synthesis
(aerosol-based) processes like diffusion flame synthesis, spray pyrolysis,
thermal plasma, microplasma synthesis, etc [3-7]. An in-situ measurement
eliminates the need for sample collection for off-line analysis thus
minimizing operator error and providing more consistent and repeatable
results. Real-time measurement permits the user to follow dynamics of
particle formation and growth in highly reacting flows, thus providing the
necessary feedback to control particle size precisely.
Scanning Mobility Particle SizerTM (SMPS) spectrometers integrate
differential mobility analysis with condensation particle counting to
provide near real-time (as fast as 1 min) size distribution of aerosolized
particles in the size range of 2.5-1000 nm. This seminar provides a brief
overview of the technologies, followed by a review of case studies in
aerosol based nanoparticle synthesis. Additionally, a discussion on sampling
challenges and remedial measures will be presented.
Offered through TSI Incorporated, 500 Cordigan Road, Shoreview MN; contact
Paul Leslie, paul.leslie@tsi.com

ABSTRACT: There is a need to destroy both military and civilian hazardous
wastes and an urgency, mandated by public concern over the traditional waste
handling methodologies, to identify safe and efficient alternative
technologies. One very effective process for the destruction of such wastes
is supercritical water oxidation (SCWO). By capitalizing on the properties
of water above its critical point, this technology provides rapid and
complete destruction of a wide variety of wastes. A major limitation to
full scale commercialization of SCWO is the corrosion of the materials of
construction of these engineering systems. In this presentation, forensic
analysis of failures in nickel-based alloy preheater tubes exposed to
methylene chloride feed solutions will be shown to provide a basis for
understanding the thermodynamic conditions under which SCWO reactors can be
operated successfully.

BIO: Ronald M. Latanision is a Corporate Vice President and Director of
Exponent’s Mechanics and Materials practice. Prior to joining Exponent, he
was the Director of The H.H. Uhlig Corrosion Laboratory in the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering at M.I.T., and held joint faculty
appointments in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, and
Nuclear Engineering. He is now an Emeritus Professor at MIT. He is a member
of the National Academy of Engineering; and a Fellow of ASM International,
NACE International, and the AAAS. From 1983–1988, Dr. Latanision was the
first holder of the Shell Distinguished Chair in Materials Science. He was
a founder of Altran Materials Engineering Corporation, established in 1992,
and led the Materials Processing Center at MIT as its Director from 1985 to
1991. In June of 2002, Dr. Latanision was appointed by President Bush to
membership on the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. Dr.
Latanision's research interests are focused largely in materials processing,
and corrosion of materials in aqueous (ambient as well as high temperature
and pressure) environments. He specializes in corrosion science and
engineering with emphasis on materials selection for contemporary and
advanced engineering systems and in failure analysis. His expertise extends
to electrochemical systems and processing technologies, ranging from fuel
cells and batteries to supercritical water power generation and waste
destruction. Specific research interests include stress corrosion cracking,
hydrogen embrittlement, water and ionic permeation through thin polymer
films, photoelectrochemistry, and aging phenomena/life prediction in
engineering materials and systems. Dr. Latanision is a member of the
International Corrosion Council and serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of
Corrosion Reviews.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 3:30, MRGN 121: “Nanobiotechnology: A
Different Perspective,” by Murali Sastry

ABSTRACT: The study of the synthesis, exotic properties, assembly/packaging
and potential commercial application of nanomaterials is an extremely
important topic of research that is expected to have far-reaching global
impact. The focus of my talk will be on an emerging branch of nanotechnology
that derives its inspiration from biology. Recognizing that some of the most
exquisite and highly functional nanomaterials are grown by biological
systems (examples include silica by diatoms and magnetic nanoparticles by
magnetotactic bacteria (1), many researchers have focused attention on
understanding how inorganic materials are made by biological systems and
attempting to replicate such processes in the lab. In my laboratory, we have
investigated the use of plant organisms such as fungi in the synthesis of
nanomaterials over a range of chemical compositions that include metals [2],
metal sulfides (3) and oxides (4). An exciting development is the use of
plant extracts in nanoparticle synthesis (5) wherein large concentrations of
gold nanotriangles have been obtained that have potential application in
cancer hyperthermia. Organisms such as fungi are not normally exposed to
metal precursor stresses that they should be capable of a broad range of
biochemical transformations to negate these stresses is useful in materials
chemistry and throws up exciting possibilities. Recently, we have also shown
that bacteria may be 'trained' to synthesize magnetite when challenged with
suitable iron complexes under aerobic conditions (6). References: [1]
Sarikaya, M. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 1999, 96, 14183; [2] Mukherjee, P
et al., Angew. Chem. 2001, 40, 3585; [3] Ahmed, A. et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc,
2002, 124, 12108; [4] Bansal et al., Adv. Mater. 2005, 17 889; Bharde et
al., Small 2006, 2 135; [5] Shankar, S.S. et al., Nature materials 2004, 3,
482; [6] Bharde et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 9326.

BIO: Dr Murali Sastry, chief scientist at the Tata Chemicals Innovation
Centre, Pune, India, has an M.Sc. in Physics and a PhD (in thin film
technology) from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
(now Chennai, 1987). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the International
Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy (1988-1991); visiting
faculty at CNRS in Orsay, France (2001-2003) and at the University of
Maryland at College Park, USA (1998-99); as well as a federation fellow at
RMIT, Melbourne (2006) and DAE professor at Central University, Hyderabad
(2006). Counted among the world's top 15 nanobiotechnologists, Dr. Sastry
has close to 25 years of research experience. A true interdisciplinary
scientist, he joined Tata Chemicals in 2005, after creating a centre for
nanotechnology at the renowned National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune.
Having authored over 300 international publications, 10 chapters in books
and 15 Indian and US patents, he has a number of national and international
awards to his credit including India's most prestigious award in science,
the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Chemistry (2003). Editor
(Nanomaterials) for the Materials Research Bulletin(Elsevier), Dr. Sastry
serves on the international advisory boards of seven leading chemistry
journals, having earlier served on advisory boards for the Department of
Biotechnology, the Department of Science and Technology, the Presidential
Nanotechnology Committee and the Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR), Government of India. Dr. Sastry's current research
interests include interfacing biologicals with inorganic nanomaterials,
understanding biological process in their nanodimensions, developing new
industrially relevant renewable materials and green processes, as well as
ethical issues in application of nanomaterials.

Friday, April 11, 2008, 10:00AM, Pfendler Hall of Agriculture:
“Building a New Planet,” Panel Discussion: Moira Gunn, Moderator; Kirk
Alter, Hugh Hillhouse, Inez Hua, Valentine Moghadam, Robin Mills Ridgway,
Paul Shepson, Jerry Shively, Panelists;
www.purdue.edu/inauguration/events.php

Friday, April 11, 2008, 10:00AM, ARMS B071: “Tiny Technologies for
Huge Impacts on Health,” Panel Discussion: Tim Sands, Moderator; John
Hertig, Joseph Irudayaraj, James Leary, Alyssa Panitch, Jenna Rickus, Masa
Rao, Panelists; www.purdue.edu/inauguration/events.php

Friday, April 11, 2008, 3:30 refreshments, 3:45 seminar, ARMS 1010:
“Synthesis, Characterization, and Performance of Nanocrystalline Diamond
Coatings for Micro End Mills,” Frank Pfefferkorn, Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison

ABSTRACT: Micro end milling is a method of creating net-shaped functional
micro parts, micro molds, and prototypes with tools ranging from 5 to 500 mm
diameter. This technology complements standard silicon-based
microfabrication processes with its ability to directly produce true 3D
structures with high accuracy, low cost, and short cycle time in most
engineering materials. However, the small flexural stiffness, strength,
hardness, and friction coefficient of the tool (usually tungsten carbide)
limit the efficiency of machining. To enable a significant increase in
productivity requires higher feedrates (mm/min) as well as longer and more
predictable tool life. One method of improving the performance of micro end
mills that is being investigated at UW-Madison will be presented: ultra-thin
nanocrystalline diamond coatings. Most micro end mills are made of tungsten
carbide (WC) with cobalt binder and have difficulty machining adhesive
metals (e.g., aluminum and copper) and very hard materials (e.g., ceramics
and high-silicon aluminum alloys). Evidence that thin diamond coatings can
dramatically enhance the performance of micrometer-scale cutting tools will
be presented. The approach for coating 300 mm diameter tungsten carbide
(WC) micro end mills using a tailored seeding method and hot filament
chemical vapor deposition (HFCVD) will be presented. This method results in
uniform, conformal, and continuous diamond coatings less than 2 mm in both
thickness and grain size with greater 90% sp3 (diamond) bonds. The
performance of the uncoated and coated tools has been evaluated by dry
machining channels in 6061-T6 aluminum. The test results demonstrate far
lower tool wear and breakage, much lower adhesion of aluminum to the tool,
and significantly lower cutting forces for the coated tools. The coatings
achieve a more predictable surface finish and enable dry machining with
little or no burr formation. The improved performance of the coated tools
is a result of the superior tribological properties of fine-grained diamond
against aluminum, specifically low friction, low adhesion, and low wear of
the film. The method of NCD coating failure, due to delamination, will be
presented and methods being investigated to mitigate it discussed.

BIO: Frank Pfefferkorn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2003.
He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in
2002 on the topic of laser-assisted machining of ceramics. Prior to his
appointment in Madison, Frank was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the
Nanoscale Thermo-Fluids Laboratory at Purdue University. The goal of
Frank’s research is to develop and apply a science-based understanding of
manufacturing processes (heat transfer, material behavior, machinability,
tribology, etc.) in order to increase performance and offer new and improved
manufacturing tools to industry. He is studying NCD-coating micro end mills
in collaboration with Robert Carpick (Penn) and Anirudha Sumant (Argonne).
He also has active projects on laser-assisted micro end milling of metals
and ceramics, laser micro polishing, laser-assisted friction stir welding,
thermal efficiency of thermally-assisted manufacturing, heat transfer in
micromechanical machining, and thermal control of friction stir welding.
Frank’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, ONR,
the State of Wisconsin, and industrial collaborators. Frank has received a
Research Initiation Award and the 2007 Kuo K. Wang Outstanding Young
Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Wednesday, April 9, 9:15AM: Dhiraj Malkani and Christopher Baldwin,
RockPort Capital Partners

Wednesday, April 9, 11:15AM: Dr. Murali Sastry

Wednesday, April 9, 3:30PM: Dave Brown, Intel, ECE guest

Thursday, April 10, 2:00PM: Mr. Dick Heron, College of Agriculture
guest

Friday, April 11, 8:30AM: Dr. John G. Gilligan, University Vice
Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies, Professor of Nuclear
Engineering, North Carolina State University; and Dr. Charles Rutledge,
Purdue University.

Friday, April 11, 2:00PM: Southwest Chicago Christian School

Friday, April 11, 2:30PM: Purdue Alumni Association guests

Saturday, April 12, all day: Springfest, Open House Tours

APRIL 7 – 11: installation will begin on the 2nd Floor West Lab Wing (Rooms
22XX). Depending on the speed of the work, a tentative schedule is set:
— Mon & Tues (04/07 - 04/08): BRK 2261, 2277, 2283, 2217
— Wed & Thurs (04/09 - 04/10): BRK 2221, 2233, 2239
If you have any issues or concerns please contract Mary Jo or Mark Voorhis

Program to include:

TIM SANDS, “The Birck Nanotechnology Center – Progress, Opportunities, and
Challenges”;
EVGENII NARIMANOV, “Metamaterials for Future Photonics”;
DONALD BERGSTROM, “Carbon Nanotubes as Nucleic Acid Carriers”;
GERHARD KLIMECK, “nanoHUB – Future Cyberinfrastructure Serving over 60,000
Users Today”;
JAYATHI MURTHY, “An Introduction to PRISM and MEMS Simulation”; and
DAVID JANES, “Thin-Film Electronics Using Nanowire Transistors.”

A POSTER REVIEW and SESSION will also be included in this year’s activities.
Visit www.nano.purdue.edu for the most
up-to-date information regarding this year’s Annual Research Review.

******PARTICIPANT RECEPTION****** 5:30, Birck Atrium, 2nd floor: PIZZA, PIZZA, PIZZA

WENSHAN CAI received one of the 2007 Chinese Government Awards for
Outstanding Students Abroad; these awards are among the highest awards to
recognize the academic achievements among Chinese students abroad. This
award was established to encourage research excellence among Chinese
overseas students across all fields of study. Each winner receives a
special certificate along with a US$5000 cash award.

When events are scheduled in the building during the evenings or weekends,
Denny Heath will hire students from the Purdue Security and Safety Patrol
(PSSP) as needed to keep an eye on the facility. There will be a charge for
this service, which runs ~$10.00/hour with a minimum charge of $30.00. If a
DP Staff Member will be acting as the guest liaison for your event and wants
to assume the responsibility for building security we would need to know
this at the time the room reservation is made. In these instances, we would
not need to hire the student patrol. All groups outside of Discovery Park
will automatically be required to use the student patrol service. When a
late reservation request is made (1-2 weeks), and a PSSP cannot be hired due
to student availability, the building doors will be locked at 6pm. It will
be the responsibility of the guest liaison to make arrangements to gain
access to the building and to open the main doors for their attendees. These
arrangements can be made through Denny Heath and/or Valerie Lawless.
These procedures are consistent with University Policy and will help us
safeguard the facility.

Reservations should be requested by e-mail to Ruth Ann Weiderhaft at weiderhaft@purdue.edu. The request should include the name of the group, date/time # of people, and room requested. When events and meetings are scheduled in the building outside of regular hours, Ruth Ann Weiderhaft will forward a request to Denny Heath and Valerie Lawless to keep the building unlocked for the meeting time. This will also be the time when patrol students will be requested as needed.

BIO: Dr. Resnik is the Bioethicist for the NIH and the NIEHS. His
extensive experience and publication record both in philosophy and in the
sciences promise this to be a very interesting talk! More information,
including Resnik's CV, is available online at www.purdue.edu/bioethics.

ABSTRACT: For nearly a century, arc welding has been the primary technique
used to join both nickel and cobalt based alloys. The advantages (excellent
corrosion resistance, increased productivity, etc.) of a deep and narrow
weld geometry with a limited heat affected zone led to the first detailed
study of laser welding of Hastelloy® and other nickel based alloys- Welding
Journal 1986. A modification of the ³Weeter Laser Weldability Test² was used
to evaluate eighteen commercially available and five experimental alloys
produced by Haynes International. The original test involves drilling a
matrix of holes of various diameters (0.343 to 0.572 mm) and depths (0.127
to 0.508 mm) in the material. Then a laser (Nd- YAG, CO2, Fiber, etc.) is
used to make spot welds in the drilled holes. A laser spot size greater than
the drilled hole diameter is selected so that the absence of metal in the
drilled hole causes the solidified spot weld to have a concave contour. By
varying the depth and width of the drilled hole the weld restraint and the
depth of the cavity resulting from the solidified spot weld changes. By
measuring the depth of the cavity at which the alloy exhibits incipient
cracking, ³Weeter index², a rating of the material¹s weldability is
obtained.
In this study a ramp (depth from 0.127 to 0.508 mm) / taper (width from
0.343 to 0.572 mm) geometry was machined into each specimen. A Fiber Laser
(IPG Photonics) was used to produce an autogeneous bead on plate weld in the
ramp/ taper region. A laser spot size, greater than the restraint area, was
used to ensure that the resulting cavity assumes a concave contour. As in
the original test procedure, the cavity depth at which the alloy exhibits
incipient cracking was measured/ recorded and used as a rating of the
material¹s weldability. We will report on the laser weldability of corrosion
resistant (Hastelloy B-3®, C-4, C-22®, C-276, C-2000®, G-3, G-30®, G-35®),
high temperature (Haynes® 25, HR-120®, HR-160®, 188, 230®, 242®, 282®, 556®,
625, Hastelloy X), and five experimental alloys which have been/ will be
used in the chemical, hygienic, aerospace, and the automotive industries. We
will compare these test results with Varestraint Testing (a technique used
to evaluate the arc weldability of materials) done on the same materials and
comment on hot cracking propensity/ mechanisms.

SHORT BIO: Dr. Henry J. White, a Registered Professional Engineer in the
State of Indiana, joined Haynes International in 2007 as Welding
Metallurgist/ Senior Staff Engineer. He has a B.S. in Metallurgical
Engineering from Polytechnic University, M.S. in Materials Science and
Engineering (Welding Metallurgy) from The University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from SUNY Stony
Brook. After completing his BS, Dr. White worked as a Metallurgical
Engineering for ABB Lummus Global where he developed/ reviewed welding
procedure specification/ procedure qualification records and selected
material of construction for Ethylene, Styrene, and Maleic Anhydride
petrochemical plants. After completing his MS, Dr. White worked for Misonix
Incorporated as a Materials Engineer where he developed welding procedures
and selected materials for ultrasonic medical instrumentation. While in
graduate school, Dr. White managed the heat treatment facilities for Skyo
Industries Inc. a mill to market torsion tool manufacturer. At Skyo
Industries Inc., Dr. White designed new materials and heat treatment
procedures to improve and maintain tool quality. Dr. White was a member of
the faculty in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stony
Brook University from 1996-2007. During this period he was an National
Science Foundation Career Awardee, Chairman of the Metro NY/ NJ Chapter of
the American Society of Materials International, Accreditation Board of
Engineering & Technology Materials Science and Engineering Program
Evaluator, and Subject Matter Expert for the National Council of Examiners
for Engineering and Surveying. He continues to participate in the later two
activities.

1:00 - 1:30 – “The Birck Nanotechnology Center – Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges,” Tim Sands

1:30 – 1:55 – “Metamaterials for Future Photonics,” Evgenii Narimanov

1:55 – 2:20 – “Carbon Nanotubes as Nucleic Acid Carriers,” Donald Bergstrom

2:20 – 2:35 – Break – poster session preview

2:35 – 3:00 – “nanoHUB – Future Cyberinfrastructure Serving over 60,000 Users Today,” Gerhard Klimeck

3:00 – 3:25 – “An Introduction to PRISM and MEMS Simulation,” Jayathi Murthy

3:25 – 3:50 – “ Thin-Film Electronics using Nanowire Transistors,” David Janes

4:00 – 5:30 – Poster Session – Best Poster Award announced at ~5PM

Everyone welcome!

Please register at:
http://www.purdue.edu/dp/Nanotechnology/research.php

VIJAY RAWAT and KALAPI BISWAS win first prize in two categories, "Best
Presentation" and "Best Poster," for their poster "Novel thermoelectric
materials and devices for waste heat harvesting" during Pugwash's third
annual Midwest Regional Conference, "Energy and the Environment: Powering
the Future Responsibility."

For $50 per person, volunteers will work up to five hours (9 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
on Saturday, April 19 and again on May 3. Potential jobs include yard work,
painting, building fences and cleaning out garages/basements. To date,
there are 100 volunteers taking part. Jobs will be filled on a first-come
basis.

This is a great opportunity for area residents to do some spring cleaning
and also help with this important project. Many students have said they are
eager to help so this fundraiser will allow them to show their support and
make a difference for this family.

To request a volunteer, simply contact Amy Noah at arnoah@purdue.edu or at
765-479-3917.

ABSTRACT: Fabrication of Nano-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (NEMS) of high
quality is nowadays extremely efficient. These NEMS will be used as sensors
and actuators in integrated systems. Their use however raises questions
about their interface (actuation, detection, read out) with external
detection and control systems. Their operation implies many fundamental
questions related to single particle effects such as Coulomb blockade, light
matter interactions such as radiation pressure, thermal effects, Casimir
forces and the coupling of nanosystems to external world (thermal
fluctuations, back action effect). Here we specifically present how the
thermal fluctuations of an oscillating cantilever can be damped using three
radically different ways: i) an electro-mechanical coupling in the presence
of a strong Johnson noise ii) an external feedback control of thermal
fluctuations. This is the cold damping. It is closely related to Maxwell's
demon iii) a cavity Fabry Perot induced photothermal pressure that can
quench the brownian vibrational fluctuations of an AFM lever. This shows how
the interplay between MEMS or NEMS external control and their coupling to a
thermal bath can lead to a wealth of effects that are nowadays extensively
studied in different areas.

Friday, 03.28.08, 3:30 refreshments; 3:45 seminar, ARMS 1010: "Getting
the Pb Out: Whisker and Hillock Growth from Sn Electrodeposits," William J.
Boettinger, Metallurgy Division, NIST.

ABSTRACT: For many years, electronic component leads made of Cu alloys were
³pretinned² with a 3 to 10 micron layer of electrodeposited tin-lead (Sn-Pb)
alloy to maintain proper solder wetting during subsequent assembly. The
worldwide electronics industry is in the process of removing Pb from their
components. When Pb is removed from the electroplated surface finishes, Sn
whiskers grow spontaneously from the surface finish. The whiskers are single
crystal filaments typically 1 µm in diameter and several mm long. Numerous
electronic failures due to shorting from whiskers have been reported,
especially in the high reliability realm of aerospace, military, and medical
device applications. This lecture will describe progress being made towards
developing a fundamental understanding of Sn whisker growth and providing
industry with information needed for mitigation strategies. See
http://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/ for general
information about the Sn whisker problem.

BIO: William J. Boettinger is a NIST Fellow in the Metallurgy Division of
the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory at NIST in Gaithersburg,
MD. He earned a B.E.S. (Mechanics) in 1968 and a Ph.D. (Metallurgy) in 1972
from The Johns Hopkins University. Before joining the permanent staff at
NIST, he was a NRC/NAE postdoctoral research associate at NIST from
1972-1974. From 1977 until 1995 he held a concurrent position as a
professorial lecturer at the George Washington University where he taught a
graduate course in phase transformations. His expertise includes the
thermodynamics and kinetics of metallurgical systems especially the
relationship of alloy microstructure to processing conditions. He has over
one hundred fifty publications on topics including dendritic, eutectic and
peritectic solidification, rapid solidification, phase diagrams, diffusion,
intermetallic compounds, measurement of crystal perfection using x-rays, and
soldering. Research with J. A. Warren on phase field modeling of
solidification was recognized in the 11 May 1995 issue of ŒNature.¹ Dr.
Boettinger was awarded the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal in 1980,
Silver Medals in 1983 and 1994, and Gold Medals in 1999 and 2003. He
received the Materials Science Division Award of the American Society for
Materials (ASM) in 1989 and was made a fellow of that society in 1994. He
co-chaired the 1994 Physical Metallurgy Gordon Research Conference with J.
H. Perepezko. He has received several honors from The Minerals, Metals and
Materials Society (TMS): the 1999 Champion Mathewson Best Paper Award, the
2001 TMS Bruce Chalmers Award for research in solidification and a Fellow in
2006. He was named a NIST Fellow in 2001, elected a member of the National
Academy of Engineering in 2006 and received the federal government¹s
Presidential Rank Award in 2007.

Thursday, 03.27.08, 2:30PM, BRK 1001: Cummins Engine

Friday, 03.28.08, 12:00PM lunch BRK Atrium, 1:00PM tour: ECE Graduate
Open House

Friday, 03.28.08, 2:00-5:00PM, BRK Atrium: Medicinal Chemistry and
Pharmacology Poster Session

To register, click on the link and log in using your career account. The
description of the course pops up and is called "Getinge Autoclave
Training." Click on "Register for this course." The registration page will
come up. Make sure your contact information is correct and click on
"Submit." You will receive a confirmation in your email for this class.
Christy Cooper will offer her training in either April or May and may be at
different times and days according to what best fits her schedule. She will
send an email at the appropriate time regarding her classes. Christy and I
have both agreed that we will try offering this course every other week for
the rest of the Spring Semester. This will help streamline our time so that
we can concentrate on our research and other responsibilities.
Contact Lisa Reece, 66786, 532.5932; lreece@purdue.edu with any questions or
concerns.

The Energy Center is hosting the 3rd Annual Hydrogen Symposium on
April 24-25, 2008. This year we are featuring speakers from U.S. Department
of Energy, DOE Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence, National
Renewable Energy Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sandia
National Laboratory, The Scripps Research Institute, Argonne National
Laboratory, Northwestern University, The University of Tennessee, Iowa State
University, The University of Alabama, Case Western Reserve University,
Praxair, Inc., 3M, General Motors, and Hydrogen Discoveries, Inc. The
symposium will address the following topics related to hydrogen: production,
distribution, storage and fuel cells, as well as topics related to research
meeting the market demands.
CALL FOR POSTERS: poster session and reception on Thursday, April 24th from
5:15PM to 6:30PM at Ross Ade Stadium. If you wish to participate, please
submit the attached application form by no later than April 7, 2008. A $100
cash prize will be awarded to the best poster as selected by our symposium
planning committee. If you need any assistance with printing, please send
email to energy@purdue.edu to make arrangements.
FREE STUDENT REGISTRATION: We are pleased to have the opportunity this year
to waive all student registration fees in order to make this conference
accessible to all interested students.
For more information, visit http://www.purdue.edu/dp/energy/2008hydrogen/.

ABSTRACT: As the semiconductor industry moves beyond the 45nm node and as
systems become more mixed signal in nature, System on Chip (SoC) solutions
are facing major barriers due to technical and business related reasons.
This is leading to the development of alternate technological solutions such
as System on Package (SoP). SoP, a technology being pioneered by Georgia
Tech, allows for integration of functions in the substrate. Higher levels of
integration are being achieved by embedding functions in the package and
merging the package and board. In this presentation aspects of RF and
digital integration will be discussed in the context of System on Package
implementation.

BIO: Madhavan Swaminathan is the Joseph M. Pettit Professor in Electronics
in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Deputy Director of
the Packaging Research Center, Georgia Tech. He is the co-founder of Jacket
Micro Devices, a company specializing in RF substrates and modules for WLAN
and WiMAX applications. He has over 300 publications in refereed journals
and conferences, 15 patents and is the author and co-author of two books
³Power Integrity Modeling and Design for Semiconductors and Systems²,
Prentice Hall, 2007 and ³Introduction to SOP², McGraw Hill, 2008. Prior to
joining Georgia Tech, he was with IBM working on the packaging for
supercomputers. Madhavan is a Fellow of IEEE and is one of the pioneers of
SOP technology at Georgia Tech.

Friday, 03.21.08, 3:30 refreshments, 3:45 seminar, ARMS 1010: "Rapid
Hydrogen Detection by Nanoscale Palladium and Quantitative Measurement of
Hydrogen Uptake Using a Quartz Crystal Microbalance," by Dr. Tao Xu,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Illinois University.

ABSTRACT: Rapid detection of low-concentration hydrogen gas leaks under
ambient temperature is crucial for the safe application of future
hydrogen-driven vehicles. In conventional palladium-based hydrogen sensors,
the decrease of the conductance of Pd upon absorption of hydrogen serves as
the sensing mechanism. We show that an opposite phenomenon occurs in a
percolating Pd nanocluster film, whose conductance increases upon its
absorption of hydrogen. The mechanism is based on the swelling of the Pd
nanoclusters, thus narrowing/closing the inter-nanocluster gaps, which
creates extra conducting pathways in the film. Further improvement is
achieved by placing a siloxane self-assembled monolayer between a substrate
and an evaporated discontinuous ultra-thin Palladium (Pd) film, which
promotes the formation of smaller Pd nanoclusters and narrower inter-cluster
gaps, and reduces the stiction between the Pd and the substrate. As a
result, the film can detect 2% H2 with a rapid response time of ~70 ms and
is sensitive to 25 ppm hydrogen. Hydrogen uptake in storage materials often
occurs at high pressure. Conventional volumetric and gravimetric methods
suffer from large sample quantity, the inevitable leak of hydrogen at high
pressure and the correction of buoyancy force, etc. We demonstrate the
application of a piezoelectric quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) for
quantitative measurement of hydrogen mass uptake in storage materials up to
40 bar. Due to the high sensitivity of the QCM (<1ng/cm2), only miniature
sample is required. The frequency shift of a quartz crystal coated with
hydrogen absorbing materials is affected by the hydrogen mass uptake on the
crystal, the pressure and the viscosity of the gases, and the crystal
surface roughness, of which the roughness contribution has no direct
analytical expression. We show that through a control experiment on the same
crystal in helium, the roughness contribution in hydrogen can be derived and
the frequency shift due to the hydrogen mass uptake can be obtained.
BIO: Dr. Tao Xu received his B.S. in Chemistry at East China University of
Science and Technology, Shanghai, China in 1991, and his PhD in chemistry at
The University of Alabama in 2003. He did a post-doc in chemistry at Texas
A&M in 2003-2004 and a post-doc in materials science at Argonne National
Laboratory in 2004-2006.

Wednesday, 03.19.08, 3:40PM, MSE 190 Class tour

Wednesday and Thursday, 03.19.08 and 03.20.08, HP visiting with Prof.
Schwartz

Thursday, 03.20.08, between 3:00 and 5:00, MSE open house tour

To register, click on the link and log in using your career account. The
description of the course pops up and is called ³Getinge Autoclave
Training.² Click on ³Register for this course.² The registration page will
come up. Make sure your contact information is correct and click on
³Submit.² You will receive a confirmation in your email for this class.
Christy Cooper will offer her training in either April or May and may be at
different times and days according to what best fits her schedule. She will
send an email at the appropriate time regarding her classes. Christy and I
have both agreed that we will try offering this course every other week for
the rest of the Spring Semester. This will help streamline our time so that
we can concentrate on our research and other responsibilities.

Contact Lisa Reece, 66786, 532.5932; lreece@purdue.edu with any questions or
concerns.

2008 Graduate Student Poster Competition Results
Behavioral Sciences
1st Place: Megan K. Macpherson
1st Place: David Vachon
Honorable Mention: Nicole L. Rheaume and Ana Paz G. Martins
Engineering Sciences
1st Place: Jianming Li
1st Place: Kalapi Biwas
Honorable Mention: Hui Ouyang and Navneet R. Singh
Life Sciences
1st Place: Timothy J. Smyser
1st Place: Kristin Hamann
Honorable Mention: Ningxia Du and Mi Zou
Physical Sciences
1st Place: Thomas Dautermann
Honorable Mention: Emre Unal

ABSTRACT: Nanocrystalline ceramics display significantly different
properties and behaviors than their microcrystalline counterparts, yet they
have been difficult to produce in bulk sizes so that some of the underlying
property-microstructure relations are not entirely clear. One technique that
has proven effective for producing high quality material with very small
grain sizes is based on the application of large current densities and
mechanical pressures to consolidate nano-powders. After an overview of the
processing method, I will discuss several nanocrystalline oxide materials
that we have been working on for structural-optical and magnetic
applications. Properties presented will include improved visible light
transmittance, altered thermal and electrical conductivity and highly
temperature dependent magnetization. The results will be discussed in terms
of crystal length scale effects, grain boundary structure differences and
proximity of nanoscale phases.

SHORT BIO: Prof. Garay received his B. S. in Mechanical Engineering (1999),
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (2002) and Ph.D. in Materials
Science and Engineering (2004) all from the University of California, Davis.
During his doctoral studies he also worked in the Physics Directorate of the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In 2004 he was appointed assistant
professor in the Bourns College of Engineering at UCR where his research
focuses on advanced material processing and synthesis. His laboratory is
equipped with state of the art material processing and testing equipment
including high vacuum chambers, a PVD system, furnaces, tensile testers,
hardness testers and a novel electric current consolidation apparatus.
Recently Prof. Garay¹s interests have been in producing nanostructured
materials with tailored properties for optical, electrical/magnetic and
structural applications. He, his students and co-workers also conduct
fundamental studies on material defects and electric current effects on
material processes. In 2005 he received the Army Research Office Young
Investigator Award (ARO-YIP) for research on nano-crystalline oxide
materials.

Thursday, 03.06.08, 10:00: Council for Manager Development

Thursday, 03.06.08, 9:45: EDPS105S Class, Div. 1

Thursday, 03.06.08, 2:15: EDPS105S Class, Div. 2

Friday, 03.07.08, 2:00: Emily Beemsterboer and father.

Monday, 02.25.08, 1:30PM: Father Jenkins, President of Notre Dame
University.

Monday, 02.25.08, 1:00-3:00: Purdue's for Me visitors ­ admitted
students and parents; please make them feel welcome.

Thursday, 02.28.08, 9:40AM: Dr. Yan Shao, faculty candidate, Chemical
Engineering.

Thursday, 02.28.08, 1:30PM: Joe Rosenberger, facilitator, Nano
Technology Focus; preliminary visit with subsequent visits to be scheduled.

Friday, 02.29.08, 4:15PM: Purdue University Life Science education
[PULSe].

In brief, the EFRC awards are expected to be in the $2­5 million range
annually for an initial 5-year period. A Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) will be issued later in FY 2008 to request applications from the
scientific community for the establishment of the initial suite of EFRCs.
It is anticipated that approximately $100 million will be available for
multiple EFRC awards starting in FY 2009. Please monitor the ERFC website
for news/updates on the FOA. In addition, we plan on putting out
web-announcements for single-PI and small group awards for the remaining
research increases (~ $60 million) as part of the core research
solicitation. Information provided by Dr. Aravinda (Arvind) M. Kini;
Director (Acting); Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering; Team
Lead, Materials Discovery, Design and Synthesis Team; Program Manager,
Biomolecular Materials; Office of Basic Energy Sciences; U. S. Department of
Energy; 301-903-3565; Fax301-903-9513; a.kini@science.doe.gov;

http://www.science.doe.gov/bes/dms/Staff_Contacts/Kini.htm

NEED A JOB? The laboratory of Dr. Eric Lagally in the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia designs and develops integrated microfluidics for molecular diagnostics, including selection and evolution of affinity reagents and detection of bacterial pathogens. A postdoctoral researcher is needed to lead efforts to develop a suite of integrated microfluidic systems for the detection of various cancers using novel electrochemical biosensors. Applicants should posses a PhD in Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field and should not be more than 3 years from the receipt of their PhD Desirable skills include electrochemical detection methods (CV, ACV), molecular biology methods, tissue culture methods, and microfabrication techniques. The anticipated start date is April 1, 2008. Review of the applications will start from February 15, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. Qualified applicants should submit their CV, copies of recent published work, and three letters of reference. Applications should be directed by mail to: Dr. Eric Lagally; Michael Smith Laboratories; The University of British Columbia; #301 – 2185 East Mall; Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4; or via email to lagally@msl.ubc.ca. Initial appointment will be for a period of one year with the opportunity for reappointment for up to two additional years. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. UBC hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. All qualified persons to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.

Raggs to Riches Fashion Show: Monday, 02.25.08, 6:00PM, Christina and Company Education Center; $5.00 admission paid in advance; $7.00 at the door. For additional information, phone 448-1811.

NIH grantsmanship opportunity 2 — Thursday, February 21, 2008, 2:30-4:00, MRGN 129: “Neuroscience Research,” by Dr. Nancy Pilotte, Chief, Functional Neuroscience Research Branch, Division of Basic Neuroscience and Behavioral Research of the National Institute on Drug Abuse; this presentation will specifically cover research opportunities in neuroscience.

NSF: A new solicitation has been released for the Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering program, which “aims at introducing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology through a variety of interdisciplinary approaches into undergraduate engineering education. The focus of this year’s competition is on nanoscale engineering education with relevance to devices and systems and/or on the societal, ethical, economic and/or environmental issues relevant to nanotechnology.” The request for proposals is available at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08544/nsf08544.htm.
For this competition, Purdue may submit one proposal as lead institution, with a second proposal allowed only if it is focused on the societal, ethical, economic and/or environmental issues relevant to nanotechnology. Internal deadlines are as follows: Monday, March 10: Letters of Intent due to the OVPR; Monday, April 7: Preproposals due to the OVPR; Thursday, April 10: 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 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.

ABSTRACT: Surface plasmon-polaritons (or plasmons) are collective excitations of the conduction electrons and the electromagnetic field on the surface of such good metals as gold and silver. Near the frequency of surface plasmon resonance, plasmons may perceive regular dielectrics as negative index metamaterials. As a result, unusual microscopy, lithography, and wave-guiding devices may be realized. Nonlinear optics of these metamaterials is also extremely interesting. I will describe recent experiments on plasmon-induced inverse Faraday effect in plasmonic metamaterials. The plasmonic control of the spins opens new interesting avenues for all-optical ultrafast control of the magnetization at a nanometer length scale.

BIO: Igor Smolyaninov is a Principal Electronic Engineer at BAE Systems. He received his PhD from the Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has published six review articles and more than 80 journal papers in various areas of nanophotonics, low temperature physics, and optical wireless communication.

ABSTRACT: Non-medical applications of Magnetic Resonance Imaging have gained increasing attention in recent years. Its non-invasive and 3-D nature makes it ideal to study moisture and water transportation in various product matrices. With our Bruker 500 MHz and 300 MHz micro- and mini-imaging spectrometers along with a Biospect 200 large bore imager, various spectroscopy-based imaging techniques were used to investigate the relationship between structural characteristics and quality of products such as French fries, coffee beans, fresh vegetables and flowers. Quantitative imaging of fluid transportation in real time allows us to extract intrinsic property parameters such as partially saturated permeability and diffusion coefficients, which are used for modeling of fluid partitioning and drying. Preliminary work on Magnetic Resonance Thermography, Flowing Imaging and Rheo NMR will also be discussed in the context of process understanding and modeling.

Tuesday, 02.19.08, 1:30-3:30: Dr. George Elvin, Director, and Ashley VanOsdol, Marketing Director, Green Technology Forum. Tour to take place at 3:30 beginning at BRK 1027A.

Thursday, 02.21.08, 4:00-5:00: University of Louisville Micro/Nano Technology Department.

Templates, graphics, logos, and pictures are stored on the "Visual/Presentation Resources" page for easy one-click downloading.

http://www.purdue.edu/dp/Nanotechnology/Resources/PPT_resources.php

Several additional resources are also available, including equipment information, ordering information, a boilerplate for the Birck facilities, a FAQ section, room reservations, and much more. Please bookmark the page when you have a chance.

http://www.purdue.edu/dp/Nanotechnology/Resources/fac_resources.php

Venue: Sheraton Hotel & Arlington Convention Center

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract Submission Due Date: March 15, 2008 (2 page abstract)

Authors notified of paper selection: April 7, 2008

Final camera ready (accepted papers) up to 4 pages: May 1, 2008

Abstract submissions begins on December 3, 2007 at this website

Call For Papers
Please contact Mike Siok (mikesiok@ieee.org) for further details regarding the conference

May 4–7, 2008
Hilton Chicago/Indian Lakes Resort
Bloomingdale, Illinois

In addition to the scores of presentations, tutorials, and working groups of interest and importance to the Design, Test, and Evaluation, Product Reliability, and Contamination Control technical communities, a significant portion of the event will center on the burgeoning new science of nanotechnology.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER, DR. E. CLAYTON TEAGUE

IEST is pleased to announce that Dr. E. Clayton Teague will give the Keynote Address at the Annual Awards and Membership Luncheon on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Dr. Teague is Director of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO), and previously served as Chief of the Manufacturing Metrology Division in the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Teague served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nanotechnology for 10 years and is currently a member of its Editorial Board. He holds a BS and an MS in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD in physics from the University of North Texas. He has authored or coauthored 70 papers, has presented 50 invited talks in the technical fields described, and jointly with colleagues, has six patents. Dr. Teague has received the Gold Medal, Silver Medal, and Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award from the Department of Commerce.

NANOTECHNOLOGY TUTORIAL AND SEMINAR

John Weaver, facilities manager of the Birck Nanotechnology Center (BNC) at Purdue University, will give a full-day tutorial on nanotechnology facility design on Monday, May 5. A seminar (technical session) on nanotechnology will take place on May 6 and will be chaired by Dr. David S. Ensor, IEST Fellow and delegate to the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to ISO Technical Committee 229 Nanotechnologies.

NANOTECHNOLOGY WORKING GROUPS

IEST is taking a leading role in addressing the needs of this important discipline through the formation of relevant Recommended Practices. The IEST Nanotechnologies Standards and Practices (S&P) Committee has defined its scope as follows: To take the lead in the development of Standards and Recommended Practices and to establish related educational efforts in the field of nanotechnology by building on the established experience and expertise of IEST membership. In addition, the Nanotechnologies S&P Committee will strive to enhance IEST participation in this field by seeking out experts outside of the IEST from business, academia and government.

IEST Working Group 200 (WG-CC200) is developing an overview document, “Nanotechnologies Overview: Planning, Design, Construction, and Operational Considerations for Facilities Engaged in Research or Production at the Nanometer Scale.” This work is well underway and should be completed and ready for publication in 2008 as a Recommended Practice/Guideline. In addition, Working Group 205 (WG-CC205), “Nanotechnology Safety: Applying Prevention through Design Principles to Nanotechnology Facilities” has recently been formed and will hold its inaugural meeting at the IEST Fall Conference with a subsequent meeting planned for ESTECH 2008. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) through its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has indicated its interest in participating in this Working Group’s activities and has submitted a Memo of Understanding (MOU) to IEST for its consideration. End users, vendors, and governmental and public participants are encouraged to attend the nanotechnology working group meetings.

BIRCK NANOTECHNOLOGY CENTER TOUR
Concluding ESTECH 2008 on Thursday, May 8, will be an optional all-day tour by motor coach departing from the Hilton Chicago/Indian Lakes Resort to the Birck Nanotechnology Center (BNC) at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

The BNC leverages advances in nanoscale science and engineering to create innovative nanotechnologies addressing societal challenges and opportunities in computing, communications, the environment, security, energy independence, and health. In turn, the BNC exploits the accelerating progress in nanotechnology utilizing the most advanced nanoscale instrumentation to pursue answers to fundamental questions in the life and physical sciences. The interplay between these two complementary arcs of inquiry fosters a stimulating interdisciplinary environment for discovery well into the 21st century. The tour is sponsored by HDR, the architectural firm that designed the BNC.

13th -14th March 2008
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hyderabad

Pharmaceutics are the major beneficiary of the Nanotechnology. Formulations, tissue engineering and tools of nanosciences are set to change the way we handle
health. The symposium hopes to foster new links and new possibilities. A half a day discussion on “Transforming Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in the 21st Century”
Participants Dr.Reddy’, Wockhardt, Satyam, Biocon etc. A poster session for students is planned.

Dates of Note:
Last day to receive the Abstracts/Posters - January 30th 2008

Registration (before 30th January)
Student Rs.1500
Corporate delegate Rs. 5000

Speaker’ List ( Tentative)
Jim Leary
Don Bergstrom
Joseph Irudayaraj
Kinam Park
Alex Wei
Thomas Talavadge
Ayssa Panitch
Steve Byrn
Craig Svenson
BD Malhotra, NPL
Yagna Raman, CECRI
George Thomas, NIIST
Murali Sastry, Tata Chemicals
Shashi Nair
NM Rao
Ch Mohan Rao
Gopal Pandey
R.Nagaraj

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ABSTRACT: Disorder is ubiquitous in solid state materials; this is especially true for organic molecular solid forms due to the inherent molecular complexity and relatively weak intermolecular potentials. Molecular complexity acts like a local random field competing against the drive toward long-range order. This competition sets up a rich display of local molecular order with examples of both random networks and random close packing. X-ray powder diffraction is in many cases an ideal tool for probing solid-state structure, providing a window through which the short-range structural relationships that exist in disordered systems can be observed. Because of the relatively featureless form of x-ray amorphous diffraction, analysis of the data in any meaningful way requires the building of computational models of the proposed molecular structure. Using total X-ray diffraction calculation, the powder pattern (or PDF) of the proposed structure can be compared to the measured data. In being able to characterize the local structure of disordered systems, the ultimate goal of this work is the prediction of the propensity toward crystallization over time (physical stability). For pharmaceutical materials physical stability represents one of the most critical physical properties relating to the usefulness of the disordered form as a solid dosage form.

BIO: Dr. Simon Bates is currently a Principal at Aptuit Consulting, focusing on the solid state and intellectual property issues relevant to the pharmaceutical community. Dr. Bates is an Applied Physicist by training with expertise in materials science and the solid state. His specific expertise is in structural characterization of the solid state using x-ray and neutron diffraction. Before moving to Aptuit Consulting, Dr. Bates held the position of Fellow at SSCI Inc and was responsible for the Computational Methods and Innovation group. In this role, he developed new technologies for solid-state characterization and materials properties prediction dealing with both crystalline and amorphous materials. A number of these technologies are subject to patent applications and have opened up new areas of characterization for pharmaceutical solids. In addition, he has served as a scientific consultant and expert witness to attorneys representing pharmaceutical companies involved in patent infringement cases. In addition to his role at Aptuit Consulting Dr. Bates is an Associate Adjunct Professor in Industrial Pharmacy at Purdue University. In 1985 He received his PhD in Applied Physics from the University of Hull for his work on Neutron Diffraction of Magnetic Rare Earth Alloys. The Neutron Diffraction Measurements were performed at the Institute Laue Langevin (Grenoble). Upon graduation, he worked as a Fellow in the Department of Physics at Edinburgh University. In this capacity, he used x-ray diffraction and neutron diffraction measurements to study phase transitions in solid state materials. From 1988 to 2003, he worked in the Analytical X-ray equipment manufacturing and sales industry. His positions as Product Manager at Philips Analytical and later at Kratos (Shimadzu), as well as Vice President of Science at Bede Scientific resulted in new business and technology development for X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence. Dr. Bates currently has over 40 international publications on diffraction analysis of solid state materials.

BIO: Dr. Kuokkala is Professor of Materials Science at the Tampere University of Technology in Tampere, Finland. He obtained his PhD in Materials Science from Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in 1984. Since then, he has held several academic positions at TUT, including Deputy Associate Professor of Materials Science, Deputy Professor of Electron Microscopy, Associate Professor of Materials Science, and Professor of Materials Science since 1998. He has also worked as an Academic Guest at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland, and as a Long Term Visiting Staff Member at the Center for Materials Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA. His current research interests are the elastic properties and ultrasonic attenuation in solids, computer applications in electron microscopy, and especially the high strain rate behavior of materials. He is currently on sabbatical leave at the Purdue University.

Monday, 02.11.08, 11:15-12:00PM: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Ewha Womans University.

Wednesday, 02.13.08, 2:00PM: Forest Products Nanotechnology Research Program

Since last July, over 1500 individuals have visited Discovery Park and many of you have been tapped for assistance. This workshop will provide you with a DVD of a video that you can use for a broad overview as well as one-page handouts and a list of key talking points for audiences with whom you would like to highlight the key characteristics of Discovery Park. We have a broad range of supplemental materials, guides to assist you in considering what areas to stress for differing audiences, a brochure about our facilities, and a website where these materials can be found. A script for tours of both Bindley and Birck have been developed with stopping points and key information on posters, so that it will be easy for everyone to host groups.

Candiss’s goal is to create a large group of FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS who are confident that they can host visitors at Discovery Park and will convey a consistent message to these guests. This workshop should be a big step toward this end.

If you cannot attend a session on the 12th, but are interested in hosting guests to Discovery Park, please send your name so that other sessions may be held.

Please RSVP to Valerie Lawless at (lawlessv@purdue.edu) and Deborah Starewich (dstarewi@purdue.edu).

Summer Teaching Opportunity—Apply now! The Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) is seeking an Instructor for Nanotechnology, a course that we are offering at a summer program for gifted adolescents on Duke University's West Campus and Texas A&M University. Staff employment dates for this position are Term 1 - June 10 - July 2 and Term 2 - July 10 - August 2. The instructor, with the help of a teaching assistant, is responsible for designing a course or using a Duke TIP syllabus to teach the course to a group of approximately 16-20 gifted students. The instructor position requires at least a year of graduate coursework and/or teaching experience with specific emphasis on nanotechnology. In addition to a competitive salary, Duke TIP also provides housing and meals for all summer staff, as needed. The course description is as follows: “Nanotechnology”: The 21st century's "industrial revolution" will be fueled by the emerging science of nanotechnology. The fields of medicine, electronics, textiles, quantum computing, and alternative energy source development are but a few of the topics that will be highlighted in this course. Presently, industries, governments, and academia are working together to develop the potential of nanoscience. What once seemed a futuristic dream has progressed to cutting edge reality. In this course, students will survey the progress and the potential of nanotechnology. This course is open to current ninth and tenth graders only.

Please visit the Duke TIP web site for complete information about our programs and the summer employment process. Below are several links that will be helpful in addressing your questions.Summer Employment Information: www.tip.duke.edu/about/employment (job descriptions, salary information, application materials); Summer Program Information: www.tip.duke.edu/summer_programs (course offerings, site information)

If you are interested in this instructor position, please contact Liz Morgan, Academic Coordinator at emorgan@tip.duke.edu or call at (919) 681-6981 as soon as possible.

ABSTRACT: This presentation will describe thermal transport processes at solid-solid material interfaces. An overview of applications in the electronics industry will serve to motivate the subject, and then the basic diffusive constriction theory will be developed. The addition of carbon nanotube arrays to solid-solid interfaces has been shown to improve heat transfer significantly, and these materials will serve as an example of enhanced transport with nanomaterials. Experimental techniques and results will be reviewed, and a model that employs ballistic transport principles will be introduced to interpret these results.

BIO: Timothy S. Fisher received Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1998 and 1991, respectively. He joined the Purdue's School of Mechanical Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center in 2002 after several years at Vanderbilt University. He is currently serving as a Visiting Professor in the Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India.

Thursday, February 7, 2008, 4:30PM, Physics 114: “The Potential of Nanostructured Materials to Address the Challenge of a Sustainable Energy Resource,” by Professor Mildred Dresselhaus, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reception prior to seminar, 3:30, Physics 242.

Mildred Dresselhaus received her PhD degree at the University of Chicago in 1958. Following her doctoral studies, Dr. Dresselhaus spent two years at Cornell University as an NSF postdoctoral fellow, and then seven years as a staff member of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Solid State Physics Division. She joined the MIT faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1967 and the Department of Physics in 1983, and was named an Institute Professor in 1985. She served as the Director of the Office of Science at the US Department of Energy in 2000-2001. Professor Dresselhaus is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has served as President of the American Physical Society (1984), President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS 1997), Treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences (1992-96), and Chair of the Board of the American Institute of Physics (2003-2008).

Thursday, February 7, 2008, 5:00PM, POTR 118: “Gen-Nano Competition Call Out,” WITH PIZZA SERVED. Learn more about generation-nano project and competition details.

Invent the Best Gen-Nano Game and win up to $300 in cash! The competition is open Jan 16, 2008 with a deadline for proposal submission of Mar 15, 2008. Bring in your creativity and expertise into this growing e-learning project for kids!

Competition Overview: The Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) is accepting proposals from students on Purdue’s West Lafayette campus interested in designing a storyboard for an interactive K-12 learning activity to be published within one of the learning modules of the generation-nano.org website, which aims to excite middle school children about science by teaching them nanotechnology concepts. The individual or team authors of the three winning storyboards will receive cash awards of up to $300. Additional prizes will be awarded to authors of activities selected for implementation.

For details visit: http://www.generation-nano.org/competition; Questions: feedback @generation-nano.org

Tuesday, 02.05.08, 12:45PM: NASA personnel and Purdue research group.

Friday, 02.08.08, 10:00-11:00AM: Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus, College of Science’s Centennial Distinguished Lecture Series speaker.

Friday, 02.08.08, 11:00-11:30AM: Dr. Barbara Karn, Discovery Lecture Series speaker.

Since last July, over 1500 individuals have visited Discovery Park and many of you have been tapped for assistance. This workshop will provide you with a DVD of a video that you can use for a broad overview as well as one-page handouts and a list of key talking points for audiences with whom you would like to highlight the key characteristics of Discovery Park. We have a broad range of supplemental materials, guides to assist you in considering what areas to stress for differing audiences, a brochure about our facilities, and a website where these materials can be found. A script for tours of both Bindley and Birck have been developed with stopping points and key information on posters, so that it will be easy for everyone to host groups.
Candiss’s goal is to create a large group of FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS who are confident that they can host visitors at Discovery Park and will convey a consistent message to these guests. This workshop should be a big step toward this end.

If you cannot attend a session on the 12th, but are interested in hosting guests to Discovery Park, please send your name so that other sessions may be held.

Please RSVP to Valerie Lawless at (lawlessv@purdue.edu) and Deborah Starewich (dstarewi@purdue.edu).

Bindley Strategic Council members will function as liaisons among academic departments, other Purdue units, external organizations and the BBC in order to enhance communications and establish effective collaborations among center life sciences researchers. The BSC currently consists of 15 members representing 6 different schools/colleges and 11 different academic departments. Input from interested BBC affiliates is welcomed by the BSC. Members’ contact information is attached to this message and will soon be available on the BBC website http://www.bindleybioscience.com/

Tuesday, 01.29.08, 1:00-2:00PM: Dr. Jingyan Dong, Industrial Engineering faculty candidate.

Tuesday, 01.29.08, 1:40-2:15PM: Dr. William Stephen, Vice President for Engagement, Indiana University

Wednesday, 01.30.08, 9:00-4:00PM: Dr. Devanand Shenoy, DARPA. Visiting Prof. Shalaev.

Thursday, 01.31.08, 8:30AM-5:00PM: SVTC Technologies, Dave Bergeron, CEO.

The trustees of the Catherine Peachey Fund are pleased to invite you to the 10th Annual Amelia Project Retreat. This meeting is designed to 1) bring together the scientists and clinicians working on basic research in breast cancer at institutions across Indiana; 2) foster collaboration across institutional boundaries and enhance research through collegial sharing; and 3) encourage and educate pre and post-doctoral candidates.

There is no registration fee as the Indianapolis Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has approved an education grant for this meeting. Registration will begin at 9:30AM. Meetings will run from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM. Lunch will be provided. A Poster Session will follow lunch. Parking vouchers will be provided.

To view the agenda, visit http://www.breastcare.org/Peachey/Amelia/2008/Final_Agenda2008.pdf. This forum is designed to allow for meeting fellow researchers and opportunities for beginning relationships that will lead to new collaborations. You are also invited to submit an abstract for a poster presentation.

For instructions on poster session submissions, visit http://www.breastcare.org/Peachey/Amelia/2008/CallforSubmission2008DeadlineExtended.pdf.

To register, visit mailto:Nikkole@breastcare.org?subject=Amelia%20Project%20Registration.

We’re getting this information a bit late as notification of attendance was due on January 15. If you’re interested in attending, please make inquiries as there still may be room. Contact Connie Rufenbarger, Director of the project, 574-269-2198 or mailto:connierufe@maplenet.net.

For potential funding mechanisms, visit http://www.breastcare.org/Peachey/Amelia/2008/PotentialFundraisingMechanisms.htm.

Education: Bachelors or advanced degree (preferred) in Materials Science engineering (or related science). Highly desired would be an advanced degree in Materials Science, with Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering . This skill match would best match the interesting & challenging blend of materials and mechanical design interactions in our products.

Desirable skills: Demonstrated ability to summarize materials properties that can lead to a successful search and development of a material for a specific purpose; Experience in a developing and a testing materials for a given application; Experience in developing activation energies to determine the response life a material, and/or a system of materials; Experience in mechanical design and its impact on material design; Ability to broadly contribute in a fast-paced, industrial R&D environment; Excellent communication and teamwork skills; Excellent planning, organizational, and documentation skills; Ability to give clear and effective presentations to inform and persuade peers and managers. If you are interested, please send your resume to alok.sharan@hp.com

ABSTRACT: Despite Silicon’s intrinsic advantages for spintronics, even the basic elements of spin transport had not been achieved in this semiconductor until recently.[1] I will discuss the specific challenges associated with spin injection and detection in Silicon (Si), and our unique solution, employing ballistic hot-electron transport through nano-scale ferromagnetic metal “polarizers.” Using this technique, we have observed unprecedented coherence in spin precession measurements, and extracted very long spin lifetimes of conduction electrons traveling over macroscopic distances.[2] Whereas transistor scaling limits will soon suppress progress in microelectronics using Si, spintronics may secure this semiconductor's dominance for the future. [1] Ian Appelbaum, B.Q. Huang, and D.J. Monsma, “Electronic measurement and control of spin transport in silicon,” Nature 447, 295 (2007); [2] B.Q. Huang, D.J. Monsma, and Ian Appelbaum, “Coherent spin transport through a 350-micron-thick silicon wafer,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 177209 (2007).

BIO: Ian Appelbaum obtained his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and Ph.D. in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After spending one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, he is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Delaware.

Posted to the visual resources page (http://www.purdue.edu/dp/Nanotechnology/Resources/PPT_resources.php) is an updated powerpoint template the new logos.

Limited Submission Competition: NSF Ethics Education in Science and Engineering, on behalf of Christine King

The National Science Foundation has issued a new RFP for the above program, which “accepts proposals for research and educational projects to improve ethics education in all of the fields of science and engineering that NSF supports, especially in interdisciplinary or inter-institutional contexts. Proposals must focus on improving ethics education for graduate students in those fields, although the proposed programs may benefit advanced undergraduates in addition to graduate students.” The full program announcement may be found at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08530/nsf08530.htm. For this competition, an institution may submit one proposal as lead organization. Internal deadlines are as follows: Monday, January 28: Letters of Intent due to the OVPR; Monday, February 18: Preproposals due to the OVPR; Thursday, February 21: 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 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.

Innovative Technologies for Molecular Analysis of Cancer (R21)
Application Receipt Dates: March 11, 2008; May 29, 2008; September 24, 2008
Purpose. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), solicits grant applications proposing exploratory research projects focused on the inception and early stage development of highly innovative cancer-relevant technologies. The emphasis of this FOA is on technically innovative molecular analysis tools with the potential to add a new quality to the investigations of the molecular basis of cancer (e.g., by facilitating the detection of cancer-related characteristics/alterations at the molecular and cellular levels of organization and function). These technologies may be intended for molecular analyses in vitro, in situ, and/or in vivo. Responsive “technologies” encompass relevant methods, techniques, tools, instrumentation, and devices (but not software or informatics solutions). This funding opportunity is part of a broader NCI-sponsored Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) Program. Several IMAT FOAs of identical or closely related scientific scope using various funding mechanisms are available. To facilitate selection, a separate Notice in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts provides brief cross-comparison and links to all the IMAT FOAs. See NOT-CA-08-003 http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-CA-08-003.html

Application of Emerging Technologies for Cancer Research (R21)
Purpose. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), solicits grant applications proposing exploratory research projects to evaluate the performance of emerging molecular analysis technologies and develop applications for an appropriate cancer-relevant biological system. These systems may cover cancer-relevant molecular analyses in vitro, in situ, and/or in vivo. The thrust of effort in the projects proposed in response to this FOA must be on emerging technology application rather than on technology development. Emerging technology” is one that has passed the initial developmental stage and shows promise but has not been evaluated/developed in the context of the proposed application and has not been commercialized. Responsive “technologies” encompass relevant methods, techniques, tools, instrumentation, and devices (but not software or informatics solutions). This FOA is part of the broader NCI-sponsored program Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT). Several IMAT FOAs of identical or closely related scientific scope using various funding mechanisms are available. To facilitate selection, a separate Notice in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts provides a brief cross-comparison and links to all the IMAT FOAs. See NOT-CA-08-003. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-CA-08-003.html

Application of Emerging Technologies for Cancer Research (R33)
Purpose. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), solicits grant applications proposing exploratory research projects to evaluate the performance of emerging molecular analysis technologies and develop applications for an appropriate cancer-relevant biological system. These systems may cover cancer-relevant molecular analyses in vitro, in situ, and/or in vivo. The thrust of effort in the projects proposed in response to this FOA must be on emerging technology application rather than on technology development. Responsive “technologies” encompass relevant methods, techniques, tools, instrumentation, and devices (but not software or informatics solutions). This FOA is part of the broader NCI-sponsored program Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT). Several IMAT FOAs of identical or closely related scientific scope using various funding mechanisms are available. To facilitate selection, a separate Notice in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts provides a brief cross-comparison and links to all the IMAT FOAs; see NOT-CA-08-003. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-CA-08-003.html

Semiconductor heterostructures form the basis for many of our modern technologies, ranging from high-speed transistors to the laser diode. They also provide an ideal playground for exploring the physics of interacting electrons in two dimensions. When a perpendicular magnetic field is applied to a two-dimensional electron gas, the electronic density of states is transformed into a series of discrete, highly degenerate, states known as Landau levels (LL). At high fields, all of the electrons can be accommodated within a single LL known as the lowest (N=0) LL. Within the lowest LL, transport is dominated by the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE). The strong correlations of the FQHE in the lowest LL are now understood in the framework an intuitively appealing model of weakly interacting composite fermions. At lower magnetic fields where more than one LL is occupied, physics is much more complicated. In this regime the FQHE competes with other correlated, but inhomogeneous, ground states, producing some spectacular transport signatures at low temperatures. In this talk I will describe our efforts to understand and modify the possible ground states in the higher LL’s of extremely high mobility two-dimensional electron and hole systems. In addition, I will detail our experimental efforts to confine the fragile FQHE at filling factor 5/2 in micron scale geometries. The quasiparticles of the 5/2 state are believed to obey non-Abelian statistics. Small scale devices in which the 5/2 state’s quasiparticles can be manipulated may someday provide a platform for quantum computation.

Tuesday, January 15, 7:00PM, Class of 1950 Lecture Hall: “What should be the future of biofuels? An open discussion and debate,” sponsored by the Center for the Environment

Featuring a panel of Purdue experts who will discuss their perspectives on the environmental, technical, and policy related issues surrounding the increasing production and promotion of biofuels. Following brief statements from each panelist, questions will be taken from the audience. Participants will include: Moderator—Dr. Bernie Tao, Indiana Soybean Professor in Soybean Utilization in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; and Panelists—Dr. Mike Ladisch, Director, Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Biological Eng; Dr. Larry Nies, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Division of Environmental & Ecological Engineering; Dr. Wally Tyner, Professor of Agricultural Economics and June 2007 Lugar Energy Patriot; and Dr. Tony Vyn, Professor of Agronomy

Wednesday, January 16, 2:30PM, EE317: “Multiphase Gallium Nitride Nanowires and Nanocircuits,” by Virginia Ayres

ASBSTRACT: Catalyst-free vapor-solid nanowire growth, a newly described method for the production of nanowires compatible with a wide variety of semiconductor materials, has been used to produce novel multiphase zinc-blende/wurtzite gallium nitride nanowires. Orientation relation-ships within the multiphase nanowire were observed using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy of cross-sections created with focused ion beam techniques. A totally coherent interface be-tween the zinc blende and wurtzite phases, which is sustained over the entire length of the nanowire, is identified and discussed. Multiphase nanowire growth occurs at specific nanoscale nucleation sites on platelets of gallium nitride. Furnace growth temperature has been shown to exert a strong influence on nucleation site formation. The types of nanowires that form and the corresponding nanowire nucleation sites over the furnace growth temperature range 850-1000°C are discussed. Multiphase nanowires may have novel properties that augment and may be superior to single-phase nanowires in device applications. The electronic performance of the new multiphase nanowires in a NanoFET configuration is investigated using 2-point and 4-point probe current-voltage characterizations. The current-voltage characterizations were carried in a special nano-probing system, in which oxide sharpened ~30 nm radius tungsten nanoprobes were coupled to directly a nanowire while the experiments were directly visualized using a scanning electron microscope. All measurements showed high current densities. Evidence for single-phase current transport within the multiphase nanowire structure is discussed. Novel multiphase gallium nitride nanowires and nano-circuits may provide unique flexibility for photon and carrier confinement.

*with collaborators: B.W. Jacobs, K. McElroy, M.A. Crimp, Michigan State University; J.B. Halpern, and M-Q. He, Howard University; H.C. Shaw, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; M.P. Petkov, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
BIO: Virginia M. Ayres is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and heads the Electronic and Biological Nanostructures Laboratory (http://www.egr.msu.edu/ebnl ) at Michigan State University. Her research interests include the reduced dimensionality-based electronic properties of nanotubes and nanowires. Dr. Ayres earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics from Purdue University, and her B.A. in Physics and Biophysics from the Johns Hopkins University. She is the recipient of two NASA Faculty Fellowship Awards and of two international awards from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and from Tokyo Institute of Technology for research and education in Japan.

Thursday, January 17, 12:30PM, Pfendler Auditorium 241: “Advances in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering,” by Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.; Draper Award Winner; Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2007 National Medal of Science Recipient; Member of the National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine.

Advances in drug delivery and tissue engineering are revolutionizing medical therapies. New drug delivery technologies including novel polymers and intelligent microchips promise to create new treatments for cancer, heart disease, and many other illnesses. Furthermore, by combining mammalian cells with synthetic polymers, new approaches for engineering tissues are being developed that may someday help repair tissues for patients with burns, damaged cartilage, paralysis and vascular disease.

Tuesday, January 15, 2:30PM: Dr. Michael Manfra, Candidate, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

Thursday, January 17, 11:45AM: Albena Ivanisevic’s EPICS lab class.

ABSTRACT: This seminar summarizes the capabilities of the high accuracy Kevin G. Hall Laboratory which is located in Purdue’s newly completed Birck Nanotechnology Center. The seminar is primarily intended for anyone interested in designing, building and characterizing a high accuracy room for nanoscience research. The talk will summarize the design specifications and character-ization the Hall Laboratory. Relevant issues related to electrical power, vibration isolation, thermal stability, acoustic isolation, and EMI shielding will be discussed. The talk will conclude with a few lessons learned.

BIO: Ron Reifenberger is currently a professor of Physics at Purdue University and is a member of Purdue’s Center for Sensing Science and Technology (CSST). He is also a member of Purdue’s Birck Nanotechnology Center. Reifenberger received his PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1976 and has received the Distinguished Physics Alumni Award from his alma mater, John Carroll University, in 1992. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. His research is mainly focused on the development of new scanning probe microscope techniques for the study the nanoscale properties of matter.

Course description: This interactive course is designed for both biologists and engineers and will cover the fundamental science and engineering concepts required to work in this emerging interdisciplinary field. This will include coverage of basic concepts in analytical chemistry, cell biology, biochemistry, immunology, microelectronics, MEMS, microfabrication, microfluidics, molecule biology, and optics. We will also offer specific discussion of applications both present and future. Selected topics include Biomolecular Structures and Cell Physiology, Biosensors, Chromatography, Data Acquisition and Signal Processing, Electrophoresis and Blotting, Enzymatic Methods and Kinetics, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) applications in Biosensing, Glass and polymer micromachining, PCR and DNA synthesis, Recombinant DNA Techniques for Biotechnology, DNA and Protein Microarrays, Flow Cytometry Instrumentation, Lab-on-a-chip Systems, Molecular Computing, Microfluidics: Theoretical and Practical Components, The Omics Revolution, Silicon Processing, Separations techniques; material will be from a reference text (TBD), and research papers based on student input.

Change the batteries in your smoke detectors each time you change you clocks for daylight saving time.

Never place your Christmas tree near a heat source, including a fireplace or heating vent. The heat will dry out the tree.

Never dispose of holiday tree branches in a fireplace or wood-burning stove.

When a tree becomes dry, discard it promptly. Many communities establish recycling centers for trees.

When choosing an artificial tree, look for one that has been treated with a fire retardant.

Inspect holiday lights each year for frayed wires, bare spots, and broken or cracked sockets.

Only use UL-listed lighting equipment.

Do not overload outlets. Connect holiday lights to circuit protected outlet strips.

Do not leave holiday lights unattended.

Avoid using candles. If you do use them, make sure they are in stable holders and place them away from holiday decorations.

Never leave your home with candles burning.

When purchasing a fresh cut tree, bounce the tree on the ground. If many needles fall off, the tree has been cut too long ago. Select another tree.

An estimated 33 million homes will have natural Christmas trees this holiday season. Visit this link to view a video showing the danger of a dry Christmas tree: http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/citizens/all_citizens/home_fire_prev/holiday-seasonal/treefire.shtm

The reason for this is that in the new system, the price and quantity on the purchase order MUST MATCH EXACTLY to the price/quantity on the invoice for the system to generate the payment to the vendor. If the information does not mach, payment to the vendor will be delayed.

If you have any questions or need trained on placing orders, please see Vikki Fast in the Birck Business Office (1014).

Monday, December 24: UNIVERSIY HOLIDAY; Building Card Access Only; No staff coverage; Lab Attendants: noon to midnight; Buddy System: midnight to noon.

Tuesday, December 25: UNIVERSIY HOLIDAY; Building Card Access Only; No staff coverage; NO Lab Attendants; Buddy System: all times.

Wednesday-Friday, December 26 to 28: Normal Operations for Weekday; Building Open 7AM to 6PM; Staff coverage: 8AM to 5PM; Lab Attendants: noon-midnight; Buddy System: midnight to 8AM.

Saturday, December 29: Normal Operations for Sunday; Building Card Access Only; No staff coverage; Lab Attendants: noon to midnight; Buddy System: midnight to noon.

Sunday, December 30: Normal Operations for Sunday; Building Card Access Only; No staff coverage; Lab Attendants: noon to midnight; Buddy System: midnight to noon.

Monday, December 31: UNIVERSIY HOLIDAY; Building Card Access Only; No staff coverage; Lab Attendants: noon to midnight; Buddy System: midnight to noon.

Tuesday, January 1: UNIVERSIY HOLIDAY; Building Card Access Only; No staff coverage; Lab Attendants: noon to midnight; Buddy System: midnight to noon.

Wednesday-Friday, January 2-4: Normal Operations for Weekday; Building Open 7AM to 6PM; Staff coverage: 8AM to 5PM; Lab Attendants: noon-midnight; Buddy System: midnight to 8AM.

Saturday, January 5: Normal Operations for Sunday; Building Card Access Only; No staff coverage; Lab Attendants: noon to midnight; Buddy System: midnight to noon.

The Discovery Learning Center in Discovery Park offers opportunity for doctoral students in the STEM disciplines Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) to apply for a one-year fellowship funded by the National Science Foundation and Purdue University. Fellows serve as “visiting scientists” in a program designed to instill the excitement of learning science into middle school classrooms. Teamed with 6th, 7th, and 8th grade science teachers, a diverse group of fellows will develop and teach inquiry-based lessons geared toward the science of everyday NSF requires applicants to be U.S. citizens.