April 3, 2009
Birck Nanotechnology Center to hold Research Review
The Birck Nanotechnology Center in Discovery Park will be hosting its third annual Research Review from 1 to 5:30 p.m. April 6 in Room 121, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. The event is free and open to the public.
Registration and more information is available at http://nano.purdue.edu.
People are invited to attend and learn first-hand of the recent discoveries and innovations in nanoscience and nanotechnology, meet faculty, graduate students and staff scientists, and hear about the BNC’s impact on healthcare, information access, homeland security, energy conversion, and the environment.
The Research Review consists of several short overview lectures from BNC faculty as well as a poster session presented by graduate students affiliated with the facility.
The full schedule follows:
1-1:30: Timothy D. Sands - Overview of BNC Research - "Collaboration, Discovery and Delivery."
1:30-1:55: Vladimir M. Shalaev - "Transforming Light with Metamaterials."
1:55-2:20: Muhammad Ashraful Alam - "On the Geometry of Sticks and Nets: How Simple Ideas Enable Technology Optimization."
2:20-2:35: Break - poster preview with refreshments.
2:35-3: Babak Ziaie - "Biomedical Microsystem Research at BNC."
3-3:25: Arvind Raman - "Advances in Atomic Force Microscopy: Novel Spectroscopies and Compositional Mapping."
3:25-3:50: Joerg Appenzeller - "Low-dimensional Systems for Nanoelectronic Applications."
3:50-4:00: Awards and recognition.
4:00-5:30: Poster session.