<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Monday Memo: 03.05.07</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> MONDAY MEMO, MARCH 5, 2007     CONTENTS   1. Announcements   1.1: Daylight Savings Time, per Jeremy Galloway, ECN   1.2: Placing Orders with OnePurdue – additional info   1.3: Candiss Vibbert asks you to “hold the date”: April 16, 3:30     2. Faculty/Staff/Student Awards and Honors   2.1: Muhammad A. Alam – 2007 University Faculty Scholar     3. Seminar Announcements   3.1:  “Engineered Drug Therapies Enabled by Fabrication Processes from the Electronics Industry,” by Joseph M. DeSimone, Departments of Chemistry & Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University; MARCH 6, 4:30-5:30 pm, WTHR 104   3.2:  “Mechanisms of Cancer Chemoprevention: Studies with Green & Black Tea,” by James Klaunig, Indiana U School of Medicine, MARCH 6, 1:30-2:30 pm, MRGN 121.  Reception immediately following in MRGN Café.   3.3: “Essentials of Visualization,” by David Ebert, Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director, Regional Visualization and Analytics Center, Purdue University; MARCH 7, 2:00-3:00, EE 317.   3.4: “Cancer Care Center,” by Joe Pekny, Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Director, E-enterprise; MARCH 9, 11:30-12:30 pm, MRGN 206. Bring your lunch.   3.5: “Advances in High-Frequency Applied Electromagnetic Applications,” by William Chappell, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University; MARCH 9, 3:30-4:30 pm, MSEE B012. Refreshments served.     4. Workshops/Conferences   4.1: CALL FOR PAPERS: The ASME Nanotechnology Institute announces the 2nd Energy Nanotechnology International Conference.  Submit abstracts by March 15, 2007.     5. Job/Fellowship opportunities   5.1: Cingular Industry Presentation, March 5, 6-7 pm, EE 170     **************** 1. Announcements ****************   1.1: Daylight Savings Time, per Jeremy Galloway, ECN For those who use Outlook for calendaring:  ECN has made a website (https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/ECNn/#801 <file://localhost/ECN/ECNn#801> ) that explains more about the DST issues that are coming up in March.  ECN supported desktop PCs had the DST patch installed in December.  This means appointments made after December should show up correctly during this time.  Reoccurring appointments made before December will need to be corrected manually.  The "Solutions" section of the document explains what you should do for these few weeks. Please let me know if you have any other questions.   1.2: Placing orders with OnePurdue.  Graduate students should contact their “home” department business office to be enrolled in the necessary training so that they may begin placing their own orders.   1.3: Candiss Vibbert asks you to “hold the date” for the first of two Spring 2007 Discovery Lecture Series Events.  On April 16th at 3:30 p.m. in Loeb Playhouse, the Honeywell/Purdue University Partnership will present Nobel Laureate Dr. John Hall.  Following his presentation, “Making a Big Deal out of the Small Decimal Digits:  The Remarkable Utility of Precision Measurement,” President Jischke will join Dr. Hall to discuss “What's Next for Science?” Dr. Hall will also meet with undergraduates, faculty members, and graduate students.  He will tour Discovery Park.  If you would like to see his agenda or have any questions, please contact Phillip Fiorini or Candiss Vibbert.     **************** 2. Awards/Honors ****************   Professor Muhammad A. Alam has been selected to be a 2007 University Faculty Scholar.  The University Faculty Scholars Program recognizes outstanding accomplishments and contributions of faculty members who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction and are nominated by committees from their academic areas and approved by the provost.  A university-wide announcement will be made when all the schools of the University have completed their selection process.   ************************ 3. Seminar Announcements ************************   3.1: “Engineered Drug Therapies Enabled by Fabrication Processes from the Electronics Industry,” by Joseph M. DeSimone, Departments of Chemistry & Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University; MARCH 6, 2007, 4:30-5:30, WTHR 104.   A novel  method for the fabrication of organic particles on the order of tens of nanometers to several microns will be described.  Our imprint lithographic technique called PRINT™ (Practicle Recplication In Non-wetting Templates), takes advantage of the unique properties of elastomeric molds comprised of a low surface energy perfluoropolyether network, allowing the production of monodisperse, shape-specific nanoparticles from an extensive array of organic precursors.  This engineered nature of particle production has a number of advantages over the construction of traditional nanoparticles such as liposomes, dendrimers, and colloidal precipitates.  The nature of PRINT technology takes drug delivery for the first time into the uncharted realm of engineered drug therapies given its á la carte approach and versatility.  PRINT allows for the precise control over particle size (20 nm to >100 micron), particle shape (speres, cylinders, discs, toroidal), particle composition (organic/inorganic, solid/porous), particle cargo (hydrophilic or hydrophobic thereapeutics, biologicals, proteins, oligonucleotides, siRNA, imaging agents such as MR contrast agents, positron emitters), particle modulus (stiff, deformable) and particle surface properties (Avidin/biotin complexes, targeting peptides, antibodies, aptamers, cationic/anion charges, Stealth PEG chains). I believe that PRINT is the only technology that can independently design these attributes to create truly engineered drug therapies.  For the first time, key therapeutic parameters such as bioavailability, biodistribution, and target-specific cell penetration should be able to be simultaneously designed into a therapy. Preliminary in vitro and in vivo studies have been conduced, demonstrating the future utility of PRINT particles as delivery vectors in nanomedicine.   3.2:  “Mechanisms of Cancer Chemoprevention: Studies with Green & Black Tea,” by James Klaunig, Indiana U School of Medicine, MARCH 6, 1:30-2:30 pm, MRGN 121.  Reception immediately following in MRGN Café.   ABSRACT: Chemoprevention involves the intervention during the early stages of the cancer process resulting in either modification of the uptake, or excretion, modification of the metabolism, enhancement of cellular repair mechanisms, or induction of apoptotic effects selectively to preneoplastic or neoplastic cells.  Cancer chemoprevention differs from the chemotherapy in that it works on the initiation and promotion stage of the multi-stage cancer process.  Multiple chemo-preventive agents have been identified.  These include both natural as well as synthetic products, functioning include modulation of receptors in particular hormone receptors, inducers or inhibitors of metabolism of carcinogens, and antioxidant materials.  Of the antioxidants; teas, vitamin E and glutathione have been the subject of extensive investigation both experimentally and epidemiologically. Studies examining the mechanisms of action of these antioxidants will be discussed.   3.3: “Essentials of Visualization,” by David Ebert, Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director, Regional Visualization and Analytics Center, Purdue University; MARCH 7, 2:00-3:00, EE 317.   ABSTRACT: In this talk, the basic techniques for visualization, some of the tools available, and how to NOT miscommunicate information from your visualizations will be covered.   BIO: David Ebert is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and directs the Purdue University Regional Visualization and Analytics Center. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1991.  Dr. Ebert performs research in visual analytics, volume rendering, information visualization, perceptually-based visualization, illustrative visualization, and procedural abstraction of complex, massive data.  Ebert has been very active in the visualization community, teaching courses, presenting papers, co-chairing many conference program committees, serving on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee, serving as Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and serving on the National Visualization and Analytics Center's National Research Agenda Panel.     3.4: “Cancer Care Center,” by Joe Pekny, Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Director, E-enterprise; MARCH 9, 11:30-12:30 pm, MRGN 206. Bring your lunch.   This talk is one of Regenstrief Center’s Brown Bag seminars in which a  variety of Purdue healthcare researchers and Regenstrief Center partners presents lectures geared toward graduate students interested in healthcare.     3.5: “Advances in High-Frequency Applied Electromagnetic Applications,” by William Chappell, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University; MARCH 9, 3:30-4:30 pm, MSEE B012. Refreshments served.   ABSTRACT:  This talk will cover the recent advancements in the field of microwave and millimeter wave Systems-in-a-package and more generally applied electro-magnetics.  A brief overview of the type of wireless circuit “front ends” that are of interest will be presented and the relevance of the research ongoing by the new faculty in this area will be discussed.  Specifically of interest to the ceramic packaging community are the so-called metamaterials.  This class of materials is loosely defined as the creation of behavior not found in nature by the small scale ordering within the material.  Periodic and self-aligned materials will be presented. In our specific appli-cation, we utilize multilayer and ceramic free form fabrication techniques to create periodic low loss materials for micro and millimeter wave substrates.  The 3-dimen-sional fabrication techniques and the material characterization will be discussed.  The creation of utilization of these materials in filter and antenna applications will be discussed and their ramifications analyzed.  In addition, new three-dimensional packaging concepts will be introduced.   SHORT BIO:  William Chappell is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University.  He holds a BSEE, MS, and PhD all from the University of Michigan.  His research work has included High-Frequency Microwave Circuits, Tunable Filters, Antennae, Novel Packaging Techniques, Composite and Periodic Electromagnetic Materials, Development of Low-Loss Microwave Materials, Free Form Fabrication, and Rapid Prototyping of Ceramics and Polymers.  He has worked on three DARPA sponsored projects in his first years at Purdue.  Prof. Chappell won the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher award in 2004. Prof. Chappell was awarded the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher award in 2006.  He was also awarded the prestigious “Turkey of the Year” in 2005 by this same group.       ************************ 4. Workshops/Conferences ************************   4.1: CALL FOR PAPERS: The ASME Nanotechnology Institute is pleased to announce the 2nd Energy Nanotechnology International Conference. This unique conference will focus on the state-of-the-art research and development in energy-related materials, nanoscale phenomena, devices, systems, manufacturing, and commercialization. The connection between nanotechnology and energy is inextricable-many unique physical phenomena occur at the nanoscale through confinement of allowable states of basic energy carries (electrons, phonons, and photons). The consequences of these phenomena are manifest in various areas of energy science and engineering and are being exploited with every-improving efficacy to improve energy technologies. Contributions that emphasize the scale-up of nanotechnology-based solutions with promising system-level energy performance prospects are particularly encouraged. Relevant application areas include, but not limited to, the following: Solar: fundamentals, solar-thermal, high-efficiency devices, low-cost devices Biofuels and Carbon-Neutral Technologies: biodiesel, ethanol production, raw materials Direct Thermal Energy Conversion and Harvesting: thermoelectrics, nanoscale transport, carrier coupling Electrochemical Conversion and Storage: fuel cells, batteries, membranes, electrodes, systems Hydrogen: production, storage, utilization Fossil fuels: coal gasification, reforming, co-generation, carbon sequestration Materials/Manufacturing: nanomaterials, scale-up, heterogeneous integration Submit your abstract by March 15, 2007 at <a href="http://www.asmeconferences.org/energynano07/.">http://www.asmeconferences.org/energynano07/.</a> For questions, please contact Tim Fisher (tsfisher@purdue.edu) or Andrei Fedorov (andrei.fedorov@me.gatech.edu). The conference will be held at Santa Clara University and will consist of plenary talks, invited talks, contributed oral and poster presentations, and exhibitions and will provide opportunities for communication and collaboration among industry, academia, and venture capital organizations. Two main categories of contributions are solicited: 1. Traditional technical papers and presentations from industry and academia, with emphasis on quantitative findings related to energy, according to the categories above. Accepted papers will be placed in oral and poster sessions according to the discretion of the conference and session organizers. Note that only poster papers will be eligible for the best paper award(s). 2. Presentation of energy-related concepts for commercialization. Interested contributors to this category should prepare an abstract according to instructions at the conference web site. Authors of accepted abstracts will be required to submit a short paper with suitable graphics that describes their concept, both in terms of technical features and commercialization potential. Accepted contributions will be highlighted in poster and/or presentation formats at the conference, during which the contributors will be able to interact with leading venture capitalists. Full papers will be published in conference proceedings. English is the official language of the conference.     ******************************** 5.  Fellowship/Job Opportunities ********************************   5.1: Cingular Industry Presentation, March 5, 6-7 pm, EE 170. Speaker: Brian Keller, Executive Director Technology Enablement. Bring your resumes. Free Roly Poly for those in attendance.     <HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%">Deborah S. Starewich Administrative Assistant to Timothy D. Sands, Director Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 765-494-3509 dstarewi@ecn.purdue.edu <a href="http://www.nano.purdue.edu/">http://www.nano.purdue.edu/</a> </BODY> </HTML>