NSAC Annual Report presented by me
NSAC Events 2017-18
NSAC
launched their new website through ECN support.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/NSAC/
NSAC Space
Improvement through PGSG funds
NSAC
successfully secured $500 the Capital Improvement Grant through the Purdue
Graduate Student Government, that allowed purchase of new Microwave oven for
the Birck Kitchen, and a new 55” 4K television with raspberry pi, that serves
both as a digital signage for NSAC, and a presentation screen for the NSAC
Coffee hours.
NSAC Callout:
NSAC Blood Drive (organized jointly with the Indiana Blood Center):
Fall Academic Trip:
NSAC
organized an academic trip on 10th
of October 2018. The trip was done in collaboration with the Northwestern
University SPIE Student Chapter. The trip consisted of a visit to the NUFAB
(Northwestern University Fab), NUANCE center, talk by Prof. Selim Shahriar and
visit to Prof. Shahriar, Prof. Mirkin, Prof. Odom and Prof. Aydin’s lab. We had
a total of 9 people for the tour.
NSAC Spring Academic Trip:
NSAC spring academic trip was held on pi-day, March 14th 2018 to the Argonne National lab's Center for Nanoscale Materials. The NSAC members were given a cleanroom tour at the CNM and were given facility tour. Haogang Cai from Nanofabrication and Devices Group gave a talk on “Flat Lenses”. 23 participants attended the tour.
NSAC Mock Cleanroom at Nanodays:
Like previous years, NSAC organized a mock cleanroom at BRK 1001
on the occasion of Nanodays in April 11-13,
2018. The mock cleanroom was attended by over 200 kids per day from
elementary to middle school during the event. NSAC developed the
photolithography demonstration for kids using photopolymer, laminator and
nailpolish dryer last year. NSAC added a hologram demonstration kit in the mock
cleanroom using GSOGA funds.
NSAC Journal Club:
Coffee
Hours:
NSAC
organized coffee hour presentation by students and staff on Fridays from
3:30-4:00pm. This was aimed as an opportunity for graduate students to get
valuable feedback on the current research work and also as a platform to
practice talks for conferences.
This
year, with GSOGA funding, we added refreshments in the coffee hour that helped
boost the number of participants and audience in the coffee hour.
Following
is a list of all presenters in the 2017-18 coffee hours.
List of
all speakers and topics of the NSAC Coffee Hours:
Date |
Speaker |
Title of the Talk |
9/8/2017 |
Vasudevan Iyer |
Infrared ultrafast dynamics in
black phosphorus |
9/22/2017 |
Aveek Dutta |
Surface Plasmon Opto-magnetic field
enhancement for on-chip magnetization reversal in nanomagnets |
9/29/2017 |
Saeed Fallahi |
Low frequency charge noise in GaAs/AlGaAs
nanostructures |
10/6/2017 |
Reaz Chowdhury |
Roll to Roll fabrication for cellulose
nanocrystal with controlled anisotropy |
10/20/2017 |
Monzurul Alam |
Practical Design of 4H-SiC Superjunction
Devices in the Presence of Charge Imbalance |
10/27/2017 |
Mohamed Hagag |
Evanescent-mode cavity for
Reconfigurable RF applications |
11/3/2017 |
Christopher J Benjamin |
Development of Techniques Using
Novel Bioorganic Materials for Protein Structure Determination |
11/10/2017 |
Neil Dilley |
New tools for magnetism studies in the BNC
Spintronics Lab |
11/17/2017 |
Arpan Kundu |
Novel redox-active gel electrolytes for
all-solid-state thermally chargeable supercapacitors |
12/1/2017 |
Andrea Montes |
Distribution of pores in PAA templates |
12/8/2017 |
Nithin Raghunathan |
Multi-point Battery Free
Sensors |
1/26/2018 |
Yuri Efremov |
Application of Atomic Force Microscopy in
Cell Biology |
2/2/2018 |
Sean Rinehart |
A Brief Overview of Birck Metrology Core |
2/9/2018 |
Jeremiah Shephard |
Overview of XRD Reflectivity Measurement |
2/16/2018 |
Vasudevan Iyer |
Optically measuring spin relaxation in 3D
topological insulator |
2/23/2018 |
Bill Rowe |
Introducing the JEOL EBL |
3/2/2018 |
Terry Hung |
Topological Current in 2D Materials |
3/9/2018 |
Shouyuan Huang |
Thermal transport of topological surface
state |
3/23/2018 |
Maowen Song |
Polarization-tunable color generation based
on plasmonic metamirror |
3/30/2018 |
Zhaxylyk Kudyshev |
|
4/6/2018 |
Paul Somers |
Improved Resolution in 3D Direct Laser
Writing using Stimulated Emission Depletion |
NSAC
Beamer Workshop
NSAC hosted
the workshop on Beamer. The workshop was held on March 22 2018 in Martin Jishke
Hall of Biomedical Engineering.
NSAC
Stress Management Workshop (collaboration with CAPS)
NSAC
organized stress management workshop with the help from Purdue’s Counseling and
Psychological Services (CAPS) on April 20th 2018. Pei-Chun
Hou taught practical relaxation skill such as meditation and focus to the
students.
NSAC Officers Retreat
NSAC officers had retreat at the Chedders restaurant
on May 2 2018. Plan for wrapping up activities for the academic year was
discussed.
NSAC Spring Picnic:
NSAC organized its annual social activity on April 26th, 2018 at the Purdue Village Community Center.
The event was aimed as a social get-together for graduate students and staff at
Birck over dinner while also holding elections for the next academic calendar.
The event was attended by approximately 60 people. Professor Dana Weinstein was
the special guest in the picnic.
Social activities involving the NSAC TV:
NSAC TV has been used for different
social activities this year, as it is centrally located in an open space.
NSAC Academic Advisor:
Prof. Ali Shakouri
Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director of Birck Nanotechnology Center
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: BRK 1027C
Office Phone: 765-49-66105
E-mail: shakouri@purdue.edu
NSAC Executive Committee 2017-18:
Elected Officers 2017-18:
President: Sajid Choudhury (sajidmc@purdue.edu)
Vice-President: Rahul Ramamurthy
Treasurer: Shabnam Ghotbi
Secretary: PrabhuKumar Venthurumilli
NSAC Committee Chairs 2017-18:
Social and Hospitality Chair: Samuel Peana
Symposium Chair: Deesha Shah
Journal Club Chair: Emroz Khan
Academic Trip Chair: Vasudevan Iyer
Policies and Procedures Chair: Soham Saha (also served as NSAC representative for the Birck Disciplinary Committee and Birck Safety Committee)
NSAC Elected Officers 2018-19:
President: Samuel Peana
Vice-President: PrabhuKumar Venthurumilli
Treasurer: Paul Somers
Secretary: Shouyuan Huang
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