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  1. X-ray Diffraction and Reflectivity Analysis of Thin Films and Nanomaterials

    29 Dec 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Mauro Sardela

    A review of x-ray analysis techniques applied to the characterization of nanomaterials will be presented with focus on x-ray lab source instrumentation similar to the facilities available at the Birck Nanotechnology Center. Practical aspects of data acquisition and interpretation using x-ray...

  2. Metal Oxide Nanowires as Gas Sensing Elements: from Basic Research to Real World Applications

    21 Sep 2009 | | Contributor(s):: andrei kolmakov

    Quasi 1-D metal oxide single crystal chemiresistors are close to occupy their specific niche in the real world of solid state sensorics. Potentially, the major advantage of this kind of sensors with respect to available granular thin film sensors will be their size and stable, reproducible and...

  3. NCN Nanomaterials: Tutorials

    02 Jun 2009 |

  4. Energy and Nanoscience A More Perfect Union

    29 Mar 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Mark Ratner

    Huge problems of energy and sustainability confront the science/engineering community, mankind, and our planet. The energy problem comes in many dimensions, including supply, demand, conservation, transportation, and storage. This overview will stress the nature of these problems, and offer a few...

  5. How Chemical Engineers Will Save the World

    26 Mar 2009 | | Contributor(s):: William F. Banholzer

    The world is facing massive challenges brought on by population growth, economic meltdowns, and environmental constraints. Scientific solutions are needed now more than ever. In this seminar, an overview of certain mega trends is presented – emphasizing how the skills possessed by chemical...

  6. Microstructural Design of Electrically Active Materials and Devices Through Computational Modeling: The OOF Project

    20 Jan 2009 | | Contributor(s):: R. Edwin Garcia

    We present an overview of a public domain program, the Object Oriented Finite Element analysis (OOF), which predicts macroscopic behavior, starting from an image of the microstructure and ending with results from finite element calculations. The program reads an image (or a sequence of images)...

  7. Spins and Magnets (Whiteboard lecture), Part 1

    06 Jan 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Whiteboard version of approximately the same material covered in Lectures 3A/3B.

  8. Spins and Magnets (Whiteboard lecture), Part 2

    06 Jan 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Whiteboard version of approximately the same material covered in Lectures 3A/3B.

  9. The Optical Freqency Comb: A Remarkable Tool for Metrology, Science and Medical Diagnostics

    31 Dec 2008 | | Contributor(s):: John L. Hall

    The Optical Frequency Comb concept and technology exploded in 1999-2000 from the synthesis of advances in independent fields of Laser Stabilization, UltraFast Lasers, and NonLinear Optical Fibers. The Comb was developed first as a method for optical frequency measurement, enabling a thousand-fold...

  10. Porting, Tuning and Performance Analysis Tools

    29 Dec 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Mohamed Sayeed

    A basic introduction to Porting, Tuning and Performance analysis tools will be presented. I will talk about issues in porting applications to different architectures including writing portable programs. Application performance tuning is very important to making efficient use of high performance...

  11. MPI for the Next Generation of Supercomputing

    05 Dec 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Andrew Lumsdaine

    Despite premature rumours of its demise, MPI continues to be the de facto standard for high-performance parallel computing. Nonetheless, supercomputing software and the high-end ecosystem continue to advance, creating challenges to several aspects of MPI. In this talk we will review the design...

  12. Nanoparticle and Colloidal Simulations with Molecular Dynamics

    05 Dec 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Steve Plimpton

    Modeling nanoparticle or colloidal systems in a molecular dynamics (MD) code requires coarse-graining on several levels to achieve meaningful simulation times for study of rheological and other manufacturing properties. These include treating colloids as single particles, moving from explicit to...

  13. Data Preservation via RapidSVN for NCN students

    24 Nov 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Xufeng Wang

    This presentation discusses how to use SVN client RapidSVN and how to utilize SVN for data preservation purpose.

  14. OpenMP Tutorial

    25 Nov 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Seung-Jai Min

    This tutorial consists of three parts. First, we will discuss abouthow OpenMP is typically used and explain OpenMP programming model. Second, we will describe important OpenMP constructs and data enviroments. Finally, we will show a simple example to illustrate how OpenMP APIs are used to program...

  15. Welcoming Remarks

    24 Nov 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Alejandro Strachan

    Opening remarks for the Purdue School on High Performance and Parallel Computing.

  16. Introduction to Parallel Programming with MPI

    24 Nov 2008 | | Contributor(s):: David Seaman

    Single-session course illustrating message-passing techniques. The examples include point-to-point and collective communication using blocking and nonblocking transmission. One application illustrates the manager/worker model with buffered communications. Code examples provided in C, C++, Fortran...

  17. Software Productivity Tools

    24 Nov 2008 | | Contributor(s):: David Seaman

    This presentation briefly describes the use of tar(1), make(1), the Portable Batch System (PBS), and two version control systems: CVS and subversion.

  18. Introduction to TotalView

    24 Nov 2008 | | Contributor(s):: David Seaman

    This single-session course presents an introduction to the use of the TotalView parallel debugger available on Purdue's Linux systems.

  19. Affordable Clean Energy: Challenges and Opportunities

    20 Oct 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Hukam C. Mongia

    The technical presentation is built around the August 9th 2008 ABC News/Planet Green/Stanford Poll on Environment/Energy in which the majority of the people polled expressed support for the following ideas: increase fuel efficiency standards, allowing drilling offshore, people and businesses are...

  20. Modern X-ray Scattering Methods for Nanoscale Materials Analysis

    15 Oct 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Richard J. Matyi

    Since its discovery by von Laue in 1912, X-ray diffraction has become an indispensable tool for structure determinations in the physical and biological sciences. X-rays are characterized by high energies and by wavelengths that are commensurate with nanometer-sized structures – unlike optical...