Each Spring and Fall Purdue NCN students gather for a banquet organized by the NCN@Purdue SLC. 

==NCN Student Banquet Spring 2009==

'''''Date:''' April 21, 2009 (Tuesday), 6:00pm-8:30pm''[[br]]
'''''Venue:''' East Faculty Lounge, Purdue Memorial Union (PMU), Purdue University''[[br]]
Attendance: 45
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'''''Topic:''' How to Ph.D.: Three perspectives''[[br]]
'''''Speakers:''' Prof. Robert Givan (Purdue), Prof. Jan Allebach (Purdue), Dr. Dmitri Nikonov (Intel)''[[br]]
'''''Presentation slides:''''' [[File(givan_starting-a-phd.pptx)]], [[File(allebachncndinnerlecture.ppt)]], [[File(nikonov_howtophd.ppt)]]

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==NCN Student Banquet Fall 2008==
''Topic:'' Preserving Research Data[[br]]
''Speakers:''[[br]]
Prof. Mark Lundstrom[[br]]
Prof. Muhammad Alam[[br]]
Prof. Alejandro Strachan[[br]]
Prof. Timothy Fisher[[br]]
Mr. Xufeng Wang (on behalf of Prof. Gerhard Klimeck)[[br]]

==NCN Student Banquet Spring 2008==
''Topic:'' Careers in Academia and Industry[[br]]
''Speakers:''[[br]]
Prof. Mark Lundstrom[[br]]
Prof. Gerhard Klimeck[[br]]
Prof. Joerg Appenzeller[[br]]
Dr. An Chen[[br]]