NCN@Purdue SLC is organizing a trip to [http://www.anl.gov/ Argonne National Lab] in Chicago this Spring. The trip shall tentatively take place on Monday, May 11, 2009. The trip is free for NCN affiliated students at Purdue. All transportation and lunch expenses shall be paid by the NCN. We will board the bus on Purdue campus in the morning and return before night the same day. Argonne shall provide us a tour of their facilities. This trip includes a tour of the following facilities:[[br]]
[http://nano.anl.gov/ Center for Nanoscale Materials][[br]]
[http://www.aps.anl.gov/ Advanced Photon Source][[br]]
[http://www.alcf.anl.gov/ Argonne Leadership Computing Facility][[br]]
For information on the various research divisions of Argonne please check:[http://www.anl.gov/Science_and_Technology/divisions.html Argonne divisions]. 

List of visitors: Sambit Palit, Angik Sarkar, Sourabh Dongaonkar, Samiran Ganguly, Biswajit Ray, Md Masuduzzaman, Saptarshi Das, Dionisis Berdebes, Raseong Kim, Ehtesham Islam, Nick vargo, Amrit Palaria

'''''Date''''': May 11, 2009 (Monday)

'''''Departure venue''''': The Union Club (Purdue Memorial Union, Grant Street entrance)

'''''Departure time''''': 8:15 am

'''''Weather conditions in Chicago''''': Sunny, high - 63 F, low - 45 F