From jwc at snf.stanford.edu Wed Feb 21 09:51:09 2007 From: jwc at snf.stanford.edu (James Conway) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:51:09 -0800 Subject: Visit from Birck Nanotechnology Center (Purdue) staff on February 20. In-Reply-To: <45C11D2B.7090006@stanford.edu> References: <45C11D2B.7090006@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <45DC868D.2010503@snf.stanford.edu> John, Thank you for setting this up! It was really useful and informative to meet and greet other working groups that are working in similar situations to SNF. I think that fostering more collaborative exchanges of information, best methods and practices between centers would help to improve our lab and its fabrication capabilities too! I will continue to stay in touch with the people I met yesterday; in particular with Jeff Grau (Photolithography) and Bill Rowe (EBL) whom share similar areas and environments to mine. All the Best, James John Shott wrote: > SNF Staff Members: > > On Tuesday, February 20, a sizable group from the Birck Nanotechnology > Center at Purdue University are coming here to meet with us. They > have a brand new facility and are, I believe, still in a startup > phase. They are interested in coming out here to meet with us and to > talk about how we do things. > > Although I don't have a specific list of names, I believe that they > are likely to show up with 15 or more people representing management, > facilities, equipment, training, process, and administration groups. > While we are still working out details of the agenda, my guess is that > we will try to spend some time presenting overview materials about > each facility and then, later, having a common question and answer > discussion session. My guess is that we will also want to split up > into smaller groups and try to match folks with similar job > responsibilities at each facility to be able to engage in more focused > discussion of matters of mutual interest. > > While I expect to have more details as this date approaches, I'd like > to ask each of you to keep your schedules open during that day. I'm > hopeful that you'll each find this an interesting opportunity to > compare notes and practices with people who face many of the > challenges that we face on a daily basis. In my experience we don't > often have the chance to have such extensive discussions with folks > from other labs and I'm hopeful that you will each find this to be a > rewarding experience. > > I'll keep you posted as we learn more about the details of the Purdue > visit. > > Thanks for your cooperation, > > John > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: