aspuru-list October 2006

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Phase estimation.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, Somma's latest presentation on his paper is on the Wiki now: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Phase_Estimation -- Alán Aspuru-Guzik Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)384-8188 Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Very important seminar TODAY: Rolando Somma in MIT

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Mon 10/30, 4pm in 26-214 (QIP seminar) Rolando Somma (LANL) Quantum Simulations of Quantum and Classical Systems If a large quantum computer (QC) existed today, what type of physical problems could we efficiently simulate on it that we could not simulate on a conventional computer? In this talk, I argue that a QC could solve some relevant physical "questions" more efficiently. First, I will focus on the quantum simulation of quantum systems satisfying different particle statistics (e.g., anyons), using a QC made of two-level physical systems or qubits. The existence of one-to-one mappings between different algebras of observables or between different Hilbert spaces allow us to represent and imitate any physical system by any other one (e.g., a bosonic system by a spin-1/2 system). We explain how these mappings can be performed showing quantum networks useful for the efficient evaluation of some physical properties, such as correlation functions and energy spectra. Second, I will focus on the quantum simulation of classical systems. Interestingly, the thermodynamic properties of any d-dimensional classical system can be obtained by studying the zero-temperature properties of an associated d-dimensional quantum system. This classical-quantum correspondence allows us to understand classical annealing procedures as slow (adiabatic) evolutions of the lowest-energy state of the corresponding quantum system. Since many of these problems are NP-complete and therefore hard to solve, it is worth investigating if a QC is a better device to find the corresponding solutions.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Campus Sustainability Pledge. PLEASE FILL!

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members. We are a group researching renewable energies. Therefore, I think WE NEED to fill the following on-line pledge. It would be a shame not to. We can help Chemistry save money. PLEASE visit this URL and fill the form there (thinking about energy consumption while you do :)) http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu/pledge/ Cheers, Alan -- Alán Aspuru-Guzik Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)384-8188 Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Another application of QFT a-la-Tomita.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear All, Another application of QFT a-la-Tomita: This one, I was warned by Misha Lukin. We need to come up with a molecular proposal for this scheme. I think that the interaction of a molecule with a 2-level system could give new levels of precision for some of it's properties. Alan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events at Harvard 10/26/06 - 11/9/06 (One day early)

by Jenny MacGregor

**Dear HUCE Faculty and Friends, Please refer to the Center website for complete details on these and other environmental events taking place at and near Harvard. If you would like to add an event to the calendar, or unsubscribe from this list, please contact Jenny MacGregor, jenny_macgregor(a)harvard.edu <mailto:jenny_macgregor@harvard.edu>, 617-495-8883. *Note: *The China Project Seminar with Prof. WANG Tao originally schedule for Tomorrow, 10/26, has been rescheduled for 11/30/06 *Highlights:* *10/31/06 -- Information session at HUCE for Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences *11/2/06 -- Harvard Climate Seminar The 'instability' of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: - at 2PM *11/2, 11/3 and 11/4/06/ /-- Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth" at the Science Center *Calendar Listings:* *Thursday 10/26/2006 * Time for Action: A Midnight Ride for Peak Oil <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6067…> 2006 Boston World Oil Conference Co-Hosted by ASPO-USA and Boston University Boston University; Boston, Massachusetts All Day Event 12:00p Biomass-Derived Transportation Fuels to Meet Sustainability and Security Objectives <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5948…> Lee Lynd, Professor of Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Biology, Dartmouth College Innovation in Transportation Seminar Series Carr Center conference room, Rubenstein 219, JFK School of Government 12:30p - 1:30p Exciting Geospacial Dimensions of Public Health Research: New Challenges and Mapping Health Inequalities <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6071…> Chuck Croner, geographer and survey statistician, CDC KSG 708 This event is open to the Harvard/Longwood community only 6:00p - 7:00p Alternatives to Oil: Dream or Reality? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6049…> The Third Annual Everett-Moomaw Debate TUFTS - ASEAN Auditorium *Friday 10/27/2006 * Time for Action: A Midnight Ride for Peak Oil <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6067…> 2006 Boston World Oil Conference Co-Hosted by ASPO-USA and Boston University Boston University; Boston, Massachusetts All Day Event 8:30a - 9:30p Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5918…> Johan Paulsson, Harvard University, HMS, Systems Biology Research Focus: Modeling Gene Networks Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 11:00a - 12:00p Land-use history and patterns of biodiversity in Southern Appalachian forests <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6010…> Scott Pearson, Mars Hill College and Harvard Bullard Fellow Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA 12:30p - 1:30p Methods to adjust for bias due to exposure measurement error in environmental and occupational epidemiology <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6064…> Dr. Donna Spiegelman, Professor of Epidemiologic Methods, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health Environmental Statistics seminar Harvard School of Public Health, Building 2, Room 426 2:00p - 5:30p The Green Living Program Waste Audit <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6071…> 175 North Harvard Street, Cambridge 2:30p - 3:30p Satellite-Observed US Powerplant NOx Emission Reductions and Their Impact on Air Quality <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5966…> Gregory J. Frost, NOAA Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge *Sunday 10/29/2006* 3:00p - 5:00p Henry David Thoreau Speaking For Nature <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6064…> Dick Walton and John Huehnergard Concord Art Association, 37 Lexington Road, Concord 7:30p - 8:30p Global Warming and its Effects on New England <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6034…> Kevin Knobloch, President, Union of Concerned Scientists Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA *Monday 10/30/2006 * 4:00p - 5:00p Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6071…> Brian Mapes, University of Miami Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford *Tuesday 10/31/2006 * 12:00p - 2:30p Information Session: Duke Nicholas School <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5898…> Harvard Center for Environment seminar room, 3rd floor, Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford St 4:00p - 5:00p Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar Series <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6052…> Felisa Wolfe-Simon Arizona State University Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street * Wednesday 11/1/2006* 4:00p - 5:30p Does Electricity Restructuring Benefit the Environment? A Structural, Empirical Analysis of Intertemporal Emission Trading in the U.S. SO2 Allowance Market <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5898…> Fan Zhang, Harvard University Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 6:00p - 7:00p Is the WTO Accountable? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6052…> Pascal Lamy, director-general, WTO, former European Commissioner for Trade, 1999-2004 2006 Wiener Lecture on International Political Economy John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge *Thursday 11/2/2006* 8:30a - 5:00p The 2nd Annual Conference on Clean Energy: Financing and Partnering for Emerging Technologies <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5898…> Hynes Convention Center, Boston 2:00p - 4:15p The 'instability' of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: for too long a hypothesis? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5920…> Duncan Wingham, Director, Centre for Polar Observational Modelling, Professor of Climate Physics, University College London Harvard Climate Seminar Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford 7:30p Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6055…> Sponsored by the Harvard Environmental Action Committee Climate Change Initiative Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard *Friday 11/3/2006 * 8:30a - 9:30p Bacterial natural product assembly lines- Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5918…> Christopher T. Walsh, Harvard University (HMS, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology) Research Focus: Enzymology Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 7:30p Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6055…> Sponsored by the Harvard Environmental Action Committee Climate Change Initiative Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard *Saturday 11/4/2006 * ** 7:30p Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6055…> Sponsored by the Harvard Environmental Action Committee Climate Change Initiative Science Center Lecture Hall D, Harvard *Monday 11/6/2006 * ** 4:00p - 5:00p Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6071…> Dan Harlov, Experimental Geochemistry and Mineral Physics, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 11/7/2006 * 9:00a - 10:30p Poverty Alleviation and the Environment in China <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5948…> Zhang Shiqiu, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Seminar Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG 4:00p - 5:00p Controlling Mercury Emissions at China's Coal-Fired Electricity Plants: An Economic Analysis <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6068…> ZHANG Shiqiu, Professor, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University Harvard China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., *Wednesday 11/8/2006 * 8:00a - 9:15a Genome Sequence Variation and the Inherited Basis of Disease <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6052…> David Altshuler, MD, Ph.D, Director Program in Medical Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Center for the Environment Genetics & Environmental Health Series Kresge Room 110, HSPH, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston 4:00p - 5:30p Evaluating Policy Impacts on Tropical Deforestation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5898…> Alexander Pfaff and Juan Andres Robalino, Columbia University Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard 4:30p - 5:30p Genesis: the Scientific Quest for Life's Origins <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6031…> Robert Hazen, Carnegie Part of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative Inaugural Symposium Gutman Conference Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education *Thursday 11/9/2006 * 3:30p - 4:30p Disease process models: A way to link exposure and outcomes in epidemiology <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5836…> Tom Smith Colloquium in Environmental Health Kresge G-2, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 7:30p Religion and Climate Change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6055…> Boylston Hall Room 110, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Campus

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Fwd: Re: Recursive phase estimation (per quant-ph/0607019)]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, This is a reply that Manny Knill sent me related to his way of doing PEA (quant-ph/0607019) and our way of doing it. His method is related to James's and Tomita's method. I think now that some of you guys are looking at Phase Estimation in your class, and Masoud (and Ali soon) have/are arriving we should have a group meeting and talk about the Manny Knill paper vis a vis what we do. Alan -- Alán Aspuru-Guzik Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)384-8188 Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] No group meeting tomorrow.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, There is no group meeting tomorrow. Ivan had to fly to Mexico for family reasons, and Brian Austin will be already gone. I think we should resume group meetings next week. Cheers, Alan -- Alán Aspuru-Guzik Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)384-8188 Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Meeting and Lunch with David Ronis: TOMORROW THURDSAY

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, I made a mistake in my e-mail last night, the lunch and meeting will happen TOMORROW (Thursday). The people that signed up are: 10.45 Meeting with Dr. Sule Atahan, M110 Mallinckrodt 11.15 Meeting with Prof. Alan Aspuru-Guzik M113 12.00 Lunch with Leslie Vogt, (Sule Atahan?) and Zhizhong Yao and Alan + Andrei The order of e-mails received was Leslie, Sule and Zhizhong, what is not clear is if Sule also wants to come to lunch or not. If Sule wants to come, she has priority, if not Zhizhong. Andrei: Is this OK? Can we have 3 for lunch instead of 2? Alan -- Alán Aspuru-Guzik Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)384-8188 Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Volunteers for lunch tomorrow.

by alan＠aspuru.com

Dear all, I need two volunteers for lunch tomorrow with the speaker of the MIT-Harvard-BU theoretical chemistry seminar. (Yes, it is a free lunch!) First two that reply are first served :) If anybody wants to meet with him (that can be a group of you) at 10.45-11.15 let me know as well. I will meet him 11.15-12.00 in my office. He is working on diffusion problems so he might be helpful for the fuel cell project. http://ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca/ronis/ Alan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [theochem-announce] Wednesday 10/25 GBA Theoretical Chemistry Lecture

by Chiao-Lun Cheng

Hi all, Please take note of the upcoming GBA Theoretical Chemistry Lecture. Title-- Diffusion in Channeled Materials: From Microscopic to Macroscopic Dynamics Speaker-- David Ronis McGill University Time-- Wednesday, October 25th 4pm-6pm Place-- MIT (24-121) http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=24-121 More Information-- http://people.bu.edu/theochem/ _______________________________________________ theochem-announce mailing list theochem-announce(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/theochem-announce

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