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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] DEAS Colloquium on Thursday, October 26th

by Helene Tingle

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Compilation of Matlab Programs for Uniprocesors and Parallel Machines based on Telescoping Languages Ken Kennedy John and Ann Doerr University Professor Director, Center for High Performance Software Rice University Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract One way to increase national productivity is to broaden the community of programmers by making it possible for end users to develop applications for themselves. Indeed, many users today are producing highly functional applications using scripting languages and high- level problem-solving systems such as Matlab, Visual Basic, and S- PLUS. Unfortunately, the productivity gains are offset by the costs of rewriting these applications in “production” programming languages such as C or Fortran once they are determined to be useful. Eliminating the need for this rewriting step would bring about a dramatic increase in global programming productivity. In this talk, I will describe Rice’s work on telescoping languages, which is exploring ways to generate optimized high-level problem- solving languages from annotated domain libraries. The strategy involves an extensive, compute-intensive preliminary analysis of the library, performed at language-generation time. The output of this process, which could take many hours, or even days, to complete, will be an efficient compiler for an extended scripting language in which calls to the underlying domain library are recognized and optimized as primitive operations. The talk will focus on how this strategy is being applied to compilation of Matlab and associated libraries for both sequential and parallel machines. At the heart of this approach is a novel type analysis system that can be applied to libraries in the absence of a calling program to produce type jump functions, which can be used at script compilation time to produce good code without requiring unreasonable compile times. To produce efficient code for parallel machines, we are leveraging Rice’s High Performance Fortran compiler technology at the library preprocessing stage. The long-term goal of this research is to make it possible for ordinary users, particularly scientists and engineers, to build their own high-performance applications, just as they were once able to do in the early days of Fortran. If this effort succeeds, it could facilitate a dramatic broadening of the community that can use high- performance computing platforms for problem solving. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Special Energy Event at Boston Univeristy

by Jenny MacGregor

Hello all, Please find details below for a discussion on Peak Oil at BU this Friday. Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment 2006 Boston World Oil Conference Time for Action: A Midnight Ride for Peak Oil Co-Hosted by ASPO-USA and Boston University ASPO-USA announces our second "Dialog with the Experts",� a high-level conference to discuss impacts of and responses to a peak in world oil production. Dates Thursday, October 26 and Friday, October 27, 2006 (plus pre- and post-conference events) Location Boston University; Boston, Massachusetts For more information: Dick Lawrence: Conference Co-Chair, Local Host Committee Chair, ASPO-USA Co-founder 978-562-6307, richard.lawrence(a)intel.com Steve Andrews, ASPO-USA Co-founder 303-759-1998, sbandrews(a)att.net **http://www.aspo-usa.com/fall2006/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar - Felice Frankel on November 15, 2006

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing Seminar Series Wednesday, November 15, 2006; 4:00pm **Please note the date change.** Felice Frankel, Senior Research Fellow, Initiative in Innovative Computing, Harvard University Seminar Title: Your Visual Representations of Science: Are They Lost in Translation? Abstract In recent years, the science community is finally paying more attention to the way it visually expresses its data and scientific concepts. Many publications now are showing collections of examples of graphics, however, most are neither written by people who make those representations, nor do they provide thoughtful standards specifically relevant to the research community. Such exercises can be enormously helpful to begin to think about general approaches to graphical presentation of data, but vast specific challenges in the visual expression of science remain unsolved. This conversation with the audience will not present a manifesto on the “right” way to represent science. It will simply raise questions and encourage further discussion. I’ll show examples from my own efforts, including the not so successful ones, and other figures and images already published in the scientific literature. The talk will remind us that representations are translations of various forms of data into visual expressions, and that we have to make decisions during the process—preferably the right ones. Date and Time: Wednesday, November 15, 2006; 4:00pm; Refreshments at 3:45pm Location: 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Parking: Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar. A map is available on line at http:// iic.harvard.edu/contactphp. Upcoming IIC seminars Thursday, November 30, 2006 – Panel Discussion: Future of Computer Intensive Science in the U.S.; Dr. Daniel Reed and Dr. Sangtae Kim Seminar Series schedule is available on the IIC website – http:// iic.harvard.edu/events.php. The website will be updated often with additional information and seminars. All IIC seminars will be held at the 60 Oxford Street Building, Room 330 unless otherwise noted. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] This seminar is of interest.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Seminar of interest: 4:00p - 5:15p Nature's Renewable Energy Blueprint: Future Fuel from Photosynthesis & Biomimics Charles Dismukes, Department of Chemistry Princeton Materials Institute & Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University Pierce 209, 29 Oxford Street -- 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] Environmental Events at Harvard 10/19/06 - 11/2/06

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. *Highlights:* *10/20/06 -- Nature's Renewable Blueprint at Pierce hall -- Charles Dismukes *10/24/06 -- Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School *10/26/06/ /-- Harvard China Project Seminar -- Acid Rain in China *Calendar Listings:* *Thursday 10/19/2006 * 4:00p - 5:00p Ecology, mosaic genomes and the evolution of organismal design <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6010…> AveTodd Streelman, Georgia Tech Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity *Friday 10/20/2006* 8:30a - 9:30p Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5918…> Marcia B. Goldberg, Mass General Hospital Research Focus: Host-Pathogen Interactions Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 11:00a - 12:15p Regeneration dynamics in large forest gaps <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5920…> Michael Dietze - Harvard University Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA 12:00p - 1:00p Atmospheric pollution in China: measurements in source regions and implications <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6031…> Tao Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St. Cambridge 4:00p - 5:15p Nature's Renewable Energy Blueprint: Future Fuel from Photosynthesis & Biomimics <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5989…> Charles Dismukes, Department of Chemistry Princeton Materials Institute & Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University Pierce 209, 29 Oxford Street *Saturday 10/21/2006 * 8:00a - 8:00p Conservation, Environmental Justice, and Resource Rights <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5901…> William James Hall, Room 1, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge *Monday 10/23/2006 * 4:00p - 5:00p Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6031…> Yadvinder Malhi, Department of Geography, Oxford Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 10/24/2006 * 9:00a - 10:30a Management Practices of Expert Innovators <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5948…> Robert Austin, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Seminar Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG 11:00a - 12:00p The Ecology of Place: The role of field stations in going from the particular to the general <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6031…> Ian Billick - Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA 3:00p - 7:00p Harvard Business School -- Energy Symposium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6025…> Spangler Auditorium, HBS, Soldier's Field Rd 3:00p - 4:15p Paleoseismology and earthquake surface ruptures: Could we learn anything about earthquake processes? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6010…> Yann Klinger, Laboratoire Tectonique, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman Laboratories, 20 Oxford Street *Wednesday 10/25/2006 * 8:00a - 9:15a Smoke and Genes <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6025…> Joel Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, HSPH Genetics and Environmental Health Series Kresge Building, Room 110, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, HSPH 10:30a - 11:30a Temperature and Pressure Measurements from the ACE-MAESTRO Space Instrument <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6052…> Dr. Caroline Nowlan, University of Toronto CFA AMP / Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Host Center for Astrophysics Pratt Conference Room (G04), Harvard, 4:00p - 5:30p Design Insights from the Use of Tradeable Permits for Air Emissions, Water Allocation, and Fisheries <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5895…> Tom Tietenberg, Colby College Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard *Thursday 10/26/2006 * 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 4:00p - 5:00p Acid Rain in China: Current Situation and a New National Initiative <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6046…> WANG Tao (Professor, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Visiting Scholar, China Project, HUCE/DEAS Harvard China Project seminars Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 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 * 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 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 * 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 Sponsored by the Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA *Tuesday 10/31/2006 * 12:00p - 2:30p Information Session: Duke Nicholas School <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5898…> Make a career out of your concerns about climate change, ocean pollution and sustainable development. 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 Modeling, Professor of Climate Physics, University College London Harvard Climate Seminar Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group meeting today at 5.30

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group members, We have a group meeting today at 5.30. We will hear Sule talk about fuel cells. PS. Sorry for just sending the announcement out right now, but as you know, things have been quite busy for me this week with the open house + having Peter Love here, etc. I will catch up. -- 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] [iic-seminars] DEAS Colloquium Today! - Luiz André Barroso, Google

by Helene Tingle

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:00PM Colloquium Up and Running (Fast): Building and operating a large-scale computing infrastructure Luiz André Barroso Google http://labs.google.com/papers http://barroso.org Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract Google is quite a bit more than a typical Internet company in that we spend a significant effort architecting our computing infrastructure for maximum efficiency. In this talk we will discuss some of the challenges involved in handling failures and optimizing performance for large-scale services, and how dealing with such issues requires a broad range of expertise and the development of new, sophisticated tools. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - Donna Cox on October 18th - tomorrow!

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing Seminar Series Wednesday, October 18, 2006; 4:00pm **Refreshments at 3:45pm!** Donna Cox, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, and Director of the Advanced Scientific Visualization Laboratory (ASVL), at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Title: CyberOutreach: Non-expert Audiences and the Design of Scientific Data Abstract: Professor Donna J. Cox will present a visual feast of digital data-driven scientific imagery from her collaborative work with "Renaissance Teams" at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She coined the term "Renaissance Teams" in 1985 to describe interdisciplinary research teams focused on challenges in scientific visualization. In the early years, teams were small local groups, but now through grid technologies, most teams are distributed remotely and work collaboratively through global technologies. She collaborates, designs and aesthetically directs data-driven visualizations of supercomputer simulations from a variety of disciplines ranging from oceanography to astrophysics. She demonstrates both rigorous design methodologies and works with educators and focus groups to provide solutions to the challenging work of data-driven visualizations for non-expert audiences. New visualization methods have resulted in advanced virtual reality tools that provide new ways for researchers to collaborate over remote distances and high-speed networks. Professor Cox will describe these technologies to create high- resolution, high-fidelity digital scientific animations for museums and high-definition television. Technology is exponentially transforming the way that people collaborate, scientists "see", and designers invent. Professor Cox will present a voyage of how art and science have converged through computer graphics technology. Her greatest passion is to employ new technologies to inspire general audiences with the awe and mystery of science. This presentation will demonstrate advanced graphical techniques in the making of "high art" science for insight and public presentation. Date and Time: Wednesday, October 18, 2006; 4:00pm; Full Refreshment Buffet at 3:45pm Location: 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Parking: Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar. A map is available on line at http:// iic.harvard.edu/contactphp. Upcoming IIC seminars November 8, 2006 – Felice Frankel Seminar Series schedule is available on the IIC website – http:// iic.harvard.edu/events.php. The website will be updated often with additional information and seminars. All IIC seminars will be held at the 60 Oxford Street Building, Room 330 unless otherwise noted. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Special Business and Development Talk this Evening - HBS

by Jenny MacGregor

This presentation by Martin Fischer, the brother of Harvard Science Faculty member Daniel Fisher, is open to all: The International Business and Development Club Presents KickStarting the End of Poverty Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Harvard Business School: Aldrich Hall 210 5pm - 6pm KickStart Co-Founder Martin Fisher discusses how his organization has enabled over 45,000 African entrepreneurs to generate $46 Million in new profits each year in Kenya, Tanzania, and Mali. To date, KickStart technologies are responsible for new businesses equivalent to over 0.5% of Kenya's GDP, and 0.2% of Tanzania's GDP. In the process, KickStart based businesses have helped over 220,000 Africans escape from poverty and join the middle class in their countries. KickStart innovates on two levels. On a very practical level, KickStart designs, develops and mass markets inexpensive tools that poor entrepreneurs buy and use to create profitable new businesses. Products must be strong and durable, portable, culturally appropriate, ergonomic and since all tools are manually powered, incredibly energy efficient. On a systems level, KickStart has created a revolutionary and truly sustainable solution to poverty using private sector supply chains. Kickstart's flagship product line of "MoneyMaker" manual irrigation pumps enable farmers, on average, to realize a ten-fold increase in net farm income. The social impacts are tremendous. Thanks to the income generated by KickStart's pumps, over 60,000 children are able to attend school because their families can afford tuition, supplies and uniforms. More than 6,000 homes have been built or substantially improved by KickStart entrepreneurs. Families report improved health and nutrition, and even improved relationships, as a direct result of the new income a family earns. Martin holds a B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell in 1979. He earned an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and a PhD from Stanford in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1985, both from Stanford. After graduating, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study the connection between technology and development in Kenya in. He stayed in Kenya for 17 years, working for other development programs before starting KickStart (originally named ApproTEC). More on KickStart and Martin's model for development online at http://www.kickstart.org/home/ and http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/itgg.2006.1.1.9

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] DEAS Seminar on October 19th

by Helene Tingle

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Up and Running (Fast): Building and operating a large-scale computing infrastructure Luiz André Barroso Google http://labs.google.com/papers http://barroso.org Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract Google is quite a bit more than a typical Internet company in that we spend a significant effort architecting our computing infrastructure for maximum efficiency. In this talk we will discuss some of the challenges involved in handling failures and optimizing performance for large-scale services, and how dealing with such issues requires a broad range of expertise and the development of new, sophisticated tools. Host: Professor Michael Smith _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

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