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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events at Harvard 10/12/06 - 10/26/06

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:* *TONIGHT - Microbial Sciences Initiative Seminar Series with Dr. Mak Saito *10/20/06 - Atmospheric Sciences Seminar - Atmospheric Pollution in China *10/25/06 - Genes and the Environment at HSPH: Smoke and Genes *Calendar Listings:* *Thursday 10/12/2006 * 5:30p - 7:00p Interconnections between the Biogeochemical Cycles of Cobalt and Vitamin B12 <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6004…> Dr. Mak Saito, Dept of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, MA Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Thursday Evening Seminar Series Harvard Center for Environment seminar room, 3rd floor, Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford St. *Friday 10/13/2006 * 9:00a - 5:00p The Chandra Fellows Symposium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6031…> Phillips Auditorium, CfA, 60 Garden St. 11:00a - 12:00p Hemlock scale, woolly adelgid, and eastern hemlocks: can an herbivore ever be 'helpful'? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6010…> Evan Pressier, University of Massachusetts Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA 12:00p - 1:15p Convective Transport of Water Vapor and Polluted Air in the Asian Monsoon/Tibetan Region and its Influence on Global Stratosphere <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5966…> Rong Fu, Georgia Tech Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge *Monday 10/16/2006* 3:30a - 5:00p Worst Things Last? The Irrelevance of Risk Analysis in Occupational Health and Safety Policy <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5992…> Adam M. Finkel, Sc.D., UMDNJ School of Public Health, and Princeton University Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series Landmark Center, West Atrium, 414A, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 12:00p - 12:30p - 1:45p Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6025…> Matthew E. Kahn, Professor of economics at the Fletcher School, Tufts University TUFTS - Cabot 206, 160 Packard Street - Tufts Medford campus 12:30p - 1:30p Diets, Diseases, and Death in Sub-Saharan Africa <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6031…> Andrew Prentice, professor of international nutrition, MRC International Nutrition Group, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine FXB, G13 , Harvard School of Public Health, Boston This event is open to the Harvard/Longwood community only. 4:00p - 5:00p Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5989…> J.S. Wettlaufer, Yale Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 10/17/2006 * 3:30p - 4:30p Developmental neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals: A silent pandemic <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5836…> Philippe Grandjean, adjunct professor of environmental health Colloquium in Environmental Health Kresge G-2, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 4:15p - 5:15p Catalytic Asymmetric Construction of Tetrasubstituted Carbons Using Chiral Rare Earth and Copper Catalysts <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6010…> Motomo Kanai, University of Tokyo Chemistry and Chemical Biology Lecture Series Pfizer Lecture Hall, Room B23, Mallinckrodt Laboratory, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 4:30p - 5:30p Slow, Fast and Quasi-hyperbolic Discounting of Health Outcomes <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6025…> Dean Jamison, T&G Angelopoulos Visiting Professor in Public Health and International Development in the Faculty of Public Health; T&G Angelopoulos Visiting Professor in Public Health and International Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government 9 Bow St., Cambridge, MA *Wednesday 10/18/2006 * 10:00a - 11:30p Valuing Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5992…> Scott Grosse, Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series Landmark Center, West Atrium, 414A, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 12:00p - 1:00p Organic Aerosol Components:Thermodynamic Properties of the Solid and Sub-Cooled Liquid States <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6010…> Merete Bilde, University of Copenhagen Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street 4:00p - 5:30p Mandatory Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance in the Electricity Industry <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5895…> Jay Shimshack, Tufts University, et al. Seminar in Environmental Economics and Public policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 4:00p - 5:00p A Euxinic Ocean, Globally, Across the Permian Triassic Boundary: Hydrogen Sulfide as the Agent of the Great Mass Extinction <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6025…> Professor Roger Summons, MIT Origins Forum Agassiz Room, Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St. *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…> Todd Streelman, Georgia Tech Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave *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, DEAS *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, MA *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…> Kresge Building, Room 110, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, HSPH Joel Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, HSPH Genetics and Environmental Health Series 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 University *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

17 years, 6 months

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

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

17 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group meeting tomorrow.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, We will have a group meeting tomorrow at 5.00 PM (following the P-chem seminar) by Sule Atahan and Michael Wan on their experiences with polymers and backbiting rings. http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/Seminars/ 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

17 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Computers in Greg's office.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, The remaining 3 computers of the group just arrived. They are located in Greg's office. I will take them to their respective desks in the office, but I hope at a certain time, you guys help me setup them with Linux (an interesting experience). If there are volunteers, let me know. 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

17 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC-related colloquim in DEAS - October 12th

by Helene Tingle

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Honeynets and Honeygames: A Game Theoretic Approach to Defending Network Monitors Jin-Yi Cai University of Wisconsin, Madison http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~jyc Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract A honeynet is a portion of routed but otherwise unused address space that is instrumented for network traffic monitoring. Over the past several years, honeynets have proven to be an invaluable tool for monitoring and detecting unwanted Internet traffic and malicious attacks. However malicious parties are also aware of these honeynets and will attempt to identify these from normal host addresses by probes. We address the problem of defending honeynets against systematic mapping.Honeynet can be periodically reshuffled. But reshuffling is a relatively costly operation. In between reshuffles honeynet can engage in limited conversations with probing hosts. This serves to obfuscate malicious probes while collecting data. We model this problem as a two-person game between an Attacker and a Defender. A segment of the address space is marked as an honeynet, hidden from the Attacker. The objective of the Attacker is to identify the embedded honeynet by probes. The Defender wants to obfuscate so as to minimize the shuffling frequency. After defining the precise formulation of the game, we give provable optimal strategies for both the Attacker and Defender. The main technical ingredient is a combinatorial lemma concerning a packing problem. My colleagues have also implemented a network shuffling middlebox. Experimental results show that the system is capable of effectively defending large networks, with limited impact on normal traffic, and responds well in the face of network attacks and anomalies. Joint work with Vinod Yegneswaran, Chris Alfeld and Paul Barford. Host: Professor L.G. Valiant _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

17 years, 6 months

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

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

17 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events at Harvard 10/5/06 - 10/19/06

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:* *10/10/06 - Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Seminar on Climate Change and the private sector *10/12/06 - Microbial Sciences Initiative Seminar with Mak Saito of WHOI *10/16/06 /and/ 10/18/06 - Two Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminars *Calendar Listings:* *Friday 10/6/2006 * 8:30a - 9:30p Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5918…> Howard Berg, Harvard University (FAS- Molecular and Cellular Biology) Research Focus: Motility and Chemotaxis Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 11:00a - 12:15p Grasslands as biodiversity hotspots of the European cultural landscape: ecological aspects of conservation and restoration <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5920…> Kai Jensen, Smith College and University of Hamburg Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA 2:30p - 3:30p Scale Interactions in Convectively-Coupled Tropical Waves - Special Climatea <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6004…> George N. Kiladis, Physical Sciences Division at NOAA HUCE Seminar Room, 310 - 3rd Floor, Geological Museum Building 4:00p - 5:15p Mathematical models of hurricanes, dust storms & similar natural phenomena <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5966…> Grigory I. Barenblatt, Professor in Residence, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley Pierce Hall 209, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge *Tuesday 10/10/2006 * 9:00a - 10:30a Exploring the Role of the Private Sector in Addressing Climate Change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5948…> Craig Hart, PhD. Candidate, MIT Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) Seminar Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5945…> Conference Room, Center for Climate and Atmosphere, Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford Street, 4th Floor 4:00p - 5:00p Decoupled Plant and Insect Diversity after the End-Cretaceous Extinction <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6010…> Peter Wilf, Penn State Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar Series Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Wednesday 10/11/2006 * 4:00p - 5:30p The Impact of Critical Habitat Designation on the California Housing Market <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5895…> Jeffrey Zabel, Tufts University, and Robert Paterson, Industrial Economics Seminar in Environmental Economics and Public policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 6:00p - 7:15p One World, One Health: Protecting the health of people, animals, and the planet <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5966…> Dr. William Karesh, DVM, Director of Wildlife Conservation Society's Field Veterinary Program Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Thursday 10/12/2006 * 4:00p - 5:00p Phylogeny and evolution of unusual genetic systems in armored scale insects <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6010…> Benjamin Normark, University of Massachusetts Amherst Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave 5:30p - 7:00p Interconnections between the Biogeochemical Cycles of Cobalt and Vitamin B12 <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6004…> Dr. Mak Saito, Dept of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, MA Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Thurs evening seminar series Harvard Center for Environment seminar room, 3rd floor, Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford St. *Friday 10/13/2006* 11:00a - 12:00p Hemlock scale, woolly adelgid, and eastern hemlocks: can an herbivore ever be 'helpful'? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6010…> Evan Pressier, University of Massachusetts Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest - Petersham, MA 12:00p - 1:15p Convective Transport of Water Vapor and Polluted Air in the Asian Monsoon/Tibetan Region and its Influence on Global Stratosphere <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5966…> Rong Fu, Georgia Tech Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge * Monday 10/16/2006* 3:30a - 5:00p Worst Things Last? The Irrelevance of Risk Analysis in Occupational Health and Safety Policy <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5992…> Adam M. Finkel, Sc.D., UMDNJ School of Public Health, and Princeton University Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series Landmark Center, West Atrium, 414A, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 12:00p - 1:30p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HEJC) <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5920…> Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 4:00p - 5:00p Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5989…> J.S. Wettlaufer, Yale Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquia Fall 2006 Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street * Tuesday 10/17/2006 * 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5945…> Conference Room, Center for Climate and Atmosphere, Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford Street, 4th Floor 3:30p - 4:30p Developmental neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals: A silent pandemic <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5836…> Philippe Grandjean, adjunct professor of environmental health Colloquium in Environmental Health Kresge G-2, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 4:15p - 5:15p Catalytic Asymmetric Construction of Tetrasubstituted Carbons Using Chiral Rare Earth and Copper Catalysts <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6010…> Motomo Kanai, University of Tokyo Chemistry and Chemical Biology Lecture Series Pfizer Lecture Hall, Room B23, Mallinckrodt Laboratory, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA * Wednesday 10/18/2006* 10:00a - 11:30p Valuing Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5992…> Scott Grosse, Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series Landmark Center, West Atrium, 414A, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 12:00p - 1:00p Organic Aerosol Components: Thermodynamic Properties of the Solid and Sub-Cooled Liquid States <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6010…> Merete Bilde, University of Copenhagen Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street 6:15p - 7:15p Mandatory Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance in the Electricity Industry <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5895…> Jay Shimshack, Tufts University, et al. Seminar in Environmental Economics and Public policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University *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…> Todd Streelman, Georgia Tech Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave

17 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC-Related Colloquium today at DEAS - Manuela Veloso

by Helene Tingle

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Thursday, October 5, 2006 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Selective Use of Multiple Sources of Robot Sensory Information Manuela Veloso Sargent-Faull Fellow Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv/ Abstract An autonomous robot needs to assess the state of the environment, make decisions towards achieving its goals, and execute the selected actions. In teams of autonomous robots, robots have individually limited perception, but can communicate state information to each other creating therefore multiple perceptual inputs. We present an algorithm for selectively merging and using the own perceptual data combined with the communicated data from teammate robots. In general, robots face the challenge of combining multiple sources of sensory information. We illustrate different concrete instances of this problem and discuss knowledge and probabilistic based approaches to effectively merge multi-modal information. The talk will be organized as an explanation of the algorithms underlying a series of different robot videos, including robot soccer players, humanoid robot soccer commentators, and machine visual object recognition. Bio: Manuela M. Veloso is Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, researching in the area of artificial intelligence and robotics. She is now on sabbatical leave as a Radcliffe Fellow, where she is very much looking forward to pursuing fruitful interdisciplinary research. Host: Professor Barbara Grosz _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

17 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Fwd: Center for the Environment Open House 10/4/06]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, IF anybody is interested in the environmental aspect of the Center for the Environment. I'll be there at 4.00. Let me know and we can go together. Alan

17 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - Matt Welsh Speaking Today at 4pm

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing Seminar Series Wednesday, October 4, 2006; 4:00pm **At 3:45pm come and enjoy our sweet and savory refreshments!** Matt Welsh, Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Seminar Title: Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions with a Wireless Sensor Network Abstract: Wireless sensor networks are an exciting new technology with many potential applications in the natural sciences. Our group has been collaborating with seismologists from UNH, UNC, and the Instituto Geofisico in Ecuador to explore the use of sensor networks for monitoring eruptions and earthquakes at active volcanoes. The use of wireless sensor networks can augment and supplant existing seismic monitoring equipment, which often involves heavy, power-hungry data loggers. This is an especially challenging application, requiring high-resolution signal collection across an array of spatially- separated sensors to understand the geophysical processes underlying volcanic activity. In this talk, I will describe two sensor network deployments that we have undertaken on volcanoes in Ecuador, Tungurahua and Reventador, in the summers of 2004 and 2005. The Reventador network consisted of 16 wireless sensor nodes, distributed over a 3 km aperture, that collected high-resolution seismic and acoustic data on over 200 eruptions and earthquakes over 3 weeks. This project involved many challenges, including reliable multihop routing, fine-grained network time synchronization, over-the-air reprogramming, and event-based triggering. I will also discuss the lessons learned from deploying a sensor network in such a hostile and remote location. Reaching the deployment site required slogging through dense jungle for several hours to the upper flanks of the volcano, deforested by a massive eruption in 2002. Link: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/proj/volcano/ Link: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/travel/ecuador3/ Date and Time: Wednesday, October 4, 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 October 18, 2006 – Donna Cox 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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