aspuru-list November 2006

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events at Harvard 11/30/06 - 12/14/06

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:* 12/5/06 -- The Politics of the Environment with Christine Todd Whitman 12/9/06 -- An afternoon with Ramachandra Guha 12/14/06 -- Future of Energy Lecture with John Holdren *Calendar Listings:*** *Friday 12/1/2006 * 6:00p -- 8:00p Constructing the Swiss Landscape <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6141…> Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge Ongoing Cambridge Science Festival, Call for Entries <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6156…> 8:30a - 9:30p Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5918…> Roy Kishony, Harvard University (HMS, Systems Biology) Research Focus: Microbial Epistasis Networks Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 11:00a - 12:00p The webs beneath our feet: disturbance, agriculture and restoration ecology of mycorrhizas <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6181…> Chris Picone - Fitchburg State University Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA 12:00p - 1:00p Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions and Their Importance in the Global Mercury Cycle <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6157…> Robert P. Mason, University of Connecticut Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge *Saturday 12/2/2006* 9:30p -- 5:30p Constructing the Swiss Landscape <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6141…> *Sunday 12/3/2006* 2:00p - 4:00p What's Up with the North Pole? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6175…> Andy Revkin, New York Times science reporter and author of /The North Pole Was Here/ Harvard Museum of Natural History Family Program Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Monday 12/4/2006* 11:30a - 12:30p Fast movements and acoustic defenses: evolutionary physiology in the marine environment <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6157…> Sheila Patek, University of California, Berkeley OEB Special Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge 2:00p - 3:00p Carbonate Mysteries Revisited: What do foram proxies tell us about seawater history and what do they tell us about forams? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6157…> Harry Elderfield, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge Harvard Climate Seminar Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p The past, present and future of methane on Titan <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6157…> Jonathan Lunine, Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge * Tuesday 12/5/2006* 9:00a - 10:30a Industrial Organization and the Prospects for Carbon Capture and Storage in Deep Sea Sediment <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6046…> Jeff Bielicki, ETIP Fellow Harvard Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG 12:00p - 1:00p Grassroots Conservation: Lessons from an Innovations Award Winner <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6181…> Greg Neudecker, Assistant State Coordinator, Montana Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program and Jim Stone, The Blackfoot Challenge Taubman 301, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge 3:30p - 4:30p Obesity and asthma: Lessons from animal models <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5836…> Stephanie Shore Colloquium in Environmental Health Kresge G-2, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 4:00p - 5:00p Acoustic Tomography of Ocean Climate (1982-2000): How a Group of Distinguished Cold War Oceanographers Tried (and Failed) to Become Environmental Scientists who Would Definitively Answer the Question of Global Warming <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5989…> Naomi Oreskes, Department of History/Program in Science Studies, UCSD Department of the History of Science Colloquia Science Center Room 469, 1 Oxford St. 6:00p - 7:15p The Politics of the Environment <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6178…> Christine Todd Whitman, administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency (2001-2003); governor, New Jersey (1994-2001); Institute of politics visiting fellow (Fall 2006) John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge *Wednesday 12/6/2006* 12:00p - 1:00p Insect flight beyond the laboratory: Complex aerial behaviors in an unpredictable environment <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6181…> Stacey A. Combes, Miller Research Fellow University of California, Berkeley Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge 6:00p - 7:00p Friend or Foe? The Complex Relationships of Caterpillars and Ants <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6157…> Lecture by Naomi Pierce in conjunction with the HMNH's new exhibition, Arthropods: Creatures that Rule Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Thursday 12/7/2006 * 1:00p - 2:00p Eight cells and beyond: The demographic trajectory of the human sex ratio <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6181…> Steven Orzack, The Fresh Pond Research Institute, Cambridge, MA Population and Evolutionary Genetics / Genomics Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge *Friday 12/8/2006* Ongoing Cambridge Science Festival, Call for Entries <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6156…> 8:30a - 9:30p Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5918…> David Weitz, Harvard University (FAS- Dept Engineering and Applied Sciences) Research Focus: Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Physics Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 11:00a - 12:00p Chelonian conservation in Massachusetts: a tale of three turtles <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6181…> Paul Sievert - University of Massachusetts Harvard Forest Autumn 2006 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA *Saturday 12/9/06* 2:00p - 4:00p An afternoon with Ramachandra Guha <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6175…> Ramachandra Guha, distinguished environmental, social, and cultural historian RSVP only: peter_alagona(a)ksg.harvard.edu Tubman Building, Room 301, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge* * *Monday 12/11/2006 * 11:30a - 0:30a Evolution of development and the origin of adaptation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6181…> Alex Badyaev, University of Arizona Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Special Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge *Wednesday 12/13/2006* 8:00a - 9:15a Molecular Epidemiology of Dioxin Toxicity in Seveso <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6025…> Andrea Baccarelli, MD, Ph.D., Visiting Scientist, Department of Environmental Health, HSPH Genetics and Environmental Health Series Kresge Building, Room 110, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, HSPH 12:00p - 1:00p Taxonomic intelligence and the Encyclopedia of Life: using taxonomic principles to manage information about organisms on the internet <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6181…> David Patterson, Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Special Seminar Agassiz Conference Room, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge **Thursday 12/14/2006* 12:00p Making Emissions Trading Work for Transportation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5948…> Mark Proegler, Director of Emissions Markets, BP Group Innovation in Transportation Seminar Series Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219, 79 JFK Street, KSG 4:00p - 5:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6181…> Andreas Wagner, University of New Mexico Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge 5:00p - 6:15p The Future of Energy Lecture Series - Meeting the Energy-Environment Challenge ...and How Harvard Can Help <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6071…> John P. Holdren, Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard and Director of The Woods Hole Research Institute Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge 6:00p - 7:00p The Puzzle of Uncultured Bacteria <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6153…> Geoff McFadden, Northeastern University, Dept of Biology Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Meetings !

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, We are very busy with group meetings. 9.00 AM Introduction to computational chemistry M113 11.15 AM-12.00 AM TODAY: Meeting with Bernd Berg. I decided to make this meeting with him open to all the group so we can meet him. This will take place either in my office or in M113 Bernd Berg is one of the world experts in Monte Carlo simulation. I think this is important for both the QC and the classical people in the group. Especially his PRL about optimization in rugged landscapes for protein folding/etc. We should compare our QC algorithms to his! Next tuesday at 5.00 we will listen from Jonathan from the David Cory group about the simulation of Hydrogen in NMR Next thursday, we will listen to a potential postdoctoral candidate, Sarin Deshpande from Cornell University talk to us a about a scheme for measuring individual elements of the density matrices! (Relevant to stuff that we are doing in DFT and in quantum computing) 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, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Printer supplies arrive tomorrow.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, The printing supply will arrive tomorrow. A. -- 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, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] No printer

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group, There is no printer today. We need the drum kit, which we are working on getting. Please do not send any jobs to the printer. We will try to get the drum kit today, but it might take a day or two. Alan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Kneeling chairs.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group, Please let Greg (copied) know if you prefer a kneeling chair or if you prefer a regular chair by Monday. We will try to order the necessary kneeling chairs by then. 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] [iic-seminars] Reminder TOMORROW, Th. Nov. 30 - IIC Panel Discussion - The Future of Computer Intensive Science in the U.S.

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing IIC Panel Discussion Thursday, November 30, 2006; 4:00pm Future of Computer Intensive Science in the U.S. Dr. Daniel Reed, Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and Dr. Sangtae Kim, Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Schools of Engineering Dr. Daniel Reed Title of Talk: The Challenge of Consilience Abstract Ten years – a geological epoch on the computing time scale. Looking back, a decade brought the web and consumer email, digital cameras and music, broadband networking, multifunction cell phones, WiFi, HDTV, telematics, multiplayer games, electronic commerce and computational science. It also brought spam, phishing, identity theft, software insecurity, outsourcing and globalization, information warfare and blurred work-life boundaries. What will a decade of technology advances bring in communications and collaboration, sensors and knowledge management, modeling and discovery, electronic commerce and digital entertainment, critical infrastructure management and security? What will it mean for research and education? As new discoveries increasingly lie at the interstices of traditional disciplines, computing is the enabler for a scholarship in the arts, humanities, creative practice and public policy. This talk will describe emerging opportunities in the arts, humanities, science and engineering where interdisciplinary Renaissance approaches can have profound impact on discovery and creative expression. Dr. Sangtae Kim Title of talk: Cyberinfrastructure and Economic Curvature Creating Curvature in a Flat World Abstract The role of classical infrastructure (roads, power grids, and water utilities) as foundational elements for economic growth is well understood and appreciated by the leaders and planners promoting economic development. Today, with the pervasive presence of information technology, an increasingly important role is being played by another type of infrastructure, called "cyberinfrastructure." This is the IT infrastructure made up of computers, software, databases, transmission lines and facilities, as well as the people and services needed to make the system work. Cyberinfrastructure is central to scientific advancement in the modern, data-intensive research environment. For example, the recent revolution in the life sciences, including the seminal achievement of sequencing the human genome on an accelerated time frame, was made possible by parallel advances in cyberinfrastructure for research in this data-intensive field. But beyond the enablement of basic research, cyberinfrastructure is a driver for global economic growth despite the disruptive 'flattening' effect of IT in the developed economies. But even at the regional level, visionary cyber investments to create smart infrastructures will induce 'economic curvature' a gravitational pull to overcome the dispersive effects of the 'flat' world and the consequential acceleration in economic growth. Date and Time: Thursday, November 30, 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 Dec. 6, 2006 - Richard Gabriel, Distinguished Engineer The 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, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Fwd: New graduate student seminar series sponsored by Fieser]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

I suggest that one of the students interested in joining the group nominates another student or postdoc from our group to give a talk :) A.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - Thursday, November 30, 2006

by Helene Tingle

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Fwd: Wednesday 11/29 Lecture and meeting with the speaker this Thursday]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, Does anybody want to meet Professor Berg from Florida? He is famous for his Monte Carlo work. He invented new sampling methods for lattices, etc. If so, e-mail Andrei directly :) Cheers, A. -- 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] [Fwd: yes today]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

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