aspuru-list November 2006

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] Reminder - Felice Frankel Seminar at IIC - Wed., Nov. 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; 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 Thursday, November 30, 2006 – Panel Discussion: Future of Computer Intensive Science in the U.S.; Dr. Daniel Reed and Sr. 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

17 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events at Harvard 11/13 - 11/23/06

by Jenny MacGregor

Dear HUCE Faculty and Friends, Due to a few technical difficulties, I was unable to send this email out last week. Please accept my apologies for the tardiness of this message. 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:* *11/16/06 -- The Future of Energy Lecture Series begins with *Mark Little*, Director of Global Research at GE - Talk Title: /Green is Green/ See attached poster for the complete list of speakers for the Future of Energy Series. *Monday 11/13/2006* 4:00p - 5:00p Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6071…> Simone Kaseman, Grant Institute of Earth Science, Ion Microprobe Unit, The University of Edinburgh Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 11/14/2006* 12:15p - 1:15p The European Union - A 'Green Normative Power' in World Politics? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6119…> Robert Falkner, Center for European Studies Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, Harvard 7:30p - 8:30p Ecology and Evolution of Endemic Galápagos Birds and Their Ectoparasites: A Model for Studying Parasite Diversification <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6119…> Noah Whiteman. Room 101, Museum of Comparative Zoology 8:00p Climate Change Debate between the Harvard Dems and the Harvard GOP <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6055…> Sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee *Wednesday 11/15/2006 * 11:30a - 12:30p Time to Abandon Darwin? Lessons from the Dover "Intelligent Design" Trial <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…> Kenneth Miller, Brown University PEGG Seminar Series Sherman Fairchild, Room 102 4:00p - 5:00p >From Corporation to Conservation Business' Role in Saving the Environment: Thoughts from a Veteran of Both Worlds <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6116…> A Conversation with Carter Roberts, MBA '88, President and CEO of World Wildlife Fund US Harvard Business School Spangler Auditorium 4:00p - 5:30p Non-Linear Effects of Weather on Crop Yields: Implications for Climate Change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5898…> Wolfram Schlenker and Michael Roberts, Columbia University Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard 4:00p - 5:00p The First Billion Years on Earth: When Did It Become Hospitable to Life? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…> Professor John Valley, University of Wisconsin Origins Forum Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 4:00p - 5:00p Your Visual Representations of Science: Are They Lost in Translation? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…> Felice Frankel, Senior Research Fellow Initiative in Innovative Computing, Harvard University IIC Seminar 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 5:15p - 7:30p Artice Climate Change: Why it should Concern Us <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6113…> An Evening with: James J. McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography Mather House, Harvard University 6:00p - 7:30pWriting the Life of Jane Goodall <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…> Lecture and booksigning by Dale Peterson. Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge 7:30p - 8:30p The Planets <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6119…> Join Dava Sobel, the author for a lecture First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church St. *Thursday 11/16/2006 * 4:00p - 5:00p GIS-Based Resolution of Geographic Problems <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6110…> Joshua Comenetz, Ph.D., Department of Geography, University of Florida Presented by The Center for Geographic Analysis and The Institute for Quantitative Social Science CGIS Knafel Building, Rm. N262 5:00p - 6:00p The Future of Energy Lecture Series - Green is Green <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6031…> Mark Little, PhD, Senior Vice President and Director of GE Global Research The Future of Energy Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge 6:00p - 8:00p Justice & Policy on Indian Lands: Reforming the US Government's Management of Trust Assets <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…> Austin Hall North, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School 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 Sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee and the Interfaith Council *Friday 11/17/2006 * 8:30a - 9:30p Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5918…> Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 12:30p - 2:00p Public Bads and Civic Deficits: Siting Controversial Facilities in Advanced Industrial Democracies <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5920…> Daniel Aldrich. Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tulane University, and Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations 7:30p - 9:00p Sacred Sites: Environmental Justice & Religious Freedom <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6098…> Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St. *Monday 11/20/2006* 3:30a - 5:00p Towards Efficient Air Pollution Policy in the United States <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5992…> Robert Mendelsohn, Ph.D. and Nicholas Muller, Ph.D. candidate, Yale University Landmark Center, West Atrium, 414A, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA *Tuesday 11/21/2006* 9:00a - 10:30a The EPA's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Program: Past, Present, and Future <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6046…> Gustavo Collantes, ETIP Fellow, Harvard Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, KSG 4:00p - 5:00p Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar Series <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6052…> Antonis Rokas The Broad Institute Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

17 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group meetings now in Google.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, I made a community-based Google group meetings schedule. All of you probably will receive an e-mail adding you to the group of people that can change that Google calendar. It is also conveniently displayed on our group page: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/Seminars/ We should all come up with a schedule for the remainder of the semester in the next group meeting. 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, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ACS Meeting.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, The next Fall ACS meeting is in Boston! http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=meetings% 5cboston2007%5chome.html Due to the timing of all our research projects, I don't think we should go (or submit abstracts) to the APS or ACS in March. We should concentrate though, on getting our first papers or drafts ready for submission by March so we can send abstracts on our work to the Boston ACS meeting in August, where I expect everybody to attend. Note that I will only support registrations of people that are ACS or APS members (they are cheaper) so if you want to go to the Boston ACS meeting next Fall, you should be an ACS member by then. First-year students are not expected to send anything, but maybe an idea for a poster might be already there by March and we could send a nebulous abstract that could be finished by then. 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, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - 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

17 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Fwd: Greater Boston Theoretical Chemistry Lecture this Wed]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

17 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Fwd: de Scheemaker talk at HUCE 11/8]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, This might be interesting, and of course, it is a free lunch. Alan

17 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group meeting next Tuesday 14th. 5.00 PM.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, Upon the arrival of Ali and Masoud, I think we have enough people to start having weekly group meetings. I looked at everybody's G-mail and it seems like Tuesday at 5.00 PM is kosher. So I propose: Tuesday 14th - Masoud - Kickback Phase estimation and Overlap estimation paper by Somma (Arxiv.org) Tuesday 21th - Ali - Surprise! Tuesday 28th - ??? volunteers? Another proposal is to rotate the snacks. What the head-gordon group did at Berkeley was that the speaker brought a little something (cookies, soda, whatever) every time. This might be good because we are going to do it at 5.00 PM. What do you guys think about that? 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, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [theochem-announce] Wednesday 11/8 Seminar

by Chiao-Lun Cheng

Hi all, Please take note of the seminar this coming wednesday. Title-- Simulation of condensed phase quantum dynamics Speaker-- Peter Rossky University of Texas, Austin Time-- Wed, November 8th 4pm 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

17 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Fwd: Monday November 6]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

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