aspuru-list December 2006

aspuru-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu

12 participants
22 discussions

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Mathematica 5.2 and Cygwin now in Istanbul!

by Alejandro Perdomo

Group, I installed Mathematica 5.2 and Cygwin in the machine that is running just under windows(Istanbul). Enjoy! -Alejandro PS: In case I don't see you around during the week... Hope you all have a great time during the holidays!!! On 11/11/06, Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Aspuru-list mailing list > Aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu > http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-list >

17 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] GROUP LUNCH TODAY.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, I hope you can make it. The only time I can have lunch is today (I am skipping a faculty presentation). I was thinking of going to Grendel's at noon. 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] not today

by Edward Farhi

Dear All We will not meet today. Please let me know if would like to meet sometime in January or if you will be away. Eddie *********************************************** Edward Farhi Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology NE25 Room 4024 Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 ***********************************************

17 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group lunch not possible / Holidays availability / Travel schedule

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, I have two faculty meetings at noon on Monday and Tuesday. Therefore, for those that I mentioned the possibility of a group lunch, I think we should schedule it for sometime in January. My apologies. My own personal schedule follows: - Wednesday 20th - Leave for Mexico - January 3rd - Leave for Italy - January 11th Leave for Boston I will be back in the office the 12th of January. If you need to meet me in person between now and Wednesday, schedule a meeting with me or drop by. Otherwise, I will try to stop by the office to wish you happy holidays. If I don't see you, happy holidays! Between the 21th of December and 2nd of January, I will be working from Mexico. I can make calls to the US and will be available by e-mail. January 3-11, I will be at my best-friend's wedding and expect no time to deal with work-related issues. I will e-mail my Mexico Cell phone as soon as I get the number when I arrive. With regards to other policies, I decided that next semester, although I don't teach, I will have "BLOCKED" my time Tuesdays and Thursdays, meaning that probably besides group meetings, I prefer to meet people on Monday, Tuesday and Friday. This will help me finish many un-finished things that have been piling up. Realistically, I expect to respond to many of your pending longish-requests (contributions to papers, letters of recommendation, etc. while I am in Mexico, where I will be in "concentration mode" at least most mornings). Alan -- Alan 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] Photovoltaics talk

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, Here is the photovoltaics talk... (Leslie, Ali, this is the one I was talking about) Harry Atwater 4:00pm - 5:00 SEMINAR “Photovoltaics to meet the Terawatt Challenge” Pierce Hall #209 -- 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] Environmental Events 12/14/06 - 12/21/06 - One Addition

by Jenny MacGregor

Dear HUCE Faculty and Friends, Please excuse the additional email today. I neglected to include one event in my previous listing. Kindest Regards, Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment *Monday, 12/18/06 3:30p - 5:00p The Dynamics of Deterrence <http://www.hcra.harvard.edu/sem_abstracts/sem59_abstract.pdf> Mark A.R. Kleiman, PhD, University of California - Los Angeles and University of Maryland Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series Landmark Center 414A, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston*_ _

17 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events 12/14/06 - 12/21/06

by Jenny MacGregor

Dear HUCE Faculty and Friends, This will be the final Environmental Events email of 2006. I will resume sending calendar listings in the second week of January. Seasons greetings to one and all. 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:* TODAY -- The Future of Energy Lecture Series <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/FOE06.htm> continues with Professor John Holdren at 5 PM in the Yenching Auditorium on 2 Divinity Ave. The first 'Future of Energy' presentation by *Mark Little *is now available for viewing on the Center's website <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/video/future_of_energy/little/presentati…>. Please note that you will need the latest version of Real Player to view this and other presentations on our site. Click here <http://www.real.com/> for free download. 12/15/06 -- Photovoltaics with Harry Atwater, Director, Caltech Center for Sustainable Energy Research 12/19/06 -- China's Atmospheric Challenges with Kenneth A. Rahn, Professor Emeritus, Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Studies, URI *Calendar Listings:*** *Thursday 12/14/2006 * 4:00p - 5:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6181…> - Gene networks and natural selection 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, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard and Director, The Woods Hole Research Center 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 *Friday 12/15/2006 * Ongoing Cambridge Science Festival, Call for Entries <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6156…> 12:30p - 1:30p Aresnic Exposure and Birth Outcomes <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6219…> Karen Huyck, MD, PhD, MPH Resident, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health Kresge 502, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 12:30p - 1:30p Patterns of Pulmonary Dysfunction in Asbestos Workers <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6219…> Belayneh Abate Abejie, MD,MPH Chief Resident, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health Kresge 502, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 4:00p - 5:15p Photovoltaics to meet the Terawatt Challenge <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6204…> Harry Atwater, Director, Caltech Center for Sustainable Energy Research; Director, Caltech Center for Science and Engineering of Materials Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology Pierce 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Saturday 12/16/2006* 10:00a - 11:00a Science by Candlelight: A Holiday Lecture for Children and Their Parents <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6178…> Harvard Science Center, Lecture Hall B, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge Recommended for ages 7 and up Kids, families, students, teachers, and the curious are invited to spend an hour observing candles and learning about the scientific ideas they inspire *Monday 12/18/2006* 12:00p - 1:00p The Importance of Health Reform in Reaching a Harmonious Society <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6223…> Dr. Henk Bekedam, WHO Representative in China Presented by Harvard Initiative for Global Health & Harvard Center for Population and Development 104 Mt. Auburn Street, 3rd Floor 12:30p - 1:30p Integrating Occupational Health and Safety and Worksite <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6219…> Glorian Sorensen, PhD, MPH Professor of Society, Human Development and Health, HSPH Director, Center for Community-Based Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Kresge 502, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston *Tuesday 12/19/2006 * 4:00p - 5:00p Cycles, Sources, and Distances of Aerosols and Trace Gases in Beijing <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6223…> Kenneth A. Rahn, Professor Emeritus, Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Studies, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island; research affiliate of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Dep't of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge *Wednesday 12/20/2006 * 7:00a - 8:00a Looking for Life without a Known Chemical Core <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6204…> Professor Neville Woolf, University of Arizona The Origins Forum Main Lecture Hall, Bio Labs Building *Thursday 12/21/2006* 12:30p - 2:00p AIDS Research in Africa: Solutions to the Global Pandemic <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6157…> Saidi Kapiga, associate professor of reproductive health, Department of Population and International Health; Phyllis Kanki, professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases Building FXB G-12, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

17 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] [Colloquium] REMINDER: A Geometric Perspective on Learning Theory and Algorithms (Partha Niyogi)

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

my.harvard calendar reminder: Event Information: Date : 12/14/2006 Start Time : 04:00 PM End Time : 05:00 PM Title : A Geometric Perspective on Learning Theory and Algorithms (Partha Niyogi) Description : Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium A Geometric Perspective on Learning Theory and Algorithms Partha Niyogi Computer Science and Statistics The University of Chicago http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~niyogi Thursday, December 14, 2006 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract Increasingly, we face machine learning problems in very high dimensional spaces. We proceed with the intuition that although natural data lives in very high dimensions, they have relatively few degrees of freedom. One way to formalize this intuition is to model the data as lying on or near a low dimensional manifold embedded in the high dimensional space. This point of view leads to a new class of algorithms that are "manifold motivated" and a new set of theoretical questions that surround their analysis. A central construction in these algorithms is a graph or simplicial complex that is data-derived and we will relate the geometry of these to the geometry of the underlying manifold. Applications to embedding, clustering, classification, and semi-supervised learning will be considered. Host: Professor Patrick Wolfe Location : Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area URL : Phone : Calendar : Computer Science Colloquium Series _______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list Colloquium(a)deas.harvard.edu https://lists.deas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium _______________________________________________ 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] HF tutorial

by Ali Najmaie

Hello all, Due to busy schedules, the HF tutorial (scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday) has been postponed to January. After the break we will, hopefully, have a continuous set of tutorials on electronic structure theory, with contributions from different people in the groups, so it should be a lot fun. Cheers, Ali -- Ali Najmaie NSERC-Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard University, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

17 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] The Future of Energy - JOHN HOLDREN - TOMORROW

by Jenny MacGregor

The Future of Energy Finding a secure, safe and reliable source of energy to power world economic growth will be one of the great challenges of this century. The Harvard University Center for the Environment invites the Harvard community to take up that challenge by participating in this ongoing series of discussions. Please join us tomorrow, December 14, 2006 for the second lecture of the 2006-2007 series. */Meeting the Energy-Environment Challenge....and How Harvard Can Help/* *John P. Holdren*, Teresa and John Heinz Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Director, Woods Hole Research Center This lecture is free and open to the public and will be in the *Yenching Auditorium*, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge starting at *5 PM*. Please refer to the Center's website for a complete schedule of the 2006-2007 Future of Energy series and to view the first presentation by Mark Little, Senior Vice President and Director of GE Global Research. www.environment.harvard.edu -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

17 years, 5 months

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

aspuru-list December 2006