aspuru-list September 2006

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events at Harvard 9/28 - 10/12

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:* *10/1/06 - Environmental Society Annual Barbeque for Harvard students *10/4/06 - Matthew Khan and Green Cities at KSG *10/5/06 - The First Harvard Climate Seminar of the Fall Term *Calendar Listings:* *Friday 9/29/2006 * 8:30a - 9:30p Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Friday <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5918…> Jon Clardy, Harvard University (HMS, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology) Research Focus: Microbial Chemical Biology Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 12:30p - 1:45p Susceptibility Factors to the Health Effects of Environmental Exposures: an Italian multi-city case-crossover analysis <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5979…> Massimo Stafoggia, of the Department of Epidemiology, Local Health Authority, Rome, and student in the Department of Biostatistics in the Harvard School of Public Health Environmental Statistics Seminar School of Public Health, Building 2, Room 426, Boston *Saturday 9/30/2006 * 9:00a - 5:00p Arthropods: Creatures that Rule - Exhibit public opening <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5918…> Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge *Sunday 10/1/2006 * 5:00p - 8:00p Environment Society Annual Fall BBQ <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5979…> Quincy House Senior Common Room & Garden, 58 Plympton St. *Monday 10/2/2006 * 10:00a - 11:00a Rebuilding After Katrina <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5989…> Part of its fall series - Human Rights at Home: America's Response to Domestic Disaster. The Carr Center in collaboration with The Joint Center for Housing Studies Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219, 79 JFK Street, KSG 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 Magnetization of Martian Crust <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5989…> Jafar Arkamni-Ahmed Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquia Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 10/3/2006 * 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 4:30p - 5:45p Scaling up HIV Testing and Counseling: Debates and Evidence <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5979…> Dr. Carla Obermeyer Sponsored by The Harvard Initiative for Global Health & Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies 9 Bow St., Cambridge, MA 6:00p - 7:15p The Making of the Fittest. Lecture and booksigning by Sean Carroll <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5966…> Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge *Wednesday 10/4/2006 * 12:00p - 1:15p Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5966…> Matthew Kahn, Professor of International Economics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Taubman Center for State and Local Government Seminar Fainsod Room, 324 Littauer Building, 79 John F. Kennedy Street 3:45p - 5:00p Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions with a Wireless Sensor Network <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5989…> Matt Welsh, Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Initiative in Innovative Computing Seminar 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 4:00p - 5:30p Is Clean Water Overrated? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5895…> Michael Kremer, Economics Department, Harvard University, et al. Seminar in Environmental Economics and Public policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government 5:30p - 6:30p Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) and the Three-Dimensional Mapping and Analysis of Deeply Buried Archaeological Sites <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5989…> Lawrence Conyers, Denver University Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Thursday 10/5/2006 * 10:00a - 11:00a Cyber-chat on Climate Change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5963…> 12:00p - 1:00p Ecological diversification and evolutionary patterns in desert lizard communities <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5989…> Jane Melville, Herpetology Department Museum OEB Seminars MCZ 101, 26 Oxford Street 4:00p - 5:15p A Modest Role for Atmospheric CO2 in the Progression of Ice Ages <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5920…> Robbie Toggweiler, Researcher, Oceans and Climate Group, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA, Princeton University Harvard Climate Seminar Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *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 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 *Monday 10/9/2006 * 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 *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 Coffee 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 *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 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

17 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC-related Colloquium in DEAS - TODAY

by Helene Tingle

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Architecture and Challenges for On-Demand Networked Utilities Jeffrey S. Chase Duke University http://www.cs.duke.edu/~chase/bio.html Thursday, September 28, 2006 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract Managing shared cyberinfrastructure resources is a fundamental challenge for service hosting and utility computing environments, as well as the next generation of network testbeds and grids. This talk presents a resource control plane architecture for networked resource sharing based on a foundational abstraction of brokered leasing. I'll describe a prototype system called Shirako and explore its applicability to systems in which the resources are held in common by a community of shareholders, offered as a hosting service to customers, or contributed in a reciprocal fashion by self-interested peers. I will focus on three examples: secure on-demand clustering, grid hosting with adaptive resource control, and self-managing batch computation using virtual machines. Bio: Jeffrey S. Chase is a Professor of Computer Science at Duke University in Durham, NC. His research with Duke's Network and Internet Computing Lab deals with efficient and reliable sharing of information and resources in computer networks ranging from clusters to the global Internet. _______________________________________________ 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] 32-Bit Firefox

by Ivan Tubert-Brohman

Dear All, We now have WebMO in the cluster. Currently it's not accessible directly from the outside (I'll post instructions in the wiki about how to connect through an ssh tunnel). The main issue is that it requires Java, and Sun's Java plugin only works with a 32 bit Firefox (and we have 64-bit machines). To install a 32-bit Firefox with Java and Flash support, do the following from the command line: wget http://barcelona.chem.harvard.edu/~ivan/ff32.sh chmod 755 ff32.sh ./ff32.sh You will need sudo privileges and might need to type your password at some point. There's more information at http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu:8080/mediawiki/index.php/Firefox_Tips_and_Tr… . Please let me know if you have any problems. Cheers, Ivan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar reminder - Guy Steele Wednesday afternoon!

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing Seminar Series Wednesday, September 27, 2006; 4pm Guy L. Steele Jr., Sun Fellow Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://iic.harvard.edu/events/ The Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) is pleased to announce the 2006-2007 Seminar Series. You are invited to join us for the first seminar on September 27th with Guy Steele to kick-off our series. Dr. Steele is a researcher with Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the Programming Language Research project. His research interests include Algorithms, Compilation, Distributed Systems, High Performance Computing, Java, Lisp Scheme, Object Oriented Programming, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Software, and Supercomputer design. Seminar Title: The Fortress Programming Language Seminar Abstract: The Programming Language Research Group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories is trying to apply lessons learned from the Java (TM) Programming Language to the next generation of programming languages. The Java language supports platform-independent parallel programming with explicit multithreading and explicit locks. As part of the DARPA program for High Productivity Computing Systems, we are developing Fortress, a language intended to support large-scale scientific computation. One of the design principles is that parallelism be encouraged everywhere (for example, it is intentionally just a little bit harder to write a sequential loop than a parallel loop). Another design principle is to have rich mechanisms for encapsulation and abstraction; the idea is to have a fairly complicated language for library writers that enables them to write libraries that present a relatively simple set of interfaces to the application programmer. A third design principle is to try to use standard mathematical notation as part of the programming language wherever possible; this is an old idea that failed in the 1960s, but the modern widespread acceptance of Unicode makes it easier to revisit the idea. We will discuss these design principles and show some examples of Fortress code to illustrate them. 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. Day and Time: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 4:00pm 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. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

17 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Aspuru-Guzik group MEETING ON THURSDAY (not Wednesday)

by Ivan Tubert-Brohman

Dear all, Note that the meeting is on Thursday. Alan types too fast. Ivan On 9/25/06, Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > In our group meeting here in Chemistry at Harvard we will have Ken Brown > come and talk to us on Thursday at 5.30 PM in Room M114, Mallinckrodt, > 12 Oxford street. You are all invited to come. > > How to get here: > http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/People/Group%20contact%20information/ > > A link to our seminars page: > http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/Seminars/ > > Ken's title and Abstract: > > Thursday, September 27th, 5.30 PM Ken Brown, > Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science, Georgia Tech) > > Limitations of Quantum Simulation Examined by Simulating a Pairing > Hamiltonian using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. > > Quantum simulation uses a well-known quantum system to predict the > behavior of another quantum system. Certain limitations in this > technique arise, however, when applied to specific problems, as we > demonstrate with a theoretical and experimental study of an algorithm to > find the low-lying spectrum of a Hamiltonian. While the number of > elementary quantum gates does scale polynomially with the size of the > system, it increases inversely to the desired error bound, epsilon. > Making such simulations robust to decoherence using fault-tolerance > constructs requires an additional factor of 1/epsilon gates. These > constraints are illustrated by using a three qubit nuclear magnetic > resonance system to simulate a pairing Hamiltonian, following the > algorithm proposed by Wu, Byrd, and Lidar. > > -- > 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 >

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Re: Meeting on Wednesday

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, In our group meeting here in Chemistry at Harvard we will have Ken Brown come and talk to us on Thursday at 5.30 PM in Room M114, Mallinckrodt, 12 Oxford street. You are all invited to come. How to get here: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/People/Group%20contact%20information/ A link to our seminars page: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/Seminars/ Ken's title and Abstract: Thursday, September 27th, 5.30 PM Ken Brown, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science, Georgia Tech) Limitations of Quantum Simulation Examined by Simulating a Pairing Hamiltonian using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Quantum simulation uses a well-known quantum system to predict the behavior of another quantum system. Certain limitations in this technique arise, however, when applied to specific problems, as we demonstrate with a theoretical and experimental study of an algorithm to find the low-lying spectrum of a Hamiltonian. While the number of elementary quantum gates does scale polynomially with the size of the system, it increases inversely to the desired error bound, epsilon. Making such simulations robust to decoherence using fault-tolerance constructs requires an additional factor of 1/epsilon gates. These constraints are illustrated by using a three qubit nuclear magnetic resonance system to simulate a pairing Hamiltonian, following the algorithm proposed by Wu, Byrd, and Lidar. -- 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, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - Matt Welsh on October 4th

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing Seminar Series Wednesday, October 4, 2006; 4:00pm **Come and enjoy our sweet and savory refreshments starting at 3:45!** 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/ 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. 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. _______________________________________________ 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] [Fwd: [iic-seminars] IIC-related Seminar at DEAS]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Potentially interesting for the screensaver business. Alan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Fwd: Re: [theochem-announce] Wednesday 9/27 GBA Theoretical Chemistry Lecture]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, The BU-Harvard-MIT seminar. Attendance is recommended, if possible especially Leslie that is reading about Density Functional theory. I won't be able to go, though :( 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] [Fwd: RE: Accounts]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, The pathscale compiler has been installed in the cluster. 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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