Group,
As always, I need a volunteer to have lunch with the seminar speaker
(last of the year!) Who is the volunteer of the week?
Bartosz Grzybowski
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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
The Program on Science, Technology, and Society, at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government presents:
Science and Democracy, a lecture series aimed at exploring both the
promised benefits or our era's most salient scientific and technological
breakthroughs and the potentially harmful consequences of developments that
are inadequately understood, debated, or managed by politicians, lay
publics, and policy institutions.
William Cronon
Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental
Studies and Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Saving Nature in Time: Why Environmentalism Needs History as much as
Science"
Panelists
David Blackbourn, Department of History, Harvard University
Peter Galison, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Mike Hulme, Tyndall Center, United Kingdom
Thursday, November 29, 5:00 - 7:00p
Science Center Lecture Hall A
Harvard University
One Oxford Street, Cambridge
In this lecture, drawn from a forthcoming book of the same title, William
Cronon will examine the key cultural assumptions about humanity and nature
that have characterized modern American environmental thinking, and which
have sometimes undermined the effectiveness of environmentalism as a
political, social, and cultural movement. In his book and lecture, Cronon
will discuss how environmentalism might become more effective if its
followers did a better job of considering nature and culture as a single
linked system in the service of humane values.
This event is co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. For more information
on Science, Technology, and Society events at Harvard University, please
visit: www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/
This event is free and open to the public.
Contact:
Lisa Matthews
Events Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
24 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu
p. 617-495-8883
f. 617-496-0425
Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Seminar Series
Wednesday, November 28, 2007; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Jim Waldo, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Labs
Seminar Title:
Parallelism, Distribution, and Scaling On-line Games
Abstract: This talk will discuss Project Darkstar, a server-side
framework for massive multi-player on-line games (MMOs). Darkstar
provides a highly concurrent, distributed infrastructure with a
programming model that allows the game programmer to write as though
he or she was working on a single thread running on a single machine.
This can only be done by carefully restricting the programming model;
we will discuss the model and how we use that model to hide
complexity while giving scalability.
Upcoming IIC seminars
Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule.
Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the
attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar.
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Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Seminar Series
Wednesday, November 28, 2007; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Jim Waldo, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Labs
Seminar Title:
Parallelism, Distribution, and Scaling On-line Games
Abstract: This talk will discuss Project Darkstar, a server-side
framework for massive multi-player on-line games (MMOs). Darkstar
provides a highly concurrent, distributed infrastructure with a
programming model that allows the game programmer to write as though
he or she was working on a single thread running on a single machine.
This can only be done by carefully restricting the programming model;
we will discuss the model and how we use that model to hide
complexity while giving scalability.
Upcoming IIC seminars
Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule.
Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the
attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar.
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Dear group,
The first joint (Kaxiras, Shakhnovich, Heller, Aspuru-Guzik, Karplus)
theory seminar kicks off with Alejandro speaking this Tuesday at 1.30
PM. I look forward to seeing you guys there supporting and listening
to one of our own.
M318 for Tuesday 11/27 from 1.30-2.30 PM
"A quantum algorithm for finding protein low-energy conformations"
Alejandro Perdomo
Aspuru-Guzik group
Cheers,
Alan
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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
Dear all,
Our thanksgiving Craigslist shopping led to a new cookingware set. We
are giving away for free the following cooking equipment:
- 2 3-quart saucepans or pots
- 2 6-quart pots
- 1 2-quart pot
- 1 8 inch non-stick fry pan
- 1 12 inch non-stick fry pan
We got them in two batches (for a grand total of $30), so they are not
fancy, but very useable, as a matter of fact used by us over 5 or 6
years.
Let me know if anybody is interested and I can bring it to school for
you or take it to your place, etc.
You can also get part of it, if nobody is interested in getting it all
as a "package". If not, we can probably give it away in craigslist.
Cheers,
Alan
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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
For those of you who were not present on Monday's talk at MIT and are
curios about some impressions. Here is Scott Aaronson commenting about
it.
http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=291
Enjoy,
-A
On Nov 15, 2007 4:00 PM, James D Whitfield
<whitfield(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> We have a group library of pdf's. Please don't give access to anyone
> outside of the group due to the sensitive nature of copyright law. Please
> do contribute anything that you have. The login and password are below.
> Enjoy.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
> --
>
> username: alexandria(a)potosi.chem.harvard.edu
> password: egypt
>
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> Aspuru-Guzik Group
> Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
> Harvard University
>
> tel: 301-520-7847
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Hey everyone,
We have a group library of pdf's. Please don't give access to anyone
outside of the group due to the sensitive nature of copyright law. Please
do contribute anything that you have. The login and password are below.
Enjoy.
Cheers,
James
--
username: alexandria(a)potosi.chem.harvard.edu
password: egypt
--
James D Whitfield
Aspuru-Guzik Group
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
tel: 301-520-7847