aspuru-list December 2007

aspuru-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu

9 participants
19 discussions

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Monday December 10

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quantum People We will meet on Monday December 10 at 2:00 in the usual spot. Daniel Nagaj will tell us about his recent work. This will be the last group meeting of 2007 and we can decide later when we start up again. If I don't see you before Christmas please send your gifts to the address below. Eddie :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::: Edward Farhi Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 6 Room 300 Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::

16 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] Digital Humanities Seminar Reminder

by Helene Tingle

Digital Humanities Talk Series, 2007-2008 The 5th and 6th speakers in the Digital Humanities talk series will be presenting on Monday December 17th. Details are below and all are welcome. Speaker: Bill Turkel; Assistant Professor of History, the University of Western Ontario When: Monday, December 17, 2007; 4:00pm Where: Barker Center for the Humanities, Room 133 Talk Title: Methodology for the Infinite Archive Abstract: Professor Turkel is interested in the ways that digitization and digital information are changing historical practice by changing the landscape of information and transaction costs that researchers face. Because we now have networked access to a digital archive that is growing exponentially, we are experiencing a shift from what Roy Rosenzweig called a "culture of scarcity" to one of abundance. Practically every search turns up more sources than we could read in a lifetime. Search engines, which serve tens of millions of requests a day, introduce a systematic and, as yet, mostly-overlooked bias into the research process. Computational techniques like spidering, data mining and statistical natural language processing will have to be mastered by future generations of historians. At the same time, pervasive connection to the network and a spreading ethos of open source and open access makes new kinds of collaboration among researchers possible. --------------------- Speaker: Shekhar Krishnan is an historian-anthropologist pursuing his doctorate in the Program in Science Technology & Society (STS) at MIT When: Monday, December 17, 2007; 4:00pm Where: Barker Center for the Humanities, Room 133 Talk Title: Zotero, online sharing, and research collaboration with open source tools Abstract: In his talk, Shekhar Krishnan will introduce Zotero, which in its first year of beta release is already in use by tens of thousands of academics, journalists, independent researchers and librarians around the world. He will demonstrate some possibilities for new forms of online sharing and research collaboration using Zotero as your research client with the MIT SIMILE open source publishing tools to create historical timelines, geographical maps, and other ways of visualizing your own research web. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

16 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update December 13 - 19

by Lisa Matthews

Dear Friends of HUCE, This email, the last of 2007, contains event listings for Thursday, December 13 through Wednesday, December 19. Please check the HUCE calendar on our website, <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/> www.environment.harvard.edu, for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions. The HUCE Autumn Newsletter is now available! To see what HUCE has been up to this semester, view the newsletter PDF at: <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/docs/Newsletter_Fall_07.pdf> http://www.environment.harvard.edu/docs/Newsletter_Fall_07.pdf If you would like to submit an event to the calendar or unsubscribe (!) from this list, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment: <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu> lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu. Please distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the community. We hope to see you soon and often. Happy Holidays! Highlights: *Today's HUCE EVENT CANCELLED due to Winter Weather Conditions: We will reschedule our second Green Conversations lecture series with GridPoint Technologies in the Spring. *Saturday, December 15: Join us at the 2007 Harvard Holiday Science Lecture as we observe, touch, taste, and explore some of your favorite foods in "Squishy, Gooey, Stretchy: The Science of Making Pizza." Lectures at both 10am and 1pm. Calendar Listings: Thursday 12/13/2007 12:30p - 1:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331610> Film Screenings on Global Trash Trade "The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa" and "Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia" CGIS Knafel Building, Room N-354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: Clare Putnam, <mailto:cputnam@wcfia.harvard.edu> cputnam(a)wcfia.harvard.edu, 617-495-9899, <http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/> www.wcfia.harvard.edu/ 4:00p CANCELLED: <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87672481> HUCE Green Conversations Series Join us for a conversation with three representatives from GridPoint, whose SmartGrid platform empowers utilities to achieve business objectives, increase grid reliability, promote environmental stewardship and fuel the adoption of renewable energy sources. Pierce Hall, Room 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: Lisa Matthews, <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu> lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883, <http://www.gridpoint.com/> www.gridpoint.com/ 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539802> OEB Seminar: Evolutionary Biorobotics: Navigating Simulated Selection Environments to Test Adaptation Hypotheses Speaker Dr. John Lang, Vassar College Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge Contact: Katie Parodi, <mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu> kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm> www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm 4:00p - 5:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331622> China Project Seminar "Understanding Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides from China Using Satellite Observations" with Dr. Wang Yuxuan, Research Associate, China Project and SEAS Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: <http://chinaproject.harvard.edu> chinaproject.harvard.edu 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88992073> SEAS Colloquium "Development of a Self-Driving Car" with Seth Teller Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT. Maxwell Dworkin G125, 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: <http://www.seas.harvard.edu/> www.seas.harvard.edu/ 7:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88696223> Harvard in Allston: Raising Voices for Sustainability, Students, and the Community Come learn about what Harvard can do to be sustainable and community friendly in Allston. Harvard Hall 103, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Friday 12/14/2007 8:30a - 9:30a <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87446378> Friday Chalktalk: "Germ Stories, GASPing and Microfluidics" Roberto Kolter, Dept. MMG, Harvard Medical School. HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Christy Herren, <mailto:herren@fas.harvard.edu> herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643, <http://www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html> www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html 11:00a - 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=82935343> Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series Tom Kunz - Boston University Aeroecology: probing and modeling the Aerosphere Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, <mailto:aabarker@fas.harvard.edu> aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, (978) 724-3302 11:00a <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88992075> Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar "Making Science a Business (And You Can, too)" with speaker: Vicki Sato, Harvard Business School. Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: Helen Schwickrath, <mailto:helen@chemistry.harvard.edu> helen(a)chemistry.harvard.edu , (617) 496-8190 12:15p - 1:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=89021799> Systems Biology Theory Lunch "Energy optimization and the design of photosynthesis" with speaker Ron Milo, Harvard Medical School. Room 563, Alpert Building, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Contact: Jeremy Gunawardena, jeremy(a)hms.harvard.edu, (617) 432 4839 3:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87348286> OEB Special Seminar: Building the Encyclopedia of Life at Harvard Presenters: James Edwards, Executive Director, EOL, Smithsonian Institution; and Jesse Ausubel, Program Officer, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Chair, EOL Steering Committee Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Katie Parodi, <mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu> kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-5891 5:00p - 8:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86682055> HMNH: Night at the Museum Free admission and 20% off everything in the museum store! Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045 Saturday 12/15/2007 10:00a [Encore at 1:00 pm] <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88992071> Squishy, Gooey, Stretchy: The Science of Making Pizza. A Holiday Lecture for Children and Their Parents Discover the physics, chemistry, and biology of cheese and bread in this hands-on, interactive lecture. Recommended for children ages 7 and up. Registration is required. Science Center, Lecture Hall B, One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:sciencetix@deas.harvard.edu> sciencetix(a)deas.harvard.edu Monday 12/17/2007 12:00p - 1:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81038271> Harvard Energy Journal Club Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Kurt House, <mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu> khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, <http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html> www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 6:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539763> Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series "Life in the Valley of Death" lecture and booksigning by Alan Rabinowitz. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-3045 Tuesday 12/18/2007 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331671> Herbaria Seminar Series Rfael Rubio de Casas (Donohue Lab/OEB). Title TBA. Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA Contact: <http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/> www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ 3:00p - 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84667708> ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Geological Museum, Room 418, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge Contact: Kate Dennis and Martin Tingley, <http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html> http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html Wednesday 12/19/2007 7:00p - 9:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=89021803> The Weston Observatory: Department of Geology and Geophysics (BC) "What's New Regarding Earthquakes in New England" with John Ebel. Reservations required. Weston Observatory, 381 Concord Rd. Weston, MA Contact: 617-552-8300 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

16 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] REMINDER: Tomorrow at 4 pm -- HUCE Green Conversations with Gridpoint Technologies

by Lisa Matthews

The Harvard University Center for the Environment and Bank of America present: Green Conversations with GridPoint Technologies representatives Adam Dixon, Steven Hauser, & Peter Corsell Thursday, December 13 4:00 pm Pierce Hall, Room 209 29 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA Join us for a unique opportunity to discuss energy solutions with representatives of GridPoint, a company offering utilities innovative ways of balancing demand and supply through the SmartGrid Platform, an intelligent network of distributed resources that controls load, stores energy and produces power. Visit the Gridpoint website for more information: http://www.gridpoint.com/ This lecture 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

16 years, 4 months

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

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, December 12, 2007; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Gary King, David Florence Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University Seminar Title: An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing Abstract We introduce a set of integrated developments in web application software, networking, data citation standards, and statistical methods designed to put some of the universe of data and data sharing practices on somewhat firmer ground. We have focused on social science data, but aspects of what we have developed may apply more widely. The idea is to facilitate the public distribution of persistent, authorized, and verifiable data, with powerful but easy- to-use technology, even when the data are confidential or proprietary. We intend to solve some of the sociological problems of data sharing via technological means, with the result intended to benefit both the scientific community and the sometimes apparently contradictory goals of individual researchers. 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. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

16 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Chocolate cake

by Leslie Vogt

Dear Group, There is chocolate cake in M110 for your consumption (technically, it is chocolate zucchini cake, but you can't taste the zucchini!). Enjoy! Leslie

16 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - Gary King on Dec. 12th

by Helene Tingle

16 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] Digital Humanities Seminar Reminder

by Helene Tingle

16 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Mark your calendar, GROUP CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY PARTY: Thursday, 13th 5.30 PM.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, You are invited to attend the first Aspuru-Guzik/Heller joint Holiday group party. PLACE: 165 Pleasant St, Cambridge, MA Gazebo Room. WHAT TO BRING? Nothing. Music, maybe. DATE AND TIME: Thursday, December 13th, 5.30 PM. BRING Signifcant others and descendants, a good apetite and a holiday spirit. Please RSVP so we can get an accurate head-count. Sharl Heller will be cooking. We look forward to having you all with us! Cheers, 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

16 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] kneeling chair screwdriver

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Hi I was wondering if anybody knew the whereabouts of the kneeling chair's screwdriver. It normally lies where all the stationery is, but it's not there. Thanks for the help. Roberto

16 years, 4 months

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

aspuru-list December 2007