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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update December 6 - 20

by Lisa Matthews

Dear Friends of HUCE, This email contains event listings for Thursday, December 6 through Thursday, December 20, 2007. 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 throughout the semester. 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. Highlights: *Friday, December 7: As part of the Women's Initiative in Leadership (IOP) and Women and Public Policy Program, Maria Cantwell, Senator from Washington (D), addresses the JFK Institute of Politics Forum in "$100 Oil, Climate Change, and Bipartisan Gridlock: What's Next?" *Thursday, December 13: Three representatives from GridPoint Technologies join professors Daniel Schrag and William Hogan in the second HUCE Green Conversations Series. Gridpoint's energy platform empowers utility companies to achieve business objectives while promoting environmental stewardship and fueling the adoption of renewable energy sources. Calendar Listings: Thursday 12/6/2007 11:45a - 1:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88301968> Center for International Development Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Conflict, Conservation, and Natural Resources" with speaker Ann Laudati, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science, Sustainability Science Program, CID. Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:cid_events@harvard.edu> cid_events(a)harvard.edu 12:00p - 2:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88064887> KSG Tap Water Challenge The tap water challenge urges students, professors and staff to drink tap water instead of bottled. JFK Forum, Littauer Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Matt Wilson, <mailto:matt_wilson@ksg08.harvard.edu> matt_wilson(a)ksg08.harvard.edu 12:00p - 1:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88104085> Opportunities and Challenges in Alternative Fuel Industry Bruce Jamerson, CEO, Mascoma. Lunch is served. E51-395, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA 12:00p - 1:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88232687> Business and Government Lunch Seminar Series "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Assessing the Functionality of Industry Self-Regulation Institutions" with speaker Andrew Kind, Associate Professor of Strategy Tuck School of Business. Bell Hall (5th Floor, Belfer Building), Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:mrcbg@ksg.harvard.edu> mrcbg(a)ksg.harvard.edu 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88035247> GSD Green Design Lecture "Grow with the Flow: The Confluence of Waste Management and Resource Trans-formation" with Carol Steinfeld Room 109, 48 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA Contact: Mary Lydecker, <mailto:mary.lydecker@gmail.com> mary.lydecker(a)gmail.com, <http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/events/> www.gsd.harvard.edu/events/ 2:00p - 6:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87544606> NEXUS Exhibitor Showcase: Green is Affordable Tour the NEXUS Green Building Resource Center Exhibit Hall and speak with vendor representatives. NEXUS Green Building Resource Center, 38 Chauncy St., 7th Floor, Boston, MA Contact: Aaron Desatnik , <mailto:aaron@greenroundtable.org> aaron(a)greenroundtable.org, 617-374-3740 x.127 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86692940> OEB Seminar Series "Putting real adaptation into comparative tests of adaptive hypotheses: the way forward?" Speaker: Dr. Steve Orzack, The Fresh Pond Research Institute. Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge Contact: <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm> www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm 5:00p - 7:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88104086> Leading Green @ MIT Speaker: Laxmi Rao, Energy Coordinator of IS&T and Jason Jay & Elsa Olivetti, founders of the MIT Generator Coalition PDR1, Student Center (W20), 3rd floor, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA 6:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86682040> Carpenter Center Lecture: Understanding Anthropogeomorphology Speaker: Matt Coolidge, the director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI). Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: 617.495.3251, <http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/coolidgematt.html> www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/coolidgematt.... 6:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88232654> Ride the Green Wave Speakers Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center, Oakland, CA and Jim Hunt, Boston's Environment and Energy Department Director. Grover Cleveland School, 11 Charles St., Fields Corner, Boston, MA Contact: (617) 436-7100 7:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84215033> Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Family Friendly Nights A Star is Born, with Meredith Hughes. How are stars made, and what happens when their lives are over? 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:pubaffairs@cfa.edu> pubaffairs(a)cfa.edu, (617) 495-7461, <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/ffn.html> www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/ffn.html Friday 12/7/2007 8:30a - 9:30a <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84638687> Friday Chalktalk: "Genes, Proteins and Organelles Responsible for Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence and the Mechanism of the Regulation of Flashing" Dr. Woody Hastings, Molecular and Cellular Biology. Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, 1st floor Geological Museum, 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=82935342> Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series Scott Ollinger - Complex Research Systems Center, University of New Hampshire 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 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86682052> Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Speaker: Jintai Lin, Univ. of Illinois, with hosts Michael McElroy & Yuxuan Wang. Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:bmathieu@seas.harvard.edu> bmathieu(a)seas.harvard.edu , <http://www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html> www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html 12:30p - 2:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=80808296> Environmental Statistics Seminar: "Topics in Environmental Health" Tom Webster, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health HSPH Building 2, Room 426, Boston, MA Contact: <http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostats/events/seminars/env_stat.html> www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostats/events/... 2:15p - 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81454152> Challenges of the Twenty-first Century: European and American Perspectives Series "Climate Change and Energy; Europe Takes the Lead" with speaker Andris Pielbags, Commissioner for Energy, Commission of the European Union. Lower Level Conference Room, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA Contact: Renee Haferkamp, <mailto:haferkam@fas.harvard.edu> haferkam(a)fas.harvard.edu 3:00p - 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331679> Center for Systems Biology "Natural history and evolutionary principles of gene duplication in yeasts" with speaker Ilan Wapinski, Broad Institute. Sherman Fairchild 177, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA Contact: Caitlin O'Leary, 617-496-4085 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88035271> JFK Institute of Politics Forum "$100 Oil, Climate Change, and Bipartisan Gridlock: What's Next?" a public address by Maria Cantwell, United State Senator, Washington (D). John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:kamron_mitchell@ksg.harvard.edu> kamron_mitchell(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617 496 3864 4:30p - 6:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87741254> Tufts Energy and Climate Forum "European Energy Policy: Challenges and Responses" with Andris Piebalgs, Commissioner for Energy, Commission of the European Union. Cabot 702, Tufts University, Medford, MA Contact: Mieke van der Wansem, <mailto:mieke.wansem@tufts.edu> mieke.wansem(a)tufts.edu 6:45p - 1:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88232648> New England Botanical Club Meeting "Why are the Asian tropics so different?" with speaker Dr. Peter S. Ashton, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA Contact: Dr. Nancy M. Eyster-Smith, <mailto:nebc@rhodora.org> nebc(a)rhodora.org, 781-891-2987, <http://www.rhodora.org/Meetings.html> www.rhodora.org/Meetings.html Saturday 12/8/2007 9:30a - 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331692> HMNH: Saturday Scholars "Animals in Winter" for children in kindergarten or grade 1. Advance reservations required. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:reservations@oeb.harvard.edu> reservations(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.2341 9:30a - 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331696> HMNH: Saturday Scholars "Dinosaur ABC's" for children in preschool (age 4 or 5 with one adult). Advance reservations required. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:reservations@oeb.harvard.edu> reservations(a)oeb.harvard.edu , 617.495.2341 Sunday 12/9/2007 2:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539756> Sunday Family Program: Mammals in Winter: Survival and Adaptation When the ground is covered with snow and the trees are bare, just how do mammals survive? Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-3045 Monday 12/10/2007 12:00p - 1:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81038270> 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 7:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539760> Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series Raising Tomorrow's Naturalists: Film screening and conversation with E. O. Wilson and T. Berry Brazelton. Science Center, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-3045 Tuesday 12/11/2007 12:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331689> Herbaria Seminar Series "An evolutionary perspective on desiccation tolerance mechanisms in plants" with speaker Melvin Oliver, Agricultural Research Service/USDA 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=84667707> 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> www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 7:30p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87672486> Cambridge Entomological Club Meeting "Interactions between invasive species: woolly adelgid, elongate scale, and the fate of New England's hemlock forests" with Evan Preisser, University of Rhode Island Museum of Comparative Zoology, 101, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: <mailto:entclub@entclub.org> entclub(a)entclub.org, <http://entclub.org/> entclub.org/ Wednesday 12/12/2007 4:00p <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87672478> Origins of Life Initiative Forum Microbial Population Structure of the World's Oceans: An Underexplored "Rare Biosphere" with speaker Mitchell L. Sogin Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole & Brown University Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Carol Knell, <mailto:cknell@cfa.harvard.edu> cknell(a)cfa.harvard.edu, <http://origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html> origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html 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 <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 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 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 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 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

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Re: [Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: arXiv endorsement r equest from Alán Aspuru-Guzik

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, Here is an interesting e-mail description of a paper by from my friend Rogerio de Sousa, in particular interesting if we want to look into why the adabatic QC of D-wave is working or might work. Alan > I have a nice new paper (single author) that is just about to appear in > PRB (cond-mat/0610716). I showed that the dominant source of magnetic > noise in superconductor and semiconductor devices comes from the dangling > bond spin-flips at the oxide interface. This led to a surprising > connection: I showed that the mechanism of decoherence of SQUID qubits as > well as spin qubits (in silicon without nuclear spins) is the same! The > amount of magnetic 1/f noise calculated by my theory seems to agree both > with spin resonance data of impurities in silicon as well as with magnetic > flux noise data in superconducting devices.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Theochem lecture today (Dec. 5)

by Seth Difley

Please take note of the Theochem lecture today. Title-- Living large with viruses: viral structure, dynamics and assembly explored through multi-resolution, multi-scale modeling methods Speaker-- Charles Brooks http://brooks.scripps.edu/ Time-- Wed, Dec 5, 2007 4PM Place-- MIT (24-121) http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=24-121 More Information-- http://people.bu.edu/theochem

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Reminder: TONIGHT at 5 pm - HUCE Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change lecture series with Peter Reich

by Lisa Matthews

Please join us tonight for the Harvard University Center for the Environment and Bank of America series on Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change: Peter Reich F.B. Hubacheck, Sr. Chair in Forest Ecology and Tree Physiology, University of Minnesota "Biodiversity and Global Change: Are We Yet a Predictive Science?" Wednesday, December 5 5:00 pm Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus Cambridge, MA Peter Reich's current research at the University of Minnesota focuses on the impacts of global environmental change on terrestrial ecosystems, including the effects of climate change, elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, other air pollutants, land use/management, fire and biotic invasion on health, biodiversity, and sustainability of forest and grassland ecosystems both in Minnesota and globally. His work simultaneously bridges the fields of physiological, community, ecosystem, landscape, and global ecology. See: http://fr.cfans.umn.edu/people/facstaff/reich/ A reception will follow in the Biolabs entryway. 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] Immersive Education Day @ Harvard University

by Helene Tingle

The Harvard Interactive Media Group presents... Immersive Education Day @ Harvard University: Presenting the Past, Present and Future of Immersive Education When: Saturday, December 8th, 2-5PM Where: Askwith Lecture Hall in Longfellow Hall The Harvard Interactive Media Group and the Grid Institute are hosting a free half-day event to explore and discuss Immersive Education--the use of interactive 3d graphics, commercial game and simulation technology, virtual reality and other cutting-edge digital media tools to invigorate and enhance teaching practice. Educators, researchers and administrators from Harvard University, Boston College, MIT Media Lab, Amherst College and the United States Department of Education will give a series of presentations and demonstrations to provide attendees with an overview of Immersive Education and how virtual world and game-based learning technologies are used in and out of the classroom today. Speaker Schedule: Enabling the Age of Immersive Education [2-2:30pm EST] Aaron E. Walsh, Director, Immersive Education Initiative | Faculty, Boston College Placeworlds: Fostering Civic Engagement through Immersive Education [2:30-3pm EST] Gene Koo, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School School 2.0 and Immersive Education [3-3:30pm EST] Timothy J. Magner, Director, U.S. Department of Education | Advisor, Immersive Education Initiative The Restaurant Game: New forms of Artificial Intelligence for Immersive Education [3:30-4pm EST] Jeff Orkin, Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab | co-Chair, Immersive Education Initiative Pedagogy, Assessment, and Learning Outcomes for Immersive Education [4-4:30pm EST] John Carfora, Director of Sponsored Research, Amherst University | co- Chair, Immersive Education Initiative For more information, please contact: Sam Gilbert <sam.o.gilbert(a)gmail.com> Map to Longfellow Hall: http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm? mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&quadrant=A&series=W _______________________________________________ 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] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Today

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, December 5, 2007; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Martin Wattenberg, Research Staff Member, IBM Fernanda Viegas, Research Staff Member, IBM Seminar Title: Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization Abstract: Data visualization has historically been accessible only to the elite in academia, business, and government. To democratize visualization, we have built Many Eyes, a web site where people upload their data, create interactive visualizations, and carry on conversations. The goal is a social style of data analysis in which visualizations spur discussion and collaboration. We present Many Eyes, describe patterns of usage on the site, and discuss what those patterns suggest about the future of visualization. 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: *Surprise* SHAKH-50 Symposium Announcement, Dec. 8, 2007

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group, Of Interest to all this Saturday. Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Judy Morrison <morrison(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Date: Dec 4, 2007 5:39 PM Subject: *Surprise* SHAKH-50 Symposium Announcement, Dec. 8, 2007 To: jaiz(a)seas.harvard.edu, Anderson(a)huarp.harvard.edu, aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, betley(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, cohen(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, evans(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, friend(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, gordon(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, heller(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, jacobsen(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, kahne(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, Jeremy_Knowles(a)harvard.edu, cml(a)cmliris.harvard.edu, liu(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, macbeath(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, myers(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, erin_oshea(a)harvard.edu, hpark(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, ritter(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, saghatelian(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, stuart_schreiber(a)harvard.edu, shair(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, verdine(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, gwhitesides(a)gmwgroup.harvard.edu, xie(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, zhuang(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, jon_clardy(a)hms.harvard.edu, kaxiras(a)physics.harvard.edu, suzanne_walker(a)hms.harvard.edu, christopher_walsh(a)hms.harvard.edu, holm(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, corey(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, doering(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, hbach(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, marci(a)tammy.harvard.edu, billk(a)otto.harvard.edu, kishi(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, lipscomb(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, nelson(a)physics.harvard.edu, delisi(a)bu.edu, kardar(a)mit.edu, tvan(a)mit.edu Cc: leonid Mirny <leonid(a)mit.edu>, shahnovich(a)gmail.com Dear Chemistry Department Faculty and and Colleagues of Eugene Shakhnovich, Attached please find the program for a * surprise * ad hoc symposium organized by the alumni and current members of the Shakhnovich lab (and hosted by Eugene's wife, Masha) in honor of Eugene on his 50th birthday, to be held this coming Saturday Dec. 8 in Pfizer Lecture Hall. We are delighted to invite you to join us for the symposium. Please forward the information to your lab members, and remember to keep it a secret from Eugene (no bulletin board posting), as it is a surprise! Thank you and best wishes, Judy Morrison Judy Morrison Assistant to Professors Eugene Shakhnovich and Eric Heller Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford St., M-108 Cambridge, MA 02138 phone: (617) 495-8733 fax: (617) 384-9228 email: morrison(a)chemistry.harvard.edu -- 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

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

by Helene Tingle

Digital Humanities Talk Series, 2007-2008 On Wednesday December 12th, the series turns to online journals, with consecutive talks by Tara McPherson and Steve Anderson if USC about their work at USC on Vectors. For a fuller description, and details of the time and location, please see below. Posters are attached. ******************************** Speaker: Tara McPherson; Associate Professor of Critical Studies and Gender Studies, USC School of Cinematic Arts. When: Wednesday, December 12, 2007; 2:00pm Where: Barker Center for the Humanities, Room 133 Talk Title: Scholarship at the Interface: New Directions in the Digital Humanities Abstract: After offering a typology of the digital humanities, this presentation will explore several aspects of the international electronic journal, Vectors/: its conception, its mandates, its infrastructure and funding, and its innovative collaborative design process. Some questions to be considered include: What happens when scholarship looks and feels differently, requiring different modes of engagement from the reader/user? How does "argument" shift when scholarship goes fully networked and multimedia? How do you ‘experience’ argument in a more immersive and sensory-rich space? Can scholarship show as well as tell? How can scholars foster new modes of collaboration and reach new audiences? --------------------- Speaker: Steve Anderson; Assistant Professor of Interactive Media, USC School of Cinematic Arts When: Wednesday, December 12, 2007; 3:00pm Where: Barker Center for the Humanities, Room 133 Talk Title: Scholarship at the Interface: New Directions in the Digital Humanities Abstract: Recent developments in information systems accessible to everyday users have given rise to a range of tools for synthesizing meaning out of multiple sources and configurations of data. Maps, for example, have become interfaces rather than representations; photographs are puzzle pieces waiting to be texture-mapped into virtual environments. For many, this convergence of systems of representation and information are a long-awaited step toward an increasingly immersive, computationally driven geospatial web. This paper examines the ideological and historiographical implications of merging these two formerly disparate ways of organizing perceptions of the world, arguing that, as the boundaries between information, graphics and photographic representation continue to blur, designed interfaces must be understood in terms of epistemological paradigms rather than as mere systems of access. _______________________________________________ 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] Group meeting cancelled: Next one in January

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, We will resume group meetings in January 2008. Have a happy new year. -Alejandro ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Masoud Mohseni <masoud(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Date: Dec 4, 2007 10:11 AM Subject: cancel gm To: Alejandro Perdomo <aleperd(a)gmail.com> Alejandro, I cannot give the group meeting for today. I had a little bit of sore throats that is worsen today. I think you should cancel the group meeting. Masoud -- *********************************************************** Masoud Mohseni, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, 012138, USA Office: M 111, Telephone: (617) 496-9964, Fax: (617) 496-9411 Email: masoud(a)chemistry.harvard.edu URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/People/Masoud%20Mohseni/ **************************************************************

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