aspuru-list February 2007

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group meeting Schedule change.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, Due to a talk by Guifre Vidal, we will change our group meeting for today (Sule will speak about semiclassical theory next week). The talk starts at 4.30 in Jefferson Lab. Guifre Vidal is one of the main people in Density Matrix Renormalization group theory, so it is interesting to hear from him. I want to point out the following seminar series in general. We have been missing out, look at the previous talk. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/jointatomic.html 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] (no subject)

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, February 28, 2007; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Joy Sircar, CIO, Harvard Engineering & Applied Sciences, Project Director, The Harvard Crimson Grid Project Seminar Title: Building a Campus eInfrastructure: the CrimsonGrid Experience Abstract The past decade has witnessed the emergence of eScience as a key enabling framework to support the rapidly growing trend in large scale, multidisciplinary and collaborative research, yet most university campuses today lack the infrastructure to support eScience. The computing grids that evolved to serve as a foundation for many of the early eScience initiatives focused primarily on ‘resource scavenging’ within vertical communities of domain specific researchers. However, we believe that unless these community and national grids are tightly and seamlessly coupled to the numerous distributed networked assets on campus—computing, storage, and information— researchers on many university campuses will not be able to fully leverage the benefits of eScience. In addition to leveraging all available resources, university infrastructures will also require to be integrated with an extended capability that will bridge the many local centers of disciplines, policy, funding, and administrative oversight in a federated manner. The CrimsonGrid Project at Harvard has a dual objective. First, strategically re- think the design of extended campus infrastructures, eInfrastructures, to enable eScience and innovative uses of computing for research. Second, enable the federation of computing efforts on campus to those in the regional virtual research communities. In our talk, we provide an overview of our experiences, both technical and social, as we begin to deploy and leverage local resources within the campus and federate these resources to regional and community grids. Using open standards as a foundation, the CrimsonGrid connects locally managed HPC clusters, knowledge repositories, management tools, and web services across the many resource centers on campus and beyond. The new eInfrastructure supports a "bottom-up" approach to the construction and operation of large-scale distributed/grid computing platforms that may also operate independently when disconnected from the other sites. 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] Special Center for the Environment lecture tonight - Arctic ecology

by Jenny MacGregor

Please join us this evening for a special presentation: /Shorebird Distribution and Abundance on the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain/ with Stephen C. Brown, PhD Director, Shorebird Conservation Research Program, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences Monday, February 26, 5 - 6 PM Maxwell Dworkin, Room G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: Jenny MacGregor, jenny_macgregor(a)harvard.edu Organized by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Harvard Museum of Natural History Abstract: The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge hosts 18 species of breeding shorebirds, including 7 species listed as highly imperiled or high priority species in the U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan, and 6 species listed as Birds of Conservation Concern by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. However, there has never been a comprehensive survey of the coastal plain to determine the abundance and distribution of these species. We conducted a comprehensive survey across the coastal plain from the Canning to the Aichilik Rivers in 2002 and 2004, including 197 rapidly surveyed plots. We estimated detection rates using a double counting technique developed for arctic shorebird surveys and data from 37 intensively studied plots across the north slope. We stratified the survey by major habitat types, including wetlands, moist areas, uplands, and riparian areas. We detected 14 breeding species, and provide population estimates and confidence limits for these species on the Arctic Refuge coastal plain. We also determined habitat associations for all 14 species among the four major habitat types. Our population size esimtates for the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge represent greater than 1% of the estimated minimum North American population of 13 shorebird species, including 5 species of high concern, and greater than 10% of the estimated minimum North American population of American Golden-Plover (/Pluvialis dominica/) , Buff-breasted Sandpiper (/Tryngites subruficollis/), and Pectoral Sandpiper (/Calidris melanotos/). Habitats used by these species are threatened by proposed oil development, and by encroachment of shrubs and boreal forest due to global climate change. Bio for Stephen C. Brown, PhD Director, Shorebird Conservation Research Program Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences As Manomet's Director of Shorebird Research and Conservation, Stephen Brown works on a wide variety of science and policy issues related to protecting this imperiled group of birds that literally cover the globe during their annual migrations. Stephen was the lead author of the _U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan_ which brought together wildlife managers and policy makers from all 50 states and several federal agencies, university researchers, and many other conservation groups to develop a coordinated strategy for restoring the declining populations of shorebirds. Stephen has an active research program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where his work helps to determine the impacts that oil development would have on nesting shorebirds, and he has recently completed a study of American Oystercatchers that included a census of the entire Atlantic and Gulf coasts (see www.shorebirdworld.org <http://www.shorebirdworld.org/>). Stephen has been a conservation biologist with Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences since 1998. He earned his undergraduate degree from Hampshire College in Environmental Studies, and his Master of Science degree from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources studying an endangered shorebird. His Ph.D. research in Natural Resources at Cornell University focused on improving habitat for birds through wetland restoration. Stephen has published dozens of articles on wetlands and shorebirds in scientific journals, and the recent book /Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge/. -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] [Colloquium] REMINDER: Lessons Learned From The Internet Project

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

my.harvard calendar reminder: Event Information: Date : 2/26/2007 Start Time : 04:00 PM End Time : 05:00 PM Title : Lessons Learned From The Internet Project Description : Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Lessons Learned From The Internet Project Dr. Douglas Comer VP of Research, Cisco Systems MONDAY, February 26, 2007 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G115 Abstract The Internet ranks among the greatest achievements of 20th century Computer Science. The basic technology was so well conceived that it has remained virtually unchanged despite completely new applications and dramatic growth in the number of connected computers and traffic. This eclectic talk presents a series of lessons drawn from the Internet experience that may help us better understand how to proceed with new research. It considers the design of protocols, general principles, technologies, the underlying architecture, the effect of economics on networking research, and ways that experimental research projects can be organized to ensure success. Speaker Bio: Douglas Comer is VP of Research at Cisco systems, and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, where he is currently on an extended leave. An internationally recognized expert on computer networking, Comer has been involved in Internet research since the late 1970s. His series of ground-breaking textbooks have been translated into 16 languages, and are used by professional engineers and students around the world. For twenty years, Comer was editor-in-chief of the journal Software -- Practice And Experience. He is a Fellow of the ACM. Host: Professor HT Kung Location : Maxwell Dworkin G115 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Monday February 26

by Edward Farhi

Dear All We will meet tomorrow in the usual spot at 1:00. I expect Guifre Vidal to join us. Eddie ps Please look at the qis.mit.edu website and if you see anything that needs to be updated let Daniel know. *********************************************** Edward Farhi Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology NE25 Room 4024 Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 ***********************************************

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] [Colloquium] REMINDER: Lessons Learned From The Internet Project

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

my.harvard calendar reminder: Event Information: Date : 2/26/2007 Start Time : 04:00 PM End Time : 05:00 PM Title : Lessons Learned From The Internet Project Description : Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Lessons Learned From The Internet Project Dr. Douglas Comer VP of Research, Cisco Systems MONDAY, February 26, 2006 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G115 Abstract The Internet ranks among the greatest achievements of 20th century Computer Science. The basic technology was so well conceived that it has remained virtually unchanged despite completely new applications and dramatic growth in the number of connected computers and traffic. This eclectic talk presents a series of lessons drawn from the Internet experience that may help us better understand how to proceed with new research. It considers the design of protocols, general principles, technologies, the underlying architecture, the effect of economics on networking research, and ways that experimental research projects can be organized to ensure success. Speaker Bio: Douglas Comer is VP of Research at Cisco systems, and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, where he is currently on an extended leave. An internationally recognized expert on computer networking, Comer has been involved in Internet research since the late 1970s. His series of ground-breaking textbooks have been translated into 16 languages, and are used by professional engineers and students around the world. For twenty years, Comer was editor-in-chief of the journal Software -- Practice And Experience. He is a Fellow of the ACM. Host: Professor HT Kung Location : Maxwell Dworkin G115 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Guifre Vidal @ MIT

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

MIT seminar Guifre vidal :: *Mon 2/26, 4pm* in 26-214 (QIP seminar) *Guifre Vidal* (University of Queensland) Entanglement Renormalization: from Quantum Circuits to Topological Order I will describe a renormalization group transformation for strongly correlated quantum systems in D spatial dimensions based on ideas from quantum computation and quantum information (quantum circuits, entanglement, ...). Entanglement renormalization can be used to study extended quantum systems in a symmetry breaking phase, as well as quantum phase transitions between two such phases [cond-mat/0512165, quant-ph/0610099]. Recently it has been realized that it also offers a natural framework to describe systems with topological order. I will attempt to present an overview of these results directed to a mixed audience of researchers in theoretical quantum computation/information and condensed matter. -- 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] party is cancelled

by Masoud Mohseni

Dear All, The party is cancelled due to emergency. We have to write and post a paper on FMO stuff in less than a week! Sorry for any inconvenience. Masoud -- *********************************************************** Masoud Mohseni, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, 012138, USA Office: M 110, Telephone: (617) 495-9676, Fax: (617) 384-7920 Email: masoud(a)chemistry.harvard.edu URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/People/Masoud%20Mohseni/ ************************************************************

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] [Colloquium] Krieger, Orran Y is out of the office.

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

I will be out of the office starting 02/23/2007 and will not return until 03/06/2007. I will respond to your message when I return. _______________________________________________ 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - Joy Sircar on Feb. 28, 2007

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, February 28, 2007; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Joy Sircar, CIO, Harvard Engineering & Applied Sciences, Project Director, The Harvard Crimson Grid Project Seminar Title: Building a Campus eInfrastructure: the CrimsonGrid Experience Abstract The past decade has witnessed the emergence of eScience as a key enabling framework to support the rapidly growing trend in large scale, multidisciplinary and collaborative research, yet most university campuses today lack the infrastructure to support eScience. The computing grids that evolved to serve as a foundation for many of the early eScience initiatives focused primarily on ‘resource scavenging’ within vertical communities of domain specific researchers. However, we believe that unless these community and national grids are tightly and seamlessly coupled to the numerous distributed networked assets on campus—computing, storage, and information— researchers on many university campuses will not be able to fully leverage the benefits of eScience. In addition to leveraging all available resources, university infrastructures will also require to be integrated with an extended capability that will bridge the many local centers of disciplines, policy, funding, and administrative oversight in a federated manner. The CrimsonGrid Project at Harvard has a dual objective. First, strategically re- think the design of extended campus infrastructures, eInfrastructures, to enable eScience and innovative uses of computing for research. Second, enable the federation of computing efforts on campus to those in the regional virtual research communities. In our talk, we provide an overview of our experiences, both technical and social, as we begin to deploy and leverage local resources within the campus and federate these resources to regional and community grids. Using open standards as a foundation, the CrimsonGrid connects locally managed HPC clusters, knowledge repositories, management tools, and web services across the many resource centers on campus and beyond. The new eInfrastructure supports a "bottom-up" approach to the construction and operation of large-scale distributed/grid computing platforms that may also operate independently when disconnected from the other sites. ***Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar. Upcoming IIC seminars Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

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