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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events at Harvard 2/22/07 - 3/8/07

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:* Today: Energy Autonomy: The economic, social, and technological case for renewable energy with Hermann Scheer -- Maxwell Dworkin 2/26/07 -- Migration on the shrinking Arctic Refuge Coastal plain -- Stephen Brown, PhD 3/6/07 -- Oceans, Climate, Biodiversity and Human Health with Rita Colwell *Calendar Listings:*** *Thursday 2/22/2007 * 5:00p - 6:00p Energy Autonomy: The economic, social and technological case for renewable energy <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6442…> Dr. Hermann Scheer, member of the German Parliament, President of EUROSOLAR, the European Association for Renewable Energy, and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge 6:00p - 7:00p Science and Leadership: The Imperative <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6442…> Shirley Ann Jackson, president, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1999-present); chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1995-1999) The 2007 Gustav Pollak Lecture John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge *Friday 2/23/2007 * 8:30a - 9:30a Chromosome Motion and Position in Escherichia coli <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6396…> Prof. Nancy Kleckner, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology (Harvard University) MSI Chalktalk Breakfast Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 12:00p - 1:00p Lifetimes and Time Scales in Atmospheric Chemistry <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6415…> Michael Prather, UC Irvine Atmospheric Sciences Seminars Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge *Saturday 2/24/2007 * 2:00p - 3:00p ScheerEnergy Autonomy: The economic, social and technological case for renewable energy <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6429…> Dr. Hermann Scheer, member of the German Parliament, President of EUROSOLAR, the European Association for Renewable Energy, and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy Tufts University, 008 Barnum Hall Medford, Massachusetts 8:00p - 9:30p Cello Concert and Environmental Presentation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6429…> Cellist and Environmentalist Reinmar Seidler presents a cello recital//powerpoint presentation on his work with community based conservation efforts in India Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge *Sunday 2/25/2007* 2:00p - 3:30p Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6415…> Stephen Brown, Director, Shorebird COnservation Research Program, Manomet Center for Conservation Studies Harvard Museum of Natural History Family Program Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Streett *Monday 2/26/2007 * 2:00p - 3:00p Source estimation of aerosol precursors using 4-dimensional variational data assimilation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6442…> Daven Henze, Caltech SPECIAL Applied Mechanics Colloquium Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Tropical forests' large role in the global carbon cycle: changed paradigms, critical uncertainties & an agenda for moving forward <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6415…> Deborah Clark, University of Missouri, St Louis Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 5:00p - 6:00p Shorebird Distribution and Abundance on the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6415…> Stephen Brown, PhD, Director, Shorebird Conservation Research Program, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences Maxwell-Dworkin G125 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge 6:00p - 7:00p A Decision Oriented Approach to Stormwater Management Using Land Use Planning <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6463…> Professor Richard Vogel and Ph.D. candidate Jim Limbrunner from Tufts University's Engineering Department Gund Hall, Room 109, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy Street *Tuesday 2/27/2007 * 9:30a - 11:00a Passenger Vehicle Emissions in China, and an Analysis of Possible Mitigating Policy Options <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6382…> Hongyan Oliver, ETIP Fellow Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series Belfer Center Library, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA 12:00p - 1:00p Regeneration dynamics in large forest gaps <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6446…> Michael Dietze, Harvard University Herbarium Harvard Herbaria Seminar Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge *Wednesday 2/28/2007 * 8:00a - 9:15p How to Study Genes when Environment is Everything <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6456…> Heather Nelson, Ph.D. and Karl Kelsey,M.D., Harvard School of Public Health Genetics & Environmental Health Breakfast Kresge 110, HSPH, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston 4:00p - 5:30p Coming Clean and Cleaning Up? Examining the Effects of Self-Policing <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6305…> Michael Toffel, Harvard Business School, and Jodi Short, University of California, Berkeley Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University *Saturday 3/3/2007 * 7:30p - 8:30p Arctic Climate Change - Why It Should Concern Us <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6439…> Professor James McCarthy, Harvard University LEXINGTON, MA - Cary Memorial Library *Monday 3/5/2007* 3:30p - 5:00p Global Cycling of Mercury in the Atmosphere and Oceans: Implications for Exposure in the United States <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6442…> Elsie M. Sunderland, Ph.D., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series Landmark 414A, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 4:00p - 5:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6415…> Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 3/6/2007* 12:00p - 1:00p The effects of global change on tropical forest structure and dynamics <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6446…> Ken Feeley, Harvard University Herbarium Harvard Herbarium Seminar Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Oceans, Climate, Biodiversity, and Human Health: The Cholera Paradigm <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5920…> Rita Colwell, distinguished university professor, University of Maryland College Park; adjunct professor of environmental health sciences, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Radcliffe Gymnasium, Radcliffe Yard *Wednesday 3/7/2007* 4:00p - 5:30p Unintended Biological Invasions: Does Risk Vary by Trading Partner? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6305…> Andrew Solow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, et al. Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University *Thursday 3/8/2007* 4:00p - 5:00p Modeling of Travel Behavior in Chengdu, China <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6446…> Prof. Joan Walker, Center for Transportation Studies, Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 5:30p - 7:00p Species composition, structure and function of a cyanobacterial mat community inhabiting a Yellowstone hot spring <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6396…> Prof. Dave Ward, Montana State University (Boseman) MSI Thursday Evening Seminar Series Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Hermann Scheer - Energy Autuonomy Lecture 5 PM Tonight - 2/22/07

by Jenny MacGregor

Please join us today, Thursday February 22th for a special lecture: *Energy Autonomy*: The economic, social and technological case for renewable energy /with/ *Hermann Scheer* Member of the German Parliament President of EUROSOLAR, the European Association for Renewable Energy General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy *Where*: Maxwell Dworkin, G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge *When*: Thursday, February 22, 5 - 6 PM *Contact*: Jenny MacGregor, jenny_macgregor(a)harvard.edu -- 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: Zero Configuration Networking with Bonjour (Stuart Cheshire)

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

my.harvard calendar reminder: Event Information: Date : 2/22/2007 Start Time : 04:00 PM End Time : 05:00 PM Title : Zero Configuration Networking with Bonjour (Stuart Cheshire) Description : Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Zero Configuration Networking with Bonjour Stuart Cheshire Apple Thursday, February 22, 2006 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract While TCP/IP has emerged as undisputed winner for wide area networking, with the dual "killer apps" of email and the web, local area communications remain a confused mish-mash of technologies like serial ports, parallel ports, SCSI, IrDA, USB, FireWire, Bluetooth, etc. Stuart Cheshire speculated that since TCP/IP is such a clear success for wide area networking, perhaps it could also be the solution for local area communications too. With the work done at the IETF under the name "Zeroconf", and at Apple under the name "Bonjour", Apple and other companies have demonstrated that TCP/IP (running over Ethernet, 802.11 wireless, or any other suitable link-layer technology) can be as easy to use and hassle-free as any of the dedicated local communication technologies like USB. Bonjour/Zeroconf was not the world's first attempt to make TCP/IP easy to use in the LAN environment, but it's the only one to achieve widespread success in the marketplace. For example, every network printer sold today from every major printer manufacturer implements the Zeroconf protocols. Stuart Cheshire will describe the three simple protocols that go together to create the Zero Configuration trio, and will then show a sample of some of the many "cool toys" from Apple and other companies that are built on this foundation. Apple may have been one of the earliest adopters of the Zeroconf technologies, but the specifications are open and multiple Open Source implementations (including one from Apple) exist in a variety of different languages. Personal web page: <http://stuartcheshire.org/> Technology page: <http://zeroconf.org/> (also includes a link to the O'Reilly book) Host: Professor Norman Ramsey Location : Maxwell Dworkin G125 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] [iic-seminars] Reminder - IIC Special Event- Edward Tufte on Wednesday

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard **Special Event** Wednesday, February 21, 2007; 7:00pm Location: Biolabs Room 1068, 16 Divinity Avenue Edward Tufte, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science, and Senior Critic in the School of Art at Yale Title of Talk: An Academic and Otherwise Life, An N = 1. Abstract Edward Tufte will talk about his education and careers in statistics, political economy, analytical design, landscape sculpture, book publishing, and consulting. A question session will follow the talk. Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage and the Broadway Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Event with Edward Tufte. _______________________________________________ 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] [Colloquium] CS Collo - Monday, Feb. 26

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

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 _______________________________________________ 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] Chairs.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group, The chairs arrived, pick your chair and replace yours with that one, I think they will take away the old chairs, and note that right now they might be too high (at least they were high for me) The maintenance people are coming tomorrow to make some holes on them to make them sit lower... You might like this height, 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] Computer accounts in CNS cluster.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, As you know, Clandestino is not at its best at the moment, with some nodes down, etc. For that reason, we will probably need to rely also on the CNS cluster (another cluster of 120 processors or so at Harvard). People that are thinking of computing this year (almost everybody I think at this point) should fill out the user part of this form and get it to Marilyn or me before Thursday so she can send it to Rhonda Gibson via interuniversity mail. Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rhonda Gibson <rgibson(a)deas.harvard.edu> Date: Feb 19, 2007 1:27 PM Subject: cns renewal deadline To: aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Please review your CNS renewal packet and just send me an email back before 02/23/2007 confirming that all the information is correct so that i may complete your CNS renewal. If there are changes please fill aout the packet and either fax or mail it back to me. thank you Rhonda Gibson Assistant CNS/NNIN User Program Coordinator Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) Harvard university 17 Oxford Street, Cruft 314a Cambridge, MA 02138 Office: 617-496-9632 Fax: 617-384-7302 -- 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] [Colloquium] CS Collo - 2/22/07 - Stuart Cheshire

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St.,Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Zero Configuration Networking with Bonjour Stuart Cheshire Apple Thursday, February 22, 2006 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract While TCP/IP has emerged as undisputed winner for wide area networking, with the dual "killer apps" of email and the web, local area communications remain a confused mish-mash of technologies like serial ports, parallel ports, SCSI, IrDA, USB, FireWire, Bluetooth, etc. Stuart Cheshire speculated that since TCP/IP is such a clear success for wide area networking, perhaps it could also be the solution for local area communications too. With the work done at the IETF under the name "Zeroconf", and at Apple under the name "Bonjour", Apple and other companies have demonstrated that TCP/IP (running over Ethernet, 802.11 wireless, or any other suitable link-layer technology) can be as easy to use and hassle-free as any of the dedicated local communication technologies like USB. Bonjour/Zeroconf was not the world's first attempt to make TCP/IP easy to use in the LAN environment, but it's the only one to achieve widespread success in the marketplace. For example, every network printer sold today from every major printer manufacturer implements the Zeroconf protocols. Stuart Cheshire will describe the three simple protocols that go together to create the Zero Configuration trio, and will then show a sample of some of the many "cool toys" from Apple and other companies that are built on this foundation. Apple may have been one of the earliest adopters of the Zeroconf technologies, but the specifications are open and multiple Open Source implementations (including one from Apple) exist in a variety of different languages. Personal web page: <http://stuartcheshire.org/> Technology page: <http://zeroconf.org/> (also includes a link to the O'Reilly book) Host: Professor Norman Ramsey _______________________________________________ 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] Group meeting on Forster cancelled.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, The group meeting on Forster Energy transfer this Wednesday will be cancelled for this week. Sule could talk about semiclassical dynamics instead that day, or if that is short notice, we could do it the week after. Yours, 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] Fwd: Announcement of computational summer school in Illinois July 9-19

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members (students and postdocs), You should tell me if you are interested in attending at all (postdocs too!) because we need to request travel assistance ASAP because it is AWARDED in the order it is received, so if we send the apps TOMORROW it is very probable you can attend to this excellent QMC tutorial for free: Let me know the head-count, Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Burkhard Militzer <militzer(a)gl.ciw.edu> Date: Feb 19, 2007 1:59 PM Subject: Announcement of computational summer school in Illinois July 9-19 To: alan(a)aspuru.com Cc: Amy Young <amyoung(a)uiuc.edu> Dear Alan, Congratulations to your job. I did not know that you moved to Harvard. We are planning to hold a summer school on "Quantum Monte Carlo from Minerals and Materials to Molecules", July 9-19, 2007 at the University of Illinois. The aim is to bring together advanced undergraduates, graduate students and post-docs, faculty, and research scientists from the fields of geophysics, physics, chemistry, as well as materials science to learn about QMC calculations and their applications. The school will have lectures in the morning and interactive laboratories in the afternoon. Preliminary list of presenters: Dario Alfe, University College London Michele Casula, University of Illinois David Ceperley, University of Illinois Ronald Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington Neil Drummond, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge Claudia Filippi, Universiteit Leiden Richard Hennig, Cornell University Jeongnim Kim, University of Illinois Pablo Lopez Rios, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge Burkhard Militzer, Carnegie Institution of Washington Lubos Mitas, North Carolina State University Lars Stixrude, University of Michigan Cyrus Umrigar, Cornell University Renata Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota Shiwei Zhang, College of William and Mary Preliminary list of topics to be covered: First principles calculation in geophysics Equations of state, elasticity and thermal properties of solids Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods Variational Monte Carlo Diffusion Monte Carlo QMC applications in geophysics Pseudopotential generation Wavefunction optimization methods Wavefunction using pfaffians and backflow Path integral Monte Carlo Auxiliary field methods Please consult the website http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu/summerschool/2007/qmc for up-to-date information on the instructors, topics and application materials. We would like your opinions on the workshop topics to make sure that the needs of the prospective students and the QMC community will be met. Please take a few minutes to respond to our email. How many people at your institution could attend during this time period, assuming that they are not limited by funding? (Note that there will be a $75 registration fee. Housing will be provided at no cost for off-campus participants, and particpants can apply for travel support.) What topics would be essential or desirable to include for these participants? Thank you, Organizing Committee: David Ceperley, Burkhard Militzer, Ronald Cohen, Richard Martin and Jeongnim Kim This school is supported by NSF-EAR 05-30282, NSF-EAR 05-30643 and the Materials Computation Center NSF DMR-03-25939 ITR. --------------------------------------------------------- Burkhard Militzer Tel: (202) 478-8995 Carnegie Institution of Washington Fax: (202) 478-8901 5251 Broad Branch Road, NW militzer(a)gl.ciw.edu Washington, DC 20015 http://militzer.gl.ciw.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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