aspuru-list February 2007

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Meeting today.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Group, The meeting today at 5 is in 030 Naito. (It is in the lower level, around the building) 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] [iic-seminars] Reminder - IIC Seminar today - Dr. Jeremy Wolfe

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, February 7, 2007; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Jeremy M. Wolfe, Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School Seminar Title: Visual Search: Is it a matter of life and death? Abstract I will give an introduction to the problem of visual search and to the Guided Search model that my lab has been working on for a number of years. I will discuss an important practical problem in search. Rare targets are hard to find simply because they are rare. We ask people to find rare targets in some very important tasks like baggage screening and routine mammography so, if low target prevalence makes search difficult, this could be a real problem. Finally, I will place the problem of search into the larger context of visual perception and show how our need to use selective attention leads to some interesting perceptual errors. 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. Please Note: The February 13, 2007 National Virtual Observatory Panel has been postponed. _______________________________________________ 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] Hartree-Fock notes

by Ali Najmaie

Hello all, You can find my notes on Hartree-Fock, that I will be using in the tutorial, on the group Wiki (under Scientific Topics / DFT ) and attached. Cheers, Ali

17 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] [Colloquium] CS Collo. 3/1/07 - Byron Cook

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Automatic termination proofs for software Byron Cook Microsoft http://research.microsoft.com/~bycook Thursday, March 1, 2007 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract I will describe recent advances in the area of automatic program termination analysis. I will also discuss TERMINATOR, the Microsoft tool which implements these recent advances. We've recently used TERMINATOR to prove that Windows device driver dispatch routines always return control back to their caller. TERMINATOR has also found a number of critical termination bugs in device drivers. Host: Professor Greg Morrisett _______________________________________________ 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] Third generation photovoltaics!

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, I was yesterday at a dinner with Dan Arvizu, the director of NREL. (National Renewable Energy Labs). Carlos Amador went to his talk. Arvizu mentioned that the THIRD GENERATION of Photovoltaics was going to exploit "new quantum effects" and nanostructures. He said his lab was working on that. So at least we are on the right track! Here is the link to our wiki page: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu:8080/mediawiki/index.php/Image:Clean_tech_ja… At this point Alan Heeger's (nobel prize) lectures might be interesting as well (thanks Alejandro for the link!) http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu:8080/mediawiki/index.php/Solar_Cells Dan Arvizu's presentation on clean energy technology. Very similar to what he gave here at Harvard. Dan Arvizu is the director of the National Renewable Energy Lab. See pages 18 and 21. They are about the "third generation" solar cells that harness new quantum effects and nanostructures. -- 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] Monday February 5

by Edward Farhi

Dear All We will meet on Monday February 5 at 1:00 in the usual place (here) to organize for the term. Please bring along your schedules so we can be sure to find a good meeting time. Of course any news is also appreciated. best, Eddie *********************************************** Edward Farhi Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology NE25 Room 4024 Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 ***********************************************

17 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Fwd: Mathematica (MacOSX/Windows/Linux)]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear members, Who can volunteer to be our Mathematica steward and learn how to install the department-wide Linux version of Mathematica (64 bit) on our machines? Certainly very useful! 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

17 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] Reminder - IIC Seminar on Feb. 7, 2007 - Jeremy Wolfe

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, February 7, 2007; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Jeremy M. Wolfe, Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School Seminar Title: Visual Search: Is it a matter of life and death? Abstract I will give an introduction to the problem of visual search and to the Guided Search model that my lab has been working on for a number of years. I will discuss an important practical problem in search. Rare targets are hard to find simply because they are rare. We ask people to find rare targets in some very important tasks like baggage screening and routine mammography so, if low target prevalence makes search difficult, this could be a real problem. Finally, I will place the problem of search into the larger context of visual perception and show how our need to use selective attention leads to some interesting perceptual errors. Upcoming IIC Seminars Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule. Please Note: The February 13, 2007 National Virtual Observatory (NVO) Panel has been postponed. 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

17 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] The Future of Energy - Dan Arvizu - Renewables

by Jenny MacGregor

Future of Energy <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/FOE06.htm> *Please join us tonight for our next Future of Energy Lecture* *Dan Arvizu* *Director, National Renewable Laboratory* / *The Growing Significance of Biofuels*/ *5 PM, Science Center, Lecture Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge* *This lecture is free and open to the public.* *Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America* *-- * Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

17 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] suggestions please

by Ali Najmaie

Dear friends, A while ago there were discussions about having a group (and family)-movie night. I suggest we start getting together to watch a movie every once a while, we could even have dinner and drinks ... etc. This email is intended to start a dialogue on: - How often and which day of the week? - What should we watch? - Where should we do this? - What to eat and drink? my suggestion: I suggest that we pick a random country/region and watch a movie about or from that country or region. If at all possible, it would be great to try to match the food and the country (or region). If we really want to be adventurous, we can even get recipes and cook the food ourselves (and of course wash the dishes together after the movie)!!. What do you think? Cheers, Ali

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