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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Another summer school.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu/summerschool/2007/qmc/ -- 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] Environmental Events at Harvard 2/1/07 - 2/15/07

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:* 2/5/07 - The Future of Energy with Dan Arvizu, Director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory 2/7/07 -- More Bioenergy with Corrado Clini, Director General Ministry for the Environment and Territory of Italy 2/8/07 - Renate Kunast, Chairwoman of the Greens in German Parliament on Energy, Security and Global Warming *Calendar Listings:** Thursday 2/1/2007 * 4:00p - 5:00p Measurements of the column distribution of CO2: a new constraint for understanding surface exchange <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…> Paul Wennberg, R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech Harvard Climate Seminar Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 4:00p - 5:00p What Cities Are Doing <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…> Sadhu Johnston, Commissioner, the City of Chicago Department of the Environment Part of Loeb Action on Climate Change Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge. 5:00p - 7:30p Free screeing of "An Inconvenient Truth" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6337…> Harvard School of Public Health, Longwood Campus,, HMS NRB (New Research Building), Amphitheater, 77 Louis Pasteur Ave, Boston 6:00p - 9:00p MIT Environmental Film Festival <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6353…> Total Denial (74 min) MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370) 6:00p - 7:00p Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges for a Sustainable Future <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…> Dr. Jonathan Foley, Director of the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Univ. of Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge *Friday 2/2/2007* 9:30a - 10:15a Dangerous Passage: Nature's return to center stage in human history <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…> Diane Dumanoski, former Boston Globe environment reporter, currently writing a book on the subject of her talk Part of Loeb Action on Climate Change Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge 11:00a - 12:00p Ecology and life history strategies of black bears in western Massachusetts <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6337…> John McDonald -- US Fish & Wildlife Service and Harvard Bullard Fellow Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA 5:00p - 9:00p MIT Environmental Film Festival <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6353…> Dying to Breathe: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in South Africa MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370) 8:30p - 9:30p MSI Chalk Talk <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6359…> Daniel P. Schrag, Professor, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge *Saturday 2/3/2007 * 9:30a - 12:00p "The Human Ape" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6382…> Harvard Museum of Natural History 2:00p - 3:00p Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6382…> Harvard Museum of Natural History 5:00p - 9:00p MIT Environmental Film Festival <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6353…> Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (55 min) MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370) *Sunday 2/4/2007 * 2:00p - 3:00p Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6382…> Harvard Museum of Natural History *Monday 2/5/2007* 4:00p - 5:00p Abrupt change in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: theory, modelling and monitoring <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6376…> David Marshall University of Reading Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium Haller Hall, 1st floor Geological Museum bldg, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge 5:00p - 6:00p The Growing Significance of the New Biofuels - The Future of Energy Lecture Series <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…> Dan Arvizu, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Science Center Lecture Hall C, Harvard *Tuesday 2/6/2007* 5:30p - 6:30p Linking Climate Change and Business Strategy" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6382…> Patrick Dolberg, CEO, Holcim (US), Inc. TUFTS International Business Program's Global Speaker Series TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Mugar 200, Tufts University campus, Medford, MA 6:00p - 7:00p International Polar Year and Climate Change <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…> Jim McCarthy, Harvard University Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge * Wednesday 2/7/2007 * 4:00p - 5:30p The Economics of Climate Change: A critical Examination of the Stern Review <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6376…> Martin Weitzman, Harvard University Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, JFK School of Government 4:15p - 5:00p Bioenergy in a globalizing world: Issues of Sustainable Development, Trade and Policy <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6251…> Dr. Corrado Clini, Director General Ministry for the Environment and Territory of Italy Maxwell Dworkin G115, Oxford Street, Cambridge * Thursday 2/8/2007 * 4:00p - 5:30p "Drawing the Connections Between Global Warming, Energy, and Security" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6382…> Renate Kunast, Chairwoman of the Greens in German Parliament Center for European Studies, Lower Level Conference Rm. 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA. 5:00p - 6:15p "The Creation" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6383…> Edward O. Wilson, professor emeritus, honorary curator in entomology, Harvard University Evolution and Theology of Cooperation Project Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School * Saturday 2/10/2007* 2:00p - 3:00p Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6382…> Harvard Museum of Natural History 3:00p - 4:00p "The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6383…> Harvard Museum of Natural History *Sunday 2/11/2007 * 2:00p - 3:00p Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6382…> Harvard Museum of Natural History *Monday 2/12/2007 * 3:30p - 4:30p "Science and Technology in Global Policy" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6383…> George Atkinson, science & technology adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State Labor & Worklife Program, HLS 53 Church St, Harvard Square, *Tuesday 2/13/2007* 9:30a - 11:00a "Progress and Development of Advanced Coal Technology in China" <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6382…> Lifeng Zhao, ETIP Fellow Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series Belfer Center Library, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA *Wednesday 2/14/2007 * 4:00p - 5:30p Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads: A Theory of Environmental Offsets <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6305…> Matthew Kotchen, University of California, Santa Barbara Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University -- 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] 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. 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] [iic-seminars] [Colloquium] REMINDER: Computing the Shape of a Space (Afra Zomorodian)

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

my.harvard calendar reminder: Event Information: Date : 2/1/2007 Start Time : 04:00 PM End Time : 05:00 PM Title : Computing the Shape of a Space (Afra Zomorodian) Description : Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Computing the Shape of a Space Afra Zomorodian Computer Science Department Dartmouth College http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~afra/ Thursday, February 1, 2006 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract For any problem, we can identify a space within which the solution lies. The shape of this space is critical in whether we succeed in finding the solution. Most disciplines take a quantitative approach, analyzing the geometry of the solution space. However, the topology of the space - how it is connected - impacts the effectiveness of the resulting geometric algorithms. Such topological questions have given rise to the area of computational topology. In this talk, I discuss persistence homology, a computational approach to discovering the connectivity of a space. Persistence reveals the underlying algebraic structure of a multi-scale view of a sampled space. I begin by motivating the approach through examples from computer graphics. After describing the theory, I present applications in biophysics and analysis of natural images. Finally, I motivate the need for multidimensional persistence and give a brief overview of a recent theoretical result. Host: Professor Steven Gortler Location : Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) 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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