aspuru-list March 2007

aspuru-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu

13 participants
51 discussions

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group meeting at 5.00

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group, We'll meet at 5.00 in Naito to listen to Andrew Fletcher from MIT talk to us about quantum computation :) 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, 1 month

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] [Colloquium] CS Colloquium MONDAY, April 16, 2007 - Jonathan Zittrain

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Peer-to-fear: The next generation of privacy problems Jonathan Zittrain Oxford University Oxford Internet Institute Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School http://www.jz.org/ MONDAY, April 16, 2007 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G115 (Refreshments at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract Privacy issues arising from government and corporate sources are genuinely interesting and important. But they are dwarfed by a series of threats to privacy that do not fit the standard analytic privacy template. They come from the sorts of Web 2.0 activity that is usually thought of as individually empowering. The generative internet has drawn upon three ingredients to create a new form of privacy problem: cheap sensors, peer production, and reputation systems. These problems arise at the technical layer in Internet and PC security, and at the content layer in ventures such as Wikipedia, Flickr, and Facebook. Effective solutions for these issues may have more in common with solutions to other generative problems than those associated with the decades-old informational privacy analytic template. Host: Professor Michael Smith _______________________________________________ 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

17 years, 1 month

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Future of Energy - Andrew Gould - 3/22 @ 5PM

by Jenny MacGregor

The Future of Energy Lecture Series Please join us tomorrow, *Thursday, March 22* at 5 PM for the next lecture in the 'Future of Energy' series sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America: *Uncertainty of Energy Data Andrew Gould, Chairman and CEO, Schlumberger, Ltd. * * * *Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 5 - 6:30 PM* This lecture is free and open to the public. -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

17 years, 1 month

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [theochem-announce] Lecture TODAY

by Chiao-Lun Cheng

Please take note of the Theochem lecture today. Title-- Dynamics at Metal Surfaces: The Role of Electronic Excitations Speaker-- John Tully Yale University <http://www.chem.yale.edu/%7Etully/> Time-- Wed, March 21st 4pm Place-- MIT (24-121) http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=24-121 More Information-- http://people.bu.edu/theochem _______________________________________________ theochem-announce mailing list theochem-announce(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/theochem-announce

17 years, 1 month

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Windows machine down

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, Shanghai is down for maintenance and will be up in a day or so. 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, 1 month

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] [Colloquium] CS Collo., 3/22/07 - Hanspeter Pfister

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium From Pictures to Insights Hanspeter Pfister Senior research scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories and visiting scholar at Harvard University. http://www.merl.com/people/pfister/ Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. But finding the right words to describe a thousand pictures is very difficult. Today, our ability to acquire image and video data far outstrips our ability to make sense of that data. This is particularly true in the sciences, where huge amounts of image data are acquired from scanners, microscopes, telescopes, and various other instruments. For the past 20 years, visualization has focused on generating images from data. What is now needed are better methods to generate abstractions that help us to gain insights into large collections of image data. In this talk I will make the argument that modern visualization approaches require hierarchical data analysis to transform the data into meaningful, perceptually intuitive representations. I will discuss a number of data-driven hierarchical representations that tame the complexity of high-dimensional visual data. First, I will address the representation of spatially-varying appearance using a tree-structured factorization method and a new matrix decomposition algorithm. Then I will show how to generalize these ideas to decompose time-lapse video into simple and intuitive components that can be edited. Next, I will discuss the MERL face-scanning project, where we collected a database of over 400 subjects with thousands of images each in order to build high-quality statistical models of human faces. Finally, I will briefly describe the Connectome, an ongoing project with the Harvard Center for Brain Science, which aims to determine the detailed neural circuitry of the brain from nanoscale-resolution images. Host: Professor Steven Gortler _______________________________________________ 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

17 years, 1 month

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Posters

by Leslie Vogt

Dear Group, The posters are done! There are copies posted in the group room and I also put them on the wiki under presentations. Thanks for your help - combining individual efforts worked well! Leslie

17 years, 1 month

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] Reminder - IIC Seminar today in Maxwell Dworkin - Digital Libraries

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Seminar Title: Digital Libraries and Information Collection and Repositories Friday, March 16, 2007; 3:00-5:00pm, Refreshments at 2:45pm ***NOTE: Location Change*** – Now in Maxwell Dworkin, Room G115, 33 Oxford Street Moderator: Sidney Verba, Director of the Harvard University Library Panelists: Christine Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies, UCLA Alexa McCray, Deputy Director of the Countway Library Michael Fisher, Editor-in-Chief of Harvard University Press Abstract This panel will address issues in scholarly communication from three differing, yet, interrelated perspectives. Christine Borgman will compare scholarly practices associated with publications and with data, discussing how incentives and disincentives to contribute and share them differ, and how much data loss is likely to occur due to the lack of institutional and policy initiatives. Michael Fisher will argue that, for the first time in the thirty years he's been engaged in the enterprise, cries of doom from scholarly book publishers may well be justified. Alexa McCray will contend that scientific information that is too expensive to afford or is otherwise inaccessible does not serve the basic goals of the scientific enterprise. Active audience participation will be encouraged. ***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

17 years, 1 month

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] [Colloquium] CS Colloquium - March 22, 2007 - Hanspeter Pfister

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium >From Pictures to Insights Hanspeter Pfister Senior research scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories and visiting scholar at Harvard University. http://www.merl.com/people/pfister/ Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. But finding the right words to describe a thousand pictures is very difficult. Today, our ability to acquire image and video data far outstrips our ability to make sense of that data. This is particularly true in the sciences, where huge amounts of image data are acquired from scanners, microscopes, telescopes, and various other instruments. For the past 20 years, visualization has focused on generating images from data. What is now needed are better methods to generate abstractions that help us to gain insights into large collections of image data. In this talk I will make the argument that modern visualization approaches require hierarchical data analysis to transform the data into meaningful, perceptually intuitive representations. I will discuss a number of data-driven hierarchical representations that tame the complexity of high-dimensional visual data. First, I will address the representation of spatially-varying appearance using a tree-structured factorization method and a new matrix decomposition algorithm. Then I will show how to generalize these ideas to decompose time-lapse video into simple and intuitive components that can be edited. Next, I will discuss the MERL face-scanning project, where we collected a database of over 400 subjects with thousands of images each in order to build high-quality statistical models of human faces. Finally, I will briefly describe the Connectome, an ongoing project with the Harvard Center for Brain Science, which aims to determine the detailed neural circuitry of the brain from nanoscale-resolution images. Host: Professor Steven J. Gortler _______________________________________________ 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

17 years, 1 month

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events around Harvard 3/15/07 - 3/29/07

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:* 3/16/07 -- Harvard Environmental Fellow, Peter Alagona, Harvard Forest Seminar speaker 3/22/07 -- The Future of Energy - Uncertainty of Energy Data with Andrew Gould, CEO, Schlumberger, Ltd. 3/26 -- 3/30/07 -- Harvard Business School Green Business Week -- events daily *Calendar Listings:*** *Thursday 3/15/2007 * 4:00p - 5:00p The great ideas of biology <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65094426> Paul Nurse, Rockefeller University NRB Auditorium, 77 Ave Louis Pasteur, Boston 4:00p - 5:00p The evolution of referential communication in highly social bees <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862214> James Nieh, Division of Biological Sciences University of California, San Diego Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge *Friday 3/16/2007 * 11:00a - 12:00p Homes on range: A conservation history of California's privately owned hardwood rangelands <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862217> Peter Alagona, Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Harvard Environmental Fellow Harvard Forest Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA 12:00p - 1:00p Advances in Seasonal Forecasting: Siberian Snow Cover More Important than ENSO? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862232> Judah Cohen, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge * Sunday 3/18/2007 * 2:00p - 3:00p Jane Goodall, Reason For Hope in a Complex World <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64429463> Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard Yard *Monday 3/19/2007 * 3:30p - 5:00p Managing Potential Risks associated with Nanotechnologies <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65220083> Ellen Stokes Ph.D., University of Manchester Law School Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series Landmark 414A, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 4:00p - 5:00p The origin of plate tectonics: A new hypothesis <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64154638> Jun Korenaga, Yale University Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium Lecture Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 3/20/2007* 12:00p - 1:00p Ethnic food markets: windows on biocultural diversity and human health <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862219> MyLien Nguyen, Wellesley College Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:30p Private Sector's Role in Disaster Response and Recovery: Lessons from New Orleans <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65320496> Elizabeth Fleming, CO2 integration manager, Shell Exploration and Production Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative Bell Hall (5th Floor, Belfer Building), Kennedy School of Government *Wednesday 3/21/2007* 5:00p - 6:00p Green CSR: What's the Role of Business in Addressing Environ. Challenges? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65320506> Bob Langert, Gwen Ruta, Dan Fiorino; Mod. by Jane Nelson Corporate Responsibility Council and the CSR Initiative Allison Dining Room, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, KSG, 79 JFK St. , Cambridge *Thursday 3/22/2007 * 12:00p - 1:30p Property Rights for a Small Planet: Role of Common Property in a Sustainable Future <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64994686> Margaret McKean, Department of Political Science and Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series Rubenstein 415, Perkins Room, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street 3:30p - 4:30p NOx Emission Trends for China (1995-2004): View from the Ground, View from Space <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64462537> Dr. ZHANG Qiang, Argonne National Laboratory China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Heat flecks and thermal protection mechanisms of photosynthesis <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65094429> Tom Sharkey, University of Wisconsin, Madison Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge 5:00p - 6:00p The Future of Energy Lecture Series - Uncertainty of Energy Data <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64429420> Andrew Gould, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Schlumberger, Ltd. Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge *Friday 3/23/2007 * 11:00a - 12:00p Running scared: The effects of relaxed selection and behavioral type on risk perception and antipredator behavior <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862218> Ted Stankowich, Darwin Fellow, University of Massachusetts Harvard Forest Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA 12:00p - 1:00p Characterising aerosol in West Africa during the wet and dry seasons <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862216> Hugh Coe, University of Manchester Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge * Sunday 3/25/2007* 2:00p - 3:00p Hummingbird Summer: Living with Birds <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65094403> Julie Zickefoose, Author and bird artist Harvard Museum of Natural History Family Program Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Monday 3/26/2007 * 5:00p - 6:00p Greenhouse Gas Trading: Opportunities and Risks <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65219991> Part of HBS Green Business Week Aldrich 210, Harvard Business School 7:00p - 8:30p Movie: Who Killed the Electric Car? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65219994> Part of HBS Green Business Week Spangler Auditorium, HBS, Soldier's Field Rd. *Tuesday 3/27/2007 * 4:00p - 5:00p Is Walmart Sustainable? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65253481> Andy Ruben, VP of Corporate Strategy and Sustainability, Walmart Part of HBS Green Business Week Burden Auditorium, Harvard Business School 7:00p - 9:00p Movie: Earth to America! <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65219995> Part of HBS Green Business Week Spangler Auditorium, HBS, Soldier's Field Rd. *Wednesday 3/28/2007 * 4:00p - 5:00p Nau: is a revolution in the making <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65219974> Chris Van Dyke, CEO, NAU Part of HBS Green Business Week Aldrich 29, Harvard Business School 7:00p - 8:45p Movie: The Corporation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65219976> Part of HBS Green Business Week Spangler Auditorium, HBS, Soldier's Field Rd. *Thursday 3/29/2007 * 12:30p - 1:30p Malaria Risk on the Amazon Frontier <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64829263> Marcia Castro, Assistant Professor of Demography, Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health Environmental Statistics seminar Harvard School of Public Health, Building 2, Room 426, Boston 7:00p - 8:45p Movie: Fast Food Nation <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65219997> Part of HBS Green Business Week Spangler Auditorium, HBS, Soldier's Field Rd. **** -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

17 years, 1 month

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

aspuru-list March 2007