aspuru-list March 2007

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

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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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Monday March 19

by Edward Farhi

Dear All We are scheduled to meet on Monday March 19 at 1:00. We did not set an agenda. If someone would like to lead a discussion about something please do let me know. Eddie ps If you want to be removed from this list let me 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] Reminder - IIC Seminar this Friday, March 16 - Digital Libraries

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Friday, March 16, 2007; 3:00-5:00pm Refreshments at 2:45pm ***NOTE: Location Change*** – Now in Maxwell Dworkin, Room G115, 33 Oxford Street Seminar Title: Digital Libraries and Information Collection and Repositories 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Today and tomorrow off.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group. Today and tomorrow I will be off, today it was Boston College and tomorrow MIT and the talk at the theory seminar. If you need anything, send e-mail. I will see you on Thursday. Of course, the talk conflicts with our group meeting, on FMO, so I forget if we had figured that out or not. We should have it for the week after or on Thursdsay or Friday. At MIT, I will be speaking on the second hour at MIT on how to simulate classical systems using a QC based on ideas of Somma. I think it has good chemical apps and is a possible grad student project. I will mention a bit about quantum search just to give people the flavor of what we are trying to do. The first hour is phase estimation. Cheers, 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] Lunch on Friday with Mark Ratner.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, Mark Ratner, a great, GREAT theoretician from Northwestern will be speaking at MIT on Thursday and at Harvard on Friday. Helen is asking if any of you wants to organize lunch (Free lunch, anyone?) with him? He is a very, very interesting a funny guy. I strongly recommend a volunteer to organize lunch with him, and bring as many group members as you can. (STudent or Postdoc) Let me and Helen know ASAP. A. -- 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] [theochem-announce] Seminar tomorrow

by Chiao-Lun Cheng

Hi all, Please take note of the Theochem seminar this coming wednesday. Title-- Quantum information and physical chemistry: Calculation of molecular energies and dynamics of excitonic energy transfer Speaker-- Alan Aspuru-Guzik Harvard University Time-- Wed, March 14th 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

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Re: [Aspuru-Guzik group list] 3/16 visiting G0 research areas of interest

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Kathy, Thanks! I am happy to meet the ones interested in talking with me! Especially Roberto, Joel and Brenda (I know them already! and I am courting Roberto and Joel to come heavily) With regards to the poster session: This is our group schedule: First poster session (this Friday): James Whitfield + Ivan Kassal Second Session (next friday): Leslie Vogt + Alejandro Perdomo Leslie + Alejandro: Ivan and James e-mailed me first asking for the first date, so you guys were defaulted to the second date :) Cheers, Alan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar - Friday, March 16 - Location Change - Now in Maxwell Dworkin!

by Helene Tingle

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Poster reminder + Visit sessions.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Students, This is just a reminder that you need to get together and discuss the poster, and get contributions from all members of the group. Also you have to decide who goes what friday to the poster session. E-mail Minoo with your preference. So far I think it is: First Visit: Ivan Kassal + _________ Second visit: ________ + _________ 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] Monday

by Edward Farhi

Dear All We will meet on Monday March 12 at 1:00 in the usual spot. Scott Aaronson will join us. He will also be speaking at 3:00 in 34-401A and it sounds like an interesting talk. Eddie *********************************************** 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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