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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - Digital Libraries on Friday, March 16, 2007

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Friday, March 16, 2007; 3:00-5:00pm Refreshments at 2:45pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 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] Environmental Events around Harvard 3/8/07 - 3/22/07

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:* The Harvard University Center for the Environment website has a new look! Check out www.environment.harvard.edu <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/>. Please be patient while we work out the last few kinks resulting from our transition to this new site. *3/10/07 *-- Microbial Sciences Initiative Annual Symposium *3/22/07 *-- The Future of Energy - Uncertainty of Energy Data with Andrew Gould or Schlumberger, Ltd. *Calendar Listings:*** *Thursday 3/8/2007 * 4:00p - 5:00p Modeling of Travel Behavior in Chengdu, China <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64462536> Prof. Joan Walker, Center for Transportation Studies, Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 5:00p - 6:00p Evolution and Christianity <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862211> Professor Martin Nowak, Harvard Mathematics Organismic and Evolutionary Biology ETC lecture series Sperry Room, Andover Hall, HDS 5:30p - 7:00p Species composition, structure and function of a cyanobacterial mat community inhabiting a Yellowstone hot spring <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63961322> 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 6:00p - 7:00p Highlights of Archaeological Fieldwork at Sardis, 2002-2006 <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862178> Crawford Greenewalk, University of California, Berkeley Sackler Museum Lecture Hall *Friday 3/9/2007* 12:00p - 1:00p Challenges for Global Chemical Transport Models from Ozone and Hydrocarbon Measurements <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862230> David Parrish, NOAA Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 12:30p - 1:30p The Course of Avian Flu in Indonesia: Implications and Possibilities <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862179> James Fox, Harvard University, Australian National University Sponsored by the Asia Center CGIS South Building, Room 050 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 5:00p - 8:00p MIT - New England Energy Showcase <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862226> Kendall Square Marriot, Cambridge, MA *Saturday 3/10/2007* 8:45a - 5:00p Microbial Sciences Annual Symposium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64296828> Science Center Lecture Hall C, Harvard 8:00p The Soul of the Night - Music of Evening, Night and the Dawn, with projections from the hubble telescope <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65027792> Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave in Harvard Square, Cambridge *Monday 3/12/2007 * 8:00a - 7:00p Turning the Ship: Environmental Transformation of the U.S. Economy <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64895655> Genzyme Center, Cambridge, MA 11:00a - 12:00p Inspiring slimes: What hagfish slime can teach us about predator defense, cellular mechanics, and artificial silk <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862236> Douglas S. Fudge, University of Guelph School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Seminar Pierce 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge 2:30p - 3:30p Natural products: Opportunities for discovery <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65094405> Jef K. De Brabander, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas Pfizer Symposium Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford Street 4:00p - 5:00p Adventures of a Stratospherean in the Troposphere: Insights from Wave-zonal Flow dynamics into the Circulation of the Troposphere <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64154635> Walter Robinson, University of Illinois, Chicago Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 4:30p - 6:30p An afternoon with David Graeber <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64829459> Presented by The Program on Science, Technology, and Society at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 3/13/2007* 9:30a - 11:00a A Review of Research on Geological Storage of CO2 in Australia and the USA <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63829857> Aleks Kalinowski, ETIP Fellow Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series Belfer Center Library, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge 3:00p - 4:00p Rock-Paper-Scissors games and biodiversity <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862213> Professor Erwin Frey, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Sponsored by the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics One Brattle Square, 6th Floor, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Bivalves, bolides, and burrowing: effects of the KT mass extinction on veneroid bivalves <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65094389> Rowan Lockwood, The College of William and Mary Earth History and Paleobiology (EHAP) Seminar Series Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 6:00p Wind in the Wild <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64663673> Seaport World Trade Center Amphitheater, Boston *Wednesday 3/14/2007 * 8:00a - 9:15a Quantifying genetic effects on exposure-dose-effect relationships <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64994902> Tom Smith, Ph.D., HSPH Department of Environmental Health Genetics & Environmental Health Breakfast Kresge 110, HSPH, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston 5:00p - 6:00p Whole-genome sequence diversity and reproductive isolation in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64862229> Detlef Weigel, Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Center for Systems Biology Seminar Sherman Fairchild, Room 102 *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> 10th Annual Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Lecture and Award Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard Yard *Monday 3/19/2007* 4:00p - 5:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64154638> Jun Korenaga, Yale University 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 *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 -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Poster Attachments

by Leslie Vogt

Here are the attachments: Sorry! Leslie

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Prospective Student Poster

by Leslie Vogt

Hi, The students have come up with a format for the prospective student open house poster. Now we need some research information to fill it out! Attached are two different box sizes, big (W 22" x H 27" ) and small (W 23" x H 13") created using Inkscape. Please download the appropriate size for your research area (listed below) and add pictures, text, etc to fill out your box. If you don't want to use Inkscape, I can compile text and images from another source that you give me if you talk to me about how to format the design. We should submit the poster for printing by next Mon, March 12, so please send me your submissions as soon as possible. (I know this is soon - sorry!) Here are the box assignments: Quantum Computing (big): James DFT (small): Ali and Leslie Electronic Structure(/QMC) (small): Carlos and Leslie FMO (big): Ivan Fuel Cells/Polymers (small): Sule, Alejandro Solar Cells (small): Alejandro, Leslie Any questions, let me know. Leslie

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Condensed Matter Theory seminar series.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, Today at noon there is a condensed matter theory seminar that might be of interest: http://cmtw.harvard.edu/cmtseminar.html The one on April 5 is right up our alley on quantum simulation with superconducting loops. I think we need to look at his papers: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nori/ -- 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] [Colloquium] REMINDER: Learning from Expert Innovators (Robert Austin)

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

my.harvard calendar reminder: Event Information: Date : 3/8/2007 Start Time : 04:00 PM End Time : 05:00 PM Title : Learning from Expert Innovators (Robert Austin) Description : Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Learning from Expert Innovators Rob Austin Harvard Business School Thursday, March 8, 2007 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract In this seminar I’ll present interim results of a multiyear study of the processes, principles and practices used by people (and groups) acclaimed as expert innovators within their specific contexts. For the purposes of this study, we have defined innovation broadly, as activity that leads to the creation of valuable novelty, leaving open the criteria by which value is determined. This allows us to consider empirically whether there are commonalities in the processes, management principles, and practices in use across a range of fields in which innovation is considered important, from the arts, to design, entertainment, media, and even scientific research. Our methodology is inductive and case-based. Our objective is to advance general theoretical understanding of work and management approaches that repeatedly generate valuable novelty, and to relate the emerging theory to theoretical constructs in adjacent areas of research, such as business innovation, the psychology of individual creativity, and the social psychology of creativity. We find numerous categories of commonality that transcend fields of application. Host: Professor Michael Smith 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar with Jill Mesirov today

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, March 7, 2007; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Jill P. Mesirov, Associate Director and Chief Informatics Officer, Director, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Seminar Title: Computational Paradigms for Genomic Medicine Abstract The completion of the human genome sequencing project, coupled with the ever increasing scale and throughput of biological experimentation, has the potential to greatly accelerate progress in biomedicine. Discoveries in this new realm of "high-dimensional biology" are dependent both upon sophisticated computation and the ability to unify the analytical approaches of a variety of disciplines. However, the lack of an integrated computational environment that can provide both easy access to a set of universal analytic tools, and support the development and dissemination of novel algorithmic approaches, has resulted in the pace of data acquisition greatly outstripping that of meaningful data analysis. We will describe some of the challenging computational problems in biomedicine, the techniques we use to address them, and a software infrastructure to support this highly interdisciplinary field of research. ***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] Special OEB talk today

by Jenny MacGregor

"Collective movements of large mammals: Ecological and social mechanisms." Who: Ilya Fischoff, Princeton University When: today, March 7 from 12-1 PM Where: Harvard University Center for the Environment seminar room, 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Host and Contact: Moorcroft Lab, Kate Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.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] Special Lecture at Radcliffe TODAY - 3/6/07

by Jenny MacGregor

* 2006-2007 Dean's Lecture Series* *and Lecture in the Sciences* *Oceans, Climate, Biodiversity, and Human Health:* *The Cholera Paradigm* ** *Rita Colwell* Distinguished University Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland at College Park Senior Advisor and Honorary Chairman, Canon US Life Sciences, Inc. Former Director, National Science Foundation *Tuesday, March 6, 2007 * *4:00 PM* *Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study* ** *Radcliffe Gymnasium* *10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard* *Cambridge, Massachusetts* ** This lecture is supported by the Marjorie Cabot de Enriquez Fund. It is designed for the interested layperson and is free and open to the public. Global warming can profoundly change the pattern of infectious diseases. Cholera, which is strongly intertwined with the environment, serves as a paradigm of this phenomenon. Over the past decade, the complexity of climate change has been the subject of extensive discussion. Microbial factors associated with climate change, notably infectious diseases, are rarely---if ever---included in climate models. Rita Colwell recognizes that, although the problem is complicated and the interactions involved are both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, the human health aspect must be considered if global effects of climate change are to be fully understood. Colwell will address how the interaction of humans with cholera bacteria, plankton, and other environmental factors provides the basis for reasonable predictions about cholera outbreaks. She will also look at how other climate-driven diseases may prove similarly measurable in a holistic understanding of disease agents. Colwell is a Distinguished University Professor both at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Maryland at College Park and a senior advisor and honorary chairman of Canon US Life Sciences, Inc. Her interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water, and health, and she is currently developing an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water for both the developed and developing world. Prior to serving as the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1998 to 2004, Colwell was president of the Biotechnology Institute and professor of microbiology and biotechnology at the University of Maryland. In her capacity as director of NSF, she served as cochair of the Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council. She was also a member of the National Science Board from 1984 to 1990. Colwell has held many advisory positions in the US government, in nonprofit science policy organizations, and in private foundations, as well as in the international scientific research community. She is a nationally respected scientist and educator and has authored or coauthored 16 books and more than 700 scientific publications, served on editorial boards of numerous scientific journals, and produced the award-winning film /Invisible Seas/. A geological site in Antarctica, Colwell Massif, has been named in recognition of her work in the polar regions. For more information, visit www.radcliffe.edu <http://www.radcliffe.edu/> or call 617-495-8600. The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University is a scholarly community where individuals pursue advanced work across a wide range of academic disciplines, professions, and creative arts. Within this broad purpose, the Institute sustains a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society. -- 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] CS Collo. - March 15, 2007 - Lenore Blum

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium The Crisis in Computer Science: What can we do? Lenore Blum Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lblum Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract The Crisis. According to the 2004-2005 CRA Taulbee survey, the number of new undergraduate computer science (CS) majors in the U.S. has dropped by more than 30% since 2001-2002. More alarming, the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA reports a precipitous decline (70%) in the proportion of college freshmen listing CS as their probable major between fall 2000 and 2005. Enrollment in AP courses has increased in all disciplines except CS which has seen declines of 6% in 2004 and 7% in 2005. The percentage of CS bachelor’s degrees awarded to women is just 15%. And in 2005, less than 8% of CS degrees were awarded to African American and Hispanic students. What to do? I posit that the root cause of this crisis lies with our community (not the dot-com bust or fears of outsourcing) and so does the potential solution. Our failure to communicate the depth and breadth of the field or to pay attention to K-12 education has perpetuated the popular image of computer scientist as nerd and computer science as programming with little intellectual content. I will discuss several efforts to positively change the image and culture of computing, both at the K-12 and the university levels. In particular, I will report on the CS4HS project to help high school CS teachers incorporate computational thinking into their classes and a program for increasing the participation of women in computer science at Carnegie Mellon. 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

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