aspuru-list March 2007

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by Edward Farhi

Dear All We are meeting today as usual at 1:00. Jake will speak. 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] email address

by Minoo Ardeshiri

Dear lab members, Please send your emails to *minoo.ardeshiri(a)gmail.com.* ** Thanks, Minoo

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] email address

by Minoo Ardeshiri

Dear lab members, Please send your emails to *minoo.ardeshiri(a)gmail.com.* ** Thanks, Minoo

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] New administrator.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear lab members, We have a new lab administrator: Mino Ardeshiri. She will be located in the Cynthia Friend Office downstairs temporarily (in the basement that has "Steven Colbert" in the doorway) She will be accessible primarily by e-mail (for the moment minooar(a)gmail.com) I hope that Minoo will be able to move to M112 as soon as the construction finishes. 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] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - Jill Mesirov on March 7

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] Ecology Discussion Group

by Jenny MacGregor

Calling all Ecologists... The Harvard Ecology Discussion group will begin meeting again starting on March 8th at 12:00noon. This semester, the Center for the Environment (HUCE) has agreed to host the group - providing meeting space as well as food and drinks. If you are interested in attending please respond to Ken Feeley (kfeeley(a)oeb.harvard.edu) and Ken will send more details. Also, please feel free to forward this email to any colleagues from other departments or schools that may be interested. The Harvard Ecology Discussion Group is an informal meeting between students, postdocs, professors and researchers from throughout the University but sharing a common interest in ecology. The group will meet once a week to discuss recent advances in ecology, articles of special interest, and the work/ideas of participants. The specific topics covered will depend entirely on participant interest but may range from ecosystem models to community phylogenetics. The format of the meetings is flexible but the idea for this semester is to have participants give short presentations followed up by a discussion of the talk as well as related readings to be distributed in advance. This will be a wonderful opportunity to try out conference talks, vet ideas for future research, etc. -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Environmental Events around Harvard 3/1/07 - 3/15/07

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:* *3/10/07 -- *Microbial Sciences Initiative Annual Symposium* 3/12/07 - *An afternoon with Yale anthropologist David Graeber *Calendar Listings:*** *Thursday 3/1/2007 * 4:30p - 6:00p China Shifts Gears: Automakers, oil, pollution and development - discussion with author Kelly Sims Gallagher <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6479…> Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director of the Energy Technology Innovation Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government TUFTS - Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall 108 6:00p - 7:00p The Songs Of Insects. Lecture and booksigning by Lang Elliott and Wil Hershberger <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6482…> Harvard Museum of Natural History *Friday 3/2/2007 * 8:30a - 9:30a C. elegans olfactory learning on pathogenic bacteria <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6486…> Prof Yun Zhang, Harvard University (OEB Dept) MSI Chalktalk Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 12:00p - 10:00p Improving Understanding of Global and Regional Carbon Dioxide Flux Variability through Assimilation of In Situ and Remote Sensing Data in a Geostatistical Framework <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6486…> Anna Michalak, University of Michigan Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 12:00p - 11:00p ECOTRANSOLOGY: Integrated Design for Urban Mobility <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6479…> Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. Presented by GSD Green Design Porticoes 122 in Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy St., Cambridge *Saturday 3/3/2007 * 7:30p - 8:30p Arctic Climate Change - Why It Should Concern Us <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6439…> Professor James McCarthy, Harvard University LEXINGTON, MA - Cary Memorial Hall *Monday 3/5/2007 * 12:00p - 10:00p REVIVING THE CHARLES RIVER: Urban Planning and Design for "America's Cleanest Urban River." <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6483…> Kate Bowditch, Charles River Watershed Association Stubbins Room 112, Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge 3:30p - 5:00p Global Cycling of Mercury in the Atmosphere and Oceans: Implications for Exposure in the United States <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6442…> Elsie M. Sunderland, Ph.D., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series Landmark 414A, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 4:00p - 5:00p Testing climate and tectonic coupling in the Central Andes <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6415…> Nadine McQuarrie, Princeton University Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium Lecture Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 3/6/2007* 12:00p - 10:00p Co2 Capture and Storage <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6486…> Kurt House, Harvard University EPS Graduate Student and Post-Doc Seminar Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman Laboratories, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge 12:00p - 1:00p The effects of global change on tropical forest structure and dynamics <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6446…> Ken Feeley, Harvard University Herbarium Harvard Herbarium Seminar Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Oceans, Climate, Biodiversity, and Human Health: The Cholera Paradigm <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=5920…> Rita Colwell, distinguished university professor, University of Maryland College Park; adjunct professor of environmental health sciences, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Radcliffe Institute Seminar Radcliffe Gymnasium, Radcliffe Yard * Wednesday 3/7/2007 * 3:30p - 4:30p Applied evolution: Domestication, disease, crime and culture <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6486…> David Mindell, University of Michigan 2006-2007 Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation Radcliffe Institute, 34 Concord Ave., 2nd Floor Colloquium Room 4:00p - 5:30p Unintended Biological Invasions: Does Risk Vary by Trading Partner? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6305…> Andrew Solow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, et al. Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University *Thursday 3/8/2007 * 4:00p - 5:00p Modeling of Travel Behavior in Chengdu, China <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6446…> 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/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6486…> 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/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6396…> 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/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6486…> 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/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6486…> David Parrish, NOAA Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 12:30p - 10:30p The Course of Avian Flu in Indonesia: Implications and Possibilities <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6486…> 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/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6486…> Kendall Square Marriot, Cambridge, MA *Saturday 3/10/2007* 8:45a - 5:00p Microbial Sciences Annual Symposium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6429…> Science Center Lecture Hall C, Harvard *Monday 3/12/2007 * 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/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6486…> Douglas S. Fudge, University of Guelph Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Seminar Talk Pierce 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6415…> Walter Robinson, University of Illinois, Chicago Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 4:30p - 6:30p An afternoon with David Graeber <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6482…> 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/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6382…> 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/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6486…> Professor Erwin Frey, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Sponsored by the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics One Brattle Square, 6th Floor, Cambridge 6:00p Wind in the Wild <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6466…> Seaport World Trade Center Amphitheater, Boston *Wednesday 3/14/2007 * 5:00p - 6:00p Whole-genome sequence diversity and reproductive isolation in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6486…> 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 evolution of referential communication in highly social bees <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6486…> James Nieh, Division of Biological Sciences University of California, San Diego Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] [Colloquium] CS Colloquium - April 12, 2007 - Oren Etzioni

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Everything I know I Learned from Google: Machine Reading of Web Text Oren Etzioni Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Director of the Turing Center University of Washington http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/etzioni/ Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract A new subfield of Artificial Intelligence, called Machine Reading, is gaining increasing momentum. What is Machine Reading? Will machines emulate human reading? Or will Machine Reading be analogous to Computer Chess---a radically non-human approach to the game that achieved super-human performance? My talk will speculate on these questions, and then describe our KnowItAll project, which investigates the challenges of ''reading the Web''. Host: Professor David Parkes _______________________________________________ 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] [Colloquium] CS Collo. - 4/5/07 - Fahiem Bacchus

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Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium Solving #SAT Fahiem Bacchus Department of Computer Science University of Toronto http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fbacchus/ Thursday, April 5, 2007 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract #SAT is the problem of counting the number of models of a propositional formula expressed in Conjunctive Normal Form. The important practical problem of Bayesian Inference is the slight generalization of #SAT to weighted model counting. Traditional approaches to this problem employ a dynamic programming technique called variable elimination, and are able to achieve tree-width bounds when supplied with a good variable ordering. In this talk I will demonstrate how the problem can be solved using backtracking search. If caching is employed (in essence adding dynamic programming to backtracking) similar computational bounds can be achieved. If dynamic decompostion is employed in addition to caching, backtracking can be shown to perform a 1-1 emulation of the operations of variable elimination, except in a different order. However, there are a number of advantages to using backtracking, one of which is that different branches can employ different variable orderings. It can be proved that this can yield a super-polynomial speedup over variable elimination (even when variable elimination is supplied with the best possible ordering). Host: Professor Avi Pfeffer -- Carol Harlow Harvard University Maxwell Dworkin 343 33 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 _______________________________________________ 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] Speaker on Friday.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group, Ernesto Joselevich is speaking on Friday. He is interested in experimentally manipulating chromophores , nanotubes, etc. and studying electron and excitation energy transfer. His talk is at 4, and I meet with him at 2. Does anybody want to meet with him at 2.45? Possible conversation topics are FRET, ET, etc. Alan http://www.weizmann.ac.il/materials/ernesto/ernesto.html -- 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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