aspuru-list April 2007

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Stakes are higher.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, The stakes are higher :) http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=ED1D1446-E7F2-99DF-3CBF8B2F66C0C… -- 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 - Daniel Goodman on April 18th

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, April 18, 2007; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Daniel Goodman, member of Oxford University Computing Laboratory Seminar Title: Martlet, A Scientific Work-Flow Language for Abstracted Parallelisation Abstract This talk presents a work-flow language, Martlet, and a novel programming model that allows users to construct work-flows without specifying the level of parallelisation. Developed originally for data analysis in Climate Prediction.net, this technique is of benefit to users constructing work-flows for environments where, the distribution of large datasets or the number of available resources is changable. ***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 - 4/12/07 - 4/26/07

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:* *TONIGHT* -- Future of Energy <http://environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/FOE06.htm> -- Vaclav Smil, University of Manitoba -- Transforming Energy Techniques, Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., 5 PM *4/23/07 -- *An afternoon with Arun Agrawal -- Center for the Environment *4/23/07 -- *Biodiversity, Ecology and Global Change -- David Tilman -- University of Minnesota *4/23/07 --* Environment in an Age of Terror *Calendar Listings:* *Thursday 4/12/2007 * 5:00p - 6:30p The Future of Energy Lecture Series - Transforming Energy Techniques <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65354501> Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor, University of Manitoba Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge 5:30p - 8:00p Magnetosomes: a model system for the study of organelle biology in bacteria <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65691018> Arash Komeili, Dept. of Plant and Microbiology, University of California Berkeley Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Thursday Evening Seminar Series Microbiology Seminar Room, WAB 341, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Ave., Boston *Friday 4/13/2007 * 3rd GEOS-Chem Atmospheric Chemical Transport Model Users' Meeting <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64091830> Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxfrod Street, Cambridge 8:30a - 9:30a Bacterial Nanowires: Is the Microbial World Hardwired? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65725067> Dr. Yuri Gorby, J. Craig Venter Institute Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Chalktalk Breakfast Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 12:30p - 1:30p Global Gene Expression Profiling in Whole Blood Samples from Individuals Exposed to Complex Heavy Metal Fumes <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66328603> Zhaoxi (Mike) Wang, M.D., Ph.D, Research Associate, Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Harvard School of Public Health Research Seminars in Environmental Health Kresge 502, HSPH, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston 4:00p - 5:00p Transitional Politics and the Role of Science and Technology <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66603347> Honorable Musikari Kombo, minister of local government of Kenya Taubman 275, 79 JFK Street, KSG *Monday 4/16/2007* 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724760> Weekly Roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 12:30p - 1:30p Models for an outbreak of avian influenza in the UK poultry flock <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628157> Azra Ghani, reader in infectious disease modelling, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Infectious Disease Epidemiology Seminar Kresge 502, HSPH, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston 4:00p - 5:00p Is there a topographic signature of life on Earth? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66603309> Bill Dietrich, University of California, Berkeley Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street *Tuesday 4/17/2007* 11:00a - 12:00p Ecological and evolutionary determinants of biological diversity in Caribbean Anolis lizards <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628189> Jonathan Losos -- Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA 12:00p - 1:00p What came first: grasses or grass-eaters? New perspectives from the fossil record of plant silica <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65759422> Caroline A. E. Stromberg, Smithsonian Inst. NMNH Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge 1:30p - 2:30p Rotational Stability of Planets with Lithospheres <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65995768> Isamu Matsuyama, Carnegie Fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington Special Earth and Planetary Sciences Seminar Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman Laboratories, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Wednesday 4/18/2007 * 12:00p - 1:00p Film: Dimming the Sun <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65927490> EARTHWATCH, OLSEN AUDITORIUM, 4 Clock Tower Place, 5th floor in Maynard, MA 12:15p - 2:00p CANCELED - Climate Change and Iceland's Role in North Atlantic Security <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63829863> Björn Bjarnason, Minister of Justice, Iceland Nye Conference Room BC, 5th Floor Taubman, Kennedy School of Gov't., 79 JFK St., Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Physical effects in the prebiotic world <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628154> Irene Chen, Harvard Medical School and FAS Center for Systems Biology Origins Forum Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge 5:30p - 6:30p Genomic Sciences in Latin America: A Door to a Better Future? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65927280> Julio Collado-Vides, Director of the Center for Genomic Sciences Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies Lecture David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, S-050 Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA *Thursday 4/19/2007* 12:00p - 1:30p Harvard Ecology Discussion Group <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65589780> Weekly roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 12:00p - 1:30p Social, Economic and Political Drivers of Bornean Deforestation and Fires: Implications for Carbon Emissions, Biodiversity and Rural Livelihoods <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65995548> Lisa Curran, Professor of Tropical Resources and Director of the Tropical Resources Institute, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University Frontiers in Sustainable Development Seminars Center for International Development, Perkins Room -- Rubenstein Bldg, Room 415, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University *Friday 4/20/2007* 8:30a - 9:30a Computational Representation of the E. coli Regulatory Network <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66603355> Julio Collado-Vides, director, Center for Genomic Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Microbial Sciences Initiative Chalktalk Breakfast Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 12:00p - 1:00p The Amazing Properties of Two-Dimensional Carbon <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628170> Antonio Castro Neto, Boston University Condensed Matter Physics Theory Lyman Laboratory 425, 11 Oxford Street, Cambridge *Sunday 4/22/2007* 2:00p - 4:00p Earth Day: It's About Ocean Life, Too! <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66603357> George Buckley, co-director of Harvard Extension School's environmental management program Harvard Museum of Natural History Family Program *Monday 4/23/2007* 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65724761> Weekly Roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 4:00p - 5:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64154646> Paul Segall, Stanford University Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Colloquium Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 4:15p - 5:30p Towns and Rivers, River Towns: Environmental Archaeology and the Archaeological Evaluation of Medieval Urban Activities and Trade <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65961121> Joëlle Burnouf, Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 4:30p - 6:30p An Afternoon with Arun Agrawal <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66328606> Presented by The Program on Science, Technology, and Society Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street 6:00p - 7:30p Environment in an Age of Terror <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65893496> Thompson Room (110), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge *Tuesday 4/24/2007 * 9:30a - 11:00a Status of the Coal Sector and Advanced Coal Technology in India <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63829862> Ananth Chikkatur, ETIP Fellow Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series Belfer Center Library, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA 12:00p - 1:00p The advantages and disadvantages of being introduced: fighting invasion by grasses with sweets <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628191> Peter Alpert, UMass, Amherst Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge 12:00p - 1:00p What do 14CO measurements tell us about OH? <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628187> Maarten Krol, Wageningen University Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 6:00p - 8:00p Global Perspective of Landscape Architecture <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66603337> Diane Menzies, President, International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge *Wednesday 4/25/2007 * 7:00a - 5:00p Ceres Conference 2007: Advancing Sustainable Prosperity <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64596873> Seaport Hotel, Boston, MA 3:00p - 4:00p Special Climatea Meeting <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66029313> Jeffrey Shaman, Oregon State Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman Laboratories, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge 3:30p - 5:00p Space-time statistical modeling: an introductory lecture series <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65127928> Michael Stein, Department of Statistics and Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science, University of Chicago Environmental Statistics Lecture Series Harvard School of Public Health Kresge G1, simulcast to CGIS N031 4:00p - 5:30p A Laboratory Investigation of the Welfare Effects of Imperfectly Enforced Emissions Trading Policies <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=63056700> John Stranlund, James Murphy, and John Spraggon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 6:00p - 8:00p in between <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66603336> Craig Verzone and Cristina Woods Principals, Verzone Woods Architects, Switzerland and Spain Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge *Thursday 4/26/2007* 7:00a - 5:00p Ceres Conference 2007: Advancing Sustainable Prosperity <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64596874> Seaport Hotel, Boston, MA 12:00p - 1:30p Harvard Ecology Discussion Group <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65589781> Weekly Roundtable discussion open to the Harvard and MIT communities Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge 3:30p - 5:00p Space-time statistical modeling: an introductory lecture series <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=65127907> Michael Stein, Department of Statistics and Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science, University of Chicago Environmental Statistics Lecture Series Harvard School of Public Health Kresge G2, simulcast to CGIS N031 3:30p - 4:30p China's Urban Passenger Transport: Seeking the Optimal Mode (dissertation in progress) <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=64462540> Mr. WANG Rui, doctoral candidate, Kennedy School of Government China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge 8:00p - 9:00p The world's energy problem and what we can do about it <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=66628180> Steven Chu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Chemistry and Chemical Biology Seminars - G. B. Kistiakowsky Lecture Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford Street -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] info sheet (2)

by Minoo Ardeshiri

Hi all, You can keep the social security line blank for now if you wish so. Thanks, Minoo

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Info Sheet

by Minoo Ardeshiri

Dear lab members, I need you to fill out the attached form and email it back to me. Thanks, Minoo

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Staples

by Minoo Ardeshiri

Dear lab members, Please let me know if you need anything to be ordered from Staples. I need the Staples NO. and the page NO. from the catalogue. You can find the 2006 Catalogue on the top shelf of my desk. Thanks, Minoo

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] [Colloquium] REMINDER: Everything I Know I Learned from Google

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

my.harvard calendar reminder: Event Information: Date : 4/12/2007 Start Time : 04:00 PM End Time : 05:00 PM Title : Everything I Know I Learned from Google Description : 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 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] Special Event tonight - Hydro Power and First Peoples

by Jenny MacGregor

*Hydro and Indians: A Second Look at First Peoples and Power *a public lecture by */Larry House/* Elder and Spokesman for the Cree Nation, James Bay, Canada *Harvard University - Science Center - Lecture Hall D* *TONIGHT - Wednesday 11 April 2007 5:30-7:30 Click link for details: * http://ecojustice.net/2007-ENVRE145/Environmental_Justice/20070411-Larry-Ho… -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Fwd: seminar Friday, March 13]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Our friend Mike gives this talk, which might be very interesting to attend. 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] Reminder - Pavlos Protopapas Seminar today

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, April 11, 2007; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Pavlos Protopapas, Senior Scientist, IIC and Research Associate, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University Seminar Title: The IIC Time Series Center: How Astronomers, Computer Scientists and Statisticians Together are Working to Tackle Hard Problems in Astronomy Abstract New astronomical surveys such as Pan-STARRS and LSST are under development and will collect petabytes of data. These surveys will image large areas of sky repeatedly to great depth, and will detect vast numbers of moving, variably bright, and transient objects. The data product of these surveys is series of observations taken over time, or light-curves. The IIC has established an inter-disciplinary Center for Time Series with an immediate focus on astronomy. I will present four research topics currently being pursued at the IIC that require expertise from astronomy, computer science and statistics. These are: identifying novel astronomical phenomena in large light-curve datasets, searching for rare phenomena such as extra-solar planets, discovering objects in the outer reaches of our solar system, and efficiently searching for similar light curves in data collections. ***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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