aspuru-list April 2007

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Science and Democracy Lecture Series - Monday, April 9

by Jenny MacGregor

Please join us for the first lecture in a new series on: *Science and Democracy * A new lecture series aimed at exploring both the promised benefits of our era's most salient scientific and technological breakthroughs and the potentially harmful consequences of developments that are inadequately understood, debated, or managed by politicians, lay publics, and policy institutions. *Inaugural lecture and panel discussion * *Yaron Ezrahi, Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Necessary Fictions: The Decline of Science in the Democratic Imagination"/ /* *Panelists* *Ellen Goodman*, Boston Globe; and Fellow, Shorenstein Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard *James McCarthy*, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography, Departments of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard *Steven Shapin*, Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science,* *History of Science Department, Harvard *Cass Sunstein*, Karl N. Llewellyn Dist. Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Chicago Law School *April 9, 2007, 5:00-7:00 pm Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Harvard University* This event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. /Contact - Jenny MacGregor, jenny_macgregor(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883/ -- 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] IIC Seminar Reminder - today!

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, April 4, 2007; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Kai Li, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University Seminar Title: Princeton Scalable Display Wall Project Abstract In the last two decades, compute power, storage density, and network bandwidth have improved by more than three orders of magnitude. In the same time period, however, display resolution has merely doubled. The increased processor and storage capacities have enabled the computational sciences, but have simultaneously unleashed a data avalanche on the scientific community. As a result, scientific research is limited by data analysis and visualization capabilities. In order to improve visualization capabilities, we started Princeton Scalable Display Wall project in 1998 to investigate issues in building and using a large-format, scalable display system. Since then, we have built several display walls and software systems. Our latest display wall built in our lab uses 24 projectors to drive about 20 million pixels onto an 18’ by 8’ screen. The system uses an automatic alignment mechanism to achieve sub-pixel geometric alignment accuracy and is capable of running various 2D and 3D visualization applications. Our recent focus is to work with computational science researchers closely and help them use display walls in their data explorations. This talk gives an overview of the project, presents our current visualization activities, reports our lessons and experiences in building and using scalable display wall systems. ***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] Simulation of ATOMS using qubits.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

To all quantum-simulation/QC etc. people :) Professor Franco Nori, of Michigan is coming to talk about how he thinks of simulating ATOMS with quantum bits. Something relevant to what we are doing: Thursday at 12.00 in Lyman 425. 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] Hungry?

by James D Whitfield

Pizza and soda in M110

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] [Colloquium] CS Collo, April 26, 2007 - Bronis R. de Supinski

by colloquium＠deas.harvard.edu

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium BlueGene/L: Recipe for a Successful Supercomputer Bronis R. de Supinski Data Analysis Group Leader Center for Applied Scientific Computing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory http://www.llnl.gov/comp/bio.php/desupinski1 Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract BlueGene/L (BG/L), developed through a partnership between IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is currently the world's largest system both in terms of scale with 131,072 processors and absolute performance with a peak rate of 367 TFlop/s. BG/L has led the Top500 list the last four times with a Linpack rate of 280.6 TFlop/s for the full machine installed at LLNL and is expected to remain the fastest computer in the next few editions. This talk will detail how we overcame the challenges of scaling the system architecture and software, as well as novel innovations for supporting tools at this scale. More importantly, it will present performance and scientific results from real applications that demonstrate the real value of a machine like BG/L. Host: Professor David Brooks _______________________________________________ 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] GEOS-CHem Meeting at Harvard

by Jenny MacGregor

Hello all, The GEOS-Chem global atmospheric chemistry model users' meeting will take place on April 11-13 in Maxwell-Dworkin Lab, room G115. The meeting is open to the Harvard community. Agenda and other information are posted at http://www.as.harvard.edu/chemistry/trop/geos/geos_meeting_2007.html. Contact Prof. Daniel J. Jacob (djj(a)io.harvard.edu) for additional information. Best, -- Jenny MacGregor Events and Publications Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment ph: 617-495-8883

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

by Chiao-Lun Cheng

Please take note of the Theochem lecture on this Wednesday Title-- Quantum Chemistry without Wavefunctions: Two-electron Reduced Density Matrices Speaker-- David Mazziotti University of Chicago <http://chemistry.uchicago.edu/fac/mazziotti.shtml> Time-- Wed, April 4th 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar reminder - Kai Li on Wed., April 4, 2007

by Helene Tingle

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