aspuru-list September 2007

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] BEER+JAKE+DINNER

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, How about a Jake farewell/come back soon party? Why don't we leave at 6.30 or 7.00 from the department to a local place and have some beers and maybe dinner too. It could be John Harvards, the Commons, Miracle of Science in Central, etc. Alan On 9/27/07, Jacob D. Biamonte <jacob.biamonte(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I will be leaving for Oxford Sunday night. > > I am glad to have met everyone in the group. In particular, I had a > spectacular time working with James and Ivan this summer. > > jake- > > P.s. May the wind be ever at your back, the sun shine warm upon your > face and the reviewers respond kindly to our submissions. > _______________________________________________ > Aspuru-list mailing list > Aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu > http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-list > > -- 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

16 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Monday September 24

by Edward Farhi

Dear All We will meet on Monday September 24 at 2:00 in 6-310. We will hear from Salman and hopefully Jordan Kerenidis will also attend. Jordan will be speaking at 4. Eddie :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::: Edward Farhi Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 6 Room 300 Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::

16 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] leaving

by Jacob D. Biamonte

Hi everyone, I will be leaving for Oxford Sunday night. I am glad to have met everyone in the group. In particular, I had a spectacular time working with James and Ivan this summer. jake- P.s. May the wind be ever at your back, the sun shine warm upon your face and the reviewers respond kindly to our submissions.

16 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update

by Jenn Goodman

Dear Friends of HUCE, This email contains event listings for Thursday, September 27 through Wednesday, October 10, 2007. Please check the HUCE calendar on our Web site, www.environment.harvard.edu <http://www.environment.harvard.edu> , for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions throughout the semester. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar or unsubscribe(!) from this list, contact Jenn Goodman at the Center for the Environment: jenn_goodman(a)harvard.edu <mailto:jenn_goodman@harvard.edu> . Please distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the community. We hope to see you soon and often. Highlights: * Friday, September 28Saturday, September 29: Alternative Transportation & Energy Festival: see the best the world has to offer in clean transportation and energy technologies at Boston¹s City Hall plaza. All day; rain or shine. * Wednesday, October 3: Forum: Thomas C. Schelling, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics (2005) presents the 2007 Godkin Lecture at the John F. Kennedy Forum, Kennedy School of Government. Calendar Listings: Thursday 9/27/07 12:00-1:00p The Global Water Challenge: Resources, Technology and Institutions John Briscoe, World Bank Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA 4:00-5:00p OEB Seminar: ³Are We Missing Something? Conservation and Biodiversity² David Roberts, Hrdy Fellow, Kew Gardens Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Deborah Smiley, dsmiley(a)oeb.harvard.edu 5:30-7:00p Environmental Action Committee¹s Project on Environmental Justice The Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council Lowell House Junior Common Room, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Henry Cowles, hmcowles(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:30-9:00p MIT Generator: Students Walking the Talk on Energy and the Environment Stata Center, Gehry Building, 32 Vassar St., Rm 32-123, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA 9:00-10:00p Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy Spindell Room, Quincy dining hall, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Friday 9/28/07 8:30-9:30a Friday Chalktalk: ³Diversity in the Redox Biology of the Bacterial Exportome² Rachel Dutton, Harvard Medical School HUCE Conference room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu 9:00a-7:00p Alternative Transportation & Energy Festival City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA Contact: stef(a)classic-communications.com 12:00p Atmospheric Sciences Seminar: ³Regional Pollution and Climate Sensitivity of Ozone² Hajime Akimoto, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Moeko Yoshitomi, moeko(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:15-1:45p The Belfer Center Director¹s Lunch: ³Artic Natural Gas² Brendan Bell, Minister of Industry, Tourism, and Investment, NW Territories L-369, Belfer Center Library, 79 JFK St., Kennedy School of Government Contact: Sarah Donahue, sarah_donahue(a)ksg.harvard.edu 12:30p ³Sino-U.S. Relations and the Global Environmental Challenge² Orville Schell, Director, Center of U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Contact: (617) 496-6273 12:30p Environmental Statistics Seminar: ³Topics in Causal Inference for Environmental Health² James Robins, M.D., HSPH HSPH Building 2, room 426, Boston, MA 12:30p Earth History and Paleobiology seminar: ³The Preservation of Burgess Shale fossils² Faculty Lounge, 4th floor Hoffman Labs, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, mA Contact: Phoebe Cohen, pacohen(a)fas.harvard.edu 1:00-6:00p James L. Whittenberger Symposium: ³Environmental Genetics & Epigenetics² David Schwartz, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and others Kresge Building, Snyder Auditorium, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA Contact: Lisa Smith, lsmith(a)hsph.harvard.edu Saturday 9/29/07 10:00a-6:00p Alternative Transportation & Energy Festival City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA Contact: stef(a)classic-communications.com Monday 10/1/07 12:00-1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu 4:15p Lecture in the Sciences: ³Hunting the Earth¹s Magnetic Field² Lisa Tauxe, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD Science Center A, 1 Oxford St., Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA Contact: (617) 495-8600 6:00-7:30p Sustainable Public Space and Community Building T. Fleisher and Doug Meffert, Loeb Fellows Gund Hall 112, Stubbins, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Contact: Cindy Fallows, cfallows(a)gsd.harvard.edu 7:00p Lead, Health and the Environment: Old Problem and 21st Century Challenge Mark Pokras, Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine New England Aquarium, Central Wharf, Boston, MA Contact: (617) 973-5200 x617 7:30-9:30p Sustainable Buildings Event Science Center A, 1 Oxford St., Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA Tuesday 10/2/07 11:30a Solid Earth Seminar Series: ³A Structural Geologist¹s View of Earthquake Ruptures² Zoe Shipton, University of Glasgow, Scotland Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA 12:00p Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series Dr. Henk Groth, University of Goettingen: ³Biogeography and divergence times of Plagiochila² HUH Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: (617) 495-2365 7:15-8:30 ³The Environment and the Law: Lessons from China and Indonesia² Edward Norton, HLS 71 Hauser 102, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: vshiah(a)law.harvard.edu Wednesday 10/3/07 4:10-5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Scott Taylor, University of Calgary: "Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison² L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu <mailto:jennifer_shultis@harvard.edu> 6:00p Forum: ³Managing Nuclear Proliferation² Thomas Schelling, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics John F. Kennedy Forum, 79 JFK St., Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA Contact: Greg Wilson, greg_wilson(a)harvard.edu Thursday 10/4/07 12:15p Belfer Center Directors¹ Lunch: ³Managing the Greenhouse Problem² RSVP required Thomas Schelling, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics Belfer Center Library, L-369, 79 JFK St., Kennedy School of Government Contact: Sarah Donahue, sarah_donahue(a)ksg.harvard.edu Friday 10/5/07 11:00a Harvard Forest Autumn 2007 Seminar Series Mark Rickenbach, University of Wisconsin and Harvard Bullard Fellow Seminar Room, Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 N. Main St., Petersham, MA Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu Saturday 10/6/07 12:00p Lecture and book signing Kim Todd, Science and environmental writer Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: (617) 495-3045 Monday 10/8/07 12:00-1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu Tuesday 10/9/07 9:30-11:00a ETIP Seminar Series: Building a World that Buries Climate Change L-369, Belfer Center Library, 79 JFK St., Kennedy School of Government Contact: etip(a)ksg.harvard.edu 6:00p ³On the Verge of Extinction: Saving Iran¹s Cheetahs² Luke Hunter 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: (617) 495-3045

16 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] WIKI IS UP!

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, The wiki is finally configured and working at the servers of Life Sciences. Please bookmark this page as it will be the location of our Wiki for time to come: http://140.247.111.87/aspuru/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Please resume the use of the Wiki for your lab records, notes, etc. And connotea for the papers. It is a very important resource and we have been missing it for some time. Some "hard" links in the wiki will have to be made "soft" by using relative links and not absolute. Other than that, the whole content is available. PS. When we move aspuru.chem.harvard.edu to that particular machine, we will have a nice IP name for it. In the meantime, use the numerical address above. It will happen soon. -- 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

16 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Coffee

by Ivan Kassal

Dear group, I am back, which means that I will buy lots of coffee right away. We have been drinking a lot of coffee very fast, so I will buy a lot of coffee this time, to take into account people who will be joining us soon. I will order the coffee tomorrow. By then, please let me know if there is a brand you prefer. Last time we had quite a selection of what's available, including some slightly fancy kinds. If no one replies, I will buy Lavazza Grand Espresso (the big blue bags of 1 kg that we go through in about a month). Ivan

16 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] Reminder - James Sethian Seminar today!

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, September 26, 2007; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 James Sethian, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley Seminar Title: Advances in Advancing Interfaces: Building Semiconductors, Inkjet Plotters, Medical Scanners, and Robotic Devices Abstract: Propagating interfaces occur in a wide variety of settings, and include ocean waves, burning flames, and material boundaries. In addition, problems not thought of as moving interface problems often can be recast as advancing fronts, including finding robotic navigation and finding shortest paths on contorted surfaces. We shall show how to cast these problems as partial differential equations, and provide the fundamental mathematical, geometric and algorithmic ideas behind Fast Marching Methods and Level Set Methods. These methods easily accommodate merging boundaries, three dimensionsonality, and complex dynamics. Applications will focus on industrial engineering collaborations which have led to robust codes for semiconductor manufacturing, the manufacturing of inkjet plotters for building plasma displays, image segmentation and tracking in cardiac scanners, and robotic navigation around obstacles. Upcoming IIC Seminars Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule. Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

16 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] REMINDER: Group meeting today at 5PM in M114

by Alejandro Perdomo

Today, we will have the honor of having Leslie Vogt. See you all at 5PM. -Alejandro

16 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Event Reminder: Future of Energy Today at 5 pm

by Jenn Goodman

The Future of Energy "Geothermal Energy: Harnessing The Fire Inside:" Presented by His Excellency Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of the Republic of Iceland 5:00-6:00 pm Science Center B 1 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138

16 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Wiki update.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, The Wiki is moving along! Everything works. They are now just "opening it to the world" so I expect it to be up in the next couple days. Just letting you know, because many of you are asking. 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

16 years, 7 months

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