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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] Reminder - IIC Seminar on Wed. - James Sethian

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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update

by Jenn Goodman

Dear Friends of HUCE, Fall is not only upon us, but in full swing! This email contains event listings for Thursday, September 20 through Wednesday, October 3, 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: * Tuesday, September 25: HUCE launches the third season of The Future of Energy seminar series with His Excellency Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of the Republic of Iceland. * Sunday, September 23: The Harvard Museum of Natural History offers a free program for middle school students and their families: ³Leaves of Change: Fall Colors and the Science of Tree Growth.² * Monday, October 1: The New England Aquarium presents a talk on Lead, Health and the Environment: Old Problem and 21st Century Challenge with Mark Pokras, Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine. Calendar Listings: Thursday 9/20/07 5:30-7:00p Environmental Subsidiarity Dr. Robert Moir, Ocean Rivers Institute Cabot 205, Tufts University Campus, Medford, MA Contact: Mieke van der Wansem, mieke.wansem(a)tufts.edu <mailto:mieke.wansem@tufts.edu> Friday 9/21/07 8:30-9:30a Friday Chalktalk: "Diversity of the Human Oral Microbiome" Professor Floyd DeWhirst, Harvard Dental School HUCE Conference room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:herren@fas.harvard.edu> 12:00p Sustainability Science at Harvard: A Celebration Bell Hall, 5th floor, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government Contact: Nancy Dickson, nancy_dickson(a)harvard.edu <mailto:nancy_dickson@harvard.edu> Sunday 9/23/07 12:00p Environmental Film Festival Three films and a follow up discussion with Pulitzer prize winning author Ross Gelbspan. Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA Contact: Jennifer Evans, jennifer_evans(a)pem.org <mailto:jennifer_evans@pem.org> 2:00p Leaves of Change: Fall Colors and the Science of Tree Growth John O'Keefe, Fisher Museum, Harvard Forest Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: (617) 495-3045 7:30p Life on a Carbon Diet: Improving Our Lifestyles While Fighting Climate Change Professor William Moomaw, Fletcher School and Tufts Institute, Tufts University Cary Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington, MA Contact: Nancy Nolan, nan.lex(a)verizon.net <mailto:nan.lex@verizon.net> Monday 9/24/07 12:30-1:30p ERC Seminar in Occupational and Environmental Health: "The Deadliest Catch...not any more" Jennifer Lincoln, PhD, CSP Kresge 502, 665 Huntington Ave., HSPH Campus, Boston, MA Contact: Ann Backus, abuckus(a)hohp.harvard.edu <mailto:abuckus@hohp.harvard.edu> 4:00p Monday Colloquium: ³The Origin of Continents² Cin-Ty Lee, Rice University Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Katrina Hirsig, khirsig(a)fas.harvard.edu Tuesday 9/25/07 5:00p The Future of Energy: ³Geothermal Energy: Harnessing the Fire Inside² His Excellency Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of the Republic of Iceland Science Center B, 1 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Jenn Goodman, jenn_goodman(a)harvard.edu 6:00-8:30p Technology Innovation in Hydrogen and Fuel Cells & The Clean Energy Consensus Don Seccombe, BTU International, and others Foley Hoag Emerging Enterprise Center, 4th floor, 1000 Winter St., Waltham, MA Contact: Lucy Rohner, lrohner(a)velerity.com 6:00-9:00p Living Systems, Innovative Materials and Technologies Liat Margollis & Alexander Robinson Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design Contact: Aimee Taberner, ataberner(a)gsd.harvard.edu <mailto:ataberner@gsd.harvard.edu> Wednesday 9/26/07 4:10-5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Lucas Davis, University of Michigan: "The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in Mexico City" L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu <mailto:jennifer_shultis@harvard.edu> 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 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 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 Monday 10/1/07 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 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 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>

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Open house.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, Our open house will be Oct 10th, 6 PM in the department center. We will be getting Mexican food, and have a really cool poster idea that we will discuss sometime next week with the "open house poster committee". The committee is chaired by Leslie and all of us will contribute something to the poster. More to come later. A. -- 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] REMINDER: Group meeting today at 5PM in M114

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, Just a reminder that Jake will talk at 5PM about "Getting the excited energies of chemical hamiltonians". Cheers, Alejandro On 9/17/07, Alejandro Perdomo <aleperd(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > To avoid confusion I just want to emplhasize that I am talking about the > google calendar and not the seminar tab in the group webpage. I will take > care of that one. > -Alejandro > > On 9/17/07, Alejandro Perdomo <aleperd(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dear group, > > > > Time to organize the group meetings for this semester! Tomorrow is all > > set and we will have Jake at 5PM in M114 . We will keep meeting every > > Tuesday at 5PM. > > > > The people we are expecting to present are James, Leslie, Ivan, Ali, > > Masoud, Michael, Justin, Patrick and Alejandro. The most efficient way to > > do it and that I find fair is the following. Place your name in the > > Aspuru-Guzik group meetings on any of the Tuesdays at 5PM between September > > 25 to November 20 (this will be the first round of group meetings). > > Click in the spot you want to reserve and under the "which calendar" select > > "ASPURU-GUZIK GROUP MEETINGS" so that it is saved in the shared calendar and > > everybody can see it. WARNING: No double registrations allowed!. Competition > > are forbidden in our group :) and the coordinator has 0% liability if you > > put it the appointment in your PERSONAL calendar and nobody can see it and > > take your "reserved" spot. If you have any difficulties such as you were > > left the only spot in that week you won't be around, let me know and I will > > figure something out. > > > > Let's get the race started and sign up as soon as possible so you get > > your preference date ;) > > > > Cheers, > > -Alejandro > > > > > > > > > > On 9/4/07, Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> wrote: > > > > > > Dear group, > > > Alejandro Perdomo is the seminar coordinator for the group. Let's try > > > to get regular group meeting results reports during the 2007-2008 > > > calendar year. He will be taking your titles and abstracts and adding > > > them to the Google calendar that results in this: > > > > > > http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/Seminars/ > > > > > > I tried to update it with what we have right now, but Alejandro will > > > schedule reports as they go along. I propose that Jake talks to us > > > about Landau-Zener transitions on the 18th at 5 PM, and then that > > > Alejandro takes up scheduling (and updating of the calendar) from > > > then onwards. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Aspuru-list mailing list > > > Aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu > > > http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-list > > > > > > > >

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Seminar schedule for 2007-2008

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, Alejandro Perdomo is the seminar coordinator for the group. Let's try to get regular group meeting results reports during the 2007-2008 calendar year. He will be taking your titles and abstracts and adding them to the Google calendar that results in this: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/Seminars/ I tried to update it with what we have right now, but Alejandro will schedule reports as they go along. I propose that Jake talks to us about Landau-Zener transitions on the 18th at 5 PM, and then that Alejandro takes up scheduling (and updating of the calendar) from then onwards. -- 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-related seminar this Thursday at MIT, Guy Steele

by Helene Tingle

"What's Cool about Fortress" Talk by: Guy L. Steele Jr., Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems Laboratories The Fortress programming language is now catching on outside of Sun. During 2004-2006 it was an internal research project, funded in part by Sun's contract with DARPA for High Productivity Computer Systems. In January 2007 it became an open-source project with an open-source community. People outside Sun are now writing Fortress code and testing it using the open-source Fortress interpreter. In this talk we will discuss some of the recent activity in this community as well as features of Fortress that have made it so appealing. While the language design was originally aimed at high-end ("petascale") parallel supercomputers, it appears also to be well-suited for programming multicore chip and multicore cluster systems. This joint meeting of the GBC/ACM and the IEEE Computer Society will be held in the MIT Media Lab Bartos Auditorium (MIT room E15-070) on Thursday, September 20th from 7-9PM. Additional information can be found at: http://www.gbcacm.org/website/semInfo.php?id=1137 and http://ieeeboston.org/computer_society.htm _______________________________________________ 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] Reminder - IIC Seminar Series resumes on September 26, 2007

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 This is a reminder that our 2007-2008 IIC Seminar Series will start next week. For more information, please consult 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Monday September 17

by Edward Farhi

Dear All We will meet on Monday September 17 at 2:00 in 6-310. Hopefully Patrick Hayden who will be speaking at 4:00 will join us at 2:00. 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 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update

by Jenny MacGregor

Dear Friends of HUCE, Welcome (back) to Fall! This email contains event listings for Thursday, September 13 through Wednesday, September 26, 2007. Please check the HUCE calendar on our Web site, www.environment.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. 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*: . Tuesday, September 18: Harvard Professor Jonathan Losos delivers a public lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History on the evolutionary diversity of Caribbean lizards. Free. . Friday, September 21: The Sustainable Science Program hosts a day-long celebration of sustainable science and research across the university. *New Course*: . ENVR E-119: Sustainable Buildings: Design, Construction, and Operations [Harvard Extension School] This course approaches sustainable development for buildings by examining how building components and systems affect human performance and well being. Sustainable development starts with site planning and evaluation, and proceeds through construction, commissioning, and occupancy phases. The course includes many case studies of historic and contemporary structures exemplifying various sustainability features. The course presents rating systems for high performance buildings developed by the US Green Building Council and other international organizations. Field trips are arranged to tour buildings and green roofs in the Boston area. Harvard University is used as a primary case study. *Calendar Listings*: *Friday 9/14/07* 8:30-9:30a Friday Chalktalk: "Stochasticity and cell fate" Professor Richard Losick, Molecular and Cellular Biology Dept. HUCE Conference room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:00p Atmospheric Science Seminar Robert Chatsfield, NASA: "Regional Smog Ozone and its Production Can Be Made Broadly and Inexpensively Visible!" Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA *Monday 9/17/07* 6:00-9:00p Ecology.Design.Synergy Matthias Schuler, TransSolar Climate Engineering and Stefan Behnisch, Behnisch Architekten, Stuttgart. Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Aimee Taberner, ataberne(a)gsd.harvard.edu *Tuesday, 9/18/07* 12:00p Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series Danielle Way, University of Toronto: "Black spruce on the Atkins Diet: Global warming and the role of Rubisco" HUH Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus 6:00p Evolution on Tropical Islands: A Lizard's Tale Professor Jonathan Losos, Harvard University Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA *Wednesday, 9/19/07* 4:00p Origins Forum Dr. Herbert Frey, Goddard Space Flight Center: "A Late Heavy Bombardment on Mars" Bio Lab Lecture Hall 1068, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus Contact: Carol Knell, cknell(a)cfa.harvard.edu 4:10-5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Student Orientation L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu *Thursday 9/20/07* 2:30p Engineering a Renaissance: Engineering and Applied Sciences Symposia Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Harvard University Events Office, HSEAS_launch(a)seas.harvard.edu *Friday 9/21/07* 8:30-9:30a Friday Chalktalk: "Diversity of the Human Oral Microbiome" Professor Floyd DeWhirst, Harvard Dental School HUCE Conference room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:00p Sustainability Science at Harvard: A Celebration Bell Hall, 5th floor, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government Contact: Nancy Dickson, nancy_dickson(a)harvard.edu *Sunday 9/23/07* 2:00p Leaves of Change: Fall Colors and the Science of Tree Growth Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA John O'Keefe, Fisher Museum, Harvard Forest 7:30p Life on a Carbon Diet: Improving Our Lifestyles While Fighting Climate Change Professor William Moomaw, Fletcher School and Tufts Institute, Tufts University Cary Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington, MA Contact: Nancy Nolan, nan.lex(a)verizon.net *Monday 9/24/07* 12:30-1:30p ERC Seminar in Occupational and Environmental Health Jennifer Lincoln, PhD, CSP: "The Deadliest Catch...not any more" Kresge 502, 665 Huntington Ave., HSPH Campus, Boston, MA Contact: Ann Backus, abuckus(a)hohp.harvard.edu *Tuesday 9/25/07* 6:00-9:00p Living Systems, Innovative Materials and Technologies Liat Margollis & Alexander Robinson Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design Contact: Aimee Taberner, ataberner(a)gsd.harvard.edu *Wednesday 9/26/07* 4:10-5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Lucas Davis, University of Michigan: "The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in Mexico City" L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Reminder.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, This is a reminder that we have a group meeting at 5.00 PM in room M114, see: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/Seminars/ 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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