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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update January 31 - February 14

by Center for the Environment

Dear Friends of HUCE, This email contains event listings for Thursday, January 31 through Thursday, February 14. Please check the HUCE calendar on our website, www.environment.harvard.edu, for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment: lisa_matthews(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. Highlights: Monday, February 4: A panel of scholars discuss how the field of Science, Technology and Society (STS) provides a bridge for those who see the intersection of science and humanities not only intriguing , but essential to addressing today's greatest policy challenges at "Lives and Careers in Science, Technology and Society." Thursday, February 7: Dr. Nick Aladin, the head of the Laboratory of Brackish Water Hydrobiology Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, discusses the "Past Present, and Future of the Aral Sea", focusing on the conservation and rehabilitation efforts of the remnant water bodies to reverse the negative effects on the lakes ecosystem due to declining water level and increasing salinity. Calendar Listings: Thursday 1/31/2008 4:00p Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America (Adams Lower Common Room, 26 Plympton St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) Focus the Nation is organizing a national teach-in on global warming solutions for America. Contact: Karen McKinnon (EAC), mckinnon(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.focusthenation.org) 7:00p Harvard Coop Faculty Author: Anne Harrington (The Coop at Harvard Square, 1400 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA) Anne Harrington, professor and chair of the History of Science Department, will discuss and sign copies of her new book, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine. Contact: harvard.bkstore.com/default.asp?m=050 Friday 2/1/2008 8:30a - 9:00a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "The Surprising Microbial Diversity of Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infections" with speaker Vanja Klepac-Ceraj (Kolter Lab, MMG at Harvard Medical School). Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays_spr08.html 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Coupling aquatic and terrestrial biogeochemistry: stream and wetland carbon losses from Harvard Forest's Prospect Hill Tract" with speaker: Bill Sobczak, College of the Holy Cross. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 6:45p New England Botanical Club Meeting (Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) "Substrate Influence on Speciation in Lichenized Fungi" with speaker: Dr. Michaela Schmull, Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University Contact: nebc(a)rhodora.org, www.rhodora.org/Meetings.html Saturday 2/2/2008 9:30a - 12:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Adult Classes (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Exploring Biodiversity." Contact: reservations(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-2341, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/adult_classes/in... Monday 2/4/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit website for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 12:00p - 1:00p Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminar (Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Zhijian James Chen, UT Southwest Medical Center, Dallas. Contact: Kristen Uekermann, (617) 496-2306 3:00p - 4:00p Space Talk: NASA Astronauts Wilson & Melroy (Maxwell/Dworkin Lessin Room, G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) NASA Astronauts, specialist Stephanie Wilson '88 and Retired Air Force Col. Pamela Melroy will discuss their experiences on recent shuttle missions. Contact: Michael Patrick Rutter, mrutter(a)deas.harvard.edu, 617-496-3815 4:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Fault Tremor Ignited by Shaking from Distant Great Earthquakes; Examples from the San Andreas Fault System and Vancouver Island" with speaker John Vidale, University of Washington. Contact: miller(a)eps.harvard.edu, www-eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo... 6:00p - 7:30p Lives and Careers in Science, Technology and Society (Boylston Hall, Ticknor Lounge, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA) Come hear a panel of scholars discuss the ways in which Science, Technology, and Society and life at the crossroads really works. Contact: www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/ Tuesday 2/5/2008 9:30a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series (Belfer Center Library (L-369), Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA) The Impact of Policies to Reduce Oil Consumption and GHG Emissions in the Transport Sector: Insights from NEMS with Kelly Sims Gallagher, ETIP Director and Gustavo Collantes. Research Fellow. Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, www.energytechnologypolicy.org 12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series (Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA ) "Biogeography of Croton (Euphorbiaceae s.s.) in the Caribbean" with speaker Benjamin van Ee, Harvard. Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ 3:00p Sixth Annual Biostatistics and Computational Biology Lecture (Smith Family Room, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Room 1620, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA) Speaker: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Professor, Department of Physics Northeastern University. Contact: Erica Feick, events(a)jimmy.harvard.edu, biowww.dfci.harvard.edu/~training/ 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club (Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project", lecture by Spencer Wells. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-2773, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids_and_familie... Wednesday 2/6/2008 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) Giving Green to Get Green? Incentives and Consumer Adoption of Hybrid Vehicle Technology with speakers Kelly Gallagher and Erich Muehlegger, Harvard University. Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, 617-496-8054, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... 5:30p A Proposal for a US Carbon Tax Swap: An Equitable Tax Reform to Address Global Climate Change (Cabot 703, 170 Packard Ave, Tufts University Campus, Medford, MA) Speaker: Gilbert Metcalf, Professor of Economics, Tufts University. Dr. Metcalf will discuss his proposal for a carbon tax swap that is both revenue and distributionally neutral. Contact: Mieke van der Wansem, mieke.wansem(a)tufts.edu, 617-627-2476, fletcher.tufts.edu/ierp 7:00p - 9:00p Boston College Department of Geology and Geophysics Colloquium Series (Weston Observatory, 381 Concord Rd, Weston, MA) "Ice That Burns: Assessing Methane Hydrates as an Energy Resource and Contributor to Climate Change with Carolyn Ruppel, Ph.D., Research Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey. Contact: www.bc.edu/research/westonobservatory... Thursday 2/7/2008 4:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Plant Biology Search Contact: www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... 4:00p Center for Astrophysics Colloquium (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observatory" with speaker Francis Halzen, U. Wisconsin. Contact: www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia/ 4:00p - 5:00p Climate Seminar (Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Myles Allen, Department of Physics, University of Oxford Contact: Sarah Colgan, colgan(a)eps.harvard.edu, 617-496-9770, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 4:00p - 6:00p Past, Present, and Future of the Aral Sea (Maxwell/Dworkin Lessin Room, G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Dr. Nick Aladin, Head, Laboratory of Brackish Water Hydrobiology Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 7:00p The Economics of Climate Change, Climate Protection and Energy Policy: The European and German Perspective (Goethe-Institute Boston, 170 Beacon St., Boston) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, Humbolt Universität Berlin, Director of Department Energy, Transportation and Environment at the German Institute for Economic Research. Contact: info(a)boston.goethe.org, 617-262-6050, www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/en2897666.htm Friday 2/8/2008 8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) John Mekalanos (MMG at Harvard Medical School). Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643 , www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html 12:00p Atmospheric Sciences Seminar (Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Hubbert's Peak, The Coal Question, and Climate Change" with speaker Dave Rutledge, Caltech. Host: Daniel Jacob. Contact: Brenda Mathieu, bmathieu(a)seas.harvard.edu, www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html 3:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Bilingual Glass Flowers Gallery Talks," Celebrating the Chinese New Year. Encore at 4:00 pm. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... Saturday 2/9/2008 2:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Documentary Screening: First Flower. Celebrating the Chinese New Year DVD screening of First Flower, a NOVA documentary. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... 3:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Shangri-La: At the Heart of a Biodiversity Hotspot" Slide Presentation by Susan Kelley. Celebrating the Chinese New Year. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... Monday 2/11/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit website for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 4:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Special Joint session w/ Radcliffe Christina Ravello. Contact: miller(a)eps.harvard.edu, www-eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo... 4:15p Radcliffe Institute Lecture in the Sciences (Science Center Lecture Hall D, One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Regional Expressions of Global Warmth: Lessons from the Pliocene" with Christina Ravelo, University of California at Santa Cruz Contact: 617-495-8600, www.radcliffe.edu/events/calendar.php... Tuesday 2/12/2008 11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series (Room 209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "A New Continuum Model for Dense Granular Deformations" with Kenneth N. Kamrin, Applied Mathematics Program, MIT. Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM... 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club (Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 7:30p Cambridge Entomological Club Meeting (MCZ 101, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) Meeting subject to be announced. Speaker: Barry Trimmer, Tufts University. Please join us for dinner at the Harvard Law School cafeteria, second floor of Harkness Commons, at 6:15pm - note new lo... Contact: entclub.org/ Wednesday 2/13/2008 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) Speaker: Matthew Adler, University of Pennsylvania. Risk Equity: A New Proposal Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, 617-496-8054, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... 5:00p Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change (Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Jane Lubchenco, Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology at Oregon State University Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883 7:00p - 9:00p Boston College Department of Geology and Geophysics Colloquium Series (Weston Observatory, 381 Concord Rd, Weston, MA) "Ice That Burns: Assessing Methane Hydrates as an Energy Resource and Contributor to Climate Change with Carolyn Ruppel, Ph.D., U.S. Geological Survey (Woods Hole... Contact: www.bc.edu/research/westonobservatory... Thursday 2/14/2008 3:30p - 6:30p Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series (HSPH, 618 Huntington Avenue, FXB G-13, Boston, MA) Applications of Relative Risk Modeling. Risky Business: Ecological Risk Assessment at Regional Scales for "Chemical and non-Chemical Stressors" with speaker Wayne G. Landis. Contact: Katherine von Stackelberg, Sc.D., 617.998.1037, KVON(a)hsph.harvard.edu, www.hcra.harvard.edu 4:00p - 5:00p Understanding Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides from China Using Satellite Observations (Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Dr. WANG Yuxuan, Research Associate, China Project and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-2378, chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars/200... 4:00p - 5:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge) "The logic of self-deception" with speaker Robert Trivers, Rutgers University. Contact: Deborah Smiley, (617) 384-5062 4:00p Center for Astrophysics Colloquium (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Bozena Czerny, Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw. Title TBA. Host: Aneta Siemiginowska. Tea at 3:30 pm, lecture at 4:00 pm. Contact: www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia/ ================================================== Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list: http://list-manage.com/unsub.phtml?id=EsktcP2vJYc7GdW4SkES0 Our mailing address is: Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Our telephone: (617) 495-0368 Forward this email to a friend: http://forward-to-friend.com/tell_friend.phtml?cid=EsktcP2vJY&f=1

16 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Friday's Group Meeting

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Hi Here's the abstract for Friday's good meeting. As of now, all the schedule is confirmed. Roberto *TITLE: Theoretical Characterization of Charge Transport in Organic Molecular Crystals* An overview of the theoretical characterization of the charge transport parameters in organic semiconductors will be presented. We investigate widely studied and well-known organic molecular semiconductors such as oligoacene and oligothiophene derivatives. The local and nonlocal electron-phonon interactions in oligoacene crystals are addressed using an approach based on density functional theory. Within this framework, we describe the vibronic coupling interactions in oligoacene cations, [1] the electron-phonon coupling in oligoacene crystals, [2] and the charge transport properties in small organic molecular crystals. [3] 1. J. Chem. Phys. B 2006, 110, 18904. 2. Manuscript in preparation, J. Chem. Phys. 3. Manuscript in preparation, Chem. Mater.

16 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Meeting Schedule

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Hi I've received a lot of enthusiasm for meeting with Sigifredo, so unfortunately, there will have to be some overlap of people meeting with him. This is the meeting schedule with Sigifredo on Friday. Please let me know if you can't make it at that time. The title of the talk is: "Theoretical Characterization of Charge Transport in Organic Molecular Crystals" Best regards Roberto 1-1:30 James, Roberto 1:30-2 Prof. Ju 2-2:30 Sangwoo/Salvador 2:30-3:00 Masoud 3:00-3:30 Joel 3:30-4:00 Leslie 4:00-5:00 Group Meeting 5:00-6:00 Prof. Aspuru-Guzik

16 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Sigifredo Sanchez-Carrera's Visit

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Hi All Sigifredo Sanchez-Carrera from the Brédas Group at Georgia Tech is coming to visit on Friday. He will be giving a Presentation of his work on Friday at 4 PM (expect Abstract soon). His interests include organic molecular crystals and its properties as well as solid-state chemistry principles. More can be found on his webpage (http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~rs353/) I am planning to schedule ~30 mins. one-on-one meetings with some of you. Of direct relevance are those interested in the screensaver project (Leslie, Ivan, Prof. Ju, Masoud). Please let me know which times are available for you, so I can start setting up his schedule ASAP. Let me know who else is interested, so I can include you. Best regards Roberto ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> Date: 2008/1/30 Subject: Re: Visita a Boston To: Sigifredo Sanchez-Carrera <gtg166n(a)mail.gatech.edu>, Roberto Olivares-Amaya <robolivares(a)gmail.com> Sigifredo, Roberto es tu anfitrion para el viernes. Roberto va a organizarte un horario y tu platica seria a ls 4 PM. Coordina con el si esa es buena hora para ya solidificarla. Nos vemos muy pronto. Alan PS. Roberto, el cel de Sigifredo es: 404 421 2365 Sigifredo: el cel de Roberto es: 6172028038 -- 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, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] group meeting reminder

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, Just a reminder that Leslie is up for today at 5pm. James is also confirmed for next Tuesday, Feb 5. Cheers, -Alejandro

16 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - Fran Berman on February 6th

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, February 6, 2008; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Dr. Fran Berman, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center Professor High Performance Computing Endowed Chair, UC San Diego Seminar Title: De-constructing Cyberinfrastructure Abstract: Cyberinfrastructure, the integrated framework of enabling information and computational technologies, experts, and tools, has emerged as a foundation for applications in the Information Age. The vision of Cyberinfrastructure is powerful and important, yet designing, building, deploying, evaluating, and funding capable, useful, and usable Cyberinfrastructure is a an immense challenge. In this talk, San Diego Supercomputer Center Director Fran Berman discusses the challenges and opportunities of building and deploying Cyberinfrastructure as a continuous bootstrapping process that furthers both scientific progress and technology capability. 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, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Reminder: Call for Journals

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Hi This is to remind you to send me the journals list that you think might be requested. Best Roberto On Jan 22, 2008 6:25 PM, Roberto Olivares-Amaya <robolivares(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > As you know, Harvard does not hold a subscription to many of the leading > journals. Therefore, we're trying to make a list so that the library can > include them. Send the list to me ( robolivares(a)gmail.com). I'll be > compiling the list. > Best regards > Roberto >

16 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update January 24 - February 7

by Center for the Environment

Dear Friends of HUCE, This email contains event listings for Thursday, January 24 through Thursday, February 7. Please check the HUCE calendar on our website, www.environment.harvard.edu, for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment: lisa_matthews(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. Highlights Thursday, January 31: Millions of students and citizens throughout the country will engage with the nations decision-makers in "Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America", a national teach-in. Massachusetts Senator Anthony Galluccio and Councillor Marjorie Decker are confirmed presenters at the Harvard Campus event. Tuesday, February 5: In the first Energy, Technology, and Innovation Policy seminar series of the year, Director Kelly Sims Gallagher and Research Fellow Gustavo Collantes will present the modeling results for eight policy scenarios for reducing oil consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S. transport sector. Calendar Listings Thursday 1/24/2008 3:30p Center for Astrophysics Colloquium (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "Crucial Dynamical Phases in Solar System Formation" with speaker Alessandro Morbidelli, Observatory of Nice, France. Contact: www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia/ Friday 1/25/2008 8:00a - 5:30p 7th Annual Sustainable Development Forum (MIT Sloan School of Management, Tang Center, Building E51, Cambridge, MA) Now in its seventh year, the Annual Regional Sustainable Development Forum will focus on the importance of motivating a broad constituency to work together to address the consequences of global climate change. Contact: www.newecology.org/sustainabilityforu... 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Microbial community and organic matter dynamics in response to soil warming and nitrogen fertilization" with speaker Serita Frey, University of New Hampshire. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 12:00p Atmospheric Sciences Seminar (Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "The Dynamic Exchange of Atmospheric Mercury with Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems" with speaker Vince St. Louis, University of Alberta. Contact: Brenda Mathieu, bmathieu(a)seas.harvard.edu , www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html 3:00p Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series (Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "The Non-Critical Precursory Accelerating Seismicity Theory" with speaker Arnaud Mignan, Science and Technology Research, Risk Management Solutions, London, UK Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM... 8:00p - 11:00p MIT Environmental Film Series (Bldg. 32-144, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and "A Crude Awakening" Contact: tschenk(a)mit.edu, o penwetware.org/wiki/Environmental_Fi... Monday 1/28/2008 9:00a Alliance for Global Sustainability Annual Meeting (Stata Center, Bldg. 32, MIT, 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA) The 2008 AGS Annual Meeting builds upon progress in 2007 to develop the pathways concept as a framework for advancing near-term transitions to sustainability. Every day from January 28 to 31. Contact: mit.edu/agsam08/index.html 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://mcsv.net/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=2MsVUZONWu7GdW4SkES0 for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 4:00p Boston University Earth Sciences Colloquia (B36, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA) "The Climate Record from Ice Cores" with speaker Dominique Raynaud, European Geosciences Union. Contact: earth(a)bu.edu, 617-353-2532, www.bu.edu/es/colloquia/ Tuesday 1/29/2008 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club (Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... Wednesday 1/30/2008 12:00p Accountability of Transnational Environmental NGOs (5 Bennett Street, Hauser Center main conference room, Cambridge, MA) When Nongovernmental Organizations Govern: Accountability in Private Conservation Networks with Cristina M. Balboa, Research Fellow, Hauser Center, Doctoral Candidate, Yale University. Contact: Maryann Leach, maryann_leach(a)harvard.edu, ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/KSGInfo/eNews.n... 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) Speaker: Amy Finklestein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. E-Z Tax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, 617-496-8054, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... Thursday 1/31/2008 7:30a - 12:00p Environmental Business Council EBC Seminar Series on Offshore Wind Energy (The Lenox Hotel, 61 Exeter Street at Boylston, Boston, MA) "Deep Water Wind Energy Session 3" Offshore wind has emerged as a promising renewable energy resource. Contact: ebc(a)ebcne.org, 617-725-0207, ebc.terranovum.com/index.php?id=77&am... 12:00p - 1:00p Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminar (Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Wendy Gilbert, UC-Berkeley Dept. Molecular and Cellular Biology. Contact: Kristen Uekermann, (617) 496-2306 4:00p Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America (Adams Lower Common Room, 26 Plympton St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) Focus the Nation is organizing a national teach-in on global warming solutions for America. Contact: Karen McKinnon (EAC), mckinnon(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.focusthenation.org 7:00p Harvard Coop Faculty Author: Anne Harrington (The Coop at Harvard Square, 1400 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA) Anne Harrington, professor and chair of the History of Science Department, will discuss and sign copies of her new book, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine. Contact: harvard.bkstore.com/default.asp?m=0501 Friday 2/1/2008 8:30a - 9:00a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "The Surprising Microbial Diversity of Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infections" with speaker Vanja Klepac-Ceraj (Kolter Lab, MMG at Harvard Medical School). Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays_spr08.html 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main S treet, Petersham, MA) "Coupling aquatic and terrestrial niogeochemistry: stream and wetland carbon losses from Harvard Forest's Prospect Hill Tract" with speaker Bill Sobczak, College of the Holy Cross. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 6:45p New England Botanical Club Meeting (Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) "Substrate Influence on Speciation in Lichenized Fungi" with speaker: Dr. Michaela Schmull, Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University Contact: nebc(a)rhodora.org, www.rhodora.org/Meetings.html Saturday 2/2/2008 9:30a - 12:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Adult Classes (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Exploring Biodiversity." In this class, we will focus on how patterns of biodiversity are documented and interpreted, and a sk questions such as what is a species?, ... Contact: reservations(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-2341, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/adult_classes/in... 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Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, www.energytechnologypolicy.org 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club (Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project", lecture by Spencer Wells. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-2773, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids_and_familie... Wednesday 2/6/2008 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) Giving Green to Get Green? Incentives and Consumer Adoption of Hybrid Vehicle Technology with speakers Kelly Gallagher and Erich Muehlegger, Harvard University. 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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Monday meeting

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quantum Group We will meet this coming Monday January 28 at 3:00 in 6-310. Geordie Rose of Dwave will be giving an informal talk. Best, 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, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Tuesday

by Edward Farhi

Seth Lloyd and I are planning to have a one-day meeting of the Keck Center Quantum Communication and Quantum Sensing teams next Tuesday, Jan. 29th. The tentative schedule is as follows -- titles will be available in a later mailing. The meeting will be held in the Jonathan Allen Room (36-462). Morning coffee break and lunch will be provided. 9:00 - 9:15 AM Welcome (Seth Lloyd, Jeff Shapiro) 9:15 - 10:05 AM Raul Garcia-Patron 10:05 - 10:15 AM discussion 10:15 - 10:30 AM Coffee Break 10:30 - 10:50 AM Jeff Shapiro (substituting for Saikat Guha) 10:50 - 11:00 AM discussion 11:00 AM - 12:00 noon Stefano Pirandola 12:00 noon - 1::00 PM Lunch 1:30 - 2:20 PM Haidong Yuan 2;20 - 2:30 PM discussion 2:30 - 2:50 PM Si-Hui Tan 2:50 - 3:00 PM discussion 3:00 - 3:50 PM Mankei Tsang 3:50 - 4:00 PM discussion 4:00 - 4:20 PM Baris Erkmen 4:20 - 4:30 PM discussion 4:30 - 4:45 PM wrap-up (Seth Lloyd, Jeff Shapiro) Please circulate this notice to members of your group who may be interested and send Josephina Lee (jclee(a)mit.edu) a list of attendees ASAP so that the appropriate amount of food can be ordered. Best regards, Jeff

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