aspuru-list January 2008

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Re: [Aspuru-Guzik group list] Can we turn off aspuru1-prd for an hour?

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Amir, Go ahead. Just let us know when it is back up. Many thanks! Alan On 1/23/08, Amir Karger <akarger(a)cgr.harvard.edu> wrote: > We're doing some work on the server that hosts the virtual machines, and > we'd like to take aspuru1-prd down from about 5-6. If that's not OK, > we'll leave it on. But I was thinking that since it's svn and trac, > you're not using it from minute to minute (plus you're only starting to > use it). > > Let me know. > > -Amir > > -- 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] Not in today. Back next Monday.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, I told some of you I was going to be in until 2 PM today. I am home and working from here until I catch my plane. See you all on Monday. 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] Fwd: Update: impacts of FY08 budget on Science

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, Given the current stock crisis, Bush's horrible plan to "fight" the mortgage crisis and the funding crisis below, I ask you to write to congress using the tool below. Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: opa(a)aps.org <opa(a)aps.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:15:36 UT Subject: Update: impacts of FY08 budget on Science To: alan(a)aspuru.com From: Arthur Bienenstock, President, the American Physical Society To: Members of the American Physical Society Re: Update: Impact of FY08 Federal Budget on Science: http://www.aps.org/policy/tools/alerts Thank you to the 3000 of you who answered my request last week to write to Congress. I am writing to update you on further impacts of the FY08 Budget on science and to urge more of you to write to your representative, senators, and the president. While the FY08 budget impacts federal science funding agencies and the various disciplines of physics and science differently, it is important for us to work together as a community to remedy the situation. I urge you to be part of a coherent voice addressing lawmakers. The Department of Energy Office of Science released a document last week listing the impacts to all of its programs. In addition to the damage to the Fusion and High Energy Physics programs that I emphasized last week, there are major impacts in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) and Nuclear Physics programs. The Intense Pulsed Neutron Source at Argonne National Laboratory is being closed permanently and various construction projects will be delayed by as much as a year. Operations at the light sources will also likely be reduced by as much as 10%, and nearly 700 proposals responding to a BES solicitation for energy research have been declined. In the Nuclear Physics program, operations at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (BNL) will be reduced from 30 weeks to 13 and at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory) from 34 weeks to 24 weeks. Operations at the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator and the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility are also reduced and construction projects at these facilities and others are also delayed. For the complete listing of impacts at the Office of Science and further details, please see http://www.aps.org/policy/issues/research-funding/upload/SC08Omnibus.pdf. The National Science Foundation has yet to release an impact statement. However, as I reported in my previous message, proposal funding rates are likely to go down. The research and related activities account was increased by less than the rate of inflation and increases in facility operation costs are likely to further constrain the award funding. The impact statement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology reports major setbacks to their FY08 agenda with the NIST laboratories having received only a small fraction of their previously approved increase. As a result, they will not be able to fund initiatives on quantum science, climate change, cybersecurity, nanotechnology and many other programs. Taken as a whole, the FY08 budget is a major blow to the innovation/competitiveness proposals of Congress and the Administration. If you are not among the 9% of U.S. members who have already written to Congress and the president using the APS software, please take a moment to do so now. It is quick and easy: http://www.aps.org/policy/tools/alerts. I would also ask that you forward this message to colleagues, students, friends or family that support science research funding. At this URL, you will find pre-written messages to your Senators, Representatives and President Bush. You may send these letters as they are, modify them, or write your own. While individualizing your letter is not essential, please at least make minor edits to the subject line and the first line of the text of each email so that these emails are more individualized. (See webpage pointers below for further instruction.) The APS Washington Office continues to work hard for to mitigate the damage to science and relies on your actions to convince lawmakers that they must provide remedies. WEBPAGE POINTERS: (1) While individualizing your letter is not essential, we ask that you make minor edits to the subject line and the first line of the text of each email. (2) If you are a government employee, please do not use government resources to send a communication. (3) Your browser will take you to a page where you will enter your name and address. (4) After entering your address, click the "Edit/Send Email button". A window with an individual email message to the four offices will appear. Click "Send Emails" to transmit the communication. (5) Electronic submission is preferred. (6) For further help, write to opa(a)aps.org. ******************************************************************* To remove yourself from OPT email list, please go to: http://apps.aps.org/cgi-bin/scrconf.pl?MID=61025338&OPA=-1 -- 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] Call for Journals

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] meeting time

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quantum Group I would like to hold our group meeting at 3:00 on Monday this term. Please let me know if this is not a good time for a good reason. Also if you are on this list and you don't want to get annoying email inviting you to meetings you don't want to come to with a bunch of people you don't like then tell me and I will spare you in the future. 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 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::

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Re: [Aspuru-Guzik group list] DFS subgroup meeting 2 pm tomorrow.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group member, The DFS meeting changed to 2-3 PM tomorrow so Patrick can make it. Room most probably division room. A. On 1/17/08, Alejandro Perdomo <aleperd(a)gmail.com> wrote: > We will meet tomorrow at 9am in the Division Room. > -Alejandro > > > On Jan 17, 2008 1:41 AM, Alejandro Perdomo <aleperd(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > What is the best time to meet up for the DFS meeting on Friday? I propose > 11 am or 10 am. Please let us know what time works best for you. > > Thanks! > > -Alejandro > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] DFS subgroup or should I say semigroup meeting -- just a few will get the joke... that is fine :)

by Alejandro Perdomo

Hi Alan, What is the best time to meet up for the DFS meeting on Friday? I propose 11 am or 10 am. Please let us know what time works best for you. Thanks! -Alejandro

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update January 17 - 31

by Center for the Environment

Dear Friends of HUCE, This email contains event listings for Thursday, January 17 through Thursday, January 31. 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 24: Harvard Book Store booksiging and reading with University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin, "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body." Wednesday, January 30: Join Cristina M. Balboa, doctoral candidate at Yale University and research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, for a discussion on the accountability of transnational environmental NGOs: When Nongovernmental Organizations Govern: Accountability in Private Conservation Networks. Calendar Listings: Thursday 1/17/2008 4:00p Origins of Life Initiative Forum (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Prebiotic Chemistry in the Origins of Life" with speaker John Sutherland, University of Manchester, UK Contact: cknell(a)cfa.harvard.edu, 617-496-1451, origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html Sunday 1/20/2008 2:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Sunday Family Program (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Screening of The Naturalist, a 30-minute movie about the life and work of the renowned entomologist, author, and Pulitzer prize winner, Edward O. Wilson. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/family_programs/... 6:00p Clean Tech and Alternative Energy: What does the Future hold? (Aldrich 112, Harvard Business Scool, Boston, MA) Clean tech and alternative energy are getting a lot of attention, but what are the opportunities? Who are the companies out there making a difference? Contact: www.hbsab.org/article.html?aid=131 6:00p - 8:30p MIT Clean Energy Prize Speaker Series (R&D Pub, Stata Center, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA) Special Event: Starting a Successful Company based on MIT Lab Technology The A123 Story. Speaker: Bart Riley, A123 Co-Founder, CTO & Current Board Member. Food and drink provided. 6:00p - 8:30p Starting a Successful Company based on MIT Lab Technology? The A123 Story (Stata Center, R&D Pub (4th Floor), Bldg. 32, MIT, 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA) Dr. Bart Riley has more than fifteen years of experience in technology development and commercialization in the advanced materials, portable power and superconductor industries. Contact: Steven Peters , energy-events(a)mit.edu, events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?e... 7:00p Center for Astrophysics Monthly Observatory Nights (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "Impact! Finding and Tracking Asteroid Threats," with Brian Marsden, Center for Astrophysics. Contact: pubaffairs(a)cfa.harvard.edu, (617) 495-7461, www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html Monday 1/21/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html Tuesday 1/22/2008 4:30p HBS Energy Club Winter Term Kick-Off (Nexus, 38 Chauncy St., 7th floor, Boston, MA) Please fill out the RSVP poll by Friday 1/18 to attend our 2d term kickoff event: Nexus green building/sustainability resource center tour. Contact: Michael Ellis, mbabusenvclub(a)listserv.hbs.edu, www.nexusboston.com Wednesday 1/23/2008 3:30p Radcliffe Institute Fellows Presentation Series (34 Concord Avenue, 2nd floor Colloquium Room, Cambridge, MA) "From Protein Sequence to Function" with Liisa Holm, University of Helsinki (Finland), current Radcliffe Institute fellow Contact: 617-495-8212, www.radcliffe.edu/events/calendar.php... 6:30p - 8:30p Arnold Arboretum Adult Education (The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA) "Whatchamacallit: Names and Order in the Plant Kingdom" (BOT 202) with Michael Dosmann, Curator of Living Collections, Arnold Arboretum. Contact: calendar.arboretum.harvard.edu/index.... Thursday 1/24/2008 11:45a - 12:45p Harvard Book Store Author Reading with Neil Shubin (Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA) University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin, author of "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body." Contact: www.harvard.com/events/press_release.... 12:00p - 1:00p Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminar (Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Briana Burton, Harvard Medical School Dept. of Cellular Biology. Contact: Kristen Uekermann, (617) 496-2306 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. Host: David Charbonneau 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) The Annual Regional Sustainable Development Forum focuses 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 TBA) "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... Monday 1/28/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html 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/ Alliance for Global Sustainability Annual Meeting (All day events run through January 31) (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. Contact: mit.edu/agsam08/index.html 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... 11:15a Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America (Location TBA) 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 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 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 ================================================== Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list: http://list-manage.com/unsub.phtml?id=edbDC2HwgKc7GdW4SkES0 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=edbDC2HwgK&f=1

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Potentially relevant.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, Potentially relevant paper about single-photon counting and chromophores. Added to connotea. http://pubs.acs.org.ezp1.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jpcbfk/2006/110/i… 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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Re: [Aspuru-Guzik group list] Protein Paper.- LATEST VERSION

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group and co-authors, Here is the latest version of the paper with all the corrections some of you suggested. Any comments would be highly appreciated. Going to the Arxiv soon (sometime this week). Thanks! -Alejandro On Jan 9, 2008 1:48 PM, Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> wrote: > Dear group, > Here is the protein folding paper draft. We plan to send it soon to > the arxiv and PRE, so for all of you that are interested, please give > it a read and provide feedback to myself and Alejandro. > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Aspuru-list mailing list > Aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu > http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-list > >

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