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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] this week: group meeting canceled

by Alejandro Perdomo

No group meeting this week. Masoud will give his last talk next week and Joel is up the week after. Cheers, -A

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: FW: [Fwd: Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium]

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, Seth and Eddie, Here is a talk of Franco Nori that might be of interest :) Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Franco Nori <fnori(a)riken.go.jp> Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:32 PM Subject: FW: [Fwd: Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium] To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> Cc: Toshiaki IITAKA <tiitaka(a)riken.jp> Hi Alan: perhaps some of your students and postdocs might be interested, *IF* they wish to see the talk for the second time. It will be very, very similar. Regards, f -----Original Message----- From: hrs [mailto:hrs@cfa.harvard.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 5:02 AM To: Franco Nori Subject: [Fwd: Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:45:55 -0400 From: Lisa Bastille <lbastill(a)cfa.harvard.edu> Reply-To: Lisa Bastille <lbastill(a)cfa.harvard.edu> To: Joint 10 :;, Joint 11:;, Joint 12:;, Joint 1:; CC: Physics II:;, Physics:; Special ITAMP Colloquium ___________________________________________ Speaker : Professor Franco Nori, RIKEN and University of Michigan Title : * Designing superconducting qubit circuits that exhibit atomic-physics-like phenomena on a chip* Time : Wednesday, October 15, 2008 @ 4:30 p.m. - Tea @ 4:00 p.m. Place : Jefferson Laboratory * Room 356 Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu) ------------------------------------------- For an up-to-date list of ITAMP visitors, see http://itamp.harvard.edu/visitorsprogram.html For the latest information on ITAMP workshops, see http://itamp.harvard.edu/workshops.html -- -- Lisa Bastille ? Administrative Coordinator ? ITAMP Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ? 60 Garden Street, MS 14 ? Cambridge, MA 02138-1516 ? phone: (617) 495-9524 ? fax: (617) 495-5970 ? email: lbastill(a)cfa.harvard.edu -- 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] [theochem-announce] Wednesday lecture

by Seth Difley

Please take note of the Theochem lecture this Wednesday. Title-- Nothing Amuses More Harmlessly Than Computation Speaker-- Michael L. Klein (University of Pennsylvania) http://www.cmm.upenn.edu/ Time-- Wed, October 15, 2008 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-colloquium] Final Digital Humanities Talk, October 20, 2008

by Helene Tingle Uysal

Talk Title: How Not to Read a Million Books: Text Mining, and Reading the Unreadable Speaker: John M. Unsworth, Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Illinois-Champaign When: Monday, October 20, 2008; 4:30pm Where: Barker Center, Thompson Room Abstract: “The Spectacles” Christian Morgenstern Korf reads avidly and fast. Therefore he detests the vast bombast of the repetitious, twelvefold needless, injudicious. Most affairs are settled straight just in seven words or eight; in as many tapeworm phrases one can prattle on like blazes. Hence he lets his mind invent a corrective instrument: Spectacles whose focal strength shortens texts of any length. Thus, a poem such as this, so beglassed one would just -- miss. Thirty-three of them will spark nothing but a question mark. (“Die Brille” from Galgenlieder, 1905) Korf is the kind of reader for which some text-mining tools are intended: someone who surely would profoundly approve of text- summarization technology, for example--the sort of thing that tells you what a newspaper article is about, so you don't have to go through the tiresome and inkstained exercise of actually reading it. In the Mellon-funded MONK project (MONK stands for Metadata Offer New Knowledge) we seek to use text-mining techniques as a provocation for reading, as well as to cast the net for that provocation much more Broadly than one could do without computers. In other words, although users may end up reading, even reading closely, they begin by not reading, or by doing what Franco Moretti calls distant reading, pointing out that when we begin by reading, we can only take into account "a minimal fraction of the literary field . . . a canon of two hundred novels, for instance, sounds very large for nineteenth-century Britain . . . but is still less than one per cent of the novels that were actually published: twenty thousand, thirty, more, no one really knows—and close reading won’t help here, a novel a day every day of the year would take a century or so" (Maps, Graphs, and Trees). _______________________________________________ iic-colloquium mailing list iic-colloquium(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-colloquium

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] IIC Colloquium Wed- Oct. 15 - Tim Clark - Science Web 3.0 and Scientific Social Communities

by Pavlos Protopapas

Initiative in Innovative Computing Colloquium Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 4:00pm Location: 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Tim Clark, Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Director of Informatics, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease; Core Member, Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing Title: Science Web 3.0 and Scientific Social Communities Abstract: Science Web 3.0 is an emerging system of semantically linked data, integrated with the Social Web, in support of science collaboration and scientific knowledge integration. This powerful environment for capturing, organizing and sharing scientific knowledge is now beginning to be taken up in real projects in the form of scientific social communities. IIC and its collaborators in the Harvard community are playing a leading role in this development. --------------- For more information about IIC colloquia and other events : http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming If you would like to subscribe to our listserv for announcements of IIC colloquia and workshops, or if you would like to be removed from the list, please contact Helene Tingle Uysal, helene_tingle(a)harvard.edu. _______________________________________________ iic-colloquium mailing list iic-colloquium(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-colloquium

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update October 9 - 23

by Center for the Environment

Dear Friends of HUCE, Please be sure to check the HUCE calendar on our website, [ http://harvard.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=f… ]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 [ mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu ]. Feel free to distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the community. Highlights: Thursday, October 16: Max Page, Professor of History and Architecture discusses his new work, "The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction" with faculty Jerold Kayden (GSD) and Daniel Schrag (EPS) in the second Green Conversations event of the fall semester. Friday, October 17: The first in a two-part series highlighting American Environmental History, this panel will focus on the "Sea" and features speakers Jeffrey Bolster (University of New Hampshire), D. Graham Burnett (Princeton University) and Helen Rozwadowski (University of Connecticut). Wednesday, October 22: Former Vice-President Al Gore is the keynote speaker of Harvard's week long celebration marking the official launch of its new greenhouse gas reduction effort and will also celebrate Harvard's broader environmental initiatives, including its critical role a university in teaching and research in this area. Calendar Listings: Thursday 10/9/2008 6:00p - 7:00p EEPIC Student Speaker Series [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122234610 ] (Littaur-332, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) "Calculating the Lifecycle Emissions of Power Generation and Transmission." Talk by Sierra Peterson, MPP2. Refreshments will be served. Contact: jessie_ma(a)ksg09.harvard.edu, Jessie Ma [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/Jessie%20Ma ] Friday 10/10/2008 11:00a [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122271904 ] Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Rethinking urban regions: natural systems and their uses in planning our ring-around-the-city." Richard Forman, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu [ mailto:aabarker@fas.harvard.edu ], 978-724-3302 x268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... [ http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminarschedule.html ] 12:30p - 1:30p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122234621 ] Luncheon Talk at GSD (Gund Hall, Porticos Rm 122/123, 42 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA) "Green Urbanism: Regenerating the Post-industrial City." Professor Steffen Lehmann (Sydney - Berlin), Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle (Australia) Contact: Sean Corriel, seancorriel(a)gmail.com [ mailto:seancorriel@gmail.com ] 5:30p - 8:00p MIT Energy Night [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=121357587 ] (MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA) MIT Energy Night is an MIT energy community showcase social event held annually by the MIT Energy Club and at the MIT Museum. Contact: Matt Denman , mrdenman(a)mit.edu [ mailto:mrdenman@mit.edu ] Tuesday 10/14/2008 12:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=121357608 ] Herbaria Seminar Series (Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) "Population biology of the ubiquitous ectomycorrhizal fungus Cenococcum geophilum: species complex or complex species?" Greg Douhan, UC Riverside. Contact: [ http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series ]www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117067224 ] (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 [ mailto:kdennis@fas.harvard.edu ], www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/semi… ] 5:30p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=121238541 ] Clean Energy Forum - Creating a Clean Transportation Future (Foley Hoag Enterprise Center, 1000 Winter Street, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, Massachusetts) Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition, with sponsorship from Foley Hoag and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, is pleased to be holding the next in our series of Clean Energy Forums. Contact: Lucy Rohner , lrohner(a)MassH2.org [ mailto:lrohner@MassH2.org ], (978) 232-0081 6:15p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122235013 ] A Delicious Revolution: A Conversation with Alice Waters and Josh Viertel (Faculty Room, University Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA ) Contact: humcentr(a)fas.harvard.edu [ mailto:humcentr@fas.harvard.edu ], [ http://www.green.harvard.edu ]www.green.harvard.edu/ Wednesday 10/15/2008 4:00p - 5:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=120322803 ] Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littaur-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) "Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Wealth."Karen Fisher-Vanden, Pennsylvania State University, and Karin Thorburn, Dartmouth College Contact: Jason Chapman, Jason_Chapman(a)ksg.harvard.edu [ mailto:Jason_Chapman@ksg.harvard.edu ], 617-496-8054, www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/heep/event... [ http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/heep/events.html ] 4:00p - 5:00p Origins of Life Initiative Forum [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117102195 ] (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "A Simpler Origin for Life." Professor Robert Shapiro, Department of Chemistry, New York University. Contact: Sharmon G. Davis, sdavis(a)cfa.harvard.edu [ mailto:sdavis@cfa.harvard.edu ], 617.496.1451, origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html [ http://origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html ] 7:00p - 9:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117067337 ] Science in the News Seminar Series (Armenise amphitheater, Harvard Medical School, Longwood Campus, Boston, MA) Visit the Science in the News website for the schedule of topics. Contact: sitnboston(a)yahoo.com [ mailto:sitnboston@yahoo.com ], [ http://www.hms.harvard.edu/sitn ]www.hms.harvard.edu/sitn/ Thursday 10/16/2008 4:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117826184 ] OEB Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Scott Hodges, University of California Santa Barbara. Seminar Title: TBA. Host: Kramer Lab Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu [ mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu ], www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... [ http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html ] 5:00p - 6:30p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117102172 ] Green Conversations with Max Page (Robinson Hall, Lower Level Library, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Max Page, University of Massachusetts, Amherst discusses his new work, "The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction" with faculty panelists Jerold Kayden (GSD) and Daniel Schrag (EPS). Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu [ mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu ], 617-495-8883 6:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=112098337 ] Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Advantages of Traveling by Tube - Explorations of Fungal Networks" Lynne Boddy (Cardiff University, UK), School of Biosciences. Host: Prof. Anne Pringle Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu [ mailto:herren@fas.harvard.edu ], (617) 495 8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html ] 6:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=116987743 ] Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity" Lecture and booksigning by Dr. Eric Chivian and Dr. E. O. Wilson Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu [ mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu ], 617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.hmnh.harvard.edu ] Friday 10/17/2008 2:15p - 4:15p American Environmental History: The State of the Field, at Sea and on Land [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117067315 ] (Robinson Hall, Lower Level Library, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "At Sea" symposium, presented by the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Contact: Arthur Patton-Hock, apattonh(a)fas.harvard.edu [ mailto:apattonh@fas.harvard.edu ], 617-495-1119 Sunday 10/19/2008 7:00p - 9:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122235014 ] Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth" (Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA ) Come see Gore's Oscar-winning documentary on the big screen (open but limited seating). Contact: [ http://www.green.harvard.edu ]www.green.harvard.edu/ Monday 10/20/2008 Tour Harvard's First LEED Platinum Building [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122271630 ] (46 Blackstone St., Cambridge, MA) Tour Harvard's First LEED Platinum Building at 46 Blackstone. Click on the link below to sign up. Contact: www.uos.harvard.edu/blackstone [ http://www.uos.harvard.edu/blackstone ] [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=120322669 ] Conservation Capital in the Americas Student Competition The last day to apply for the Conservation Capital in the Americas Student Competition! The purpose of the competition is to identify, assemble, and support emerging leaders in the field of conserv... Contact: James Levitt, James_Levitt(a)harvard.edu [ mailto:James_Levitt@harvard.edu ] , www.conservationfinanceforum.org/comp... [ http://www.conservationfinanceforum.org/competition.html ] 12:00p - 1:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=118021155 ] Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu [ mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu ], www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.ht… ] Tuesday 10/21/2008 9:30a - 11:00a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=120322751 ] (Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., JFK School of Government, Cambridge, MA) "Results of Beijing China In-use Vehicle Emissions Project." Hongyan He Oliver, ETIP Research Fellow. Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu [ mailto:sam_milton@harvard.edu ], [ http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/10/energy_technology_innovation… ]belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/... 12:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122271907 ] Herbaria Seminar Series (Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) "Evolution of symbiosis in the fungal genus Amanita." Ben Wolfe (Pringle Lab/OEB) "SHIP: Woody Plant Seeds Digitized." Julie Shapiro (Arnold Arboretum) Contact: [ http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series ]www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ 12:30p - 1:30p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122235260 ] Climate Change: Health Problems and Healthy Solutions (TMEC, Walter Ampitheater, Harvard Medical School, Boston) Harvard Medical School Panel with Paul Epstein. 3:00p - 4:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117067225 ] 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 [ mailto:kdennis@fas.harvard.edu ], www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/semi… ] 5:30p - 7:30p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122235262 ] Sustainable Dinners (All Harvard Dining Halls, Cronkhite Dining Room and Dudley Cafe) Harvard residents will enjoy a sustainable meal and an educational experience. Contact: [ http://www.green.harvard.edu ]www.green.harvard.edu/ Wednesday 10/22/2008 3:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=120524207 ] Harvard University Celebration on Sustainability (Tercentenary Theatre, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA) Keynote speaker: Former Vice-President Al Gore. This event will mark the official launch of our new greenhouse gas reduction effort and will also celebrate Harvard's broader environmental initiatives. Contact: [ http://www.green.harvard.edu ]www.green.harvard.edu/ 3:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122235140 ] Recycling across Harvard A walking tour on how to achieve environmental, social, and economic sustainability through recycling and reuse. E-mail rob_gogan(a)harvard.edu to sign up. Contact: rob_gogan(a)harvard.edu [ mailto:rob_gogan@harvard.edu ] Calendar: Center for the Environment 4:15p - 5:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=120322820 ] Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littaur-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) "Evaluating Emissions Trading Using a Nearest (Polluting) Neighbor Estimator." Meredith Fowlie, University of Michigan, Stephen Holland, University of North Carolina, and Erin Mansur, Yale University. Contact: Jason Chapman, Jason_Chapman(a)ksg.harvard.edu [ mailto:Jason_Chapman@ksg.harvard.edu ], 617-496-8054, www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/heep/event... [ http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/heep/events.html ] 7:00p - 9:00p Science in the News Seminar Series [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117067338 ] (Armenise amphitheater, Harvard Medical School, Longwood Campus, Boston, MA) Visit the Science in the News website for the schedule of topics. Contact: sitnboston(a)yahoo.com [ mailto:sitnboston@yahoo.com ], [ http://www.hms.harvard.edu/sitn ]www.hms.harvard.edu/sitn/ Thursday 10/23/2008 3:30p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122234618 ] China Project Seminar (Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Primary Air Pollutant Emissions of Coal-Fired Power Plants in China: Current Status and Future Prediction." Dr. ZHAO Yu, postdoctoral researcher, Harvard China Project Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu [ mailto:nielsen2@fas.harvard.edu ], 617-496-2378 , [ http://chinaproject.harvard.edu ]chinaproject.harvard.edu 4:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117826188 ] OEB Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Adam Summers, University of California, Irvine. Seminar Title: TBA. Host: Lauder Lab Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu [ mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu ], www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... [ http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html ] 5:15p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122235046 ] Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change (Science Center Lecture Hall A, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) David Wilcove, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University will talk about oil palm plantations, how they are leading to massive deforestation, and how that has very negative effects on biodiversity. Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu [ mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu ], 617-495-8883 6:00p - 7:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122235142 ] Harvard Green Campus Initiative Town Hall Meeting (TBA) Discussion with students and HGCI/President's Office staff on GHG reduction goals. 7:30p - 9:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=122235032 ] Environmental Justice Panel (Kirkland House Junior Common Room, JFK St., Cambridge, MA) Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) presents Environmental Justice Panel: The environmental burden in Boston's disadvantaged communities. Come learn about sustainability efforts taking pla... Contact: [ http://www.green.harvard.edu ]www.green.harvard.edu/ ============================================== You are receiving this email because you indicated interest in Harvard University Center for the Environment events. 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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [TQC2009] Preliminary Announcement of TQC 2009

by Jacob D. Biamonte

Dear Group, I plan to attend and will hopefully give a talk at the following seminar: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: TQC2009 <tqc2009(a)lists.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:31 PM Subject: [TQC2009] Preliminary Announcement of TQC 2009 To: tqc2009(a)lists.uwaterloo.ca Cc: tqc(a)iqc.ca Dear Colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming event "The 4th Workshop on Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography (TQC 2009)". The workshop will be held May 11-13, 2009, at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Please see the information attached below. Sincerely Yours, The Organizing Committee of TQC 2009 ======================================================================= PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT The 4th Workshop on Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography ---- TQC 2009 ---- Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario, Canada May 11-13, 2009 http://www.iqc.ca/tqc2009 ======================================================================= General Information: Quantum computation, quantum communication, and quantum cryptography are subfields of quantum information processing, an interdisciplinary field of information science and quantum mechanics. TQC 2009 focuses on theoretical aspects of these subfields. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers so that they can interact with each other and share problems and recent discoveries. The workshop will be held from May 11-13, 2009, at the University of Waterloo. It will consist of invited talks, contributed talks, and a poster session. ------------------- Scope: The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to: * quantum algorithms * models of quantum computation * quantum complexity theory * simulation of quantum systems * quantum cryptography * quantum communication * quantum estimation and measurement * quantum noise * quantum coding theory * fault-tolerant quantum computing * entanglement theory -------------------- Invited Speakers: Masato Koashi (Osaka University) John Preskill (Caltech) Miklos Santha (Universit??Paris Sud) Graeme Smith (IBM Watson) Stephanie Wehner (Caltech) -------------------- Post Proceedings: A selection of the papers will be published in the official postproceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer (www.springer.com/computer/lncs). -------------------- Program Committee: Panos Aliferis (IBM Watson) Dave Bacon (University of Washington) Andrew Childs (Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo; Chair) Masahito Hayashi (Tohoku University) Patrick Hayden (McGill University) Hiroshi Imai (University of Tokyo/ERATO-SORST) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University) Yasuhito Kawano (NTT) Norbert Lutkenhaus (IQC, University of Waterloo) Chiara Macchiavello (INFM, University of Pavia) Michele Mosca (IQC, University of Waterloo/Perimeter Institute) Maarten van den Nest (MPQ) Masanao Ozawa (Nagoya University) Robert Raussendorf (University of British Columbia) Ben Reichardt (IQC, University of Waterloo) Renato Renner (ETH Zurich) Alain Tapp (University of Montreal) Barbara Terhal (IBM Watson) John Watrous (IQC, University of Waterloo) Andreas Winter (University of Bristol/CQT, National University of Singapore) Shigeru Yamashita (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) -------------------- Organizing Committee: Anne Broadbent (IQC, University of Waterloo) Sarah Croke (Perimeter Institute) Dmitri Maslov (IQC, University of Waterloo) Michele Mosca (IQC, University of Waterloo/Perimeter Institute; Chair) Simone Severini (IQC, University of Waterloo) Tzu-Chieh Wei (IQC, University of Waterloo) -------------------- Important Dates: Submission deadline: January 18, 2009 (23:59 EST) Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 9, 2009 -------------------- Contact Information: tqc(a)iqc.ca (TQC Organizing Committee) For updated information, please visit the conference website http://www.iqc.ca/tqc2009 --------------------- _______________________________________________ TQC2009 mailing list TQC2009(a)lists.uwaterloo.ca https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/tqc2009 -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Jacob D. Biamonte office: (+1) 617 - 496 - 7101 fax: 496-9411 Boston cell: (617) 470-2543 http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/People/Jacob_D._Biamonte/ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Herbert

by Salvador Venegas Andraca

Dear All, I have just learned, with great sadness, about Herbert's departure. To palliate the terrible feeling of loss, I have attached a nice picture of Herbert to this message. Cheers, Salvador -- Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca, DPhil (Oxon) Assistant Professor Quantum Information Processing Group Mathematics and Computer Science Departments Tecnologico de Monterrey campus Estado de Mexico http://www.mindsofmexico.org/sva

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Two things

by Ivan Kassal

Dear group, Today, the Japanese people came into our office and saw the disgusting mess that is located next to the coffee machine. That means that the worst possible thing happened: we lost face. To remedy this (the mess, not the loss of face--the latter is irreparable) we will have a massive cleaning operation today. Everybody who drinks coffee is required to wash one dirty dishes from next to the coffee machine. Today. Those who fail to do so will meet with terrible consequences. Also, some of you may have noticed that the mini-reef has been torn down. Ever since Herbert passed away, it wasn't the same. So the little fish and the corals are now living in Shuting's big tank, enjoying the bright lights, a surfeit of edible microfauna, and a level of care that is three orders magnitude higher than what they received from me. You're welcome to come visit them sometime in Watertown, they miss you all. Ivan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] SYMPOSIUM All friday

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, here is a photosynthesis symposium that Mike Stopa and myself organized due to the visit of Franco Nori and Mike Geller, and now is devoted to both quantum transport and simulation of photosynthesis. I hope as many as you can attend to as many talks as possible. It will be held in the division room. 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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