Dear faculty,
Please have an early lunch and join us for the following talks this and
next week. Please strongly encourage your students/postdocs to come to
these talks. Each talk will last 20 min.
THIS FRIDAY (Oct 24), 12.15-1.15 pm, Pfizer LH
Speaker: Stephan Zuend, Jacobsen Lab
Talk title: Stabilization of iminium ions by amides and sulfinamides:
fundamental studies and practical applications in small-molecule
asymmetric
catalysis
Speaker: Paul Choi, Xie Lab
Talk title: A stochastic single-molecule event triggers phenotype
switching in
a bacterial cell
NEXT FRIDAY (Oct 31), 12.15-1.15 pm, Pfizer LH
Speaker: Walter Kowtoniuk, Liu Lab
Talk title: A chemical screen for biological small molecule-RNA conjugates
reveals coenzyme A-modified RNA
Speaker: Paul Bracher, Whitesides Lab
Talk title: Chemistry on the prebiotic earth
Refreshments and snacks will be provided at noon outside Pfizer.
See you there!
CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series
Dear Quanta
We will meet on Monday December 1 at 3:00 in 6-310. Bill Wooters
will try to join us. He is speaking at 4:15 in the seminar series.
Best,
Eddie
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Edward Farhi
Cecil and Ida Green 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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Dear Friends of HUCE,
Be sure to 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. Feel free to distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the community.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!
Highlights:
Wednesday, December 3: Amory Lovins, hailed as "one of the Western world's most influential energy thinkers" by Newsweek Magazine, presents “Profitable Solutions to Climate, Oil, and Proliferation” in the last Future of Energy lecture this fall semester.
Thursday, December 4: The Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School sponsors a public address by Shai Agassi, the CEO of Better Place, the world's first zero-emission transportation infrastructure company.
Thursday, December 11: Director of the Harvard Center for the Environment Daniel Schrag presents "Confronting the Energy-Climate Challenge" with comments by Kelly Sims Gallagher (HKS) at the Harvard Museum of Natural History's "Earth Matters" lecture series.
Calendar Listings:
Today 11/26/2008
1:30p EPS Special Seminar
(Birch Seminar Room, Hoffman 129, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Limitations of Earthquake Triggering Models." Peter Shearer, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Contact: Marcie Steeves, steeves(a)eps.harvard.edu
Monday 12/1/2008
12:00p - 1:00p 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: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
4:00p EPS Fall Colloquium
(Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Telling time on carbonate platforms." Adam Maloof, Princeton University.
Contact: Ganna Savostyanova, annasavostyanova(a)gmail.com
4:00p - 5:30p Energy Policy Research Seminar
(Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
"Gazprom and Europe: Politics and Pipelines." Prof. Rawi Abdelal, HBS
Contact: Louisa Lund, louisa_lund(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8693
Tuesday 12/2/2008
10:00a - 11:00a Frontiers in Sustainability Science Seminar
(Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
"Vertical Collective Action: Field Experiments on Watershed Management in Kenya, Thailand and Colombia." Juan Camilo Cardenas, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies.
Contact: Nancy Dickson, nancy_dickson(a)harvard.edu
11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
(Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Ductile Rheology of the Lithosphere: Lessons from the 1992 Landers, the 1999 Hector Mine and the 2004 Parkfield Earthquakes." Sylvain Barbot, Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM...
12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA)
"Phytotelmata of Temperate Tree Trunks. Microwildernesses in Temporary Waters." Paul Davison, University of Northern Alabama.
Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
12:30p - 1:30p Green Chemistry: Sustainability at the Molecular Level
(FXB G13, 651 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA)
Speaker: John C. Warner, President and Chief Technology Officer, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry
Contact: Ann Backus, MS, abackus(a)hohp.harvard.edu, 617/432-3327
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...
4:15p - 5:15p MIT Energy Initiative Seminar Series
(66-110, Landau Building, 25 Ames Street, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"The Sustainable Energy Challenge." George Crabtree, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Contact: Jameson Twomey , jtwomey(a)mit.edu, mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/
4:15p Decolonizing Nature: West German Safari Tourism and the Making of Serengeti National Park
(Guido Goldman Room, Center for European Studies, Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA)
Speaker: Thomas Lekan, Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina Sponsor: German Study Group; Harvard University Center for the Environment
Contact: Professor Alison Frank, afrank(a)fas.harvard.edu
5:30p - 8:30p Xconomy Forum: Energy Innovation
(British Consulate-General Boston, One Memorial Drive, 15th floor, Cambridge, MA)
Energy innovation and entrepreneurship have traditionally been hampered by everything from the field's complexity to its huge infrastructure costs.
Contact: xconomyforum6.eventbrite.com/
Wednesday 12/3/2008
4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
(Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) "Trickle Down: Diffusion of Chlorine for Drinking Water Treatment in Kenya?" Michael Kremer, Harvard University, Edward Miguel, Clair Null, University of California, Berkeley, and Alix Zw...
Contact: Jason Chapman, Jason_Chapman(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617-496-8054, www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/heep/event...
5:00p - 6:00p The Future of Energy
(Science Center Lecture Hall B, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
“Profitable Solutions to Climate, Oil, and Proliferation." Amory B. Lovins, Cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute.
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883
Thursday 12/4/2008
4:00p Climate Seminar
(Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
Joseph Kirschvink, Div. of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech
Contact: Shuting Jin , jin(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Chemical communication among plants and insects." Consuelo de Moraes, Pennsylvania State University.
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin...
6:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"D-amino acids regulate the composition, structure, amount, and strength of peptidoglycan." Matt Waldor, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Harvard Medical School
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html
6:30p The Future of Transportation: Ending our Dependence on Oil
(Starr Auditorium, 3rd Floor, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA )
Speaker: Shai Agassi, an Israeli-born entrepreneur who is taking the auto industry by storm with a revolutionary new electric car infrastructure. Also founder and CEO of Better Place.
Contact: Allison Shapira , allison_shapira(a)ksg.harvard.edu , www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=25vhyh...
Friday 12/5/2008
8:00a - 5:00p The Science of the Human Past: An Invitation to a Symposium on the Scientific Study of the Human Past
(Broad Institute, NE30-1154, the Auditorium, 7 Cambridge Ctr., Cambridge, MA)
Speakers include Michael Hammer, Pardis Sabeti, Noreen Tuross, and many others. Open to the public; registration required.
Contact: www.broad.mit.edu/registration/
8:30a Restructuring Roundtable
(Foley Hoag, 155 Seaport Blvd, Boston, MA)
Two panel discussion: "National Priorities for Climate and Energy Policy" and "Regional Climate Initiatives: RGGI and WCI."
Contact: www.raabassociates.org/main/roundtabl...
9:00a - 5:00p Stockholm Environmental Institute: US Symposium
(Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall Tufts University, Medford, MA)
"Taking Climate Change Seriously: Research and Policy Directions for the Next US Administration"
Contact: www.sei-us.org/symposium2008.html
11:30a Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"Plant responses to different environmental stresses in the high tropical Andes ." Fermin Rada - Universidad de Los Andes and Harvard Bullard Fellow.
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
2:30p - 4:30p MIT Seminar on Environmetnal and Agricultural History
(Building E51, Room 095, MIT, Cambridge, MA)
"Neolithic Emergence: the Origin of Agriculture in the Near East." Steven Mithen, Professor of Archaeology, Reading University.
Contact: Margo Collett, mcollett(a)mit.edu
6:45p New England Botanical Club Meeting
(Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA )
"The Ends of Earth: Plant Conservation in Some of the Last Shangri- Las of the World." Dr. Kamaljit Bawa, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Contact: www.rhodora.org/Meetings.html
7:30p Crafting A Sensible National Security Policy
(St. Paul Parish, 29 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA)
Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston University. Free and open to the public.
Monday 12/8/2008
8:30a - 5:30p The Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Conference
(The Rafik Hariri Building (Boston University School of Management), 4th Floor, 595 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA)
"Three Decades of Reform and Opening: Where is China Headed?" If you intend to attend, especially the lunch plenary (Keynote by Amb. Stapleton Roy). RSVP required.
Contact: pardee(a)bu.edu, www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept...
12:00p - 1:00p 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: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
4:00p - 5:30p Energy Policy Research Seminar
(Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
"The Carbonomics of Kissinger's Cartel, Double Dividends, and Global Fairness." Steven Stoft, author, Power System Economics (2002) and Carbonomics (forthcoming)
Contact: Louisa Lund, louisa_lund(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8693
Tuesday 12/9/2008
12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) "Phylogenetic informativeness." Jeffrey Townsend, Yale University.
Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
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...
4:00p Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar
(Haller Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Effects of Climate on Mammalian Diversity." Catherine Badgley, University of Michigan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Contact: ehap.seminar(a)gmail.com
5:15p Boston Environmental History Seminar
(Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston, MA )
"'Gold! Gold!! Gold!!!': Mining and Environmental Change in the 19th-Century West." George H. Vrtis, Carleton College.
Contact: Jane Becker, jbecker(a)masshist.org, 617-646-0518
Wednesday 12/10/2008
4:00p - 5:00p Origins of Life Initiative Forum
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA)
"Marine Microbial Mats and the Search for Life in Deep Time and Space." David J. Des Marais, NASA - Ames.
Contact: Sharmon G. Davis, sdavis(a)cfa.harvard.edu, 617.496.1451, origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html
Thursday 12/11/2008
3:30p China Project Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Emissions and Control of Primary Particles in China" (working title). Dr. LEI Yu, postdoctoral researcher, Harvard China Project.
Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-2378, chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminar%20fo...
4:00p - 5:30p The Potential for Advanced Leadership: Can the Boomer Generation Help Save the World?
(Aldrich 112, Harvard Business Scool, Boston, MA) Faculty Seminar sponsored by the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative in collaboration with the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative and the Harvard Kennedy School Cent...
Contact: nbaker(a)hbs.edu, www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/
4:00p OEB Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "The white-throated sparrow: A natural model uniting genetics, neuroendocrinology, and social behavior." Donna Maney, Emory University. Host: Haig Lab
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin...
6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History: Earth Matters
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Confronting the Energy-Climate Challenge." A presentation by Dan Schrag, with remarks by Kelly Gallagher How can the developing global community meet its energy needs with the smalles...
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe...
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*IIC Interactive Seminar Series
*
We are pleased to announce another IIC Interactive Seminar. We sincerely
hope you will be able to join us in learning about virtualized applications
at this hand-on event. -Gabriele
*Virtualized Applications*:
Increasing the Utility of Legacy or Idiosyncratic Software
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: 60 Oxford Street, Room 311
Note: Advance registration is encouraged. To register, please click here.
*Abstract:*
Code written for research and education is not generally designed to be
usable in multiple environments or updated for changes in technology. Is
there a way to keep using or even to disseminate older-generation or
idiosyncratic software? The IIC and the Neuroinformatics Research Group at
Harvard have developed a way to encapsulate legacy software in a virtual
machine and deploy it in diverse environments, even across platforms. Such a
Virtualized Application can run in its own isolated environment while still
interacting with the files on a system much as it would if installed
directly on that system. This approach can improve compatibility, make life
easier for users, and free up resources to meet research and educational
objectives. A brief talk about the methods, merits and shortcomings of the
Virtualized Application will be followed by a hands-on demonstration and
workshop.
Our presenter, Gabriele Fariello, is the Head of Neuroinformatics at the
Harvard University Center for Brain Science and a Researcher at the IIC. He
and his team members Timothy O'Keefe and Victor Petrov from the
Neuroinformatics Research Group will present a brief how-to explanation of
virtualized applications and their pros and cons.
The introduction will be followed by a hands-on discussion of general topics
including:
- Getting Started
- Host-guest file interactions
- Host-guest permissions management
- Performance Management / Considerations
- Using an IDE (such as Eclipse) to manage the guest Virtual Machine
Participants are encouraged to submit or pose additional discussion
questions, and are encouraged to come with laptops and a pre-installed
version of VMWare Player (or Workstation) available from
http://www.vmware.com and one or more Virtual Machines (see
http://www.easyvmx.com to create one if you do not have Workstation). An
example VA is available for download from http://www.neuroinfo.org/downloads.
The workshop format will be as follows:
- 3:00 Introduction
- 3:10-3:40 Opening presentation
- 3:40-4:00 Questions
- 4:00-4:05 Break
- 4:05-4:50 Hand-on discussion of general and specific issues
- 4:50-5:00 Wrap-up / Break
Members of the NRG may be available after 5:00 PM for additional
discussions.
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Does anybody in the group has this book from the Chemistry library?
I would like to borrow it for a couple of days.
Thank you,
Semion
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Semion K. Saikin
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
email: saykin(a)fas.harvard.edu
phone: (619)212-6649
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Dear All,
This is just a reminder that our first joint Theory Seminar is today at 4pm
in M102 - Division Room.
Best,
Anna
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Anna B. Shin <anna(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>wrote:
> Dear Professors,
>
> On behalf of the Heller Group, Visiting Scholar Professor Michael Herman of
> Tulane University, will be presenting the first Theory Seminar next Monday,
> 24 November from 4-5pm in the Division Room (Mallinckrodt 102). Please
> encourage your group members to attend.
>
>
>
>
> *Accounting for Correlated Many Chain Motions in the Dynamics of Polymers
> in the Melt*
>
> *Michael F. Herman*
>
> *Department of Chemistry*
>
> *Tulane University*
>
> *New Orleans, LA 70118*
>
>
>
> Abstract:
>
> A theory of melt polymer dynamics that accounts for correlated many chain
> motions is developed. It is shown that this theory reproduces the
> experimentally observed molecular weight dependence of the diffusion
> constant and the viscosity for linear chains and rings. Results for the
> relaxation in monodisperse and bidisperse melts are also presented. The
> short time, short chain motion of the polymer chains, calculated from force
> field molecular dynamics, are used in the theory to predict the long time,
> long chain diffusion without adjustable parameters.
>
>
>
> Our next seminar will be presented by Dr. Jingzhi Pu of the Karplus Group
> on Tue 9 Dec at 4:15pm. An announcement will be sent in early December.
>
> Thank you!
> Anna
>
> --
> Anna B. Shin
> Aspuru-Guzik Group Administrator
> Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
> Harvard University
> 12 Oxford Street
> Cambridge, MA 02138
>
> 617.496.9964 phone
> 617.496.9411 fax
> anna(a)chemistry.harvard.edu
>
> Aspuru-Guzik Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/
>
Dear Quanta
We will meet on Monday November 24 at 3:00 in our usual spot, 6-310.
Hopefully Frank Versrtaete will join us.
Eddie
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Edward Farhi
Cecil and Ida Green 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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Dear Group,
As you know, the Division Room is occupied midday on the last Friday of
every month by the Organic Faculty. They have their monthly lunch meeting
which ends between 1:30-2pm. Last time they ended about 1:30pm and there
was a good amount of food leftover for scavengers like me. :]
The Division Room is free the rest of the afternoon tomorrow. So if Alan
doesn't mind, you can either have group meeting starting a little later in
the Division Room w/ a possible smorgasbord of faculty grub (key word is
'faculty' meaning the food won't be crap). OR have the meeting at 1:30pm
sharp in Naito 030. In any case, you've got a room for Debjani's talk.
Anna
--
Anna B. Shin
Aspuru-Guzik Group Administrator
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.496.9964 phone
617.496.9411 fax
anna(a)chemistry.harvard.edu
Aspuru-Guzik Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/
Dear Group,
Debjani Roy from UGA will be visiting the lab this Fri 21 Nov. She will
present her research at group meeting which will be held at 1:30pm in *Naito
030*. The title of her talk is "Prebiotic reaction mechanism for adenine
formation, metal cluster mediated dinitrogen activation: Computational
investigation" (see attached abstract).
Here is a rough schedule of her visit:
9-10am meeting w/ Alan
10am-12pm meetings w/ group
12pm lunch
1:30pm group meeting
3pm meetings w/ group
5/6pm dinner
Semion, Sigi, Roberto, Joel, Leslie, James and Sangwoo (I may be omitting
someone): it is particularly important that you meet w/ Debjani during her
visit so please set aside some time.
Thanks!
Anna
Dear Group,
I left a Gazette on each of your desks. See page 11.
Best,
Anna
--
Anna B. Shin
Aspuru-Guzik Group Administrator
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.496.9964 phone
617.496.9411 fax
anna(a)chemistry.harvard.edu
Aspuru-Guzik Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/