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 Group,
There's a box of hazelnut chocolates by the espresso machine. Enjoy and
happy holidays!
Best,
Anna
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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 Friends of HUCE,
There are only two events on our calendar until the end of the year. The next email with events listings for the spring 2009 will go out on January 8. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar, please send it to Lisa Matthews: lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu.
Happy Holidays from all of the HUCE staff!
Announcements:
* Applications for the 2009 Environmental Fellows program are due January 15.
* Check out the autumn/winter edition of the HUCE Newsletter, now available online.
* Future of Energy presentations from the Fall 2008 series are available online. Stay tuned for the announcement of the Spring schedule of speakers.
Calendar Listings:
Today 12/18/2008
4:00p Program on Evolutionary Dynamics Seminar Series
(One Brattle Square, 6th Floor, Room 616, Cambridge, MA)
"Politics, Biology, and the Evolution of Cooperation." James Fowler, Professor of Political Science, University of California.
Contact: Jordan Bice, bice(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617.496.4737, www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/
7:30p RCC Fellow Lecture
(Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA)
"Reinforce Powers of the Environmental Public Administration: The New Spanish Act on Environmental Liability." Javier Garcia Amez, Real Colegio Complutense Fellow.
Contact: www.realcolegiocomplutense.harvard.ed...
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Hi everyone,
For the holiday season, I am collecting some money to give to the cleaning
staff that support us. We will be joining the Park and Cohen labs in giving
a Target gift card and a plant or flowers to Elsa since she also works in
these lab areas (thanks to Nathalie Snapp for organizing this effort!).
Sadly, I do not know who is currently cleaning the M110 office area, but I
would be glad to collect some funds to get something for her as well.
If you care to donate a few dollars, please let me know.
Thanks,
Leslie
Dear Group,
Just a reminder that Mark Watson will be presenting his research talk at 5pm
TODAY at 60 Oxford Street, Room 311. See abstract below.
Thanks,
Anna
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Dr. Mark Watson
University of Tokyo
Monday 15 December, 5:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 311
'Towards an accurate and efficient density-functional theory for large
molecules'
Density-functional theory (DFT) has emerged over the last 2 decades to
become the preeminent method for ab initio computational chemistry studies
in a wide variety of systems. This is surely due in large part to the
extremely favourable balance between accuracy and computational cost that
DFT can provide. In my talk, I discuss a contribution to the on-going
development of DFT methodology with respect to both of these points. I
first discuss a newly proposed hybrid exchange-correlation functional based
on the long-range correction (LC) scheme, which can dramatically improve
some of the failings of conventional GGA and hybrid
functionals, such as the poor description of Rydberg or charge-transfer
excitation energies. The new functional improves previous LC functionals by
providing a simultaneously good description of a wide range of excitation
energies, reaction barrier heights, and thermochemistry. Next, I discuss
our recent contributions to
linear-scaling DFT, with the introduction of two new methods for the rapid
calculation of the expensive electronic Coulomb potential in large
molecules, which is a traditional bottleneck for DFT calculations. Both
approaches employ real-space techniques and the fast multipole method to
achieve linear-scaling of CPU time. The first solves the Poisson equation
in a mixed basis of Gaussian and low-order finite-element functions. The
second uses a basis of high-order, adaptive, spectral
elements and avoids the Poisson equation by an efficient direct integration
of the potential using a numerical low-rank representation of the Coulomb
operator. Both approaches are shown to be highly effective for large-scale
calculations.
Dear group,
Has anyone requested the book "Photosynthetic excitons"? I returned it
already to the chemistry library but in case some of you requested it, I
don't want to recall it again.
Let me know so that I can borrow it directly from you whenever I need it.
Cheers,
-A
Dear group members,
Anybody interested with a lunch with Markus Aspelmeyer, let me know, we will
meet in front of my office. We would leave from the office at around 12.00
and get back for his talk at 1.00 He will arrive shorty before 12.00
Alan
Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Assistant Professor
Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu
Dear Group,
cc Helen (can you distribute to the department?)
Today we have the pleasure of having Dr. Markus Aspelmeyer from the
University of Vienna visiting our laboratory. He will give a special talk at
1.00 PM on the Division Room on his experiments on macroscopic entanglement
or entangled photons (I still don't have a title) A sample of his research
is summarized on the links below.
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/markus.aspelmeyer/http://www.quantum.at/research/quantum-mechanics/self-cooling-of-a-micro-mi…http://www.quantum.at/research/quantum-mechanics/optomechanical-entanglemen…
This talk will take place instead of our group meeting, and members of other
groups are welcome to come. I apologize in advance with the overlap with the
student/postdoc seminar. He has to take a taxi to the airport at 2.00
Alan
Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Assistant Professor
Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu
Dear Group,
Dr. Markus Aspelmeyer from the University of Vienna will be visiting
tomorrow from 10/10:30am-2pm. Please let me know if you're available to
meet with him.
In lieu of group meeting, Dr. Aspelmeyer will be giving a special talk at
1pm in the Div Rm.
Thanks,
Anna
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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 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: 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 holiday season!
Highlights:
Tonight: HUCE Director Daniel Schrag presents "Confronting the Energy-Climate Challenge" with comments by Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director of Energy Technology Innovation Policy, in the Harvard Museum of Natural History's "Earth Matters" lecture series.
Saturday, December 13: The School of Engineering and Applied Scienes presents two sessions of "From Bean to Bar: The Sweet Science of Chocolate," a special holiday lecture for children ages 7 and up.
Monday, December 15: Abigail Krich discusses major design decisions that have led to the standardization of the modern large wind turbine at the Harvard Energy Journal Club meeting.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 12/11/2008
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
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.
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
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe...
Friday 12/12/2008
8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"Genomics on 700 Microbes: An early look at a global analysis of how microbes make and break down small molecules." Michael Fischbach, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643 , www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA)
"Do ecologists have GUTS?" Samuel Scheiner, Program Director, National Science Foundation Population & Evolutionary Processes
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
Saturday 12/13/2008
10:00a From Bean to Bar: The Sweet Science of Chocolate
(Science Center B, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
Family-friendly holiday lecture with Howard Stone, SEAS, and Amy Rowat, Harvard University. Live experiments and demonstrations; appropriate for ages 7 and up. Second lecture and demonstration at 1:00 pm.
Contact: ciencetix(a)seas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
Monday 12/15/2008
12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"Development of Modern Large Wind Turbine Design." Abigail Krich, President of Boreas Renewables, LLC
Contact: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
3:45p Harvard Square Bells will Toll 350 times
Bells in Harvard Square will ring 350 times on the 350th day of the year at 3:50 in the afternoon to call attention to limit of 350 parts-per-million of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere.
Contact: www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1...
Tuesday 12/16/2008
12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) "Sexual dimorphism and floral polymorphism across an island archipelago: hummingbirds and heliconias of the Lesser Antilles." Ethan Temeles, Amherst College.
Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
Thursday 12/18/2008
4:00p Program on Evolutionary Dynamics Seminar Series
(One Brattle Square, 6th Floor, Room 616, Cambridge, MA) "Politics, Biology, and the Evolution of Cooperation." James Fowler, Professor of Political Science, University of California. Although evolutionary models and laboratory experiments ...
Contact: Jordan Bice, bice(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617.496.4737, www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/
7:30p RCC Fellow Lecture
(Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA) "Reinforce Powers of the Environmental Public Administration: The New Spanish Act on Environmental Liability." Javier Garcia Amez, Real Colegio Complutense Fellow. Free and open to t...
Contact: www.realcolegiocomplutense.harvard.ed...
Monday 12/22/2008
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
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