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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Reminder -- TODAY at 5 pm: Amory Lovins

by Center for the Environment

Finding secure, safe and reliable sources of energy to power world economic growth will be one of the great challenges of this century. The Harvard University Center for the Environment invites the Harvard community to take up the challenge by participating in this ongoing series of discussions. THE FUTURE OF ENERGY Fall 2008 Amory Lovins Founder and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute “Profitable Solutions to Climate, Oil, and Proliferation” TODAY, December 3 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center Lecture Hall B One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Educated at Harvard and Oxford, Lovins is the recipient of many international accolades, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the Right Livelihood award. He has lately led the redesign of over $30 billion worth of facilities in 29 sectors for radical energy and resource efficiency. The Wall Street Journal named Mr. Lovins one of thirty-nine people worldwide "most likely to change the course of business in the '90s," and Newsweek has praised him as "one of the Western world's most influential energy thinkers." The Future of Energy lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. All of the lectures are free and open to the public. --- Contact: Lisa Matthews Events Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu p. 617-495-8883 f. 617-496-0425 ============================================== You are receiving this email because you indicated interest in Harvard University Center for the Environment events. Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list: http://harvard.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5… 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/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=ccfe956… Update your profile: http://harvard.list-manage.com/profile?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5bea9…

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Dr. Kavan Modi visit, talk at 4pm

by Cesar Rodriguez

Aspuru Group: Dr. Kavan Modi, from University of Texas at Austin, and soon at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at Singapore is visiting the group today. He will be giving a talk today (Wednesday) at 4pm in<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Naito+030&hl=en>Naito 030 titled: *Fermi two atom problem in extended Fredrichs-Lee Model* In 1932 Fermi calculated the time required for excitation transition between two atoms. He found the minimum time to be the distance between the atoms divided by the speed of light. Recently, Hegerfeldt, using a very basic argument of analyticity of the wavefunction, showed that the excitation amplitude of the second atom must be finite for all times or zero for all times. We are studying this problem in detail using a modified Fredrichs-Lee model where two discrete states are connected by a continuum. We can solve for the transition amplitude exactly in our model, without assuming that a photon is the mediator between the two discrete modes. Our model should shed some light on the conceptual difficulties that have bothered the community for long. Please attend. Cesar

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