aspuru-list February 2008

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group Meeting Changes

by Orpha Rivera

Hello Group, Here is the New Group Meeting Info: Location: Naito N030 Time: 5:00-6:30 Dates: Fridays at 5:00 (Starting Friday the 22nd) Please contact me if you have any questions. Orpha -- *********************************************** Orpha Rivera, Lab Administrator, Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 12 Oxford Street, Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617) 496-9964 Fax: (617) 496-9411 *********************************************

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar- Erol Gelenbe

by Emily Lohmann

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, February 27, 2008; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Erol Gelenbe, Professor in the Dennis Gabor Chair Imperial College, London Seminar Title: Spiked Neuronal Networks and Gene Regulatory Networks: a Common Stochastic Framework and Method of Solution Abstract: The Random Neural Network Model has been introduced to model that apparently probabilistic and spiked behaviour of many natural neuronal assemblies. We will first summarise the model and its main mathematical and algorithmic properties. Specifically we will detail its product form solution, and present its O(n^3) learning algorithm. Then we will describe applications to modeling natural cortico- thalamic oscillations, and to texture based detailed recognition for anomaly detection in MRI images of the brain. We will concluding by describing how very similar models can also be used to represent the dynamics and equilibrium of gene regulatory networks. The talk will be based on papers that we have published in the journals Neural Computation, BioSystems, Proceedings IEEE, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, and the Physical Review E. Upcoming IIC Seminars: Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule. Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

16 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Talk of David Nesbitt tomorrow at MIT.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, David Nesbitt speaks tomorrow at MIT, I think it might be an important symposium considering he is one of the experts in state-to-state reaction dynamics and non-Born-Oppenheimer effects. He seems to be interested in SERS a bit as well. http://jilawww.colorado.edu/~djn/ Today, for thos interested in QC for Biology, the talk at the theory symposium at MIT looks very interesting. 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] [iic-seminars] Sauro Succi Lectures - Introduction to Computational Multiphysics

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Computational Multiphysics Lecture Series March 13, 14, 17, 18, 2008; 9:00am - 11:00am Lyman Lab, Room 425, Harvard Campus Space is limited. Please RSVP to helene_tingle(a)harvard.edu. Sauro Succi, Visiting Scholar, Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard & Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo, National Research Council, Roma, Italy Seminar Title: An Introduction to Computational Multiphysics Abstract: Modern science is increasingly faced with problems of ever greater complexity, straddling across the traditional disciplinary boundaries between physics, chemistry, material science and biology. Computational science is responding to this challenge with a stead- fast development of innovative modeling techniques, designed in such a way as to offer an optimal handling of the information transfer procedures connecting the different scales/levels involved in the quantitative description of the aforementioned complex phenomena. This entails the seamless coupling between different mathematical representations of various physical phenomena at widely disparate scales, from continuum fields to probability distribution functions and atomistic trajectories, all the way down to many-body quantum wave functions. In this series of lectures, we shall provide an introduction to the basic ideas behind these triple-M (multiscale/ multiphysics/multilevel) techniques, together with the illustration of a few practical examples, drawn from concrete applications in leading areas of multiphysics research, such as micro/nanofluidics, turbulence and material science. Lectures: Part I: Theoretical Background March 13, 2008; 9:00am—11:00am Lecture 1: Motivations for Triple-M (Multi-scale/physics/level) Modeling Lecture 2: Basic Notions of Computational Multi-physics March 14, 2008; 9:00am—11:00am Lecture 3: Multiscale methods: mathematical formulation Lecture 4: Multiscale methods: computational procedure Part II: Selected Applications March 17, 2008; 9:00am—11:00am Lecture 5: Microfluidics, the moving contact line problem Lecture 6: Nanofluidics, biopolymer translocation through nanopores March 18, 2008; 9:00am—11:00am Lecture 7: Boltzmann approach to turbulence modeling Lecture 8: Macro-Atomistic-Ab initio-Dynamics approach to fracture dynamics _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] Digital Humanities Talk Series

by Helene Tingle

Digital Humanities Talk Series, 2007-2008 Digital mapping, virtual worlds, infinite archives, web based annotation , and online journals formed the substance of last year's first five Digital Humanities talks. The series restarts next week, and continues through to May with four further talks, covering multimedia history archives, Tibetan Himalayan digital libraries, virtual historical worlds, and one art foundation's perspective on the digital humanities. We invite you to come along and learn more about developments in these areas, starting Wednesday February 27th, at 2:00 PM. Details of that talk, and subsequent ones, are below. All are welcome. Refreshments will be served. -------------------------- Talk 6 Title: What if We Could See History? Speakers: Ed Ayers; President, University of Richmond Andrew J Torget, Director, Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Virginia When: Wednesday, February 27, 2008; 2:00pm Where: Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library Abstract: What does history look like? If the patterns embedded in sources could move across the landscape of American history, what would we see? If we could reconstruct the movements of millions of people and the great political battles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, what new questions would we ask? Edward L. Ayers and Andrew J. Torget will discuss their experiments in visualizing social processes in American history, offering their perspective on how historians might see things we’ve not been able to see before. --------------------- Talk 7 Talk Title: The Tibetan Himalayan Digital Library: Digital Humanities and New Approaches to Area Studies Speaker: David Germano, Associate Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Virginia When: Thursday, March 13, 2008; 4:00pm Where: Barker Center, Room 133 Abstract: How does digital technology enable new practices and visions in the humanities? What would happen if universities and colleges took to heart distributed knowledge production and publication in this context? What social reconfigurations of the Academy might be brought into being through use of such technologies? David Germano will discuss experiments relying upon texts, visualizations, spatial representations, audio-video, social networking and more in relation to Tibet as a base to discuss emergent answers to these questions in the field of digital humanities. --------------------- Talk 8 (Hosted by IIC) Talk Title: Digital Models of Ancient Rome Speaker: Bernie Frischer, Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia and Dean Abernathy, Associate Director of IATH, Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia When: Wednesday April 16, 2008; 4:00pm Where: IIC 60 Oxford Street Room 330 Abstract: Making Culture Virtual: Recent 3D Modeling Projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. ---------------------------- Talk 9 Talk Title: Art History and the Digital Humanities - One Foundation's View Speaker: Max Marmor; President, Samuel H. Kress Foundation When: Thursday, May 15, 2008; 2:00pm Where: Barker Center, Room 133 Abstract: The history of art has always been fundamentally dependent upon technology, and has often been an early adopter of emerging technologies, beginning with the glass lantern slide decades ago and continuing through the era of the 35mm slide. With the emergence of digital technologies, art historians are now coming to grips with the challenges and opportunities new media pose for their field. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation has, since its inception in 1929, been strongly committed to the discipline of art history, and especially to the study, teaching, and conservation of European art and architecture, with a special focus on the period spanning antiquity and the early 19th century. Over the past century the Foundation has been a reliable source of funding for dissertation research and travel, for post-graduate fellowships, and quite generally for scholarship and publishing in the field. In pursuing its mission, the Foundation has also been strongly committed to the entire information support infrastructure that has enabled art history to flourish in this country, helping libraries to acquire books and journals, helping them acquire image archives in various media, etc. The Kress Foundation is now grappling with the best way to engage with digital technologies in the context of its abiding mission and the needs of the key communities it seeks to serve. In this talk, Max Marmor – the recently appointed President of the Kress Foundation – will share his early thoughts about “Art History and the Digital Humanities” and the contributions the Kress Foundation hopes to make in this domain, while also seeking guidance from his audience as to ways in which the Foundation can be most helpful to the discipline of art history as it navigates the new waters of the “digital humanities.” _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - B. Whitney

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, February 20, 2008; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Barbara Whitney, Astronomer, Space Science Institute Seminar Title: Interpreting Large Astronomical Datasets Using Large Grids of Models Abstract: Recent surveys in infrared astronomy have produced catalogs orders of magnitude larger than their predecessors. I discuss an approach to studying newly forming stars by producing a large theoretical dataset to compare to the catalogs. The physics as we know it is incorporated into radiative transfer models that output observable quantities. Going backwards from the set of models that fits the data for each source, we extract physical parameters of thousands of forming stars. I will present initial results, and lessons learned. Upcoming IIC Seminars: Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule. Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] tomorrow's group meeting: **CANCELLED**

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, No group meeting tomorrow. We will resume next tuesday.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] not today

by Edward Farhi

Dear Q Group Today is very busy and we have no real agenda for the meeting so let's pass and meet next Monday at 3. 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Alan and Dori have sent you an Evite Invitation

by Alan and Dori

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - Barbara Whitney

by Helene Tingle

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