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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update February 14 - 28

by Center for the Environment

Dear Friends of HUCE, Please 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. Highlights February 15: Tomorrow, Chris Llewellyn-Smith, Chairman, ITER Council, describes how fusion works, its characteristics as an energy source, the remaining outstanding challenges, a timetable for developing fusion power, and the role that it could play in the future energy mix in "The Path to Fusion Power." February 22: The HUCE Green Conversations series welcomes Lester Brown, author of "Plan B 3.0", a call for worldwide mobilization to raise energy efficiency in every sector of the economy, including buildings, lighting, heating and cooling, and transportation. Plan B calls for harnessing the earth's renewable sources of energy through ambitiously exploiting the earth's solar, wind, and geothermal energy sources-and shows it is doable with existing technologies. Harvard faculty Michael McElroy (EPS) and Daniel Schrag (HUCE, EPS) will feature as panelists in the conversation. Calendar Listings: Thursday 2/14/2008 6:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Genome dynamics and the evolution of bacterial pathogens" with speaker Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK. Host: Ashlee Earl (Kolter Lab, MMG-HMS). Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617 495 8643 , www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html 6:00p HMNH: Evolution Matters Lecture Series (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Why We Cook: Food and Pairbonds in Human Evolution" lecture by Richard Wrangham. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu Friday 2/15/2008 10:00a - 3:00p All Ivy Environmental Career Fair (Low Library, Columbia University, New York, NY) All undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree students from all the Ivy League schools are invited to attend and discuss internships and permanent (full-time) career opportunities. Contact: Anthony Arcieri (contact for Harvard students), arcieri(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.earth.columbia.edu/education/ivy_... 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Understanding the sources and atmospheric trends in CO2 and other greenhouse gases" with speaker Steven Wofsy, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 12:00p Atmospheric Sciences Seminar (Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Observational Constraints on the Transport and Partitioning of Reactive Nitrogen in the Free Troposphere" with Timothy Bertram, University of Washington. Contact: Brenda Mathieu, bmathieu(a)seas.harvard.edu , www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html 12:00p - 1:30p Regulation and Global Climate Change Seminar (Bell Hall (5th Floor, Belfer Building), Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) "Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Emission Leakage and the Effectiveness of Interstate Border Adjustments" with Professor Sue Wing. Contact: rpp(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617.384.7325, www.ksg.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/rpp/semina... 12:30p - 1:30p Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds (Kresge G2, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) "Occupational Health Issues and Considerations for Laboratories Handling Pathogens (Biosafety Levels I-IV)" Presenter: Kenneth R. Spaeth. Contact: Ann Backus, MS, abackus(a)hsph.harvard.edu, 617/432-3327 1:00p The Path to Fusion Power (Room 250, Jefferson, 17 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Chris Llewellyn-Smith, Director UKAEA Culham Division, Chairman, ITER Council, and Chairman Consultative Committee for Euratom on Fusion. Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883 Saturday 2/16/2008 2:00a Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Native Ferns, Moss & Grasses," authors Talk with William Cullina. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... Sunday 2/17/2008 1:00p - 4:00p >From Global Warming to Global Arming (MIT Building 4, Room 153, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear) , Cambridge, MA) "How Energy and Environmental Concerns Impact International Security" Half Day Conference. A Contact: Sharlissa Moore , smoore(a)spusa.org , 202-429-8900, www.spusa.org/events/ Monday 2/18/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 12:30p - 1:30p Seminar in Occupational and Environmental Health Research (FXB G12, 651 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA) "Association of Black Carbon with Cognition among Children in a Prospective Birth Cohort Study" with speaker Shakira Franco Suglia, ScD, Research Fellow, Department of Environmental Health. Contact: Ann Backus, MS, abackus(a)hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-3327 Tuesday 2/19/2008 9:30a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series (Belfer Center Library (L-369), Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA) Lifeng Zhao, ETIP Research Fellow: "An Economic Assessment of Deploying Advanced Coal Power Technologies in the Chinese Context" Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, www.energytechnologypolicy.org 11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series (Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Surface Cracks as a Long-term Record of Seismic Segmentation along the Andean Margin" with speaker Jack Loveless, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University. Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM... 12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series (Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) "How Soil Fungi Respond to Anthropogenic Disturbance and the Ecosystem Consequences" with Serita Frey (University of New Hampshire) 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... Wednesday 2/20/2008 4:00p Origins of Life Initiative Forum (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Overcoming Limits on Design and Evolution of Synthetic Life" with speaker George Church (Harvard Medical School). Contact: origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html 9:00p Total Lunar Eclipse (CfA, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA) The moon will enter Earths shadow, dim, and turn copper-red. This will be the last total lunar eclipse until 2010. Contact: (617) 495-7461, www.cfa.harvard.edu Thursday 2/21/2008 4:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Plant Biology Search Contact: www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... 7:00p Center for Astrophysics Monthly Observatory Nights (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "Here Comes the Sun," with Kelly Korreck, Center for Astrophysics. Contact: pubaffairs(a)cfa.harvard.edu, (617) 495-7461 , www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html Friday 2/22/2008 8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Prof. Cammie Lesser, Mass General Hospital, Dept of Medicine. "Modeling mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis in yeast" Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-495 8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/events.html 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Using analytic webs to guide the processing of scientific datasets and document their provenance" with speaker Leon Osterweil, University of Massachusetts, Department of Computer Science... Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 3:00p HUCE Green Conversations Series with Lester Brown (Maxwell/Dworkin Lessin Room, G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Founder of the Earth Policy Institute and author of "Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization" discusses his work and joins panelists Michael McElroy (EPS) and Daniel Schrag (HUCE, EPS) in a discussion about the future of humanity and the earth. Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883 Sunday 2/24/2008 7:30p Lester Brown to Speak in Lexington (Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Mass. Ave., Lexington, MA) Lester Brown, the world's foremost environmental economist will present his bold new plan to stop global warming and achieve world sustainability. Contact: info(a)LexGWAC.org, www.lexgwac.org Monday 2/25/2008 12:00p - 2:00p Science, Technology, and Society Circle (124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridege, MA) "The Neuroscience of Psychopathy: A Mundane Revolution?" with Martyn Pickersgill (Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham). Contact: Sang-Hyun Kim, sang-hyun_kim(a)ksg.harvard.edu, www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 4:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: David Raymond, New Mexico Tech. Seminar titles are posted one week in advance of each talk. Refreshments to follow, Hoffman 4th floor. Contact: miller(a)eps.harvard.edu, www-eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo... Tuesday 2/26/2008 12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series (Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) "Architecture and demonstration of author-friendly, web-accessible, database-backed, localizable Electronic Field Guides" with Robert Morris (UMass-Boston) 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... Wednesday 2/27/2008 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) Speaker: David Rapson, Boston University. Consumer Durable Goods and the Long-Run Demand for Electricity Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, 617-496-8054, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... Thursday 2/28/2008 4:00p - 5:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Dr. Ben Sheldon, Oxford-Edward Grey Institute for Ornithology. Title: TBA. Hosted by Edwards Lab. Contact: Deborah Smiley, (617) 384-5062 4:00p Center for Astrophysics Colloquium (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "Dark Matter and Dark Energy: New Physics or Cosmic Epicycles?" with speaker Rocky Kolb, U. Chicago, KICP. Contact: www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia/ 6:00p HMNH: Evolution Matters Lecture Series (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Five Rules for Evolutionary Cooperation" lecture by Martin Nowak. Is evolution just about competition and survival of the fittest? Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu ================================================== Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list: http://list-manage.com/unsub.phtml?id=iGvwPlhieec7GdW4SkES0 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/tell_friend.phtml?cid=iGvwPlhiee&f=1

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Division Room

by Orpha Rivera

Dear Group, Please let me know if holding the group meetings on Wednesdays at 5:00 will work. I can have the Division Room booked starting next week for the remainder of the semester. Thank you. 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] Reminder - IIC Seminar today - Simone Melchionna

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, February 13, 2008; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Simone Melchionna, Visiting Scholar, Multiscale Numerical Experimentation & Simulation Group (Applied Physics), SEAS CyberInfrastructure Labs Information Technology, Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, & NFM CNR, Physics Department, University of Rome Seminar Title: From Biopolymer Translocation to Hemodynamics: New Challenges in Multiscale Computing Abstract: Multiscale modelling is the capability of representing different levels of physical phenomena, occurring at diverse spatial and temporal scales, within a unified conceptual framework. A typical example is the behavior of long molecules or nanosuspensions under the action of complex hydrodynamic flows. Our computational work tackles different phenomena such as biopolymer translocation through nanopores and hemodynamics in arteries with a novel computational scheme. The solution of such large scale problems calls for the exploitation of powerful parallel architectures, such as the Blue Gene supercomputer, and sophisticated visualization tools to gain insight into the realm of multi-scale phenomena. 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] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - Simone Melchionna

by Helene Tingle

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] group meetings Feb-March 08 + reminder for Monday meeting

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, A reminder that we have the joint chemical physics meeting this Monday, February 11 at 4 p.m. in the Division Room (room M-102). Here is the schedule of group meeting for February and March: Feb 12: Joel's friend from MIT (tentative) Feb 19: Prof. Ju Feb 26: Leslie and Patrick March 4: Ivan March 11: Sangwoo March 18: Joel March 25: Salvador April 1: Roberto If you have any serious conflict let me know. -Alejandro

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Monday February 11

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quantum People We will meet on Monday at 3:00. I think we will have two guests. 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] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - Simone Melchionna

by Helene Tingle

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Reminder - First Joint Theory Group Meeting, Feb. 11, 2008

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Sent from my mobile phone and might contain typos. Thanks for understanding.) Begin forwarded message: > From: Judy Morrison <morrison(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> > Date: February 7, 2008 1:32:46 PM PST > To: Eugene Shakhnovich <eugene(a)belok.harvard.edu>, Eric Heller <heller(a)physics.harvard.edu > >,alan(a)aspuru.com, marci@tammy.harvard.edu,kaxiras@physics.harvard.edu > Subject: Reminder - First Joint Theory Group Meeting, Feb. 11, 2008 > > Dear Professors, Shakhnovich, Heller, Aspuru-Guzik, Karplus and > Kaxiras, > > The first Joint Theory Group Meeting this spring will be held next > Monday, February 11 at 4 p.m. in the Division Room here in the > Chemistry Dept. at 12 Oxford St. > (room M-102), hosted by the Shakhnovich Group. > > Stefan Wallin will present a talk entitled "Universality and > diversity of folding mechanics for three-helix-bundle proteins" (new > title). > > Please forward this announcement to your groups. > > Thank you, > > Judy > > Judy Morrison > Assistant to Professors Eugene Shakhnovich and Eric Heller > Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology > Harvard University > 12 Oxford St., M-108 > Cambridge, MA 02138 > > phone: (617) 495-8733 > fax: (617) 384-9228 > email: morrison(a)chemistry.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: This afternoon

by Patrick Rebentrost

Dear Group, we will have more time with George Schatz! Cheers, Patrick >Dear Mike and Patrick -- > >Eugene Shakhnovich was supposed to meet with George Schatz following >your meeting. He is unable to come in today. Would you mind >continuing the conversation until approx. 3:40 p.m.? George would >then meet with Bill Klemperer. > >If this doesn't work for you, please let me know. I'll try for someone else. > >Many thanks! > >h. > >Helen L. Schwickrath >Seminar and Events Coordinator >Harvard University >Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology >12 Oxford Street >Cambridge, MA 02138 >(617) 496-8190 (Voice) >(617) 496-5618 (Fax) >helen(a)chemistry.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update February 7 - 21

by Center for the Environment

Dear Friends of HUCE, Please 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. Highlights February 13: Jane Lubchenco, one of the nation's leading experts on ocean ecosystems and the Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology at Oregon State University, is the next lecturer in the Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change series presented by the Harvard Center for the Environment and Bank of America. She will discuss a new ocean ethic and practical solutions in "Seas the Day: Science Informing Today's Choices and Tomorrow's Oceeans". February 15: Chris Llewellyn-Smith, Chairman, ITER Council, describes how fusion works, its characteristics as an energy source, the remaining outstanding challenges, a timetable for developing fusion power, and the role that it could play in the future energy mix in "The Path to Fusion Power." Calendar Listings Thursday 2/7/2008 4:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Plant Biology Search Contact: www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... 4:00p Center for Astrophysics Colloquium (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observatory" with speaker Francis Halzen, U. Wisconsin. Contact: www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia/ 4:00p - 6:00p Past, Present, and Future of the Aral Sea (Maxwell/Dworkin Lessin Room, G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Dr. Nick Aladin, Head, Laboratory of Brackish Water Hydrobiology Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 4:00p - 5:00p Climate Seminar (Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Myles Allen, Department of Physics, University of Oxford Contact: Sarah Colgan, colgan(a)eps.harvard.edu, 617-496-9770, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 7:00p The Economics of Climate Change, Climate Protection and Energy Policy: The European and German Perspective (Goethe-Institute Boston, 170 Beacon St., Boston) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, Humbolt Universität Berlin, Director of Department Energy, Transportation and Environment at the German Institute for Economic Research. Contact: info(a)boston.goethe.org, 617-262-6050, www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/en2897666.htm Friday 2/8/2008 8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "The Ecology of Cholera" with speaker John Mekalanos (MMG at Harvard Medical School). Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643 , www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html 12:00p Atmospheric Sciences Seminar (Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Hubbert's Peak, The Coal Question, and Climate Change" with speaker Dave Rutledge, Caltech. Contact: Brenda Mathieu, bmathieu(a)seas.harvard.edu , www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html 12:30p - 1:30p Seminar in Occupational and Environmental Health Research (Kresge 502, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) "Indoor Airborne VOC Exposure and Symptoms of Asthma and Allergy among Swedish Children" with Hyunok Choi, PhD, MPH, Research Fellow Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program Department Contact: Ann Backus, MS, abackus(a)hohp.harvard.edu, 617/432-3327 2:00p Harvard China Project Seminar (Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "China Climate Policy and Opportunities for Engagement" with speaker Ms. Deborah Seligsohn, Beijing Representative, World Resources Institute; former counselor, Office for Environment Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-2378 3:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Bilingual Glass Flowers Gallery Talks," Celebrating the Chinese New Year. Encore at 4:00 pm. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045 , www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... 4:00p - 5:00p Effects of Climate Change on Bird Migration (Barnum 104, Tufts University, Medford, MA) Speaker: Hiroyoshi Higuchi, Tokyo University. Contact: Michael Reed, michael.reed(a)tufts.edu 8:30p Environmental Action Committee Intdroduction Meeting (Parlor Room, Phillips Brooks House, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA) Come meet the Environmental Action Committee (EAC) and help us work toward a sustainable future. Contact: Zach Arnold, zarnold(a)fas.harvard.edu Saturday 2/9/2008 2:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Documentary Screening: First Flower. Celebrating the Chinese New Year DVD screening of First Flower. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... 3:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Shangri-La: At the Heart of a Biodiversity Hotspot" Slide Presentation by Susan Kelley. Celebrating the Chinese New Year. Joseph Rocks National Geographic accounts of his bota... Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... Monday 2/11/08 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 3:30p Science, Engineering, and US Economic Progress Seminar (Harvard Hall 103, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Federal Support for Science." Kevin Casey, Harvard University. Free and open to the public. Contact: john_trumpbour(a)harvard.edu, (617) 495-9265, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... 4:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) * Special Joint session w/ Radcliffe Christina Ravello. Seminar titles are posted one week in advance of each talk. Refreshments to follow, Hoffman 4th floor. Contact: miller(a)eps.harvard.edu, www-eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo... 4:30p Radcliffe Institute Lecture in the Sciences (Geological Museum, Room 100, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Regional Expressions of Global Warmth: Lessons from the Pliocene" with Christina Ravelo, University of California at Santa Cruz. Contact: 617-495-8600, www.radcliffe.edu/events/calendar.php... 5:00p Big Picture Panel on Sustainable Energy (Stata Center, Bldg. 32, MIT, 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA) Opening event for MIT's Focus on Climate Change series of events. Contact: lsc.mit.edu/schedule/2008.2q/desc-bpp... Tuesday 2/12/2008 9:30a - 11:00a Energy Policy Seminar Series (Littauer-324, Fainsod Room, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) "Electricity Market Design" with speaker William Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy, Harvard University. Contact: Louisa Lund, louisa_lund(a)harvard.edu, (617) 495-8693 11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series (Room 209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "A New Continuum Model for Dense Granular Deformations" with Kenneth N. Kamrin, Applied Mathematics Program, MIT. Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM... 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... 7:30p Cambridge Entomological Club Meeting (MCZ 101, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) Meeting subject to be announced. Speaker: Barry Trimmer, Tufts University. Contact: entclub.org/ Wednesday 2/13/2008 12:00p - 2:00p Science, Technology, and Society Circle (Room 469, Science Center, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Evolving a Moral Grammar: Domain-specificity, Origins, Universality and Moral Organs" with Mark Hauser (Department of Psychology, Harvard University). Contact: Sang-Hyun Kim, sang-hyun_kim(a)ksg.harvard.edu, www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) Speaker: Matthew Adler, University of Pennsylvania. Risk Equity: A New Proposal Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, 617-496-8054, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... 5:00p Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change (Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA) "Seas the Day: Science Informing Today's Choices and Tomorrow's Oceeans" with speaker Jane Lubchenco, Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University. Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883 7:00p - 9:00p Boston College Department of Geology and Geophysics Colloquium Series (Weston Observatory, 381 Concord Rd, Weston, MA) "Ice That Burns: Assessing Methane Hydrates as an Energy Resource and Contributor to Climate Change with Carolyn Ruppel, Ph.D., Research Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey. Contact: www.bc.edu/research/westonobservatory... Thursday 2/14/2008 3:30p - 6:30p Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Seminar Series (HSPH, 618 Huntington Avenue, FXB G-13, Boston, MA) Applications of Relative Risk Modeling "Risky Business: Ecological Risk Assessment at Regional Scales for "Chemical and non-Chemical Stressors" with speaker Wayne G. Landis, Ph.D. Contact: Katherine von Stackelberg, Sc.D., 617.998.1037, KVON(a)hsph.harvard.edu, www.hcra.harvard.edu 4:00p Center for Astrophysics Colloquium (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "Active galactic nuclei: the weather report" with speaker: Bozena Czerny, Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw. Contact: www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia/ 4:00p - 5:00p Understanding Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides from China Using Satellite Observations (Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Dr. WANG Yuxuan, Research Associate, China Project and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-2378 , chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars/200... 4:00p - 5:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge) "The logic of self-deception" with speaker Robert Trivers, Rutgers University. Host: Haig Lab Contact: Deborah Smiley, (617) 384-5062 6:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Genome dynamics and the evolution of bacterial pathogens" with s peaker Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK. Host: Ashlee Earl (Kolter Lab, MMG-HMS). Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617 495 8643 , www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html Friday 2/15/2008 10:00a - 3:00p All Ivy Environmental Career Fair (Low Library, Columbia University, New York, NY) All undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree students from all the Ivy League schools are invited to attend and discuss internships and permanent (full-time) career opportunities. Contact: Anthony Arcieri (contact for Harvard students), arcieri(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.earth.columbia.edu/education/ivy_... 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Understanding the sources and atmospheric trends in CO2 and other greenhouse gases" with speaker Steven Wofsy, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 12:00p Atmospheric Sciences Seminar (Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Observational Constraints on the Transport and Partitioning of Reactive Nitrogen in the Free Troposphere" with speaker: Timothy Bertram, University of Washington. Contact: Brenda Mathieu, bmathieu(a)seas.harvard.edu , www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html 1:00p The Path to Fusion Power (Room 250, Jefferson, 17 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Chris Llewellyn-Smith, Director UKAEA Culham Division, Chairman, ITER Council, and Chairman Consultative Committee for Euratom on Fusion. Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883 Saturday 2/16/2008 2:00a Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Native Ferns, Moss & Grasses," authors Talk with William Cullina. Award-winning author Bill Cullina will discuss his new illustrated book. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... Sunday 2/17/2008 1:00p - 4:00p >From Global Warming to Global Arming (MIT Building 4, Room 153, 182 Memorial Drive [Rear] , Cambridge, MA) "How Energy and Environmental Concerns Impact International Security" Half Day Conference. As concern about climate change builds and global security is challenged by the ever-increas... Contact: Sharlissa Moore , smoore(a)spusa.org , 202-429-8900, www.spusa.org/events/ Monday 2/18/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 12:30p - 1:30p Seminar in Occupational and Environmental Health Research (FXB G12, 651 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA) "Association of Black Carbon with Cognition among Children in a Prospective Birth Cohort Study" with speaker Shakira Franco Suglia, ScD, Research Fellow. Contact: Ann Backus, MS, abackus(a)hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-3327 Tuesday 2/19/2008 9:30a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series (Belfer Center Library (L-369), Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA) Lifeng Zhao, ETIP Research Fellow: "An Economic Assessment of Deploying Advanced Coal Power Technologies in the Chinese Context" Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, www.energytechnologypolicy.org 11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series (Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Surface Cracks as a Long-term Record of Seismic Segmentation along the Andean Margin" with speaker Jack Loveless, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University. Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM... 12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series (Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) "How Soil Fungi Respond to Anthropogenic Disturbance and the Ecosystem Consequences" with Serita Frey (University of New Hampshire) 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... Wednesday 2/20/2008 4:00p Origins of Life Initiative Forum (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Overcoming Limits on Design and Evolution of Synthetic Life" with speaker George Church (Harvard Medical School). Contact: origins.harvard.edu/OriginsForum.html 9:00p Total Lunar Eclipse (CfA, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA) The moon will enter Earths shadow, dim, and turn copper-red. This will be the last total lunar eclipse until 2010. Totality will last from 10:01-10:51 p.m. Contact: (617) 495-7461, www.cfa.harvard.edu Thursday 2/21/08 4:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Plant Biology Search Contact: www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... 7:00p Center for Astrophysics Monthly Observatory Nights (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "Here Comes the Sun," with Kelly Korreck, Center for Astrophysics. 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