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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] (no subject)

by Helene Tingle

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update May 15 - 29

by Center for the Environment

Dear Friends of HUCE, As the Spring 2008 semester draws to a close, there are still a few exciting events here on campus and around the community. 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. Best of luck during finals! Highlights: Friday, May 16: Roberto Dobles, the Costa Rican Minister of Environment and Energy, presents Costa Rica's Climate Change Strategy for acheiving carbon neutrality by 2021. Wednesday, May 21: Tom French, Massachusetts Division of Wildlife and Fisheries, discusses why we should be concerned about the decimation of bat colonies in New England and the effect it could have on insect populations and other ecological issues. Calendar Listings: Thursday 5/15/2008 4:00p Center for Astrophysics Colloquium (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lecture: Exoplanets : The Road to Earth Twins" with speaker Michel Mayor (University of Geneva). Contact: Elizabeth Hennessey, ehennessey(a)cfa.harvard.edu, 617-495-1490, obswww.unige.ch/~udry/planet/planet.html 4:00p China Project Seminar (Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Regulatory Enforcement of Environmental Regulations in China" with Prof. Carlos Wing-Hung LO, Department of Management and Marketing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-2378, chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars/200... 7:00p Center for Astrophysics Monthly Observatory Nights (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "Comets: Solar System Messengers," with Daniel Green, Center for Astrophysics. Contact: pubaffairs(a)cfa.harvard.edu, (617) 495-7461, www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html Friday 5/16/2008 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) Speaker: Mike Kaspari, University of Oklahoma and Harvard Bullard Fellow. "You eat what you are: linking biogeochemistry and biogeography" Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 4:00p Costa Rica: Carbon Neutrality Challenge (Lessin Auditorium, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) A special presentation by Roberto Dobles, Minister of the Environment and Energy, Costa Rica. Wine and cheese reception to follow. Contact: Jenn Goodman, jenn_goodman(a)harvard.edu, (617) 495-3039 Monday 5/19/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) *Note room change* 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 5:30p Trends in Clean Energy for Massachusetts (Lincoln Laboratory Cafeteria, 244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA) Speaker: Dr. Warren Leon, Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust Contact: j.ernstmeyer(a)worldnet.att.net, (781) 929-8114, www.ieeeboston.org Wednesday 5/21/2008 6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Bats in Peril: Why Disease is Decimating Bat Colonies around New England" lecture by Tom French, Massachusetts Division of Wildlife and Fisheries. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... 7:00p Boston College Department of Geology and Geophysics Colloquium Series (Boston College, Weston Observatory, 381 Concord Rd., Weston, MA ) "Forecasting Earthquakes: A Statistical Approach" with Daniel W. Chambers. Reservations required. Contact: www.bc.edu/research/westonobservatory... Thursday 5/22/2008 9:45a Northeast Energy Efficiency Summitt (Hartford Marriott Downtown, Hartford, CT) "Clean, Lean and Green Growth" focused on the business and policy issues that impact energy efficiency adoption and implementation. Contact: Bethany Vasecka , bvasecka(a)neep.org, 781-860-9177 ext. 13. , www.neep.org/conference/2008/index.html 6:30p Controlled Nuclear Fusion: Where are We at? What Problems Remain? (University Massachusetts Lowell, Ball 301, Lowell, MA) Speaker: Robert S. Granetz, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Contact: Prof. Dikshitulu Kalluri, dikshitulu_kalluri(a)uml.edu , (978) 934-3318 , www.ieeeboston.org/nuclear_and_plasma... Friday 5/23/2008 11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series (Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 20 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA) "A Two-Step Approach for Combining GPS and Seismic Data in Kinematic Inversions" with Susana Custodio, Institute for Crustal Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM... 12:00p Atmospheric Sciences Seminar (Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Lightning NOx Production Observed in Tropical and Subtropical Thunderstorms During TROCCINOX and SCOUT" with Heidi Huntrieser, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre. Contact: Brenda Mathieu, bmathieu(a)seas.harvard.edu , www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html Monday 5/26/2008 Memorial Day Holiday Tuesday 5/27/2008 11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series (Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Finite Volume Methods for Elastodynamic Problems, with Application to the Study of Remarkably Strong Tremor Episodes Heralding the Onset of the Current Eruption at Mount St. Helens, Washington. Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM... Thursday 5/29/2008 8:00a - 4:00p Transportation Climate Change Symposium (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mullins Center, Amherst, MA ) This event is bringing together people from the public and private sectors whose decisions have far reaching ramifications in the transportation field. Keynote speaker, Congressman John Olver of Massachusettss First Congressional District and Chairman of the House Appropriations Sub-committee on Transportation. Contact: kstetson(a)ecs.umass.edu, www.ecs.umass.edu/umtc/climatechange_... ================================================== Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list: http://list-manage.com/unsub.phtml?id=p2MzFvRBNgc7GdW4SkES0 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=p2MzFvRBNg&f=1 Update your profile: http://list-manage.com/profile.phtml?id=p2MzFvRBNgc7GdW4SkES0

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Dinner with Professor Garnet Chan

by James D Whitfield

Hey everyone, Professor Garnet Chan from Cornell University is coming to speak tomorrow. I would like to know who wants to come eat. His talk is at 5:30 so we'll probably leave around 6:45, 7. Just hang around after the talk or give me a call (at 301-520-7847) around 6:45. Hope to see you tomorrow, James Whitfield -- James D Whitfield Aspuru-Guzik Group Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University tel: 301-520-7847

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] Final Digital Humanities Talk in the 2007-8 Series: Max Marmor, Kress Foundation

by Helene Tingle

Final Digital Humanities Series Talk 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] Interesting seminar.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Interesting seminar for the screensaver folks, http://iic.harvard.edu/seminars/051408.html -- 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] IIC Seminar May 14--Gabriele Fariello on Neuroinformatics & Virtual Applications

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, May 14, 2008; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Gabriele Fariello, Head of Neuroinformatics, Harvard University; Researcher, IIC, Harvard University Seminar Title: Neuroinformatics & Virtual Applications: An overview of a novel deployment paradigm for scientific software and computational frameworks 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] quantum illumination

by slloyd＠MIT.EDU

Just to follow up on the brief presentation I gave yesterday: my preprint on quantum illumination is arXiv:0803.2022. Yours, Seth Title: Quantum Illumination Abstract: The use of entangled light to illuminate objects is shown to provide significant enhancements over unentangled light for detecting and imaging those objects in the presence of high levels of noise and loss. Each signal sent out is entangled with an ancilla, which is retained. Detection takes place via an entangling measurement on the returning signal together with the ancilla. Quantum illumination with $e$ bits of entanglement increases the effective signal-to-noise ratio of detection and imaging by a factor of $2^e$, an exponential improvement over unentangled illumination.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Don't make me come after you

by Ivan Kassal

Dear group, Alejandro and I just cleaned up the coffee machine, which was in a truly sorry state. I was hoping I wouldn't have to send reminders like these, but seriously people, you are not schoolchildren, and it is neither Alejandro's nor Elsa's nor my job to clean up you mess. So, let me spell out the rules very clearly: 1. If you use the frother, clean it instantly, because bacteria thrive in warm milk. 2. There are to be no dirty cups next to the coffee machine, other than the green waste water cup. 3. There are to be no dirty spoons or saucers next to the coffee machine. If you don't want to wash a spoon, use the wooden stir-sticks. 4. If you spill or splash water or coffee or whatever, wipe it down. Do not leave puddles of disgustingness lying about. Thank you. Let's all work to keep to a minimum the number of threatening emails I have to send out. Ivan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Interesting talk today at 4

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Sent from my mobile phone and might contain typos. Thanks for understanding.) Begin forwarded message: > From: Eric Heller <heller(a)physics.harvard.edu> > Date: May 13, 2008 7:16:41 AM EDT > To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> > Subject: Fwd: Tomorrow's Heller Group meeting, 5/13 > > > Alan > > Your group might be interested - today at 4 > Rick > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Julius Su <jsu(a)caltech.edu> >> Date: May 12, 2008 9:27:10 PM EDT >> To: Judy Morrison <morrison(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> >> Cc: eric Heller <heller(a)physics.harvard.edu> >> Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Heller Group meeting, 5/13 >> >> Dear Judy, >> >> Yes, that would be great. Would be good to come by earlier to chat >> with Prof. Heller and other group members, or can I just do that >> after the presentation? >> >> I've attached my talk title and abstract below. Thanks much for >> making the arrangements -- >> >> Julius >> >> ----- >> Title: Simulation of large-scale excited electron dynamics >> >> Abstract: We introduce eFF, a molecular dynamics model with >> electrons included in a way that accounts for the effects of >> Heisenberg uncertainty and Pauli exclusion. It can simulate highly >> excited systems where the Born-Oppenheimer approximation may break >> down over long times, and where excitations may be distributed in a >> spatially heterogeneous nonequilibrium fashion over tens of >> thousands of electrons. Using eFF, we explore the thermodynamics of >> warm dense hydrogen, and find excellent agreement with path >> integral methods and diamond anvil and shock compression >> experiments over a temperature range of 0 to 100,000 K and >> densities up to 1 g/cm^3. We also simulate the Auger process in a >> diamond nanoparticle (C_196 H_112), and discover direct and >> indirect pathways for the desorption of atomic fragments from the >> surface, in agreement with recent experiments. >> >> >> Judy Morrison wrote: >>> Hello Julius, >>> >>> With apologies for the short notice of this request/reply, would >>> it be possible for you to speak at the Heller Group meeting >>> *tomorrow (Tues. 5/13) at 4 p.m.? * If so, this would work out >>> very well for Prof. Heller and his group (I just spoke with him >>> about it). >>> >>> Please let me know as soon as you can. If yes, please include your >>> talk title and abstract (if available), and I will send out a >>> notice to the group. Our meetings are at 4 p.m., in the Division >>> Room , M-102 here at 12 Oxford St. >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> Judy >>> >>> >>> >>> At 10:06 AM 5/8/2008, you wrote: >>>> Dear Ms. Morrison, >>>> >>>> Could I arrange a visit with Prof. Heller's group during the week >>>> of 5/19 to 5/23? I am a recent PhD graduate and I would like to >>>> chat with members and give a group seminar. Prof. Heller has said >>>> this should be possible, I've attached our correspondence below. >>>> Thanks, and look forward to meeting everyone soon. >>>> >>>> Julius >>>> >>>> ---- >>>> >>>> morrison(a)chemistry.harvard.edu >>>> >>>> >>>> On May 8, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Julius Su wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thanks Prof. Heller, could I get Judy's e-mail address from you? >>>>> >>>>> Julius >>>>> >>>>> Eric Heller wrote: >>>>>> 5/19-23 might be best. Arrange with judy, copied above, >>>>>> sometime next week >>>>>> >>>>>> Ejh >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On May 7, 2008, at 7:33 PM, Julius Su <jsu(a)caltech.edu> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Dear Prof. Heller, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Just to update you on scheduling, I'll be meeting with >>>>>>> Silvera's group on 5/12, and some people from MIT from 5/14 to >>>>>>> 5/16 -- perhaps we could meet during the week of 5/19-5/23, or >>>>>>> on* 5/13 (next Tuesday)?* >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Those appointments are the only other ones I will have on this >>>>>>> trip, so all other dates will remain free. Thanks, and again >>>>>>> best wishes for your wife's surgery and recovery. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Julius >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Eric Heller wrote: >>>>>>>> Julius >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> We would be very interested to hear from you. I am trying to >>>>>>>> set something up. I am sure sometime during your visit it >>>>>>>> will work out for a chat and a group seminar, perhaps a >>>>>>>> combined group seminar, but that depends on scheduling. >>>>>>>> Something like Thurs next week, not this week. I am a little >>>>>>>> unsure, my wife is undergoing surgery and we are not sure of >>>>>>>> what day or recovery periods, etc, but I am sure something >>>>>>>> will work out in the window you provided. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Best >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Rick >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On May 4, 2008, at 1:34 AM, Julius Su wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Dear Prof. Heller, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I am a recent PhD graduate, having developed with Bill >>>>>>>>> Goddard at Caltech a method to study electron dynamics in >>>>>>>>> highly excited systems. I would be very interested in >>>>>>>>> talking with you about the physics of quantum particles and >>>>>>>>> the challenges found in simulating them. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I am familiar with some of your early work on semiclassical >>>>>>>>> wave packet dynamics, and indeed our method is based on >>>>>>>>> those equations of motion. I am curious about the more >>>>>>>>> sophisticated treatments you have developed since then to >>>>>>>>> handle more complex wave packets with quantum interference, >>>>>>>>> scattering, tunneling, etc. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Also, I could tell you more about our method, which appears >>>>>>>>> to capture much essential physics using only a very simple >>>>>>>>> interaction potential between electrons. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I will be in Boston from May 6 to May 23 with family would >>>>>>>>> you have time to meet with me during that period (excluding >>>>>>>>> 5/9)? I can also give an informal presentation to your group >>>>>>>>> on my PhD research if they would be interested ( http://electronforcefield.com >>>>>>>>> <http://electronforcefield.com/>, also see attached paper). >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Julius >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> p.s. I have enjoyed talking with Mario Blanco, your former >>>>>>>>> grad student, now a director in Bill’s group. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> <Reprint_WDH.pdf> >>>> >>>> >>> 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 >>> >> Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology >>> Harvard University >>> 12 Oxford St., M-108 >>> Cambridge, MA 02138 >>>

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Joint Theory Group Meeting, Tuesday May 20, 2008

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, Add it to your calendar. Alan Dear Professors, Shakhnovich, Heller, Aspuru-Guzik, Karplus and Kaxiras, The next *Joint Theory Group Meeting* will be held *Tuesday May 20 at 4 p.m. in Pfizer Lecture Hall, *hosted by the *Kaxiras Group. Sheng Meng* will present a talk entitled "Real-time, local basis-set implementation of time-dependent density functional theory for excited state dynamics". Abstract: We present a method suitable for large-scale accurate simulations of excited state dynamics within the framework of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). This is achieved by employing a local atomic basis-set representation and real time propagation of excited state wavefunctions. We implement the method within siesta, a standard ground-state DFT package with local atomic basis, and demonstrate its potential for excited state dynamics simulations. Excitations in small to medium-size molecules (H2, CO, O3, pyrazine) are studied as illustrative examples, as well as the de-excitation processes in melanin molecules, and the charge injection process at the dye/nanowire interface. The method is readily applied to problems involving large nanostructures and biomolecules. Please kindly 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 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 -- 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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