aspuru-list September 2008

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fall term group meeting schedule

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Due to Alan's teaching schedule this Fall and seminar/meeting schedules here and at MIT, we need to change the day/time of our regular weekly group meetings. I'd like to know the schedules of those students (undergrads too) who are taking classes this Fall. We need to find a mutually agreeable time that will not conflict with other weekly group commitments. Please respond asap w/ your Fall term schedule. Thanks much, Anna -- 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 shin(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Aspuru-Guzik Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

15 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] In this afternoon. Professor Alexander-Katz.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, I will be in this afternoon circa 3.00 PM. Professor Alfredo Alexander-Katz and his student will join us at 4.00 PM. If anybody wants to meet him, let me know. I will be talking to him and his student about the chlorosome chrlorphyll rolls. I might talk with him about your projects and stop by for you to meet him. Here is his URL http://dmse.mit.edu/faculty/faculty/aalexand/ 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

15 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update September 4 - 18

by Center for the Environment

Dear Friends of HUCE, I hope you had a wonderful summer. I am pleased to send you the first installment of this Fall's HUCE Weekly Calendar email. If you are new to this service, welcome! Within this email you will find two week's worth of environmentally related events here on the Harvard campus and in the Boston area. Already, there are some fantastic events on the calendar and I hope you will take full advantage of the many engaging lectures and seminars listed here. Always be sure to check the HUCE calendar on our website, www.environment.harvard.edu [ http://mcsv.net/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=r2WYzu9VzcCNQ6o5sJxA ], for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions, as venues and times may change. At the bottom of this email, you will find the dates for the HUCE Future of Energy Lecture series -- be sure to mark them in your calendar! 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 [ mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu ]. Feel free to distribute this email to your friends, colleagues, family, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around our community. Highlights: Monday, September 15: Gwyn Prins, Professor at the London School of Economics, discusses "The Mounting Crisis in Climate Policy and What to Do About It." Wednesday, September 17: The Minister of State for Industry at the Government of India, Dr. Ashwani Kumar, visits Harvard for a lecture on "Inclusivist Growth and Economic Reforms the Challenges of India's Pluralist Democracy." September 22: Mark your calendar! His Excellency, Anote Tong, President of Kiribati discusses his country's unique vulnerabilty to the effects of global warming-induced sea level rise in this first lecture of the Fall 2008 Green Conversations series. Calendar Listings: Monday 9/8/2008 12:00p - 1:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=118021149 ] 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: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu [ mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu ], www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.ht… ] 3:00p MIT Center for International Studies [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=118021123 ] (MIT Stata Center, Building 32, Room 141, 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA) "Climate Security: A Conversation with Denmark's Ambassador to the US." Contact: web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_climate.html [ http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_climate.html ] Tuesday 9/9/2008 7:00p Harvard Book Store Author Reading [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117067249 ] ( Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA) Nobel Laurate Frank Wilczek will read from and discuss his latest book "The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces." Contact: www.harvard.com/events/press_release.... [ http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2115 ] Wednesday 9/10/2008 4:30p - 6:30p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117253955 ] MIT: X PRIZE Energy Forum (Building 34, Room 101 , MIT, Cambridge, MA) "Seeking Radical Breakthroughs in Alternative Energy: What I Would Advise the Next President" Contact: Erika Wagner , xprize(a)mit.edu [ mailto:xprize@mit.edu ] , 617-253-0017 , [ http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?event=9019274&location=http://we… ]events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?e... Thursday 9/11/2008 12:00p - 1:00p OEB Special Seminar [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117791398 ] (Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA ) "From Darwin to Dover and Beyond: On the front lines of the evolution-creationism controversy." Louise Mead, Ph.D. National Center for Science Education Contact: Ishara Mills-Henry, imillshenry(a)mcb.harvard.edu [ mailto:imillshenry@mcb.harvard.edu ], 617-495-2599 6:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=112064430 ] Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "To Build a Biofilm." George O'Toole, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth University Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu [ mailto:herren@fas.harvard.edu ], (617) 495 8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html ] Saturday 9/13/2008 11:00a - 2:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117067275 ] Sierra Club: Energy Solutions Day (Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common, Boston, MA) Join the Sierra Club and your friends and neighbors to have fun, enjoy a beautiful fall day, and learn about energy solutions. Contact: Carol Oldham, carol.oldham(a)sierraclub.org [ mailto:carol.oldham@sierraclub.org ], 617-423-5775, www.sierraclubmass.org/events/events.... [ http://www.sierraclubmass.org/events/events.html#special ] 2:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=116987727 ] Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Superdove: How the Pigeon took Manhattan and the World." Author talk & book signing by Courtney Humphries. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu [ mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu ], 617.495.3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.hmnh.harvard.edu ] Monday 9/15/2008 9:30a [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117182187 ] Energy Policy Research Programs Seminar (Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA) "The Mounting Crisis in Climate Policy and What to Do About It." Gwyn Prins, London School of Economics. Contact: (617) 495-8693 12:00p - 1:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=118021149 ] 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: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu [ mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu ], www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.ht… ] 2:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117791430 ] OEB Special Seminar (MCZ 101, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Marsupial immune genes: organization, evolution and role in the spread of a contagious cancer." Dr. Kathy Belov, Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group Faculty of Veterinary Science Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu [ mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu ] Tuesday 9/16/2008 12:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117102188 ] Herbaria Seminar Series (Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) "Closing the Global Carbon Cycle: Linking Terrestrial Plant Production with Aquatic Microbial Production of Carbon Dioxide." Peter Pollard, Griffith University Contact: [ http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series ]www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ 3:00p - 4:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117067220 ] 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 [ mailto:kdennis@fas.harvard.edu ], www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/semi… ] Wednesday 9/17/2008 5:00p Inclusivist Growth and Economic Reforms the Challenges of India's Pluralist Democracy [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=118021349 ] (Location TBA) Speaker: Dr. Ashwani Kumar, the Minister of State for Industry, Government of India. Details to follow. Co-sponsored by the South Asia Initiative. Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu [ mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu ], 617-495-8883 6:00p Sierra Club MA Special Event [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117067301 ] (The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA) "The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World". Join photographer Steven Kazlowski and the Sierra Club for a presentation, Q&A and book signing. Sponsored by Globe Co... Contact: events(a)gcb.com [ mailto:events@gcb.com ], 617-649-5700 x21, www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/renta... [ http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/rental.html ] Thursday 9/18/2008 4:00p OEB Seminar Series [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=117826180 ] (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Chris Ponting, Oxford University. Seminar Title: TBA. Host: Edwards Lab Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu [ mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu ], www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... [ http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html ] 6:00p [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=116987728 ] Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Audubon: The Early Drawings." Lecture and book signing by Scott Edwards and Leslie Morris Scott Edwards, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Ornithology in... Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu [ mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu ], 617.495.3045 , www.hmnh.harvard.edu [ http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.hmnh.harvard.edu ] _Finding a secure, safe and reliable source 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 _October 6, 2008_ John Rowe Chairman and CEO, Exelon Energy Corporation Location: Science Center Lecture Hall D, Cambridge – 5:00 pm _November 19, 2008_ James Woolsey Venture Partner with VantagePoint Venture Partners Location: Science Center Lecture Hall D, Cambridge – 5:00 pm _December 3, 2008_ Amory Lovins Founder and Director, Rocky Mountain Institute Location: Science Center Lecture Hall B – 5:00 pm 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 Future of Energy lectures are free and open to the public. ============================================== You are receiving this email because you indicated interest in Harvard University Center for the Environment events. 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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] construction

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Facilities stopped by to inform us that they will be doing construction in M109 and M110 for the next 2 weeks. They are replacing the pipes above so it will be loud. Although they will be putting down plastic to protect the area, you may want to safeguard your equipment from any debris that might fall. Thanks, Anna -- 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 shin(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Aspuru-Guzik Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] meeting time

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We have decided to meet on Mondays at 3:00 in our old spot 6-310. Best, Eddie ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green 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] Group Meetings (starting at 3pm)

by Leslie Vogt

Hi everyone, I am filling in for Alejandro in reminding you that we have group meeting tomorrow. First up, our visitor, Alexandra Olaya-Castro, 3pm M217. Following right after, at 4pm in the same room, Darren Lipomi, from the Whitesides lab. Next, the Department BBQ to welcome the incoming students! See you tomorrow, Leslie

15 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Meetings with Alexandra Olaya-Castro.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, It is not yet absolutely clear, but it is mostly certain that Alexandra Olaya-Castro will be with us tomorrow starting at 10.00 AM. I will have her meet with you guys to learn about your research and for you to learn about hers. If she ends up going to MIT tomorrow, we will meet her on Wednesday at 10.00 AM and the same story applies. Please don't forget that she is a "competitor", so I would encourage you to talk mostly if not solely about our published or submitted research, and/or topics that are not related to our immediate or long-term goals in energy transfer. She is related to our friends Plenio and Huelga and therefore we have to be careful. I would recommend to emphasize the chemical aspects of organic photovoltaic materials, and "dendrimers" as our main new direction and not talk about Non-Markovian aspects if any or at all. Of course, if you are working on quantum algorithms or quantum chemsitry, feel free to describe your projects. It is only in energy transfer that we have to exercise care. We will hear from her at 3.00 PM on Wednesday, so we will have 2 group meeting talks this Wednesday. 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

15 years, 8 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Tuesday

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We will meet on Tuesday September 2 at 4:00 in 6-310 to organize for the term. Bring your calendars. Also let me know if you want to be stricken from this email list as I do not like to clutter anyone's email. Eddie ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green 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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