aspuru-list November 2009

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Tuesday October 13

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We will meet on Tuesday at 11:00. Seth (or his representative) will speak in the group meeting. Ashwin Nayak will speak at 3:00 in our seminar series. 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 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

14 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Desk Lottery: James wins!

by Jacob J Krich

I hope I'm not stepping on Sangwoo's toes, but I made a lottery program in Matlab. It is fully reproduceable, and I did not monkey around at all with the seed or the people order. The results, from running in Matlab R2009a (they change their pseudo-random number generator every now and again, so the version matters), are attached. I did not include Justin or Stephanie in the list (should I have?), but they can easily be added in. Best, Jacob

14 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Dinner with Prof. Eli Barkai

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Hello: As you can see below, on Wednesday there'll be dinner with Prof. Eli Barkai (http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barkaie/) after the Theoretical Chemistry Seminar at MIT. This time he won't be visiting Harvard since he is here for MRS. Are two people interested in having dinner with him on Wednesday after the talk? Please let me know so I can tell the people hosting him. Roberto ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eric Zimanyi <ezimanyi(a)mit.edu> Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:50 PM Subject: Dinner with Prof. Eli Barkai To: theochem-admin-list(a)bu.edu Hi all, After Eli Barkai's theoretical chemistry talk on Wednesday, we're planning on having a group of students take him out to dinner somewhere in the area to get a chance to talk with him. Are there a couple of students from each school that would be interested in coming to this? We'll leave right after the talk. Thanks! Eric -- Roberto Olivares-Amaya Aspuru-Guzik Group Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

14 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] REMINDER: Dec. 1, 2009 - Dr. Peter Sutter - Excitonics Seminar

by rtavilla＠rle.mit.edu

Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement The Center for Excitonics is an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science and Office of Basic Energy Sciences The Center for Excitonics invites you to join us at the next seminar of the 2009 series. Please forward this information on to others who might be interested in attending this and other center seminars. Title: Metal Catalyzed sp2 Bonded Carbon - Large-Scale Graphene Synthesis and Beyond Presenter: Dr. Peter Sutter Organization: Center for Functional Nanomaterials Brookhaven National Laboratory Date: December 1, 2009 Time: 3:00 - 4:00pm Place: Haus Room 36-428 MIT Campus Center URL: http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics Seminar URL: http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics/sutter-120109.html Abstract Carbon honeycomb lattices have shown a number of remarkable properties. When wrapped up into fullerenes, for instance, superconductivity with high transition temperatures can be induced by alkali intercalation. Rolling carbon sheets up into 1-dimensional nanotubes generates the strongest and stiffest material known. Spreading out as 2-dimensional graphene sheets gives rise to charge carriers behaving as massless Dirac fermions with extraordinarily high room temperature mobilities. Non-carbide forming transition metals can be used to catalyze the assembly of sp2 bonded carbon into macroscopic graphene sheets, required for a wide variety of applications that harness the extraordinary properties of single- and few-layer graphene. I will discuss recent advances in understanding and controlling this synthesis methodology, derived primarily from real-time, in-situ observations of graphene growth. Beyond macroscopic graphene growth, transition metals may be used to develop avenues for the selective and atomically precise “bottom up” synthesis of graphene nanostructures, as well as heterostructures involving graphene and other nanomaterials. First results suggest that a wide range of functionalities may be achieved if this vision becomes a reality. Bio Peter Sutter leads the Interface Science and Catalysis Group in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in physics from ETH ZÃ¼rich in 1996. He pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin and held a Physics faculty position at the Colorado School of Mines before joining the CFN in 2004. His research interests are in interfacial nanoscience, surface chemistry and electronic structure, nanostructure formation and manipulation, nanoscience for energy conversion and storage, as well as scanning probe and electron microscopy. Dr. Sutter has received several awards, among them a Research Corporation Research Innovation Award, a NSF Career Award, and most recently a Scientific American 50 award in 2007. He is the author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications, and has given over 30 invited presentations. ergydrade, J.L Alonso, Pablo Echenique, L. Wirtz, A. Marini, M. Gruning, C. Rozzi, D. Varsano and E.K.U. Gross.

14 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Reminder: Group meeting tomorrow @ 3pm - M102

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Dear Group: Tomorrow we will have our regular group meeting at 3pm in the Division Room. Sule is up tomorrow. Cheers, -Roberto (The other Alejandro) Roberto Olivares-Amaya Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Physics. Harvard University 12 Oxford St #56, Cambridge, MA, 02138. olivares(a)fas.harvard.edu <perdomo(a)fas.harvard.edu>

14 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] REMINDER: SciGPU Seminar - 30th November

by Mark Watson

Reminder for Monday's SciGPU seminar, to be given by Peter Lu: "Orders-of-magnitude performance increases in GPU-accelerated correlation of images from the International Space Station" DATE: Monday, November 30, 2009 TIME: 12:30 PM (Pizza and drinks will be available from 12:15) LOCATION: Maxwell Dworkin, Room 319, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge SPEAKER: Peter J. Lu, Harvard University Department of Physics ABSTRACT: We implement image correlation, a fundamental component of many real-time imaging and tracking systems, on a graphics processing unit (GPU) using NVIDIAs CUDA. We use our code to analyze images of liquid-gas phase separation in a model colloid-polymer system, photographed in the absence of gravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Our GPU code is 4000 times faster than simple MATLAB code performing the same calculation on a central processing unit (CPU), 130 times faster than simple C code, and 30 times faster than optimized C++ code using single-instruction, multiple data (SIMD) extensions. The speed increases from these parallel algorithms enable us to analyze images downlinked from the ISS in a rapid fashion and send feedback to astronauts on orbit while the experiments are still being run. WWW: physics.harvard.edu/~plu/ iic.harvard.edu scigpu.org

14 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email November 25 - December 10

by Center for the Environment

Happy Thanksgiving! Highlights: November 30: Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School, presents "Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Lessons from other Sectors" at the Energy Technology Innovation Policy and Consortium for Energy Policy Research Seminar Series. December 2: Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, discusses sensible reforms that will ensure a more stable world economy and to restore lasting prosperity in "Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy." Register for the Harvard Extension Business Society "Innovation in Challenging Times Conference." Calendar Listings: November 30, 2009 11:45am - 12:45pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion. Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/ 12:15pm - 2:00pm Science, Technology, and Society Circle 124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA "Constructing and Deconstructing Disease in a Dish." Kris Saha, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts 1:00pm - 2:30pm Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Seminar Series Fainsod Room (Littauer 324, HKS) 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA "Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Lessons from other Sector." Rebecca Henderson, HBS. Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu 4:00pm EPS Fall Colloquium Haller Hall (Geo-Museum 102) 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA "Emerging geothermometers for estimating slab surface temperatures." Terry Plan, Columbia University. Please join us for a reception following the talk, in the 4th Fl. lounge of Hoffman. December 1, 2009 12:30pm - 1:45pm Tufts University Center for International Environment and Resource Policy Event Cabot Intercultural Center: The Murrow Room The Fletcher School Tufts University Medford, MA "Implementation and Mediation of OECD guidelines for Multinational Enterprise." Frans Evers, Chairman of the National Contact Point (NCP) Secretariat, The Netherlands. Jacqueline Deelstra Jacqueline.Deelstra(a)tufts.edu 5:00pm Seminar on Global Climate Change: Copenhagen and Beyond Boston University Photonics, Room 206 8 St. Mary’s St Boston, MA The discussion will feature Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and Prof. Henrik Selin, Assistant Professor of International Relations and Faculty Fellow at the Pardee Center. http://www.bu.edu/pardee/2009/11/23/copenhagen-and-beyond/ 6:30pm - 8:30pm An Insider's View of Israeli Cleantech MIT 45 Carleton Street Room E25-111 Cambridge, MA 02142 Co-organizers and co-sponsors: New England Israel Business Council, Consulate General of Israel to New England, MISTI - MIT Israel program, MIT Sloan Israeli Business Club, MIT Sloan Energy & Environment Club, MIT Energy Club, MIT Hillel, and Combined Jewish Philanthropies. http://www.meetup.com/boston-israel/calendar/11921288/ Jonathan Shapira jonathan(a)boston-israel.org 6:30pm HOK/Bill Valentine Lecture in Sustainable Design Piper Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Design 48 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA In this special tribute to Bill Valentine, Janine Benyus will highlight the Biomimicry Guild's exciting alliance with HOK, which has embraced biomimicry as one of the most important tools used by their designers to create built environments in partnership with nature. http://www.biomimicryguild.com/ Brooke King events(a)gsd.harvard.edu December 2, 2009 5:00pm - 7:00pm Science and Democracy Piper Auditorium Gund Hall, GSD 48 Quincy Street Harvard University "Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy." Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 6:00pm - 7:00pm Environmental Education Policy: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Harvard Hall room 103 Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA Dr. Richard Craig Crouch is founding director of The National Center for Environmental Education Policy, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the realization of robust state-level environmental education programming across the US. Sponsored by the Harvard Extension Environmental Club 8:00pm - 9:00pm Enviromental Action Committee Meeting Spindell Room, Quincy House, 58 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ December 3, 2009 11:45am Ecology Journal Club HUCE, Meeting Room 318, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA Weekly discussions on an ecology-related paper; all interested researchers welcome, and papers on website. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm EditDelete Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:00pm MSI Thursday Evening Seminar Center for the Environment (Rm 310) Harvard University 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA "Host/Candida Interactions During Health and Disease." Carol Kumamoto, Tufts University, Dept. of Microbiology. Please join us for a wine and cheese reception at 5:30 pm. Host: Roberto Kolter. http://www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html Karen L. Lachmayr klachmay(a)fas.harvard.edu December 4, 2009 9:00am - 12:30pm New England Restructuring Roundtable Foley Hoag LLP 155 Seaport Boulevard 13th Floor Conference Room Boston, MA 02210 Three panels: Sustainable Forestry/Biomass and Energy in New England; Wind Siting Reform Act; and Transformative Energy Technologies. http://www.raabassociates.org/main/calendar.asp December 5, 2009 9:00am - 4:00pm Innovation in Challenging Times Conference Northwest Science Building 52 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA The Innovation conference is looking at addressing the current challenges faced by companies across sectors. Prominent speakers across Energy, IT, Finance and Healthcare will provide insights into the future trends in their respective sectors. Registration and fee ($8). http://www.conferenceoninnovation.com December 7, 2009 11:45am - 12:45pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/ Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu 1:00pm - 2:30pm Energy Technology Innovation Policy & Consortium for Energy Policy Research Seminar Series Fainsod Room (Littauer 324, HKS) 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA "Opportunities for Reducing U.S. Transportation’s Petroleum Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions." John Heywood, MIT. Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu 4:00pm China Project Seminar http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminar%20folder/seminar/Cunningham091203 Maxwell Dworkin 119 33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Governing China's Energy Markets: How is the World's Largest Energy Producer Managed?" Edward Cunningham, post-doctoral research fellow, Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School. Chris Nielsen nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu December 8, 2009 5:30pm - 7:30pm Film Screening: "Supercharge Me! 30 Days Raw" Sever Hall Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA Film Screening and discussion with filmmaker, educator, raw food chef, Jenna Norwood about the impact of food on our health (mind, body & spirit) and the health of our planet. December 9 8:00pm - 9:00pm Enviromental Action Committee Meeting Spindell Room, Quincy House, 58 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ December 10, 2009 11:45am Ecology Journal Club HUCE, Meeting Room 318, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA Weekly discussions on an ecology-related paper; all interested researchers welcome, and papers on website. Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm --- Always check the calendar on the website for updated information. 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. ============================================== 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.us1.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&… 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://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=a48… Update your profile: http://harvard.us1.list-manage.com/profile?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5…

14 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] SciGPU Seminar - 30th November

by Mark Watson

It's my pleasure to announce the next SciGPU seminar, to be given by Peter Lu: "Orders-of-magnitude performance increases in GPU-accelerated correlation of images from the International Space Station" DATE: Monday, November 30, 2009 TIME: 12:30 PM (Pizza and drinks will be available from 12:15) LOCATION: Maxwell Dworkin, Room 319, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge SPEAKER: Peter J. Lu, Harvard University Department of Physics ABSTRACT: We implement image correlation, a fundamental component of many real-time imaging and tracking systems, on a graphics processing unit (GPU) using NVIDIAs CUDA. We use our code to analyze images of liquid-gas phase separation in a model colloid-polymer system, photographed in the absence of gravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Our GPU code is 4000 times faster than simple MATLAB code performing the same calculation on a central processing unit (CPU), 130 times faster than simple C code, and 30 times faster than optimized C++ code using single-instruction, multiple data (SIMD) extensions. The speed increases from these parallel algorithms enable us to analyze images downlinked from the ISS in a rapid fashion and send feedback to astronauts on orbit while the experiments are still being run. WWW: physics.harvard.edu/~plu/ iic.harvard.edu scigpu.org

14 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Farhi's talk yesterday

by Man-Hong Yung

For those who attended Farhi's talk yesterday, Farhi described a search algorithm based on scattering, and its performance is the same (in some sense) as the adiabatic search. I have realized the connection of scattering and adiabatic evolution was observed by Landau, in his book: Quantum mechanics: non-relativistic theory, section 53, p.195 Regards, Man Hong

14 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] IIC Colloquium Dec. 2: "Harvard Catalyst Profiles" with Griffin Weber

by Rosalind Reid

You are cordially invited to the next IIC Colloquium Dec. 2. ***************** Harvard Catalyst Profiles: Network Analysis and Data Visualization December 2, 2009, 4:00 pm Room G115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Griffin Weber Chief Technology Officer, Harvard Medical School Abstract Profiles is a research networking and expertise discovery website developed for Harvard Catalyst (the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center). It contains profiles for 22,000 Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health faculty, with plans to extend to other Harvard schools. In addition to presenting investigators’ names, titles, degrees, awards, narratives and publications, Profiles uses automated data mining techniques based on natural language processing and artificial intelligence to connect researchers into networks based on characteristics such as being co- authors on articles, having similar interests, or having offices that are physically close. Computational analysis and visualization of these networks reveals how people collaborate in various disciplines, identifies foci where new ideas are emerging, and discovers connections between different academic fields. These tools can suggest novel approaches and recommend the best faculty for solving challenging research problems. Bio Griffin Weber is the Chief Technology Officer of Harvard Medical School (HMS); Director of the Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC); and an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in the Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Weber did his undergraduate work at Harvard, where he concentrated in biomedical sciences and engineering in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Shortly after arriving at Harvard, he began working as an informatics consultant for several hospitals and medical research centers; and, in 1997, he created one of the world's first hospital-wide web-based electronic medical record systems. Other projects ranged from developing software to analyze DNA microarray databases to modeling the growth of breast cancer tumors to inventing algorithms to predict life expectancy. He entered Harvard Medical School in 2000 as an M.D./Ph.D. student in the Health Sciences and Technology program. In his first year as a medical student, he recognized the need for a web-based curriculum and invented the MyCourses internet web portal, which today is used by over 500 courses at HMS to publish events, announcements, lecture videos, exams, handouts, interactive simulations and other content online. He then joined forces with the HMS Information Technology department and over the next seven years expanded MyCourses and designed a second web portal, eCommons, to serve the content management needs of the administration and researchers of Harvard Medical School. Together, the two portals are used by 20,000 faculty, staff and students over 30,000 times a day. During this time, Weber earned a Ph.D. in computer science with a focus on biomedical informatics and Artificial Intelligence, received a certificate from the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics Training Program at MIT, and completed his medical school coursework at HMS. In January, 2007, Weber came to work for HMS full time as its chief technology officer. As CTO, he oversees research and development of new IT initiatives, evaluates emerging technologies, implements enterprise-wide solutions, and initiates collaborative projects with the IT departments of Harvard- affiliated hospitals and institutions. --------------- Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. Mark your calendar for these upcoming events: Monday, Nov. 30, 12:30 pm, Maxwell Dworkin 319: SciGPU seminar with Peter Lu, Harvard Department of Physics Thursday, Dec. 4, 4:00 pm, Maxwell Dworkin G125: Computer Science Colloquium with Matt Welsh (Harvard SEAS): "How to Program a Macroscope." For more information about IIC colloquia and other events : http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming _______________________________________________ iic-colloquium mailing list iic-colloquium(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.deas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-colloquium

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