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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [gpu-cdi-all] Fwd: [Graphics-visitors] [Graphics] GPU-accelerated MATLAB beta

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Anybody wants to spearhead this? Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Sent from my mobile phone and might contain typos. Thanks for understanding.) Begin forwarded message: > From: Hanspeter Pfister <pfister(a)seas.harvard.edu> > Date: November 22, 2009 8:31:29 EST > To: gpu-cdi-all(a)deas.harvard.edu, Graphics and Vision group <gv(a)seas.harvard.edu > > > Subject: [gpu-cdi-all] Fwd: [Graphics-visitors] [Graphics] GPU- > accelerated MATLAB beta > Reply-To: gpu-cdi-all(a)deas.harvard.edu > > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Jonathan Ragan-Kelley <jrk(a)csail.mit.edu> >> Date: November 21, 2009 3:37:48 PM EST >> To: "To: Graphics Group" <graphics(a)csail.mit.edu> >> Subject: [Graphics-visitors] [Graphics] GPU-accelerated MATLAB beta >> >> via Dave Luebke: MathWorks is soliciting beta testers for GPU- >> accelerated MATLAB: http://bit.ly/7lgDHb >> _______________________________________________ >> Graphics mailing list >> Graphics(a)lists.csail.mit.edu >> https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/graphics >> _______________________________________________ >> Graphics-visitors mailing list >> Graphics-visitors(a)lists.csail.mit.edu >> https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/graphics-visitors > > _______________________________________________ > gpu-cdi-all mailing list > gpu-cdi-all(a)deas.harvard.edu > https://lists.deas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gpu-cdi-all

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Peter Love

by J D Whitfield

Hi group, This upcoming week Peter Love is visiting us. I'll be hosting him so let me know if you want to get on his schedule. Cheers, James J. D. Whitfield Aspuru-Guzik Group Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University tel: 301-520-7847 web: aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/people/James_Whitfield

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Talk by me tomorrow about screensaver at Harvard Business School.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, I talk tomorrow 12-1.30 at Harvard Business School. If anybody is interested, please RSVP ASAP, as they give food. Or ask if you can go anyway, sorry I have been so busy (and have not finished the talk!) that I did not forward this to the group earlier. http://www.hbs.edu/units/tom/seminars/2009/science/ Alan Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Assistant Professor Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email November 19 - December 3

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: November 21: Held annually at Harvard Business School, the Cyberposium facilitates an interactive network of current and future business leaders to engage in a provocative dialog about technology and its impact on business and society. November 23: Join Matthew Bunn and Laura Anadon at the HKS Energy Technology Innovation Policy & Consortium for Energy Policy Research Seminar Series as they discuss "Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy." 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." Calendar Listings: November 19, 2009 6:00pm - 8:00pm The Road to Copenhagen: The US and the EU in Global Climate Negotiations Adams LCR Corner of Mt. Auburn & Bow Sts. Cambridge, MA A Lecture by Eloi Laurent, a senior economist and scientific advisor at OFCE (Sciences-Po Center for economic research). 6:00pm - 9:00pm EcoLogic's 2009 Annual Benefit: The Taste of Sustainable Food Boston Center for the Arts Carol Dean Rehearsal Hall 539 Tremont St Boston, MA Come discover how EcoLogic is promoting environmentally-friendly agriculture and making a positive difference for rural farmers in Central America. http://www.ecologic.org/greenag/events 6:00pm - 8:00pm Film Screening: "Coal Country" Starr Auditorium, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA Coal Country is a provacative look at the environmental impact of coal mining. It provides insight into the impact of our energy use on the environment as well as a greater understanding of our reliance on fossil fuels. November 20, 2009 8:00am - 9:30am Decoding Copenhagen 2009 Swissnex Boston Consulate of Switzerland 420 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02138 Prof. Martin Beniston, Chair for Climate Research / Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva (by videoconference from Geneva) & Dr. Jurgen Weiss, Leader of climate/carbon practice, The Brattle Group caroline(a)swissnexboston.org http://www.swissnexboston.org 8:30am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast “Microbiology of Cultural Heritage Materials." Nick Konkol, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Karen L. Lachmayr klachmay(a)fas.harvard.edu http://www.msi.harvard.edu 2:00pm - 2:30pm Dudley Herschbach Teacher Scientist/Lecture Sever Hall, Room 113 Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA "Scientific Teaching: What Happens when Faculty act like Scientists?" Jo Handelsman, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Christopher Preheim cpreheim(a)oeb.harvard.edu 2:30pm Overview of R&D at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory MIT E19-319 Cambridge, MA "Status and Technological Challenges for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Options." Dr. Robert McGrath, Deputy Laboratory Director for Science & Technology, The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO. 3:30pm Applied Physics Colloquium Pierce 209, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA "Enernet: Internet Lessons for Solving Energy." Bob Metcalfe, Polaris Ventures. Metcalfe is inventor of the ethernet, founded 3Com, and now heads Polaris Ventures, which invests in green energy technology (including my own company, SiOnyx). He is a Trustee of MIT. Virginia Casas vcasas(a)seas.harvard.edu http://www.physics.harvard.edu/events/ 5:00pm New Geographies #2 Book Launch: Landscapes of Energy Piper Auditorium Harvard Graduate School of Design 48 Quincy St, Cambridge Volume 2 of New Geographies proposes to historicize and materialize the relations of energy and space, and map some of the physical, social, and representational geographies of oil, in particular. Rania Ghosn rghosn(a)gsd.harvard.edu http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/academic/upd/agakhan/newgeographies/ November 21, 2009 Cyberposium 15 Burden / Aldrich Halls Harvard Business School Allston, MA With many greentech companies unsustainable without government intervention, policy such as Waxman-Moxley, California Prop 25, and the distribution of non-dilutive capital has become a key driver in the economic health of the sector. Registration required. https://www.regonline.com/Cyberposium15 http://www.cyberposium.com 8:00am - 2:00pm Moving Toward a Smarter Electric Grid MIT Stata Center Room 32-123 Cambridge This conference is intended for those who are interested in learning more about the Smart Grid from leaders in the field, and is a good introduction for the subsequent detailed technical meetings. Purchase tickets by 11/10 for student discount. http://www.ieeeboston.org/edu/2009fall/2009_fall_courses/smarter_elec_grid.… November 23, 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 "Technologies of Intervention and Trauma Treatment in Postconflict Aceh, Indonesia." Mary-Jo Good, Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts 1:00pm - 2:30pm Energy Technology Innovation Policy & Consortium for Energy Policy Research Seminar Series Weiner Auditorium, HKS 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA "Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy." Matthew Bunn and Laura Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School. Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu 4:00pm EPS Fall Colloquium Haller Hall (Geo-Museum 102) 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA “Insights into the origin of tetrapod feeding, Phanerozoic diversity dynamics in light of an incomplete fossil record, and calibrating molecular clocks.” Charles Marshall, Harvard University, OEB. Please join us for a reception following the talk, in the 4th Fl. lounge of Hoffman. Ganna Savostyanova ganna(a)eps.harvard.edu 5:30pm - 6:30pm Toward Sustainability: The Role of Capital Markets in Climate Change Room Mugar 200 The Fletcher School – Tufts University Medford, MA Mindy S. Lubber (JD, MBA) is the President of Ceres, the leading U.S. coalition of investors and environmental leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and governance practices. Moderator: Professor William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy and Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at the Fletcher School.RSVP is required. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0khNaC12iEcjUsI5olXj2Q_3d_3d November 25, 2009 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental 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/ 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 December 1, 2009 6:00pm HOK/Bill Valentine Lecture in Sustainable Design Piper Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Design 48 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA “Borrowing Nature's Blueprints: Biomimicry and The Art of Well-Adapted Design." Janine Benyus. 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. With panelists: Suzanne Berger (Political Science, MIT), Frank Dobbin (History, Harvard), and Niall Ferguson (History, HBS). Moderated by Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School. Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/ 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. 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental 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 Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu 3:30pm China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Title TBA. Edward Cunningham, post-doctoral research fellow, Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School. Chris Nielsen nielsen2(a)fas.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=974… Update your profile: http://harvard.us1.list-manage.com/profile?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5…

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Physics Colloquium Speaker: Edward Farhi, M.I.T., on 11/23/09

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, Please check out Eddie's Physics Colloqium for Monday. Cesar: Can you add this to the group calendar? Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Assistant Professor Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Edward Farhi <farhi(a)mit.edu> Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:50 PM Subject: Physics Colloquium Speaker: Edward Farhi, M.I.T., on 11/23/09 To: Alan Aspuru_Guzik <aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Dear Alan This is old stuff but if anyone in your group has not heard it it might be interesting. Eddie Begin forwarded message: From: maynard(a)physics.harvard.edu > Date: November 18, 2009 9:41:14 AM EST > To: farhi(a)mit.edu > Subject: Flyer Announcement for Next Physics Colloquium Speaker: Edward > Farhi, M.I.T., on 11/23/09 > > ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics 6-300 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ANNOUNCEMENT: 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.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: REMINDER: Upload Progress Reports

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Excitonics members, Please upload your progress reports as described below. What I sent to Rita Tavilla was not uploaded and we need to re-upload. Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Assistant Professor Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <rtavilla(a)rle.mit.edu> Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:02 PM Subject: REMINDER: Upload Progress Reports To: efrc-all(a)mit.edu Hi Everyone, All of your progress reports need to be uploaded to the Excitonics network site - excitonics.mit.edu/network. Please do this by the close of business - 5:00pm tomorrow, Nov. 20th. The new site has additional security built into it. You will need to login twice. First to the server, and then to your account on the network site. The login to the server follows: Login: wpuser password: eXc1ton1cs Once you login to the server, you will be prompted with the network login. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Rita

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Materials computation position at Bosch Research

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Assistant Professor Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kozinsky Boris (CR/RTC2-NA) <Boris.Kozinsky(a)us.bosch.com> Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:27 PM Subject: Materials computation position at Bosch Research To: alan(a)aspuru.com Dear Prof. Aspuru-Guzik, I am a former student of Nicola Marzari, now working in the Bosch Corporate Research Center in Cambridge MA. I am writing regarding an opening for a position in ab-initio materials modeling - we are looking for outstanding computational scientists with the highest levels of expertise in quantum modeling for our team focusing on design of materials for energy applications. We are pursuing several directions in the topics of electrochemistry, thermoelectrics, and piezoelectrics, in which we closely collaborate with computational groups at MIT as part of the Energy Initiative. I would greatly appreciate it if you could distribute the attached posting to the graduating students and postdocs in your group who may be interested in this opportunity. I am attaching the job description flyer, it is labeled as a "postdoctoral position" only for the time being, it is intended become a permanent research position. <<Bosch_abinitio_postdoc_2009a.pdf>> Also, if there is someone in your group currently looking for a position, could you please recommend? Thanks a lot, Boris Kozinsky Energy Modeling, Controls and Computation Robert Bosch LLC Research and Technology Center 1 Cambridge Center, Suite 404 Cambridge MA 02142 (617) 252-0040 *http://www.boschresearch.com* <http://www.boschresearch.com>

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] group meeting tomorrow @ 10AM and Thursday 1:30pm

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, Tomorrow Jacob is up and he will talk about "Intermediate Band Photovoltaics". This week we have an extra group meeting. On Thursday at 1:30pm we have a guest speaker from Seth Lloyd's group at MIT. His name is Stefano Pirandola and you can see the title and abstract in the document attached. Both meetings will be held in the Division Room (M102). Cheers, -A -- Alejandro Perdomo Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Physics. Harvard University 12 Oxford St #482, Cambridge, MA, 02138. perdomo(a)fas.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] IIC Colloquium Nov. 19: "Link or Die" with Joe Futrelle

by Rosalind Reid

Just a reminder of Thursday's IIC Colloquium.... ************* Data Is the Network: Link or Die November 19, 12 noon (sandwiches served at 11:45) Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge Joe Futrelle Cyberenvironments and Technologies, National Center for Supercomputing Applications Abstract In a world now dominated by social networking and wireless communication, most scientific information remains stubbornly locked up in specialized databases, institutional repositories and domain- specific applications. New strategies are needed to free all of this information from the rigid containers, frameworks and work processes in which it is born and increasingly dies. In particular, software engineering must be rethought so that interoperability, openness, and extensibility are designed into data structures. Can data be organized as an active, evolving, open network of heterogeneous concerns and affordances, free of the control of any single software agent or framework? Joe Futrelle will describe promising new opportunities making data radically portable and worthy of long-term preservation and access, drawing on several projects in the "semantic grid," e- science, and digital preservation communities. Bio Joe Futrelle has been working for over a decade at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to increase access to and improve the quality of shared collections of scientific and cultural information through the application of digital library and semantic web technologies and techniques. Futrelle's software tools for distributed search, metadata harvesting, and semantic content management have been used in a variety of scientific and cultural domains including astronomy, biology, medicine, education, seismology, earthquake engineering, research administration, music, history, and environmental hydrology. Futrelle's research focuses on building semantic data models and associated software that can harness network effects in order to create living, evolving knowledge spaces capable of linking and merging information across disicplinary, institutional, temporal, and geographic boundaries. These emerging knowledge spaces can support the systems-scale interdisciplinary science required to meet some of the greatest challenges of our time, as well as ensuring that the valuable fruits of such research can be preserved and used indefinitely in an era of rapid technological obsolescence. --------------- Mark your calendar for next week's SciGPU Seminar: Nov. 23, 12 noon: Mark Silberstein, Technion (Maxwell Dworkin 319) And the next IIC colloquium: Dec. 2, 4:00 pm: Griffin Weber, Chief Technology Officer, Harvard Medical School (Maxwell Dworkin G115) 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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