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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email November 12 - 19

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Tonight: Paleontologist Michael Novacek of the American Museum of Natural History discusses how natural history museums offer unique opportunities for scientific discovery, education, and inspiration in a special presentation in celebration of the MCZ’s 150th Anniversary. Monday, November 9: In conjunction with a meeting of the US Arctic Research Commission, HUCE presents a public symposium: "Climate Change: A Perspective from the Arctic" featuring presentations by several Harvard Faculty and researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Thursday, November 12: Marcelo Ebrard, the Mayor of Mexico City, presents "Sustainable Mega-Cities: Mexico City’s 'Plan Verde'" at a special lecture organized by the Harvard Kennedy School. Calendar Listings: Thursday, November 5, 2009 3:30pm Harvard China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA "Potential for Wind-Generated Electricity in China." Lu Xi, doctoral student, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard. Chris Nielsen, nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-496-2378 4:00pm Project on Justice, Welfare & Economics Seminar Lower Library Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA "Provincializing Democracy: Patronage and Space on India's Southwestern Coast.” Ajantha Subramanian (Harvard University). 4:00pm - 5:00pm OEB Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA "Making population biology relevant to conservation: The California tiger salamander as a test case." H. Bradley Shaffer, Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Fellow in Conservation Biology. Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu (617) 495-5891 6:00pm Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA "Natural History Museums in the Environmental Century Lecture by Michael Novacek." http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php#opportuni… 7:15pm Film Screening: Food, Inc. Hauser 102 Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA Cara Elizabeth Ferrentino, Food, Inc. is an award-winning 2009 documentary about the social and environmental impacts of our nation’s food industry. cara_ferrentino(a)harvard.edu 7:30pm Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist 3 Church Street Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA Joonki Song, from PHOTON Consulting. Joonki will discuss the worldwide PV industry: market size, growth, and leaders, as well as the future possibilities for technologies, manufacturing and installed cost. Friday, November 6, 2009 Greening the City Conference (Through November 8) Lesley University, University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA Registration required. Student registration is $50. Sponsored by Lesley University and Mass Audubon. 12:30pm - 1:30pm Harvard Population Center Work in Progress Lunch "Reproductive Ecology: The Environment, Food-Intake, Physical Activity, Adiposity, Leptin, and Female and Male Reproductive Health" presented by Rose Frisch, Associate Professor of Population Sciences, Emerita, Harvard Center for Population Studies. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/event…... 2:30pm - 4:30pm MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History Building E51, Room 095, MIT, Cambridge, MA "Bound in Twine: Changes in Technology, Agriculture, and Environment from a Commodities-Web Perspective." Sterling Evans, History, University of Oklahoma. Margo Collett mcollett(a)mit.edu 4:00pm Research in Applied Mathematics at Schlumberger Maxwell Dworkin 119 33 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA Lalitha Venkataramanan, Math & Modeling Department, Schlumberger-Doll Research, discusses some aspects of research related to the search for oil and gas in applied mathematics at Schlumberger. Jennifer Casasanto j_casasanto(a)seas.harvard.edu 8:30pm MSI Chalktalk Breakfast Haller Hall, Room 102, 1st floor, 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "New mechanisms for regulating Sinorhizobium meliloti symbiosis genes." Sharon Long, Stanford University. 9:00pm - 10:00pm Film Screening: KOYAANISQATSI - "life out of balance" Piper Auditorium Graduate School of Design Gund Hall Quincy Street Cambridge, MA The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance." Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds -- urban life and technology versus the environment. Sunday, November 8, 2009 6:30pm Grand Opening: The Laboratory at Harvard Northwest Building (lobby and ground floor) 52 Oxford Street, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA A three- year experiment, The Lab will provide flexible exhibition space for student idea development within and between the arts and sciences through work-in-progress exhibits, monthly Idea Nights, and annual experiments between leading international artists and Harvard University scientists. http://thelaboratory.harvard.edu/ 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 Monday, November 9, 2009 12:15pm - 2:00pm Science, Technology, and Society Circle 124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA "Crafting the Biological: Open-Sourcing Life Science, from Synthetic Biology to Garage Biotech." Sophia Roosth, STS, MIT. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts 2:30pm - 6:00pm Climate Change: A Perspective from the Arctic Northwest Science Building Room B101 52 Oxford Street Cambridge A symposium at Harvard University in coordination with a meeting of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 4:00pm EPS Fall Colloquium Haller Hall (Geo-Museum 102) 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA "Accumulation of melt and volatiles at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary."Greg Hirth, Research at Brown. Please join us for a reception following the talk, in the 4th Fl. lounge of Hoffman. Ganna Savostyanova ganna(a)eps.harvard.edu Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:30pm - 8:30pm Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment Healey Library 11th Floor UMass Boston Keynote Speaker: Darren Ranco, Penobscot, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Maine. Prof. Amy Den Ouden amy.denouden(a)umb.edu 617-287-6852 Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:00pm Green Tie Gala JFK Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston, MA "A Celebration of the Year's Clean Energy Accomplishments and Milestones." Register on website. http://www.cleanenergycouncil.org/node/4926 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/ Thursday, November 12, 2009 Fifth Conference on Clean Energy Through November 13, 2009 (All day) Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston Street Boston, MA “Financing and Partnering for Emerging Businesses” features over two dozen early stage companies seeking investment for business opportunities in carbon management, smart grid applications, renewable energy generation, biofuels and other hot areas http://www.GreenovationConference.com 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 12:15pm - 1:45pm Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Transit: Mexico City’s Metrobus Bell Hall (5th Floor, Belfer Building) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA Amanda Swanson amanda_swanson(a)harvard.edu 617-495-1351 A special lunch seminar of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Belfer Center. Open to the public. Lunch will be served. 3:30pm China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Soil Acidification in China: Is Controlling SO2 Emissions Enough?" Zhao Yu, post-doctoral researcher, China Project and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard. http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminar%20folder/seminar/Zhao091112 Chris Nielsen 617-496-2378 4:00pm - 5:00pm OCS Info Session for the Morris K. Udall Scholarship OCS Basement Conference Room 54 Dunster St. Cambridge, MA A national scholarship for future leaders in the environment and Native American issues. mitchellchunter(a)gmail.com 4:00pm OEB Seminar Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 22 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA “The evolution of novel, serially homologous, complex traits: butterfly eyespots.” Antonia Monteiro, Affiliation: Yale University. Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu (617) 495-5891 4:00pm Sustainable Mega-Cities – Mexico City’s “Plan Verde” Piper Auditorium Gund Hall Graduate School of Design Harvard University Cambridge, MA Speaker: Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City. Co-sponsors: Harvard Kennedy School, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Center for the Environment, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Friday, November 13, 2009 3:00pm How to Find an Internship in the Energy, Environment, and Sustainability Fields OCS Conference Room, 54 Dunster St., Cambridge, MA Get a jump start on the internship search by coming to this session focusing on internship ideas that will get you on the right track. http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/index.htm Film Screening: Crude - The Real Price of Oil Museum of Fine Arts, Boston CRUDE follows the human, environmental, and legal drama surrounding Chevron (the world's fifth-largest company) and the "Amazonian Chernobyl" it has created in Ecuador, devastating local Indigenous communities. A special Q&A with producer Mike Bonfiglio will follow. crude(a)cs.org 617- 369-3306 Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:00am - 5:00pm Eighth Annual MA Climate Action Network Conference Stata Center, MIT 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA Bringing together more than 300 residents, community organizers, scientists, and local government staff to act on global warming http://massclimateaction.net/conference/2009-conference.html 9:30am - 2:00pm Jumpstarting the Clean Tech Economy through International Partnerships: Lessons from the Massachusetts-Israel Relationship Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Taubman building, 5th floor Cambridge, MA Keynote address by Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA), co-author of the American Clean Energy and Security Act bethrk(a)cjp.org 617-457-8542 http://www.cjp.org/ Monday, November 16, 2009 11:45am 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 12:15pm - 2:00pm Science, Technology, and Society Circle 124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA "Truth Commissions: Technologies of Repair or Social Autopsies?" Jay Aronson, History, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:30pm - 2:00pm Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA "Getting Serious about Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto Era." Robert N. Stavins. Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; and Chairman, Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group, Harvard Kennedy School. http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/schedule/schedule.htm us_japan(a)wcfia.harvard.edu 617-495-1890 5:00pm The Future of Energy Science Center, Lecture Hall D, One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA "America’s Energy Future: Challenges and Opportunities.” Maxine Savitz, Vice President, National Academy of Engineering and Retired General Manager, Technology Partnerships, Honeywell, Inc. Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 6:30pm The Harvard Symposia on Architecture 1: The Return of Nature Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 42-46 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA "The Sublime Plan." With Barry Bergdoll, K. Michael Hays, and Diane Lewis. http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/events Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:00pm - 5:30pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA "Gasoline Prices, Inattentive Consumers, and the Energy Paradox." Hunt Allcott, MIT, and Nathan Wozny, Princeton University. http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k63251 Jason Chapman 617-496-8054 5:15pm Ecologies of Human Flourishing Lecture Series Tsai Auditorium (S-010), 1730 Cambridge St. (CGIS South), Cambridge, MA "Religious Values and Global Health." A presentation by Arthur Kleinman, M.D., Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; and Victor and William Fung Director of Harvard University's Asia Center. http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/events/theme.html 6:00pm Mothers and Others: The Origin of Emotionally Modern Humans Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Lecture and booksigning by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. Anthropologist and primate sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy studies how the apes in the line leading to the genus Homo became so "other-regarding" and potentially cooperative. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php#opportuni… 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/ Thursday, November 19, 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 - 6:00pm Society for Risk Analysis Seminar Harvard School of Public Health FXB Building Room G-12 651 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 “Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Health.” Overview of the HEI Special Report on Traffic-Related Air Pollution. Amy Rosenstein (781) 676-4084 http://www.sra-ne.org/ 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 senior economist and scientific advisor at OFCE (Sciences-Po Center for economic research). Presented by the Center for European Studies Undergraduate Board. 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 ============================================== 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] ANNOUNCEMENT: Nov. 10, 2009 - Prof. Greg Engel-Excitonics Seminar

by rtavilla＠rle.mit.edu

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Re: [Aspuru-Guzik group list] ELN/inventory training, action requested

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, There is an electronic notebook system that all groups will have. It is mostly for experimentalists, but maybe it would be good to see if we can use it for something. Is there any volunteer that would like to go the meeting below? If so, let me know. a. 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 On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Tobias Ritter <ritter(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > As we are moving ahead with the with the implementation of the > inventory and electronic notebook in our Department, we will need to > train the users, namely our students and postdocs. Cambridgesoft will > hold one training session for ELN use and one training session for > inventory use. If you want your group to participate, I ask that you > send the names of one or two researchers in your group to Ryan > Spoering at spoering(a)fas.harvard.edu by next Tuesday, 11/10 at noon. > Spots for the training are limited but we will be able to accommodate > at least one spot per group. The training for the ELN will likely be > later in November; please also note that this will be the only > professional training session that will be provided due to cost > constraints. > > Please feel free to contact me or Ryan with any questions. > > Best, > > Tobias > > _______________________________________________ > Tobias Ritter > Assistant Professor, Harvard University > Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology > 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 > Tel: +1 617 496 0750, Fax: +1 617 496 4591 > > Administrative Assistant: Anita Pearson > email: pearson(a)chemistry.harvard.edu > Tel: +1 617 384 9274, Fax: +1 617 496 4591 >

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Writing contest finalist... Darren Lipomi

by Leslie Vogt

Hi guys, Sorry for the random email, but Darren Lipomi (Whitesides Lab) wrote a great piece on plastic solar cells for a scientific writing competition. He is a finalist and needs your help to win! Darren is headed to Zhenan Bao's group to work on our collaborative screen saver project for his post doc, so please take a few min to read his article and vote for it! The link is provided below... Thanks, Leslie -- Leslie Vogt Aspuru-Guzik Group Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Darren Lipomi <djlipomi(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:37 PM Subject: Writing contest finalist... To: mickeykats(a)gmail.com, pkim(a)seas.harvard.edu, ichthus7(a)gmail.com, yvasquez(a)seas.harvard.edu, tlupoli(a)fas.harvard.edu, klausen(a)fas.harvard.edu, karp(a)fas.harvard.edu, jiabinxu.harvard(a)gmail.com, wang29(a)fas.harvard.edu, cyu(a)fas.harvard.edu, lvogt(a)fas.harvard.edu, jbeiger(a)fas.harvard.edu, jwu(a)fas.harvard.edu, cstan(a)gmwgroup.harvard.edu, jbarber(a)gmwgroup.harvard.edu, tdowd(a)rochester.rr.com, ksaxton(a)hilton.k12.ny.us, straub(a)bu.edu Dear Friends & Colleagues, This is how Barack Obama did his fundraising, maybe shameless self-promotion by email will work for me too :) I'm writing to ask you a significant (but easy) favor. My essay on "Plastic Solar Cells" made it to the final round in ScientificBlogging.com's University Writing Competition. The prizes are $2500, $1000, and $500 for the top three finishers (Dina and I have a big move to California coming up and could really use the extra cash). You can vote once a day until Nov. 22nd. To vote, just go to my essay at http://www.scientificblogging.com/intellectual_clutter/blog/plastic_solar_c… At the top right-hand side of the text, there is a grey box with a number in it and an "up" arrow. Click on the arrow to vote (the number is the number of votes so far). You do *not* need to register. Remember, you can vote once a day for three weeks. The website can be buggy - if it doesn't look like the vote registered, it probably did anyway. You might want to hold onto this email so you can use the link again. Thanks so much in advance for your help. Please forward this to anyone else who might want to vote for my essay (or for others for that matter) or is interested in popular science writing - there is a lot of good stuff on the site. Best wishes, Darren

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ANNOUNCEMENT: Nov. 11, 2009 - Prof. Angel Rubio-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: Theoretical Spectroscopy of Low Dimensional Systems Presenter: Professor Angel Rubio Organization: Nano-Bio Spectroscopy Group and ETSF Scientific Development Centre, Universidad del Pais Vasco UPV/EHU and Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU Date: November 11, 2009 Time: 2:00 - 3:00pm Place: Harvard University Pfizer Hall - Mb-23 12 Oxford Street Cambridge Center URL: http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics Seminar URL: http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics/rubio-111109.html Abstract There has been much progress in the synthesis and characterization of nanostructures however, there remain immense challenges in understanding their properties and interactions with external probes in order to realize their tremendous potential for applications (molecular electronics, nanoscale opto-electronic devices, light harvesting and emitting nanostructures). In this talk I will review the recent advances within density-functional based schemes to describe the excite state properties of low-dimensional structures (semiconducting nanostructures and biomolecules) including both electron and ionic degrees of freedom. We will address both the linear and non-linear response regimes. We will describe a new method to address the electron-ion dynamics within the Ehrenfest scheme where no explicit orthogonalization is necessary and we can increase of the time step while keeping the system close to the Born-Oppenheimer surface. The method is easily implemented and scales very well with the system size. Applications to the excited state dynamics in some organic molecules will be used as test cases to illustrate the performance of the approach. In particular we will show the effect of electron-hole attraction in those systems. Pros and cons of present functionals will be highlighted and provide insight in how to overcome those limitations by using many-body perturbation theory (i.e. GW based self-energy approaches including excitonic effects at the Bethe-Salpeter level). The present developments constitute a basic ingredient for the development of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility. Work done in collaboration with A. Castro, M. Marques, X. Andrade, J.L Alonso, Pablo Echenique, L. Wirtz, A. Marini, M. Gruning, C. Rozzi, D. Varsano and E.K.U. Gross. Bio Angel Rubio is a Professor of Condensed Matter Physics in the Department of Materials of the Faculty of Chemistry in the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU), Scientific Vicepresident of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility, and Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Fritz Haber Institute der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin . His research activity in the fields of theory and modeling of electronic and structural properties in condensed matter and on developing novel theoretical tools and computational codes to investigate the electronic response of solids and nanostructures to external electromagnetic fields is internationally recognized and he hasreceived numerous honors and awards. Among them we would like to mention National Prize for the best Spanish undergraduate student of Physics (1989), faculty honor prize for the best PhD thesis in Physics (1992), Royal Spanish Physical Society Prize “Outstanding young researchers” (1992); Fulbright Fellow (1993); 2001 JSPS Invitation Fellow Program for Research in Japan; 2004 Sir Allan Sewell Fellowship School of Science, Griffith University, Australia; 2004 Fellow of the American Physical Society: Materials Science Division; 2005 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Humboldt Foundation, Germany; DuPond Prize on Science, 2006. Rubio has an excellent publication record (Hirsch index 52). He is the Editor of three books two about nanotechnologies. 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] party?

by Semion Saikin

Guys, Alejandro and I are thinking to continue the party so generously started by Dmitrij and Roberto this morning. As I can see it now, the next part may include some Russian/Columbian vodka and also some food also known in Russian as "zakuska". Please, join us at my home at 30 Howard Street, Arlington MA 02476 TODAY at 6pm. Sincerely, Semion -- ******************************************** Semion K. Saikin, PhD Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 email: saykin(a)fas.harvard.edu phone: (619)212-6649 ********************************************

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] reminder: group meeting 10am in M102

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, Just a reminder that we are having our regular group meeting tomorrow at 10 in the Division Room. We will have Stephanie to tell us about her research project on "Quantum dynamics of hydrogen and its isotopes on Ni(100)". 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] Reminder: Colloquium tomorrow, Toward GPU-Accelerated Meshfree Fluids Simulation

by Rosalind Reid

Just a reminder of tomorrow's IIC Colloquium with Lorena Barba: **************** Toward GPU-Accelerated Meshfree Fluids Simulation Using the Fast Multipole Method November 4, 2009, 4:00 pm Room G115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Lorena A. Barba Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University Abstract For the better part of the past 50 years, advances in algorithms and increasing computing power have made computational fluid dynamics, CFD, a mature discipline. What are some remaining frontiers of the discipline? One of the challenges in fluid simulation continues to be the need to straddle many scales. New computational methods still need to be developed that are able to adapt to the many scales of a problem. Another frontier recently opened is the development of hardware-aware software. Multi-core computers are on everyone’s desktop nowadays, and a growing trend in using graphics cards and other specialized hardware is buzzing. On both these frontiers, there is great potential for meshfree methods. Particle-type formulations for CFD offer an alternative which is low in numerical diffusion, devoid of numerical dispersion and stability constraints. Meshfree methods offer a natural adaptivity in situations where mesh generation is a large burden. And meshfree methods could be especially well suited to exploit the new hardware technologies entering the scene. I will present an overview of a particle-type formulation for fluid dynamics, the vortex method. This method requires an N-body solver within it, for which we use the fast multipole method. In our goal of obtaining hardware acceleration for this method, I’ll describe our progress with the fast multipole method, where we currently achieve 480 gigaflops for a hundred-fold speedup on a GPU card. Bio Lorena Barba obtained her Ph.D. in aeronautics from California Institute of Technology in 2004. She then joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Bristol, UK. There, she was the leader of an EC-funded international project titled "Scientific Computing Advanced Training" involving 10 institutions in Europe and Latin America. The project allowed more than 30 young aspiring scientists to spend an extended period immersed in a research group in Europe. In the fall of 2008, she started a new position as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Boston University. Her research as a computational scientist and a fluid dynamicist covers particle methods used for fluid simulation, the development of fast and efficient algorithms, the use of novel computer architectures, as well as fundamental and applied aspects of fluid dynamics. --------------- Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. Mark your calendar for this upcoming IIC colloquium: Nov. 18, 4:00 pm: Joe Futrelle, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (Note: This talk will be given in Maxwell Dworkin G135.) 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] unofficial minutes, Nov 3, 2009

by Andrew Lutomirski

Hastings, Ambainis, and Harrow wrote a paper. Most of us forgot to read it. http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0472 There is a new version of the paper on bound entanglement and negative partial transpose. It's still wrong. The result violates a theorem by Watrous. http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0744 Daniel Nagaj told us about approximating partition functions. Computing the partition function exactly is at least #P-hard. There is a FPRAS (fully polynomial randomized approximation scheme). Daniel is interested in using phase estimation, which is asymptotically faster in terms of both the minimum gap and the required precision. --Andy _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Today at 5 pm: Green Conversations with NRDC Executive Director Peter Lehner

by Center for the Environment

The Harvard University Center for the Environment and Bank of America presents Green Conversations with: Peter Lehner Executive Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council "Climate Change: Getting from Science to Law" Discussants: Daniel Schrag, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment and Joel Schwartz, Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health TODAY 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center Lecture Hall A One Oxford St., Cambridge Peter Lehner is the Executive Director of NRDC, and manages more than 350 dedicated environmental advocates in seven offices across the planet and guides NRDC's policy positions and advocacy strategies. Since Peter assumed his role as Executive Director in 2006, NRDC has strengthened and rededicated its resources towards curbing global warming, building a clean energy future for America, reviving the world's oceans, saving endangered wild spaces and lands, stemming the tide of toxic chemicals, and accelerating the greening of China. NRDC has opened new offices in Chicago and Beijing, and established a new Center for Market Innovation. In addition to Peter's leadership at NRDC, he has been involved with a number of other organizations. He teaches law at Columbia Law School, and serves on the boards of the Butler Environmental Protection Fund, the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, New York Rivers United, and the Center for Watershed Protection. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, on the advisory council of Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and is one of the founding members of the Environmental Law Reporter and Environmental Law Institute's Advisory Board. Green Conversations are sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. This lecture is free and open to the public. Contact: Lisa Matthews Events Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu p. 617-495-8883 f. 617-496-0425 ============================================== 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=f6a… Update your profile: http://harvard.us1.list-manage.com/profile?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5…

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