aspuru-list December 2009

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Haken-Strobl paper

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, Here are the Haken-Strobl papers. 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: Nicolas Martinelli <nicolas.g.martinelli(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:56 PM Subject: Haken-Strobl paper To: alan(a)aspuru.com Dear Alan, Here are some papers on Haken-Strobl. Regards, Nicolas -- Nicolas Martinelli, Research Fellow FRIA Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials University of Mons Place du Parc 20, BE-7000 Mons (Belgium) Phone: +32(0)65.37.38.69 e-mail: nicolas.g.martinelli(a)gmail.com

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] comment about moving

by Alejandro Perdomo

Hi Alan, I was talking to Jerry and the guys organizing the new space and they mentioned that regarding the arrangements we go around about selecting desks, the people in the wet lab (Ivan, Johannes, Jacob, Kenta, Joel and Alejandro) need to empty the wet lab office. Considering that, is it possible to give priority so that people in the wet lab at least be located somewhere in the BigOffice? I don't think it is fair for us (people in the wet lab) waste two days moving twice: once to a temporary office and again in a couple of weeks. Please let us know if this make sense and sorry for not raising this before but I did not know these were the conditions until I talked to the staff a minute ago. -Alejandro -- 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] Dinner with Bob Silbey

by Patrick Rebentrost

Dear All, there will be a student/postdoc dinner with Bob Silbey from MIT tomorrow, Thursday, December 3 at 6 pm. Please let me know if you are interested. Best, Patrick

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Reminder: Today at 5 pm -- Science and Democracy Lecture Series with Raghuram Rajan

by Center for the Environment

Science and Democracy, a lecture series aimed at exploring both the promised benefits or our era's most salient scientific and technological breakthroughs and the potentially harmful consequences of developments that are inadequately understood, debated, or managed by politicians, lay publics, and policy institutions. Raghuram Rajan Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business "Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy" Panelists Suzanne Berger, Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science, MIT Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology, Harvard Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Moderated by Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School TODAY 5:00 - 7:00p Piper Auditorium Gund Hall, GSD 48 Quincy Street Harvard University As the world struggles to recover from the economic crisis of 2008, it is tempting to blame the events on a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they are not fixed. He traces the deepening fault lines in a system overly dependent on American consumption to power the world economy and stave off a global downturn; a system where America's thin social safety net has created tremendous political pressure to keep job creation robust, because jobs are the primary provider of health and other benefits; and where the U.S. financial sector, with its skewed incentives, is the critical but unstable link between an overstimulated America and an underconsuming world. In conclusion, he outlines sensible reforms to ensure a more stable world economy and to restore lasting prosperity. Raghuram Rajan is Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He served as Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund between 2003 and 2006. He as worked as a consultant for the Indian Finance Ministry, World Bank, Federal Reserve Board, Swedish Parliamentary Commission, and various financial institutions. Rajan is the author, along with fellow Chicago Booth faculty member Luigi Zingales, of the book, Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists. In 2003, he received the inaugural Fischer Black Prize, which is awarded by the American Finance Association for the person under 40 who has contributed the most to the theory and practice of finance. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institution of Technology in Delhi in 1985, and an MBA from the Indian Institution of Management in 1987. Rajan received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991. This event is organized by the Program on Science, Technology, and Society, at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Graduate School of Design, the South Asia Initiative at Harvard, and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. For more information on Science, Technology, and Society events at Harvard University, please visit: www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/. This lecture and panel 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=260… Update your profile: http://harvard.us1.list-manage.com/profile?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5…

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [theochem-announce] Eli Barkai at MIT TODAY 56-154

by Lee-Ping

Dear All, Professor Eli Barkai, from the Bar-Ilan University in Israel, is at MIT to present a theoretical chemistry seminar TODAY (Wednesday, December 2) from 4:00-6:00pm in ROOM 56-154. The new location is 56-154, and a map of its location is here http://whereis.mit.edu/?selection=56&zoom=17 Please note the room change. We'll do our best to have seminars in this room in the future. The title of his talk will be "Weak Ergodicity Breaking." Further information, including an abstract for the talk, can be found at http://people.bu.edu/theochem/. -- ABSTRACT -- In nature the noisy signal representing a Physical observable is in many cases unpredictable, though the long time average of the signal converges in statistical sense to the ensemble average (ergodicity). Recently, observations of dynamics of single molecules, e.g. blinking quantum dots [1], and motion of single mRNA in the cell revealed non-ergodic processes [3]. These signals are characterizes by power law sojourn times, in micro states of the system (e.g. in state on and off for the dots) in such a way that the average time spent in a micro state diverges (scale free dynamics). Two basic questions addressed in my talk are (i) what theory replaced ergodic Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics for such systems [2] (ii) what are possible Physical mechanisms responsible for anomalous non Gaussian dynamics. 1. F. D. Stefani, J. P. Hoogenboom, and E. Barkai. Beyond Quantum Jumps: Blinking Nano-scale Light Emitters. Physics Today 62(2), 34 (February 2009). 2. A. Rebenshtok, E. Barkai. Weakly non-Ergodic Statistical Physics. Journal of Statistical Physics 133, 565 (2008). 3. Y. He, S. Burov, R. Metzler, E. Barkai. Random Time-Scale Invariant Diffusion and Transport Coefficients. Physical Review Letters 101, 058101 (2008). See viewpoint in Igor M. Sokolov, Physics 1, 8 (2008). Thanks! Lee-Ping _______________________________________________ theochem-announce mailing list theochem-announce(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/theochem-announce

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Abstract/title for Eli Barkai

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Hi: Here is the title and abstract for Eli Barkai's talk on Wednesday, December 2nd. MIT Room 56-154 Weak Ergodicity Breaking Eli Barkai, Bar-Ilan University, Israel In nature the noisy signal representing a Physical observable is in many cases unpredictable, though the long time average of the signal converges in statistical sense to the ensemble average (ergodicity). Recently, observations of dynamics of single molecules, e.g. blinking quantum dots [1], and motion of single mRNA in the cell revealed non-ergodic processes [3]. These signals are characterizes by power law sojourn times, in micro states of the system (e.g. in state on and off for the dots) in such a way that the average time spent in a micro state diverges (scale free dynamics). Two basic questions addressed in my talk are (i) what theory replaced ergodic Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics for such systems [2] (ii) what are possible Physical mechanisms responsible for anomalous non Gaussian dynamics. 1. F. D. Stefani, J. P. Hoogenboom, and E. Barkai. Beyond Quantum Jumps: Blinking Nano-scale Light Emitters. Physics Today 62(2), 34 (February 2009). 2. A. Rebenshtok, E. Barkai. Weakly non-Ergodic Statistical Physics. Journal of Statistical Physics 133, 565 (2008). 3. Y. He, S. Burov, R. Metzler, E. Barkai. Random Time-Scale Invariant Diffusion and Transport Coefficients. Physical Review Letters 101, 058101 (2008). See viewpoint in Igor M. Sokolov, Physics 1, 8 (2008). Thanks! Eric -- Roberto Olivares-Amaya Aspuru-Guzik Group Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] group meeting reminder: Today @ 10AM in Naito030

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, Today we will have Nicolas Martinelli and the title of his talk is: “Atomistic description of charge transport in organic semiconductors”. See you all at 10am in Naito 030. -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] MRS week: Talk at 1 PM

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, MRS is basically a "Free" conference at Harvard. Tomorrow, Eric Mazur invited our lab to listen to a theoretician from the Netherlands who is giving a talk in his group: http://www.3me.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=3e2892a3-1d5b-4f82-8f2a-810c27… Lise 311, for those interested in attending. Best, 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] Fwd: FW: The real list: Roberto wins!

by Semion Saikin

Good news from Johannes!!! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Johannes Hachmann <jh388(a)cornell.edu> Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:29 PM Subject: FW: The real list: Roberto wins! To: Semion Saikin <saikinsk(a)gmail.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Johannes Hachmann [mailto:jh388@cornell.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 14:55 > To: 'aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu' > Subject: The real list: Roberto wins! > > Alright, I want the desk labeled O in the map. Your turn Amedeo (the other > Sule...)! > > Taken so far: > > Roberto: N > Johannes: O > > > Johannes > > ----------------------------------------------- > Dr. Johannes Hachmann > Postdoctoral Reseach Fellow > > Aspuru-Guzik Research Group > Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology > Harvard University > 12 Oxford St, Rm Cv002 > Cambridge, MA 02138 > USA > eMail: jh(a)chemistry.harvard.edu > ----------------------------------------------- > > -- ******************************************** 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] The real list: Roberto wins!

by Johannes Hachmann

Alright, I want the desk labeled O in the map. Your turn Amedeo (the other Sule...)! Taken so far: Roberto: N Johannes: O Johannes ----------------------------------------------- Dr. Johannes Hachmann Postdoctoral Reseach Fellow Aspuru-Guzik Research Group Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford St, Rm Cv002 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA eMail: jh(a)chemistry.harvard.edu -----------------------------------------------

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