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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series this Friday at 12.15 pm

by Shu Sin Chng

Dear faculty, Please have an early lunch and join us for the following talks this and next week. Please strongly encourage your students/postdocs to come to these talks. Each talk will last 20 min. THIS FRIDAY (Oct 24), 12.15-1.15 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Stephan Zuend, Jacobsen Lab Talk title: Stabilization of iminium ions by amides and sulfinamides: fundamental studies and practical applications in small-molecule asymmetric catalysis Speaker: Paul Choi, Xie Lab Talk title: A stochastic single-molecule event triggers phenotype switching in a bacterial cell NEXT FRIDAY (Oct 31), 12.15-1.15 pm, Pfizer LH Speaker: Walter Kowtoniuk, Liu Lab Talk title: A chemical screen for biological small molecule-RNA conjugates reveals coenzyme A-modified RNA Speaker: Paul Bracher, Whitesides Lab Talk title: Chemistry on the prebiotic earth Refreshments and snacks will be provided at noon outside Pfizer. See you there! CCB Student/Postdoc Seminar Series

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] faculty annual reports

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Alan's activity report is due in mid-March. I need to compile a list of your awards, fellowships, invited or contributed talks/posters, etc. The easiest, most multi-purposeful way to do this would be for you to update your CVs and send to me. I can pull the information from there. Please send by Fri 6 March. Thanks very much, Anna

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Monday March 2

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We will meet on Monday March 2 at 3:00 in 6-310. Xie Chen will tell us about what she has been doing. Best, Eddie ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 6 Room 300 Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update February 26 - March 12

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Monday, March 2: Join Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, at the Science, Technology, and Society Circle to discuss "Options for a Low-Carbon Energy Future." Wednesday, March 5: The Environemntal Law Review Symposium focuses on methods of allocating the costs of addressing climate change among nations and how the international community’s human rights obligations could, or should, affect policy responses. Tuesday, March 10: A presentation by artist Eve Mosher of her project, "High Water Line" which visualizes the impact of climate change on coastal cities. A panel of three --a scientist, a critic and a designer -- respond to her presentation, informing their responses according to their various expertise. Calendar Listings: Today 2/26/2009 6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History: Evolution Matters (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Evolution in the Post-Genomic Age." Pardis Sabeti, Center for Systems Biology, Assistant Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... Friday 2/27/2009 11:00a - 12:00p Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution." Ben Bolker, University of Florida. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 12:00p GSD Green Design Lecture (Stubbins Room at Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 42 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA ) "What's Google Doing? Working Towards Sustainability." 12:30p - 1:30p Seminar in Occupational and Environmental Health Research (Kresge 502, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) "Fetal Window of Vulnerability to Airborne Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Prospective Birth Cohort Study of 344 Polish Mother-Newborn Pairs." Hyunok Choi, PhD, MPH, Research Fellow, Harvard. Contact: Ann Backus, MS, abackus(a)hsph.harvard.edu, 617/384-5404 Sunday 3/1/2009 12:30p - 5:00p Weatherization Barn-raising ( 120 Chestnut Street and 100 Henry Street, Cambridgeport, MA) Help to weatherize a neighbor's home (a skill you can take back to your own home). Contact: Steve Wineman, swineman(a)gis.net , 617-876-4753 6:00p Japanese Spirit in Nature: Save our earth. Stop the global warming. (Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, lecture hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA) . An ensemble of students and teachers from the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Japan, will perform Japanese music with a "green" theme. Contact: Jennifer Aubin, jennifer_aubin(a)harvard.edu , 617-496-5331, www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/events/con... Monday 3/2/2009 11:30a Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion. Contact: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 12:00p - 1:00p Environmental Sciences and Engineering Seminar (Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Constraints on Tropospheric Ozone Production: From Aircraft Observations to Heterogeneous Kinetics." Dr. Timothy Bertram, University of Michigan. Contact: Norma Stewart, nstewart(a)seas.harvard.edu 12:15p - 2:00p Science, Technology, and Society Circle (124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridge, MA) "Options for a Low-Carbon Energy Future." Michael B. McElroy (Harvard University). Sandwich lunches will be provided. Please RSVP to harvard.sts(a)gmail.com. Contact: harvard.sts(a)gmail.com by 4:00p EPS Spring Colloquium (Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "What do the noble gases really say about mantle convection and the deep Earth volatile cycles?" Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, Harvard University Contact: Ganna Savostyanova, savosty(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mukhop/ 4:00p MIT Science Technology, and Society Colloquia (MIT, Building E51-095, Cambridge, MA) "'Sustainable Development' from Tanzania to Chicago: Tracking the Subaltern in STS Studies." Chris Walley, Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT. Contact: 617-452-2390, web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html 5:30p - 6:30p Business & Environment Club Event (Aldrich 207, Harvard Business Scool, Boston, MA) Tim Healy, CEO, Chairman and co-Founder, EnerNOC. Contact: www.studentclubs.hbs.edu/benv/index.htm 6:00p Bright Green Talent (Starr Auditorium, 3rd Floor, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA ) Bright Green Talent is a mission-critical recruiting firm driven by the goal of helping solve climate change. Contact: www.brightgreentalent.com Tuesday 3/3/2009 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club (Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-384-8398, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 4:00p IOP Study Group: Art and Politics - The Influence of Writers and other Artists on Human Rights and Public Policy (Institute of Politics, Room L166, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) "How the poetic imagination, and poetry and its performance, have been used to enhance reason and passion on issues from war to global warming." Guest: Jorie Graham, Pulitzer Prize poet. Contact: www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-... Wednesday 3/4/2009 9:00a - 12:00p Boston Solar Workshop (Foley Hoag, 155 Seaport Blvd, 13th Floor Conference Room, Boston, MA) The City of Boston's Solar Boston program would like to invite you to a half-day solar energy conference focusing on the solar energy market and new solar energy policies. Contact: Andy Belden, andy.belden(a)mc-group.com 10:30a - 12:00p Geopolitics of Energy Seminar Series (Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA) "China." Erica Downs, China Energy Fellow, the Brookings Institution. Contact: bcsia_ksg(a)harvard.edu 8:00p 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. Contact: Caitlin Rotman, caitlin.rotman(a)gmail.com Thursday 3/5/2009 3:30p Harvard Environmental Law Review Symposium (Harvard Law School, Langdell North, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA) "Climate Change and Global Justice: Crafting Fair Solutions for Nations and Peoples." Contact: hlselr(a)law.harvard.edu, www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr... 3:30p China Project Seminar (Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Wind Power in China." Dr. Joanna Lewis, Assistant Professor, Science, Technology and International Affairs, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu 4:00p - 5:00p OEB Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "The strategies of stationary organisms: summoning the wind, finding self, and invading new territory." Anne Pringle, Harvard University. Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-5891 4:00p Climate Seminar (Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Evolution of the tropical warm pool and the modulation of convective heating." Peter Webster, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech. Contact: Shuting Jin , shuting(a)eps.harvard.edu, 617.384.9005, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 4:15p MIT Energy Initiative Seminar Series (MIT Building 66, Room 110, Cambridge, MA) "Meeting U.S. Energy and Climate Challenges with Rational Policy." Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Contact: web.mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/ 6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History: Evolution Matters (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Survival of the Swiftest, Smartest, or Fattest? Human Evolution 150 Years After Darwin." Daniel Lieberman, Harvard Professor of Biological Anthropology. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... 7:00p Climate Wars. What one will kill for in the 21st century. (Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA) Speaker: Harald Welzer. Moderator: Roger Kasperson. Contact: info(a)boston.goethe.org, 617 262 6050, www.goethe.de/wis/fut/dos/gdw/wel/en2... Friday 3/6/2009 10:00a - 3:00p All Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Development Career Fair (Low Library, Columbia University, New York, NY ) Harvard OCS Bus transportation provided with seats on a first come first serve basis. Contact: Jill Abruzese, jabruzes(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.earth.columbia.edu/education/ivy_... 11:00a - 12:00p Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Spatial and temporal drivers of West Nile virus ecology in North America." Shannon LeDeau, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 1:00p - 5:00p Sandia-MIT Workshops (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA) Two concurrent workshops: "'Right-Sized' Nuclear Reactors" and "SmartGrid: Challenges and Opportunities." Contact: edo(a)mit.edu 2:15p - 3:15p MIT Energy Conference (Kendall Square Marriot Hotel, Cambridge, MA) "Accelerating Change in Global Energy." The MIT Energy Conference brings together leaders in the fields of technology, policy, industry, finance, and entrepreneurship. Contact: www.mitenergyconference.com Saturday 3/7/2009 2:15p - 3:15p MIT Energy Conference (Kendall Square Marriot Hotel, Cambridge, MA) "Accelerating Change in Global Energy." Contact: www.mitenergyconference.com Monday 3/9/2009 11:30a Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion. Contact: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html Tuesday 3/10/2009 9:30a - 11:00a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series (Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA) "Public Policy for Private Sector Innovation." Charles Jones, ETIP Research Fellow. Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, (617) 496-5584, www.belfercenter.org/energy 12:00p - 1:00p Herbaria Seminar Series (Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA) "Phenological Interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana--Natural Variation and Natural Selection." George Chiang, Donohue/Kramer Lab. Contact: Margaret Richards, prichards(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 496-8062 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club (Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) isit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-384-8398, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 4:15p MIT Energy Initiative Seminar Series (MIT Building 66, Room 110, Cambridge, MA) "Sunlight-driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting." Nate Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology. Contact: web.mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/ 6:30p - 11:45a HighWaterLine: Visualizing the Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Our Cities (Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA) A presentation by artist Eve Mosher of her project, "High Water Line" which visualizes the impact of climate change on coastal cities. Contact: Ilana Cohen, icilana(a)gmail.com Wednesday 3/11/2009 10:30a - 12:00p Geopolitics of Energy Seminar Series (Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA) "The United States." Amy Myers Jaffe, Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University. Contact: bcsia_ksg(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-1400, belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/3... 12:15p Regional Integration in the GCC: Energy as the Driving Force (Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., JFK School of Government, Cambridge, MA) Contact: dubai_initiative(a)ksg.harvard.edu 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littaur-382, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) "Equilibrium Selection in Counterfactual Simulations: The U.S. Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards." Hunt Allcott and Erich Muehlegger, Harvard University. Contact: Jason Chapman, Jason_Chapman(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617-496-8054 5:00p - 7:00p Science and Democracy Lecture Series (Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA) "Connected Publics: Power and Politics in a Networked Age." A panel discussion between: Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School), Antoine Picon (Harvard Graduate School of Design), Lucy Suchman (Sociology, Lancaster University & MIT [visiting]), and Sherry Turkle (STS, MIT). Contact: www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/ 8:00p 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. Contact: Caitlin Rotman, caitlin.rotman(a)gmail.com Thursday 3/12/2009 3:30p China Project Seminar (Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "The Allocation of Pollutant Emission Reductions in China's Five Year Plans." Dr. ZHU Xufeng, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute. Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Proteogenomics as an approach for the study of natural microbial communities." Jill Banfield (Host: Helen White). Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html 6:30p - 8:30p Housing Cities Symposium 2009: Opening Event (MIT Stata Center, R&D Commons, 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA) A conversation with Sandra Henriquez, Administrator and CEO of the Boston Housing Authority. Contact: www.housingcities2009.com/ 6:30p - 9:00p How to Get into the Energy Business? Volunteer! (Offices of Holland & Knight 10 St. James Avenue 11th Floor Boston, MA) Keynote speaker: Nick d'Arbeloff, President, New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC). Contact: Andrew Becker, andrew.becker(a)ypenergy.org, (617) 429-8314, www.ypenergy.org/en/cev/223 ---- Be sure to 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. Feel free to distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the community. ============================================== 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] Summer for undergraduates and graduate student hosting.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, Greetings from Sanibel. Clearing house with e-mail. Two things: - For the undergraduate students interested in working during the summer, see the Center for the Environment website, and apply for the grant. I just submitted a job description. I expect that if you apply for it, at least one of you will get the stipend. - For the graduate students and postdocs: Not surprisingly for this semester, I will be away (in Germany first, then at APS) during the visit of prospective graduate students. I will ask for 2-3 volunteers/day to meet with the graduate students. Each one of you could handle a one-on-one meeting with the graduate student and tell them about the lab. Please contact Anna if you wish to volunteer for an hour of your time during one of those four days. The dates are March 12,13, March 19,20. 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] [iic-colloquium] [IIS/SEAS Colloquium] REMINDER: S. Muthu Muthukrishnan, Google Research

by Pavlos Protopapas

Date : 2/26/2009 Start Time : 04:00 PM End Time : 05:30 PM Title : S. Muthu Muthukrishnan, Google Research Description : JOINT IIC/CS Location: 60 Oxford Street RM. 330. Title: Internet Ad Auctions: Algorithms, Economics and Directions For over 5 years, internet companies have been selling ads via auctions and have enabled a fascinating market comprising millions of users and advertisers. This ad auctions market presents an unique opportunity to test and refine economic principles as applied to a very large number of interacting, dynamic, self-interested parties with myraid objectives; researchers in Economics, Computer Science, Game Theory, Marketing and Business Sciences are increasingly involved in defining, understanding and influencing it. This talk will be an overview of the underlying algorithmic and economic problems in internet ad auctions, and future directions. Speaker: S. Muthukrishnan (call him Muthu) finished his Ph.D. at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, in 1994. He has been a faculty member at U. Warwick, UK, a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Tech., and a Technology Consultant at AT&T Labs. He is now a Senior Research Scientist at Google Research in NY on leave from Rutgers University where he is a Professor. His research interest is in design and analysis of algorithms, databases, networking and market algorithms. His recent research is on algorithmic methods and computing systems for processing massive "streams'' of data with applications to IP traffic analyses (see book at http://www.amazon.com/Data-Streams-Applications-Foundations-Theoretical/dp/…), as well as algorithmic mechanism design for Internet ad auctions (See paper from ICALP Pleary Talk at http://algo.research.googlepages.com/icalp08.pdf) . His previous research interest included wireless networking (see NAE addr ess at http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10494&page=68)=68), string matching algorithms and others. Pavlos Protopapas _______________________________________________ iic-colloquium mailing list iic-colloquium(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-colloquium

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] [IIS/SEAS Colloquium] REMINDER Today 4:00pm: S. Muthu Muthukrishnan, Google Research

by Pavlos Protopapas

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Cake leftovers in kitchen

by Anna B. Shin

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Modern Spectroscopy Seminar, March 3

by rtavilla＠rle.mit.edu

Prof. Ji Ung Lee from State University of New York, Albany is coming to MIT to give a Modern Spectroscopy Seminar (MOS series, organized by the Spec Lab) next Tuesday March 3rd, at noon 12pm in 34-401A. Thank you, Rita

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] 6 months and I'm still alive?

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, If you're here tonight and feel like something sweet, please join me for cake at about 8/9ish. The occasion: my 6 month anniversary in the A-G group! Let's celebrate that my soon-to-be-donated-to-a-poor-bald-kid head of hair hasn't turned completely gray and fallen off...yet. Can you believe my luck?! Anna P.S. My beloved Lieber group peeps, neighbor Adam (invite your group) and Nicole, feel free to grab a piece if you're around. :)

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