aspuru-list February 2009

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] meeting with Samorjai

by Semion K Saikin

Dear Group, We have scheduled a meeting with Prof. Samorjai for tomorrow, Thursday 10:30- 11:10am. Welcome to join it! The original idea was learning from him about surface chemistry and its relevance to the SERS project, but we can discuss several topics. Thanks, Semion ******************************************** Semion K. Saikin 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 -- Today at 5 pm: New Forms of Wind Power

by Center for the Environment

Finding secure, safe and reliable sources of energy to power world economic growth will be one of the great challenges of this century. The Harvard University Center for the Environment invites the Harvard community to take up the challenge by participating in this ongoing series of discussions. THE FUTURE OF ENERGY Spring 2009 Saul Griffith President and Chief Scientist, Makani Power "New Forms of Wind Power and the Incentive for Out-of-the-Box Thinking on Energy" TODAY at 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center Lecture Hall D One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Makani Power is seeking to harness high-altitude wind energy to produce energy at an unsubsidized real cost significantly below that of the least expensive coal-fired power plants, the current benchmark of the lowest cost source of power. Capturing a small fraction of the global high-altitude wind energy flux could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe. Saul Griffith has multiple degrees in materials science and mechanical engineering and completed his Ph.D. in Programmable Assembly and Self Replicating machines at MIT. He is the co-founder of numerous companies including: Optiopia, Squid Labs, Potenco, Instructables.com, HowToons and Makani Power. Saul has been awarded numerous awards for invention including the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Collegiate Inventor's award, and the Lemelson-MIT Student prize. Recently, he has been named a MacArthur Fellow. The Future of Energy lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. All of the lectures are free and open to the public. --- Contact: Lisa Matthews Events Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02139 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.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5… 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://forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=d08204e… Update your profile: http://harvard.list-manage.com/profile?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5bea9…

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Sigi's talk is NOW

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Sigi is talking now at Pfizer! Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Sent from my mobile phone and might contain typos. Thanks for understanding.)

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] JCP review comments.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, To those of you that I passed along copies of the 2 recent JCP papers, please send me along your comments on the papers by Thursday, as I will write my own review incorporating your comments on Friday and Saturday. Thank you, 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: Oggi Gourmet...What's for dinner?

by James D Whitfield

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Probability questions

by James D Whitfield

Hi group, If anyone is a badass at prob and stat or just wants to brush up, can you let me know so we can look at a couple problems together. JDW James 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] [iic-colloquium] [Colloquium] IIC-CS Joint Colloquium on Feb. 26 - S. Muthukrishnan

by Pavlos Protopapas

IIC-CS Joint Colloquium Internet Ad Auctions: Algorithms, Economics and Directions S. Muthukrishnan, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:00 p.m. PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK TAKES PLACE AT 60 OXFORD ST., RM. 330. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 outside Rm. 330. 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. S. Muthukrishnan (Muthu) finished his Ph.D. at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, in 1994. He has been a faculty member at the University of Warwick, UK, a Member of the technical staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and a technology consultant at AT&T Labs. He is now a Senior Research Scientist at Google Research in New York, on leave from Rutgers University, where he is a professor. His research interests are 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 athttp://www.amazon.com/Data-Streams-Applications-Foundations-Theoretical/d…), 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 address at http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10494&page=68), string matching algorithms and others. --------------- For more information about IIC colloquia and other events : http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming If you would like to subscribe to our listserv for announcements of IIC colloquia and workshops, or if you would like to be removed from the list, please contact Helene Tingle Uysal, helene_tingle(a)harvard.edu. _______________________________________________ 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] ANNOUNCEMENT - Prof. Gregory D. Scholes Seminar - 2/25/09

by rtavilla＠rle.mit.edu

Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement The Center for Excitonics is sponsoring 2009 series of energy-related lectures from scholars and colleagues in the private sector who are working in the field. We invite you to join us and to forward this information on to others who might be interested in attending this and other seminars. Title: Electronic Structure and Excited State Dynamics in Biological and Nanoscale Systems Presenter: Professor Gregory D. Scholes Organization: University of Toronto Department of Chemistry Lash-Miller Chemical Laboratories Institute for Optical Sciences and Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control Date: February 25, 2009 Time: 3:00 - 4:00pm Place: 36-428 Refreshments: Yes Seminar URL: http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics/scholes-022509.html Center URL: http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics/ Abstract After photoexcitation, energy absorbed by a molecule can be transferred efficiently over a distance of up to several tens of Ångstrom to another molecule by the process of resonance energy transfer, RET (also commonly known as electronic energy transfer, EET). Examples of where RET is observed include natural and artificial antennae for the capture and energy conversion of light in photosynthesis, amplification of fluorescence-based sensors, optimization of organic light-emitting diodes, and the measurement of structure in biological systems (FRET). Recent experimental work in our laboratory suggests that RET in conjugated polymers may involve surprising electronic coherence. This, in turn, contributes to enhancing the semiconductor-like optical properties of these systems. I will describe an ultrafast polarization experiment specifically designed to observe quantum coherent dynamics in this regime. Our results suggest that quantum transport effects occur at room temperature when chemical bonds connecting donor and acceptor help to correlate dephasing perturbations. A fascinating topic in quantum chemistry is the elucidation and quantification of models for electron correlation, which is crucial for the correct description of electronic excited states. In the second part of this talk I will discuss experiments that we have used to probe electron correlation in molecules and nanoscale systems, such as nanocrystals and carbon nanotubes. Bio Dr. Scholes obtained both his B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Melbourne. He undertook postdoctoral studies at Imperial College in London from 1995–1997 as a Ramsay Memorial Research Fellow. During the period 1997–2000 he pursued further postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley (with Prof Graham Fleming, presently Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab). He subsequently took a faculty position at the University of Toronto, in the Department of Chemistry (2000) and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005. Dr. Scholes took research and study leave during 2006–2007, and spent productive and enoyable time at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Colorado, USA) and Università di Pisa (Toscana, Italia). Recent awards honoring his research achievements include the 2007 Royal Society of Canada Rutherford Medal in Chemistry, a 2007 NSERC Steacie Fellowship, the 2006 Canadian Society of Chemistry Keith Laidler Award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2005–2006).

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Today

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We will meet today at 3:00 in 6-310. Xie Chen will give a brief presentation on her work. 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] ACS meeting in Salt Lake City

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Deadline for early registration is today. If Alan knows you're attending, please stop by with your member number and I can register you. Thanks, Anna -- Anna B. Shin Aspuru-Guzik Group Administrator Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617.496.9964 phone 617.496.9411 fax anna(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Aspuru-Guzik Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

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