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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Engineering molecular spin qubits

by James D Whitfield

Hi everyone, Attached is a paper I think most of us will find interesting. 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] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update February 5 - 19

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Tuesday, February 10: Dr. Ory Zik, co-founder and CEO of HelioFocus, a company developing and commercializing modular, highly-efficient solar thermal solutions, discusses the challenge of building a solar startup at the Harvard Business School. Thursday, February 12: Celebrate the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birthday with Janet Browne at the Harvard Museum of Natural History Evolution Matters lecture series. Tuesday, February 19: The Energy and Environment Professional Interest Council welcomes Prof. Ackerman (Tufts University) to discuss his recently published book, "Can We Afford the Future?: The Economics of a Warming World." Calendar Listings: Thursday 2/5/2009 4:00p OEB Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge) "Exploring the genetic basis of mimicry and speciation in Heliconius butterflies." Marcus Kronforst, FAS Center for Systems Biology. Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-5891 , www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... 6:00p - 8:00p Climate Change: Policy Change and Complex Systems (MIT Sloan, E51-376, Tang Center, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Dr. John Sterman, the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Director of the System Dynamics Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Contact: https://www.123signup.com/servlet/Sig... 6:00p - 7:00p EEPIC Student Speaker Series (Taubman 301, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) "Smart Grid Technologies and Policies." Alex Zheng, MPP1. Contact: Andrew Foss, andrew_foss(a)ksg09.harvard.edu Friday 2/6/2009 8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Structurally diverse dsRNA viruses." Max Nibert (Virology), Harvard Medical School- Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. Contact: Runal Mehta, runal_mehta(a)harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643 , www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html 11:00a - 12:00p Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Dynamics of coupled natural and human systems in the Colorado Front." Patrick Bourgeron, Plymouth State University. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 12:00p Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series (Pierce Hall, Room 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Fluid Mechanics of Sea Ice and Ice Shelves." Grae Worster, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, and Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK. Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM... Saturday 2/7/2009 8:00a - 5:00p Changing Landscapes: 2009 Real Estate Symposium at HBS (Harvard Business School, Allston, MA) Keynote Speaker: Nori Gerardo Lietz, recently named the second most important figure in global real estate behind Sam Zell. Featured Panels on Changing Environment and Changing Landscapes. Contact: www.www.hbsrealestate.net Monday 2/9/2009 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 4:00p MIT Science Technology, and Society Colloquia (MIT, Building E51-095, Cambridge, MA) "Agricultural Biotechnology and Society: African Perspectives." Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development & Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization. Contact: 617-452-2390, web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html 4:00p EPS Spring Colloquium (Haller Hall, Geological Museum 102, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Tectonics and climate of the southern Central Andes." Manfred Strecker, University of Potsdam, Germany. Tuesday 2/10/2009 9:00a - 10:30a Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series (Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) "Building Institutions for Conservation and Sustainable Development: Examples from India." Kamal Bawa, Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Contact: www.cid.harvard.edu/sustsci 12:00p - 1:00p Herbaria Seminar Series (Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA) "Why are there so many herbivorous insects in tropical forests?" George Weiblen, University of Minnesota. 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) 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 Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar (Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Retrodiction: Phylogenetic Comparative Methods for Predicting the Past." Dr. Chris Organ, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. Contact: ehap.seminar(a)gmail.com 4:15p MIT Energy Initiative Seminar Series (MIT Building 66, Room 110, Cambridge, MA) "Recent advances, new trends, and future challenges within the Li-ion battery energy storage system." Jean-Marie Tarascon, Professor, Université de Picardie Jules Verne. Contact: web.mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/ 6:00p - 7:00p Solar Energy Startups: the Israeli Perspective (Aldrich 207, Harvard Business Scool, Boston, MA) A presentation by Dr. Ory Zik, co-founder and CEO of HelioFocus, a company developing and commercializing modular, highly-efficient solar thermal solutions. Contact: Larryt(a)cjp.org, 617-457-8732 6:00p - 7:30p Great Decisions Global Affairs Lecture Series (Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St., Boston, MA) "Energy and the U.S. Economy." Topic: Instability in key producing regions such as the Middle East and increasing demand from developing countries are affecting the global economy. Wednesday 2/11/2009 3:30p Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation Series (Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden St., Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA) "The Evolutionary Mechanics of Movement and Communication in the Sea." Sheila Patek, Radcliffe Institute Fellow, assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California at Berkeley. Contact: (617) 495-8212, www.radcliffe.edu 6:00p - 7:30p MIT Energy Club Lecture Series (MIT, Building E51, Room 335, Cambridge, MA) "America's Energy Future panel discussion." Mike Morris, CEO, American Electric Power, with Former New York Governor, George Pataki and President of Ceres, Mindy Lubber. Contact: events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?e... 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 2/12/2009 5:00p - 6:15p God and Global Warming: Scientists' and Evangelicals' Common Voice (Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA) Join Eric Chivian and Richard Cizik as they tell the story of their discovery that scientists and evangelical leaders shared a profound reverence for life on Earth and a deep sense of responsibility about working together to protect it. Contact: Meg Thomsen, margaret_thomsen(a)hms.harvard.edu, 617-384-8533 , chge.med.harvard.edu 6:00p - 7:30p MIT Energy Club Lecture Series (MIT, Building 4, Room 163, Cambridge, MA) "Integrating Electric Vehicles Into New England's Grid and Electricity Markets." Panelists will discuss integrating electric vehicles into New England's grid and electricity markets. Contact: John Kluza, jkluza(a)mit.edu , events.mit.edu/scripts/list_ext.pl?gr... 6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History: Evolution Matters (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Darwin at 200: Rethinking the Revolution." Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... 6:00p - 7:30p Human Rights Distinguished Lectures (Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA) "Promoting Human Rights and Protecting Human Dignity through the United Nations: The Impact of Development and Climate Change." Ambassador Peter Maurer, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations. Contact: humanrights(a)harvard.edu , www.humanrights.harvard.edu/ Friday 2/13/2009 9:00a - 12:30p Restructuring Roundtable (Foley Hoag, 155 Seaport Blvd, 13th Floor Conference Room, Boston, MA) "Integrating Electric Vehicles into a Smarter Electric Grid." Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner John Wellinghoff. Contact: www.raabassociates.org/main/roundtabl... 12:30p - 1:30p Boston University Presidential Lecture on Energy and Environmental Sustainability ( Location: Boston University School of Management Auditorium 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston) "The Link Between Energy and Financial Markets." Joseph T. Kelliher, Former chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Contact: www.bu.edu/eng/kelliher/ 2:30p - 4:30p MIT Seminar on Environmetnal and Agricultural History (Building E51, Room 095, MIT, Cambridge, MA) "She Sings (My Life as a Mosquito): The Story of Malaria's Unstable Agro-Ecology in Ethiopia." Jim McCann, Professor of History, Boston University. Contact: Margo Collett, mcollett(a)mit.edu Saturday 2/14/2009 2:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Family Program (HMNH, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin." Children's book author Kathryn Lasky and artist Matthew Trueman. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu Sunday 2/15/2009 2:00p - 12:45p Harvard Museum of Natural History Family Program (HMNH, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "An Afternoon with Charles Darwin." With Andrew Berry. Imagine meeting Charles Darwin! What stories would he tell? What would you ask him? Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/family_programs/... Monday 2/16/2009 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 2/17/2009 9:00a - 4:00p Planetary Science microSymposium (Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 20 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA) Speakers from Harvard, CfA and NASA will presenting on a range of topics. Followed by a reception. Contact: Glenn Sterenborg, mgsteren(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.geophysics.harvard.edu/psm 12:00p - 1:00p Herbaria Seminar Series (Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA) "Boletus rubropunctus forms tuberculate ectomycorrhizae and sclerotia with Quercus spp. over a wide geographic range." Matt Smith, Pfister Lab, Farlow Fellow. 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) 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... 5:00p - 6:30p EEPIC Expert Speaker Engagement (Malkin Penthouse, Littauer, 4th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) "Can We Afford the Future?: The Economics of a Warming World." Prof. Frank Ackerman, Tufts University. 5:30p MIT Faculty Club Seminar (MIT Faculty Club, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA) "The Role of Battery Technology in the Electrification of Vehicles." Yet-Ming Chiang, Kyocera Professor of Ceramics, MIT. Contact: alum.mit.edu/learn/SeminarSeries/Bost... Wednesday 2/18/2009 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littaur-382, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) "The Price of Gasoline and the Demand for Fuel Efficiency: Evidence from Monthly New Vehicles Sales Data." Thomas Klier, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Joshua Linn, University of Ilinois. Contact: Jason Chapman, Jason_Chapman(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617-496-8054 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 2/19/2009 11:00a - 3:00p EBC 5th Semiannual Environmental, Energy & Engineering Career Fair (Lenox Hotel, 61 Exeter St., Boston, MA) This Environmental & Energy Career Fair is one of the best opportunities to learn about environmental professions. Contact: ebc.terranovum.com/index.php?id=77&am... 6:00p - 7:00p MIT Energy: Wind Sub-Community Lecture Series (MIT, Building E51, Room 376, Cambridge, MA) Jack Clarke of Mass Audubon will give a lecture on wind energy and wildlife issues including an overview as well as a more focused discussion of the "challenges" that the Cape Wind project. Contact: events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?e... --- 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] Fwd: 4th school & workshop on TDDFT: Prospects and Applications

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Miguel Marques <mmarques(a)lpmcn.univ-lyon1.fr> Date: Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:15 AM Subject: 4th school & workshop on TDDFT: Prospects and Applications To: olivares(a)fas.harvard.edu Dear Colleague, Please find below the announcement for the 4th school & international workshop "Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Prospects and Applications". We would appreciate if you could forward this message to anyone who might be interested. Thank you, Miguel Marques, Fernando Nogueira, Angel Rubio, and E.K.U. Gross P.S: Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement. ************************************************************************** 4th "Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Prospects and Applications" January 2-15th 2010 Benasque Center for Physics, Spain Organizers: *) E. K. U. Gross *) Miguel A. L. Marques *) Fernando Nogueira *) Angel Rubio For registration and further details go to: http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2009tddft/ and http://www.tddft.org/TDDFT2010/2010tddft.htm Scientific Motivation for this event: ------------------------------------ The use of TDDFT is increasing, and it is fast becoming one of the tools of choice to get accurate and reliable predictions for excited-state properties in solid state physics, chemistry and biophysics, both in the linear and non-linear regimes. This interest has been motivated by the recent developments of TDDFT (and time-dependent current functional theory) and include the description of photo-absorption cross section of molecules and nanostructures, electron-ion dynamics in the excited state triggered by either a small or high intense laser fields, van der Waals interactions, development of new functionals coping with memory and non-locality effects, applications to biological systems (chromophores), transport phenomena, optical spectra of solids and low-dimensional structures (as nanotubes, polymers, surfaces...). Despite the rising interest in the calculation of excited state properties of quantum systems, the techniques being used have usually been just one of the topics covered in international meetings, schools and workshops. This means that scientists new to the field face difficulties in grasping its many aspects that could be alleviated if they could attend a school on time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) or Many-Body Techniques (MBT). The school is followed by an international workshop, where the new developments of TDDFT and Many-Body Techniques for the calculation of excitations are discussed. Students attending the school are encouraged to attend the workshop, so they can get in contact with state of the art research in the field. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together leading experts in all these fields with different backgrounds, like density functional, many-body, nuclear physics, quantum chemists, and biophysicists. This allows the exchange of ideas between the different fields and the creation of links between the traditionally separated communities. Tentative program for the school: -------------------------------- The school will be attended by a maximum of around 50 students, and will last 9 days, with theoretical sessions (mostly) in the mornings and practical (tutorial) sessions in the afternoons. The theoretical sessions will consist of four 45m lectures (including discussions) per day. The practical sessions will last for 3 hours per day and a computer will be allocated for every two students. This will allow the students to have some time every day for studying and talking to the teachers. The program of the school starts with basic TDDFT, then continues with more complex theoretical and numerical aspects of TDDFT, and ends with an outline of some of its many applications. Basic knowledge on ground state DFT calculations is required. Also during the school we will address other approaches to describe excited state properties based on either many-body perturbation theory or quantum-chemistry schemes. The preliminary program can be downloaded from http://www.tddft.org/TDDFT2010/2010tddft.htm Tentative list of teachers: --- For the theoretical classes K. Capelle (Sao Carlos, Brazil) - Current DFT and C. Ullrich (U Missouri, USA) Franz Himpsel (USA) - Overview of spectroscopies A. Castro (FU Berlin, Germany) - Propagation schemes Optimal control theory R.W. Godby (York, UK) - Many-Body - GW E.K.U Gross (FU Berlin, Germany) - TDDFT M. Head-Gordon (UC Berkeley, USA) - TDDFT as a tool in chemistry M. Lein (MPI Heidelberg, Germany) - Models for time-dependent phenomena X. Lopez (San Sebastian, Spain) - TDDFT as a tool in biophysics N. Maitra (New York, USA) - Advanced TDDFT I. Tokatly (San Sebastian, Spain) or L. Reining (Paris, France) - Many-Body - BSE R. van Leeuwen (Groningen, The Netherlands) - TDDFT versus Many-Body Stefano Ossicini (Modena, Italy) - Fraud in Science --- For the practical sessions Xavier Andrade (San Sebastian, Spain) Silvana Botti (Paris, France) Alberto Castro (Berlin, Germany) Pablo Garcia (Madrid, Spain) Andrea Marini (Rome, Italy) Conor Hogan (Rome, Italy) Daniele Varsano (Modena, Italy) Yann Pouillon (San Sebastian, Spain) Micael Oliveira (Coimbra, Portugal) During the school we will incentive a close and informal contact between the students and the teachers. Furthermore, the students will be stimulated to talk about their current research activities and future interests. We feel that this is an important point, since young scientists should be involved in the building up of a strong community. The preliminary program of the workshop is: ------------------------------------------- The 4 day workshop will start January 10, 2010 in the afternoon and will end January 15 in the morning. It will include both invited talks on key aspects of TDDFT (45m each), contributed talks (30m) and a poster session. The tentative list of invited speakers is: ** Foundations of TDDFT, new developments and challenges W. Kohn (Santa Barbara, USA) N. Maitra (City University of New York, USA) A. Goerling (Munich, Germany) S. Kuemmel (MPI-Dresden, Germany) K. Burke (Irvine, USA) J. Dobson (Brisbane, Australia) ** Experimental challenges A. Zewail (Pasadena, USA) F. Krauz (Munich, Germany) P.B. Corkum (Ottawa, Canada) G. Gerber (Wuerzburg, Germany) or L. Woeste (Berlin, Germany) ** TD-DMFT, optimal control theory and strong laser fields O. Gritsenko (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) S. Kummel (Dresden, Germany) M. Lein (Kassel, Germany) T. Seidemann (Chicago, USA) ** Excited state dynamics and chemical reactivity O. Sugino (Tokyo, Japan) K. Reuter (Berlin, Germany) J. Hutter (Zurich, Switzerland) Y. Miyamoto (NEC, Japan) F. Martin (Madrid, Spain) ** Molecular Transport T.N. Todorov (Belfast, UK) R. van Leeuwen (Jyvaskyla, Finland) R. Car (Princeton, New Jersey, USA) M. di Ventra (Virginia, USA) R. Baer (Jerusalem, Israel) R. Godby (York, UK) ** Applications: nanotubes, quantum dots, nanostructures, solids and surfaces S.G. Louie (Berkeley, USA) R. Nieminen (Helsinki, Finland) C. Ambrosch-Draxl (Graz, Austria) M. Scheffler (Berlin, Germany) G. Kresse (Wien, Austria) S. Baroni (Trieste, Italy) ** Biological applications E.J. Baerends (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) I. Tavernelli (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland) M. Sprik (Cambridge, UK) F. Furche (Irvine, USA) Klaus Schulten (Illinois, USA) Some of the lecturers at the school will also contribute to the workshop. There will be two contributed talks from the winners of the 2nd Pedro Pascual Prize for the best posters presented at the school. Format of the workshop: ----------------------- We plan an informal workshop with sufficient time for discussions. The informal character of the talks will be encouraged and presentations which are partly tutorial, given the mixed character of the audience, are most welcome. The time for each talk will be divided into 75% for the presentation plus 25% discussion. Speakers will be encouraged to divide their available time into two separate parts if their topic falls under more than one heading. Applications/Support: -------------------- All persons who wish to participate should fill out the application form at http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2009tddft/ In the comments section, please indicate if you wish to participate in the Summer Summer School or in the Workshop (or in both). School only: As we have a very limited number of places for the school, students will be selected from among an open pool of applicants who have demonstrated a strong interest in computational sciences, applied to chemistry, physics, materials science and biology. Therefore, in order that we can make a reasonable selection, we ask that *all* candidates include in the comments section the following information: *) Date of birth, gender *) Motivation/Why they want to come (just a couple of lines is enough) *) What is their current and previous positions (if PhD or Post- doc state your supervisor). We will *not* accept applications that do not include this information. Furthermore, we will give priority to students willing to participate in both the Summer School and the Workshop. We also have a certain number of grants available that cover traveling and part of the stay in Benasque. If you want to apply for a grant, please indicate explicitly that you wish to be supported in the comments section, and explain why (just a couple of lines is enough). For participants coming from the USA, please check the following address for support: http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu/travel/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] printer ready

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, The backorder of ink sticks came in, so the printer's running now. Thank you for understanding. 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] TODAY: Excitonics Seminar - Ken Crozier

by rtavilla＠rle.mit.edu

- Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement The Center for Excitonics has begun its seminar series of 2009 ( http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics). The Center is sponsoring a 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: Optical Antennas for Nanophotonics Presenter: Prof. Ken Crozier Organization: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Date: February 4, 2009 Time: 3:00 - 4:00pm Place: 36-428 Refreshments: Yes URL: http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics/crozier-020409.html Abstract Progress in nanotechnology is fundamentally dependent on tools for observation, measurement and manipulation. Optical techniques are well established at the macro-scale, but difficult to apply on the nano-scale. This is due to the mismatch between the wavelength of light, and the dimensions of nanostructures. Optical antennas present an opportunity to bridge these length scales. These plasmonic devices enable electromagnetic energy to be concentrated into deep sub-wavelength regions. In this presentation, I will discuss several aspects of optical antennas. I will discuss the realization of optical antennas fabricated on the facets of laser diodes (APL 89, 093120 (2006)). It was shown experimentally that the antenna concentrated light into a ~40*100nm spot, an area ~50 times smaller than the diffraction limit. I will present recent work on the experimental observation of narrow plasmon resonances in gold nanoparticle arrays (APL 93, 181108 (2008)). Bio Ken Crozier is John Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University. His work has been featured in MIT Technology Review, Newsweek and Laser Focus World. MIT Technology review highlighted optical antennas as being one of The Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2007. He received his undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He was awarded the L.R. East Medal (university medal in engineering) by the University of Melbourne. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003 under Professors Calvin Quate and Gordon Kino. He was a recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2008.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] GROUP TASKS: STEP #1

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, please read carefully below. 1) As you know, the group is a large group, and Anna has been helping me with submitting a bunch of deadline-related materials (e.g. grants and nominations) the last couple weeks. We know there have been delays in reimbursements and other administrative work. To help with this, I ask you and ask you again, Don't ask Anna for things that you can do yourselves or amongst yourselves. 2) I will start assigning tasks or reaffirming your group tasks. Some of the things she does should be done by different group members. The people that are responsible for different things should be on top of them. I want you to volunteer for these tasks. I want a fresh start, so let's get volunteers to sign up, and if you don't sign up, I will assign you a task of my choosing. 3) STEP #1 is generating a list of tasks. I came up with the following one. By tomorrow, give me feedback on: TASKS that we should erase of the list or merge with others, or additional tasks that I missed. http://www.moreganize.com/bd05f4bcb04676206e0cfcf95fbddadcb 4) STEP #2 tomorrow you will be receiving the final e-mail to tell us your preferences about which task you want to do by entering the poll above. You can say which ones you could do, and which one you prefer. E-mail me with questions, and use the public list. 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] Today at 5 pm: Clean Coal and Our Energy Future

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 Steven Leer Chairman and CEO, Arch Coal, Inc. _"The Vital Role of Clean Coal in Securing Our Energy Future"_ TODAY, February 3 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center Lecture Hall C One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA St. Louis-based Arch Coal is the nation's second largest coal producer, with 11 mining complexes in six states. Through these operations, Arch provides fuel for approximately 6% of the electricity generated in the United States. Arch is engaged in the emerging coal-to-liquids industry through an ownership interest in DKRW Advanced Fuels, which plans to construct its first facility for converting coal into ultra-clean transportation fuels in southern Wyoming. Steven F. Leer has served as Arch Coal's president and CEO since the company was formed in 1997. Leer is also chairman of the Coal Industry Advisory Board of the International Energy Agency, and is past chairman and continues to serve on the Boards of the Center for Energy and Economic Development, the National Coal Council, and the National Mining Association. 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. 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.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=2d38a61… Update your profile: http://harvard.list-manage.com/profile?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5bea9…

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] REMINDER: Excitonics Seminar - February 4

by rtavilla＠rle.mit.edu

Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement The Center for Excitonics has begun its seminar series of 2009 ( http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics). The Center is sponsoring a 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: Optical Antennas for Nanophotonics Presenter: Prof. Ken Crozier Organization: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Date: February 4, 2009 Time: 3:00 - 4:00pm Place: 36-428 Refreshments: Yes URL: http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics/crozier-020409.html Abstract Progress in nanotechnology is fundamentally dependent on tools for observation, measurement and manipulation. Optical techniques are well established at the macro-scale, but difficult to apply on the nano-scale. This is due to the mismatch between the wavelength of light, and the dimensions of nanostructures. Optical antennas present an opportunity to bridge these length scales. These plasmonic devices enable electromagnetic energy to be concentrated into deep sub-wavelength regions. In this presentation, I will discuss several aspects of optical antennas. I will discuss the realization of optical antennas fabricated on the facets of laser diodes (APL 89, 093120 (2006)). It was shown experimentally that the antenna concentrated light into a ~40*100nm spot, an area ~50 times smaller than the diffraction limit. I will present recent work on the experimental observation of narrow plasmon resonances in gold nanoparticle arrays (APL 93, 181108 (2008)). Bio Ken Crozier is John Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University. His work has been featured in MIT Technology Review, Newsweek and Laser Focus World. MIT Technology review highlighted optical antennas as being one of The Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2007. He received his undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He was awarded the L.R. East Medal (university medal in engineering) by the University of Melbourne. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003 under Professors Calvin Quate and Gordon Kino. He was a recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2008.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] 3rd Joint Theory Seminar

by Anna B. Shin

Dear All, The 3rd Joint Theory Seminar will be held this Thursday, 5 February at 1:30pm in the Division Room, M102. Joel Yuen of the Aspuru-Guzik group will be presenting. Title and abstract follow: *Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) for Open Quantum Systems* TD-DFT is an equivalent formulation of time-dependent quantum mechanics which regards *particle densities* as its main object of study rather than * wavefunctions* or *density matrices*. At the present time, TD-DFT is the preferred electronic structure method to study the dynamics of large systems due to its cheap computational scalability compared to standard many-body theories. So far, TD-DFT has focused mostly on closed systems. In this talk, I will show how it is possible to import the ideas of TD-DFT to the realm of open quantum systems described with arbitrary memory kernels. I will explain how it is possible to use closed and non-interacting systems to simulate open many-body interacting systems. A model calculation of the theory and numerical simulations will also presented and the implications of this investigation will be discussed with respect to the current state of the art of TD-DFT and the increasing interest of the Chemical Physics community in the study of Open Quantum Systems. Thank you, Anna

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] BOOKS.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, I want you to carefully check if you have any of the books below by today, as I need to return them. Thank you, Alan Sangwoo, Alejandro: Some of the teaching books are there. Sangwoo can you collect those and give them to Anna? 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: Harvard Chemistry and Chemical Biology Library < library(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Date: Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:17 AM Subject: Loan Notice Letter To: aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu 01/31/2009 loan-notice-letter-00 Courtesy Notice Chemistry and Chemical Biology Library Harvard University 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-4079 Alan Aspuru-Guzik Harvard, FAS Chemistry&Chem Biology Mallinckrodt Chemistry Lab 12 Oxford St Cambridge MA 02138 02138 aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Patron ID: ID614909 The following items are due on the dates below: SYS. NO.: 009891249-6 Atkins, P. W. (Peter William), 1940- : Molecular quantum mechanics / Peter Atkins, Ronald Friedman..[009891249] Barcode:: 32044058029760 Sublibrary:Chemistry Collection: Call No:QD462 .A84 2005 Item Status:Regular loan Call No 2: Description:c.2 Loan Date:08/19/2008 Loan Hour:04:32 PM Due Date:02/02/2009 Due Hour:05:00 PM SYS. NO.: 009891249-6 Atkins, P. W. (Peter William), 1940- : Molecular quantum mechanics / Peter Atkins, Ronald Friedman..[009891249] Barcode:: 32044058029778 Sublibrary:Chemistry Collection: Call No:QD462 .A84 2005 Item Status:Regular loan Call No 2: Description:c.3 Loan Date:08/19/2008 Loan Hour:04:32 PM Due Date:02/02/2009 Due Hour:05:00 PM SYS. NO.: 011325488-1 Akulin, V. M. (Vladimir M.), 1953- : Coherent dynamics of complex quantum systems / Vladimir M. Akulin..[011325488] Barcode:: 32044058023656 Sublibrary:Chemistry Collection: Call No:QC174.4 .A38 2006 Item Status:Regular loan Call No 2: Description: Loan Date:12/06/2007 Loan Hour:11:52 AM Due Date:02/02/2009 Due Hour:05:00 PM SYS. NO.: 011542064-9 McQuarrie, Donald A. (Donald Allan) : Quantum chemistry / Donald A. McQuarrie..[011542064] Barcode:: 32044058029687 Sublibrary:Chemistry Collection: Call No:QD462 .M4 2008 Item Status:Regular loan Call No 2: Description: Loan Date:08/19/2008 Loan Hour:04:32 PM Due Date:02/02/2009 Due Hour:05:00 PM SYS. NO.: 011542083-5 Ratner, Mark A., 1942- : Introduction to quantum mechanics in chemistry / Mark A. Ratner, George C. Schatz..[011542083] Barcode:: 32044058029737 Sublibrary:Chemistry Collection: Call No:QD462 .R28 2001 Item Status:Regular loan Call No 2: Description:c.2 Loan Date:08/19/2008 Loan Hour:04:32 PM Due Date:02/02/2009 Due Hour:05:00 PM SYS. NO.: 011542083-5 Ratner, Mark A., 1942- : Introduction to quantum mechanics in chemistry / Mark A. Ratner, George C. Schatz..[011542083] Barcode:: 32044058029745 Sublibrary:Chemistry Collection: Call No:QD462 .R28 2001 Item Status:Regular loan Call No 2: Description:c.3 Loan Date:08/19/2008 Loan Hour:04:32 PM Due Date:02/02/2009 Due Hour:05:00 PM SYS. NO.: 011542470-9 : Problems and solutions to accompany Donald A. McQuarrie's Quantum chemistry: second edition / Mark Marshall and Helen Leung..[011542470] Barcode:: 32044058029786 Sublibrary:Chemistry Collection: Call No:QD462.7 .P76 2008 Item Status:Suppressed Call No 2: Description: Loan Date:08/20/2008 Loan Hour:10:28 AM Due Date:02/02/2009 Due Hour:05:00 PM SYS. NO.: 011542482-2 : What is quantum mechanics? : a physics adventure / Transnational College of LEX ; translated by John Nambu..[011542482] Barcode:: 32044058029802 Sublibrary:Chemistry Collection: Call No:QC174.12 .R96713 1996 Item Status:Regular loan Call No 2: Description:c.2 Loan Date:08/20/2008 Loan Hour:10:28 AM Due Date:02/02/2009 Due Hour:05:00 PM SYS. NO.: 011542482-2 : What is quantum mechanics? : a physics adventure / Transnational College of LEX ; translated by John Nambu..[011542482] Barcode:: 32044058029794 Sublibrary:Chemistry Collection: Call No:QC174.12 .R96713 1996 Item Status:Regular loan Call No 2: Description:c.3 Loan Date:08/20/2008 Loan Hour:10:28 AM Due Date:02/02/2009 Due Hour:05:00 PM Access your library account with your Harvard PIN number at holliscatalog.harvard.edu or contact the Circulation Desk for further information. Thank you for your cooperation in making the Harvard Library Collections accessible to library patrons.

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