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
Hi Cohen and Aspuru groups,
Since we share lounge space and an intrinsic level of nerdiness, there has
been a suggestion that we find some time to hang out together.
There is some interest in having a board game night twice a month in the
lounge space. If this doesn't sound like your idea of fun times, you have
obviously not played the myriad of games (mostly from Germany) that involve
skill, strategy, and subterfuge. These games (Settlers of Catan, Power
Grid, Puerto Rico, etc.) usually take an hour or two, depending on the
number of players, so initial proposals are for Thursday evening, Friday
dinnertime or some time on Sundays.
If you are interested, let me know if you have a preferred time.
Cheers,
Leslie
--
Leslie Vogt
Aspuru-Guzik Group
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
The Harvard Computer Society is proud to bring you Larry Wall,
legendary inventor of Perl, to Harvard today!
Come to Science Center Hall D at 5:30PM for an unedited version of the
history of Perl, its current development, and much wit and panache.
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Larry Wall was educated at various places including the Cornish School
of Music, the Seattle Youth Symphony, Seattle Pacific University,
Multnomah School of the Bible, SIL International, U.C. Berkeley, and
UCLA. Though trained primarily in music, chemistry, and linguistics,
Larry has been working with computers for the last 35 years or so. He
is most famous for writing _rn_, _patch_, and the Perl programming
language, but prefers to think of himself as a cultural hacker whose
vocation in life is to bring a bit of joy into the dreary existence of
programmers. For various definitions of "work for", Larry has worked
for Seattle Pacific, MusiComedy Northwest, System Development
Corporation, Burroughs, Unisys, the NSA, Telos, ConTel, GTE, JPL,
NetLabs, Seagate, Tim O'Reilly, the Perl Foundation, and
himself. Larry is currently employed by NetLogic Microsystems in
Mountain View, California. To get to work, he walks past both the
Computer History Museum and the Googleplex, which must mean something.
Preferably something absurd.
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Center for Excitonics
Seminar Series Announcement
The Center for Excitonics (http://www.rle.mit.edu/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 seminars.
Title: Excitonic Processes in Nanostructured
Optoelectronic Devices
Presenter: Prof. Vladimir Bulovic
Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science and
Research Laboratory of Electronics
MIT
Date: April 1, 2009
Time: 3:00 - 4:00pm
Place: 36-428
Refreshments: Yes
URL:
http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics/bulovic-040109.html
Abstract
Nanoscale materials such as molecules, polymers, and nanocrystal quantum
dots can be assembled into large area
functional optoelectronic devices that can surpass the performance of
today’s state-of-the-art technologies. Advances
in thin film processing of nanostructured material sets and concomitant
development of physical models of nanostructured
device operation are rapidly advancing this science and engineering field.
This talk will highlight the contribution of excitonic
processes in the optical and electrical response of nanostructured
optoelectronic devices, singling out the exciton diffusion as
the dominant governing process in many active structures. In light
emitting diodes, exciton diffusion affects the degree of
cascade energy transfer and the color saturation, and in solar cells,
photodetectors, and chemosensors, exciton diffusion to
interfaces is the central process in determining the exciton dissociation
efficiency, and the consequent photogeneration efficiency.
The talk will illustrate excitonic behavior using both specific technology
examples, as well as by describing model structures that
highlight the origin and influence of exciton energy disorder, the exciton
dynamics in mixed excitonic systems, and the related
challenges in measuring the exciton diffusion length.
Bio
Professor Vladimir Bulovic is a principal investigator in the Research
Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT). Professor Bulovic was graduated from Princeton
University with a B.S.E. (1991), M.A. (1995), and Ph.D. (1998)
in Electrical Engineering.
Professor Bulovic joined the faculty of MIT in 2000 as an Assistant
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research
interests include studies of physical properties of organic and
organic/inorganic nanodot composite thin films and structures, and
development of novel optoelectronic organic and hybrid nano-scale devices.
In 2004, Professor Bulovic was named as one of the TR100, the list of top
young innovators in technology named annually by Technology Review
magazine. In the same year, he also was awarded the Presidential Early
Career Award (PECASE), the nation's highest honor for scientists and
engineers at the beginning of their research careers.
Prior to joining MIT, Professor Bulovic was a Senior Scientist and Project
Head of Strategic Technology Development at Universal Display Corporation
(UDC). At UDC he worked on the application of organic materials to LEDs
for full color flat panel displays and thin film photovoltaics for solar
cell and detector applications. His work resulted in development of OLED
backlights, pixilated arrays of stacked OLEDs, and improved performance of
phosphorescent OLEDs. Prior to joining UDC he worked in Princeton's POEM
Center as a graduate researcher (1993-1998) and research associate
(1998-1999). At Princeton, Professo Bulovic participated in a series of
projects examining optical and electrical properties of vacuum deposited
amorphous and crystalline molecular organic thin films and devices. His
work resulted in development of OLED technologies such as transparent,
inverted, and stacked OLEDs, demonstration of the first optically pumped
organic semiconductor lasers, and understanding of photogeneration in
organic photovoltaic devices, microcavity effects in luminescent devices,
and the solid state solvation effects in polar organic media. From
1991-1993, Professor Bulovic worked at Columbia University's
Microelectronics Sciences Laboratory, where for he examined
image-potential states and resonances on metal surfaces utilizing
non-linear two-photon photoemission spectroscopy.
Group:
This afternoon there is a seminar that might be of interest to all the
photosynthetic people. I added it to the calendar as well.
Cesar
Suckjoon Jun, Harvard
"Bacterial chromosomes for theoreticians (and experimentalists)"
Tue Mar 31 3pm – Tue Mar 31 4pm
Lyman 425
Chromosomes are the cornerstone of fundamental processes of any cell,
and harmony between their physical properties and biological functions
is an evolutionary consequence. From physics point of view,
understanding bacterial chromosomes is quite challenging because of
the several lengthscales involved in the basic biological processes,
which often interfere one another [e.g., the size and geometry of the
cell, radius of gyration of the chromosome, persistence length,
supercoiled plectonemes, density correlation length (or the blob
size), Debye screening length, ...alas!]. In fact, many of the simple
questions involving polymers in confinement still remain unsolved. The
purpose of this talk is to illustrate the basic processes of
chromosome segregation in bacteria as a theoretician, and introduce
some of the open theoretical questions for theoreticians (and
experimentalists!)
--
Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario, Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Box#34
12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
rodriguez(a)chemistry.harvard.edu
Any volunteers for this position?
If so, let me know,
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
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matthew Shair <shair(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Subject: GPC Senate
To: gradstudents(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, postdocs(a)chemistry.harvard.edu,
Faculty <faculty(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>
Cc: Tony Shaw <shaw(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>, Carol Gonzaga <
carol(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>
Dear Students and Faculty:
In order to ensure more thorough representation of all research groups on
the GPC (Graduate Student-Postdoctoral Committee), we would like to
institute a senate-like system. Each group should nominate one graduate
student or postdoc to attend each of the GPC meetings. These meetings are
the first Wednesday of each month at 12:00 PM in the department center
(pizza served). I suggest that each group have GPC representative as a
group job. By having more equitable representation, we hope that the needs
of each group are heard and met.
It is fine if more than one student from each group would like to attend GPC
meetings, but at least one from each group should be present. Once each
group has nominated a GPC representative, please email Jason Beiger (
jbeiger(a)fas.harvard.edu) with your name and group. We would like to have
this in place by the May 6th GPC meeting.
Best Regards,
Matt
Matthew D. Shair
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
v: 617-495-5008
f: 617-496-4591
http://www.chem.harvard.edu/research/faculty/matthew_shair/home.html
Dear Group,
Please see Mike's talk tomorrow.
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
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Stopa <stopa(a)deas.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Westervelt group meeting]
To: "Anna B. Shin" <anna(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>, Alan Aspuru-Guzik <
aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>, Erin Boyd <eboyd(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Hi Anna,
I am giving a presentation to the Westervelt group meeting
on Thursday and it is directly related to stuff in Alan's group.
The attached e-mail is from Erin Boyd, who asks me to inform
the A-G group of the meeting time and place, which is:
Thursday April 2, 1:15 pm
Westervelt group room Gordon McKay 207
topic: quantum random walks and quantum computation.
could you send this information to the whole group
for me ?
Thanks !
Mike
--
Michael Stopa
Director: National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Computation Project
Center for Nanoscale Systems
Harvard University
11 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: 617-496-6932
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erin Boyd <eboyd(a)fas.harvard.edu>
To: Michael Stopa <stopa(a)deas.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:37:57 -0400
Subject: Re: Westervelt group meeting
Hi Mike,
I just sent out a reminder to the westervelt group about group meeting this
week. Could you email the other group that you are working on with this and
let them know when/where, etc.
Thanks,
Erin
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Erin Boyd <eboyd(a)fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> sounds good.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Michael Stopa <stopa(a)deas.harvard.edu>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Erin,
>> I'm not sure if I responded yet. April 2 is okay. I
>> put it down in my calendar.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> Erin Boyd wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mike,
>>> Does it work for you to give group meeting on Thursday April 2nd at
>>> 1:15pm? That is two weeks after March Meeting.
>>> Let me know and I'll pencil you in.
>>> ~Erin
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Michael Stopa
>> Director: National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Computation
>> Project
>> Center for Nanoscale Systems
>> Harvard University
>> 11 Oxford St.
>> Cambridge, MA 02138
>>
>> phone: 617-496-6932
>>
>>
>
Hello all,
Just to let you know that our new printer is up and ready at
mainz.chem.harvard.edu (or 128.103.54.198). Setup information is on
the group wiki. Although I didn't try the MS windows configuration, it
may be the same as the old one up to the device driver.
We also need to decide where the old printer should be placed. We can
have two printers in M110, or move one to Anna's or Alan's office.
Best,
Sangwoo
We will meet in the Division Room, M102. Dmitrij is up this time.
Cheers,
-A
--
Alejandro Perdomo
Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Physics.
Harvard University
12 Oxford St #482, Cambridge, MA, 02138.
perdomo(a)fas.harvard.edu
Dear Quanta
We will meet on Monday March 30 at 3:00 in 6-310. Hopefully Fred
Strauch from Williams will join us. He is speaking at 4:15.
Eddie
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