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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] Organic PVcells

by Alejandro Perdomo

For those of us interested in PVcells. http://www.nature.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/nphoton/journal/v3/n5/full/… -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] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update April 30 - May 14

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Friday, May 1: The Harvard Museum of Natural History welcomes Peter Raven, world-renowned botanist and Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Center for Plant Conservation, a network of America's leading botanical institutions dedicated solely to preventing the extinction of America's imperiled, native flora. Monday, May 4: Join the newly formed Harvard Energy and Environment Club at the half-day "Stimulating Energy" conference intended to address the effectiveness of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, outlining what the recovery plan includes, how the money will be spent, how these investments will impact the broader economy, and assess which of the various energy technologies hold the most promise in today's political climate. Thursday, May 7: Fify years after C.P. Snow's coined the phrase "The Two Cultures" at his famous lecture, this panel discussion entitled "Cultures in Common" brings together a distinguished roster of speakers that will explore the many ways in which the cultures of science are in constant conversation with the cultures of the humanities, the social sciences, the arts, the law, and engineering and applied sciences. Calendar Listings: Today 4/30/2009 7:00p - 9:00p A City Hall Forum -- Meltdown: What You Need to Know and Do About Energy (Cambridge City Hall, City Council Chambers, Cambridge, MA) Moderated by Dr. Eric Lander Co-chair of President Obama's Council of Science & Technology Advisors. Contact: www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/2009... 7:30p Film Screening: "A Delicate Balance" (Sever Hall, Room 113, Harvar Yard, Cambridge, MA) A new Australian documentary that dispels the myths you have been led to believe about your food, your environment, and your world. Contact: Jessica Luna, luna(a)fas.harvard.edu Friday 5/1/2009 8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Surface Roughness and Its Influence on Bacterial Biofilm Formation." Roger York, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Whitesides Lab, Harvard Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Contact: Runal Mehta, runal_mehta(a)harvard.edu, www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html 9:00a Cambridge Science Festival (Various locations around Cambridge and Boston, MA) A celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Contact: www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home... 10:30a OEB Special Seminar (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Life in the Crust of the Ocean: Exploring Microbial Activity and Diversity in Basalts." Beth! Orcutt, The University of Southern California. Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Using spatial models to support landscape management." Eric Gustafson, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 1:00p The Role of the Private Sector in Combating Climate Change (Littauer 275, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) A discussion with Jonas Mechling, research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Contact: www.iop.harvard.edu/Events-Meetings/S... 2:00p - 3:00p Sustainable Energy Summit at U-Mass Amherst (Campus Center, UMass, Amherst, MA) UMass Amherst is partnering with Co-op Power to host the fifth annual Sustainable Energy Summit this year at the Campus Center.... Contact: www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=o6MBQV... 2:00p - 4:00p Center for American Political Studies Seminar (CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA) "How Citizens Make Sense of Climate Change: The Effect of Local Weather on Beliefs about Global Warming." Patrick J. Egan, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Policy at New York University. Contact: caps(a)gov.harvard.edu 4:00p Global Climate Change: A Paleoclimate Perspective from the World's Highest Mountains (MIT Campus, 32-123, Cambridge, MA) Presented by Professor Lonnie Thompson, University Distinguished Professor, School of Earth Sciences Senior Research Scientist, Byrd Polar Research Center. Contact: Professor Ronald G. Prinn, rprinn(a)mit.edu 5:00p The Challenges of Water Management in an Arid Environment (Thompson Room, Barker Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and School of Public Health. Contact: Andrea Murray, aemurray(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) Lecture by Peter Raven, world-renowned botanist and Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... Saturday 5/2/2009 9:00a Cambridge Science Festival (Various locations around Cambridge and Boston, MA) A celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Contact: www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home... 2:00p - 3:00p Sustainable Energy Summit at U-Mass Amherst (Campus Center, UMass, Amherst, MA) UMass Amherst is partnering with Co-op Power to host the fifth annual Sustainable Energy Summit this year at the Campus Center. Contact: www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=o6MBQV... Sunday 5/3/2009 9:00a Cambridge Science Festival (Various locations around Cambridge and Boston, MA) A celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Contact: www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home... Monday 5/4/2009 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/ 1:00p - 6:00p Stimulating Energy: Future Impacts of a Low-Carbon Energy Sector on the American Economy (Maxwell/Dworkin Lessin Room, G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Conference addressing the effectiveness of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act at stimulating a low carbon energy sector. Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/heec/conf_framese... 4:00p EPS Dissertation Defense (Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "The Use of Simple Physical Models in Seismology and Glaciology." Victor Tsai. Contact: Sarah Colgan, colgan(a)eps.harvard.edu Tuesday 5/5/2009 9:30a - 11:00a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series (Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA) "Coal Supply and Cost Under Technological and Environmental Uncertainty." Melissa Chan, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy. Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, (617) 496-5584, www.belfercenter.org/energy 12:00p - 1:00p Frontiers in Sustainability Science Seminar (Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) "Women in Agriculture and Marketing: Evidence and Lessons from the Philippines and Vietnam." Dr. Ma Elena Chiong-Javier, Professor of Behavioral Science and director, Social Development Research Center, De La Salle University, Philippines. Contact: Nancy Dickson, nancy_dickson(a)harvard.edu 4:00p Green Practices in Modern Chemical Research (Pfizer Lecture Hall, Lower Level, Mallinckrodt, 12 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) A Seminar by the Pfizer Green Chemistry Team. Contact: Doug Duquette, duquett(a)fas.harvard.edu 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 - 9:00p Cleantech Capital: Exploring Angel, VC, Strategic and Government Funding Options (One Federal Street, Boston, MA) Wind, solar, waste-to-energy, geothermal, biofuels, smart-grid, carbon-emissions capture and storage -- whatever the form, CleanTech is active. Contact: thecapitalnetwork.org/programs.upcomi... Wednesday 5/6/2009 7:30p Cambridge Forum: A Green Future - Clean and Cheap (First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge) Environmentalists Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus ask whether American climate change policy is moving in the right direction. Contact: www.cambridgeforum.org/cfweb/cfschedu... 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 5/7/2009 4:30p - 6:30p Opening Panel -- Cultures in Common: 50 Years of Reflection on Science, Technology, and Society (Maxwell-Dworkin Lessin Room, G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Fiftieth Anniversary of C.P. Snow's "The Two Cultures" lecture, which described a growing gulf between the cultures of the sciences and the humanities. Contact: www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/twocul... Friday 5/8/2009 8:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) Josh Blodgett, MSI Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School - Dept of BCMP, Clardy Lab. Contact: Runal Mehta, runal_mehta(a)harvard.edu, www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html 9:00a - 5:30p Workshop -- Cultures in Common: 50 Years of Reflection on Science, Technology, and Society (Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge) A distinguished roster of speakers from Harvard, MIT, and beyond will explore the many ways in which the cultures of science are in constant conversation with the cultures of the humanities, the social sciences, the arts, the law, and, not least, engineering and applied sciences. RSVP required by Friday, May 1. Contact: Lauren Schiff, Lauren_Schiff(a)harvard.edu, www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/twocul... 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "Insights from experimental manipulation and management of Massachusetts coastal plain grasslands and shrublands." Chris Neill, the Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory. Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 2:30p - 4:30p MIT Seminar on Environmetnal and Agricultural History (Building E51, Room 095, MIT, Cambridge, MA) "Empires of Energy 1580-1980: Fossil Fuels and Geopolitics." John McNeill, Professor of History, Georgetown University. Contact: Margo Collett, mcollett(a)mit.edu Saturday 5/9/2009 11:30a - 2:00p Solutions for a sustainable future (Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA) Learn about cutting edge solutions for sustainable development and how to become a leader in the transition we find ourselves in today. Contact: www.may9th.org Monday 5/11/2009 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/ Tuesday 5/12/2009 6:00p HMNH Lecture (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "The Lions of Asia in History: Animal-Human Interaction through the Ages" Divya Bhanusinh Chavda. Thousands of lions once roamed the Asian continent from Palestine to eastern India. O... Contact: www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe... Wednesday 5/13/2009 3:30p Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation Series (Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden St., Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA) "Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Challenges of Conservative Governance Since the 1970s." Meg Jacobs, Jeanne Rosselet Fellow, History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Contact: www.radcliffe.edu/events/fellows.aspx... 6:00p - 7:00p The Carbon Market (NEXUS, 38 Chauncy St., 7th Floor, Boston, MA) The talk will briefly cover the development of the global carbon market over the last 5 years, including Kyoto, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and their impact on the development of a U.S. carbon market. Contact: bostonegb.ning.com Thursday 5/14/2009 3:30p China Project Seminar (Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Environmental Complaints in China 1992-2006: A Provincial-Level Analysis." Dr. Martin Dimitrov, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College. 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) "Managing the Mutant Microbe Within: Mitochondrial-nuclear epistasis for fitness and disease in Drosophila." David Rand, Brown University Professor of Biology. Contact: Runal Mehta, runal_mehta(a)harvard.edu, www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html 7:00p Reaching Sustainability in the Existing Built Environment (First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge) An exchange of ideas on how we can reach true energy efficiency in our built environment. The forum will feature detailed presentations of a variety of super-insulation strategies, including full-s... Contact: info(a)basea.org, www.basea.org ---- Always 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] [iic-colloquium] Reminder - IIC-CS Joint Colloquium, Today , April 30th, Jennifer Tour Chayes

by Pavlos Protopapas

IIC-CS Joint Colloquium Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Networks Jennifer Tour Chayes, Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England THURSDAY, April 30, 2009 4:00 p.m. 60 Oxford, Room 330 Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. Abstract Everywhere we turn these days, we find that networks are becoming increasingly appropriate descriptions of relevant interactions. In the high tech world, we see the Internet, the World Wide Web, mobile phone networks, and a variety of online social networks. In economics, we are increasingly experiencing both the positive and negative effects of a global networked economy. In epidemiology, we find disease spreading over our ever growing social networks, complicated by mutation of the disease agents. In problems of world health, distribution of limited resources, such as water resources, quickly becomes a problem of finding the optimal network for resource allocation. In biomedical research, we are beginning to understand the structure of gene regulatory networks, with the prospect of using this understanding to manage the many diseases caused by gene mis-regulation. In this talk, I look quite generally at some of the models we are using to describe these networks, processes we are studying on the networks, algorithms we have devised for the networks, and finally, methods we are developing to indirectly infer network structure from measured data. In particular, I will discuss models and techniques which cut across many disciplinary boundaries. Bio Jennifer Tour Chayes is Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Mass., which opened in July 2008. Before this, she was Research Area Manager for Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science and Cryptography at Microsoft Research Redmond. Chayes joined Microsoft Research in 1997, when she co-founded the Theory Group. Her research areas include phase transitions in discrete mathematics and computer science, structural and dynamical properties of self-engineered networks, and algorithmic game theory. She is the co-author of almost 100 scientific papers and the co-inventor of more than 20 patents. Chayes has many ties to the academic community. She is Affiliate Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Washington, and was for many years professor of Mathematics at UCLA. She serves on numerous institute boards, advisory committees and editorial boards, including the Turing Award Selection Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Board of Trustees of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, the Advisory Boards of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science, the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Institute, the U.S. National Committee for Mathematics and the Committee on Assuring the Integrity of Research Data of the National Academies, the Advisory Committee on Women in Computing of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Leadership Advisory Council of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and the Selection Committee for the Anita Borg Award for Technical Leadership. Chayes is a past chairwoman of the Mathematics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a past vice president of the American Mathematical Society. Chayes received her bachelor of art degree in biology and physics at Wesleyan University, where she graduated first in her class, and her doctorate in mathematical physics at Princeton University. She did her postdoctoral work in the mathematics and physics departments at Harvard and Cornell universities. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Sloan Research Fellowship and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. She has twice been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Chayes is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the Fields Institute, and a National Associate of the National Academies. Chayes is best known for her work on phase transitions, in particular for laying the foundation for the study of phase transitions in problems in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science. This study is now giving rise to some of the fastest known algorithms for fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization. She is also one of the world's experts in the modeling and analysis of random, dynamically growing graphs, which are used to model the Internet, the World Wide Web, and a host of other technological and social networks. Among Chayes' contributions to Microsoft technologies are the development of methods to analyze the structure and behavior of various networks, the design of auction algorithms, and the design and analysis of various business models for the online world. Chayes lives with her husband, Christian Borgs, who happens to be her principal scientific collaborator. In her spare time, she enjoys overworking. ---- _______________________________________________ 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] Fwd: Summer workshops at NCSA

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Maybe we can find funds to send the GPU-inclined, interested people. See below, 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: Kindratenko, Volodymyr <kindrtnk(a)illinois.edu> Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:21 AM Subject: Summer workshops at NCSA To: Just a couple of weeks left for graduate students to apply for these free workshops. If you know any students who would be interested, please pass this along! *Deadline is May 18 to apply for two free computational skills summer schools* Graduate students from all disciplines and institutions across the country can learn more about scaling applications for emerging petascale computing systems and using many-core graphics processors to accelerate applications during two FREE summer school courses offered by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering. The *Scaling to Petascale* course will be Aug. 3-7, 2009. High-definition streaming video of the course will enable students to participate from multiple locations, including the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the University of Michigan, and Louisiana State University. Participating students will have access to high-performance computing systems at NCSA, NICS, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Prerequisites for the course are: Fortran, C, C++, Java, or equivalent scientific programming knowledge, experience developing and running scientific codes on a cluster or grid computing environment, and experience working in a Unix environment. Preference will be given to students with parallel programming experience. For full information on the course and to apply, see: http://www.greatlakesconsortium.org/events/scaling/. Applications will be accepted online until May 18. Applicants will be notified by June 15. A second course on *Many-Core Programming for Science and Engineering Applications* will be Aug. 10-14, 2009. Instructors Wen-mei Hwu (University of Illinois) and David B. Kirk (NVIDIA) will provide students with knowledge and hands-on experience in developing applications software for many-core processors, such as general purpose graphics processing units (GP-GPUs). High-definition streaming video of the course will enable students to participate from multiple locations, including the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the University of Michigan, Ohio State University and the University of Illinois, Chicago. Participating students will have access to NCSA’s 32-node cluster of GP-GPUs, and will learn to use CUDA to write programs for the cluster. Prerequisites for the course are: C, C++, Java, or equivalent programming knowledge. Some knowledge of parallel programming will be helpful. An optional tutorial on GPU architecture will be offered on the first day of the summer school. For full information on the course and to apply, see: http://www.greatlakesconsortium.org/events/manycore/<http://www.greatlakesconsortium.org/events/scaling/>. Applications will be accepted online until May 18. Applicants will be notified by June 15. There is no fee for the summer school courses and lunches will be provided, but participants are responsible for their own travel and lodging costs. The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering leads the graduate education effort for the National Science Foundation-funded Blue Waters project. NCSA is collaborating with IBM and the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation to build and deploy Blue Waters, a supercomputer that will deliver sustained performance of one petaflop on a range of science and engineering applications when it comes online in 2011. The Virtual School helps prepare the next generation of computational researchers so they can take full advantage of Blue Waters and other emerging petascale resources. Questions about the summer school courses can be sent to: virtualschool(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu. ***** CDC/CRA-W Careers in High Performance Systems (CHiPS) Mentoring Workshop **** * The CDC/CRA-W Careers in High Performance Systems (CHiPS) Mentoring Workshop will be held at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) from July 25th-27th. The workshop will consist of talks by researchers in high-performance computing and will include a hands-on tutorial on programming some cool high-performance computing systems. The major goal of this workshop is to motivate undergraduate students and graduate students enrolled in Master's programs to go to graduate school and get a Ph.D. We are especially interested in students from underrepresented groups attending. Students will be reimbursed all reasonable travel expenses! Student applications are due by May 11th. Here is a link to the workshop website and where you will find an application to attend. http://www.cis.udel.edu/chips-mentoring-workshop/ Please help us advertise the workshop by downloading the following flyer and posting it at your institution. http://www.cis.udel.edu/files/chips-workshop.pdf ____________________________ *Volodymyr Kindratenko*, Sc.D. *Senior Research Scientist* Innovative Systems Laboratory National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~kindr <http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/%7Ekindr>

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Today at 5 pm -- Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

by Center for the Environment

The Harvard University Center for the Environment and Bank of America presents Green Conversations with: Anthony Barnosky Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California - Berkeley and author of: "Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming" Joined by: Charles Marshall, Harvard Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Curator, Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology TODAY 5:00 pm Haller Hall Geological Museum, 1st Floor Harvard University 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA In Heatstroke, renowned paleoecologist Anthony Barnosky shows how global warming is fundamentally changing the natural world and its creatures. Plants and animals that have followed the same rhythms for millennia are suddenly being confronted with a world they’re unprepared for - and adaptation usually isn't an option. This is not the first time climate change has dramatically transformed Earth. Barnosky draws connections between the coming centuries and the end of the last ice age, when mass extinctions swept the planet. The differences now are that climate change is faster and hotter than past changes, and for the first time humanity is driving it. Which means this time we can work to stop it. No one knows exactly what nature will come to look like in this new age of global warming. But Heatstroke gives us a haunting portrait of what we stand to lose and the vitality of what can be saved. Since 1990, Anthony D. Barnosky has been on the faculty at the University of California - Berkeley, where he currently holds the posts of professor of Integrative Biology, curator of Fossil Mammals in the Museum of Paleontology, and research paleoecologist in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Green Conversations are sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. All of these events are free and open to the public. Book sales, signing, and reception to follow. --- 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.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=1c67bd1… Update your profile: http://harvard.list-manage.com/profile?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5bea9…

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: student lunch with Jenny Nelson

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, Let Rita know if you are interested in meeting Jenny Nelson tomorrow. I apologize for the late notice. 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: <rtavilla(a)rle.mit.edu> Date: Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:35 AM Subject: student lunch with Jenny Nelson To: aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Hi Alan, Some students are getting together with Prof. Nelson tomorrow for lunch. Would you like invite some students from Harvard to join the lunch? If so, please let me now how many. Date: April 29 Time: 12:00noon Place: Herman Haus Rm - 36-428 Thank you, Rita

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] IIC-CS Joint Colloquium on THURSDAY, April 30th, Jennifer Tour Chayes

by Pavlos Protopapas

IIC-CS Joint Colloquium Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Networks Jennifer Tour Chayes, Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England THURSDAY, April 30, 2009 4:00 p.m. 60 Oxford, Room 330 Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. Abstract Everywhere we turn these days, we find that networks are becoming increasingly appropriate descriptions of relevant interactions. In the high tech world, we see the Internet, the World Wide Web, mobile phone networks, and a variety of online social networks. In economics, we are increasingly experiencing both the positive and negative effects of a global networked economy. In epidemiology, we find disease spreading over our ever growing social networks, complicated by mutation of the disease agents. In problems of world health, distribution of limited resources, such as water resources, quickly becomes a problem of finding the optimal network for resource allocation. In biomedical research, we are beginning to understand the structure of gene regulatory networks, with the prospect of using this understanding to manage the many diseases caused by gene mis-regulation. In this talk, I look quite generally at some of the models we are using to describe these networks, processes we are studying on the networks, algorithms we have devised for the networks, and finally, methods we are developing to indirectly infer network structure from measured data. In particular, I will discuss models and techniques which cut across many disciplinary boundaries. Bio Jennifer Tour Chayes is Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Mass., which opened in July 2008. Before this, she was Research Area Manager for Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science and Cryptography at Microsoft Research Redmond. Chayes joined Microsoft Research in 1997, when she co-founded the Theory Group. Her research areas include phase transitions in discrete mathematics and computer science, structural and dynamical properties of self-engineered networks, and algorithmic game theory. She is the co-author of almost 100 scientific papers and the co-inventor of more than 20 patents. Chayes has many ties to the academic community. She is Affiliate Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Washington, and was for many years professor of Mathematics at UCLA. She serves on numerous institute boards, advisory committees and editorial boards, including the Turing Award Selection Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Board of Trustees of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, the Advisory Boards of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science, the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Institute, the U.S. National Committee for Mathematics and the Committee on Assuring the Integrity of Research Data of the National Academies, the Advisory Committee on Women in Computing of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Leadership Advisory Council of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and the Selection Committee for the Anita Borg Award for Technical Leadership. Chayes is a past chairwoman of the Mathematics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a past vice president of the American Mathematical Society. Chayes received her bachelor of art degree in biology and physics at Wesleyan University, where she graduated first in her class, and her doctorate in mathematical physics at Princeton University. She did her postdoctoral work in the mathematics and physics departments at Harvard and Cornell universities. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Sloan Research Fellowship and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. She has twice been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Chayes is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the Fields Institute, and a National Associate of the National Academies. Chayes is best known for her work on phase transitions, in particular for laying the foundation for the study of phase transitions in problems in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science. This study is now giving rise to some of the fastest known algorithms for fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization. She is also one of the world's experts in the modeling and analysis of random, dynamically growing graphs, which are used to model the Internet, the World Wide Web, and a host of other technological and social networks. Among Chayes' contributions to Microsoft technologies are the development of methods to analyze the structure and behavior of various networks, the design of auction algorithms, and the design and analysis of various business models for the online world. Chayes lives with her husband, Christian Borgs, who happens to be her principal scientific collaborator. In her spare time, she enjoys overworking. ---- --------------- For more information about IIC colloquia and other events : http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming --------- 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] Excitonics Seminar - Prof. Jenny Nelson - April 29

by rtavilla＠rle.mit.edu

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: Factors influencing photocurrent generation in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells: interfacial energetics and blend microstructure Presenter: Prof. Jenny Nelson Organization: Department of Physics Imperial College London Date: April 29, 2009 Time: 3:00 - 4:00pm Place: 36-428 Refreshments: Yes URL: http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics/jnelson-042909.html Abstract The efficiency of photocurrent generation in conjugated polymer:small molecule blend solar is strongly influenced both by the energy level alignment at the donor-acceptor interface and by the microstructure of the blend films. Photoinduced charge separation requires that the charge separated state competes successfully with other excited states in the system and that the thermodynamic driving force for charge separation exceeds some threshold, which may depend upon both the specific chemical structure and the local microstructure. The optimum blend microstructure, in turn, appears to combine a high degree of order in local molecular packing (benefitting charge transport and charge separation), a large interface (for charge separation) and significant phase segregation (to minimise charge recombination). In this work, we will show how a combination of spectroscopic techniques, electrical measurements and studies of phase behaviour can be used to build up a picture of the microstructure in a polymer: fullerene blend film, and so to rationalise the conditions for photocurrent generation. Finally, we demonstrate that the optimum blend composition for photocurrent generation can be related in a rational way to the phase behaviour of the binary system and in particular to the self-organising tendency of the component materials. Bio Jenny Nelson is a Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, where she has researched novel types of solar cell since 1989. Her current research focuses on photovoltaic energy conversion using molecular materials, characterization of the charge transport, charge separation and morphology properties of molecular semiconductors, and the modelling of charge transport in organic semiconductors. She has published over 100 papers on photovoltaic materials and devices and a book on the physics of solar cells.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Manuscript

by James D Whitfield

Hi everyone, The bane of my existence for several years is finally completed and attached. Please provide comments or ideas for potential continuations as you see fit. 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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