aspuru-list September 2009

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Colloquium 9/28

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group, Dear Friends, This is a physics colloquium about the teaching philosophy of Eric Mazur. It might be of general interest to both my lab, and my colleagues. I am currently employing the method, and it is effective and a lot of fun. 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: Eric Mazur <mazur(a)physics.harvard.edu> Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:36 PM Subject: Colloquium 9/28 To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> Dear Alan, Just wanted to let you know that I'm giving the Physics Colloquium on education next Monday (Sep 28). The title of my presentation is "Confessions of a converted lecturer," and an abstract is appended below. The colloquium is at 4:15 pm in Jefferson 250. Tea is served in the Jefferson library starting at 3:30 pm. I hope you can come. Please feel free to circulate this message to colleagues who might be interested in hearing about my teaching philosophy and the data that brought me to change my approach to lecturing. Hope to see you on Monday! Eric *Eric Mazur* Balkanski Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics Harvard University Ph: Fx: Mb: +1 617 495-8729 +1 617 495-9837 +1 617 440-4691 Homepage <http://mazur-www.harvard.edu/> Twitter <http://twitter.com/eric_mazur> Chat Confessions of a converted lecturer Jefferson 250 September 28, 2009 4:15 pm I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students' performance significantly.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Book

by 本郷研太

Dear members, I am looking for the book which I've borrowed from the CCB library, titled "Computational Chemistry of Solid State Materials: A Guide for Materials Scientists, Chemists, Physicists and others" by Richard Dronskowski. This is the hardcover book whose size is 9.6 by 7.1 by 0.8 inches and a crystal model is printed on the front cover. I am due to return this book on October 5. So could you please look into your library and check if it is therein just in case? Thanks so much, Kenta

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: French film festival at BU

by Joel Yuen

Hi people A friend of mine is organizing this French film series at BU. The screening is at the Photonics building at BU. Please fwd this to whom you think might be interested, and let me know if you're going, since I think I might be going to some of the screenings. Best Joel.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Connected to odyssey!

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Hello: I have been able to successfully connect to odyssey with this keychain thing. Happy crunching. Roberto -- Roberto Olivares-Amaya Aspuru-Guzik Group Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: QIP announcement

by Edward Farhi

> > >> subject: QIP 2010 submission deadline one month away >> >> >> To whom it may concern, >> >> QIP 2010 will be held in Zurich, Switzerland, January 18-22. >> >> The submission deadline for contributed talks is 22 October 2009. >> >> For more information, please see www.qip2010.ethz.ch >> >> We look forward to welcoming you to Zurich, >> >> the organizers >> > > -- > Renato Renner > renner(a)phys.ethz.ch > ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 6 Room 300 Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] Reminder: IIC Colloquium tomorrow (Weds.): XAM, Digital Curation and e-Science

by Rosalind Reid

Please join us for this week's IIC Colloquium: XAM, Digital Curation and e-Science Wednesday, September 23, 4:00pm Room G115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge (**NOTE LOCATION**) Stephen Todd, Software Architect, EMC and Rob Masson, Director, EMC Research US Abstract The eXtensible Access Method (XAM) is a new, industry-standard application programming interface for storing reference information (fixed content) onto heterogeneous storage systems. It is also a focus of research under way at EMC’s new Cambridge lab and a project, DataSpace, proposed by MIT and EMC for uniting multiple archives of scientific data. A brief introduction and overview of XAM will be provided by Steve Todd, who will describe XAM’s applicability to the digital preservation of both cultural artifacts and scientific information. Rob Masson will introduce the collaborative research agenda of EMC's new lab and the associated Virtual Team. About the speakers Stephen Todd is an "intrapreneur" at EMC and the author of the high- tech book Innovate With Influence. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the University of New Hampshire. Steve has spent his career working on as many storage products and technologies as he could get his hands on. Products include CLARiiON, Navisphere, Storage Scope, PowerPath and Centera. Technologies include RAID, failover, caching, management technologies, databases, device drivers and CAS. He enjoys the creative process and came in 3rd out of 410 entries in EMC's inaugural world-wide innovation contest one year and 2nd out of 984 entries the subsequent year. He is named on more than 140 patent applications. He blogs at stevetodd.typepad.com. Rob Masson has been with EMC for over 5 years as an developer, architect, technologist and Director of Research. Robert joined EMC as part of the product management team of eRoom as a solutions architect working with partners and customers on novel ways to use and integrate EMC technologies. After three years in that role, Rob joined the EMC CTO Office as a senior technologist and manages a team of developers based in Shanghai that does advanced proof-of-concept work in a variety of solution spaces. Working closely with many different groups at EMC, he and his team identify opportunities to leverage and enhance EMC’s product offerings into emerging and disruptive markets. Most recently Rob has been appointed as Director of EMC Research Cambridge, managing EMC’s relationships with the academic community in this area. Serving as a liaison between researchers and technologists within EMC, he aims to accelerate the adoption of technology and innovation within the organization and enhance ongoing research with insight from the companies varied product groups. --------------- For more information about IIC colloquia and other events : http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming -------------- Initiative in Innovative Computing Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ iic-colloquium mailing list iic-colloquium(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.deas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-colloquium

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: 2010 Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships program now accepting applications

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Audrey Ellerbee <akellerbee(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:10 PM Subject: 2010 Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships program now accepting applications To: hmsg(a)googlegroups.com See attached for information about the Ford Fellowships... -- Audrey K. Ellerbee, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Prof. George Whitesides Dept. of Chem. & Chem. Biology Harvard University akellerbee(a)gmail.com "Don't just be good at what you do... do good with who you are." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "HMSG" group. To post to this group, send email to hmsg(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hmsg+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <hmsg%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hmsg?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- Roberto Olivares-Amaya Aspuru-Guzik Group Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Reminder: Today at 5 pm - "Climate Engineering"

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 Fall 2009 David Keith Director, Energy and Environmental Systems Group, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Economy, University of Calgary "Climate Engineering: A Necessary Tool for Managing Climate Risks" TODAY 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center Lecture Hall D One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA The combination of high inertia and high uncertainty makes the coupled climate-economic system dangerously hard to control. If the climate's sensitivity is at the high end of current estimates, it may be too late to avert dramatic consequences for human societies or natural ecosystems even if we could cut emissions to zero in a few decades. Emissions cuts are necessary but not sufficient to manage climate risks; prudence demands that we study methods that offer the hope of limiting the environmental risks posed by the accumulation of fossil carbon in the atmosphere. The engineered alteration of the earth’s radiation budget--geooengineering--offers a fast means of managing climate risk, but entails a host of new risks and cannot fully compensate for the risk posed by carbon in the air. I will argue that systematic management of climate risks requires the capability to geoengineer and discuss the technology and policy a geoengineering research program needed to build such capability. David Keith has worked near the interface between climate science, energy technology and public policy for twenty years. His work in technology and policy assessment has centered on the capture and storage of CO2, the technology and implications of global climate engineering, the economics and climatic impacts of large-scale wind power and the prospects for hydrogen fuel. As a technologist, David has built a high-accuracy infrared spectrometer for NASA's ER-2 and developed new methods for reservoir engineering increase the safety of stored CO2. He now leads a team of engineers developing technology to capture of CO2 from ambient air at an industrial scale. The Future of Energy lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. All of the lectures are free and open to the public. --- Contact: Lisa Matthews Events Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 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.us1.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&… 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://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=671… Update your profile: http://harvard.us1.list-manage.com/profile?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5…

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Coffee Experiment Results

by Ivan Kassal

Dear Group, The much awaited results are in. Here are the average grades plus/minus one standard deviation: Sample A (Grand Espresso): 6.8 +/- 0.8 Sample B (Super Crema): 4.6 +/- 2.4 Sample C (Gold Selection): 6.3 +/- 2.0 Sample D (Top Class): 9.0 +/- infinity (that's what happens when you don't vote) Using Welch's t-test, the pairwise two-sided p-values are (excluding sample D, of course): p_AB = 0.11 p_AC = 0.58 p_BC = 0.23 As good social scientists, we will blindly set the significance cutoff at p < 0.05. Given the data, therefore, we can't reject the null hypothesis that all the coffees are equally preferred. The coffee purchasing decisions will therefore chiefly be guided by maximizing the value to the shareholders (read: some of the varieties are on sale). Ivan PS. My apologies to Leslie, who correctly claimed that there was a fifth kind of Lavazza coffee that we did not sample in this experiment. It is Pienaroma Espresso, which I believe we previously decided tasted bad.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Tuesday September 22

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We will meet on Tuesday September 22 at 11:00 in 6-310. Jon Tyson will speak about his recent work. Best, Eddie ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 6 Room 300 Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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