aspuru-list September 2009

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Can I borrow a set of binoculars for the weekend?

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Dear Group:I was hoping I could borrow a set of binoculars for the weekend. I promise to return them in the same condition as I received, or with some luck, in a much better one. Thank you. Roberto

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update September 10-24

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: September 16: Daron Acemoglu, MIT, Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn, and David Hermous, Harvard University, discuss "The Environment and Directed Technical Change" in the first Environment and Economics Seminar. September 22: The Future of Energy is here -- David Keith, Director, Energy and Environmental Systems Group, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Economy at the University of Calgary, proposes that the capability to engineer the climate is a necessary tool for managing climate risks. September 23: Center for European Studies visiting scholar Eloi Laurent presents "An Ever More De-carbonated Union? Towards a Better European Taxation against Climate Change." Calendar Listings: Thursday 9/10/2009 4:00p OEB Departmental Seminar (Biological Laboratories Main Lecture Hall, Room 1068, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA) "Simple aspects of growth and form." Professor L. Mahadevan Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. Contact: Katharine Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.5891 6:00p Microbial Science Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Age of Innovation: a story about how life learned to breathe and thrive as recorded in hundreds of microbial genomes." Eric Alm, MIT, Dept. of Biological Engineering. Contact: Karen L. Lachmayr, klachmay(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html 7:00p Massachusetts PowerShift Meeting (SOCH, Radcliffe Quad, Cambridge, MA) Harvard campus introductory meeting. Mass Powershift is a statewide youth network fighting climate change through political activism. Contact: www.masspowershift.org/about 7:30p Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum (First Parish Unitarian Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge, MA) "A Global Overview of Action on Climate Change." Professor William Moomaw, Tufts University. Contact: info(a)basea.org, www.basea.org Friday 9/11/2009 11:00a - 12:00p Harvard Forest Seminar (Harvard Forest, 324 North Main St., Petersham, MA) "Occupancy estimation and modeling in monitoring tigers and co-predators with implications for conservation and management: A case study in Similipal Tiger Reserve, India." Bullard Fellow Debabrata Swain and Paul J. Morris of OEB. Contact: harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 7:00p - 9:30p Vault N51: A Low Carbon Masonry Innovation (MIT Museum Building N51 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA) The MIT museum invites the design community and the general public to celebrate the unveiling of a thin brick vault, constructed by graduate architecture students at MIT. Contact: museuminfo(a)mit.edu, 617.253.5927, web.mit.edu/museum/programs/programde... Tuesday 9/15/2009 8:30a - 5:30p Workshop on Human-Environment Mobile-Based Interactions (Bartos Theatre MIT Media Lab 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA) MIT Media Laboratory hosts a first-of-its-kind two-day workshop to explore how the latest digital technologies can be applied to better understand and preserve our natural environment. Contact: Michael Reynolds, michael.reynolds(a)comcast.net, 617-253-0365, hembi.media.mit.edu/program 6:00p Smart Grid Applications, Standards Development and Recent Deployments (Auditorium at Milas Hall, Olin College, Needham, MA) John McDonald, P.E., General Manager, Marketing of GE Energy T&D. Contact: Ron Tabroff, r.tabroff(a)ieee.org, 978-535-2815, www.ieeeboston.org/power_energy.htm 6:30p Science for the Public (Boston Public Library 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square, Room C-05-06, Johnson Bldg., Boston, MA) "Notes from the Wildlife Hot Zone." Dr. Bryan Windmiller, Ecological Consultant; Founder, Hyla Ecological Services. Contact: 617-536-5400, scienceforthepublic.org/index.php?pag... Wednesday 9/16/2009 8:30a - 5:30p Workshop on Human-Environment Mobile-Based Interactions (Bartos Theatre MIT Media Lab 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA) MIT Media Laboratory hosts a first-of-its-kind two-day workshop to explore how the latest digital technologies can be applied to better understand and preserve our natural environment. Contact: Michael Reynolds, michael.reynolds(a)comcast.net, 617-253-0365, hembi.media.mit.edu/program Calendar: Center for the Environment 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Room L-382, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA) "The Environment and Directed Technical Change." Daron Acemoglu, MIT, Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn, and David Hermous, Harvard University. Contact: Jason Chapman, 617-496-8054, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... 4:00p - 5:00p Origins of Life Forum (Biological Laboratories Main Lecture Hall, Room 1068, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA) "Information in the Prebiotic World." Irene Chen, FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard. Contact: origins.harvard.edu/Origins%20Forum.html 5:00p - 6:30p 2nd Annual X PRIZE Energy Forum: Breakthrough Investments in Energy Storage (MIT Room 54-100, Cambridge, MA) An exciting event with leading investors and entrepreneurs interested in revolutionizing the way we store and use energy. Contact: Erika B. Wagner, erika(a)MIT.EDU, web.mit.edu/xprize 8:00p - 9:00p Enviromental 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: www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ Thursday 9/17/2009 3:30p - 5:30p Risks and Rationality: Challenges to Sound Decision Making (Harvard School of Public Health Kresge Building Room G-2 677 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA ) Three speakers provide different perspectives on the notion that ndividual preferences often diverge from the standard tenets of rational choice. Contact: Amy B. Rosenstein, arosenstein(a)icfi.com, www.sra-ne.org/ 4:00p - 5:00p OEB Departmental Seminar (Biological Laboratories Main Lecture Hall, Room 1068, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA) "A new epoch in termite biology." Kenji Matsuura, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University, Japan. Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-5891 Friday 9/18/2009 8:30a Microbial Science Initiative Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Transmission Strategy of Host-Associated Bacteria: Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences." Colleen Cavanaugh, Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology, Harvard. Contact: Karen L. Lachmayr, klachmay(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.msi.harvard.edu 9:00a - 12:30p New England Restructuring Roundtable (Foley Hoag, Seaport West, 155 Seaport Blvd., Boston, MA) Focus on the New England Governors' Renewable Energy Blueprint and on Off-Shore Renewable Energy Development in New England. Contact: www.raabassociates.org/main/roundtabl... Sunday 9/20/2009 11:00a - 4:00p First Annual Urban-Agricultural Fair (Winthrop Street and Winthrop Park, Cambridge, MA) "Celebrating Local Gardens, Growers and Food." This First Annual Urban-Ag fair is being held on the very historic site of the first marketplace in Newtowne (1630's). Contact: www.harvardsquare.com/Home/Articles/T... 5:00p - 7:00p Harvard Environment Society BBQ (Quincy House patio, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA) Open to all members of the Harvard University environmental community. Contact: Julila Africa, jafrica(a)gsd.harvard.edu Monday 9/21/2009 5:00p - 6:30p Harvard Law School Lecture (Langdell North, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA) "The Yukos Affair in Context: the Energy Charter Treaty and Russia's Energy Policy." A Talk with Emmanuel Gaillard, Professor of Law, Paris XII University. Contact: ipenusliski(a)llm08.law.harvard.edu, www.law.harvard.edu/calendar/ Tuesday 9/22/2009 5:00p The Future of Energy (Science Center, Lecture Hall D, One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Climate Engineering: A Necessary Tool for Managing Climate Risks." Director, Energy and Environmental Systems Group, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Economy, University of Calgary. Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883 5:30p - 7:00p MIT Wind Energy Lecture (4-145, MIT, Cambridge, MA) "The Regulatory Aspects of Wind Power Scale Up in Massachusetts." Paul Hibbard, Chairman, Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. Contact: Kathy Araujo, kmaraujo(a)mit.edu Wednesday 9/23/2009 12:15p - 1:45p An Ever More De-carbonated Union? Towards a Better European Taxation against Climate Change (Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA) New Research on Europe Lecture Series. Speaker: Eloi Laurent, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies. Contact: Arthur Goldhammer, art.goldhammer(a)gmail.com 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Room L-382, HKS, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA) "Managing Catastrophic and Dependent Risks: Fat Tails, Tail Dependence, and Micro-Correlations." Carolyn Kousky and Roger Cooke, Resources for the Future. Contact: Jason Chapman, 617-496-8054, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... 4:00p - 5:00p Scientific and Technical Industries: How to Find a Job (OCS Conference Room, 54 Dunster St., Cambridge, MA) Interested in biotechnology, alternative energy, scientific consulting, or IT? Come to this session to learn tips about searching for jobs in these and related industries. Contact: www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/index.htm 6:00p - 7:00p MIT Energy Club Lecture Series (E51-335, MIT, Cambridge, MA) "Key Issues in the Water Industry." Ramesh Rengarajan, formerly EVP GE Water Technologies. Contact: Mahesh Konduru, kondum(a)mit.edu 7:00p Distinctive Voices at the Jonsson Center (314 Quissett Ave., Woods Hole, MA) "Doomsday Vaults and the Future of Food." Contact: www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pag... 7:00p Film Screening: The Greening of Southie (Cary Memorial Library, 1874 Mass Ave., Lexington, MA) A film about green architecture which chronicles the design and construction of the Macallen Building, an 11-story condominium development, the first such residence in Boston to attain a LEED rating. Contact: www.lexgwac.org/ 8:00p - 9:00p Enviromental 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: www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ Thursday 9/24/2009 3:30p China Energy and Environment Seminar (Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "China's SO2 Mitigation at Coal Power Plants in the 11th Five-Year Plan" Xu Yuan, doctoral student, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Contact: nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu 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. ============================================== 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: [ PSI-K ] Condensed Matter Theory Faculty Position

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group, This is quite good! I know Zhang at that school, so those of you interested in applying, let me know! 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: PSI-K <psik-coord(a)dl.ac.uk> Date: Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:07 AM Subject: [ PSI-K ] Condensed Matter Theory Faculty Position To: PSI-K <psik-coord(a)dl.ac.uk> An announcement has been added in the "PSI-K" site at PSI-K ( http://cselnx9.dl.ac.uk:8080/portal) Subject: Condensed Matter Theory Faculty Position Category: Job From: Henry Krakauer Date: 10-Sep-2009 16:07 Message: The Department of Physics of the College of William and Mary invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in theoretical or computational condensed matter physics, to begin Fall 2010. The successful candidate is expected to establish an internationally recognized research program that complements and enhances the existing strengths in the department, which has about 30 faculty members and 60 PhD graduate students. William and Mary has a strong tradition of excellent teaching, and the successful candidate will be expected to play an important role in both the undergraduate and doctoral programs of the Physics Department. Applicants should visit http://jobs.wm.edu to complete voluntary demographic data for equal opportunity purposes. Send a curriculum vita, statement of research interests, and arrange to have three letters of reference sent to us (indicate your references in the application) at the address below. Chair, Condensed Matter Theory Search Department of Physics 300 Ukrop Way College of William and Mary P.O. Box 8795 Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 USA e-mail: cmthsearch(a)wm.edu Review will begin on December 1, 2009 and materials will be accepted until the position is filled. Further information on the W&M Physics Department and this search can be found at http://www.wm.edu/physics. W&M is an EEO/AA employer. ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by PSI-K ( http://cselnx9.dl.ac.uk:8080/portal) from the PSI-K site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] our first meeting

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We will meet on Tuesday September 8 at 4:00 in 6-310. We will fix a time for our weekly meetings and discuss who we would like to invite to speak during the term. Best, Eddie ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 6 Room 300 Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Back to School BBQ

by Dmitrij Rappoport

Dear Group, In honor of the new fall semester and also my move to a place with a backyard and a grill, I would like to organize a small Barbecue Party on Sunday, September 13th at 5pm in 34 Elm St. Somerville, MA The place is next to Porter Sq. station and is in walking distance from the lab. I'll provide some grill basics and beverages but would like to invite donations of meat products, salads, and desserts. Please forward this invitation to the new group members who are not on the group mailing list. Spouses and significant others are also most welcome. Please RSVP by Friday, September 11th so I can estimate the number of people. See you hopefully on Sunday, Dmitrij --------------------------------------------- Dr. Dmitrij Rappoport Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 phone: (617) 496 3388 fax: (617) 496 9411 email: rappoport(a)chemistry.harvard.edu --------------------------------------------

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Coffee Experiment

by Ivan Kassal

Dear group, We are now on Sample B. Ivan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] CCB alias problems

by J D Whitfield

Hi everyone, If you have a CCB alias for your fas account (such as "@ chemistry.harvard.edu"), it may not be working. You should test your alias account immediately and if it does not work send an email to help(a)fas.harvard.edu with heading "CCB alias problems" and include the alias email address and the target email address you want it to forward to. JDW J. 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] The Great Coffee Experiment

by Ivan Kassal

Dear group, There is a time in every theory group's life when a little bit of experiment is in order. So, starting right now, we are embarking on the Great Coffee Experiment of 2009. There are four kinds of Lavazza coffee, and we will decide which one is the best (or at least we will confirm or disconfirm the widely held belief that one of the kinds tastes awful). I have saved a little bit of all four kinds, and they will be cycled through the coffee machine in the coming days. The experiment will be single-blind, in that I know what's going on and you don't. This is because I am too lazy to do a double-blind trial. After each new coffee is introduced, you can send me your evaluation on a scale of 1 to 10. The current sample is sample A. If the coffee runs out in the next few days, there will not be any to replace it, which means that you should find me to load the next sample. Ivan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] Reminder: Colloquium Sept. 9: UK e-Science team on Exploiting and Providing Research Data

by Rosalind Reid

Reminder: The opening IIC Colloquium of the 2009-10 academic year is *tomorrow*. Please join us! *********************** Exploiting and Providing Research Data: Finding Strategies to Help Researchers September 9, 2009, 4:00pm 309 Cruft Laboratory, 19 Oxford Street (**NOTE NEW LOCATION**) Malcolm Atkinson UK e-Science Envoy and Director of the e-Science Institute and David De Roure Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton Abstract Data-intensive research is emerging as a new paradigm with the pervasive growth in digital data, communication and devices. Profs. Atkinson and De Roure, who are embarking on a fact-finding mission to the U.S., will illustrate their talk with examples from a range of disciplines. They will report on progress toward understanding how to economically enable a large community of researchers to become fluent in whatever uses of data will benefit their research. Issues include technical and socioeconomic factors as well as the nature, maturity, structure and scale of data. About the Speakers Malcolm Atkinson, FRSE, FBCS, is the UK e-Science Envoy, plays a leading role in the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK, and is on the advisory boards of the National Grid Service and Baltic Grid. He led the EU IST project “International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Education” (ICEAGE). This project organized the International Summer School on Grid Computing 2007 (ISSGC’07). He chaired the ISSGC’06, ISSGC’07 and ISSGC’08 Programme Committees. He is a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee Board and JISC Support of Research Committee. He is a representative of the UK at the e Infrastructure Reflection Group. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST). David De Roure, FBCS, is a professor of computer science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK, where he is a founding member of the School’s "Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia" Group, leads the e-Research activities and is Director of the Pervasive Systems Centre. He has been closely involved in the UK e-Science and e-Social Science programmes with leading roles in a variety of multidisciplinary projects ranging from bioinformatics and chemistry to psychology, environmental modelling, social statistics and computational musicology. He has also been involved with commissioning e-Science projects for multiple UK funding programmes from e Infrastructure and Technology Enhanced Learning to Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and in the formation of European strategy. Currently he directs the myExperiment project, is chair of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK and a co-director of the e Research South consortium. --------------- 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] Group meeting tomorrow, 10 AM, division room

by Joel Yuen

For group meeting tomorrow we have a guest speaker, Marcos Sotomayor, who used to work for Klaus Schulten at UIUC. Here's the abstract of the talk. *Aspuru-Guzik group meeting (TOMORROW!) Wednesday September 9, 2009. *CABOT DIVISION ROOM M112, 10 AM * Life under Tension: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins Involved in Mechanotransduction http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~sotomayo/ <http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/%7Esotomayo/> Marcos Sotomayor* Living organisms rely on macroscopic and microscopic structures that produce and transform force to survive. From mechanical motion of muscles and bones to sound transduction and cell volume regulation, handling of forces is essential to life. Investigation of the microscopic machinery behind force generation and transduction in the cell has only become possible with recent advances in x-ray crystallography, single molecule force spectroscopy, and computer modeling. I will present molecular dynamics simulations of proteins that are thought to transform mechanical forces into biochemical signals (mechanotransduction). These simulations adopted strategies in which external forces were used to probe protein elasticity and function and at the same time produce verifiable predictions. The simulations, focusing on ankyrin and cadherin repeats, resulted in the discovery and prediction of ankyrin's tertiary and secondary structure elasticity, as well as the discovery of a novel form of secondary structure elasticity mediated by calcium ions in cadherins. Simulations also revealed how calcium ions control cadherin's shape and the availability of key residues involved in cell-cell adhesion, providing a conceptual framework for interpreting mutations in cadherin calcium binding motifs causing disease.

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