aspuru-list January 2010

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] thanks for cleaning!

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Thanks to everyone who helped tidy the lab today. We got rid of some of the crap, now sitting in the hallway to be picked up. Please continue the housecleaning and maintain the tidiness since next Fri 5 Feb will be the Lab Open House. The event will be from 3-5pm and we'll have champagne, fruit, cheese and the like. The entire faculty are invited, as well as Facilities, the Cohen/Heller/Shakhnovich groups, Tony Shaw and Allen Aloise. Oh, you might as well pretty up for the event since we'll be taking the group photo after the party. And last but not least, we have 9 chair races to run (I'll have sweat towels and first aid kit on hand). -Anna P.S. There's still plenty of pizza, rolls and some salad left in the big office, so you have a reason to work over the weekend. :) On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Anna B. Shin <anna(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>wrote: > Dear Group, > > Just a reminder that tomorrow Fri 29 Jan is our *Lab Housecleaning*event. It shouldn't take us long to clean/unpack/organize our individual > desk space (if you haven't already), as well as the common areas in each > office/bay. We need volunteers for the latter. We should decide > collectively where to store/place specific group items/equipment. For > instance, the PCs/scanners might be moved to another desk space depending on > where the new fridge will be placed. Please start as soon as you get in, > ideally finishing before 3pm group meeting so we can have pizza afterward. > > A few things: > > We have a labelmaker (I think Sigi has it now) to label the file > cabinets/shelves that hold the group items, office and computer supplies. > We should also label the phone handsets (if haven't already) with the new > lab phone numbers. > > I have Sharpies to label the group reference books if haven't already done > so. We should organize them by first author. :) > > We also got a poster storage file to keep our posters neatly organized. > It's the large box in my office. > > The coffee machine and cups/supplies are quite dirty too so that should be > cleaned. We should have a sponge and Ivory dish detergent somewhere. > > Shopping list: > > We ordered 5 poster travel tubes w/ carrying straps to use when you present > at conferences. They're a little pricey so we need to keep track of them. > If you lose one, I will request partial compensation for the replacement > ($20) and put the money towards the fund we use for tequila. :) > > We have 2 new computers that are still in their box. Ask Alan if you need > to replace your current machine. > > If you didn't get one of the new monitors and want one, then please let me > know. If you need a connector/card/power source/etc, please let me know. > It would be ideal to buy everything in a single run to Microcenter. > > Any news on the fridge? Where are the group copy cards? I need to fill > them or get replacements if lost. How about the laser pointer and wireless > presenter? I have a couple more laser pointers. Let's locate these items > and put them in a safe place. > > What else? > > Thanks! > Anna > > > Anna B. Shin > Laboratory Administrator > Aspuru-Guzik Research Group > Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology > Harvard University > 12 Oxford Street > Cambridge, MA 02138 > > 617.496.9964 office > 617.694.9879 cell > 617.496.9411 fax > http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/ > >

14 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Tuesday October 13

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We will meet on Tuesday at 11:00. Seth (or his representative) will speak in the group meeting. Ashwin Nayak will speak at 3:00 in our seminar series. 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] group meeting reminder, 3pm, Division Room

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, Kenta will be up today. The title of his talk is: "Quantum Monte Carlo study of p-diiodobenzene molecular crystal". See you all tomorrow, -A -- Alejandro Perdomo Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Physics. Harvard University 12 Oxford St #482, Cambridge, MA, 02138. perdomo(a)fas.harvard.edu

14 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Lab Housecleaning tomorrow!

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Just a reminder that tomorrow Fri 29 Jan is our *Lab Housecleaning* event. It shouldn't take us long to clean/unpack/organize our individual desk space (if you haven't already), as well as the common areas in each office/bay. We need volunteers for the latter. We should decide collectively where to store/place specific group items/equipment. For instance, the PCs/scanners might be moved to another desk space depending on where the new fridge will be placed. Please start as soon as you get in, ideally finishing before 3pm group meeting so we can have pizza afterward. A few things: We have a labelmaker (I think Sigi has it now) to label the file cabinets/shelves that hold the group items, office and computer supplies. We should also label the phone handsets (if haven't already) with the new lab phone numbers. I have Sharpies to label the group reference books if haven't already done so. We should organize them by first author. :) We also got a poster storage file to keep our posters neatly organized. It's the large box in my office. The coffee machine and cups/supplies are quite dirty too so that should be cleaned. We should have a sponge and Ivory dish detergent somewhere. Shopping list: We ordered 5 poster travel tubes w/ carrying straps to use when you present at conferences. They're a little pricey so we need to keep track of them. If you lose one, I will request partial compensation for the replacement ($20) and put the money towards the fund we use for tequila. :) We have 2 new computers that are still in their box. Ask Alan if you need to replace your current machine. If you didn't get one of the new monitors and want one, then please let me know. If you need a connector/card/power source/etc, please let me know. It would be ideal to buy everything in a single run to Microcenter. Any news on the fridge? Where are the group copy cards? I need to fill them or get replacements if lost. How about the laser pointer and wireless presenter? I have a couple more laser pointers. Let's locate these items and put them in a safe place. What else? Thanks! Anna Anna B. Shin Laboratory Administrator Aspuru-Guzik Research Group Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617.496.9964 office 617.694.9879 cell 617.496.9411 fax http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

14 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email January 28 - February 11

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Thursday, February 4: Stephen Long, Professor in Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois, presents "Bioenergy, Biodiversity, Food and Global Change Mitigation - Can we have it all?" at the first lecture in the spring HUCE Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change series. Tuesday, February 9: "Global Climate Policy after Copenhagen: Seeking a Way Forward", a lunchtime discussion with Michael Froman, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, and Bo Lidegaard, Permanent Undersecretary of State, Office of the Prime Minister of Denmark. Note: Bryan Grenfell’s Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change lecture has been rescheduled for Wednesday, February 17 (originally March 3). Check the HUCE website for updated information. Calendar Listings: January 28, 2010 4:00pm Human Evolutionary Biology Junior Faculty Search Lecture HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge MA "Integrative and Comparative Primate Behavioral Ecology." Erin R. Vogel. 5:30pm - 6:45pm Controlling Climate Change after Copenhagen: A European Perspective The Crowe Room (Goddard 310) Tufts University Medford, MA A presentation by Dr. Bert Metz, a Dutch scientist, who was the co-chair of IPCC Working Group III for the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports, and a senior researcher and climate division head for the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. Jacqueline Deelstra Jacqueline.Deelstra(a)tufts.edu 8:30pm EAC Welcome Back Gathering 20 Dewolfe, Room 33 Harvard Campus Cambridge, MA Environmental Action Committee Kick off -event. Chat about the environment, classes, etc. Light refreshments served. January 29, 2010 8:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA "It's not about disease: elucidating the function of the ESX1 secretion system in M. tuberculosis." Sarah Fortune, Harvard School of Public Health. MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu 11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA "Exploring historical hydrologic change across the Northeastern United States." Mark Green, Plymouth State University. http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:30pm - 2:00pm HSPH Biostatistics Environmental Statistics Large Group Meeting FXB G11 HSPH Boston, MA "Modeling spatial patterns of urban air pollution - Recent findings and implications." SPEAKERS: Jonathan Levy, Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Risk Assessment Harvard School of Public Health and Jane Clougherty, Research Associate, Department of Environmental Health. AMAITY(a)hsph.harvard.edu 4:00pm Applied Physics Colloquium Pierce Hall, Room 209 29 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "The New Generation of Superconductor Electric Power Equiptment." Dr. Alex Malozemoff, American Superconductor Corporation. Refreshments starting at 3:30 pm. Virginia Casas vcasas(a)seas.harvard.edu February 1, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of dicussion. *Note the February 8 meeting will be on the 4th Floor of Hoffman in the Faculty Lounge. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu 4:00pm EPS Spring Colloquium Haller Hall Geo-Museum 102 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA "The 2008 Wenchuan, China (M7.9) earthquake: lessons learned about mountain building and earthquake hazards assessment." John Shaw, Harvard University. Ganna Savostyanova ganna(a)eps.harvard.edu February 2, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm Herbaria Seminar Series 22 Divinity Ave, Seminar Room Harvard University Herbaria Cambridge, MA "Consequences of an altered fire regime on climate and carbon storage in arctic tundra." Adrian Rocha, Marine Biological Laboratory. http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ Erin Ciccone (617) 495-7504 4:15pm MIT Energy Seminar MIT 66-110 (Landau Building, 25 Ames Street) Cambridge, MA "Why is Modernizing Our Energy Technologies So Darn Hard, But Worth the Effort?" Susan Tierney, Managing Principal at Analysis Group in Boston. February 3, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm OEB Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA “Lessons from adaptation: parallelism, optimization of gene expression and mutations that do (or do not) play nicely together." Christopher Marx, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. February 4, 2010 11:30am Poverty, Hunger and Climate Change: Addressing New Challenges in Agricultural Development Weil Town Hall (Belfer L1) Belfer BLDG Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA Al_Mujenda(a)ksg.harvard.edu 11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Special guest Stephen Long. Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided. Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:00pm - 2:00pm Climate Change & the Media Series Harvard Kennedy School Nye B/C, Taubman Building, 5th Floor 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA "The Public Divide Over Climate Change: Scientists, Skeptics and the Media." Christine Russell Cristine_Russell(a)hks.harvard.edu 5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change Biolabs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave “Bioenergy, Biodiversity, Food and Global Change Mitigation – Can we have it all?” Stephen Long, Professor of Crop Sciences, Robert Emerson Professor, and Resident Scientist for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Reception to follow. Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 February 5, 2010 11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA "The role of wood in Adirondack aquatic ecosystems and riparian." Cliff Kraft, Cornell University. Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php February 8, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of dicussion. *Note the February 8 meeting will be on the 4th Floor of Hoffman in the Faculty Lounge. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu February 9, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm Herbaria Seminar Series 22 Divinity Ave, Seminar Room Harvard Herbaria Cambridge, MA Ken Karol, New York Botanical Garden. Title TBA. Erin Ciccone (617) 495-7504 12:00pm - 1:45pm Global Climate Policy after Copenhagen: Seeking a Way Forward Nye Conference Room, 5th fl., Taubman Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA Featuring Michael Froman, Deputy Assistant to the President, Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economic Affairs, and Bo Lidegaard, Permanent Undersecretary of State, Office of the Prime Minister of Denmark. RSVP to Trudi Bostian Trudi_bostian(a)hks.harvard.edu 7:30pm Cambridge Entomological Club Meeting Museum of Comparative Zoology Room 101 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA "Plagues and pupae: Using honey bees to model disease spread in natural populations." Phillip T.B. Starks, Tufts University. David P Hughes dhughes(a)oeb.harvard.edu (617) 496 8146 February 11, 2010 11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided. Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu 4:00pm - 5:00pm OEB Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave Harvard University Cambridge, MA Daniel Bolnick, University of Texas at Austin. 6:00pm HMNH: Food for Thought Program Series Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Where Our Food Comes From: The Origins of Agriculture." Dr. Bruce Smith, Curator of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids-and-families/google-calendar.html --- 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. [48]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. 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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Ride to Dedham tomorrow

by Jacob J Krich

Excitonics-crew, Sorry for the last-minute notice. I'll be driving to Endicott House tomorrow (leaving Porter Square at 8:30) and I'm happy to give a ride if anyone would like. I'd appreciate if you can get yourself somewhere along the Porter/Alewife axis, because driving around Cambridge/Somerville at that hour is never fast. Best, Jacob

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] First Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science Feb. 3: "Anton" with David E. Shaw

by Rosalind Reid

You are cordially invited to the first Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science, sponsored by the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in conjunction with the Initiative in Innovative Computing. This is one of four lectures this semester continuing the IIC-CS Joint Colloquium series. (For more about the series, see http://tinyurl.com/yafh7kw and iic.harvard.edu.) ********** Anton: A Specialized Machine for Millisecond-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins Wednesday, Feb. 3, 4:00 pm Room G-115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge David E. Shaw, Chief Scientist, D. E. Shaw Research Abstract The ability to perform long, accurate, atomic-level molecular dynamics (MD) simulations could in principle provide insights into the structural, dynamic, and functional characteristics of proteins at an atomic level of detail. Many biologically important phenomena, however, occur over timescales that have previously fallen far outside the reach of MD technology. D. E. Shaw Research has constructed a specialized, massively parallel machine, called Anton, that is capable of performing all-atom simulations of proteins in an explicitly represented solvent environment at a speed roughly two orders of magnitude beyond that of the previous state of the art. Using novel algorithms developed within the Shaw lab, the machine has now simulated the behavior of a number of proteins for periods as long as a millisecond—approximately 100 times the length of the longest previously published MD simulation—revealing aspects of protein dynamics that were previously inaccessible to both computational and experimental study. About the Speaker David E. Shaw serves as Chief Scientist of D. E. Shaw Research and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980, served on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Columbia until 1986, and founded the D. E. Shaw group in 1988. Since 2001, Dr. Shaw has devoted his time to hands-on research in the field of computational biochemistry. He is now personally involved in the development of new algorithms and machine architectures for high-speed molecular dynamics simulations of biological macromolecules, and in the application of such simulations to basic scientific research in structural biology and biochemistry and to the process of computer-aided drug design. Although he leads the lab’s research efforts in his role as Chief Scientist, his focus is largely technical, with limited involvement in operational and administrative management. Dr. Shaw was appointed to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology by President Clinton in 1994, and again by President Obama in 2009. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was elected to its board of directors in 1998. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and serves on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies. --------------- Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. Mark your calendar for the upcoming IIC Colloquia: Feb 10, 4:00 pm: Alexander Gray, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology Feb. 24, 4:00 pm: Bruce Boghosian, Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics, Tufts University For more information about IIC colloquia and other events : http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming _______________________________________________ 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: [G4] CCB 5k Road Race reminder

by Leslie Vogt

Dear Aspuruites, If you are not a runner, feel free to ignore this message. If you want to be part of the Aspuru-Guzik team on March 14th, you will need to register for the race individually. The website is: http://www.baevents.com/rasnaheireann/info1.php The cost of the race is $30 a person, but I think this includes some discounts to places with food and beverages after the race, as well as a lovely t-shirt. Once you have signed up, please let me know! Leslie -- Leslie Vogt Aspuru-Guzik Group Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lu Wang <wang29(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:10 AM Subject: [G4] CCB 5k Road Race reminder To: gradstudents(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, postdocs(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Dear All, Please let Darren Lipomi (djlipomi(a)fas.harvard.edu) know by Monday, 1/25, if a team from your lab is planning on running in the CCB 5k race. You need not have a full team yet, but we want to get the ball rolling, so start recruiting if you haven't already! The original message is below: This March will be the 4th Annual CCB Cross Country (XC) Championship! Here is how it will work: Each participating lab needs a captain, who will recruit five or more members of their lab to run the Ras na hEireann USA (Race of Ireland and the USA) on St. Patrick's Day weekend, Sunday, March 14, at 11 am in Davis Square in Somerville. Several bars and restaurants have free beer and other specials the rest of the day for runners, and we usually meet up at one of them following the race. The team with the fastest five members wins a trophy and bragging rights. Please nominate or appoint yourself a captain of your lab's team. When you have five or more members, please send me an email. You are advised to register as soon as possible, as the registration fills up several weeks ahead of time: http://www.baevents.com/rasnaheireann/info1.php Best, Darren PS. Here are the details of scoring, cut and copied from last year: We will score the race like a XC meet. We'll take the finishing place (among the CCB, not your overall place in the race) of the first five people on your team. Add the finishing places together and the team with the lowest score wins. Teams with more than five people will use the other members of their team to 'push' back the finishing places of the other teams, thus giving them a larger score. Teams with less than five people will get the 'last place' spot for each member they are missing. We'll have an award for the winning team, the top male, top female, and highest participation (we'll try to normalize so that it's a percentage of the lab, I'll look at group webpages to estimate the number of people in your lab, unless you can email me and save me the time!). _______________________________________________ G4 mailing list G4(a)chem.harvard.edu http://chem.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/g4

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Pathria, Statistical Mechanics

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Hello: I was wondering if I lent to someone my copy of Pathria, Statistical Mechanics since I cannot find it. Thanks! Roberto

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Thank you all for attending Cesar's practice talk.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, I really thank everybody that attended Cesar's practice talk and gave crucial constructive criticism. The team spirit of the lab was fantastic and I loved the atmosphere. I wanted just to type that, as it makes me leave for Chicago very happy of working with all of you guys. Greetings, 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

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