aspuru-list January 2010

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Fwd: [Thusem] 1/28 CMP Seminar]

by Jacob J Krich

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] group meeting schedule Spring 2010

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, Please write down the date you were assigned and be prepared. Also, don't forget to send me the title of your talk ~ 1 week in advance. If you have any conflicts with the date, try to swap with another group member and let me know of the new arrangement. Jan 29. Kenta Feb. 4. Alexey Gorshkov +Philip Walter (2hour group meeting) Feb 12. Ville Feb 19. Dmitrij Feb 26. Patrick March 5. Alejandro March 12. Johannes March 15-19: No group meeting (APS meeting) March 26. Leslie April 2. James April 9. Mark April 16. Erica April 23. Sigi April 30. Ivan May 7. Joel May 9-15: No group meeting (CECAM conference) May 21. Semion May 28. Sangwoo June 4. Aryeh queue for Summer/Fall Roberto Cesar Jacob Sule David Cheers, -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] group meeting tomorrow 3pm

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, Just a reminder that Man-Hong is up tomorrow. Title: "The problems I am now solving: thermal state preparation, Bose-Hubbard model with local oscillators, intrinsic decoherence, pair recombination". I will see you all at 3pm in the Division Room, M102. Next week Kenta Hongo is up. Cheers, -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] Fwd: Your Participation is Requested for a Study About Your Experiences in Academia

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Free starbucks money, dear students :) 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: Katharine Bachman <ko2(a)rice.edu> Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:38 PM Subject: Your Participation is Requested for a Study About Your Experiences in Academia To: aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Dear Alan, We are contacting you again to find out about your experiences in academia. Are you a graduate student nearing your dissertation defense or currently working as a post-doc? Are you interested in working in academia? If so, we would like you to take part in our survey! Our survey takes about an hour to complete and can be found at: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~bachman/AcademicExperiencesSurvey.html<http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/%7Ebachman/AcademicExperiencesSurvey.html> All responses in this survey are completely confidential. As such, you have been assigned an identification number. Your ID number is 3055. As a way of saying thank you for your participation, we will be giving out $25 gift certificates to Target of Starbucks (your choice) to the first 300 women and 300 men to complete the survey. If you know of someone who fits our criteria that you think would like to participate, please forward this message. We hope that you will participate! Thank you, Mikki Hebl, Associate Professor of Psychology, Rice University, Principal Investigator Katharine Bachman, Graduate Research Assistant, Rice University If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at bachman(a)rice.edu. If you would like to be removed from our mailing list, please send an e-mail with “Do Not Solicit” in the subject line and your name in the body of the e-mail.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email January 21 - February 4

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Wednesday, January 27: Harvard biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham discusses the bold theory that our ancestors tamed fire and began cooking 1.8 million years ago, much earlier than conventionally believed in the opening event of the HMNH "Food for Thought" series. Thursday, January 28: Robert Stavins, Harvard Kennedy School, discusses "Climate Change Policy after Copenhagen" in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Luncheon Seminar. 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. Calendar Listings: Today: 3:30pm China Project Seminar Maxwell Dworkin 119 33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Present and Future Contributions of Sulfate, Black and Organic Carbon Aerosols from China to Global Air Quality, Premature Mortality, and Radiative Forcing." Denise Mauzerall, associate professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminar%20folder/seminar/Mauzerall100121 Chris Nielsen nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:00pm HBS Association of Boston - Solving the Global Climate Change Puzzle: Private Innovation and Government Regulation HBS Aldrich 112 on the HBS campus Allston, MA Come hear what one of the eminent researchers on innovation, HBS' own Rebecca Henderson and one of the major players in the clean energy space, Daniel Goldman, think about the future of climate change, and participate in what promises to be a lively exchange of views. Registration and fee. http://www.hbsab.org/article.html?aid=312 January 22, 2010 8:00am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA "Anti-social behavior in B. subtilis." Rich Losick, Harvard Molecular and Cellular Biology. Host: Colleen Cavanaugh. Please join us for coffee/tea/pastries at 8:30 am MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu 10:30am - 12:00pm Special Presentation: Research topics in smart electricity distribution grids MIT 51-145 Cambridge, MA Prof. Tomás Gómez, Institute for Research in Technology, Comillas University, Madrid, Spain; visiting researcher at the Energy Analysis Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Sponsored by: MIT-Spain, MIT Engineering Systems Division. Prof. Ignacio Perez-Arriaga Ipa(a)mit.edu 11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA "Collecting scientific provenance data via the definition and execution of scientific processes." Barbara Lerner, Mount Holyoke College. Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu 4:00pm - 5:30pm MIT Energy Club Event MIT 3-133 Cambridge, MA Discussion with Henry Kelly, Department of Energy Initiatives on Renewables and Efficiency. Free and open to the public. http://www.mitenergyclub.org Rebecca Walsh Dell rwdell(a)mit.edu 4:00pm HMNH Opening Exhibit - Domesticated: Modern Dioramas of Our New Natural History, photographs by Amy Stein Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA In Domesticated, New York visual artist Amy Stein explores the tenuous relationship between humans and animals through staged scenes inspired by true events in rural Pennsylvania. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/images/stories/documents/stein_release2.pdf January 23, 2010 8:30am - 3:00pm Cambridge Climate Congress Cambridge City Hall, Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA The Climate Congress will recommend actions to the Cambridge City Council for reducing the City of Cambridge’s carbon footprint. http://www.cambridgema.gov/deptann.cfm?story_id=2450 617-349-4321 January 25, 2010 11:45am 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. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:00pm - 8:45pm MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge - From Inside and Out: Energy Efficient Buildings Microsoft New England Research & Development Center One Memorial Drive Suite 100 Cambridge, MA 02142 Join us as we explore green building and interact with some of the thought leaders in the space already “making it happen”. Registration required. http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/EnergySIG/ESIG.html January 26, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Herbaria Seminar Harvard Herbaria Seminar Room 22 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA "Young and old small RNAs in land plants: Evolution, biogenesis, and functions." Michael Axtell, Penn State University. Erin Ciccone (617) 495-7504 January 27, 2010 11:45am - 12:45pm Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/applied_physical_sciences…... Pierce Hall 114 29 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Speaker Soeren Zorn. Hosted by Professor Scot Martin. Norma Stewart nstewart(a)seas.harvard.edu 7:30pm HMNH: Food for Thought Program Series and Booksigning Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human." Author Richard Wrangham discusses the theory that our Paleolithic Homo ancestors tamed fire and began cooking 1.8 million years ago, much earlier than conventionally believed. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids-and-families/google-calendar.html hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu January 28, 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 12:00pm - 1:30pm Business and Government Luncheon Seminar Bell Hall 5th Floor Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA "Climate Change Policy After Copenhagen." Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. RSVP required. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/events.htm mrcbg(a)ksg.harvard.edu 1:00pm Cambridge Forum: A Mini Conference on Global Climate Change First Parish Church 3 Church St. Cambridge, MA Scientists explore the impact of atmospheric methane on the earth's temperature, as well as the impact that climate change will have on human health, environmental migration, agricultural production, and sea level. http://www.cambridgeforum.org 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 January 29, 2010 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 February 1, 2010 11:45am 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. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.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. Reception to follow. February 3, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm OEB Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Christopher Marx, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. Title TBA. February 4, 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 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. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 --- 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. [55]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 55. http://harvard.us1.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&… Our mailing address is: 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 (T) 617-495-0368 www.environment.harvard.edu Copyright (C) 2008 Harvard University. All rights reserved.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group Events!

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Now that we're finally moved into our new lab home [sigh], we must celebrate! In addition, we want to show our appreciation to those who graciously shuffled space for our group (Profs. Shakhnovich and Heller, Judy and their group members), and to the key faculty and staff who got us the space and made it shiny and new (Tony Shaw, Jerry Connors, Mike Paterno, et al). So on *Friday, 5 February from 3pm - 5pm*, we'll be throwing a group party - our *Lab Open House*. Afterward, we'll have our long overdue chair races for those who have published since the last race day (9 new papers!). Come ready, as we have 3 new masks that Alan brought back from Mexico. Last but not least, we might have a new group photo taken (theme TBD). All this calls for lots of planning and preparation (we will not do it the Mexican way). So on *Friday, 29 January*, we'll throw another party - our *Lab Housecleaning*! If your personal desk space is untidy, no biggie! But if you have stuff in boxes shoved under your desk, we want to see them unpacked and shoved in your file drawers and on your shelves. You don't want your space to look like my apartment now do you? ;) Another equally important task is organizing the common areas! We need the desk space, file drawers and shelves for the printer, scanner, PCs, coffee machine, group reference books, office and computer supplies to be stored in an organized fashion so that everyone can find and use these items easily. For instance, our group copy cards are MIA. I would be so happy if we could find and store them in a designated place. Seriously, I would be SO happy. Please make Anna happy, pretty please. Oh, did I mention there would be pizza? :D More to come next week, 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 617.495.9676 lab http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] new lab info

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, FYI, we have 3 lab phone numbers: M104-105: 617-496-8221 M138: 617-496-3182 M111: 617-495-9676 There are different phone devices in each room, but the phone lines have the same set-up (limited to only campus and local phone calls). Sorry, there's no long distance available on these lines. Another FYI, your lab key marked AX241 can still access room M110 so that you can get to the Poland Spring water that all the theory groups pay for. More to come, 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 617.495.9676 lab http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] summer school of interest

by tempel＠physics.harvard.edu

Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Dates: July 6 - July 30, 2010 Topic: Computational and Conceptual Approaches to Quantum Many-Body Systems Application: http://boulder.research.yale.edu The 2010 summer school will cover a broad range of modern numerical approaches to strongly correlated quantum many-body systems and materials. This will also include novel ideas coming from the quantum information community, in particular various approaches based on tensor network states and entanglement renormalization methods. These method-oriented presentations will be complemented by a substantial number of phenomenological and application oriented lectures. The electronic application form (deadline February 27, 2010) as well as logistical information and more details on the program are available on the School's main web page http://boulder.research.yale.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Aspuru SVN

by J D Whitfield

Hi everyone, Does anyone know how/where to set up a SVN that is located on Harvard servers? 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] This explains everything about Alejandro/Roberto confusion...

by Alejandro Perdomo

No wonder why the people in the main office in chemistry have difficulties differentiating between Alejandro and Roberto. Lady Gaga seems to have some issues as well, and in this song she mentions both of us indistinguishably :). What a dilemma or should I say duality? Lyrics, http://www.metrolyrics.com/alejandro-lyrics-lady-gaga.html or video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vURM2THc1dM&feature=related Happy holidays, -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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