aspuru-list October 2010

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Quantum Beer] Red Bones, Wednesday June 16th at 8pm

by Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario

Dear Quantum Scientists in the Boston Area: You are invited to Quantum Beer, Summer Edition, where Quantum Scientists from institutions all over the Boston Area socialize away from the blackboards. Calculations on napkins are permitted. Every Quantum Beer is at a different place. This time, we are going to Redbones. Quantum Beer Wednesday June 16th at 8pm Redbones BBQ <http://www.redbones.com/brews.html> (downstairs) 55 Chester Street Somerville, MA 02144<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=redbones&mrt=al…> Redbones has a beer roulette, and good southern-style BBQ. We will be * downstairs*. Just ask for the "Quantum Something" group. The Quantum Beer email list keeps growing. If you know people that would be interested in getting the Quantum Beer announcements, send me their email. Salud! Cesar -- Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario, Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Box#34 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA rodriguez(a)chemistry.harvard.edu

12 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Special group meeting Thursday 4 PM, Matt Broome

by Joel Yuen

We have a special group meeting Thursday 21, 4 PM at Naito 030 by a visitor of our group, Matthew Broome, from the School of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Queensland. The abstract is here: *The quantum walk, the quantum version of its classical counterpart the random walk, has received a lot of attention in the past few years both inside and outside of the laboratory. The quantum walk has been proposed as a valuable tool for quantum computation in addition to investigating phenomenon such as Anderson localisation and even energy transport in biological systems. I will give a description of our experimental implementation for the discrete-time quantum walk with single photons in space and show how we tuned the level of decoherence in the system from completely quantum right through to the classical random walk. I will also show the most recent application of the experiment: investigating topological phases with discrete time quantum walks. * -- Joel Yuen-Zhou PhD candidate in Chemical Physics Harvard University CCB, 12 Oxford St. Mailbox 107, Cambridge, MA, USA.

13 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] group travel calendar

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, I just shared a calendar called "A-G Group Travel Calendar". When you're not in the office for a period of time, please let me know and I will add this to the calendar. It can be a good resource for everyone. If anyone is looking for you, they can see when you are out and when you'll be returning. Please note: this is a private calendar, not another public group calendar. I will put trips, such as the SERS Program Review meetings on the group travel calendar, not the public one anymore. 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/

13 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: To all Excitonics students & postdocs, Fall research updates due 11/5/10

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Excitonics-affiliated group members, Please write your brief reports and run them by me. Best, Alan Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Associate 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: Marc Baldo <baldo(a)mit.edu> Date: Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:10 PM Subject: To all Excitonics students & postdocs, Fall research updates due 11/5/10 To: efrc-all(a)mit.edu Cc: Cathy Bourgeois <cmbourg(a)mit.edu> To all Excitonics students & postdocs, It is time again to upload a brief progress report on your EFRC work to the Excitonics blog. http://excitonics.mit.edu/network/wp-login.php As before, you will need to login twice. The first login enters the server. Everyone should use the user name: wpuser Password: eXc1ton1cs The second login enters the blog itself. Please use the same personalized user name and password as before. If you are new to the center please contact Cathy Bourgeois (cmbourg(a)MIT.EDU) for a new account. Please post your recent progress report as a blog entry. *Also, please be sure to highlight any relevant presentations, published papers, or patents. * Instructions 1. Select ‘My blogs’ from the top menu, highlight the Excitonics blog, then select ‘New post’ from the drop down menu that appears. 2. Enter your project title at the top. 3. Enter your accompanying text below that. 4. You can upload an image by selecting ‘Add media’. 5. Select ‘Progress reports’ in the categories menu at lower right. 6. Finally, click on ‘Publish’ at top right. It is OK to leave the visibility as ‘public’. For a style guide, please look at the existing blog posts on the site. If you need to upload links to longer documents such as publications or presentations, select ‘Add new’ under the Media heading on the dashboard. Please upload your report before the end of next week. If you have any questions please contact Cathy or me. Best regards, marc Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Director of the Center for Excitonics Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics MIT, Room 13-3053 77 Massachusetts Av, Cambridge, MA 02139 baldo(a)mit.edu http://softsemi.mit.edu/ http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics/

13 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Windows virtual machine

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Group: Alán has secured a windows 7 32-bit virtual machine with all your favorite packages: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office and more! To get it you have to get the virtual machine fittingly called Plexciton. Below are the instructions: 1) Get virtualbox in your machine. If you are using ubuntu or a debian-based system, simply type sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-dkms 2) Get the plexciton by your favorite scp/ftp method: scp group@aspuruwin.chem.harvard.edu:Plexciton.vdi . 2a) password: Windows4ever 3) Run virtualbox in your machine. If installed properly you should just type virtualbox (or go to Applications-> Accesories -> Virtualbox OSE). Note: In one test, virtualbox asked me to run sudo modprobe vboxdrv, so you may have to do this to. 4) On the virtualbox GUI, go to File->Virtual Media Manager and on the Hard Disks tab, press the add button. Look for the plexciton and close the window. 5) On the virtualbox GUI, click on new 5a) On os-type, look for Windows 7 5b) Keep the base memory size 5c) On the next window look for an existing hard disk Then, you're almost done. Try running it and let me know if there are any problems. Roberto

13 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] monitors

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, 18 new monitors are in the big office. Please be consistent in distribution by pairing monitors with the same model number. This will help minimize complication for me when determining which funds need to be charged (plus it's nice to have a matching pair). 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/

13 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] A Chemist's Guide to DFT

by Leslie Vogt

Hello Aspuru-Guzians, I am looking for the DFT book by Koch and Holthausen. If you have a copy, please let me know! http://www.amazon.com/Chemists-Guide-Density-Functional-Theory/dp/3527303723 Thanks, Leslie -- Leslie Vogt Aspuru-Guzik Group Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University

13 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] talks and meet

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta Today, Friday, Chetan Nayak is speaking at noon in 4-331 to the condensed matter theorists. Monday, Peter Young is speaking at noon in 4-331 to the CMT crowd. Monday at 4 we have our seminar with the speaker being Zamponi. Tuesday at 11 we have our group meeting where Krzakala will speak. Be there! Eddie ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6-300 Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

13 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email October 28 - November 11

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Saturday, October 30: Interested in Energy? Meet students from the college, HBS, HKS, MIT, HLS who are interested in the future of renewable energy research, policy, law, and business at an energy mixer hosted at "Sunny Memories", an exhibit on solar energy design. Tuesday, November 2: Ashley Brown, Harvard Kennedy School, Series, discusses "Issues in Implementing the Smart Grid" at the next Energy Policy Seminar. Wednesday, November 10: In the Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy, Mark Jacobsen, University of California, San Diego, presents "Fuel Economy, Car Class Mix, and Safety." Tonight 6:00pm "Global Water & Food Security: A New Role for the Private Sector" with Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck Harvard Kennedy School Starr Auditorium Mr. Brabeck leads the Water 2030 Group, a consortium of private companies working with governments to develop solutions to the world’s emerging water crisis. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 6:15pm - 7:30pm Energy 101: China and Climate Change - the Role of Energy MIT 4-370 Cambridge, MA Leader: Hengwei LIU. This talk will focus on the challenges facing China as well as China’s efforts to combat climate change. The talk will also look at ways to break the international climate negotiation deadlock. http://www.mitenergyclub.org/events-and-programs/energy-101/china-and-clima…... October 29, 2010 8:45am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor "Micro-friend or foe? Identity and territorial behavior in Proteus mirabilis" Karine Gibbs, MCB. Host: Rich Losick http://www.msi.harvard.edu 9:00am - 12:15pm The 119th New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable Foley Hoag LLP 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor Boston, MA 02210 The 119th New England Electric Restructuring Roundtable with the U.S. EPA's Joe Goffman and Curt Spalding. "Impacts of Major New Environmental Regulations on New England's Electricity Future" Contact Name: Susan Rivo susan(a)raabassociates.org 11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA "Improving the quality of forest-tree seedling production in the Philippines - an application of systems thinking integrating science, social science and policy." John Herbohn, The University of Queensland and Harvard Bullard Fellow http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu 1:30pm - 2:30pm The Future of Global Health: Policy, Evidence, and You Harvard Hall 104 Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA Join us for a discussion about the intersection of global health policy, research, and individual action. Julio Frenk: Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health; former Minister of Health of Mexico, founding director-general of the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico, former executive director of Evidence and Information for Policy at the World Health Organization http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hpsd 6:30pm Sunny Memories: A New Vision for Solar Energy Northwest Labs 52 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Sunny Memories is a large-scale international workshop created to innovate around the concept of ‘dye-sensitized’ solar cells. HUCE Director Dan Schrag joins, Didier Burkhalter, Swiss Minister of the Interior, and Nicolas Henchoz, Founder of the EPFL+ECAL Lab in a discussion moderated by Christoph Reinhart, Professor, Department of Architecture and head of Sustainable Design Concentration and GSD-Squared research initiative. http://thelaboratory.harvard.edu/content/sunnymemories/ October 30, 2010 7:00pm Energy Mixer: At Sunny Memories - An exhibit on Solar Energy Design Northwest Laboratory Basement 52 Oxford St Cambridge, MA Interested in Energy? Come and meet students from the college, HBS, HKS, MIT, HLS who are interested in the future of renewable energy research, policy, law, and business. akcohen(a)college.harvard.edu November 1, 2010 11:45am - 12:45pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:00pm MCZ Lunchtime Seminar: MCZ 101 Seminar Room 26 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Family Matters: How altruistic or spiteful should you be to your relatives?” Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Postdoctoral Fellow, Haig Lab Contact Name: Catherine Weisel cweisel(a)oeb.harvard.edu (617) 495-2460 4:00pm EPS Fall Colloquium Haller Hall - GeoMuseum 102 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA David Noone, University of Colorado. Title TBA. Host: Dave Johnston. Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo scappo(a)fas.harvard.edu November 2, 2010 12:00pm Harvard University Herbaria Seminar HUH Seminar Room 20 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Mariah Carbone, Richardson Lab, "The influence of clouds and fog in Bishop pine (Pinus muricata D. Don) forests on Santa Cruz Island, California"; and Youngryel Ryu, Richardson lab, "Global terrestrial estimates of gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration using satellite observations." Contact Name: Erin A. Ciccone eciccone(a)oeb.harvard.edu 617-495-7504 2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, HKS 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA Ashley Brown, HKS. "Issues in Implementing the Smart Grid" http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu (617) 495-8693 3:00pm - 4:30pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Climatea website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html Contact Name: Sierra Petersen speters(a)fas.harvard.edu November 3, 2010 11:00am OEB Weekly Seminar Series Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Jarmila Pittermann University of California, Santa Cruz. "The evolution of water transport in conifers and ferns/" Host: Holbrook Lab http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy House Spindell Room Harvard University Cambridge, MA The best way to get involved with the EAC is to attend the general meetings. Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ Contact Name: Jackson Salovaara jsalov(a)fas.harvard.edu November 4, 2010 9:00am - 5:00pm Cross Currents: Water and Energy Challenges in the 21st Century Winthrop Street Function Hall 51 Winthrop Street, Tufts University Medford, MA Stockholm Environment Institute 2010 Symposium. Free, advanced registration requested. http://www.sei-us.org/about/symposium2010 617.627.3786 11:45am - 12:45pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St. 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the website for topics of discussion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu 3:30pm China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Scenario Analyses of China's Vehicle Emissions on Regional Air Quality in 2000 and 2020." Eri Saikawa, Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Global Change Science, M.I.T. http://www.chinaproject.harvard.edu Contact Name: Chris Nielsen nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-496-2378 6:00pm Darwin's "Abominable Mystery" and the Search for the First Flowering Plants Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA Asa Gray Bicentennial Celebration at Harvard Museum of Natural History. Speaker: William (Ned) Friedman, newly appointed Director of the Arnold Arboretum and Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures-classes-events/asa-gray-bicentennial.h… November 5, 2010 12:00pm Atmopsheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 100F 29 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA "Warmer and wetter climate: More soluble pollutants." Yuanyuan Fang, Princeton University. http://www.as.harvard.edu/seminar.html November 8, 2010 11:45am - 12:45pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu 4:00pm EPS Fall Colloquium Haller Hall - GeoMuseum 102 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Juan Perez-Mercader, Harvard University. Title TBA. Host: Stein Jacobsen. Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo scappo(a)fas.harvard.edu November 9, 2010 2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, HKS 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA Fu Feng, HKS. "Promoting Energy Conservation in China" http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu (617) 495-8693 3:00pm - 4:30pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Climatea website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html Contact Name: Sierra Petersen speters(a)fas.harvard.edu November 10, 2010 12:00 - 1:15 pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St. 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Special Guest: Oswald Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology, Yale University. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu 4:10pm - 5:30pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Harvard Kennedy School Room L-382 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA Mark Jacobsen, University of California, San Diego. "Fuel Economy, Car Class Mix, and Safety." Contact Name: Jason Chapman jason_chapman(a)harvard.edu 617-496-8054 5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change Biolabs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA "The Ecology of Fear and the Ecosystem: How Predation Risk Drives Ecosystem Nutrient Dynamics."Oswald J. Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology, Yale University. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy House Spindell Room Harvard University Cambridge, MA The best way to get involved with the EAC is to attend the general meetings. Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ Contact Name: Jackson Salovaara jsalov(a)fas.harvard.edu November 11, 2010 - Veterans Day Holiday -- 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. Be sure to sign up to receive the HUCE newsletter. Become a Fan of HUCE on Facebook! You are receiving this email because you indicated interest in Harvard University Center for the Environment events. [75]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 75. 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.

13 years, 5 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] LOCATION CORRECTION> Group meeting by Kenta tomorrow

by Joel Yuen

The Division Room is occupied tomorrow so we'll use *Naito 030*. Please disregard the previous message. Kenta is up for group meeting tomorrow. Time: Friday October 29 at 11:30 AM Place: *Naito 030* -- Joel Yuen-Zhou PhD candidate in Chemical Physics Harvard University CCB, 12 Oxford St. Mailbox 107, Cambridge, MA, USA. -- Joel Yuen-Zhou PhD candidate in Chemical Physics Harvard University CCB, 12 Oxford St. Mailbox 107, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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