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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Iacs-events] Computational Science Lecture Oct. 14: Reminder: "Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery" with Ben Shneiderman is tomorrow

by Rosalind Reid

A reminder of tomorrow's Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science, to be given by Ben Shneiderman: ***************** Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery Thursday, Oct. 14, 4:00 pm Room G-115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Ben Shneiderman Professor in the Department of Computer Science Founding Director, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory University of Maryland Abstract Interactive information visualization tools provide researchers with remarkable capabilities to support discovery. These telescopes for high-dimensional data combine powerful statistical methods with user-controlled interfaces. Users can begin with an overview, zoom in on areas of interest, filter out unwanted items, and then click for details-on-demand. With careful design and efficient algorithms, the dynamic queries approach to data exploration can provide 100-millisecond updates even for million-record databases. This talk will start by reviewing the growing commercial success stories such as www.spotfire.com,www.smartmoney.com/marketmap and www.hivegroup.com. Then it will cover recent research progress for visual exploration of large time series data applied to financial, medical, and genomic data (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher ). These strategies of unifying statistics with visualization are applied to electronic health records (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/lifelines2) and social network data (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/socialaction and www.codeplex.com/nodexl). Demonstrations will be shown. Note: After the talk, Dr. Shneiderman will be happy to sign copies of his new book, Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/product/editors/723354; available online). About the Speaker Ben Shneiderman (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/) at the University of Maryland. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001, and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2010. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Ben is the co-author with Catherine Plaisant of _Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction_ (5th ed., 2010) http://www.awl.com/DTUI/. With Stu Card and Jock Mackinlay, he co-authored _Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think_ (1999). With Ben Bederson he co-authored _The Craft of Information Visualization_ (2003). His book _Leonardo’s Laptop_ appeared in October 2002 (MIT Press) and won the IEEE book award for Distinguished Literary Contribution. His latest book, with Derek Hansen and Marc Smith, is _Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL_, published in September 2010. ********* The Distinguished Lectures in Computational Science are presented by the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences through the collaborative effort of the Computer Science faculty and the Institute for Applied Computational Science (http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu). For more information, contact Gioia Sweetland,gioia(a)seas.harvard.edu. For information on the Computer Science Colloquium Series, see http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/computer_science. _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] !

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, I promised to some of you some updates about the conference. All the proceedings include a transcription of our discussions, so be prepared to read them and see what kind of good (and wrong) things people are saying! Quite fun, as 50% of the time or so is discussion and 50% presentations. The meeting is happening at the same hotel (and actually I think the same room, the Solvay room) where the Einstein, etc. meetings happened. It is a square table setup with the ~50 or so participants around the table. RECEPTION: Belgium city hall. Met Tobias Brixner who has a setup similar to Andy Marcus' (photoemission detection, rather than fluorescence) that gives him subdiffraction imaging using a four-wave mixing type experiment. The theory for it should be the same as Alejandro's. Met Mrs. Solvay, we will go to her house on Thursday, tomorrow. a) First talk: Stuart Rice. Fifth or so slide: ENAQT. He described our work, and it was a big component of the first talk. Whaley and others discussed Anderson localization vs. Zeno. Bob Harris talked about the Zeno effect, etc. At the end of the talk, Stuart posted 5 open questions. One of them (#3) was pretty much efficient quantum state tomography to understand quantum control. At the beginning of the discussion, Graham Fleming said "Ok Alan Aspuru-Guzik has a protocol for #3, why doesn't he explain it". I explained what our QPT is and why it is not "efficient" as Stuart wanted, but it generated some interesting discussion. Another open question #1 was if there is a "thermodynamics" for open systems. Interestlingly, Ronnie Kosloff did not intervene. I want to show now one slide of Cesar's quantum engines as well in my talk. Fleming talked about the need of molecular dynamics, for which I will talk as well. Correlations were mentioned several times. I will see what I can say in my talk. When Mark Ratner talked, he started talking about Pointer States (all wrong in my opinion), after some reading of the wikipedia article and reminding myself of what Cesar's lazy states paper discussed about them, I corrected him publically. Plenio and Vedral agreed with my definition, and we had a nice discussion afterward. More things happened during the first day, but perhaps the most interesting ones relating to our group were shown. I was very happy that we were so prominent during the first discussion! Anyway, I will keep you posted, later I go to dinner with Engel, Mukamel, etc. so gotta run. 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: ACS Introduces New Publishing Agreement for Journals

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear All, ACS now allows posting to the arxiv! Exciting. One needs to add some text and contact editors, but it seems very nice. 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: ACS Publications <pubsupdates(a)acs.org> Date: Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:46 PM Subject: ACS Introduces New Publishing Agreement for Journals To: aspuru(a)gmail.com New ACS Journal Publishing Agreement Expands Author Rights & Clarifies Responsibilities This month, ACS Publications will replace the ACS Copyright Status Form with a new publishing agreement that expands ACS author rights and clarifies author responsibilities. The new ACS Journal Publishing Agreement<http://c.acs.org/conpc/278237/69/94435/2607/0/S/0/0/hqwg.pdf>(JPA), is a result of ACS’ ongoing efforts to provide the best possible publishing experience for our authors. That author experience includes efficient online manuscript submission; rapid, responsible peer review and publication; global distribution; the award-winning ACS Web Editions Platform; and now, extended author use rights. There are several key points of difference between the new JPA and the ACS Copyright Status Form: - The new agreement specifically addresses what you can do with different versions of your manuscript – e.g. use in theses and collections, teaching and training, conference presentations, sharing with colleagues, and posting on websites and repositories. The terms under which these uses can occur are clearly identified to prevent misunderstandings that could jeopardize final publication of a manuscript. *(Section II, Permitted Uses by Authors)*. - The new agreement clarifies that the transfer of copyright in Supporting Information is *nonexclusive*. You may use or authorize the use of Supporting Information in which you hold copyright for any purpose and in any format *(Section I, Copyright)*. - The new agreement extends key terms of use to your *previously published* work with ACS – as long as the same conditions of use are met *(Section III, Retained and Other Rights)*. - Behaviors expected of ACS authors are more fully addressed throughout the agreement *(Appendix A, Section I: Author Warranties and Obligations) *. The JPA shines a spotlight on two programs already available to ACS authors. The first, *ACS AuthorChoice*<http://c.acs.org/conpc/278237/70/94435/2608/0/S/0/0/hqwg.html>, provides you or your funding agencies the opportunity to sponsor immediate, unrestricted online access to your final published article. The other is *ACS Articles on Request*<http://c.acs.org/conpc/278237/71/94435/2609/0/S/0/0/hqwg.html>, which allows convenient, free distribution of your journal article via author-directed links provided to you when your article is published on the web. The JPA is a direct result of the extensive review and consultation process undertaken by a task force consisting of ACS journal authors, editors, librarians, governance members, and legal counsel. The rollout of the new agreement will occur October 11 - 25, 2010. Please see the JPA Rollout Schedule<http://c.acs.org/conpc/278237/63/94435/2610/0/S/0/0/hqwg.html>for dates for specific journals. Additional information and tools to help you better understand the changes can be found at the ACS Author & Reviewer Resource Center<http://c.acs.org/conpc/278237/64/94435/2611/0/S/0/0/hqwg.html> . ACS Publications 1155 Sixteenth Street N.W. Washington, DC 20036 You are receiving this message because you are an active author in the field or have expressed an interest in ACS Publications with the e-mail address *aspuru(a)gmail.com.* To unsubscribe click here<http://c.acs.org/uxubmn/278237/54/94435/0/212/tlfaqdzb.html> .

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Today at 5 pm: “The Innovation Equation at Tata"

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 2010 Sunil Sinha, CEO, Tata Quality Management Services, Tata Group "The Innovation Equation at Tata" TODAY 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center, Lecture Hall D One Oxford Street, Cambridge Mr. Sinha's talk, "The Innovation Equation at Tata," will focus on energy and innovation as it relates to both the Tata Group and India as a whole. He will also discuss Tata Motors' Nano, a $2500 four-passenger city car that entered the market in 2008, and has since received a number of innovation prizes. Based in Mumbai, India, Tata Group Tata companies operate in seven business sectors: communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy, consumer products and chemicals. Their global enterprise has revenue of $70.8 billion. 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. View detailed lecture information at www.environment.harvard.edu. Contact: Brenda Hugot Program Administrator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu p. 617-496-1788 f. 617-496-0425 *|LIST:Future of Energy|* [2]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 2. 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. [3]Forward this email to a friend Links: 3. http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=ece…

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] today

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We are meeting today at 11:00 in 6-310. Chris Laumann is going to tell us what he is up to. Eddie ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics 6-300 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: CANCELLATION ANNOUNCEMENT: Excitonics Seminar, Oct. 12, 3pm

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

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: Cathy Bourgeois <cmbourg(a)mit.edu> Date: Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:04 PM Subject: CANCELLATION ANNOUNCEMENT: Excitonics Seminar, Oct. 12, 3pm To: efrc-all(a)mit.edu *TODAY’S TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED.* * * *Center for Excitonics* * Seminar Series Announcement* * **“Observing the Birth of Polymer Morphology” * *Paul Barbara, University of Texas, Austin* * * *Tuesday, October 12, 2010* *3:00 pm – 4:00 pm* *RLE Haus Room: 36-428* **

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Spring ACS 2011 Quantum Information and Chemistry Symposium. URGENT

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, I have talked to some of you, and if not, now you are reading it :) I am a co-organizer fo the Quantum Information and Chemistry Symposium at ACS 2011 Spring in Anaheim, CA. The topics range from Quantum computing to entanglement to quantum biology, etc. Other things like Spin TDDFT could also work as well. If you want to present a *short talk*, let me know ASAP. Prepare an abstract and run by me in the next couple of days. I will pick ~3 of you so we have good group representation. If many of you are interested, you could submit more talks and then I could fill them in depending on the number of submissions we get. The Deadline for abstract submission is October 18th, so no time to spare! 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] pilaf at my home tomorrow at 6pm

by Semion Saikin

Hey Guys, Katia is going to make pilaf (Joel, I remember you love pilaf) tomorrow and may be some salads. If you left in Boston for the long weekend and have nothing else to do, please visit us for dinner about 6pm. If you never been at our home the address is 30 Howard Street, Arlington, MA 02476. Bus #77 goes here directly from Harvard Square. Feel comfortable bringing your spouses, girl/boy friends and children. For more info my cell phone is below in the signature. See you tomorrow, Semion ******************************************** Semion K. Saikin, PhD Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 email: saykin(a)fas.harvard.edu phone: (619)212-6649 ********************************************

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Copy Card

by Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario

Dear Group: Does anyone has the card needed to make photocopies? I need it right away. 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group meeting by Patrick tomorrow

by Joel Yuen

Time: Friday, October 8, 11:30 AM Place: Division Room Exciton transfer efficiency and exciton-phonon information flow in photosynthetic complexes Long-lived electronic coherences in various photosynthetic complexes at cryogenic and room temperature have generated vigorous efforts in both theory and experiment to understand their origins and explore their potential role to efficient excitonic energy transport. This talk introduces the fundamental concept of environment-assisted quantum transport (ENAQT) and presents recent experimental evidence for its relevance. Furthermore, ENAQT is confirmed numerically in the state-of-the-art hierarchy equation of motion approach. Finally, recent developments in measures for non-Markovianity are utilized to study the intricate excitonic-vibrational dynamics in terms of the information flow between electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom. -- Joel Yuen-Zhou PhD candidate in Chemical Physics Harvard University CCB, 12 Oxford St. Mailbox 107, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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