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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [theochem-announce] Theochem seminar TODAY - Rob Coalson

by Lee-Ping

Today (Wednesday, December 1), Professor Rob Coalson from the University of Pittsburgh (http://mercury.chem.pitt.edu/) will be giving our GBA Theoretical Chemistry Lecture at MIT (Building 56, room 154) at 4:00pm. His talk is titled: Modeling Permeation through Biological Ion Channels: A Physico-Chemical Perspective. For more information about the talk, please visit http://people.bu.edu/theochem - Lee-Ping Wang _______________________________________________ theochem-announce mailing list theochem-announce(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/theochem-announce

13 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] International Workshop on Mathematical and Physical Foundations of Discrete Time Quantum Walk at Tokyo Tech, March 29th-30th, 2011

by Yutaka Shikano

Hi Quantum People, I would like to notice my organizing workshop on the discrete time quantum walk held at Tokyo next March. The oral deadline is the end of this month. As far as I know, the specific topical workshop will be first held. Therefore, if you are interested in this, please contribute this workshop. Best wishes, Yutaka -------------------------------------------------- Title: International Workshop on Mathematical and Physical Foundations of Discrete Time Quantum Walk http://www.th.phys.titech.ac.jp/~shikano/dtqw/ Date: March 29th - 30th, 2011 Place: Tokyo Institute of Technology Oh-okayama Campus, Tokyo, Japan http://www.titech.ac.jp/english/about/campus/index.html Aim: What is probability and stochastic process in quantum mechanics? To study the foundations of the stochastic process in quantum mechanics, the discrete time quantum walk (DTQW), which is a quantum analogue of the random walk, may be useful. This has recently been the hot research field, especially in quantum information science, and been experimentally realized. This workshop will bring the theoretical researchers in the DTQW. While this workshop is focused on the theoretical side, we also welcome experimentalists. We take the advantages of special opportunities to invite founders of DTQW. The organizers strongly encourage young researchers to actively join us to this workshop. Workshop Scopes: 1. Mathematical Foundations of Discrete Time Quantum Walk 1-1. Stochastic Process in Quantum Probability Theory 1-2. Weak Limit Theorem 1-3. Classification between Localization and Delocalization 2. Physical Foundations of Discrete Time Quantum Walk 2-1. Mapped to Schroedinger equation and Dirac equation 2-2. Non-local effect, entanglement, and super-oscillation 2-3. Application to Quantum Information Science Important Dates: Oral Contribution (8 slots): December 31th, 2010. Poster Contribution (20 slots): February 28th, 2011. The participants will be limited to 70 people. Invited Speaker: Yakir Aharonov (Tel-Aviv University, Israel / Chapman University, USA) Luis Velazquez (Zaragoza University, Spain) Takuya Kitagawa (Harvard University, USA) *) to be confirmed Organizers: Norio Konno (Yokohama National University) Etsuo Segawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Yutaka Shikano (Tokyo Institute of Technology / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chair) -- Yutaka Shikano Visiting Student, Quantum Information Group Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT 3-462, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 e-mail: shikano(a)mit.edu Ph. D. candidate JSPS Research Fellowship (DC1) Theoretical Astrophysics Group Department of Physics Tokyo Institute of Technology _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

13 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Squintworkshop Reminder

by Sergio Boixo

In case anyone is interested, this is a nice quantum computation/information workshop. Regards, Sergio -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Squintworkshop] Reminder Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:12:57 -0700 From: Virginia Bird <vbird(a)unm.edu> To: <sQuInTWorkshop(a)info.phys.unm.edu> Please note that this coming Friday, Dec. 3 is the */deadline /*for: Abstracts for talks and Posters Southwest Quantum Information and Technology - Thirteenth Annual Meeting, February 17-20, 2011 Boulder, Colorado

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] TEACHING OPPORTUNITY NEXT SPRING. REPLY ASAP. If you don't reply TOMORROW you might lose the opportunity.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear postdocs PLEASE respond the survey below. By popular demand, I offered you all to teach the Chem243 (Quantum Dynamics) course in a group-fashion (a month each, for a maximum of fourth postdocs). Two will be officially appointed as instructors, one as teaching fellow and one would not be appointed. All of this is official, as your salaries would remain the same, as well as your responsibilities. I need four, as last time (when we taught 242) as I don't want to take away too much from research. The course is about "Quantum dynamics" in general, and I propose "Quantum dynamics in condensed phases" as a theme, but we can also go over spectroscopy, etc. a-la-Nitzan, Breuer, Schatz and Ratner, etc. I give priority to postdocs that have not taught before, but feel free to sign up if you have taught and want to repeat. Last time, Semion, Dmitrji, Roel and Cesar taught. This time, hopefully is four new people, each one teaching a month (8 lectures) and helping grade homeworks, make exams, office hours, etc. amongst the 4 postdocs. I also plan to ask for a Computational chemistry course in the Fall, so if you are interested, please tell me your interests there. On the same deal. I will pick the 2 listed as 'instructors' (which doesn't matter at all) and the one that would be TF will work the same, but will receive part of his/her regular compensation by the department, instead of me. *Here are more instructions * Please tell me your teaching preferences (if any). This is an optional opportunity that I give people to help the department fill teaching needs while you get a 'teaching at Harvard' under your belt opportunity. The course is graduate students (10-20) from many departments, meeting twice a week for 1.30 hrs. You would be respnsible for the sessions associated with a month. The spreadsheet is below https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/aspuru.com/viewform?formkey=dG1scUpacXlqU… Again, this is *OPTIONAL* to help yourselves and the department, no problem if we don't find candidates. If you are not intersted, please STILL ANSWER the form ASAP. 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] Ahsan Nazir

by Patrick Rebentrost

Dear All, Ahsan Nazir is visiting the group tomorrow, Wed Dec 1, from around 10:30 am. He is a EPSRC Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London. He worked e.g. on molecular exciton transport and quantum dots. Please let me know if you want to meet with him. Best, Patrick

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