aspuru-list February 2010

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science March 4: Constructing Nucleic Acid Circuits with Eric Winfree

by Rosalind Reid

You are cordially invited to the next Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science, to be given by Erik Winfree of Caltech. Please note that this colloquium will be on Thursday afternoon. ********** Systematic Construction of Nucleic Acid Circuits for Cell-Free, Enzyme- Free Environments Thursday, March 4, 4:00 pm Room G-115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Erik Winfree, Associate Professor in Computer Science, Computation & Neural Systems and Bioengineering California Institute of Technology Abstract In an attempt to understand how molecularly encoded information can guide chemical processes and create complex structures and behaviors, we study what may be the conceptually simplest example of information- based chemistry: synthetic DNA, by itself, in a test tube. The design space is remarkably rich. In this talk, I will show how arbitrary digital and analog circuits can be constructed. Both theoretical principles and experimental implementations will be presented. About the Speaker Erik Winfree is an Associate Professor in Computer Science, Computation & Neural Systems and Bioengineering at Caltech. He is the recipient of the Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology (2006), the NSF PECASE/CAREER Award (2001), the ONR Young Investigators Award (2001), a MacArthur Fellowship (2000), Tulip prize in DNA Computing, and Technology Review's first TR100 list of "top young innovators" (1999). Prior to joining the faculty at Caltech in 1999, Winfree was a Lewis Thomas Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Biology at Princeton and a Visiting Scientist at the MIT AI Lab. Winfree received a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Chicago in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Computation & Neural Systems from Caltech in 1998. --------------- Ice cream at 3:30 p.m., Maxwell Dworkin 2nd floor lobby Mark your calendar for these upcoming talks: Mar. 8, noon: Patrik Jonsson, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (SciGPU Seminar) Mar 10, 4:00 pm: Michael F. Huerta, Associate Director, National Institute of Mental Health (Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science) Mar. 24, 4:00 pm: Pat Hanrahan, CANON USA Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford (Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science) March 31, 4:00 pm: Ben Fry, design and software consultant (IIC Colloquium) 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] Presentation of new website.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, Some of you know, some of you don't, but I have been working with Eric Mazur on a scientific website called *111is3.com* (you can register now and check it out, if you want!) The idea of this website is to combine group pages, scientist profiles, with a powerful comments system to any paper that has a DOI on it. The system is under development, and Eric Mazur and I are very interested in having you hear the project and get feedback from you on where we stand. I am therefore calling the group to attend a meeting where Ryan Mitchell, our web developer will discuss what she has done so far by demoing, and invite you all to beta test the system. The meeting will be *on March 10 at 1:45 pm* please mark your calendars. (Alejandro, can you add it to our group events page?) Cheers, 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fun videos

by Ivan Kassal

Hi group, The organizers of this year's QIP have decided to put the recordings of the lectures online: http://www.qip2010.ethz.ch/programme Some of the ones I liked the most were: Umesh Vazirani Daniel Gottesman Steve Flammia Phillipe Corboz Kristan Temme Scott Aaronson 2 Ivan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Today at 5 pm - Natural Gas: Fueling America's Clean Energy Future

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 Spring 2010 Aubrey McClendon, Chairman and CEO, Chesapeake Energy "Natural Gas: Fueling America's Clean Energy Future" TODAY 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center, Lecture Hall D One Oxford Street, Cambridge New drilling and completion technologies have allowed the U.S. natural gas and oil industry to develop resources in shale reservoirs that were previously considered uneconomic. Shale gas has quickly transformed the industry and provided consumers with reliable sources of supply and the ability to reshape the nation's energy policy. McClendon will discuss natural gas as the most practical answer to our nation's growing need for clean energy and reduced dependence on foreign oil. Aubrey K. McClendon has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since co-founding Chesapeake Energy in 1989. Chesapeake Energy is now one of the largest producers of natural gas in the nation and the most active driller of new wells in the U.S. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, their strategy is focused on discovering, acquiring and developing conventional and unconventional natural gas reserves onshore in the U.S., primarily in the "Big 4" natural gas shale plays: the Barnett Shale of north-central Texas, the Haynesville Shale of East Texas and northwestern Louisiana, the Fayetteville Shale of central Arkansas and the Marcellus Shale of the northern Appalachian Basin. 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: Lisa Matthews Events Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu p. 617-495-8883 f. 617-496-0425 *|LIST:Future of Energy|* [4]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 4. 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. [5]Forward this email to a friend Links: 5. http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=f41…

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Quantum beer night. This thursday 8 PM.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear quantum computing fans. Kurt Jacobs (http://www.quantum.umb.edu/Jacobs/) is organizing a quantum beer hour for the Boston area. The idea would be to rotate and visit different pubs around Boston and to know each other better. Kurt and I invite you all this Thursday night at 8 PM at the following place: The Publick House (Belgian beer and also has very good food) 1648 Beacon St Brookline, MA 02445 (Just near the corner of Beacon and Washington) (617) 277-2880 Cheers, 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] IT shopping list

by Ville Bergholm

Hi everyone, Anna is about to go and do some shopping at Microcenter for the group, and asked me to find out what is needed. If you have any _reasonable_ requests please send them to me now. If you don't need anything send me an email which says so anyway, so that she won't have to make another trip the next week when you finally remember to answer this query. Be as specific as possible with your requests, but please first make sure we don't already have the stuff lying around somewhere. Memory, converters, cables, monitors, hard drives, power sources... Cheers Ville -- Ville Bergholm ville.bergholm(a)iki.fi http://iki.fi/ville.bergholm/ US mobile +1-617-3869378 EU mobile +358-44-5722802

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Excitonics discussion with Seth Lloyd, Jianshu Cao's and Bob Silbey's groups tomorrow 12.00 PM.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, After a long round of scheduling, Seth Lloyd, Bob Silbey and myself were able to schedule an inter-group get-together to discuss excitonic energy transfer. We hope that this becomes a common event. So far, it seems that everybody can make it from 12.00-1.00 in MIT room 26-201. If you are interested in attending, let me know. 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Tuesday February 23

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We will meet on Tuesday at 11. We will be joined by Vasil Denchev who is giving the talk at 4:30 on Monday. Please check out the paper arXiv:0912.0779 Title: Training a Large Scale Classifier with the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm Authors: Hartmut Neven, Vasil S. Denchev, Geordie Rose, William G. Macready Best, 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] copy card

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, We are now in possession of 1 shiny, new copy card to replace the 2 cards that were lost (the responsible party is still at large). The new card will be held by a binder clip and hung on a pushpin in the bulletin board directly behind the group printer. This is the designated spot for the copy card, so everyone knows where to find it. For now, the card is in the hands of Alejandro who desperately needs to make copies. Seek him out if the card doesn't appear in its designated spot by tomorrow. Notes: group copy card ID # 032-60705 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/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [ PSI-K ] Junior Professor (W1) in Theoretical Physics/Computational Physics

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Sent from my mobile phone and might contain typos. Thanks for understanding.) Begin forwarded message: > From: "PSI-K"<psik-coord(a)dl.ac.uk> > Date: February 19, 2010 7:08:57 EST > To: "PSI-K"<psik-coord(a)dl.ac.uk> > Subject: [ PSI-K ] Junior Professor (W1) in Theoretical Physics/ > Computational Physics > > An announcement has been added in the "PSI-K" site at PSI-K (http://cselnx9.dl.ac.uk:8080/portal > ) > > > Subject: Junior Professor (W1) in Theoretical Physics/Computational > Physics > > Category: Job > > From: André Schleife > > Date: 19-Feb-2010 12:08 > > Message: > > Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena > > To foster excellence in research and education, the Friedrich- > Schiller-Universität Jena would like to fill by fall 2010 the positi > on of a > > Junior Professor (W1) in Theoretical Physics/Computational Physics > with the specification > > Condensed Matter Theory. > > The Faculty for Physics and Astronomy and the Institute for Solid > State Physics and Optics invites applications of young encouraged > and excellent physicists for a professorship in the field of > modeling materials properties using multiscale methods especially > such fully based on many-body quantum mechanics. The candidate > should be able to make substantial contributions to research and > education in this area. Optical, electronic and magnetic properties > of inorganic and organic structures on nano- and micrometer length > scales should be in his/her focus. The successful candidate is > expected to establish scientific relationship with other university > groups. His/her collaboration with existing and developing teaching > and research projects, graduate schools, clusters and networks is > obvious. The future professor shall contribute to the teaching > courses (in German and English) in Computational Physics, > Theoretical Physics and Condensed Matter Physics. Engagement is also > expected in the academic administration. > > Candidates are expected to have an academic university degree, > possess pedagogic skills and be able to perform excellent scientific > work which is demonstrated usually by the outstanding quality of > their Doctorate/PhD research and a productive postdoc period in the > respective research field. Experience in raising research funds and > the coordination of research projects are highly appreciated. > > The university wants to promote women in science and education and > is particularly looking forward to receive applications from > qualified female researchers. Applications of handicapped people > will be given preference in the selection among equivalently > qualified competitors. > > The position will be appointed initially for 4 years with the > possibility for a 2 year extension after positive intermediate > evaluation. In the case of exceptional performance the Thuringian > legislation offers the opportunity to upgrade the position to the W2/ > W3 level. > > > Applications should include a curriculum vitae with details on the > scientific career, a list of publications, presentations, teaching > and successful grant applications, as well as a description of > scientific interests and research plans for the future. Applications > should be received by April 15, 2010 and should be directed to > > Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena > Faculty of Physics and Astronomy > Dean > Max-Wien-Platz 1 > 07743 Jena > Germany > > > ---------------------- > This automatic notification message was sent by PSI-K (http://cselnx9.dl.ac.uk:8080/portal > ) from the PSI-K site. > You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > > Preferences.

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