aspuru-list February 2010

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: lecture tomorrow

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Don't forget about Mike's talk tomorrow - details below. Thanks, Anna ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Stopa <stopa(a)cns.fas.harvard.edu> Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:54 PM Subject: lecture tomorrow To: Anna Shin <anna(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Hi Anna, Could you put out a reminder to the group for me that my second plasmon lecture will be tomorrow at 12:00 noon in LISE 311 (same room) ? Thanks, Mike Dr. Michael Stopa Director: National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Compuation Project Laboratory for Integrated Science and Technology, room 316 Harvard University 11 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-6932

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Updated group meeting archive

by J D Whitfield

Hi everyone, The group meeting archive is up to date: http://aspuru.unix.fas.harvard.edu/siteedit/Seminars/Intranet/ 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] Job opening at SCM for scientific software developer, and other news

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Hello: I thought this e-mail might be of interest to some people in the group. Roberto ------------------------------ To: info(a)scm.com Subject: Job opening at SCM for scientific software developer, and other news From: vangisbergen(a)scm.com Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:49:46 +0100 Dear ADF newsletter subscriber, For its extension plans into (quantum) simulations of nanoscale system, SCM has a new job opening for a scientific software developer with Ph.D. in a relevant field. Please bring this to the attention of suitable and interested candidates: http://www.scm.com/News/DeveloperJob.html The job, related to an EU-funded project, is for an initial period of 4 years (at SCM, Amsterdam and Jacobs University, Bremen) with the intention to convert this into a permanent position at SCM afterwards. Other news: - meet us at the American Physical Society and American Chemical Society meetings next month: http://www.scm.com/News/APSandACS2010.html - watch ADF-GUI and BAND-GUI demo movies on our YouTube channel: http://www.scm.com/News/Videos.html Best regards, Stan van Gisbergen PS. If you do not wish to be on this mailing list, please reply with "remove" in body or subject. Dr. S.J.A. van Gisbergen Chief Executive Officer Scientific Computing & Modelling NV Theoretical Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1083 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands *vangisbergen(a)scm.com* <vangisbergen(a)scm.com> *http://www.scm.com*** <http://www.scm.com/> T: +31-20-5987626 F: +31-20-5987629 -- Roberto Olivares-Amaya Aspuru-Guzik Group Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Tuesday Tomorrow

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We will have our usual group meeting on Tuesday February 9 at 11 in the usual place. 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] IIC Colloquium Feb. 10: Machine Learning and Statistics on Massive Datasets, with Applications in Astronomy

by Rosalind Reid

You are cordially invited to the next IIC Colloquium Wednesday, Feb. !0: ************************ Machine Learning and Statistics on Massive Astronomical Datasets Feb. 10, 1010, 4:00 pm Room G115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Alexander Gray Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Computational Science and Engineering Division College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Abstract I’ll describe algorithms and data structures for allowing the most powerful machine learning and multivariate statistical methods, which often scale quadratically or even cubically with the number of data points, to be performed many orders of magnitude faster than naive implementations. Such techniques can make previously impossible statistical analyses tractable on the scale of entire astronomical sky surveys. I will discuss scalable algorithms we have developed for n- point correlations, friends-of-friends, nearest-neighbors, kernel density estimation, nonparametric Bayes classification, principal component analysis, local linear regression, isometric non-negative matrix factorization, hidden Markov models, k-means, support vector machine-like classifiers, Gaussian process regression, and Gaussian graphical model inference, among others. In addition to techniques inspired by computational geometry, fast multipole methods, and Monte Carlo integration, we employ a distributed framework which can be thought of as a higher-order version of Google’s MapReduce. Our algorithms have enabled several first-of-a-kind large-scale cosmological analyses. Bio Alexander Gray received bachelor's degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and worked in the Machine Learning Systems Group of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 6 years. He currently directs the FASTlab (Fundamental Algorithmic and Statistical Tools Laboratory, http://www.fast-lab.org/) at Georgia Tech, consisting of 25 people including 14 PhD students, which works on the problem of how to perform machine learning/data mining/statistics on massive datasets, and related problems in scientific computing and applied mathematics. Employing a multi-disciplinary array of technical ideas (from machine learning, nonparametric statistics, convex optimization, linear algebra, discrete algorithms and data structures, computational geometry, computational physics, Monte Carlo methods, distributed computing, and automated theorem proving), the lab has developed the current fastest algorithms for several fundamental statistical methods, and also develops new machine learning methods for difficult aspects of real-world data, such as in astrophysics and biology. This work has enabled high-profile scientific results which have been featured in Science and Nature and has earned an NSF CAREER award, two best paper awards, and two best paper award nominations. He has given tutorials for the field and invited talks on efficient algorithms for machine learning at venues including ICML, NIPS and SIAM Data Mining, as well as in applied mathematics and astronomy. --------------- Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. Mark your calendar for these upcoming events: Monday, Feb. 22, noon, Maxwell Dworkin 333: SciGPU Seminar, Ron Babich, Boston University Wednesday, Feb. 24, 4 pm, Maxwell Dworkin G115: IIC Colloquium, Bruce Boghosian, Tufts University Wednesday, March 4, 4 pm, Maxwell Dworkin G115: Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science, Erik Winfree, Caltech 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] Group Photo

by Leslie Vogt

Hi everyone, I attached the PBC lab photo - enjoy! Leslie -- Leslie Vogt Aspuru-Guzik Group Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] New group people page.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, Enjoy the product of our group efforts towards a periodic boundary conditions picture! http://aspuru.unix.fas.harvard.edu/People/ 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] Chair Races February 2010

by Cesar Rodriguez

Group: I uploaded the pictures for: February 2010 Chair Grand Prix - Luna Azul Edition. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdogpirate/sets/72157623360419722/detail/ Enjoy. The Periodic Boundary Conditions group picture will take a bit longer. Cesar -- This isn't even wrong. -Wolfgang Pauli

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email February 4 - 18

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Tuesday, February 9: Michael Froman, the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economic Affairs, and Bo Lidegaard, the Permanent Under Secretary of State, Office of the Prime Minister of Denmark, review the Copenhagen Accord and look ahead to the next steps in addressing global climate change at a special lunch sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Thursday, February 11: Dr. Bruce Smith, Curator of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, will discuss his current research on agricultural origins - and how the story is more complicated than expected in "Where Our Food Comes From: The Origins of Agriculture." Wednesday, February 17: Bryan Grenfell, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton, discusses "Acute Infectious Diseases in Space and Time" in the second Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global change lecture this spring. Calendar Listings: Today 3:00pm Geologic Studies Seminar Geological Museum Room 418 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Geologic Studies and Seismic Source Model for a Proposed New Tunnel and Ocean Outfall, Los Angeles County, California." Dr. Phillip J. Hogan, C.E.G, Principal Marine Engineering Geologist, Furgo West, Inc. Contact Name: Samantha Schwartz schwartz(a)eps.harvard.edu 4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group - All Politics is Local: Even Global Warming Faculty Dining Room (FDR) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/greg-nickels 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. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 February 5, 2010 8:30am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast Haller Hall, Room 102, 1st floor 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Bacillus subtilis biofilm spreading by molecular gradients." Tommy Angelini, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu 11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA "The role of wood in Adirondack aquatic ecosystems and riparian." Cliff Kraft, Cornell University. http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu 3:00pm - 4:30pm The Road from Copenhagen MIT 34-101 Cambridge, MA Panelists present information about economic and climate implications of the Copenhagen Accord, US path forward and Congressional politics, international institutional issues for climate action, and China's path forward. Contact Name: Rebecca Marshall-Howarth rhowarth(a)MIT.EDU 4:00pm - 5:30pm Japan Forum - Toxic Archipelago: History and Industrial Disease in Japan Kang Room (S050) Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse CGIS South Building 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA Speaker: Brett L. Walker, Regents’ Professor and Chairperson, Dept. of History and Philisophy, Montana State University. Discussion moderated by Ian J. Miller, Assistant Professor of History, Dept. of History, Harvard University. Reception to follow. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs rijs(a)fas.harvard.edu 617.496.8083 February 6, 2010 8:30am - 4:30pm Boston University MBA Symposium Boston University Graduate School of Management 595 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02215 Featuring keynote addresses and panels sponsored by the MBA clubs, the event brings together our extended MBA community, traditionally attracting more than 350 students, alumni, faculty, staff, and distinguished professionals. Registration Fee: $25 http://www.bumbasymposium.net/ admin(a)bumbasymposium.com February 8, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm 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. *Note the February 8 meeting will be on the 4th Floor of Hoffman in the Faculty Lounge. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu 4:00pm EPS Spring Colloquium Haller Hall - Geo-Museum 102 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Patterns of phytoplankton diversity in a model ocean." Mick Follows, MIT. Contact Name: Ganna Savostyanova ganna(a)eps.harvard.edu 6:00pm - 8:00pm Film Screening: "Tapped" Center for the Study of World Religions Common Room Divinity School Cambridge, MA A behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water. Contact Name: Tim Severyn tseveryn(a)hds.harvard.edu February 9, 2010 12:00pm - 1:45pm Global Climate Policy after Copenhagen: Seeking a Way Forward Nye Conference Room, 5th fl., Taubman Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA Featuring Michael Froman, Deputy Assistant to the President, Deputy National Secuirty Adviser for International Economic Affairs, and Bo Lidegaard, Permanent Undersecretary of State, Office of the Prime Minister of Denmark. Contact Name: Trudi Bostian Trudi_bostian(a)hks.harvard.edu 12:00pm - 1:00pm Herbaria Seminar Series 22 Divinity Ave, Seminar Room Harvard Herbaria Cambridge, MA Ken Karol, New York Botanical Garden. Contact Name: Erin Ciccone (617) 495-7504 7:30pm Cambridge Entomological Club Meeting Museum of Comparative Zoology Room 101 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA "Plagues and pupae: Using honey bees to model disease spread in natural populations." Phillip T.B. Starks, Tufts University. Contact Name: David P Hughes dhughes(a)oeb.harvard.edu (617) 496 8146 February 11, 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. Visit the website for topics of disucsion. 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 4:00pm - 5:00pm OEB Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave Harvard University Cambridge, MA Daniel Bolnick, University of Texas at Austin. Title TBA. 4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group - All Politics is Local: Even Global Warming Faculty Dining Room (FDR) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/greg-nickels 6:00pm HMNH: Food for Thought Program Series Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Where Our Food Comes From: The Origins of Agriculture." Dr. Bruce Smith, Curator of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, will discuss his current research on agricultural origins—and how the story is more complicated than expected. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids-and-families/google-calendar.html February 12, 2010 Ivy League Student Food Movement Summit (through Feb. 13) Yale University New Haven, CT Join student leaders from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, UPenn, and Yale for the first ever Ivy-league Student Food Movement Convergence. Registration required. http://realfoodchallenge.org/IvySummit hannah.burnett(a)yale.edu 10:00am - 3:00pm HLS Valentine’s Freecycle Harvard Law School Pound Hall 108 Cambridge, MA Pass on unwanted items and find what you need at the HLS Valentine's Freecycle! Contact Name: Cara Elizabeth Ferrentino cara_ferrentino(a)harvard.edu 11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA Keith Nislow, USDA. Seminar title TBA. http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu February 15, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm 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. *Note the February 8 meeting will be on the 4th Floor of Hoffman in the Faculty Lounge. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu February 16, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Herbaria Seminar 22 Divinity Ave, Seminar Room Harvard Herbaria Cambridge, MA Jennifer Winther, Harvard OEB/ Kramer Lab. Title TBA. Contact Name: Erin Ciccone (617) 495-7504 February 17, 2010 2:00pm - 4:00pm Green Public Diplomacy: Sustainability as Finland's Message in the U.S. Belfer Center Library Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA Finish Ambassador to the US 5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall 7 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA "Acute Infectious Diseases in Space and Time.” Bryan Grenfell, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 February 18, 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. Visit the website for topics of disucsion. 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 12:00pm - 2:30pm Ecologies of Human Flourishing Lecture Series Harvard Divinity School, 42 Francis Ave. Center for the Study of World Religions, Common Room Harvard University Cambridge, MA "A Case From Pre-modern South India" Speaker, Anne E. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions, Harvard Divinity School. Registration required. This event is open to the public. http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/events/theme.html Contact Name: Rebecca Kline Esterson resterson(a)hds.harvard.edu 4:00pm - 5:00pm OEB Seminar Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave Harvard University Cambridge, MA "How zooplankton find and capture prey." Thomas Kiorboe, National Institute for Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark. jeverritt(a)oeb.harvard.edu 617-495-5891 --- 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. Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list: http://harvard.us1.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&… Our mailing address is: Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Our telephone: (617) 495-0368 Forward this email to a friend: http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=437… Update your profile: http://harvard.us1.list-manage.com/profile?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=5…

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group meeting moved to 3 pm

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Group Due to long meeting w Lukin, we will move group meeting to 3 Sorry about that, Best, Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Sent from my mobile phone and might contain typos. Thanks for understanding.)

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