aspuru-list March 2010

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] a little break

by Edward Farhi

Dear All There is no seminar on Monday. We decided to skip the group meeting this week so no meeting on Tuesday March 30. 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] Fwd: ASAP: title/abstract

by Alejandro Perdomo

Please find below the title/abstract for Prof. Batista's talk, this coming Wednesday, 4pm as part of the theochem series. Best, -A ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Victor Salvador Batista <victor.batista(a)yale.edu> Date: Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:01 PM Subject: Re: ASAP: title/abstract To: Alejandro Perdomo <perdomo(a)fas.harvard.edu> Dear Alejandro: Please, find attached the title and abstract of my talk. Please, let me know if you need anything else. Victor. Title: Studies of Oxomanganese Complexes for Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis. Abstract: Mechanistic investigations of water oxidation in the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PSII) and artificial biomimetic model complexes are fundamentally informed by structural studies. Many physical techniques have provided important insights into the OEC structure and function, including X-ray diffraction (XRD) and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy as well as mass spectrometry (MS), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy applied in conjunction with mutagenesis studies. However, experimental studies have yet to yield consensus as to the exact configuration of the catalytic metal cluster and its ligation scheme. Computational modeling studies, including density functional (DFT) theory combined with quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) hybrid methods, have proposed chemically satisfactory models of the fully ligated OEC within PSII and have inspired the development of biomimetic systems for artificial photosynthesis based on oxomanganese complexes. The models are useful for rationalizing spectroscopic and crystallographic results and for building complete structure-based mechanisms of water oxidation as described by the intermediate states along the catalytic cycle. This talk will review recent advances in computational modeling of natural and artificial systems within the context of recent experimental studies at Yale. Alejandro Perdomo wrote: > Dear Victor, > Please remember to send me the title of the talks as soon as possible. This > will be useful information to start contacting the faculty TODAY about your > visit on Tuesday. > > Thanks!, > -A > > -- > Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz > Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Physics. > Harvard University > 12 Oxford St #482, Cambridge, MA, 02138. > perdomo(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:perdomo@fas.harvard.edu> > -- Victor S. Batista Professor of Chemistry & http://xbeams.chem.yale.edu/~batista/ Director of Undergraduate Studies http://wikid.chem.yale.edu Department of Chemistry E-mail: victor.batista(a)yale.edu Yale University Phone: (203)432-6672 New Haven, CT 06520 Fax: (203)432-6144 U.S.A. Office: 239 SCL -- Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Physics. Harvard University 12 Oxford St #482, Cambridge, MA, 02138. perdomo(a)fas.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Slides.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, especially the screensaver folks. See attached PDF talk of Geoff Hutchinson. James: Can you add to intranet? 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Geoffrey Hutchison <geoffh(a)pitt.edu> Date: Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:56 PM Subject: Re: Slides. To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> Dear Alan, Sorry -- I had such a packed schedule, since I was only in SF for about 2 1/2 days. Are you going to one of the Gordon conferences this summer? I'm planning on attending the Electron Donor-Acceptor one in Newport in August. Here are the slides of my talk. I think one of the most critical tasks for this whole idea is to get the monomer database right. I don't completely trust the experimentalists because they would clearly synthesize anything if it's the perfect material. But I also want some sort of "synthetic score" to prioritize the best structures. This is probably the next thing I'll do. Let's definitely keep in touch, particularly about funding opportunities. Have you tried one of these NSF SOLAR applications? The math department here at Pitt is in the dark ages. Best regards, -Geoff

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email March 25 - April 8

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: March 29: Dan Kammen, Professor of Energy, University of California, Berkeley, gives a special Energy Policy Seminar Series lecture on "Science and Policy for a Low-Carbon Economy." April 1: Renowned novelist Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things (Booker Prize, 1997), speaks about the challenges of democracy in the spring Science and Democracy lecture. April 2: David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK and Professor in the Department of Physics at Cambridge University, discusses his research and book, "Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air" in the second Future of Energy lecture this spring. Calendar Listings: March 25, 2010 5:15pm Ecologies of Human Flourishing Lecture Series http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/events/theme.html Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue Harvard Divinity School Cambridge, MA "Does Thoreau Have a Future: Reimagining Voluntary Simplicity for the 21st Century" A presentation by Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, in Harvard's Department of English and American Literature and Language. A response will be given by Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies in Harvard's Faculty of Contact Name: Rebecca Kline Esterson resterson(a)hds.harvard.edu 7:00pm - 8:00pm Inaugural Neekeyfar Lecture Pfizer Lecture Hall – Mallinckrodt Building 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA "In Search of the Unified Theory." Professor Brian Green, Columbia University. Contact Name: Deana Ste. Marie deana_SteMarie(a)harvard.edu 617.384.9236 EditDelete March 26 - March 27, 2010 HBS/HKS/HLS Asia Business Conference Meredith Building, and other locations Harvard Business School Allston, MA The HBS Asia Business Club, Harvard Asia Law Society and HKS East Asia Caucus hold their Asia Business Conference this Friday and Saturday at HBS. Sessions of interest to the energy and environment community include "Cleantech - Will China be the next leader in Cleantech?" and "Energy Efficient Cars - The Future of Energy Efficient Cars in China". Registration and fee. http://www.asiabusinessconference.org/2010/schedules March 26, 2010 MSI Chalktalk Breakfast 8:45am - 9:30am HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA "Optimization of gene expression - Lessons from microbial evolution experiments." Hsin-Hung "David" Chou, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology. MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu March 26, 2010 10:00am Special Harvard Climate Seminar Faculty Lounge - Hoffman 4th Floor 20 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Southern ocean jets: The impact of topography on variability and mixing." Andrew Thompson, University of Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences. http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climateseminar.html Contact Name: Shuting Jin jin(a)fas.harvard.edu 617.384.9005 Solid Earth Physics Seminar March 26, 2010 - 1:30pm 4th Floor Faculty Lounge Hoffman Laboratory 20 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Effects of the Free Surface and Low-Velocity Layers on Seismic and Aseismic Fault Slip." Yoshihiro Kaneko, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. March 27, 2010 8:00am - 4:00pm 20th Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference Worcester Technical High School 1 Skyline Drive Worcester, MA Interested in protecting Massachusetts' beautiful open spaces and historic landmarks? Join novice and experienced conservationists for a daylong conference featuring 30+ workshops on different aspects of land conservation. http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/special-events/massachusetts-land-c…... March 29, 2010 11:30am - 1:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series Special Session Bell Hall, Belfer 5th Floor Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA “Science and Policy for a Low-Carbon Economy.” Daniel Kammen, Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy, University of California, Berkeley. 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 discussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu March 29, 2010 4:00pm EPS Spring Colloquium Haller Hall - Geo-Museum 102 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Impact crater formation via dynamic fault weakening." Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay, Harvard University. Please join us for a reception following the talk, in the 4th Fl. lounge of Hoffman 7:00pm - 9:00pm Corporate Social Responsibility: Oil Companies and Indigenous Communities in the Amazon Emerson 305 Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA A panel discussion featuring Tyler Giannini, Chris Jochnick, and Theodore Macdonald presented by the Harvard College Human Rights Advocates. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hcsadvocates/ Contact Name: Amanda Lynch aclynch(a)fas.harvard.edu March 30, 2010 12:30pm - 2:00pm U.S. - Japan Seminar Bowie-Vernon Room (K262) CGIS Knafel Building 1737 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA "Breaking the Climate Impasse with China: A Global Solution" Kelly Sims Gallagher, Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and Senior Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Contact Name: Shinju Fujihira sfujihira(a)wcfia.harvard.edu 617-495-1890 2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu Bell Hall - Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA "An Industry Perspective on Energy Security, Natural Gas and a Lower Carbon Energy Mix." Ian Smale, Executive V.P. for Policy, British Petroleum. March 31, 2010 1:00pm - 2:30pm Climate Change and the Media Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall Belfer Building 5th Floor 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA "Techno-Optimism or Pessimism? 'Fixing' the Planet's Climate Problems" Time Magazine environment reporter Bryan Walsh; Jeff Goodell, The New York Times Magazine & Rolling Stone and author of new book, How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate. Contact Name: Christine Russell Cristine_Russell(a)hks.harvard.edu 203 912-7650 3:00pm - 4:30pm MIT Energy Seminar E19-319 MIT Cambridge, MA "Toward an Innovation Centered Climate Change Strategy." Daniel Esty, Yale University. http://web.mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/innovation-centered.html Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar Series March 31, 2010 - 4:00pm Haller Hall, Geological Museum 102 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA "Phylogenetic systematics and the evolution of sensory systems in mammals." Timothy Rowe, Professor of Geology and Director of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, the University of Texas at Austin. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/abzhanov/Site/Bhart-Anjan%20Bhullar.html Contact Name: Bhart-Anjan Singh Bhullar 6:00pm - 8:00pm Harvard College Innovation Challenge Maxwell Dworkin 33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA You're invited to join students, faculty, alumni and members of New England's innovation community at Harvard's annual celebration of undergraduate entrepreneurship. RSVP Required. http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/internal/tech_entrepeneur…... pbottino(a)seas.harvard.edu April 1, 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 3:30pm Movie Screening: "Tapped" Aldrich 208 - Harvard Business School Allston, MA Award winning documentary about the bottled water industry. Movie snacks and drinks provided. 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, Mayor of Seattle (2002-09), President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (2009), and Founder of the US Mayors Climate Protection agreement. http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2010-Study-…... 4:30pm - 5:45pm Perspectives on the Smart Grid Harvard Business School – Aldrich 8 Allston, MA Smart Grid panel to discuss key aspects of our electricity infrastructure upgrades (pilot programs, customer adoption, regulation, technology, and environmental impact). Moderated by Professor Richard Vietor, the Senator John Heinz Professor of the Environment at HBS. Contact Name: Emily Matorin ematorin(a)mba2011.hbs.edu 5:00pm - 7:00pm Science and Democracy: Arundhati Roy Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall 48 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA Arundhati Roy Author of The God of Small Things (Booker Prize, 1997) “Can We Leave the Bauxite in the Mountain?” Field Notes on Democracy. Comments and discussion with Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and Director, Humanities Center at Harvard and Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School. http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/ Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 April 2, 2010 8:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA "The Harvard Yard truffle and other observations on the importance of urban soil microbes." Ben Wolfe, OEB, PhD Candidate. Host Anne Pringle. http://www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu 11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA "Evolution of ecosystem services in a coastal New England watershed." Wil Wolheim, Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire. http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu 4:00pm - 5:00pm The Future of Energy: David MacKay - Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK Northwest Labs B103 52 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA "Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air." Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 April 5, 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 discussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:00pm John M. Prather Lectures in Biology: E.O. Wilson http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/news_items/prather_2010.html Sanders Theatre at Memorial Hall Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA "Biodiversity and the Future of Biology." Lecture tickets are required, and can be obtained through the Harvard Box Office in Holyoke Center http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/cal/details.php?ID=40839 617.495.5891 April 6, 2010 2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall - Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA "The Recent Evolution of the Brazilian Electricity Industry." Joisa Saraiva, Visiting Scholar, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu 4:00pm John M. Prather Lectures in Biology: E.O. Wilson Science Center One Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "The Superorganism." Free, advance tickets not required. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/news_items/prather_2010.html 617.495.5891 April 7, 2010 4:00pm John M. Prather Lectures in Biology: E.O. Wilson Science Center One Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Consilience." Free, advance tickets not required. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/news_items/prather_2010.html 617.495.5891 April 8, 2010 11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm Contact Name: 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. 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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] IIC Colloquium March 31: "Computational Information Design" with Ben Fry

by Rosalind Reid

You are cordially invited to the next IIC Colloquium March 31. ********************* Computational Information Design March 31, 2010, 4:00pm Room G-115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Ben Fry, design and software consultant, author and co-developer of Processing Abstract The ability to collect and store data continues to increase, but our ability to understand it remains unchanged. In an attempt to gain better understanding of data, fields such as information visualization, data mining and graphic design are employed, each solving an isolated part of the specific problem, but failing in a broader sense: There are still too many unsolved data visualization problems. As a solution, I seek to bring the individual fields together as part of a single process. I’ll be showing examples of work developed as part of my Ph.D. dissertation at the MIT Media Laboratory, as a postdoc studing genetics at the Eli & Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, and more recently running a company that consults on design and software development. The work ranges from illustrations of data for magazines and journals to software tools used by geneticists to interactive database applications for Fortune 10 companies. About the speaker Ben Fry runs a software and design consultancy in Cambridge, MA that focuses on understanding complex data. Fry received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. With Casey Reas of UCLA, he develops Processing, an open source programming environment used by tens of thousands of students, artists, engineers and scientists. At the end of 2007, he published Visualizing Data with O'Reilly. Fry's personal work has shown at the Whitney Biennial, the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His information graphics have also illustrated articles for the journal Nature, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Seed and Communications of the ACM. --------------- Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. Mark your calendar for these upcoming IIC Colloquia: Wednesday, Apr. 7: Bruce Boghosian, Tufts University Wednesday, Apr. 14: Frank Baetke, High Performance Computing, Hewlett Packard 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] Reminder for group meeting tomorrow Friday. 2:30pm @ M102

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, Leslie is up for tomorrow. The title of her talk is: "Thermodynamic basis for non-linearity in protein-peptide binding: theory and experiment." See you all tomorrow at 2:30pm in M102. Cheers, -A -- Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Physics. Harvard University 12 Oxford St #482, Cambridge, MA, 02138. perdomo(a)fas.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] Reminder: Tomorrow's Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science, Pat Hanrahan on Domain-Specific Languages

by Rosalind Reid

Just a reminder of tomorrow's Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science, to be given by Pat Hanrahan of Stanford University. ********** Domain-Specific Languages for Heterogeneous Computer Platforms March 24, 2010; 4:00pm Room G-115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford St., Cambridge Pat Hanrahan, CANON Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments, Stanford University Abstract Hardware is becoming increasingly specialized because of the need for power efficiency. One way to gain efficiency is to use high-throughput processors (e.g. graphics processing units) optimized for data- parallel applications; these processors deliver more gigaflops per watt than CPUs optimized for single-threaded programs. Typical applications, however, consist of both sequential and parallel code segments. For such applications, the optimal platform will use heterogenous combinations of different types of processing elements. Nowadays in high-performance computing, it is common to create hybrid systems consisting of multi-core CPUs and many-core GPUs combined into both shared memory multiprocessors and clusters connected by networks. The challenge is that the computing model has also become more complicated. A program for a cluster uses MPI, a program for a symmetric multiprocessing architecture uses threads and locks, and a program for a GPU uses a data-parallel programming model such as CUDA. Programs written for one class of machine will not run efficiently on another class of machines. Our thesis is that the only practical method for writing programs for such heterogeneous machines is to raise the level of the programming model. In particular, we advocate the use of domain-specific languages (DSLs). In this talk I will present the case for using DSLs, our work designing and implementing Liszt (a DSL for solving partial differential equations on meshes), and our view of the programming environment needed to create DSLs and to map them to different platforms. This work is funded by the Stanford DOE PSAAP Center and the Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory. About the Speaker Pat Hanrahan is the CANON Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he teaches computer graphics. His current research involves visualization, image synthesis, virtual worlds, and graphics systems and architectures. Before joining Stanford, he was a faculty member at Princeton. He has also worked at Pixar, where he developed volume rendering software and was the chief architect of the RenderMan Interface--a protocol that allows modeling programs to describe scenes to high-quality rendering programs. Professor Hanrahan has received three university teaching awards. He has received two Academy Awards for Science and Technology, the Spirit of America Creativity Award, the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, the SIGGRAPH Stephen A. Coons Award and the IEEE Visualization Career Award. He was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. _________ Refreshments served at 3:45 pm Mark your calendar for these upcoming talks: Mar. 31, 4:00 pm: Ben Fry, design and software consultant (IIC Colloquium) Apr. 7, 4:00 pm: Bruce Boghosian, Tufts University (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] (no subject)

by Roel Sanchez

Dear all, I would like to take the opportunity to thank you all for your friendship and good work over the past year and a half. Alan: thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to work in your group. It is kind of funny, but I started to work at Harvard on September 22, 2008 (one year and a half ago). Also, I brought some candies from my past visit to Mexico (they are next to the printer). I got them from “Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua”, the city, where a Mexican revolutionary named "Francisco Villa" was killed in 1923. Best, Roel Sanchez, PhD

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Update.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Guys, I feel much better, you know that my depressions only last a few hours :P I heard from the conference organizer that I was second place, getting 10's everywhere except 2-5 on the "feasibility" column. The winner got 10 there too. I was second place. It turns out that COMP people do not believe in QC, and that I should sell it better, but they believe this would really be a paradigm shift if it was feasible. Interesting, especially to all the QC people in the lab, we have to figure out how to crack this communication nut. Good night, I will reply to many e-mails tomorrow, A. 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] Did not get award :P

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, A graduate student of the Pande lab got the Kuhn symposium award for building Markov-state models of protein folding. Is that a paradigm shift? Go figure :) Anyway, the judges are a bunch o pharmaceutical comp chemists, a tough crowd :) Next time, thanks to all of you that wrote nice supporting emails. The important thing is that we were finalists! Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Sent from my mobile phone and might contain typos. Thanks for understanding.)

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