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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Access to pre-release Fermi board

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

FERMI box. Group, the CDI people have worked hard to give us access to an nVidia FERMI box, it would be interesting to benchmark it, e.g. with GPU and MP2 codes, it probably files! 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hanspeter Pfister <pfister(a)seas.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:18 PM Subject: Access to pre-release Fermi board To: Hanspeter Pfister <pfister(a)seas.harvard.edu> Cc: "Robert E. Parrott" <parrott(a)seas.harvard.edu>, Seppo Seppo < seppo(a)seas.harvard.edu> As you may know, we have a Fermi engineering sample from NVIDIA. This is not the final version of the hardware or drivers, and performance will be much slower than the final product. Any results published need to be cleared with NVIDIA and should include this disclaimer. (It's best to actually not publish performance results from this board at all.) But the board allows us to get our codes running and to try out some of the new architecture features. We're still ironing out kinks, but we hope to have it up and running by the end of the week. The machine has Linux and Windows installed. Please send email to ircshelp(a)seas.harvard.edu if you would like to have access to the Fermi. By doing so you agree with the conditions outlined above. Thanks, - Hanspeter

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email March 18 - April 1

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: March 23: William A. Pizer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Energy, U.S. Treasury presents "Prices vs. Quantities, Yet Again: Allowance Reserves and Banking" in the second Energy Policy Seminar this semester. March 30: 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 presents "Breaking the Climate Impasse with China: A Global Solution" in the US-Japan Seminar. 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. Calendar Listings: March 20, 2010 6:00pm "E" Inc’s Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival 2010 The Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology 41 Berkeley Street (corner Tremont) Boston, MA "e" inc. is proud to be Boston’s official host for The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival - the largest environmental film festival in the United States. Lite supper and doors open at 6:00 PM. Cost: $30.00/person http://www.e-action.us 617-227-1522 March 21, 2010 7:30pm Climate Change Comes to Walden Pond Cary Memorial Hall 1605 Mass Ave Lexington, MA Talk by Prof. Richard Primack of Boston University. Free Admission. http://www.lexgwac.org March 22, 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 4:00pm EPS Spring Colloquium Haller Hall Geological Museum 102 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA "Plate Tectonics in Time and Space." Adrian Lenardic, Rice University. Please join us for a reception following the talk, in the 4th Fl. lounge of Hoffman Contact Name: Ganna Savostyanova ganna(a)eps.harvard.edu 7:00pm Healthy Oceans, Healthy Humans New England Aquarium Harborside Learning Lab Boston, MA Kathleen Firth, Assistant Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School. Register here. http://www.neaq.org/education_and_activities/programs_and_classes/aquarium_…... Contact Name: Vicky Cataldo vcataldo(a)neaq.org 617-973-0235 March 23, 2010 2:00pm - 5:00pm Changing people in a changing climate? Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library Brandeis University Waltham, MA "The Ethical Implications of Climate Disruption." A conversation with Michael Appell (International Business School), Bernadette Brooten (Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Classics), Cristina Espinosa (Sustainable International Development, Heller School), Saleem Ali (University of Vermont), and Tory Fair (Fine Arts. http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/events Contact Name: Charles C. Chester charles.chester(a)gmail.com 617.304.9373 2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall -Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA "Prices vs. Quantities, Yet Again: Allowance Reserves and Banking." William A. (Billy) Pizer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Energy, U.S. Treasury. Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu March 25, 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 discussion. 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 OEB Seminar Biological Laboratories Main Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA "Molecular ins and outs of bacteriophage life history traits", Joshua S. Weitz, Georgia Institute of Technology. Host: Marx Lab Contact Name: Jeannette Everritt jeverritt(a)oeb.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, 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-…... 5:15pm Ecologies of Human Flourishing Lecture Series 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. Register online. http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/events/theme.html Contact Name: Rebecca Kline Esterson resterson(a)hds.harvard.edu March 26, 2010 1:30pm Solid Earth Physics Seminar 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 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 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 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 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. Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu 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 6:00pm - 8:00pm Harvard College Innovation Challenge Maxwell Dworkin 33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 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 http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm 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. Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.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, 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-…... 5:00pm - 7:00pm Science and Democracy: Arundhati Roy Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall 48 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA “Can We Leave the Bauxite in the Mountain?” - Field Notes on Democracy. Arundhati Roy, Author of The God of Small Things (Booker Prize, 1997). With commentator Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and Director, Humanities Center at Harvard and moderated by 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 --- 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. Be sure to sign up to receive the HUCE newsletter. You are receiving this email because you indicated interest in Harvard University Center for the Environment events. [57]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 57. 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.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Fwd: Announcement Flyer for Harvard Physics Colloquium speaker Daniel Gottesman

by Edward Farhi

Begin forwarded message: > From: Subir Sachdev <sachdev(a)physics.harvard.edu> > Date: March 10, 2010 3:32:15 PM EST > To: Edward Farhi <farhi(a)mit.edu> > Subject: Fwd: Announcement Flyer for Harvard Physics Colloquium > speaker Daniel Gottesman > > Dear Eddie > > Please display at MIT and forward to those interested.... > > Thanks > Subir > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: maynard(a)physics.harvard.edu >> Date: March 10, 2010 2:39:25 PM EST >> To: grads(a)physics.harvard.edu, faculty(a)physics.harvard.edu, research(a)physics.harvard.edu >> , support(a)physics.harvard.edu, pherlihy(a)cfa.harvard.edu, klabrecq(a)fas.harvard.edu >> Subject: Announcement Flyer for Harvard Physics Colloquium speaker >> Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics 3-22-10 >> >> Announcement Flyer for Harvard Physics Colloquium speaker Daniel >> Gottesman, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, on 3-22-10 > > ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 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] More on FMO

by Joel Yuen

In case you guys hadn't seen it, even Bill Miller at Berkeley is interested in FMO. Enjoy.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Bracket Manager Invitation

by Leslie Vogt

Hi guys, If you follow NCAA basketball and want to join a department bracket pool, please email Graham to sign up! (see below). If you don't follow basketball and want to try to predict the tournament anyway, feel free to sign up as well... winners are often people who don't know anything about the teams ;) Cheers, Leslie -- Leslie Vogt Aspuru-Guzik Group Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Graham Sazama <gsazama(a)yahoo.com> Date: Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:00 PM Subject: Bracket Manager Invitation To: leslievogt(a)gmail.com Hello Everyone, My favorite season of the year is upon us: MARCH MADNESS. Any two day stretch with 32 basketball games in it is a fabulous two days, Nor'easters be damned. What better way to celebrate this momentous yearly tradition than a Department-wide bracket competition? I have chosen you as my lab contact, such that you can ask (read: pester) anyone in your lab you think might be even remotely interested to join our bracket pool. The more, the merrier (and more the winnings!). If they're interested, get me their name and email address and I'll send them an invite. There's no way this list has even close to everyone who's possibly interested, so please spread the word (especially in the ChemBio areas)! Now the details... It's a piddling $5 entry fee, with 60/30/10 payouts to the First, second and third places. Your entry fee is due in my hands before the first game tips off (which gives you from tonight until Thursday afternoon, time TBA) or your bracket gets removed from the competition. We'll be using CBS Sportsline to set up the bracket - it's super easy and works like a charm. One bracket per person; may the best bracket win. All the details of scoring are included on the website. So, whether you slaved over months of research (basketball or chemistry, although one might be more useful here than the other) to figure out all the possible matchups, or if you chose by whichever teams' colors would make the prettiest home decor scheme, it's time to pit your strategy against the rest of Harvard's finest. Good luck! Graham http://chembrackets.mayhem.cbssports.com/e?ttag=BM10_EM_all_cspt_os_inlk_00… Our Group password is: HahvadSqueah

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science March 24: Domain-Specific Languages with Pat Hanrahan

by Rosalind Reid

You are cordially invited to the next 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. 22, noon: Nicolas Pinto, MIT and Rowland Institute (SciGPU Seminar) 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] [qip] Unofficial minutes: March 16, 2010

by Andrew Lutomirski

The Microsoft people put out a paper today (1003.2856), which talks about a new approach to universal TQC. The Economist has an old paper on superpositions of viruses. I can't find the technical paper: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?bid=354&bpid=24212 Eddie is skeptical about interference experiments with viruses. Matt Hastings told us about a theorem telling us when non-commuting operators are well approximated by commuting operators. This means, among other things, that it is difficult to find modes in audio files with (nearly) definite frequency and position. _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [Excitonics-Theory] tomorrow talks on coherent resonance energy

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Last call for excitonics meeting registration Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Sent from my mobile phone and might contain typos. Thanks for understanding.) Begin forwarded message: > From: Masoud Mohseni <mohseni(a)mit.edu> > Date: March 15, 2010 19:35:51 EDT > To: excitonics(a)chem-quantum.info > Subject: [Excitonics-Theory] tomorrow talks on coherent resonance > energy > > Dear All, > > There are two interesting talks tomorrow by Eric Zimanyi and Shaul > Mukamel (see below for the abstracts and locations). In our bi- > weekly excitonic meeting Eric is going to tell us that everything > can be described classically after all. > > Please note that anyone from your group that is not listed below > will not receive any subsequent announcements. Please notify them > that they can subscribe to the excitonics email list by sending an e- > mail to: excitonics-subscribe(a)chem-quantum.info > > Alan Aspuru-Guzik > Anna B. Shin > Cesar A Rodriguez-Rosario > Eric Zimanyi > Jianlan Wu > Jianshu Cao > Jacob J Krich > Leslie Vogt > Man-Hong Yung > Masoud Mohseni > Alejandro Perdomo > Roberto Olivares-Amaya > Semion Saikin > Robert J. Silbey > Seth Lloyd > Sule Atahan-Evrenk > James D Whitfield > > > Title: A classical electrodynamical theory for coherent resonance > energy > transfer > Speaker: Eric Zimanyi > (March 16, 12-1 pm, MIT 26-201) > > Abstract: > Recent experiments on resonance energy transfer (RET) in > photosynthetic > systems have found evidence of quantum coherence between the donor > and the > acceptor. Under these conditions, Forster's theory of RET is no > longer > applicable and no theory of coherent RET advanced to date rivals the > intuitive simplicity of Forster's theory. Here, we develop a > framework for > understanding RET that is based on classical electrodynamics but still > captures the essence of the quantum coherence between the > molecules. Our > theory requires only a knowledge of the complex polarizabilities of > the two > molecules participating in the transfer as well as the distance > between > them. We compare our results to quantum mechanical calculations and > show > that the results agree quantitatively. > > > > Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement: > > Title: Quantum Transport Effects and Coherent > Ultrafast > Multidimensional > Spectroscopy of Light Harvesting Photosynthetic > Complexes > Presenter: Shaul Mukamel > Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of California, > Irvine > Date: March 16, 2010 > Time: 3:00 - 4:00pm > Place: Haus Room 36-428 > > Abstract > > The harvesting of solar energy and its conversion to chemical energy > is > essential for all forms of life. Whether quantum effects persist in > the > energy transport is under active debate. If confirmed, these may > explain > the high efficiency of light harvesting and open up applications to > quantum computing and information processing stemming from > entanglement of > chromophores. Exciton dynamics simulations in the photosynthetic > reaction > center of photosystem II based on a novel quantum exciton dissipation > theory clearly establish oscillatory energy transport at room > temperature > originating from interference of quantum pathways. These may be > observed > through temporal oscillations of time-resolved two dimensional > coherent > optical spectra. Our simulations reveal that quantum energy transfer > effects may persist over the energy transport timescale at room > temperature despite the rapid decoherence effects due to environment > fluctuations. The response of photosynthetic light harvesting > complexes to > sequences of femtosecond optical pulses provides multidimensional > snapshots of their structure and electronic dynamics. Two-dimensional > (2D) signals show characteristic cross-peak patterns which carry > information about structures, fluctuations and the entire pathways of > energy and charge transfer. The signals reveal couplings between > chromophores, and quantum coherence signatures of chromophore > entanglement. Coherent quantum pathways and incoherent energy hopping > processes may be resolved. Future extensions of multidimensional > techniques to the attosecond regime using x-ray pulses will be > discussed. > Since core excitations are highly localized at selected atoms such > signals > can monitor the motions of valence electron wavepackets in real > space with > atomic spatial resolution. Common principles underlying coherent > spectroscopy techniques for spins, valence electrons, and core > electronic > excitations, spanning frequencies from radiowaves to hard X-rays > will be > discussed. > > References: > “Coherent Multidimensional Optical Probes for Electronic Correlation > s and > Exciton Dynamics; from NMR to X-rays”, S. Mukamel, D. Abramavicius, > L. > Yang, W. Zhuang, I.V. Schweigert and D. Voronine. Acct.Chem.Res. > Acct.Chem.Res. 42, 553-562 (2009). > “Coherent Multidimensional Optical Spectroscopy Excitons in Molecul > ar > Aggregates; Quasiparticle vs. Supermolecule Perspectives”, D. > Abramavicius, B. Palmieri, D. Voronine, F. Sanda and S. Mukamel, Chem. > Rev. 109, 2350-2408 (2009). > “Coherent Multidimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy of Biomolecules; > Concepts, Simulations and Challenges”. W. Zhuang, T. Hayashi and S. > Mukamel, Agnew Chem. Int.Ed. 48, 3750-3781 (2009). > > Bio: > > Shaul Mukamel received his B.Sc degree in Chemical Physics in 1969 > and his > Ph.D. in 1976 both from Tel Aviv University. He served on the > faculty of > the Weizmann Institute and Rice University and in 1982 he joined the > chemistry department of the University of Rochester and became a > professor > in 1985. In 2000 he became the Kenneth Mees Professor and in 2003 was > appointed joint Professor of Physics. Since 2003 he serves on the > faculty > of UC Irvine as a Chancellor Professor of Chemistry. > > Professor Mukamel's group interests focus on the design of novel > ultrafast > multidimensional coherent optical spectroscopies for probing and > controlling electronic and vibrational molecular dynamics in the > condensed > phase; Theoretical and computational studies and applications include > attosecond nonlinear x-ray spectroscopy of molecules; Many-body > theory of > optical and photonic materials; a time dependent reduced density > matrix > framework for computing electronic excitations and nonlinear optical > spectroscopy of conjugated polymers, molecular nanostructures, > chromophore > aggregates and semiconductor and solar cell nanoparticles; Folding and > dynamical fluctuations in proteins and DNA; Long range electron > transfer, > energy funneling, and collective nonlinear optical response of > biological > light harvesting complexes; Photon statistics in single molecule > spectroscopy; Nonlinear dynamics and fluctuations in quantum and > classical > optical response. > > Mukamel is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical > Society of America. He is the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan, the > Guggenheim, the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award and > the 2003 > Lippincott award of the OSA. > -- > ************************************************************* > Dr. Masoud Mohseni, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT > Center for Excitonics, Research Laboratory of Electronics > 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA > Room 26-359 > Phone/Fax: 617-253-7811 / 617-258-7864 > Email: mohseni(a)mit.edu > *** > *** > ******************************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > Excitonics mailing list > Excitonics(a)box577.bluehost.com > http://box577.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/excitonics_chem-quantum.info

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: ACS Alert--Support DOE Office of Science and NSF Funding

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Lobbying time. Do your 2c to preserve science funding :) 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: Brad Smith <lan(a)acs.org> Date: Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:47 PM Subject: ACS Alert--Support DOE Office of Science and NSF Funding To: aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu *Office of Public Affairs* Dear ACS Legislative Action Network member: Please link *here* <http://www.congressweb.com/t/l/?SABJOHKDMTBMNCU> to contact your U.S. Representative by Wednesday, March 17, and urge support for increased funding of basic research at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science and the National Science Foundation (NSF) by signing onto a congressional ‘dear colleague’ letter. Right now, our allies in Congress are encouraging their peers to support basic research funding. One method for generating momentum is ‘dear colleague’ letters. By signing onto these statements legislators send a unified and bipartisan message to House leaders, appropriators, and authorizers about the importance of basic research. We recommend that you ask your Representative to support both the DOE Office of Science and NSF ‘dear colleague’ letters and that you modify the form letters we provide to explain your connection to the agencies (grants, educational programs, importance of science, etc.). Just link to the Legislative Action Center<http://www.congressweb.com/t/l/?SABJOHKDMTQAAMY>to tell your U.S. Representative to make basic research a funding priority. For additional information click here<http://www.congressweb.com/t/l/?SABJOHKDMTFMPVX> . Thank you for your help in this critical effort. Brad Smith Manager, American Chemical Society *American Chemical Society * 1155 Sixteenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 www.acs.org

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Learn how you can compute on Blue Waters

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Opportunities for Blue Waters. We were invited by NCSA. 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: NCSA <barbaraj(a)ncsa.illinois.edu> Date: Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:10 PM Subject: Learn how you can compute on Blue Waters To: alan(a)aspuru.com Many scientists are hard at work developing applications for the Blue Waters sustained petascale computer. A proposal deadline is this week, and there will be another Petascale Computing Resource Allocation (PRAC) deadline in March of next year. You are in a select group of scientists identified as being a) someone who might want to consider writing a PRAC proposal for 2011, or b) a scientist who is a potential Blue Waters user. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) invites you to make an appointment to talk with Dr. Brett Bode at the ACS meeting in San Francisco next week to explore possible options for your research to grow to the next level by utilizing the computational capabilities of Blue Waters. There are ongoing opportunities for researchers with the need for large scale computing resources to address their transformational science problem. Opportunities exist for both researchers developing their own codes as well as researchers using established scalable software tools. While your own computational needs might not meet the minimum requirements to be considered for an allocation on Blue Waters, there are still options for accessing computing time on Blue Waters. A computational chemist himself, Dr. Bode is an NCSA staff member working with the NSF allocated PRAC teams to prepare their codes to run on Blue Waters. Meetings will be held in our booth, #1429, in the ACS exhibit hall. Appointments are 30 minutes in length and are available: Monday, March 22, between 10 am to noon Tuesday, March 23, between 10:30 am to 12:30 pm, also 2:30 to 4:30 pm Wednesday, March 24, between 9 am to noon We strongly encourage you to make an appointment so that you will be guaranteed an opportunity to discuss your research and compute needs with Dr. Bode, as opposed to just dropping by our booth when you have a free moment. Please respond to this email with your choices of 2-3 times you would like to meet. We’ll schedule your appointment and email you a confirmation. We look forward to seeing you at the ACS meeting in San Francisco!

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