aspuru-list March 2010

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by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Hey guys, Nitzan is looking :) Good place to go. 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: Abraham Nitzan <anitzan(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:03 AM Subject: Fwd: To: Abraham Nitzan <anitzan(a)gmail.com> Dear colleagues, Below and attached please find an announcement for a post doctoral position in my group. Please distribute it to suitable candidates. Thanks, Abe Nitzan ** ** *A post doctoral position available: Theory of optical response and transport phenomena in nanojunctions* * * A post doctoral position in the area of molecular junctions transport is available in the group of Professor Abraham Nitzan at Tel Aviv University, Israel, starting any time after October 1st 2010. Research in our group is focused on electrical, thermal and optical effects in molecular-scale transport. Currently under study are transport phenomena and noise properties of redox molecular junctions, the interplay between optical response and conduction properties of molecular nanojunctions, and heating, heat conduction and thermoelectric properties of such systems. More information about Nitzan’s research can be found in http://atto.tau.ac.il/~nitzan/ <http://atto.tau.ac.il/%7Enitzan/> Candidate profile: A person with Ph.D degree in physics (preferably condensed phase) or physical chemistry/chemical physics with experience in theoretical and/or computational work. Interested candidates should submit their CV and three names of reference persons to nitzan(a)post.tau.ac.il or: Professor Abraham Nitzan Department of Chemical Physics School of Chemistry Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, 69978 Israel -- -------------------------------- Professor Abraham Nitzan |e-mail: nitzan(a)post.tau.ac.il School of Chemistry |Phone: +972-3-6408904 Tel Aviv University |Fax: +972-3-6423765 Tel Aviv, 69978 ISRAEL |www: http://atto.tau.ac.il/~nitzan/nitzan.html<http://atto.tau.ac.il/%7Enitzan/nitzan.html> ------------------------------- Director | The Mortimer and Raymond Sackler | Institute of Advanced Studies |Phone:+972-3-6409579 Tel Aviv University |fax :+972-3-6424264 Tel Aviv, 69978 ISRAEL |email: nitzan(a)post.tau.ac.il Institute Homepage: http://www.tau.ac.il/institutes/advanced

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Subgroup meeting slides

by J D Whitfield

Hi people, If you have subgroup meetings and you want the slides to be placed on the group website, feel free to send them to me. Just include the title, date and presenter. Cheers, James 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] [iic-colloquium] Reminder: Distinguished Lecturer Michael Huerta Wednesday, March 10: From Genome to Connectome

by Rosalind Reid

Just a reminder of tomorrow's Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science. Please join us. ********** From Soup to Wires--From Genome to Connectome Wednesday, March 10, 4:00 pm Room G-115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Michael F. Huerta, Associate Director National Institute of Mental Health Abstract To understand the human brain is to understand the essence of humanity. Over the last hundred years, scientists have studied the chemical, genetic, molecular and cellular bases of nervous system function and dysfunction in model organisms and humans. The advent of - omics approaches in the last decade has multiplied data from these levels of biological organization many fold, and the questions scientists can now address are breathtaking in their scope, depth and complexity. The nervous system, however, has levels of organization beyond the cell; these higher levels represent the connectivity that allows communication across cells, circuits and systems. Knowledge about connectivity is crucial to understand brain function in health and disorder, yet this entire class of data is absent for the human brain in any systematic, comprehensive or otherwise modern sense. To fill this critical gap, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, an ongoing consortium comprising 16 institutes and centers of the NIH, has launched the Human Connectome Project (HCP). The HCP will use cutting-edge, noninvasive neuroimaging tools to collect high-quality, well characterized data from hundreds of healthy adults, and will share these data, models, analytic tools and other information with the research community at large. This $30 million effort is expected to transform our understanding of the human brain and will provide a conceptual framework allowing neuroscientists to better appreciate the meaning of, and relationships among, diverse data from all levels of biological organization. The HCP is an example of high-throughput biology approaches to biomedical research. As these approaches become more common, the biomedical research enterprise will change, with computational sciences becoming increasingly important to NIH in pursuit of its mission of improving the health of the nation and all of humanity. About the Speaker Michael Huerta’s research background is in systems neuroscience. He earned baccalaureate (zoology) and doctoral (anatomy) degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, did postdoctoral work at Vanderbilt University, and served on the faculty of the University of Connecticut Health Science Center. He joined the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 1991 to create a multiagency initiative that helped develop the field of neuroinformatics, and has continued to lead and participate in many digital biology and informatics activities across NIH, including the NIH Roadmap’s National Centers for Biomedical Computation, the NIH Blueprint’s Neuroscience Information Framework and Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse, the NIH Biomedical Informatics Coordinating Committee, and the Human Connectome Project. Dr. Huerta has also led efforts to change NIH practices to better accommodate paradigms such as team science and interdisciplinary research. Dr. Huerta currently serves as the: Associate Director of NIMH for Scientific Technology Research, Director of the NIMH Office of Cross-Cutting Science, and Director of the NIH’s National Database for Autism Research. _________ Refreshments served at 3:45 pm Mark your calendar for these upcoming talks: Mar. 8, noon: Patrik Jonsson, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (SciGPU Seminar) Mar. 24, 4:00 pm: Pat Hanrahan, CANON USA Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford (Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science) Mar. 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] Visiting Day Poster Session

by tempel＠physics.harvard.edu

Dear Group, This Friday March 12th will be the Chemistry open house for prospective students. We will be presenting two posters as in past years; one on methods and the other on applications. We will use the same basic templates as last year, but it would be good to update the projects. Please send me a powerpoint file of your updated project description to be included in the poster. If you would like to build on last year's project description and need access to the template, please let me know. We need to have this done by 5pm tomorrow, so please get them to me asap. thanks, David

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] TODAY: Exciton seminars TODAY NOON and 4:30pm

by rtavilla＠rle.mit.edu

Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Investigating exciton correlations in GaAs quantum wells using COLBERT spectroscopy Daniel Turner, MIT Tuesday, March 9, 2010 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Multiple-quantum two-dimensional Fourier transform optical (2D FTOPT) spectroscopy was developed and conducted on GaAs quantum wells. Spatiotemporal femtosecond pulse shaping was used to control the optical phases and time delays of ultrashort pulses in multiple non-collinear beams so that fully coherent four-wave and higher-order mixing measurements could be conducted without any moving parts. Coherences of excitons, biexcitons, unbound but correlated exciton pairs, and triexcitons were observed directly. Grier Room, MIT Bldg 34-401 Refreshments served after the lecture PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY SEMINAR Spring 2010 Speaker: JOHN LUPTON Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Time & Place: 4:30, Room 6-120 Title: WATCHING EXCITONS ON THE MOVE The absorption of light generates an electronic polarization, spatially displaced net positive and negative charges. Given sufficient electrostatic correlation between the charges, neutral quasi-particles are formed: excitons. Nature has evolved extraordinary machinery to move such charge pairs around, ultimately leading to the conversion and storage of energy in photosynthesis. Replicating nature’s powerhouse requires precise understanding and control of the elementary processes of light-matter interaction and excited-state coupling: how do neutral species move in space, transferring energy from one entity to another? This problem is akin to the electrodynamical coupling of two antennae – transmitting and receiving a signal – with the difference that the dipoles involved are only a few nanometers in size, much smaller than the wavelength of radiation. As disorder affects the quality of the resonance, microscopic experimental techniques are required to unravel intrinsic dipole-dipole coupling in prototypical donor-acceptor systems such as large molecules and nanocrystalline quantum heterostructures. Recent experimental advances now enable a complete microscopic tracking of excitation energy migration on the nanometer scale. Refreshments before the talk in the Amdur Room 6-233

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] another seminar of interest

by Alejandro Perdomo

Mark Stockman "Nanoplasmonics: Phenomena and Applications" http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/applied_physical_sciences… -- 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] Replacement of meeting tomorrow by seminar.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, It seems that there was consensus that tomorrow's excitonics meeting will be cancelled/replaced, as a very interesting seminar by the Nelson group is occurring at the same time at MIT, and Seth cannot make it. Masoud Mohseni is the organizer, and will be sending an e-mail as well soon. I created a mailing list for everybody to subscribe. The e-mail address to subscribe is: * excitonics-subscribe(a)chem-quantum.info* This will be the announcements list of the buddying group, which will be managed by Masoud Mohseni, our meeting-master. Eric will be talking to us in the next meeting. The seminar in question is: * Investigating exciton correlations in GaAs quantum wells using COLBERT spectroscopy* Daniel Turner, (from Keith Nelson's group) Tuesday, March 9, 2010 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Multiple-quantum two-dimensional Fourier transform optical (2D FTOPT) spectroscopy was developed and conducted on GaAs quantum wells. Spatiotemporal femtosecond pulse shaping was used to control the optical phases and time delays of ultrashort pulses in multiple non-collinear beams so that fully coherent four-wave and higher-order mixing measurements could be conducted without any moving parts. Coherences of excitons, biexcitons, unbound but correlated exciton pairs, and triexcitons were observed directly. Grier Room, MIT Bldg 34-401 Refreshments served after the lecture 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] EXCITONICS mailing list.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group Members. a) If you want to be in the Lloyd/Silbey/Aspuru-Guzik excitonics mailing list, please subscribe by sending an e-mail to: * excitonics-subscribe(a)chem-quantum.info* b) Anna really needs your report of talks, etc. ASAP as we are compiling a massive report today. THANKS for your help! 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] annual activity report

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, I need from each of you a list of all your talks and posters presented, and any other meetings/trips you attended o/b/o the group in calendar year 2009. Please list in chronological order with the following details: 1) Date of presentation 2) Title of presentation 3) Was it a talk or poster? 4) Was it invited or contributed? 5) Name of conference 6) Location of conference I'm sorry for the late notice, but I need this information as soon as possible. Thank you! Anna 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: Physics post doc openings at Aalto University, Helsinki

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Sent from my mobile phone and might contain typos. Thanks for understanding.) Begin forwarded message: > From: Mikko Möttönen <mpmotton(a)gmail.com> > Date: March 8, 2010 11:39:22 EST > To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> > Subject: Physics post doc openings at Aalto University, Helsinki > > Dear Alan, > > We have several post doc position openings at the Department of > Applied Physics of Aalto University (former Helsinki University of > Technology). I would be delighted if you could pass on this > announcement to potential candidates: > > http://tfy.tkk.fi/work/ > > Although the application is for all of the research groups in the > department in general, the applicant can pinpoint certain research > topics or groups he would be interested in. See, for example, the > web pages of my group: > > http://tfy.tkk.fi/qcd/ > > In principle, there is no strict dead line but we have already > several applications and the evaluation process is starting soon. > Thus all the people interested in this positions should apply ASAP. > > All the best, > -mikko > > > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Postdoc Positions at the Department of Applied Physics > The Department of Applied Physics at the School of Science and > Technology (formerly Helsinki University of Technology) of the newly > established Aalto University in Finland offers several new post- > doctoral research positions involving experimental (e), theoretical > (t) or computational (c) physics in research groups working in > > Computational nanoscience (c) > Theoretical materials physics (t) > Quantum dynamics and many-body physics (t, c) > Statistical physics and complex systems (t, c) > Surface science (e) > Atomic-scale materials characterization (e,c) > Biomimetic materials science (e) > Nano-optics and photonics (e, t) > Nanomagnetism and spintronics (e) > New energy technologies (e) > Fusion physics (e, c) > We are looking for highly motivated individuals who enjoy working in > an international research environment. There are no restrictions on > nationality. The appointments will start on August 1, 2010 and can > run up to three years. After a successful post-doc period, there is > a possibility to apply for a tenure-track position at the Department. > > Applications including a CV, publication list, research statement > and two letters of recommendation mailed independently should be > sent to the Head of the Department, Prof. Matti Kaivola. > Applications can also be sent by email in a single pdf-file to matti.kaivola(a)tkk.fi > . The call is open until the positions are filled. > > Aalto University is an equal-opportunity employer. For further > information seehttp://tfy.tkk.fi/researchgroups with links to the > individual research groups and their responsible leaders. > > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > --- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- >

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