aspuru-list April 2010

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Interesting resource.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

For those quantum dynamics geeks and geek-ettes, http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/bsch63/WavePacket/ 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] Fwd: LAN Alert: Support Science Agencies' Budgets

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group members, Please help me and help all of you by sending letters to your representatives urging them to support science! 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brad Smith <lan(a)acs.org> Date: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:54 PM Subject: LAN Alert: Support Science Agencies' Budgets To: aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu *Office of Public Affairs* Dear Legislative Action Network Member: Please write <http://www.congressweb.com/t/l/?SLXIFIDUTVOSQYF> your federal legislators urging them to support President Obama’s budget request for science and technology investments and to continue working to ensure American competitiveness in the global economy. President Obama’s fiscal year 2011 budget proposal strongly emphasizes the important role that science and technology must play in ensuring continued U.S. prosperity by making robust investment in federal science agencies, STEM education, and energy research programs. These robust investments in science and technology come at the same time that the president has proposed to limit overall federal spending and maintain overall domestic discretionary spending at last year’s funding levels — so the proposed increases are truly remarkable. Congress is now responding to the budget request by developing a budget resolution with congressional budget committees tasked with crafting a framework. This gives other members of Congress parameters on how much can be spent on government programs and broad recommendations on areas Congress feels are priorities. Your letters can help ensure that this budgetary blueprint includes robust investments in science, technology, and innovation in a year when the budget will be exceptionally tight. Click *here*<http://www.congressweb.com/t/l/?SLXIFIDUTVBDPCE>to send your letters today! Thank you, Brad Brad Smith Manager ACS Office of Public Affairs *www.acs.org <http://www.congressweb.com/t/l/?SLXIFIDUTVGUKGN>* –––––––––––––––––––– *ACS** Chemistry for Life* *American Chemical Society * 1155 Sixteenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 www.acs.org

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Spread the Word- RIT's 8th Annual FFCEP

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, For those eligible (also advanced graduate students, international people also count), Cesar and I recommend to apply to this to get experience in the job market. Best, 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Faculty Recruitment <facultyr(a)rit.edu> Date: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM Subject: Spread the Word- RIT's 8th Annual FFCEP To: "alan(a)aspuru.com" <alan(a)aspuru.com> ** * * * * * * * * * * Hello Alan Aspuru-Guzik, * * *FFCEP is one of **RIT’s innovative diversity programs which is raising the bar for schools nationwide.* *Please share this information with members of your organization and students whom you know may be interested.*** * * *Do you know of individuals that fit the following criteria?*** - Be able to contribute in a meanignful way to the university’s continuing commitment to cultural diversity, pluralism, and individaul differences. We are especially interested in applications from people of color who are underrepresented in teaching professions, i.e., African-American, Latin American, American Indian or Alaskan Native. - Within one to two years of completing Ph.D. , MFA, or Post Doc - Desire academic teaching career at an exceptional teaching institution Receiving degrees in disciplines offered at RIT; i.e., math, sciences, engineering, technologies, business liberal arts, fine art, computing sciences complete list of programs <http://www.rit.edu/programs-level.html> - Demonstrate potential to fill open and/or anticipated vacancies - Able to travel to Rochester, NY September 22-26, 2010 *8th ANNUAL* *Future Faculty Career Exploration Program* *An All Expense Paid trip to RIT located in Rochester, NY* The FFCEP is a unique and exciting opportunity to explore potential career choices through: · Exploratory interviews · Meetings with deans, department heads, and RIT’s President · Discuss academic work and career interests with RIT deans and faculty · Present on research · Tour the campus and surrounding community · Interact with RIT students · Learn about RIT’s teaching and research agendas and vision. Previous years’ FFCEP programs have resulted in twelve faculty hires and a summer teaching experience. * * *Application Deadline: June 2nd, 2010*** For more information and applications visit our website at: *http://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/facultyrecruitment/faculty_program.php** * Please direct any email correspondence to facultyr(a)rit.edu or telephone 585-475-5775. RIT is committed to creating a climate that fosters the success of every student and employee by appreciating the unique contributions that each person makes to the educational process based on their ethnic, cultural and gender- related knowledge and experiences. RIT* *has made aggressive moves to increase faculty diversity raising the bar for schools nationwide. In fact, NY State is calling this initiative the “RIT Model.” RIT understands that it takes commitment from leadership on down, dedication, and leadership operating in a reasoned way to improve our diversity goals. For the past five hiring seasons, 30 percent of RIT’s new faculty hires have been from underrepresented minority groups. *Sadie Thornton*** *Office of Faculty Recruitment* *Rochester Institute of Technology* *01-2149* *8 Lomb Memorial Drive* *Rochester, NY 14623* *Voice: (585) 475-2686* *Fax: (585) 475-4460* *Web Page:** www.rit.edu/OFR* *Click to become a Fan of our Facebook Page!*<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rochester-NY/RIT-Office-of-Faculty-Recruitmen…>

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email April 8 - 22

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Tonight: A colloquium featuring Lawrence Buell (Harvard), Ursula Heise (Stanford), and Karen Thornber (Harvard) about the present state and possible futures of 'Ecocriticism' - that has burgeoned into an interdisciplinary movement of worldwide scope and diverse critical approaches. Monday, April 12: Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan, discusses the role of climate forcing in the population dynamics of epidemic malaria in the next HUCE lecture on Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change. Tuesday, April 13: Kristina Johnson, Under Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy, presents "Building a Green Energy Economy through Accelerated Innovation" at the next Future of Energy Lecture. **Please note, this lecture is now scheduled for 11:45 am in the Piper Auditorium, GSD, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge.** Calendar Listings: April 8, 2010 6:00pm MSI Thursday Evening Seminar Center for the Environment (Rm 310) 24 Oxford St, Harvard University Cambridge, MA "The Control of Apical Growth and Branching in Streptomyces." Mark Buttner, John Innes Centre, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology. http://www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu 6:15pm - 8:00pm The Environmental Turn in Literary and Cultural Studies Barker 114 (Kresge Room) Harvard University Cambridge, MA A Colloquium with: Lawrence Buell, English/American Civilization, Harvard; Ursula Heise, English/Modern Thought & Literature, Stanford; and Karen Thornber, Comparative Literature, Harvard. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr 617.495.0738 April 9, 2010 (All day) - April 11, 2010 (All day) Down:2:Earth (D2E) - Boston's third annual Green Living Festival Hynes Convention Center 900 Boylston St. Boston, MA D2E is a weekend long event that showcases the best in eco-friendly products and sampled by the companies themselves in one location. http://www.d2eboston.com/ miriam(a)d2eboston.com April 9, 2010 2:00 pm EPS Dissertation Defense Haller Hall - Geo Museum 102 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Multiscale models of atmospheric mercury: bromine chemistry, air-sea exchange, and global transport" by Chris Holmes. 11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA Kamal Bawa, University of Massachusetts, Boston and Harvard Bullard Fellow. Seminar title http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu 1:30pm Solid Earth Physics Seminar 4th Floor Faculty Lounge Hoffman Laboratory 20 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Yehuda Ben-Zion, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. April 10, 2010 9:00am Communicating Science Symposium, Wellesley College Wellesley College Science Center 106 Central St. Wellesley, MA Keynote Speaker: Dr. James Hansen https://sites.google.com/site/wellesleycommsci/ wc.commsci(a)gmail.com 7:00pm - 11:00pm Earth Night Back Bay Events Center 180 Berkley St. Boston, MA Featuring a tribute to Roger Berkowitz, President/CEO Legal Sea Foods for his longtime service on the ELM Board of Directors, for co-founding the ELM Corporate Council and for Legal Sea Foods' environmental leadership in the sea food industry. http://www.EarthNight.org EarthNight(a)classic-communications.com 508.680.6810 April 11, 2010 4:00pm Movie Screening: "The Fish Belong to the People" (Boston University) kdeuel(a)pewtrusts.org Boston University Life Sciences Building, Room B01 24 Cummington St. Boston, MA A documentary about a group of family fishermen struggling to keep their businesses afloat in Port Clyde, Maine. April 12, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm OEB Faculty Search Candidate Seminar: Biological Laboratories Main Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA "Sponges and the early evolution of developmental signaling." Scott Nichols, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 12:00pm Upcoming Innovations in Government Seminar: Water Scarcity- How Technology Can Help Solve the Problem Ash Center 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200N Cambridge, MA Seminar Featuring the State of Idaho’s Mapping Evapotranspiration Program, which has become a nationwide model for solving water-resource conflicts and improving water management, and it won the Innovations in American Government Award in 2009. http://www.ash.harvard.edu (617) 496-4491 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 1:00pm - 2:00pm Environmental Sciences & Engineering Seminar Cruft Laboratory, room #309 Harvard University Cambridge, MA "The Reactivity of Iron Nanoparticles: Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry, Kinetics, and Environmental Implications." Paul Tratnyek, Oregon Health & Science University. Contact Name: Norma Stewart nstewart(a)seas.harvard.edu 4:00pm EPS Spring Colloquium Haller Hall (Geo-Museum 102) 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Exploring the New World of Terrestrial Exoplanets with Kepler." Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard University. (http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/directory/researchers/dimitar-sasselov) Contact Name: Ganna Savostyanova ganna(a)eps.harvard.edu 5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave Harvard University Cambridge, MA "Population Dynamics in Epidemic Malaria: Climate Forcing and Parasite Evolution." Mercedes Pascual, Rosemary Grant Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 5:15pm Ecologies of Human Flourishing Lecture Series Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue Harvard Divinity School Cambridge, MA "What's Enough? A Conversation Between Harvard Business School and Harvard Divinity School" http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/events/theme.html Contact Name: Rebecca Kline Esterson resterson(a)hds.harvard.edu April 13, 2010 9:30am - 10:45am Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements Special Seminar Harvard Kennedy School Littauer Building, Room 332 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA "International climate change policy: Next steps for Japan and the world." Ambassador Makio Miyagawa, Deputy Director-General for Global Issues, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan. Contact Name: Tyler Gumpright Tyler_Gumpright(a)harvard.edu 17-384-8415 11:45am - 1:00pm The Future of Energy: Kristina Johnson, Under Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy Piper Auditorium Gund Hall, GSD 48 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA “Building a Green Energy Economy through Accelerated Innovation.” **Note this is a new time and location.** Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Guest speaker: Mercedes Pascual, Rosemary Grant Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan. 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 China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Traffic Problems, Challenges and Integrated Solutions under Rapid Urbanization in China." LU Huapu, Professor, Institute of Transportation Engineering, Tsinghua University. http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminar%20folder/seminar/Lu100413 Contact Name: Chris Nielsen nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu 2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall - Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA "Unconventional Takes on the Climate-Energy Problem." Prof. John Schellnhuber, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu April 14, 2010 4:00pm Centennial Panel on Sustainability Lowell Lecture Hall Corner of Kirkland and Oxford Streets Cambridge, Mass. "Sustaining Our Earth's Ecosystems" A global forum on the future of sustainability. Key environmentalists share their passion and commitment to their life's work. http://www.extension.harvard.edu/centennial/events 7:00pm Harvard Forest Seminar Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA "Birds of Harvard Forest." Brooks Mathewson, Avian Art Images. http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu April 15, 2010 (All day) Harvard Green Video Competition Harvard’s Office for Sustainability is sponsoring a competition for short video clips highlighting how individual actions can help reduce environmental impacts at Harvard. First prize wins $700 and second wins $300—plus both videos will be publicly screened at Harvard’s first-ever Green Carpet Awards ceremony taking place on April 23rd in Sanders Theater and honoring environmental work on campus. http://www.green.harvard.edu/greencarpet April 15, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm OEB Faculty Search Candidate Seminar HUH Seminar Room 22 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA "New perspectives on the evolution of functional specialization in Siphonophora (Cnidaria)." Casey Dunn, Brown University. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html Contact Name: Jeannette Everritt jeverritt(a)oeb.harvard.edu 4:00pm OEB Seminar Biological Laboratories Main Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA "Phylogenies, speciation and the Red Queen hypothesis." Chris Venditti, University of Reading, UK. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 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-…... April 16, 2010 (All day) - April 17, 2010 (All day) Tufts Energy Conference 2010: The Evolution of Energy Tufts University Medford, MA The Tufts Energy Conference 2010 brings together leading energy experts and the Tufts community to showcase and discuss innovative solutions to current and developing energy challenges. http://www.tuftsenergyconference.com/ April 16, 2010 1:30pm Solid Earth Physics Seminar 4th Floor Faculty Lounge Hoffman Laboratory 20 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Jenny Suckale, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, MIT. April 17, 2010 11:00 am The First Harvard Garden Community Workday Harvard Garden, in front of Lowell House Mt. Auburn Street Cambridge, MA Come out starting to help move soil, fill our newly-built raised beds, and start some spring planting. There will be an afternoon break for food and a garden dedication. Work will finish around 4 PM at the latest. Feel free to help out for all or part of the day. http://green.harvard.edu/garden April 18, 2010 2:00pm - 4:00pm Presentation and Book Signing - Carlo Petrini: Founder of Slow Food Science Center Lecture Hall B Harvard University 1 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA In Terra Madre, Petrini shows us a solution in the thousands of newly formed local alliances between food producers and food consumers. And he proposes expanding these alliances - connecting regional food communities around the world to promote good, clean, and fair food. RSVP: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEw1NjY3aEZIRy1oYzc2X2dGZV… April 19, 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 April 20, 2010 2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall - Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA "Climate Change Mitigation as a Stimulus for Expanding Rural Energy Access in India." Balachandra Patil, Research Fellow, ETIP. Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu 4:00pm Project on Justice, Welfare & Economics CGIS S020 1730 Cambridge St. "The Ethics and Economics of Intergenerational Distribution in a Warming Planet." Speaker, John Roemer (Yale University) http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/jwe/ Contact Name: Jessica Barnard jbarnard(a)wcfia.harvard.edu 617-495-8923 April 21, 2010 (All day) - April 23, 2010 (All day) Harvard University Graduate School of Design: Zofnass Program for Infrastructure Sustainability Harvard University Graduate School of Design 48 Quincy Street Cambridge, Massachusetts “Infrastructure Sustainability and Design Conference.” The conference will identify many challenges of sustainability, including the need for infrastructure rehabilitation in developed countries. Registration required. http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/infrastructuresustainability April 22, 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 5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change Biolabs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave Harvard University Cambridge, MA Mary Power, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley. 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. [91]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. 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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Reminder for talk and group meeting: Today and tomorrow Friday. Both 2:30pm @ M102

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, Besides the post-doctoral candidate talk today, tomorrow we have our regular group meeting tomorrow Friday at 2:30pm in M102. Recap of meetings for this week: *Today,* at M102, 2:30pm: "Controlling Light at the Nanoscale and Calculating Quantum Effects with Classical Electrodynamics" by* Jeff McMahon.* *Tomorrow, Friday, at M102, 2:30pm: "Transition metal computational chemistry - a study of the 3d-M(smif)2-series" by Johannes.* * * *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] Fwd: April Mentoring Workshop

by Semion Saikin

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tamara Brenner <tamara_brenner(a)harvard.edu> Date: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:12 AM Subject: April Mentoring Workshop To: Ann Georgi <ageorgi(a)fas.harvard.edu> Dear Mentoring Workshop participants, It's time for another mentoring workshop! Our next workshop will be held on Tuesday, April 27. We will discuss two main topics: how to recruit and interview undergraduates to work with you on your research project and how to deal with challenging situations that might arise when working with an undergraduate. For example, how do you react to a student who wishes to change mentors? How do you motivate students in the lab? We will discuss several case studies as we explore these issues, and we will welcome ideas, questions, and issues from participants. The workshop will be held in BioLabs Room 2062 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm. Please bring a bag lunch; we will provide dessert. Ann Georgi, Undergraduate Research Advisor in Life Sciences, and Tamara Brenner, Assistant Director of Life Sciences Education, are facilitating the workshop series. If you are interested in joining us on April 27, please email Tamara at tamara_brenner(a)harvard.edu. Feel free to pass this email along to your friends and colleagues! Best, Tamara and Ann --- Tamara Brenner, Ph.D. Assistant Director of Life Sciences Education Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University 16 Divinity Ave., Room 1087 Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 384-7525 tamara_brenner(a)harvard.edu -- ******************************************** Semion K. Saikin, PhD Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 email: saykin(a)fas.harvard.edu phone: (619)212-6649 ********************************************

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] visit of postdoc candidate Jeff McMahon

by Semion Saikin

Dear Group, We have a postdoc candidate Jeff McMahon http://www.thecomputationalphysicist.com/ visiting us on Thursday & Friday. He works in the group of George Schatz, Northwestern University and specializes in computational chemistry/physics. Tomorrow, *THURSDAY, he is giving a group talk "Controlling Light at the Nanoscale and Calculating Quantum Effects with Classical Electrodynamics" in M-102 at 2:30pm. *For the abstract of the talk, please see the group calendar. Please attend the seminar and also talk to him about your/his research. We need in your feedback! Thank you! Semion -- ******************************************** Semion K. Saikin, PhD Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 email: saykin(a)fas.harvard.edu phone: (619)212-6649 ********************************************

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: REMINDER: To all EFRC students & postdocs: Spring progress reports are due April 8th

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, If you have not sent me your EFRC report, please send *ASAP* !! Also, if you are unsure about the percentage, consult with Anna, not me. 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <rtavilla(a)rle.mit.edu> Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:13 PM Subject: REMINDER: To all EFRC students & postdocs: Spring progress reports are due April 8th To: efrc-all(a)mit.edu ----- Forwarded by Rita Tavilla/RLE on 04/06/2010 03:11 PM ----- *"Marc Baldo" <baldo(a)MIT.EDU>* 03/31/2010 06:16 PM To: <efrc-all(a)mit.edu> cc: Subject: To all EFRC students & postdocs: Spring progress reports are due April 8th To all Excitonics students & postdocs, It is time to post the Spring progress report on the Excitonics Center blog. The format is the same as the Fall report but with one important change. The important change this time is that we need a list of: 1. Your publications since Aug 1st 2009 (published or submitted). Please list the full reference including article title and page numbers 2. Your presentations since Aug 1st 2009. Again, please list the title, authors, and conference title, date and location. 3. Your patents since Aug 1st 2009 (title and date filed) 4. Any other excitonics-related activity that you think is notable. For each item on your list, please indicate whether your publication/presentation/patent was completely or partially supported by the EFRC. If partially, please estimate with your advisor what fraction of the work is attributable to the EFRC (e.g. 50%). Please upload your report before the end of next week (April 8th). If you have any questions please contact Rita or me. See below for instructions. Best regards, marc ---------------------------------------------------- Instructions: go to *http://excitonics.mit.edu/network/wp-login.php*<https://webmail.mit.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexcitonics.m…> There are two logins. The first login enters the server. Everyone should use the user name: wpuser Password: eXc1ton1cs The second login enters the blog itself. You should already know your personalized user name and password in a recent email. Format 1. Select 'My blogs' from the top menu, highlight the Excitonics blog, then select 'New post' from the drop down menu that appears. 2. Enter your project title at the top. 3. Enter your accompanying text below that. 4. Put your publications, presentations, patents and other activities in a list below the text. 5. You can upload an image by selecting 'Add media'. 6. Select 'Progress reports' in the categories menu at lower right. 7. Finally, click on 'Publish' at top right. It is OK to leave the visibility as 'public'. For a style guide, please look at the existing blog posts on the site. If you need to upload links to longer documents such as publications or presentations, select 'Add new' under the Media heading on the dashboard. Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Director of the Center for Excitonics MIT, Room 13-3053 77 Massachusetts Av, Cambridge, MA 02139 baldo(a)mit.edu http://softsemi.mit.edu/ http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] Reminder of tomorrow's Colloquium: "A Dynamical Systems Approach to Turbulence--Challenges for HPC" with Bruce Boghosian

by Rosalind Reid

Just a reminder of tomorrow's IIC Colloquium with Bruce Boghosian. See you there! ********************* A Dynamical Systems Approach to Turbulence: Challenges for High- Performance Computing April 7, 2010, 4:00 pm Room G-125, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge (*note room change*) Bruce Boghosian, Professor and Chair of Mathematics, Tufts University Abstract Turbulence is sometimes called the "last unsolved problem of classical mechanics." While it has long been understood that the details of turbulent flow are essentially unpredictable beyond a number of Lyapunov times, owing to the so-called "butterfly effect," there remains hope of a comprehensive statistical description of turbulence. Two developments in dynamical systems theory over the past 20 years provide solid foundation for that hope. The first is the observation, placed on firm foundation in the 1980s, that Navier-Stokes flow has a finite-dimensional attracting set of states. The second is the development of the dynamical zeta function formalism by Ruelle, and its deployment by Cvitanovic, Pollicott, Eckhardt, Yorke and others, enabling statistical descriptions of chaotic dynamical systems, given knowledge of their unstable periodic orbits (UPOs). For this reason, the efficient numerical computation of UPOs has gained great importance over the past decade, in both the dynamical systems and turbulence literature. Periodic orbits for high-dimensional state spaces are devilishly difficult to calculate, requiring high- performance computing and placing new demands on algorithms, accuracy and hardware. This talk will discuss some of these computational challenges and demonstrate the successful computation of UPOs of driven Navier-Stokes turbulence in two and three spatial dimensions. About the speaker Professor Boghosian is Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Tufts University. He additionally holds an adjunct professorship in Computer Science there. His research interests center on theoretical and computational fluid dynamics, with emphasis on variational principles for fluids, the problem of turbulence, the visualization of fluid flow, and scientific applications of high performance computing and grid computing. He has held visiting positions at the École Normale Supérieure, Peking University, University College London, the University of California, Berkeley and Davis, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. He has authored or coauthored more than 60 articles and given more than 130 invited talks. --------------- Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm. Mark your calendar for these upcoming IIC Colloquia: Wednesday, Apr. 14: Frank Baetke, High Performance Computing, Hewlett Packard Wednesday, Apr. 21: Pavlos Protopapas, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and IIC/SEAS 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: do you have this book?

by Alejandro Perdomo

Dear group, Please return this book to me if you have it or you have seen it by any chance. The due date is today! -A ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alejandro Perdomo <aleperd(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:26 PM Subject: do you have this book? To: Group <aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu> Dear group, I need to return this book A guide to Feynman diagrams in the many-body problem<http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/CA57AKG8P3R9V5U8F8PH9C9Q6YIHBU774R4EMF84975H9ICH…> by tomorrow:. Does anyone have it? I would appreciate if you get it back to me ASAP. 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 -- 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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