aspuru-list June 2010

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by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, I am going to buy all the supplies and refreshments for the workshop today. I will be at the lab around 2pm so if you're around, please help me unload the car. I'll call the big office phone before I arrive. Thx! Anna Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Ivan is 15 min late for group meeting

by Joel Yuen

Ivan is stuck in traffic and will be late 15 min for group meeting. So the appointment now is at 2:45 PM, room M217.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email June 10 - 24

by Center for the Environment

Calendar Listings: June 15, 2010 7:00pm - 8:00pm Book Reading and Discussion Harvard Bookstore 1256 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA "Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid & Beyond the American Dream" by William Powers. Please RSVP. http://www.williampowersbooks.com mail(a)williampowersbooks.com 212-481-5009 June 17, 2010 (All day) - June 20, 2010 (All day) Quantum Effects in Biological Systems Workshop Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Mb-23 Pfizer Lecture Hall 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA The 3 1⁄2 day workshop will focus on the discussion of non-trivial quantum phenomena in biological systems. The interdisciplinary nature of the program will bring together experts in chemical physics, biology, physics, and quantum information. http://quebs2010.wordpress.com/about/ Contact Name: Peg Tamiso aspuru-assistant(a)chemistry.harvard.edu June 17, 2010 6:30pm - 7:30pm Summer Nights at the Museum Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 "Exhibition Tour and Discussion: Treasures of the Mineral Gallery." Allison Gale, a graduate student in Harvard’s Earth & Planetary Sciences, will lead a tour through the historic gallery, and discuss how these specimens were collected, and what makes them so scientifically valuable. Free with museum admission. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/ hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu (617) 495-3045 7:30pm Summer Nights at the Museum Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA "Birdology: From Hens to Hummingbirds - and One Big Living Dinosaur." Lecture and booksigning with Sy Montgomery. hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu 617.495.3045 June 18, 2010 9:00am - 12:30pm Restructing Roundtable: Raising the Bar on Energy Efficiency in New England Foley Hoag LLP 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Fl. Conference Room Boston, MA New England continues to seek ways to accelerate and enhance energy efficiency in homes, businesses, and government buildings. Come and hear about the many new developments that have either been recently unveiled, or are in the works. http://www.raabassociates.org/main/roundtable.asp Contact Name: Susan Rivo susan(a)raabassociates.org 12:30pm - 3:00pm Boston Green Building Ribbon Cutting BBQ Boston Green Building Headquarters 218 Lincoln Street Allston, MA Barbecue and ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate Allston's first commercial Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Project. Free and open to the public. With dedication at 1:30pm by Bryan Glascock, Director of the Environment Department, City of Boston. Come learn more about solar energy. Q&A session hosted by NGE & Boston Green Building team. New Generation Energy (NGE) provides funding for a 3.8 KW rooftop solar PV (photo voltaic) array at the headquarters of Boston Green Building, Inc, located in Allston, MA. This project is the first commercial solar installation in the Boston neighborhood of Allston, MA, and only the third solar installation in this community overall. Contact Name: Kosta E. Alexis alexis(a)newgenerationenergy.org 617-624-3688 June 22, 2010 8:30am - 2:00pm Yardswap: A Summer Freecycle Science Center Overpass Lawn One Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Don’t trash your office and home leftovers, freecycle them! Both office supplies for Harvard re-use and items from home are welcome at this event. File folders, cabinets, printers/cartridges, books, movies, music, housewares, games, sports equipment, art supplies, clothes, etc., welcome. http://www.green.harvard.edu sustainability(a)harvard.edu --- Lecture videos from the Spring 2010 Future of Energy and Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change lectures are now available on our website!! Click on the sidebar of the HUCE events page: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar 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. [24]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 24. 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] Special group meeting next Wednesday

by Joel Yuen

Next week we have a seminar by *Yoav Lahini* Silberberg Group Weizmann Institute *Pfizer Hall, CCB 2 PM* *Abstract* Quantum walks describe the random walk behavior of a quantum particle, and are expected to lead to new applications in quantum information science. I will describe the implementation of a quantum walk for photons in waveguide lattices. I will then describe a study of the quantum correlations between two quantum walkers (photon pairs) in periodic lattices, in disordered lattices exhibiting Anderson localization, and in tilted lattices exhibiting Bloch Oscillations. Please fwd this information to anyone you might think is interested.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group meeting on Friday, 2:30 PM

by Joel Yuen

We resume our group meetings for this summer with Ivan presenting on Friday at 2:30 PM at the Division Room.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: New quantum limit for PV solar cell efficiency, etc.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, Scully's PRL is kind of a scoop or kind of an interesting idea as I can see. The other 3 links seem interesting to the group as well. 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: Charles Stromeyer <cfstrom(a)hotmail.com> Date: Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:59 AM Subject: New quantum limit for PV solar cell efficiency, etc. To: alan(a)aspuru.com, aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, bulovic(a)mit.edu, slloyd(a)mit.edu, ajhe(a)physics.ucsb.edu, gscholes(a)chem.utoronto.ca Hello, This new paper shows via quantum coherence that there is a quantum limit for PV solar cell efficiency which is higher than the classical limit: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v104/i20/e207701 Also, here is a news story about the discovery that a top layer of vertical optical fiber bristles can double the power efficiency of polymer PV solar cells: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/25288/ Further, it might be possible to harness plasmonic effects to make polymer PV cells more efficient: http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nphoton.2010.121.ht… Best, Charles Stromeyer Jr. cstromeyer(a)post.harvard.edu ------------------------------ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Get started.<http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:…>

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [Hptc-users-list] Summer workshop series

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group, cc. Anna. 5 and 6, (amongst others) might be useful to you. 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: FAS research computing users group < hptc-users-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:24 AM Subject: [Hptc-users-list] Summer workshop series To: FAS research computing users group < hptc-users-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu> Dear Research Computing Users, We are very happy to announce a series of workshops over the summer. This series is being presented jointly by the SEAS Instructional and Research Computing, FAS Sciences Division Research Computing and departmental affiliates. All the workshops are going to be held at the room number B09 in the basement of Science Center. The first workshop will be on June 16th 10am. Subsequent workshops will be held every Wednesday following the 16th. 1) Basic Guide to Unix and the Command Line Interface Date: Wednesday, Jun 16, 2010 Time: 10 AM - 12:30 PM Location: Science Center Room B-09 Sign-up: <http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k60502> Instructor: Anne Marie-Countie <http://zenkaku.huh.harvard.edu/people/index.php?personid=167&area=Info%20te chnology> This workshop will introduce how to use Unix-style operating systems and command line programs. It will cover managing files and directories, running processes, basic shell programming, etc. Most of the material will apply to all Unix variants, including GNU/Linux as used on the Odyssey cluster and Mac OS X. 2) Basic Guide to the SDRC HPC Resources Date: Wednesday, Jun 16, 2010 Time: 1 PM - 4 PM Location: Science Center Room B-09 Sign-up: Please sign-up here <http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k60502> Instructor: John Brunelle <http://rc.fas.harvard.edu/about/leadership/staff#john> This workshop will introduce the tools used to interact with the Odyssey cluster. It will cover the basic aspects of a typical workflow: connecting to the cluster, transferring files, setting up your environment to use the software of your choice, submitting jobs to the batch system, etc. We will suggest best practices for getting the most out of the cluster and for writing help tickets when difficulties arise. This assumes basic knowledge of running programs from the command line in a GNU/Linux environment. 3) R, Matlab, Mathematica on FAS HPC Resources Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM Location: Science Center Room B-09 Sign-up: <http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k60504> Instructor: Steve Finch Topics include programming, functions, graphs, symbolics & numerics, data analysis and simulations. No background in scientific or statistical computing is assumed. R, Matlab & Mathematica will each be thoroughly introduced on lab PCs; batch jobs on the Odyssey cluster will be demonstrated briefly as well. 4) Debugging and Profiling Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Time: 10 AM - 12:30 PM Location: Science Center Room B-09 Sign-up: Please email ircshelp(a)seas.harvard.edu Instructor: Seppo Sahrakorpi <http://ircs.seas.harvard.edu/USERDOCS/IRCS+Bios> In this workshop we will focus on debugging serial and parallel programs using TotalView parallel debugger. The topics will cover e.g. preparation of your code for debugging, executing your code under the debugger's control, variable queries, data visualization, MPI message debugging, heap memory management, and data manipulation. In the second part we will focus on profiling the execution time of a sample code using Sun Studio Profiler. For more information, and workshop slides, please see here: <http://ircs.seas.harvard.edu/USERDOCS/IRCS+Workshops> 5) Introduction to SQL databases and Structured Query Language (SQL) Date: Wednesday, Jul 7, 2010 Time: 1 PM - 4 PM Location: Science Center Room B-09 Sign-up: Please email rchelp(a)fas.harvard.edu Instructor: Brendan Haley <http://rc.fas.harvard.edu/about/leadership/staff#brendan> This workshop will introduce attendees to SQL databases, and basic database design and normalization, as well as provide an introduction to Structured Query Language, with a focus on data retrieval, analysis and reporting. This workshop will be relevant to relational database systems such as Oracle, MySQL and PostGRES. Desktop database applications such as Filemaker and Microsoft Access will NOT be covered. It is assumed that participants have no previous database experience. 6) Introduction to Scientific Computing with Python Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Time: 1 - 3:30 PM Location: Science Center Room B-09 Sign-up: <http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70678> Instructors: John Brunelle <http://rc.fas.harvard.edu/about/leadership/staff#john> , Raman Prasad <http://rc.fas.harvard.edu/about/leadership/staff#raman> SciPy, NumPy, and matplotlib are popular tools for doing scientific computing in Python. This workshop will introduce these tools, plus other uses of Python in a high performance cluster environment, such as shared memory parallelism with the multiprocessing module and distributed memory parallelism with MPI (mpi4py). Attendees should have a basic knowledge of computer programming and the Python language. 7) Introduction to Perl and Bioperl Wednesday, July 21, 10 am to 4 pm Science Center Room B-09 Signup: Please email rchelp(a)fas.harvard.edu Instructor: Amir Karger <http://rc.fas.harvard.edu/about/leadership/staff> This workshop gives an overview of Perl, with a quick introduction to Bioperl. Participants will learn to read and modify Perl scripts, as well as write small scripts of their own. Special focus is given to reading, filtering, and reformatting scientific data. Because the workshop lasts only one day, we do not have time to introduce the basic concepts of programming, such as loops, conditions, and variables. Anyone who has programmed even a small amount in any programming language should be comfortable, but others are encouraged to take a more extensive class. 8) Next Generation Sequencing and Microarray analysis Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Time: 10-12:30PM, 1PM- 4 PM Location: Science Center Room B-09 Sign-up: <https://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k60505> Instructor: Jiangwen Zhang <http://rc.fas.harvard.edu/about/leadership/staff#jiangwen> This workshop will introduce various applications useful in analyzing high throughput sequence datasets from Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). Learn what to know before starting NGS project, and how to efficiently and correctly process large datasets from high throughput sequencing like Solexa in a statistical framework.This workshop will also introduce general programming skills for the statistical programming language R, and application of Bioconductor packages in microarray computation. Computation workflow for microarray study, such as Affymetrix, Agilent, and custom array, will also be covered as well as related statistical considerations. We look forward to your participation in these workshops. Please do not hesitate to contact rchelp(a)fas.harvard.edu with questions about this or other research computing matters. Thank you. Sciences Division Research Computing _______________________________________________ Hptc-users-list mailing list Hptc-users-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/hptc-users-list

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Kick-Off Viewing Party For FIFA World Cup Soccer

by Dmitrij Rappoport

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group meeting cancelled today

by Joel Yuen

Group meeting by Yoav Lahini is postponed until further notice.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group meeting today canceled

by Ivan Kassal

Dear group, Yoav says he'll give us the group meeting some other time, maybe early next week. Ivan

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