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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Harvard Sust Science Fellowship for doctoral, post-doc and mid-career fellows: applications due Dec 1

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Hello: This might be of interest to someone. In any case, please pass it along to anyone you think might be interested. Roberto *Fellowships in Sustainability Science* Harvard University's Center for International Development Due date for applications: December 1, 2010 The Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University's Center for International Development invites applications for resident fellowships in sustainability science for the University's academic year beginning in September 2011. The fellowship competition is open to advanced doctoral and post-doctoral students, and to mid-career professionals engaged in research or practice to facilitate the design, implementation, and evaluation of effective interventions that promote sustainable development. Applicants should describe how their work would contribute to "sustainability science," the emerging field of use-inspired research seeking understanding of the interactions between human and environmental systems as well as the application of such knowledge to sustainability challenges relating to advancing development of agriculture, habitation, energy and materials, health and water while conserving the earth's life support systems. This year we will give some preference to applicants whose work addresses challenges of innovation for sustainable development, with special attention to innovation in the energy, health and agricultural sectors. In addition to general funds available to support this fellowship offering, special funding for the Giorgio Ruffolo Fellowships in Sustainability Science is available to support citizens of Italy or developing countries who are therefore especially encouraged to apply. The Sustainability Science Program is directed by Professors William Clark and Michael Kremer, and Nancy Dickson. For more information on the fellowships application process see http://www.cid.harvard.edu/sustsci/fellowship. Applications are due December 1, 2010. Nancy Dickson Co-Director, Sustainability Science Program Senior Researcher, Kennedy School of Government Harvard University 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Tel +1-617-496-9469; Email nancy_dickson(a)harvard.edu http://www.cid.harvard.edu/sustsci -- Roberto Olivares-Amaya Giorgio Ruffolo Sustainability Science Fellow Aspuru-Guzik Group Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Lene Hau seminar.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, Please make all your best effort to show up at Lene Hau's seminar today at 4 Best, Alan Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Associate 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] Group meeting by Sangwoo tomorrow

by Joel Yuen

Sangwoo is up for group meeting on Friday (*Oct 1 at 11:30 AM, Division Room *) Here's his abstract: *Evaluation of anharmonic correction to both of the zero point energy and the ground state vibrational* *wavefunction using fixed-sample optimization with quantum Monte Carlo trial wavefunction is presented.* *Compared to other anharmonic vibrational correction methods like vibrational self-consistent field (VSCF)* *or vibrational perturbation theory (VPT), vibrational quantum Monte Carlo method requires less number of* *single point evaluation and scale better as the dimension of normal mode increases. The trial function can* *be also generalized to incorporate second-order correlation between vibrational degrees of freedom.* -- Joel Yuen-Zhou PhD student in Chemical Physics Harvard University CCB, 12 Oxford St. Mailbox 107, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Open house -- SLIDES

by Mark A. Watson

Hi Everyone, As you know, it's the Open House tomorrow and Alan will be giving a brief talk about the Group's activities. So, if you'd like to have your work featured in his talk, then it would be really awesome if you could send him a slide or two summarizing your stuff. Since his schedule is completely packed today and tmrw, any contribution would really help him to prepare -- and having just talked with, him I know he'd appreciate it! Thanks guys! Best, Mark

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [theochem-announce] Professor Dmitrii Makarov Lecture today

by bellucci＠bu.edu

Today Professor Dmitrii Makarov (www.cm.utexas.edu/dmitrii_makarov) will be giving our first GBA Theoretical Chemistry Lecture of the semester at MIT (Building 56, room 154) at 4:00pm. His talks is entitled: Dynamics Of Biomolecules At The Single-Molecule Level: Lessons From Theory And Computer Simulations. For more information about the talk, go to people.bu.edu/theochem. _______________________________________________ theochem-announce mailing list theochem-announce(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/theochem-announce

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: LHP 2011 "Light-Harvesting Processes" Conference, Kloster Banz, April 10-14, 2011

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Of possible interest, Alan Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Associate 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: <lhp(a)uni-bayreuth.de> Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:48 AM Subject: LHP 2011 "Light-Harvesting Processes" Conference, Kloster Banz, April 10-14, 2011 To: Aartsma Thijs <aartsma(a)physics.leidenuniv.nl>, Adams Peter < mbp07pga(a)shef.ac.uk>, adolphs.j(a)gmx.de, aida(a)macro.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp, miaalex(a)few.vu.nl, omar.al-khatib(a)physik.hu-berlin.de, jan.alster(a)mff.cuni.cz, Amarie Sergiu <amarie(a)theochem.uni-frankfurt.de>, Aspuru-Guzik Alan <aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>, Balaban Teodor Silviu < silviu.balaban(a)int.fzk.de>, Basché Thomas <thomas.basche(a)uni-mainz.de>, Betke Alexander <abetke(a)uni-potsdam.de>, "Blankenship Robert E." < blankenship(a)wustl.edu>, Braun Paula <paula.braun(a)lrz.uni-muenchen.de>, Brecht Marc <brecht(a)hydrogenase.de>, t.brotosudarmo.1(a)research.gla.ac.uk, Chabera Pavel <chabera(a)greentech.cz>, Chandler Danielle < dechandl(a)ks.uiuc.edu>, Chen Min <minchen(a)bio.usyd.edu.au>, R.Cogdell(a)bio.gla.ac.uk, Cohen-Ofri Ilit <ilit.cohen-ofri(a)weizmann.ac.il>, Curutchet Charles <ccurutch(a)chem.utoronto.ca>, Da Como Enrico < enrico.dacomo(a)physik.uni-muenchen.de>, Datta Animesh <a.datta(a)imperial.ac.uk>, DeGroot Huub <h.groot(a)chem.leidenuniv.nl>, felix.deschler(a)gmx.de, Dettenwanger Franz <dettenwanger(a)volkswagenstiftung.de>, D'Haene Sandrine < sandrine(a)few.vu.nl>, "Diehl Florian P." <diehlf(a)uni-mainz.de> Dear colleague, due to problems with our mailserver, you will receive the e-mail and the flyer for the conference "LHP 2011" today again. We apologize for the inconvenience. With best regards Juergen Koehler Conference"Light-Harvesting Processes 2011" Prof. Dr. Juergen Koehler Lehrstuhl fuer Experimentalphysik IV Universitaet Bayreuth 95440 Bayreuth Tel. 0921/55-4000 Fax 0921/55-4002 E-mail: lhp(a)uni-bayreuth.de Dear Colleague, on behalf of the Organizing Committee of the interdisciplinary conference "Light Harvesting Processes LHP2011" from April 10 -14, 2011 at Kloster Banz, Germany we are pleased to inform you that we have been able to create additional funding. Therefore the conference fee could be lowered substantially. Please find the new conditions on our conference homepage www.lhp-bayreuth.de Additionally we are pleased to offer for a limited number of young scientists, who will actively take part in the conference with an own contribution, participation with less then half of the regular conference fee. If we receive more applications from young scientists than is covered by our budget a lot decision will be taken. Please feel free to pass this information to colleagues that might be interested in this topic. Enclosed please find the new conference flyer. Sincerely Jürgen Köhler Enclosure

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] TODAY at MIT Theochem Seminar by Prof. Makarov at 4 PM

by Joel Yuen

MIT, 56-154 Details in this link> http://people.bu.edu/theochem/schedule.html -- Joel Yuen-Zhou PhD student in Chemical Physics Harvard University CCB, 12 Oxford St. Mailbox 107, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fw: postdoc announcement

by Anna B. Shin

FYI by way of Sergio. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Boixo Sergio <boixo(a)caltech.edu> Sender: Sergio Boixo <sboixo(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:48:03 To: Anna Shin<anna(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Subject: postdoc announcement Hi Anna, In case anyone is interested, they are offering a postdoc position in Madrid. Regards, Sergio

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Unofficial minutes: December 1, 2009

by Andrew Lutomirski

Interesting papers this week: http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5104 -- Scott Aaronson on sampling http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1750 -- Revisions to position-based crypto. Sarah Mostame told us about adiabatic QC and phase transitions. Scott told us about sampling, briefly. The really big question is: does BPP = BQP. We might also ask: Does SampBPP = SampBQP? (These are problems where we try to sample some distribution with some error.) SampBPP = SampBQP implies both BPP = BQP and FBPP = FBQP. An older paper gave evidence that SampBPP != SampBQP. It would be nice to have a similar argument for FBPP != FBQP. Scott proved a Sampling/Searching Equivalence Theorem: Let S be a sampling problem, where the goal is to sample D_x for input x. Then we can define a search problem R_S that's "equivalent" to S in the sense that, for any reasonable complexity class C, S in SampC iff R_S in FC. First suppose that D_x is close to the uniform distribution of A. Then the search problem is to find T strings in A such that the combined Kolmogorov complexity of the x_1 .. x_T is almost T log_2 |T|. You can then replace Kolmogorov complexity with something that's a little less undecidable. _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Marvinsketch license

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, Does anybody have the Marvin academic license file at hand? If so, and you read this in the next hour, let me know :) I can't find mine. Thaniks! Alan Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Associate 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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