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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Application Available for Aspen Programs

by Semion Saikin

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jane Kelly <jane(a)aspenphys.org> Date: Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:22 AM Subject: Application Available for Aspen Programs To: saykin(a)fas.harvard.edu Dear Physicist, The 2011 winter and summer applications are available on our web site. Information on all conferences and workshops can be also be found on our web site. If you are interested in attending a winter conference or our summer program, please go to the address below and apply before the stated deadlines. The winter conference application deadline varies per conference, and the deadline to apply for our summer program is January 31, 2011. As the instructions state, your email address that this message was sent to is your user name. If you have forgotten your password, please email me, and I will send it to you. I will be back in the office on September 27th. I hope to see you sometime in 2011. Best regards, Jane Jane Kelly Administrative Vice President Aspen Center for Physics www.aspenphys.org -- ******************************************** 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: Of interest

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

FYI, He is the inventor of the C programming language. 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: Helen Schwickrath <schwickrath(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Date: Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:18 AM Subject: Of interest To: helen(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Brian Kernighan of Princeton University will give a talk entitled "The Changing Face of Programming" Thursday, September 23, 2010 4:00 p.m. Maxwell Dworkin G-125 Ice cream at 3:30 p.m., MD 2nd floor lounge --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * *"The Changing Face of Programming" The rapid evolution of languages, tools, environments and expectations presents major challenges and opportunities for programmers and for software engineering education. This is true across all kinds of programming, but is especially so for Web systems, which are now routinely written in untyped scripting languages and include Ajax, mashups, toolkits, frameworks like Rails and Django, and a profusion of interfaces, all operating asynchronously on distributed systems. The growing popularity of phone applications has not made life easier for programmers or instructors. For the past ten years I have been teaching a course on advanced programming techniques that is more and more stretched between important old material and new unproven material that might be important. In this talk I will illustrate some of the challenges and discuss ways in which we might use complexity and rapid change to advantage. Host: Michael Mitzenmacher Brian Kernighan received a BASc from the University of Toronto in 1964 and a PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1969. He was in the Computing Science Research center at Bell Labs until 2000, and is now in the Computer Science Department at Princeton. His research areas include programming languages, tools and interfaces that make computers easier to use, often for non-specialist users. He is also interested in technology education for non-technical audiences.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] The First Graduate Student Congress on Experimental and Theoretical Quantum Information and Computation in Singapore - Second Announcement

by AQuA Congress 2010

Dear all, We are pleased to inform you that the registration for the first Graduate Student Congress on Quantum Information and Computation in Singapore is now open. You may find the links to registration and abstract submission at http://aqua.quantumlah.org/student_congress/. Please kindly note the following dates *Registration deadline:* 15th October. *Submission deadline for talk abstracts:* 15th October. *Notifications of acceptance:* 2nd November. We look forward to your participation. Best Regards, Bess Fang (CQT) on behalf of the organizing committee AQuA Congress 2010 _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Unofficial minutes: September 21, 2010

by Andrew Lutomirski

There was a paper by Oded Regev giving a better separation between quantum and classical communication: http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3640 H. T. Ng and Franco Nori have a new factoring algorithm. Unfortunately, it only works with exponentially small probability. 1007.4338 Beni told us about self-correcting codes. I think it's related to http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4601 --Andy _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Reminder: TODAY at 5:30 pm - The Future of Energy with Steven Koonin

by Center for the Environment

Finding secure, safe and reliable sources of energy to power world economic growth will be one of the great challenges of this century. The Harvard University Center for the Environment invites the Harvard community to take up the challenge by participating in this ongoing series of discussions. THE FUTURE OF ENERGY Fall 2010 Steven E. Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, US Department of Energy "Energy Innovation at Scale" TODAY 5:30 pm Harvard University Science Center, Lecture Hall D One Oxford Street, Cambridge The Under Secretary for Science plays a key role in defining and enabling science programs that knit the US Department of Energy together and lead to significant energy and security research efforts. In this role, Under Secretary Steven E. Koonin acts as the Department’s chief research officer, identifying synergies and gaps in research programs, looking after the health of National Laboratory activities, and ensuring that sound science and technology underpin everything the Department does. In addition, Dr. William F. Brinkman, Director of the Office of Science, reports to Under Secretary Koonin. Together they set Science’s strategic direction, help resolve the more difficult operational problems, and ensure its connectivity within and outside the Department. The Office of the Under Secretary for Science was created by Congress in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Dr. Koonin's research interests have included nuclear astrophysics; theoretical nuclear, computational, and many-body physics; and global environmental science. He has been involved in scientific computing throughout his career and is a strong advocate for research into renewable energies and alternate fuel sources. His academic research (Caltech) in computational and nuclear physics has impacted the direction of science both nationally and internationally. He has supervised more than 25 PhD students, produced more than 200 peer-reviewed research publications, and authored or edited 3 books, including a pioneering textbook on Computational Physics in 1985. For more information on Dr. Koonin, please visit: http://www.energy.gov/organization/dr_steven_koonin.htm The Future of Energy lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. All of the lectures are free and open to the public. View detailed lecture information at www.environment.harvard.edu. Contact: Brenda Hugot Program Administrator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu p. 617-496-1788 f. 617-496-0425 *|LIST:Future of Energy|* [5]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 5. 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. [6]Forward this email to a friend Links: 6. http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=207…

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] eMails to jh@chemistry.harvard.edu

by Johannes Hachmann

Dear colleague and friend, Unfortunately, Harvard IT has managed to lose all eMails which were sent to me since last Friday on my jh(a)chemistry.harvard.edu account. If you have tried to get in touch with me during this time, please resend you eMail. Please ignore this eMail otherwise. I am very sorry if you have been waiting for a reply from me and for any other inconveniences. Best wishes Johannes ----------------------------------------------- Dr. Johannes Hachmann Postdoctoral Fellow Aspuru-Guzik Research Group Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford St, Rm M104A Cambridge, MA 02138 USA eMail: jh(a)chemistry.harvard.edu -----------------------------------------------

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] My thesis on group wiki

by Ivan Kassal

Dear group, I put the TeX source for my thesis on the group wiki, in case it helps those of you who'll be writing up soon. It includes a rather large and reasonably proofread BibTeX file as well. Ivan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Tuesday September 21

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We will meet on Tuesday at 11 in 6-310. Beyond the usual deprecating discussion about papers nobody has read, we will hear from Beni about what he is up to. Best, Eddie ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 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] 11:30 AM Group meeting by Sule tomorrow

by Joel Yuen

Hi all, Sule is up for group meeting tomorrow Friday, September 17 at 11:30 AM at the Division Room. Tomorrow I'll send a doodle poll to see if we can find a better time for everyone to come. In the mean time, 11:30 is still the meeting time. -- 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] FAS / IRIS migration

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, It has come to my attention that one of our group members was not receiving his mail from @chemistry address, for about a week now. If you have a CCB (@chemistry) or Physics (@physics) email (N/A for SEAS), and have not received any emails to that address in the last week, please contact iris(a)fas.harvard.edu immediately. You can copy Joe Lavin at lavin(a)chemistry.harvard.edu and me/Alan to keep us in the loop. Any of you with a departmental email address will have their mail forwarded to their FAS email account as now mandated by FAS IT. Thanks, 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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