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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email September 16 - 30

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: September 21: Dr. Steven Koonin, the Under Secretary for Science, US Department of Energy, presents "Energy Innovation at Scale" in the first HUCE Future of Energy lecture of the Fall semester. September 29: At the Environmental Economics Seminar, Martin Weitzman, Professor of Economics, discusses "Green-House-Gas Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages." September 30 - October 1: The Frontiers of Renewable Energy Sciences and Technologies Workshop (F.O.R.E.S.T) seeks to explore scientific frontiers in pure and applied sciences and device engineering in areas potentially connected to energy technologies. Calendar Listings: September 17, 2010 8:45am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Lynn Bry, Harvard Medical School. "Time series analyses of the flora during enteric infections." http://www.msi.harvard.edu/ MSI-NEWS(a)LISTSERV.MED.HARVARD.EDU 9:00am - 12:30pm New England Restructuring Roundtable: "Renewable Energy's Future in New England" http://www.raabassociates.org/main/roundtable.asp raab(a)raabassociates.org 617-350-5544 Foley Hoag LLP 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor Boston, MA 02210 The first Fall Roundtable of 2010 focuses on renewable energy's future in New England. September 20, 2010 10:00am - 12:30pm Sawyer Seminar Series on Energy Transitions and Society Room 424 School of Management building (595 Commonwealth Avenue) Boston University Boston, MA "An Overview of Energy Transitions.” http://www.bu.edu/pardee/research/sawyer-energy-transitions/ pardee(a)bu.edu 11:45am - 12:45pm 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 12:00pm MCZ Lunchtime Seminar MCZ 101 Seminar Room 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA Ian Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, MCZ, Losos Lab. "Landscape Genetics and Phenotypic Evolution in Amphibians (and Reptiles)" Contact Name: Catherine Weisel cweisel(a)oeb.harvard.edu (617) 495-2460 12:00pm - 1:30pm Energy Policy Distinguished Speaker Lunch Nye ABC, 5th Floor, Taubman Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA "Europe’s View on International Climate Policy." Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action. Trudi_Bostian(a)hks.harvard.edu 4:00pm EPS Colloquium Haller Hall, Geo-Museum 102 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Karen Casciotti, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. "Oxygen isotopic fractionation and exchange during bacterial nitrification." Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo scappo(a)fas.harvard.edu September 21, 2010 12:30pm - 2:00pm U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar Bowie-Vernon Room (K262) CGIS Knafel Building 1737 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA Charles K. Ebinger. Director, Energy Security Initiative, and the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution. Contact Name: Shinju Fujihira, Ph.D. sfujihira(a)wcfia.harvard.edu 617-495-1890 2:30pm - 4:00pm ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA John Lassiter, Harvard Business School. “Building Green Businesses: Issues in Entrepreneurial Finance.” Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu 3:00pm - 4:30pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the ClimaTea website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html Contact Name: Sierra Petersen speters(a)fas.harvard.edu 5:30pm The Future of Energy Harvard University Science Center D One Oxford St, Cambridge, MA Dr. Steven Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, US Department of Energy. "Energy Innovation at Scale" http://www.energy.gov/organization/dr_steven_koonin.htm Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 September 22, 2010 11:00am OEB Weekly Seminar BioLabs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Kenneth Catania, Vanderbilt University. "Stars, Whiskers, and Tentacles - Sensory Specializations and Behaviors in Some Rare Predators" http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy House Spindell Room Harvard University Cambridge, MA The best way to get involved with the EAC is to attend the general meetings. Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ Contact Name: Jackson Salovaara jsalov(a)fas.harvard.edu September 23, 2010 11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 310 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 12:00pm Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 100F 29 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA Emily Fischer, University of Washington. "Importing ozone precursors and aerosols to the North American free troposphere: An analysis of peroxyacetyl nitrate(PAN) and aerosol observations from Mount Bachelor.” http://www.as.harvard.edu/seminar.html September 24, 2010 8:45am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast Haller Hall, Room 102 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA Welkin Johnson, Harvard Medical School. "Evolution of genes at the retrovirus-host interface." http://www.msi.harvard.edu/ September 27, 2010 11:45am - 12:45pm 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 September 28, 2010 3:00pm - 4:30pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Climatea website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html Contact Name: Sierra Petersen speters(a)fas.harvard.edu September 29, 2010 4:10pm - 5:30pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Harvard Kennedy School Room L-382 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA Martin Weitzman, Harvard University. “GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages.” Contact Name: Jason Chapman 617-495-8054 6:00pm HMNH Lecture and Panel Discussion Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "Persuasion in a Climate of Uncertainty.” Panel discussion with Sheila Jasanoff, James J. McCarthy, and Bruce Gellerman. Moderated by Allan Brandt. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy House Spindell Room Harvard University Cambridge, MA Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ Contact Name: Jackson Salovaara jsalov(a)fas.harvard.edu September 30 - October 1, 2010 Frontiers of Renewable Energy Sciences and Technologies Workshop (F.O.R.E.S.T.) Harvard Faculty Club The F.O.R.E.S.T workshop seeks to explore scientific frontiers in pure and applied sciences and device engineering in areas potentially connected to energy technologies. http://www.energy.harvard.edu/events/forest Contact Name: Brenda Hugot bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-496-1788 September 30, 2010 11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 310 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 Cambridge, MA Daniel H. Janzen, Ph. D., Thomas G. and Louise E. DiMaura Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Pennsylvania. "Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica: Conservation through Intersection of Agendas." 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. [65]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 65. 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] Emergency Contact Form

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Fill this out and return to me via email, by end of month please. 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Ivan's defense TOMORROW

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Just a reminder that Ivan's thesis defense is tomorrow (Thu) at 1:30pm in the Division Room. If you can make it, please be on time. We will also have cake to celebrate post-defense. 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Postdoc announcement

by Aspuru

Alan Aspuru-Guzik Associate Professor Harvard University http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu Sent from my mobile. Please pardon any typos. Begin forwarded message: > From: Oleg Prezhdo <prezhdo(a)chem.rochester.edu> > Date: September 14, 2010 8:11:34 PM EDT > To: <prezhdo(a)chrm.rochester.edu> > Subject: Postdoc announcement > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > Several postdoctoral positions are immediately available my group. The research topics include > > (A) Excited State Dynamics in Nanoscale Materials. > Time-domain, atomistic simulation of excitation and electron transfer, electron-phonon relaxation, spin dynamics and related processes on nanoscale, including molecule-bulk interfaces, semiconducting and metallic quantum dots, carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons, as motivated by photovoltaics, molecular electronics, spintronics, ultrafast spectroscopies, DNA sequencing, laser therapies, etc. > > (B) Non-Adiabatic Molecular Dynamics and Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory. > Development and implementation of NAMD and TDDFT algorithms with the aim at the applications described in (A). Fundamental aspects of semiclassical physics, coupling of quantum and classical (or semiclassical) dynamics, system-bath interactions. > > (C) Forces in Biology. > Phenomenological modeling and molecular dynamics simulation of force-induced processes in biology as studied by atomic-force microscopy, optical tweezers and related experiments. Biological catch-bond. > > Please, ask interested candidates to submit their CVs, including a list of references to oleg.prezhdo(a)rochester.edu > > 1. O. V. Prezhdo “Photoinduced dynamics in semiconductor quantum dots: insights from time-domain ab initio studies”, Acc. Chem. Res., 42, 2005 (2009). > 2. O. V. Prezhdo, Y. V. Pereverzev, “Theoretical aspects of the biological catch-bond”, Acc. Chem. Res., 42, 693 (2009). > 3. O. V. Prezhdo, W. R. Duncan, V. V. Prezhdo, “Dynamics of the photoexcited electron at the chromophore-semiconductor interface”, Acc. Chem. Res., 41, 339 (2008). > 4. O. V. Prezhdo, “Quantized Hamilton dynamics”, Theor. Chem. Acc., vol. "New Perspectives in Theoretical Chemistry", 116, 206 (2006). > 5. C. F. Craig, W. R. Duncan, O. V. Prezhdo “Trajectory surface hopping in the time-dependent Kohn-Sham theory for electron-nuclear dynamics”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 95 163001 (2005). > 6. Y. V. Pereverzev, O. V. Prezhdo, L. R. Dalton, “Macroscopic order and electro-optic response of dipolar chromophore-polymer materials”, ChemPhysChem, 5 1821 (2004). > > _______________________________________________ > > Oleg Prezhdo, Professor > Senior Editor, Journal of Physical Chemistry > Fellow of the American Physical Society > > Department of Chemistry > University of Rochester > Rochester, NY 14627-0216 > > Email: oleg.prezhdo(a)rochester.edu > Tel: 206/354-5341 > _______________________________________________ > > > >

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Add me.

by John Parkhill

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Yet another change to the group meeting schedule

by Joel Yuen

It turns out that the previous email forgot about some people that were not in the mailing list at the time, and as usual, now there are some schedule conflicts, demonstrating the NP completeness of the scheduling problem itself. I'm willing to create a doodle poll but I assume it will be easier to be dictatorial at this point, at least as a first trial. After looking at the schedules of seminars and people who take classes, it seems that the best time for group meeting is... *Early bird group meeting time* *Fridays at 10 AM (!!!)* ** Please reply ASAP (before tomorrow 12 pm) if you have a conflict with this 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] Sandwiches & dessert

by Patrick Rebentrost

Dear Group, there are sandwiches and dessert in the kitchen! Cheers, Patrick

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Volunteers needed - Undergradute Research Fair

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, I need 2-3 volunteers to present a poster at the undergraduate research fair in October. Please contact me ASAP. If there are no volunteers by tomorrow, I will use the "arbitrary advisor" method and pick 2 or 3 of you to do this P-) 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Georgi, Ann <ageorgi(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:42 PM Subject: Reminder - Undergradute Research Fair To: "Aspuru-Guzik, Alan" <aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Dear Alán, Last month Rob Lue and I wrote to you about the Undergraduate Research Fair on October 14 from 2-5 pm at the Queen’s Head Pub on the Cambridge campus. The purpose of this fair is to provide undergraduates (especially freshmen and sophomores) with information about the range of research opportunities available to them at Harvard and give them a chance to meet people from a variety of labs. All faculty engaged in life sciences research at Harvard are invited to join us in an afternoon poster session and we also strongly encourage participation by post-docs and graduate students from your lab. Your group may present posters that have been prepared for other purposes, but we recommend making a more general poster that would provide information on several of the ongoing projects in your laboratory. We hope that you will view this as a great opportunity for your lab group to meet and possibly recruit new students. If you or members of your lab are planning to present a poster, please contact me by *October 1* so that we can make sure that we have enough room and easels for all. We are planning to compile an abstract book so we would appreciate a three or four sentence description of your lab’s work. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I look forward to seeing many of you there. Sincerely, Ann Georgi

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: open positions

by Semion Saikin

On business matters, below is an announcement for some jobs at our place. If you know anyone who might be interested, please could you forward them the link. Thanks, clive %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% We currently have two open positions in our research group, suitable either for a talented PhD-student or a PostDoc. The topics are (1) the time-dependent tracing of eigenvalues of large time-dependent Hamiltonians, and (2) the application and extension of concepts relating to coherent population trapping, dark-states, and STIRAP to new physical systems. More details can be found at our website: http://www.itp.tu-berlin.de/brandes/ag_brandes/open_positions/ -- ************************************************** Dr Clive Emary TU Berlin, Sekr. PN 7-1 Institut für Theoretische Physik Hardenbergstr. 36 D-10623 BERLIN-Charlottenburg Deutschland WEB: http://wwwitp.physik.tu-berlin.de/cemary/ EMAIL: cemary(a)itp.tu-berlin.de PHONE: +49 30 314 22741 **************************************************

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Postdoctoral position

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

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: Mark Byrd <mbyrd(a)siu.edu> Date: Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:22 AM Subject: Postdoctoral position To: caves(a)info.phys.unm.edu, v.vedral(a)leeds.ac.uk, sougato.bose(a)googlemail.com, ltian(a)ucmerced.edu, alandahl(a)unm.edu, ideutsch(a)unm.edu, m.plenio(a)imperial.ac.uk, alan(a)aspuru.com, david.vitali(a)unicam.it, whaley(a)berkeley.edu, michel.devoret(a)yale.edu, hrabitz(a)princeton.edu, Alexander.J.Rimberg(a)dartmouth.edu, steinberg(a)physics.utoronto.ca, sipe(a)physics.utoronto.ca, jtwamley(a)science.mq.edu.au, sbarrett(a)science.mq.edu.au, doherty(a)physics.uq.edu.au, milburn(a)physics.uq.edu.au, h.wiseman(a)griffith.edu.au, moelmer(a)phys.au.dk, mn(a)michaelnielsen.org, farhi(a)mit.edu, rspekkens(a)perimeterinstitute.ca, robin(a)blumekohout.com, dgottesman(a)perimeterinstitute.ca, A.P.A.Kent(a)damtp.cam.ac.uk, ralph(a)physics.uq.edu.au, m.j.everitt(a)physics.org, Nicolas.Gisin(a)unige.ch, gaitan(a)physics.siu.edu, Gavin Brennen <gbrennen(a)ics.mq.edu.au>, mwilde(a)gmail.com, klappi(a)cs.tamu.edu, mroetteler(a)nec-labs.com, sgs29(a)cam.ac.uk, preskill(a)theory.caltech.edu Hi, I wanted to let you know about an opening for a postdoctoral position. I anticipate having an opening for a postdoctoral position within the next two or three months and would like someone to start as soon as possible. The position is for one year, possibly renewable, to work on problems concerning quantum error prevention methods. The applicant should have some knowledge of quantum error correcting codes and fault-tolerant quantum computing. Knowledge of other error prevention methods, such as dynamical decoupling controls and decoherence-free subspaces would be beneficial. The starting salary is approximately $45,000 per year. This is a very good salary considering that in our location the cost of living is quite low. Anyone interested should send a CV and names of three references. Email recommendations letters should be sent from the references. If you know anyone who would be interested, please forward this email to them or post as you like. Thank you, -- Mark S. Byrd Associate Professor Department of Physics Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois 62901 618-453-2271

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