aspuru-list September 2010

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by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We will meet this coming Tuesday at 11:00 in 6-310 for our usual meeting! See you there. 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] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email September 9 - 23

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: September 15: Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Australian National University, suggests practices for funding climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing countries in the Frontiers in Sustainable Development and Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements Speaker Series. September 20: Connie Hedegaard, the European Commissioner for Climate Action, presents "Europe’s View on International Climate Policy” at the Energy Policy Distinguished Speaker Lunch. September 21: The Future of Energy is here! Dr. Steven Koonin, the Under Secretary for Science, US Department of Energy, discusses “Energy Innovation at Scale.” Calendar Listings: September 9, 2010 6:00pm MSI Thursday Seminar Center for the Environment Seminar Room (Rm 310) 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Tanja Bosak, MIT. “Life between the Snowballs” http://www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html September 13, 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 12:00pm - 2:30pm CCS: A transitional solution for the climate and energy challenge? Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor Cambridge, MA Large-scale, clean energy solutions must be deployed to meet increasing energy demand and reduce pollution. Carbon capture and storage, a transitional solution for the climate and energy challenge, is the key to a secure energy future.Remarks by Chris Henderson, Deputy Consul-General, British Consulate-General Boston RSVP to: Bridget Gildea Bridget.Gildea(a)fco.gov.uk 12:15pm - 2:00pm Science, Technology, and Society Circle 124 Mt. Auburn St Suite 100, Room 106 Cambridge, MA I. Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School. "Well, What about the Children?: Best Interests Reasoning, the New Eugenics, and the Regulation of Reproduction." RSVP to sts(a)hks.harvard.edu http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts 4:00pm - 5:30pm EPS 2010 First-Year Symposium Haller Hall (Geological Museum 102) 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Presentations by Second-Year Graduate Students. http://www.eps.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do September 14, 2010 12:00pm Harvard University Herbaria Seminar HUH Seminar Room 22 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Dr. Sabine Zachgo, University of Osnabrück. "Shaping the beauty: the making of Petals" http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ Contact Name: Elena M. Kramer ekramer(a)oeb.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 4:00pm - 5:30pm EPS 2010 First-Year Symposium Haller Hall (Geological Museum 102) 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Presentations by Second-Year Graduate Students. http://www.eps.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do September 15, 2010 11:00am OEB Weekly Seminar Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Gunter Wagner, Yale University. "Transcription factor protein evolution and the origin of evolutionary novelties." http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 12:00pm - 1:30pm Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series and Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements Speaker Series Center for International Development Perkins Room (Rubenstein-415) Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Lecturer, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University. "How to spend $100 billion sensibly: Principles and pathways for the Copenhagen Green Climate Fund." http://www.cid.harvard.edu/sustsci Contact Name: Mary Anne Baumgartner maryanne_baumgartner(a)harvard.edu 4:00pm - 5:00pm Origins of Life Forum Geo Museum, Haller Hall (Room 102) 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Lisa Kaltenegger (Harvard University/CfA/Origins of Life). "Super-Earth & Life: a fascinating puzzle.” September 16, 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 September 17, 2010 9:00am - 12:30pm New England Restructuring Roundtable: "Renewable Energy's Future in New England" 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. http://www.raabassociates.org/main/roundtable.asp raab(a)raabassociates.org 617-350-5544 September 20, 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 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 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. Title TBA (Topic: energy security in Asia). 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.” 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. Title TBD. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 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. 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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] COMPUTER SURVEY.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group, You have to answer the surveys below by Friday. Some people only filled out one. If you don't fill them out, you won't get any replacement hardware and your plights will be ignored. The deadline is the group meeting. I also appreciate those that have told us that they don't really need computers, that info is also important. 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: Stéphanie Valleau <stephanievalleau(a)gmail.com> Date: 2010/9/7 Subject: computers survey To: alan(a)aspuru.com, aleperd(a)gmail.com, anna(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, aspuru.assistant(a)gmail.com, crodrig(a)fas.harvard.edu, gold-parker12(a)college.harvard.edu, hongo(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, jdwhitfield(a)gmail.com, jkrich(a)fas.harvard.edu, joelyuen(a)fas.harvard.edu, johannes.hachmann(a)gmail.com, kassal(a)fas.harvard.edu, kenta.hongo(a)gmail.com, lvogt(a)fas.harvard.edu, mark(a)seas.harvard.edu, olivares(a)fas.harvard.edu, physicist01(a)gmail.com, pr(a)patrickre.com, rappoport(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, sanders(a)fas.harvard.edu, sarah.mostame(a)gmail.com, saykin(a)fas.harvard.edu, sshim(a)fas.harvard.edu, sule.atahan(a)gmail.com, tempel(a)physics.harvard.edu Hi all, As you may already know Alàn is planning on purchasing some new computers/monitors for the group. In order to have the correct idea of how many/which computers need to be replaced it would be of great help if you could all fill out the following*two * quick surveys (it will not take more than 10mins to fill out!) http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HN8XSXC http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HX6B7V6 If you* do not use* any of the existing computers and only your laptop then skip the survey and simply reply telling me whether there is a pc you do not use / or whether there is no pc etc and you use your laptop. Thank you! Stéphanie

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group meeting by Roberto on Friday at 11:30 AM

by Joel Yuen

On Friday we'll get up early to attend group seminar at our brand new meeting time. Roberto will tell us about molecules in electrostatic environments. Time: Friday, Aug 10, *11:30 AM* Place: Division Room -- 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] Reply ASAP: Group meeting time

by Joel Yuen

Hi all, >From last week's group meeting it seemed that the best time for group meeting for everyone is Fridays at 11:30 AM. Please REPLY ASAP if this time is not good for you. If I don't hear from you before the end of today, I will go ahead and book the meeting room for the rest of the calendar year for Friday 11:30 AM. Best, -- Joel Yuen-Zhou PhD student in Chemical Physics Harvard University CCB, 12 Oxford St. Mailbox 107, Cambridge, MA, USA. -- 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] copy card?

by Semion Saikin

Guys, I am curious who took the copy card from M104? Could you please return it back? 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] [qip] The First Graduate Student Congress on Quantum Information and Computation in Singapore

by AQuA Congress 2010

Dear all, I am writing to draw your attention to the 1st graduate students only *AQuA Congress 2010 on theoretical and experimental Quantum Information and Computation*. *Dates:* 6th-12th December 2010. *Venue:* Centre for Quantum Technology (CQT) Singapore. *Congress Website:* http://aqua.quantumlah.org/ *Contact:* aqua.congress2010(a)quantumlah.org During December 6th-12th 2010 the CQT Singapore will host the first AQuA grad student congress. AQuA is an initiative of Imperial College (London), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston), Institute for Quantum Computing (Waterloo) and Center for Quantum Technologies (Singapore) to foster bonds between institution and to unify education in the fast growing field of Quantum Information. As part of this initiative, we, the grad students of CQT, are organizing the first AQuA congress. This gathering will provide a unique opportunity to present your research to fellow students free from the pressures of a normal conference. As a student from the participating institutes, both experimental and theoretical, you are welcome to join us for the AQuA congress 2010 in Singapore. The five days of the congress will be divided between morning sessions consisting of 20-minute talks by selected graduate students followed by interactive sessions, lab tours, poster sessions and chats with people from CQT. The evening will be devoted to leisure as we show you around our city. For those who are interested there will be a weekend trip to Bintan, a tropical island in Indonesia, after the end of the congress. Accommodation and lots of |free food>+|coffee> will be provided for visiting students, so that local expenses will be minimal. Due to general sponsorship we can avoid any conference fee and the participants have to bear only their travel costs. We invite all participants to present a poster. Here are some important dates to note: *Registration deadline:* 15th October. *Submission deadline for talk abstracts:* 15th October. *Notifications of acceptance:* 2nd November Please kindly spread the word and hope to see you in Singapore. 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] Free inflatable red bean bag.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, Some of you remember the red bean bag that I had in my living room. It was replaced by a baby space, and now I am working really hard to get rid of stuff (as you have seen from my perodic group weekend e-mails). If anybody wants it (it is a groovy orange thing with hair), let me know and I give it to you FREE :) 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] Uncertainty in Chemistry -- Something to talk about?

by Dmitrij Rappoport

Hello everyone, There is a recent paper in Nature Chemistry entitled "Uncertainty in Chemistry" by Fredric M. Menger, a synthetic organic chemist, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.799 which makes the claim that there are things in chemistry, which are experimentally unknowable, like the molecular structure and dynamics of all molecules in a polymer sample. And since simulation can only reproduce known experiments and is not always trustworthy, so the argument goes, there is a range of potentially important questions which are unanswerable. I was thinking that, since we have so many people from different backgrounds in our group, wouldn't it be interesting to discuss it in one of the upcoming group meetings and perhaps even write some response to it? I would imagine that there are several interesting angles to this question such as connections to complexity theory, questions about modeling vs. prediction, etc. Let me know you are interested and perhaps we could have a discussion about this in one of the upcoming group meetings. Cheers, Dmitrij --------------------------------------------- Dr. Dmitrij Rappoport Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 phone: (617) 496 8221 fax: (617) 496 9411 email: rappoport(a)chemistry.harvard.edu --------------------------------------------

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [Postdoc-list] FW: SHIFT SBIR seminar, Industry/academic collaboration

by Semion Saikin

For those who is interested in the job search. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sudha Rajamani <SRajamani(a)cgr.harvard.edu> Date: Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:11 PM Subject: [Postdoc-list] FW: SHIFT SBIR seminar, Industry/academic collaboration To: postdoc-list(a)calists.harvard.edu Cc: "Sullivan, Taryn J" <taryn_sullivan(a)harvard.edu> Hi all, Since the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs is not in a position to organize this meeting I decided to take it upon myself to see if a seminar could be organized to have Adam Stein over to talk about SHIFT SBIR. Here is a bit about the talk and the speaker. In Adam’s words: I think the postdocs/graduate students at Harvard would benefit from learning more about this new funding opportunity as it is still quite new and a very good opportunity for those interested in industry science positions. Below you can find a bit more about me and the title and outline of the talk I would like to give: Title: "Is a Startup Right for You? An Intro to Industry Science" What will be discussed: Adam Stein, the CEO of a newly formed nanotechnology company in Pasadena, is coming to share his perspectives on the advantages and disadvantages of careers for postdocs and grad students outside of the academic world. This seminar will provide an understanding of industry science (specifically startup science companies) and careers in industry as a whole. Adam will also discuss the new SHIFT SBIR program sponsored by NIH, where postdocs can collaborate with startup science companies, and shift from a successful postdoc in academia to a career in industry. This is a brand new NIH funding opportunity meant to encourage collaborations between industry and academia. Don’t miss this opportunity to better equip yourself with the knowledge of the many options for your future career! SPEAKER: Adam Stein is a co-founder of Advantageous Systems LLC ( www.advantageoussystems.com), a material science company integrating nanotechnology, chemistry, and biotechnology to develop smart materials for use in cleantech and healthcare applications. Before launching ADS, Adam worked at the US Food and Drug Administration, where he conducted review and policy work for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Office of the Commissioner, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. His research focus was co-development of diagnostic and therapeutics for personalized medicine, regulatory affairs of nanomedicine, and regulatory trials and planning in the Office of Cellular Tissue and Gene Therapy. His expertise includes research in biotechnology, nanotechnology, and regulatory affairs. Please send me a reply and let me know if you are interested in attending this event. After getting a head count, we will decide if this can be taken any further. I look forward to hearing from you all at your earliest possible convenience (latest by Thu evening). I need some time to organize this if we have a critical mass of interested folks. Thanks and good day, Sudha…:) _______________________________________________ Postdoc-list mailing list Postdoc-list(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/postdoc-list -- ******************************************** 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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