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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Quantum Beer] Red Bones, Wednesday June 16th at 8pm

by Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario

Dear Quantum Scientists in the Boston Area: You are invited to Quantum Beer, Summer Edition, where Quantum Scientists from institutions all over the Boston Area socialize away from the blackboards. Calculations on napkins are permitted. Every Quantum Beer is at a different place. This time, we are going to Redbones. Quantum Beer Wednesday June 16th at 8pm Redbones BBQ <http://www.redbones.com/brews.html> (downstairs) 55 Chester Street Somerville, MA 02144<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=redbones&mrt=al…> Redbones has a beer roulette, and good southern-style BBQ. We will be * downstairs*. Just ask for the "Quantum Something" group. The Quantum Beer email list keeps growing. If you know people that would be interested in getting the Quantum Beer announcements, send me their email. Salud! Cesar -- Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario, Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Box#34 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA rodriguez(a)chemistry.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Course advertisement

by Ivan Kassal

Dear group, Several of you asked to be notified when I'll be teaching what topics in Chem 243. Everyone is welcome (MW 2-3:30 Pfizer) and the plan for the next four lectures is roughly as follows: 1. (Today) Born-Oppenheimer approximation, diabatic and adiabatic representations, avoided crossings and conical intersections (incl. geometric phase), chemical arrangement channels, skewed coordinates 2. (Wed) Normal modes, transition-state theory, RRKM 3. (next Mon) Wavepacket approach to photodissociation and/or reactive scattering 4. (next Wed) Electron transfer, which basically means Marcus theory (Subject to violent changes without notice). After that, Sergio will be doing some electronic structure theory. Cheers, Ivan

13 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Meeting Shachar,

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, If anybody wants to meet Shachar and did not have time today, please e-mail him (I copy him) so he can stop by tomorrow morning before noon. Best, Alan PS. Especially those that missed it due to the class or other talks, you might enjoy hearing about "what is a resonance" and also you can talk to him about your research. 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 | http://about.me/aspuru

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Meeting with nick melosh

by Jacob J Krich

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ANNOUNCEMENT: Excitonics Seminar, TUES, Feb. 1

by Cathy Bourgeois

Please forward to your groups ____________________________________________________________________ Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement Tuesday, February 1, 2011 3:00 PM RLE Conference Room: 36-428 Mihaela C. Stefan, University of Texas at Dallas "Benzodithiophene Based Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Photovoltaics" Abstract Semiconducting polymers containing benzodithiophene with alkyl phenylethynyl substituents have been synthesized by Stille coupling. The fused central ring allows the incorporation of substituents on the central benzene core, while maintaining planarity of the two thiophene units. In addition, the symmetric nature of the benzodithiophene core eliminates the need to control the regioregularity during the polymerization process. Polymers containing pentyl, decyl and hexadecyl solubilizing alkyl substituents have been synthesized and their opto-electronic properties have been investigated. The synthesized polymers were used as donors in bulk heterojunction solar cell devices. Bio Mihaela C. Stefan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at University of Texas at Dallas. She is also holding an affiliate position in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Texas at Dallas. She received her BS in Chemical Engineering, and her MS and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Politehnica University Bucharest, Romania. She worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Matyjaszewski's group at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2003. In July, 2003, she joined McCullough's group at Carnegie Mellon University to work on the synthesis of block copolymers containing polythiophenes. Mihaela joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Dallas in August 2007. In 2009 she received the NS&M Outstanding Teacher Award which is given annually at UT Dallas based on nominations from students. She received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from NSF in 2010. Her research group is developing novel polymeric materials for organic electronics and for drug delivery systems. Light refreshments will be served The Center for Excitonics is an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science and Office of Basic

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] meeting time is Tuesday

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta I did get responses about conflicts with the meeting time. No time is perfect. It seems that there are less conflicts with Tuesday so that is what it is going to be. See you this Tuesday at 11:00. 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] visitor on Monday

by Johannes Hachmann

Hi everybody, We'll have a prospective postdoc - Shachar Klaiman from the Technion in Israel - visiting the lab on Monday. He will give a talk at 2pm in the Division Room: The Absolute Position of a Resonance Peak ------------------------------------------------------------- It is common practice in scattering theory to correlate the position of a resonance peak in the cross section to the real part of a complex energy of a pole of the scattering amplitude. In this work, we show that the resonance peak position appears at the absolute value of the pole's complex energy rather than its real part. We further demonstrate that a local theory of resonances can still be used even in the cases previously thought to be impossible. There is plenty of opportunity to talk to him during the day and I hope a lot of you will use it. 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] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email January 28 - February 10

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Wednesday, February 2: Jon A. Krosnick, Professor, Stanford University, presents "What Americans and Massachusetts Residents Think About Climate Change: Attitude Formation and Change in Response to a Raging Scientific Controversy" in the HUCE Green Conversations lecture series with discussants Stephen Ansolabehere (FAS, Government), and Dan Schrag, (HUCE, EPS, SEAS). Thursday, February 3: Cathy Zoi, the Acting Under Secretary of Energy and Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy, gives a special seminar at 12 pm, "Technology, Policy, and Politics: Energy in 2011 and Beyond." Thursday, February 3: Bruce Sohn, President of First Solar, discusses "Solar's Fit in Energy's Future" in the first Future of Energy talk of the spring semester. Calendar Listings: January 31, 2011 12:00pm - 1:00pm MCZ Lunch Seminar MCZ 101 Seminar Room 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Alliance and Antagonism: Uncovering the mechanisms driving sperm competition in Deer Mice." Heidi Fisher, Postdoctoral Fellow, MCZ, Hoekstra Lab. Contact Name: Catherine Weisel cweisel(a)oeb.harvard.edu 12:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club: New Members Day HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Facilitating discussion and furthering our understanding of the technical details of energy technology and science. Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Dan Recht drecht(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:00pm - 1:30pm ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building HKS 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA Chris Jones, HUCE Fellow. "Rethinking the History of Energy Transitions." Jones’ research explores the ways coal canals, oil pipelines, and electricity transmission made the widespread and intensified use of fossil fuels possible, stimulated the rise of urbanization and industrialization, and contributed to the emergence of a society dependent on ever-increasing supplies of energy. 12:15pm - 2:00pm STS Circle 124 Mt. Auburn St. Suite 100, Room 106 Cambridge, MA Patrick Taylor, Children's Hospital, Harvard. ""Virtue, Probability, Relationships, and Confusion: Conflicts of Interest and Incompletely Theorized Notions of Scientific Sainthood." http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/ 12:30pm - 1:45pm Tufts Energy and Climate Policy Research Seminar Contact Name: Jacqueline M Deelstra Jacqueline.Deelstra(a)tufts.edu Crowe Room (Goddard 310) Tufts University Medford, MA "Cap and Trade: What does it Really Cost?". Gilbert Metcalf, Professor of Economics, Tufts University. 4:00pm Paleontology Faculty Search Candidate Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Erik Sperling, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences. "Molecular paleobiology and early animal evolution." http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html February 2, 2011 11:00am OEB Weekly Seminar Series Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Mark Olson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. "Adaptation and ontogenetic potential in woody plant stems." Coffee and pastry reception PRIOR to talk. All are welcome to attend. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 12:00pm - 1:30pm Wind Energy Coverage: Which Way Does the Media Wind Blow? Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall Belfer Building, 5th floor 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA Join a conversation with two distinguished environment reporters Beth Daley of The Boston Globe & Elisabeth Rosenthal of The New York Times. Discussant: Henry Lee, Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5388/wind_energy.html Contact Name: Cristine Russell Cristine_Russell(a)hks.harvard.edu 12:15pm - 1:15pm Green Conversations: Jon A. Krosnick Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) S020 Belfer Case Study Room Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA Jon A. Krosnick, Professor, Stanford University. "What Americans and Massachusetts Residents Think About Climate Change: Attitude Formation and Change in Response to a Raging Scientific Controversy" *Box lunch provided at 12:00 pm*. Discussants: Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor, Harvard Department of Government; and Daniel P. Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 3:00pm - 4:30pm Oil Exploration and Production in Deep Water Systems Bell Hall (5th Floor, Belfer Building) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA Please join members of the BP’s Group Research and Technology team discuss the technical issues of oil exploration and production in deep water systems such as those in the Gulf of Mexico, including responding to and remediating oil spills. http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5389 Contact Name: Amanda Swanson amanda_swanson(a)harvard.edu 617-495-1351 4:00pm OEB Special Seminar Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Michael Foote, University of Chicago. "The evolution of geographic range within species and genera." http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 4:10pm - 5:30pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Littauer 382 Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA "Climate Treaties and Approaching Catastrophes." Scott Barrett is a Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University. Barrett's research focuses on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to infectious diseases. Contact Name: Jason Chapman jason_chapman(a)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 February 3, 2011 11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Meeting Room 318 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 Special Lecture featuring Cathy Zoi, U.S. Department of Energy Harvard Law School Pound Hal 101 1563 Mass Ave, Cambridge Cathy Zoi, Acting Under Secretary of Energy; Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. "Technology, Policy, and Politics: Energy in 2011 and Beyond" Contact Name: Lisa Matthews matthew(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-495-8883 1:00pm OEB Special Seminar MCZ 101 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA Michael Foote, University of Chicago. "Evolutionary dynamics of genus size-frequency distributions." http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 5:00pm Future of Energy: Bruce Sohn Jefferson Laboratory Room 250, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge Bruce Sohn, President, First Solar. "Solar's Fit in Energy's Future" Contact Name: Brenda Hugot bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-496-1788 February 4, 2011 8:30am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St, 3rd floor, Room 310 Cambridge, MA "Repurposing lipoamide alters electron flow in two important metabolic pathways of E. coli." Speaker: Morgan Feeney (HMS-MMG). Host: Jon Beckwith. http://www.msi.harvard.edu/events/fridays.html MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu 9:00am - 4:00pm Driver-facing Technologies to Improve Urban Mobility New Media Lab, 6th Floor, MIT Cambridge, MA An MIT symposium on technology and research for smart roads and smart vehicles. http://transportation.mit.edu/live/news/1355-driverfacing-technologies-to-i…... congestion(a)mit.edu February 5, 2011 2:00pm Great White Bear: A Natural & Unnatural History of the Polar Bear Geological Museum Lecture Hall 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Harvard Museum of Natural History Author talk and booksigning by Kieran Mulvaney. Through a blend of history, science, myth and personal observations, Mulvaney provides a new lens for readers to appreciate the polar bear, its unique biology, and its uncertain fate. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php February 7, 2011 12:00pm OEB Special Seminar Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Cassandra Extavour, Harvard University. Title TBD http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 12:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Facilitating discussion and furthering our understanding of the technical details of energy technology and science. Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Dan Recht drecht(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:00pm - 1:30pm ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building HKS 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA Dan Schrag, Harvard University. "Towards a US Energy Policy" http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html#top 12:15pm STS Circle 124 Mt. Auburn St. Suite 100, Room 106 Cambridge, MA Jo Guldi, Harvard Society of Fellows. "Britain Invents the Infrastructure State." http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/ 4:00pm OEB Special Seminar Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Elizabeth Hadly, Stanford University. Title TBD http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 6:30pm - 8:30pm Restoring Hawaii’s Marvels of Evolution Hunnewell Building Arnold Arboretum 125 Arborway Jamaica Plain, MA Join botanist Robert Robichaux of the University of Arizona and the Hawaiian Silversword Foundation as he discusses recent efforts to restore Hawaii’s marvels of plant evolution. http://arboretum.harvard.edu/news-events/directors-lecture-series/ (617) 524-1718 February 9, 2011 11:00am OEB Weekly Seminar Series Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Elizabeth Crone, Harvard Forest. "Resource depletion, pollen limitation, and synchronous mast-seeding in a perennial wildflower." http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 2:00pm - 3:00pm Tufts Center for International Environment & Natural Resource Policy Lecture Mugar 200, The Fletcher School Tufts University Medford, MA "The Future of Energy Demand and Supply Possibilities: A Review of BP’s Energy Outlook 2030." Paul Appleby, Head of Energy Economics, BP. Contact Name: Jacqueline M Deelstra Jacqueline.Deelstra(a)tufts.edu 3:00pm - 4:30pm Tufts Global Development and Environment Institute Lecture Cabot 702 The Fletcher School 160 Packard Avenue, Tufts Medford, MA "Plenitude: How and why millions of Americans are creating a time-rich, ecologically-light, small-scale, high-satisfaction economy." Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/ Contact Name: Lauren Denizard lauren.denizard(a)tufts.edu 617-627-3530 6:00pm Neanderthals and Modern Humans: The Genetic Evidence for Interbreeding Geological Museum Lecture Hall 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA David Reich, Associate Professor of Genetics at Harvard, will compare the Neanderthal genome to the genomes of present-day humans. Free and open to the public. Part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History Evolution Matters Lecture Series. Supported by a gift from Drs. Herman and Joan Suit. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php 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 February 10, 2011 11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Meeting Room 318 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 6:00pm MSI Thursday Seminar HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor, Room 310 Cambridge, MA "Redox-active antibiotics control gene expression and community behavior in divergent bacteria." Lars Dietrich (Columbia University). Host: Rich Losick. Wine & cheese reception at 5:30, seminar at 6:00 PM. http://www.msi.harvard.edu/events/thursdays.html MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu 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. Become a Fan of HUCE on Facebook! You are receiving this email because you indicated interest in Harvard University Center for the Environment events. 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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Harvard Energy Journal Club

by Jacob J Krich

It's been a while since I advertised the HEJC to the group, so I thought I'd do it again. The Harvard Energy Journal Club is a bunch of mostly science/engineering graduate students who get together at noon on Mondays to discuss the technical details of energy technologies. We mostly avoid discussions of policy and instead focus on the technical details necessary to inform policy decisions. Pizza is served. I've been going for a few years now, and it was the best part of my grad school career. This Monday, January 31, is New Member's Day, so if you're interested in seeing what HEJC is like, it's a good day to check it out. I'm leading the session, which is about how a power plant works, going from a simple model of a teakettle up to something that begins to resemble a power plant. The reading can be found here: http://www.think-energy.net/power_plant_primer.pdf If you're interested, you can check out the minimalist website: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/ and sign up for the mailing list here: http://lists.hcs.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/hejc-list Jacob

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Study Card Day reminder

by Anna B. Shin

For graduate students only: Study Card deadline is tomorrow, Fri 28 Jan. After tomorrow, there's a late fee so don't forget to turn it in if you haven't already done so. I can sign in lieu of Alan (unless your schedule differs from the usual research hours or T-time). Best, 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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