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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email October 13 - 26

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: TONIGHT at 5pm: The Future of Energy lecture series welcomes Chris Somerville, Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for a talk on producing fuels through biochemical innovation. Wednesday, October 19: Join HUCE faculty associate and keynote presenter Brian D. Farrell for the 2011 Boston Harbor Island Science Symposium. Scientists from a wide range of disciplines will share what they are learning about the park’s ecosystem and natural processes. Wednesday, October 26: The next installment of the Future of Energy series continues with Susan Tierney, Managing Principal at Analysis Group and former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy on the risks and opportunities of natural gas. Calendar Listings: October 13, 2011 5:00pm - 6:00pm Future of Energy Lecture Science Center D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge "The Development of Liquid Fuels from Lignocellulose" with Chris Somerville, Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute, and professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 5:30pm MSI Seminar Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge "Using what phage have learned to kill gram-positive pathogens" with Vincent Fischetti (Rockefeller University). Host: Michael Gilmore 7:00pm BASEA Forum First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge “Reaching Sustainability” with Ken Ward, 35.org http://www.BASEA.org October 14, 2011 7:00am – 5:00pm Molecules, Movement, and Motors Radcliffe Gymnasium 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge The symposium will bring together experts in genetics, chemistry, biology, physics, medicine, and engineering to discuss the mechanics of motors—from naturally occurring motors, such as those inside cells, to new synthetic motors made from DNA. Registration is required to 617-495-8600. http://www.radcliffe.edu 12:00pm - 1:00pm Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge “Black Carbon, Snow and Climate: A Perspective from the Field” with Sarah Doherty, Research Scientist, University of Washington. Host: Tom Breider http://jisao.washington.edu/research/bios/doherty_sarah.html 4:00pm - 5:00pm Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar Maxwell Dworkin G125,33 Oxford Street, Cambridge “Multiphase Chemical Kinetics in Aerosols, Clouds and Biological Systems” with Dr. Ulrich Pöschl. Host: Prof. Scot Martin October 17, 2011 11:00am - 5:00pm Green Solutions Expo Newton Centre Green & Wainwright Bank, Newton A Newton/Needham Chamber of Commerce Expo with solutions you need to reduce your carbon footprint, over 60 exhibitors, and tips on how to live a "green" life style. http://greendecade.org/green-solutions-expo.html 11:45am - 12:45pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge 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 12:15pm - 2:00pm STS Circle Lecture 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridge With Gary Edmond (UNSW School of Law), "Advice for the Courts? Science Studies, Criminal Justice, and the Forensic Science Crisis."Please RSVP to sts(a)hks.harvard.edu by the Thursday before. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts 4:00pm EPS Colloquium Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge "Hydrological Responses to Earthquakes (and Why the LUSI Mud Volcano Eruption in Indonesia Was Not Caused by an Earthquake)" with Michael Manga, UC Berkeley. Hosted by Brendan Meade. Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo scappo(a)fas.harvard.edu October 18, 2011 12:15pm Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Weld Hill Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 1300 Centre Street, Boston "Evolution of the biogeographic disjunctions between eastern Asia and North America" Featuring Jun Wen, Research Botanist and Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History http://botany.si.edu/staff/staffPage.cfm?ThisName=74&homepage=no 3:00pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge Visit the ClimaTea website for a list of speakers and topics: http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html October 19, 2011 - October 20, 2011 Garden Design Master Class with Rosemary Alexander Weld Hill, 1300 Centre Street, Boston Spend two days exploring principles of garden design with renowned garden designer Rosemary Alexander. http://arboretum.harvard.edu/ October 19, 2011 9:30am - 4:30pm 2011 Boston Harbor Islands Science Symposium Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge The 2011 Boston Harbor Islands Science Symposium will bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines to share what they are learning about the park's ecosystems and natural processes. Reception and Keynote Presentation by HUCE faculty associate Brian D. Farrell. http://www.nps.gov/boha Contact Name: Catherine Weisel cweisel(a)oeb.harvard.edu (617) 495-2460 4:10pm - 5:30pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge “The Environment, Trade, and Directed Technical Change” http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k82245&pageid=icb.page443881 Contact Name: Jason Chapman 617-496-8054 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy House Spindell Room, Harvard University, Cambridge 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 October 20, 2011 11:30am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St. 3rd Floor, Cambridge 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 2:30pm HUCE Climate Seminar Haller Hall, Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge "Arctic Armageddon? Can microbial methane oxidation prevent runaway methane release?" with William S. Reeburgh, Professor Marine and Terrestrial Biogeochemistry, University of California Irvine. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 6:30pm Earth's Surprising Climate History MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building 32-123, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Harvard geologist and Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology Emeritus Paul Hoffman will share his fascination with the give and take between those who discovered the ancient changes and those struggling to develop theories of climate change. His story ranges from the beginnings of climate change as a science to his own involvement in the controversy over the ultimate climatic disturbance: snowball Earth. http://web.mit.edu/science/events/john_carlson_lecture.pdf Contact Name: Shira Wieder swieder(a)mit.edu October 22, 2011 8:00am Harvard Business School Energy Symposium Harvard Business School, 35 Harvard Way, Allston Panels and keynotes representing cleantech, conventional, finance (banks/PE/VC), consultants, regulators & governments. Additionally, a “Start-up Showcase” will feature 20 energy related start-ups. This is a great opportunity to learn about the sector, its players and trends as well as to boost your network and career prospects. http://www.harvardenergyclub.org/symposium_home/ Contact Name: Louis Beryl louis.beryl(a)gmail.com 2:00pm Wicked Bugs: The Louse that Conquered Napoleon’s Army and Other Insect Monstrosities Weld Hill, 1300 Centre Street, Boston Author and gardener Amy Stewart discusses the insects, worms, and spiders that have tormented humankind for centuries. http://arboretum.harvard.edu/ October 23, 2011 5:00pm - 8:00pm Community Empowerment in the Coal-Mining Region of Colombia Courtyard by Marriott, 777 Memorial Drive, Cambridge Join us in this seminar to learn how the indigenous communities are resisting the encroachment of the world’s largest open-pit coal mining operation in Colombia. http://gingermint.info/pdf/Community-Empowerment-Colombia.pdf October 24, 2011 11:45am - 12:45pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge 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 Energy Policy Seminar Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge "China’s energy future with Trevor Houser, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Lunch with be provided. 12:15pm - 2:00pm STS Circle Lecture 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridge With Joanna Radin (University of Pennsylvania), "Frozen Human Tissure and the Problem of Indeterminacy." Please RSVP to the sts(a)hks.harvard.edu by the Thursday before. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts 12:45pm The Center for International Environment and Resource Policy’s Road to Durban Speaker Series Cabot 102, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford Climate Governance at the Crossroads: Experimenting with a Global Response after Kyoto A book talk with Matthew J. Hoffman, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto. RSVP required. http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2286262272 Contact Name: Miranda Fasulo 617.627.2778 4:00pm EPS Colloquium Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge "A Roadmap for Empirically Constraining the Chaotic Behavior of the Solar System and its Implications," with Paul Olsen, LDEO of Columbia University. Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo scappo(a)fas.harvard.edu October 25, 2011 3:00pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge Visit the ClimaTea website for a list of speakers and topics: http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html 7:00pm Autumn Colors: A Mystery Revealed Weld Hill, 1300 Centre Street, Boston Featuring David Lee, Tropical Biologist, Florida International University. Lee will explain some of the biological processes that take place within a deciduous plant come fall and also the signals to humans and animals that are communicated through plant pigments. http://arboretum.harvard.edu/ October 26, 2011 9:00am - 5:00pm Intersections—Aligning Environmental and Transportation Policies to Mitigate Climate Change New York University School of Law’s D’Agostino Hall, 108 West 3rd Street, New York A day-long workshop for practitioners, government officials, and academics to discuss cutting edge issues in environmental and transportation economics. Topics will focus on the continuing challenges posed to policymakers by climate change. Contact Name: Luan Khuong luan.khuong(a)nyu.edu 212-992-8932 5:00pm - 6:00pm Future of Energy Lecture Northwest Building B-103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge "Risks and Opportunities of Natural Gas"featuring Susan Tierney, Managing Principal at Analysis Group and former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews matthew(a)fas.harvard.edu 5:30pm Peabody Museum Lecture Peabody Museum Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge "Trash Track: Reverse Engineering the Removal Chain” with Dietmar Offenhuber, SENSEable City Lab, MIT. http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/files/2011%20Fall%20Cal_0.pdf 6:30pm - 7:30pm Technology Series: Engineering Design @ Harvard GSD Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge “Climate Engineering: Why Architects Need Engineers to Achieve Holistic Design Excellence” with Matthias Schuler, Founder, Transsolar, Stuttgart http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/events Contact Name: Jill Larson Jlarson(a)seas.harvard.edu 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy House Spindell Room Harvard University Cambridge 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 October 27, 2011 9:00am Wood Decay Fungi Common to Urban Living Trees in the Northeast Weld Hill, 1300 Centre Street, Boston Christopher J. Luley, Ph.D. Urban Forestry LLC http://arboretum.harvard.edu/ 11:30am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St. 3rd Floor Cambridge 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 The Emergent Forest of New England Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge Peter Del Tredici, botanist and senior research scientist at the Arnold Arboretum, will present an overview of the recent history of the forests of southern New England as impacted by natural disasters, shifting land-use patterns, pests and pathogens, invasive species, acid rain, and climate change. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php --- 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. <a href="http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=602d80cd69…" title="Like HUCE Weekly Calendar Email October 13 - 26 on Facebook" rel="fblikebtn"><img src="http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/fb/like.gif" border="0" alt="Like HUCE Weekly Calendar Email October 13 - 26 on Facebook" height="20" width="48" style="display:inline;"/></a> Become a Fan of HUCE on Facebook! You are receiving this email because you indicated interest in Harvard University Center for the Environment events. [87]Unsubscribe aspuru-meetings-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 87. http://harvard.us1.list-manage1.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. _______________________________________________ Aspuru-meetings-list mailing list Aspuru-meetings-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-meetings-list

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] (no subject)

by Cedric Yen-Yu Lin

Hi all, The topological quantum computing reading group will be meeting tomorrow (Friday the 14th) at the same place at 4pm. Peter will tell us more about the braiding of anyons and/or the algebraic theory of anyons (or whatever he feels like). See you there, Cedric _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] TODAY at 5pm: Future of Energy lecture with Chris Somerville

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 “The Development of Liquid Fuels from Lignocellulose” Chris Somerville Director, Energy Biosciences Institute, UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Professor of Alternative Energy, UC Berkeley TODAY, Thursday, October 13 5:00 pm Harvard University Science Center, Lecture Hall D One Oxford Street, Cambridge There appear to be many different routes to improved processes for the conversion of biomass to liquid fuels. Research on the design of optimized processes is at a preliminary stage of technical maturity. Efficient production of cellulosic fuels by biochemical routes will require innovation in three main areas: sustainable production of feedstocks that do not compete with food production, depolymerization of feedstocks, and conversion of feedstocks to liquid fuels. There is renewed interest in identifying plants that have optimal biomass accumulation and understanding the production issues associated with large-scale cultivation and sustainable harvesting of such species. Additionally, the importance of enhancing soil carbon and nutrient retention while minimizing inputs will require an integrated approach to the development of cellulosic energy crops. Chris Somerville is the Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute, a research institute at UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign initiated with a $500M award from the energy company BP (www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org). He is a biochemist and the Philomathia Professor of Alternative Energy at UC Berkeley. He has published more than 230 scientific papers and patents in plant and microbial genetics, genomics, biochemistry, and biotechnology. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, The Royal Society of London and the Royal Society of Canada and has received numerous scientific awards including the Gibbs and Schull awards from the American Society of Plant Biologists, the Mendel Medal from the Genetics Society, the Hopkins medal from the Biochemical Society, the Khumo Award from the Plant Molecular Biology Society and most recently the Balzan Award which he shared with Elliot Meyerowitz (Caltech). 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: Lisa Matthews Assistant Director Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu p. 617-495-8883 f. 617-496-0425 *|LIST:Future of Energy|* [4]Unsubscribe aspuru-meetings-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 4. 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. [5]Forward this email to a friend Links: 5. http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=f60… _______________________________________________ Aspuru-meetings-list mailing list Aspuru-meetings-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-meetings-list

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity at NERSC / Berkeley Lab

by Sule Atahan-Evrenk

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Francesca Verdier <fverdier(a)lbl.gov> Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:56 PM Subject: [account-managers] Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity at NERSC / Berkeley Lab To: account-managers(a)nersc.gov Greetings, I would like to let you know about a wonderful opportunity for recent graduates with Ph.D.s (or equivalent) who have backgrounds and research interests in computer science, applied mathematics or any computational science discipline. The Computational Research Division, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory invite applications for the Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship. The fellowship allows recent graduates to acquire further scientific training at one of the leading facilities for scientific computing and to develop professional maturity for independent research. We would appreciate your help in publicizing this opportunity and encouraging qualified individuals to apply. Please feel free to forward this message to individuals you think may be interested in applying. For more information, please visit http://www.lbl.gov/CS/html/alvarez.html. Sincerely, -- Francesca Verdier email: fverdier(a)lbl.gov Department Head, NERSC Services phone: 510-486-7193 _______________________________________________ account-managers mailing list account-managers(a)nersc.gov

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: departmental physical chemistry seminar 10/14

by Anna B. Shin

FYI. 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/ <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=e7480c62f0&view=att&th=12eee19970…> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amy Sutton <asutton(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:59 AM Subject: departmental physical chemistry seminar 10/14 To: Judy Morrison <morrison(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>, Marina DiDonato-McLaughlin <marina(a)seas.harvard.edu>, Jeff Creson < creson(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>, purvang(a)cmliris.harvard.edu, mlegrand(a)gmwgroup.harvard.edu, anna(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, stanhope(a)huarp.harvard.edu, "Schaal, Tracey" <schaal(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>, kilroy(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, howard(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Hi, could you please forward this to your groups? We've got two physical chemists giving talks for the Friday seminar this week. 12:30 Friday 10/14 in the Pfizer lecture hall Shimon Bershtein, "Stability by Association: Soluble Oligomerization Provides a Beneficial Fitness Effect on Destabilizing Mutations" Tak Sing Wong, "Bio-Inspired Slippery Surfaces that Repel Almost Anything" We'll be serving pizza too! Thanks! Amy.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: coherent vibrational influence on EET

by Joel Yuen

By Jeff Cina @ UOregon, of possible interest for people thinking about spectroscopy. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeffrey A Cina <cina(a)uoregon.edu> Date: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:47 PM Subject: coherent vibrational influence on EET To: "Yuen, Joel" <joelyuen(a)fas.harvard.edu> Dear Joel, I thought you might appreciate the attached manuscript, which delves into some aspects of the interplay between impulsively excited coherent vibrational or torsional motion and electronic excitation transfer. Although the calculated signals are for pump-probe difference measurements, the whole set-up is framed in terms of multidimensional electronic spectra. This is project, which I talked about at Telluride, is pretty much the culmination of Jason Biggs's PhD research. We'd welcome any comments you might have. Jeff -- Joel Yuen-Zhou PhD candidate in Chemical Physics Harvard University CCB, 12 Oxford St. Mailbox 107, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] TODAY: Biodiversity, Ecology & Global Change with Josh Tewksbury

by Center for the Environment

Ecological studies are the bridge that link biodiversity and global change issues. Please join us at the Harvard University Center for the Environment and Bank of America series on Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change “Catchers in the Rye: Ecology, Society, and Climate Change” Josh Tewksbury, Walker Professor of Natural History, Department of Biology, University of Washington October 11, 2011 5:00 pm Biolabs Lecture Hall Harvard University 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA With the human population now exceeding seven billion, links between ecosystem conditions and human health, security, and well-being are increasingly clear. Human activities continue to alter natural systems at local through global scales, and these actions feedback to profoundly affect society. Ecology has an important role to play in managing these links, as our capacity to reliably forecast the consequences of our actions will depend on a detailed understanding of the specific properties of ecological systems (e.g. ecology and natural history). And yet ecology, as a discipline, will need to more expansive, collaborative, and responsive if it is to have a strong voice in directing our response environmental issues. Here I describe attempts in my lab to address these issues. I focus primarily on the impacts of climate change, at scales ranging from thermal physiology of insects to global food security. The research I describe provides an example of the importance of broad collaborative frameworks that are often needed for ecology to influence policy. Throughout, I focus on the importance of integrating specific knowledge (natural history) with portable knowledge (general mechanism and theory) as a blueprint for an ecologist’s contribution to evidence based decision making. The Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. The lecture will be followed by a reception. Contact: Lisa Matthews Assistant Director of Events and Communications Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu p. 617-495-8883 f. 617-496-0425 *|LIST_BIODIVERSITY|* [2]Unsubscribe aspuru-meetings-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 2. 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. [3]Forward this email to a friend Links: 3. http://us1.forward-to-friend1.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=ed… _______________________________________________ Aspuru-meetings-list mailing list Aspuru-meetings-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-meetings-list

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Contributed abstracts to the "DFT for Chemical Physics" Symposium at 2012 APS March Meeting.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, If you are interested in giving a talk (strongly recommended as we are all local! Let me know ASAP to organize topics , let's start submitting abstracts) 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 | http://about.me/aspuru ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Neepa Maitra <nmaitra(a)hunter.cuny.edu> Date: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:38 PM Subject: Contributed abstracts to the "DFT for Chemical Physics" Symposium at 2012 APS March Meeting. To: Dear friends and colleagues, Please forgive the intrusion, especially if you are receiving this twice. We are hoping to re-energize DFT at the APS March meeting, February 27-March 2, 2012, Boston, MA, with a large symposium with several invited talks on DFT in Chemical Physics (description below). There will also be a pre-meeting tutorial on DFT and TDDFT on the Sunday immediately before the meeting. We hope that you and your group members will come and participate in the meeting with oral contributions. Please submit your abstract as usual via http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/ specifying the sorting category 05.1.2 (Division of Chemical Physics), description below. For a description of the pre-meeting tutorial, please see http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/events/tutorials/1.cfm Best, Kieron Burke and Neepa Maitra ------------- Symposium description: Density Functional Theory for Chemical Physics (Sorting Category 05.1.2, Division of Chemical Physics) Density Functional Theory, in both its ground-state and time-dependent (TD) flavors, is an exact reformulation of the non-relativistic quantum mechanics of many-body systems. Used in more than 10,000 papers per year, DFT provides an unprecedented balance of accuracy and efficiency for electronic structure calculations in molecules, clusters, and solids. DFT is often the only computationally feasible, quantum mechanical approach to some of the most interesting and topical problems in chemical physics today: from stacking interactions in DNA, to the design of solar cell candidates, to photodynamics and molecular transport. There are however many problems for which DFT performs notoriously poorly. Several open questions that will be addressed are: - Orbital-free DFT: A dream or a reliable reality? - Weak molecular interactions: how reliable and universal are the functionals for hydrogen bonds? for van der Waal’s? - Strongly-correlated systems: Can we dissociate H2 and H2+ correctly? - Energy applications: What are the realistic prospects for accurate modeling of energy applications? What are the most crucial aspects of the approximate functionals for this purpose? - Excitons: Can they be described in TDDFT? - Potential-energy surfaces: How can we make potential energy surfaces globally accurate enough to be used confidently for phenomena such as photo-induced dynamics in biomolecules? - Beyond Born-Oppenheimer: How should we correctly account for ionic motion coupled to electron dynamics? - Strong-field physics: How useful is time-dependent DFT for attosecond control, multiple-ionization, charge-resonance enhanced ionization...? This symposium will highlight recent advances in both theory development and applications. --------------------------------------------------------- Neepa Maitra nmaitra(a)hunter.cuny.edu Associate Professor, Rm 1214E HN phone: 212-650-3518 Department of Physics and Astronomy fax: 212-772-5390 Hunter College & City University of New York 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA. http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/physics/faculty/maitra/home

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] FMO paper

by Jacob Krich

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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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