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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Opening of the ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

by sarah mostame

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ICTP-SAIFR <ictpnoreply(a)ictp-saifr.org> Date: Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:22 PM Subject: Opening of the ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research To: mostame(a)pks.mpg.de OPENING OF THE ICTP SOUTH AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH Dear Colleague, The ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research is a new South American regional center for theoretical physics created in a collaboration of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) with the State University of Sao Paulo (UNESP) and the Sao Paulo Research Funding Agency (FAPESP). Activities will begin in 2012 with international schools and workshops, and the center will have an active visiting program together with several postdoctoral and permanent research professor positions. The new South American center will be located on the campus of the Instituto de Fisica Teorica (IFT-UNESP) in the city of Sao Paulo. Applications are now open for postdoctoral and permanent research professor positions, as well as for scientific visits, proposals of 2013 activities, and participation in 2012 schools. More information and online application forms are available on the webpage www.ictp-saifr.org. A job advertisement for the permanent and postdoctoral positions can be downloaded from the link http://www.ictp-saifr.org/positionsictpsaifr.pdf , and we would be very grateful if you could post a printed copy of this job advertisement at your institution. Please do NOT reply to this message, and send any questions to secretary(a)ictp-saifr.org Thank you, Nathan Berkovits (acting director of ICTP-SAIFR) Remover meu e-mail

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email November 10 - 24

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Tuesday, November 15: Join Lars O. Hedin, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Director of Program in Environmental Studies, Princeton University, for "Individuals, Ecosystems, and the Land Carbon Sink,” the final fall installment of the Biodiversity, Ecology, & Global Change lecture series. Thursday, Nov. 17 and Friday, Nov. 18: The Energy History Workshop explores changes in the depiction, understanding, and measurement of energy in the early modern and modern periods. Paul Warde, University of East Anglia, will deliver the keynote lecture on November 17, and panel discussions will commence the following day. Thursday, November 17: The Environmental Health Colloquium welcomes John Balbus, Senior Advisor for Public Health at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, for a talk on “The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be: Climate Change, Health, and the Federal Response.” Calendar Listings: November 10, 2011 5:30pm - 7:30pm EBC Young Environmental Professionals Event Lenox Hotel, 61 Exeter Street, Boston A night of networking and an excellent panel discussion on continuing education and advancing your career. The panel will discuss the transition process from junior level field staff to project management or business development in the environmental industry. Contact Name: Megan Curtis-Murphy mcurtismurphy(a)ebcne.org 6:00pm MSI Seminar HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge “A genomic view of microbial diversity in island populations” with Rachel Whitaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Please join us for a wine and cheese reception at 5:30 pm. Host: Chris Marx November 11, 2011 1:00pm Web Conference: "Developing Energy-Efficient Communities" Online conference E Source and the California Energy Commission (CEC) will be hosting a web conference to discuss how significant reductions in energy consumption and air emissions can be achieved through the integrated use of advanced building technologies and urban design features. http://www.esource.com/members/CEC-WC-11-11-ChulaVista/Web_Conference Contact Name: Jenny Field jenny_field(a)esource.com November 12, 2011 9:45am - 2:30pm Environmental Careers Symposium Harvard CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge Learn what you'll need to begin or enhance your career in sustainability from experts in both the private and non-profit sectors, and participate in a series of skills workshops. https://www.wepay.com/tickets/getgreen November 14, 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 Fainsod Room, Room 324, Littauer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge "Meeting the Energy Needs of Tomorrow: Opportunities and Challenges,” featuringJason Bordoff, Associate Director for Energy and Climate Change, Council on Environmental Quality, and Senior Advisor for Energy and Environmental Policy, National Economic Council. Lunch will be provided. Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu 12:15pm - 2:00pm STS Circle Lecture 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridge With Sebastian Pfotenhauer (MIT), "Between Cultural Transfer and National Innovation Strategy: A Study of MIT's Recent International Collaborations." Please RSVP to sts(a)hks.harvard.edu by the Thursday before. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts 12:30pm - 1:45pm The Energy and Climate Policy Research Seminar Series The Fletcher School, Tufts University, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford "Renewable Energy and Climate Change: The IPCC Report" with Professor William Moomaw, Lead Author, IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (2011), and Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy Contact Name: Miranda Fasulo Miranda.Fasulo(a)tufts.edu 4:00pm EPS Colloquium Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge The Nitrogen Cycle in a Changing Ocean" with Dr. David Hutchins, University of Southern California. Hosted by Ann Pearson. Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo scappo(a)fas.harvard.edu 5:00pm MIT Lecture Series MIT Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge "Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System,"with Richard Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor and Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering November 15, 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 5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology & Global Change Lecture Biolabs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge Contact Name: Lisa Matthews matthew(a)fas.harvard.edu "Individuals, Ecosystems, and the Land Carbon Sink,” featuring Lars O. Hedin, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Director of Program in Environmental Studies, Princeton University. November 16, 2011 11:00am - 12:00pm OEB Seminar Series BioLabs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge "Microbial energetics in subseafloor sediment" with Steven D'Hondt, University of Rhode Island. Hosted by: Girguis Lab http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 4:10pm - 5:30pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge “Externalizing the Internality” http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k82245&pageid=icb.page443881 Contact Name: Jason Chapman 617-496-8054 7:00pm - 8:30pm Botany of Thanksgiving Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre Street, Boston Featuring Pamela Diggle, Evolutionary Biologist, University of Colorado and Harvard University. Professor Pamela Diggle will open your eyes to the plant anatomy and physiology that preceded the creation of traditional Thanksgiving dishes. http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu Contact Name: pam_thompson(a)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 November 17, 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 12:30pm - 1:20pm Environmental Health Colloquium HSPH Building 1, Room 1302, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston “The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be: Climate Change, Health, and the Federal Response” with John Balbus, MD, MPH, Senior Advisor for Public Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 4:15pm Energy History Workshop: Units, Ideas, and Images in the History of Energy HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge A Keynote Lecture with Paul Warde (University of East Anglia): "Life, Land and Limits in the 'Organic Economy’, c. 1670-1840” http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/energy/Units_Ideas_Images/index.html Contact Name: Philipp Lehmann plehmann(a)fas.harvard.edu November 18, 2011 9:00am - 6:00pm MIT Energy Finance Forum MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge The forum will explore the necessity to go deeper and further for oil; controversies surrounding shale gas extraction; the future of nuclear power in a post-Fukushima world; and the fate of renewable energy in the face of political uncertainty. http://mitenergyfinanceforum.org/ 9:15am - 4:30pm Energy History Workshop: Units, Ideas, and Images in the History of Energy Center for History and Economics, CGIS, 61 Kirkland Street, Room 24, Cambridge The workshop seeks to explore changes in the depiction, understanding, and measurement of energy in the early modern and modern periods. Contact Name: Philipp Lehmann plehmann(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:30pm - 1:20pm Environmental Health Special Seminar HSPH Kresge Building, Room 502, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston "Greenland as an Environmental Health Laboratory" with Philippe Grandjean, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health, HSPH and Professor, Environmental Medicine, University of Southern Denmark; and Henning Pedersen, MD, PhD, District Medical Officer at the Primary Health Care Clinic in Nuuk, Greenland November 20, 2011 4:00pm The Species Seekers Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge Science writer/NPR commentator Richard Conniff tells the story of the bold and colorful adventurers who risked death to discover strange life-forms in the farthest corners of planet Earth. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php November 21, 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 12:15pm - 2:00pm STS Circle Lecture 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106 Wanda Liebermann (Sociology, Boston University), "Body Building: Architectural Narratives of Dis/ability." 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 With Kaveh Pahlaven, Yale University. Hosted by Stein Jacobsen. Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo scappo(a)fas.harvard.edu November 22, 2011 12:00pm - 1:30pm MIT Lecture Series MIT Building E51-372 (Tang Center), 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge "Rule Britannia - The Rise and Rise of UK Offshore Wind" with David Parkin, Head of Offshore Renewables at Atkins 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 November 23, 2011 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 November 24, 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 --- 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-archive1.com/?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=899cf8b8ff…" title="Like HUCE Weekly Calendar Email November 10 - 24 on Facebook" rel="fblikebtn"><img src="http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/fb/like.gif" border="0" alt="Like HUCE Weekly Calendar Email November 10 - 24 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. 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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] FW: ANNOUNCEMENT: Excitonics Seminar Series, Tues. Nov. 15, 3 pm/Grier A 34-401

by Cathy Bourgeois

Poster attached. From: Cathy Bourgeois [mailto:cmbourg@MIT.EDU] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 9:56 AM To: excitonics-seminars(a)mit.edu Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Excitonics Seminar Series, Tues. Nov. 15, 3 pm/Grier A 34-401 Please post and forward to your group - Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement TUES, Nov 15, 2011 3:00 PM EECS Grier A Conference Room: 34-401A "Superfluid Phase Transition of Long-Lifetime Polaritons" David Snoke Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh Abstract Polaritons are quasiparticles of electronic excitation in semiconductor structures with extremely light mass, about four orders of magnitude less than a free electron. Because of this very light mass, polaritons show Bose quantum effects even at moderate densities and temperatures from tens of Kelvin up to room temperature. In the past five years, multiple experiments have shown effects of polaritons analogous to Bose condensation of cold atoms, such as a bimodal momentum distribution, quantized vortices, Bogoliubov excitation spectrum, and spatial condensation in a trap. In these experiments, though, the lifetime of the polaritons has been just a little longer than their thermalization time, which means that nonequilibrium effects play an important role; in particular, the transition to superfluidity has been smeared out rather than a sharp transition. In this talk I report new results with polaritons that have very long lifetime compared to their thermalization time. We see a discontinuous jump in the properties of the polariton gas indicative of a true phase transition, and we see ballistic transport over hundreds of microns. We also now have a way to use a laser to create a potential barrier for the polaritons. Bio Snoke received his PhD in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked for The Aerospace Corporation and was a visiting scientist and Fellow at the Max Planck Institute. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society with the citation, "For his pioneering work on the experimental and theoretical understanding of dynamical optical processes in semiconductor systems." His research has focused on basic processes and phase transitions of electrons, holes, including non equilibrium dynamics of electron plasma and excitons, the Mott transition from exciton gas to electron-hole plasma and Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons and polaritons. His research group at the University of Pittsburgh uses stress to trap excitons in confined regions, similar to the way atoms are confined in traps for Bose-Einstein condensation experiments. 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 Energy Sciences

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ANNOUNCEMENT: Excitonics Seminar Series, Tues. Nov. 15, 3 pm/Grier A 34-401

by Cathy Bourgeois

Please post and forward to your group - Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement TUES, Nov 15, 2011 3:00 PM EECS Grier A Conference Room: 34-401A "Superfluid Phase Transition of Long-Lifetime Polaritons" David Snoke Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh Abstract Polaritons are quasiparticles of electronic excitation in semiconductor structures with extremely light mass, about four orders of magnitude less than a free electron. Because of this very light mass, polaritons show Bose quantum effects even at moderate densities and temperatures from tens of Kelvin up to room temperature. In the past five years, multiple experiments have shown effects of polaritons analogous to Bose condensation of cold atoms, such as a bimodal momentum distribution, quantized vortices, Bogoliubov excitation spectrum, and spatial condensation in a trap. In these experiments, though, the lifetime of the polaritons has been just a little longer than their thermalization time, which means that nonequilibrium effects play an important role; in particular, the transition to superfluidity has been smeared out rather than a sharp transition. In this talk I report new results with polaritons that have very long lifetime compared to their thermalization time. We see a discontinuous jump in the properties of the polariton gas indicative of a true phase transition, and we see ballistic transport over hundreds of microns. We also now have a way to use a laser to create a potential barrier for the polaritons. Bio Snoke received his PhD in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked for The Aerospace Corporation and was a visiting scientist and Fellow at the Max Planck Institute. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society with the citation, "For his pioneering work on the experimental and theoretical understanding of dynamical optical processes in semiconductor systems." His research has focused on basic processes and phase transitions of electrons, holes, including non equilibrium dynamics of electron plasma and excitons, the Mott transition from exciton gas to electron-hole plasma and Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons and polaritons. His research group at the University of Pittsburgh uses stress to trap excitons in confined regions, similar to the way atoms are confined in traps for Bose-Einstein condensation experiments. 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 Energy Sciences

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Computational Chemical Biology Faculty Position Ad

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: > Resent-From: <aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> > From: "Adams, Shawn" <Shawn.Adams2(a)unt.edu> > Date: November 9, 2011 3:41:22 PM CST > To: "archerc(a)us.ibm.com" <archerc(a)us.ibm.com>, "archis(a)u.washington.edu" <archis(a)u.washington.edu>, "areniers(a)rsmas.miami.edu" <areniers(a)rsmas.miami.edu>, "arhd(a)u.washington.edu" <arhd(a)u.washington.edu>, "arichardson(a)oeb.harvard.edu" <arichardson(a)oeb.harvard.edu>, "armaou(a)engr.psu.edu" <armaou(a)engr.psu.edu>, "armbrust(a)ocean.washington.edu" <armbrust(a)ocean.washington.edu>, "arnold(a)berkeley.edu" <arnold(a)berkeley.edu>, "arnrhein(a)chem.ucsd.edu" <arnrhein(a)chem.ucsd.edu>, "arora(a)nyu.edu" <arora(a)nyu.edu>, "artchao(a)uw.edu" <artchao(a)uw.edu>, "artem.masunov(a)lanl.gov" <artem.masunov(a)lanl.gov>, "artem.oganov(a)sunysb.edu" <artem.oganov(a)sunysb.edu>, "arthi.jayaraman(a)colorado.edu" <arthi.jayaraman(a)colorado.edu>, "arthur.joyce(a)colorado.edu" <arthur.joyce(a)colorado.edu>, "arul.jayaraman(a)chemail.tamu.edu" <arul.jayaraman(a)chemail.tamu.edu>, "as7a5(a)mizzou.edu" <as7a5(a)mizzou.edu>, "asa(a)cs.colostate.edu" <asa(a)cs.colostate.edu>, "asayyeda(a)cems.umn.edu" <asayyeda(a)cems.umn.edu>, "ascher(a)amnh.org" <ascher(a)amnh.org>, "aselloni(a)princeton.edu" <aselloni(a)princeton.edu>, "asher(a)pitt.edu" <asher(a)pitt.edu>, "ashok.goel(a)cc.gatech.edu" <ashok.goel(a)cc.gatech.edu>, "ashtekar(a)gravity.psu.edu" <ashtekar(a)gravity.psu.edu>, "asimow(a)gps.caltech.edu" <asimow(a)gps.caltech.edu>, "asmith(a)alasu.edu" <asmith(a)alasu.edu>, "aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu" <aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>, "assadi(a)math.wisc.edu" <assadi(a)math.wisc.edu>, "astarace1(a)unl.edu" <astarace1(a)unl.edu>, "Astrid.Ogilvie(a)colorado.edu" <Astrid.Ogilvie(a)colorado.edu>, "athan(a)ucy.ac.cy" <athan(a)ucy.ac.cy>, "athina(a)uci.edu" <athina(a)uci.edu>, "atola(a)puc.cl" <atola(a)puc.cl>, "atrouve(a)umd.edu" <atrouve(a)umd.edu>, "atsumi(a)chem.ucdavis.edu" <atsumi(a)chem.ucdavis.edu>, "attinger(a)iastate.edu" <attinger(a)iastate.edu>, "atzberg(a)math.ucsb.edu" <atzberg(a)math.ucsb.edu>, "aubry(a)andrew.cmu.edu" <aubry(a)andrew.cmu.edu>, "auclark(a)wsu.edu" <auclark(a)wsu.edu>, "audette(a)chem.umn.edu" <audette(a)chem.umn.edu>, "auerbach(a)chem.umass.edu" <auerbach(a)chem.umass.edu>, "aurnou(a)ucla.edu" <aurnou(a)ucla.edu>, "avanwyns(a)hamilton.edu" <avanwyns(a)hamilton.edu>, "avd(a)ims.uconn.edu" <avd(a)ims.uconn.edu>, "avdv(a)umich.edu" <avdv(a)umich.edu>, "avederni(a)umd.edu" <avederni(a)umd.edu>, "avijit(a)umassd.edu" <avijit(a)umassd.edu>, "avioli(a)umich.edu" <avioli(a)umich.edu>, "avital(a)md.huji.ac.il" <avital(a)md.huji.ac.il>, "avorontsov(a)physics.montana.edu" <avorontsov(a)physics.montana.edu> > Subject: Computational Chemical Biology Faculty Position Ad > > Dear Colleagues, > > To further grow our programs in computational chemistry and computational materials science at the University of North Texas, we are now beginning a 2-3-year search to fill FIVE SENIOR-LEVEL FACULTY POSITIONS in COMPUTATIONAL CHEMICAL BIOLOGY (C3B). This hire is part of a $25 million investment by the university in multi-disciplinary research. > > It is intended that the selected candidates will have research programs with heavy emphasis on chemistry, with most of these positions placed in the Department of Chemistry, though joint department placements and placements in other departments are possible. > > The first individual(s) hired will have a significant role in selecting the other senior-level individuals hired to the program. > > Faculty in these positions will be a part of our Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM). CASCaM is an interdisciplinary center of excellence in advanced scientific computing and modeling. CASCaM includes over 20 highly collaborative and productive computational faculty in Chemistry, Biology, Materials Science, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering. CASCaM faculty participate in more than $30 million in grants, including several national centers - an NSF Chemical Bonding Center and a DOE Energy Frontiers Research Center. > > CASCaM has its own dedicated 5 Tflop, 2,000-core supercomputing facility, which is being upgraded, and is maintained and operated by a Ph.D.-level research scientist. Also, a $1.5 million research computing facility came online in 2010, providing an addition 2,000 cores. > > The new hire will have the ancillary benefits of working in a college town (Denton), at the largest (36,000 students), most comprehensive university in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Denton is located in the northern suburbs of the Dallas-Fort Worth area – now America’s 4th largest and fasting growing metroplex – with over 6 million people, mild winters, no state income tax, and a low cost of living. Travel to and from the Dallas area is superb, as the DFW area serves as the headquarters for both American Airlines (DFW International Airport) and Southwest Airlines (Dallas Love Field). > > If you may have interest in this opportunity, or know of colleagues that may have interest, we would be delighted to hear from you. Further information about the position can be found attached. As well, additional information about C3B and CASCaM can be found at http://cascam.unt.edu and http://c3b.unt.edu. > > Thank you for any help that you could provide in identifying suitable senior-level candidates for these positions. > > Thank you, > > Angela Wilson, Professor of Chemistry and C3B Search Chair, akwilson(a)unt.edu > Tom Cundari, Regents Professor of Chemistry, t(a)unt.edu > Jan Gershom Martin, Distinguished Research Professor, gershom(a)unt.edu > Wes Borden, Robert A. Welch Professor and Distinguished Research Professor, borden(a)unt.edu > Shawn Adams, C3B Staff Coordinator, shawn(a)unt.edu >

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] cake in the kitchen area!

by Alejandro Perdomo

Please help yourself with a piece of delicious chocolate cake from my birthday. Run quickly, there might ~10 pieces left, not enough to feed all Aspuruzian :). Cheers, -A -- Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Physics. Harvard University 12 Oxford St #482, Cambridge, MA, 02138. perdomo(a)fas.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] APS March meeting deadline

by Xavier Andrade

Hi everybody, For those you interested in attending the 2012 APS March Meeting in Boston, the deadline for abstract submission is this Friday, Nov 11. http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/ Xavier

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] Group meeting tomorrow by Ali Hatef

by Joel Yuen

When: tomorrow Monday November 7, 2-3 PM Where: Cabot Division Room at Mallinckrodt What: Postdoctoral candidate Ali Hatef is giving group meeting: *Coherent molecular resonances in quantum dot-metallic nanoparticle systems* We investigate collective molecular resonances in a hybrid system consisting of a semiconductor quantum dot (SQD) and a metallic nanoparticle (MNP) in close proximity. In this study we show the impact of geometry variation on the coherent-plasmonic field-enhancement (CPFE) factor in the hybrid system for weak- and strong-coupling regimes. Here the geometry is varied by changing the center-to-center distance between the SQD and MNP or by changing the aspect ratio of the MNP. In our calculations we include coherent self-renormalization in the plasmonic field enhancement of the MNP. The coherent self-renormalization is caused by the impact of quantum coherence on the enhancement process and the way this process normalizes the radiative decay rate of excitons and the non-radiative energy transfer rate from the SQD to the MNP. The SQD is modeled as a two-level system driven by an applied laser field. We consider that the excitonic resonance frequency of the SQD is near the plasmonic resonance frequency of the metallic nanoparticle. Our results show that the CPFE factor can be dramatically altered by modifying the SQD-MNP hybrid system’s geometry for different incident field intensity. We also found that the CPFE factor is in agreement with the conventional enhancement factor in the strong field regime. -- Joel Yuen-Zhou PhD candidate in Chemical Physics Harvard University CCB, 12 Oxford St. Mailbox 107, Cambridge, MA, USA. _______________________________________________ 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] this Tuesday

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will meet on Tuesday November 8 at 11:00 in 6-310 as usual. Thomas Vidick who just joined our community as a post-doc will tell us what he has been up to. 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] [qip] this Friday

by Cedric Yen-Yu Lin

Hi quanta, For the weekly meeting on topological computing, Chris Laumann will be giving a talk on pinned anyons (is that right, Chris?) this Friday at 4. See you there, Cedric _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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