When: Wednesday 2/23 from 1 to 2 PM
Where: Division Room
What: Kenji Sugisaki will give a talk:
"At the group meeting I would like to talk about activities of my group in
Osaka City University in the field of quantum computing and quantum
information processing (QC/QIP) briefly. Some important ideas for realizing
molecular spin-based quantum computers will be given. After that I will talk
about my research in OCU, quantum chemical calculations of zero-field
splitting (ZFS) tensors (D tensors), which is relevant to spin-Hamiltonian
parameters in multi-electron-spin-based quantum computers. A hybrid
CASSCF/MRMP2 approach for the spin-orbit contribution to D tensor will be
introduced and applications to organic open-shell molecules will be
presented."
--
Joel Yuen-Zhou
PhD candidate in Chemical Physics
Harvard University CCB,
12 Oxford St. Mailbox 107,
Cambridge, MA, USA.
Vijay from Cohen lab says we're welcome to Thai food in the Dept Center.
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/
Highlights:
Tomorrow: HUCE presents a special lecture with two guests from the Australian National Water
Commission: "Adapting to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Australia's Droughts and Floods"
Tuesday, February 22: The Future of Energy series continues with "In Deep Water: The Gulf Oil
Spill Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling in the U.S." - a lecture by Cherry Murray,
Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Commission Member, National Commission
on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.
Friday, February 25: Jim Wescoat, Aga Khan Professor of Architecture, MIT presents "Indus River
basin Research: Emerging Challenges and Directions" in the South Asia Initiative Water Seminar
co-sponsored by HUCE and the Harvard Water Program.
Note: The Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change lecture with Jon Chase, Professor of Biology;
Director, Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis listed for March 1 is being
rescheduled. Stay tuned for updates!
Calendar Listings:
February 18, 2011
8:30am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk
HUCE, 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor, Room 310 Cambridge, MA
"Trying to ask quantitative questions about microbial evolution." Michael Desai (FAS-OEB)
Host: Anne Pringle. Please join us for coffee/tea/pastries at 8:30 am
9:00am - 12:30pm The 121st New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable
http://www.RaabAssociates.org
Foley Hoag LLP 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor Boston, MA
FERC Policies and New England; Smart Power and the Future of Electric Utilities; and Massachusetts' and Boston's New Climate and Energy Plans
11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar
Harvard Forest Seminar Room Petersham, MA
"Ecological recovery in Maine's waterways and nearshore marine ecosystems." John Lichter (Bowdoin College & Harvard Bullard Fellow) and Ted Ames (Penobscot East Resource Center)
http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php
Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu
1:30pm HUCE Special Lecture: "Adapting to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Australia's Droughts and Floods"
Haller Hall, Geo Museum 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
A Harvard University Center for the Environment and Harvard Water Program Special Lecture featuring: Chris Arnott, Managing Director, Alluvium Consulting Pty Ltd and Will Fargher, General Manager, Water Markets and Efficiency Group, Australia National Water Commission.
http://environment.harvard.edu/australia
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews matthew(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-495-8883
2:00pm Weatherization Kick-off Meeting
The weatherization of the Freshman Dean's Office Conference Room is set for April 2nd! If you want to help plan the weatherization and learn what it's like behind the scenes at the Office for Sustainability and the Facilities Maintenance Operations, come by to the initial meeting.
Contact Name: Brandon Geller brandon_geller(a)harvard.edu
5:30pm - 7:00pm HSPH Lecture: Health Promotion and America's National Parks
Kresge Building Room G1 Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA
"Health Promotion and America's National Parks: Living Laboratories for Strengthening the Nexus between Public Lands and Public Health" Speakers include Jon Jarvis (director of NPS) and David Wong MD (Commander, U.S. Public Health Service Chief, Epidemiology and Health Promotion Branch).
https://webapps.sph.harvard.edu/live/calendar/
Contact Name: Joel Cohen jocohen(a)hsph.harvard.edu
February 19, 2011
3:00pm Green Growth in a World of Limited Resources
Radcliffe Gym Cambridge, MA
Juergen Trittin, Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of Alliance '90, former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety.
Between keynote speeches and several panel discussions, we invite you to meet and mingle with our speakers, panelists and guests over coffee breaks, lunch and some German wine and beer. We also invite you to a festive dinner on Friday night, hosted by conference patron Dr. Klaus Scharioth, the German Ambassador to the United States.
http://www.germanconference.org/2011/c.agenda.html
info(a)germanconference.org
February 21, 2011
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
February 22, 2011
6:00pm Future of Energy: "In Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling in the U.S."
Science Center D, One Oxford Street, Cambridge
Cherry A. Murray, Dean, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Commission Member, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.
Contact Name: Brenda Hugot bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-496-1788
6:00pm - 7:00pm Science and Policy Talk
Adams Conservatory Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA
Dinner discussion with Prof Bill Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Center for International Development
harvard.hubss(a)gmail.com
February 23, 2011
1:00pm - 2:30pm Clean Energy and the Media Seminar
Bell Hall, Belfer Bldg., 5th Floor 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA
"The Long Road to Electric Cars: Green Hope or Media Hype?"
Join a conversation with two distinguished science and energy reporters, Alan Boyle, science editor of MSNBC.com, and Bryan Walsh, environment columnist for Time Magazine. Second in a spring seminar series.
Contact Name: Cristine Russell Cristine_Russell(a)hks.harvard.edu
4:10pm - 5:30pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Littauer-382 Harvard Kennedy School Cambridge, MA
"Can Financial Innovation Reduce the Costs of Weather Shocks? Agricultural Investment and Consumption Smoothing in India" with Shawn Cole, Harvard Business School; Xavier Gine, World Bank; and James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/events.htm
6:00pm The Evolution of Childhood: The Role of Development in Explaining Human Uniqueness
Geological Museum Lecture Hall 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
Melvin Konner, Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University, will present a sweeping overview of how relationships, emotion, and mind emerged from the uniquely human nature of children and how we care for them.
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 24, 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
3:30pm Harvard China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
"The Energy-Water Nexus in China: Trading One Problem for Another?" Liu Hengwei, Research Associate, Energy, Climate, and Innovation (ECI) Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) Program, Harvard Kennedy School.
http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminar%20folder/seminars-2011-spring-term-…...
4:00pm Paleontology Faculty Search Candidate
Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA
Jakob Vinther, Yale University. "When mollusks go wormy! A molecular and paleontological perspective on the evolution of chitons and aplacophorans."
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
4:00pm - 5:00pm Explore Environmental Careers
54 Dunster St (OCS Conference Room) Cambridge, MA
Panel discussion featuring experts representing diverse environmental career paths including environmental consulting, research, fieldwork, policy, and sustainability. Please register.
Contact Name: Anthony Arcieri arcieri(a)fas.harvard.edu
6:00pm - 8:30pm MIT Transportation Showcase
http://web.mit.edu/transportclub/showcase
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA
The MIT Transportation Showcase will feature cutting-edge transportation research in all areas of mobility, including aviation, alternative vehicles, passenger rail, as well as key issues such as energy, sustainability, and security. We invite you to join us for an evening featuring exciting research and employment opportunities in the transportation field.
The event is free and open to the public. Food and a cash bar will be available.
February 25, 2011
8:30am MSI Chalktalk: Lessons from Bacteria-Nematode Mutualisms
Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE), 24 Oxford St, 3rd floor, Room 310
Speaker: Jason Crawford (HMS-BCMP); Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor Jon Clardy's lab.
Coffee/tea/pastries at 8:30 am.
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/events/fridays.html
12:00pm Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 100F 29 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
Annele Virtanen, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Title TBA. Host: Scot Martin.
http://www.as.harvard.edu/seminar.htm
12:30pm – 2:00pm South Asia Initiative Water Seminar
CGIS South, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study) 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA
"Indus River basin Research: Emerging Challenges and Directions." Jim Wescoat, Aga Khan Professor of Architecture, MIT. Chaired by John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health, HSPH, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, SEAS
http://southasiainitiative.harvard.edu/
Contact Name: Megan Rajbanshi mrajbans(a)fas.harvard.edu
1:30pm - 4:00pm Harvard Energy & Environment Expo
18 Mason Street (Radcliffe Gym) Cambridge, MA
2nd Annual Harvard Energy & Environment Expo -- learn about exciting opportunities in these fields. Hear about new technologies, products and get advice from people working on cutting edge solutions.
Talk to over 30 companies and organizations about research, internships and future job opportunities.
http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/enviroexpostudent.html
Contact Name: Anthony Arcieri arcieri(a)fas.harvard.edu
February 28, 2011
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 Harvard Kennedy School Cambridge, MA
"Quantifying Land Use Impacts of Energy Extractions." Sarah Jordaan, HUCE Fellow.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/events.htm
12:30pm - 1:45pm Tufts Energy and Climate Research Seminar
Cabot 703, The Fletcher School Tufts University Medford, MA
"Is IP Infringement a Barrier to the Transfer of Cleaner Energy Technology?" Kelly Sims Gallagher, Associate Professor Of Energy and Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School
Contact Name: Jacqueline Deelstra Jacqueline.Deelstra(a)tufts.edu
4:00pm EPS Colloquium Series
Haller Hall, Geo-Museum 102 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
Oded Aharonson (Caltech). Title TBA.
http://www.eps.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k58621&pageid=icb.page298425
6:30pm - 8:30pm The Good, the Bad, and Occasionally the Dead: Humanity's Relationship with Earth's Nitrogen
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Hunnewell Building 125 Arborway Boston, MA
Alan Townsend, University of Colorado, Boulder talks about the occasionally odd, often dramatic history of humanity’s relationship with phosphorous and nitrogen, the good these chemical elements do and the harm they cause, and ultimately, the reasons we can have hope for a better future. Free, but registration is required.
http://environment.harvard.edu/my.arboretum.harvard.edu.
Contact Name: Pam Thompson pam_thompson(a)harvard.edu 617-384-5277
March 1, 2011
1:00pm - 2:30pm “Addressing Climate Change: Korea’s Green-Growth Policy”
Pound Hall 213 (John Chipman Gray Assembly Room) Harvard Law School Mass Ave Cambridge, MA
Suh-Yong Chung, Associate Professor of Law and International Relations, Division of International Studies, Korea University.
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5420/addressing_climate_change.h…
Contact Name: Tyler Gumpright Tyler_Gumpright(a)harvard.edu 617-49 4-8415
March 2, 2011
7:30am - 10:00am "Transforming the Grid with Technology"
The Colonnade Hotel 120 Huntington Ave Boston, MA 02116
MIT Enterprise Forum - Energy SIG Breakfast.
In this annual US-Canada energy discussion, four presenters will discuss the development of smart grid technologies, identify technology gaps, and outline where opportunity and growth can be found.
http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/energy-sig-breakfast/
Contact Name: Walter Frick wfrick(a)cleanenergycouncil.org
11:00am OEB Weekly Seminar Series
Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA
David Jackson, Cold Harbor Laboratory. Title TBD. Host: Kramer Lab.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
5:00pm Future of Energy: Sharon Burke
Science Center D, One Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sharon Burke, Director of Operation Energy Plans and Programs, U.S. Department of Defense.
Contact Name: Brenda Hugot bhugot(a)harvard.edu 617-496-1788
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
March 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
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When: Friday February, 18 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Where: LISE Room 303 (Courtesy of Mike Stopa, NOTE THE CHANGE IN
LOCATION***)
What: Man-Hong will be presenting:
"I will be giving an overview talk on various "active" projects I have
been working on. Topics may include quantum computation/simulation,
quantum evaporative cooling, bosonic Holstein Hubbard model,
J-aggregates etc. However, each topic will be covered only briefly;
in-depth questions are welcome after the meeting."
*** No rooms were available at Chemistry this time. However, we will be back
in our building next week.
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Joel Yuen-Zhou
PhD candidate in Chemical Physics
Harvard University CCB,
12 Oxford St. Mailbox 107,
Cambridge, MA, USA.
Prof. Hansmann will be here tomorrow.
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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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Hi everybody,
We have a slot for the group to meet with today's Theochem speaker Prof. Uli
Hansmann from 11:00 to 11:30 in the common area next to Alan's office.
Please come by so that we don't hear crickets...
Best
Johannes
Probing proteins with computer simulations
Ulrich H.E. Hansmann Department of Physics, Michigan Technological
University, Houghton, MI 49931-1295, USA
http://www.phy.mtu.edu/biophys/
Abstract
Rational drug design or the pathology of amyloid diseases are only two
problems whose solution requires a detailed knowledge of the relation
between chemical composition and structure/function of proteins. Despite
decades of research, both experimental and computational, this relationship
is still only partially understood. There is a need for developing reliable
computational tools that allow one to understand folding and interaction of
proteins from the physical interactions between the atoms within a protein,
and between the protein and the surrounding environment. Complementing
experiments such tools can enable new insight into the molecular machinery
of cells. Unfortunately, the complex form of the forces within and between
proteins leads to a rough energy landscape with a large number of local
minima acting as traps. The resulting difficulties in sampling the energy
landscape increase exponentially with the size of the system. Remarkable
progress has been made over the last decade in overcoming this
sampling-problem. Examples are generalized-ensemble and replica exchange
techniques developed by us and others. However, these methods and algorithms
need to be advanced further to allow detailed description of fundamental
processes of protein folding, aggregation and interaction in a cell. I will
describe our recent progress and discuss some applications.
Professor Hansmann received his MA in Philosophy, "Diplom" (equivalent to a
MS) and PhD in Physics from the Freie Universitaet Berlin at Berlin,
Germany. Presently he is Professor in the Department of Physics at Michigan
Technological University, Houghton, MI. From 2005-2007 he held an additional
appointment as head of the "Computational Biology and Biophysics" group in
the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (Germany's premier
supercomputer center). In 2008 Dr. Hansmann was inducted as a Fellow of the
American Physical Society. Dr. Hansmann leads an active research program in
areas of development of global optimization techniques and modeling of
biomolecular and complex systems. His work is supported by both National
Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Since 2006 he
organizes a series of annual workshops "From Computational Biophysics to
Systems Biology".
Dear All,
Professor Ulrich Hansmann, from the Michigan Technological Institute, is
presenting a theoretical chemistry seminar TODAY (Wednesday, February
16) from 4:00-6:00pm in Room 4-149. Please take note of the new room!
The title of his talk will be "Probing proteins with computer
simulations."
Abstract
Rational drug design or the pathology of amyloid diseases are only two
problems whose solution requires a detailed knowledge of the relation
between chemical composition and structure/function of proteins. Despite
decades of research, both experimental and computational, this
relationship is still only partially understood. There is a need for
developing reliable computational tools that allow one to understand
folding and interaction of proteins from the physical interactions
between the atoms within a protein, and between the protein and the
surrounding environment. Complementing experiments such tools can enable
new insight into the molecular machinery of cells. Unfortunately, the
complex form of the forces within and between proteins leads to a rough
energy landscape with a large number of local minima acting as traps.
The resulting difficulties in sampling the energy landscape increase
exponentially with the size of the system. Remarkable progress has been
made over the last decade in overcoming this sampling-problem. Examples
are generalized-ensemble and replica exchange techniques developed by us
and others. However, these methods and algorithms need to be advanced
further to allow detailed description of fundamental processes of
protein folding, aggregation and interaction in a cell. I will describe
our recent progress and discuss some applications.
Bio
Professor Hansmann received his MA in Philosophy, "Diplom" (equivalent
to a MS) and PhD in Physics from the Freie Universitt Berlin at Berlin,
Germany. Presently he is Professor in the Department of Physics at
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI. From 2005-2007 he held
an additional appointment as head of the "Computational Biology and
Biophysics" group in the John von Neumann Institute for Computing
(Germany's premier supercomputer center). In 2008 Dr. Hansmann was
inducted as a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Hansmann
leads an active research program in areas of development of global
optimization techniques and modeling of biomolecular and complex
systems. His work is supported by both National Science Foundation and
the National Institutes of Health. Since 2006 he organizes a series of
annual workshops "From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology."
Thanks!
Lee-Ping Wang
Van Voorhis Group
MIT Department of Chemistry
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Dear Group,
Prof. Hatice Altug is visiting the department on March 3 for a pchem
seminar. She does some work with plasmonics, so the SERS people might be
interested in meeting with her. Please contact Lauren Zarzar (
zarzar(a)fas.harvard.edu) from the Aizenberg group to schedule a time during
her visit.
Cheers,
Leslie
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Leslie Vogt
Aspuru-Guzik Group
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
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