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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] TODAY at 5pm: "Forests in a Changing Climate" with Paul Moorcroft

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, & Global Change "Forests in a Changing Climate” Paul Moorcroft, Professor of Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University TODAY, Wednesday, February 16 5:00 pm Biolabs Lecture Hall Harvard University 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Ongoing changes in climate, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and disturbance regimes are transforming the composition, structure, and functioning of the earth’s terrestrial ecosystems. Thus far, insights into how forests and other terrestrial ecosystems will change in response to changes in climate and rising atmospheric CO2 levels have relied heavily on the predictions of terrestrial biosphere models that contain detailed, mechanistic representations of the biological processes that underpin terrestrial ecosystem dynamics. In this talk, Moorcroft discusses some recent insights these models have provided on the impacts of changes in climate forcing on the fate of temperate forest ecosystems. He then discusses some recent progress on bridging between these complex, process-based models and simpler, analytically-tractable formulations in order to develop a predictive, non-equilibrium theory of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics. 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 Events Coordinator 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-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 2. 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. [3]Forward this email to a friend Links: 3. http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=1f6…

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [ PSI-K ] Gordon Research Conference on Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory

by Man-Hong Yung

TDDFT conference not far away from us: The conference will take place August 14-19, 2011 on the picturesque campus of the University of New England - about 90 minutes north of Boston. Yours, Man Hong ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: PSI-K <psik-coord(a)dl.ac.uk> Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:54 PM Subject: [ PSI-K ] Gordon Research Conference on Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory To: PSI-K <psik-coord(a)dl.ac.uk> An announcement has been added in the "PSI-K" site at PSI-K (http://cselnx9.dl.ac.uk:8080/portal) Subject: Gordon Research Conference on Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory Category: Event From: E.K.U. Gross Date: 16-Feb-2011 00:54 Message: Dear Colleague, We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming Gordon Research Conference on Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory. The purpose of this conference is to advance the field by presenting new, cutting-edge results, connecting the growing TDDFT user and developer communities, and fostering open discussions beyond disciplinary boundaries. As with all GRCs, the conference will consist of invited talks each morning and evening, poster presentations at night, and afternoons that will be free for intellectual discussion or excursions. The conference will take place August 14-19, 2011 on the picturesque campus of the University of New England - about 90 minutes north of Boston. Further details, including a schedule of confirmed speakers and instructions on how to register can be found at the conference Web Site. We strongly encourage you to attend the TDDFT GRC. We anticipate that the conference will provide a unique opportunity for leading researchers to discuss challenges at the forefront of TDDFT. If you have any colleagues, students or postdocs who might be interested, please pass this announcement on to them. In particular, we would like to point out that the best two poster presenters will be selected to give contributed talks on the last day of the conference. We anticipate this will be an opportunity for younger scientists who are doing high-quality work to get some exposure within the community. Location: University of New England, Biddeford, ME, United States Dates: Sunday, August 14, 2011 - Friday, August 19, 2011 Chairs: Troy Van Voorhis (Massachusettes Institute of Technology) tvan(a)mit.edu Filipp Furche (University of California Irvine) filipp.furche(a)uci.edu Vice Chairs: E.K.U. Gross (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics) Neepa T Maitra (Hunter College of New York) Web Site: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2011&program=tddft Online Application: http://www.grc.org/application.aspx?id=13551 RSS Feed: http://www.grc.org/rss/0000554.xml ---------------------- This automatic notification message was sent by PSI-K (http://cselnx9.dl.ac.uk:8080/portal) from the PSI-K site. You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] I need an apprentice

by Ivan Kassal

Dear group, The fateful day will soon arrive when the coffee runs out but I am not there to order more. Therefore, someone must volunteer to be initiated into the dark arts of coffee machine maintenance. This person will be instructed in such matters as which brand of decalcifying tablets to buy. The volunteering deadline is by group meeting on Friday, whereupon, if no one has volunteered, I'll, um, have Alan pick someone. This is because the coffee is about to run out and a new batch must be bought soon. The perks of the job include: 1. You can choose which coffee to buy while putting on a charade of democratic choice. 2. In subsequent assignments of odious group duties, you'll always have an excuse (I once almost ended up with group wiki maintenance). Ivan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Tuesday February 15

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta We will meet tomorrow at 11:00 in 6-310. Byron is going to tell us about what he has been up to attempting to show that no quantum algorithm can find a path from Entrance to Exit of the welded trees in polynomial time. If you don't know what this is about it will be explained. Best, Eddie ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics 6-300 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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] Watson / Jeopardy Lecture and Viewing Party Monday 14 Feb

by Mark A. Watson

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: DeBUG <debug(a)mit.edu> ...with guest speakers from the IBM Watson Research Center... http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=13574220 _______________________________________________ SciGPU-Seminars mailing list SciGPU-Seminars(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/scigpu-seminars -- Dr. Mark A. Watson Aspuru-Guzik Group Harvard University http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Announcement: Excitonics Seminar, Tues. Feb. 15, 3PM/RM 36-428

by Cathy Bourgeois

Please forward to your groups Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement Tuesday, February 15, 2011 3:00 PM RLE Conference Room: 36-428 Rachel Segalman, University of California, Berkeley "Molecular and Hybrid Solution Processable Thermoelectrics" Abstract Thermoelectric materials for energy generation have several advantages over conventional power cycles including lack of moving parts, silent operation, miniaturizability, and CO2 free conversion of heat to electricity. Excellent thermoelectric efficiency requires a combination of high thermopower (S, V/K), high electrical conductivity (σ, S/cm), and low thermal conductivity (κ, W/mK). To date the best materials available have been inorganic compounds with relatively low earth abundance and highly complex, vacuum processing routes (and hence greater expense), such as Bi2Te3. Molecular materials and hybrid organic-inorganics bring the promise of inexpensive, solution processible, mechanically durable devices. While highly conductive polymers are now common place, they generally demonstrate low thermopower. Our work on molecular scale junctions that nanostructuring of organics allows them to act as thermionic filters between inorganic junctions which can lead to enhanced thermoelectric properties. We have taken inspiration from this fundamental understanding to design material systems in which we combine a high electrical conductivity, low thermal conductivity polymer with a nanoparticle that contributes high thermopower. Additionally, the work functions of the two materials are well-aligned which introduces the possibility of thermionic filtering at the interface and an additional boost to the power factor. The combination of these effects results in a new hybrid, solution processible material with a thermoelectric figure of merit within an order of magnitude of the Bi2Te3. In this talk, I will discuss both the use of thermoelectric measurements to gain insight to molecular junctions and how this insight translates to design principles for polymer and hybrid thermoelectrics. Bio Rachel A. Segalman is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and an Associate Faculty Scientist in the Materials Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Segalman received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering with highest honors from the University of Texas at Austin. She then performed her doctoral work in Chemical Engineering (polymer physics) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Following her PhD, Segalman was a postdoctoral fellow at the Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg France. She then joined the faculty of UC Berkeley in the spring of 2004 as the Charles Wilke Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering. Segalman is the author of more than 50 refereed publications including 3 invited reviews and one book chapter. She has been also been granted three patents in the field of energy research. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar, and has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE), MDV Innovators Award, TR35: Technology Review's Top Innovators Under 35, Hellman Family Young Faculty Award, 3M Untenured Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, Intel Young Faculty Seed Award, and Chateaubriand Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is currently serving on the Science and Technology Committee of the Board of Governors for Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratory LLC and is an Associate Editor for the Annual Reviews of Chemical Engineering and is on the Editorial Board of Macromolecules. Segalman is also an active member of APS, ACS, MRS, and AIChE and is a Member at Large for the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP) of the American Physical Society. 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] CEP2 setup

by Johannes Hachmann

Hi everybody, Thanks so much for setting up CEP2 on all the lab computers today - you guys and gals are the best! I took a few pics and they are on our research log. BTW: every time you 'Like' posts on the facebook page, they get proliferated and the word spreads farther. Such additional PR is always appreciated ;). I'd like to ask for one more favor: Could you please send me your WCG User-ID. That way we can follow the progress within the group and can learn something about different hardware and different custom settings. Thanks again and 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] WCG -CEP tutorials

by Sule Atahan-Evrenk

Dear All, there were a couple of questions, I guess most of them will be covered by these youtube tutorials thanks to Roberto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhYNeT2Km3Q&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8l6_mxExKs if you have not installed it, please do before you finish digesting the pizza! :P thanks, s.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] CEP screensaver on group computers

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, The CEP team is planning a university-wide initiative to have the screensaver installed on as many Harvard computers as possible, from students' personal laptops to the Science Center computer lab workstations (my personal fav is the screensaver installed on President Faust's office, home, and laptop computers). But first, we must look into the mirror of our twin widescreen LCD monitors. Our immediate task at hand is to have the screensaver installed on every group computer. We have 13 new desktops (one is still in its box). *All 26+ group machines must have the screensaver installed by 1pm today.* If we achieve this small goal, we get pizza! - but more importantly, we take the first step to total Harvard domination! Take the first step and download now: http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu 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 <+16174969964> <+16174969964>617.496.9964 <+16174969964> office | <+16176949879> <+16176949879>617.694.9879 <+16176949879> cell | <+16174969411> <+16174969411>617.496.9411 <+16174969411> fax http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

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

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Tomorrow: Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and Geography and the Environment, Boston University, presents "How Climate in South Asia is Becoming a Water Issue." Chaired by John Briscoe (SEAS, HSPH), this talk is co-sponsored by the South Asia Imitative and the Center for the Environment. February 16: Paul Moorcroft, Professor of Biology, Harvard University Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, kicks off the spring Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change lecture series with a talk on "Forests in a Changing Climate." February 17: Erich Muehlegger, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, presents "Do Americans Consume Too Little Natural Gas? An Empirical Test of Marginal Cost Pricing" in the Business and Government Seminar Series. Tonight 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 February 11, 2011 9:00am - 11:00am MIT Energy Club Event: Tour of the EnerNOC Facility EnerNOC is a world class energy management service company that assists commercial, institutional and industrial organizations use energy more intelligently and cost effectively while generating cash flow that benefits the bottom line. Contact Name: Daniel Apo djapo(a)mit.edu https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGVaQnltVGJCclFNWXB4…... 11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar Harvard Forest Seminar Room Petersham, MA "Tree bark: structure, species identification, and ecology." Michael Wojtech – Conservation Biologist. Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:30pm - 2:00pm How Climate in South Asia is Becoming a Water Issue CGIS Knafel Building, K262 1737 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA Speaker: Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future; Professor of International Relations and Geography & the Environment, Boston University. Chaired by: John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health, HSPH; Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, SEAS Contact Name: Megan Rajbanshi mrajbans(a)fas.harvard.edu (617) 496-4862 7:00pm - 9:00pm Harvard Undergraduate Biological Sciences Society Night at the Museum Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA Come help us ring in Darwin’s 202th birthday with HUBSS! Tours, food, and prizes. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hubss/Updates.html February 12, 2011 Gallery Opening: Twelve Animals of the Chinese Zodiac HMNH 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA Experience the museum as we launch the Year of the Rabbit by discovering the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, each linked to a specimen in the galleries. Learn about the cultural significance and natural history of these animals and try your hand at drawing the animal assigned to the year of your birth. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php 10:30am - 6:00pm Changing the Way We Eat Viewing Party Boylston Hall 110 (Harvard Yard) Cambridge, MA TEDX Manhattan’s Changing the Way We Eat is a one day event highlighting the sustainable food movement and the work being done to shift our food system from industrially-based agriculture to one in which healthy, nutritious food is accessible to all. Featuring multiple speakers including Laurie David, Josh Viertel, and Ian Cheney. RSVP required. http://www.tedxmanhattan.org/ February 13, 2011 Opening of the new Charles Hayden Planetarium The Museum of Science 1 Science Park Boston, MA The Museum of Science, Boston will officially unveil New England's most technologically advanced digital theater with the world premiere of “Undiscovered Worlds: The Search Beyond Our Sun.” http://www.mos.org/visitor_info/museum_news/press_releases&d=4852 Contact Name: Sofiya Cabalquinto scabalquinto(a)mos.org 2:00pm Harvard Museum of Natural History Family Program HMNH 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA Explore some of the unusual and bizarre ways in which animals search for and win the affection of their companions at "Valentine's Day in the Animal Kingdom", a family program with Harvard graduate students Emily Kay and Alexis Harrison. Free with museum admission. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/family_programs/index.php#valentine February 14, 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 OEB Special Seminar HUH Seminar Room 22 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA "Pecking at the Origin of Vertebrate Diversity: Insights from Darwin's finches and other birds." Arkhat Abzhanov, Harvard University. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 12:00pm - 1:30pm ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall (5th floor Belfer Building) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA "Perspectives on Energy Policy Making." Dick Benschop, Shell. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/events.htm mrcbg(a)hks.harvard.edu 4:00pm MIT Energy Initiative Special Seminar MIT E19-319 Cambridge, MA "More Electricity For Less CO2." Yves Bamberger, EDF Chairman, CEO, and Scientific Advisor. http://www.mitenergyclub.org/ 4:00pm EPS Colloquium Series Haller Hall, Geo-Museum 102 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Frederik Simons, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University. Title TBA. http://www.eps.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k58621&pageid=icb.page298425 4:00pm Paleontology Faculty Search Candidate Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA "Amphibian evolution through deep time: integrating the fossil record, morphology, and development." Nadia Frobisch, University of Chicago. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 6:30pm - 8:00pm Loeb Seminar Series Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Room 112 (Stubbins) 42 Quincy St Cambridge, MA "From Landscapes of Extraction to Creative Industries of Organic Materials and Waste." Speakers: Colleen Hansel, Manuel Mansylla, Pablo Rey. Moderator: Richard Forman, PAES Professor of Landscape Ecology http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/community/from-landscapes…... Contact Name: Christina Andujar candujar(a)seas.harvard.edu February 16, 2011 1:00pm - 2:30pm Wind Energy Coverage: Which Way Does the Media Wind Blow? Harvard Kennedy School Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Bldg, 4th 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 4:00pm - 5:00pm Origins Forum Geo Museum, Haller Hall (Room 102), 24 Oxford Street "Changing Habitable Environments on Mars: Implications for Global Processes." John Mustard, Brown University. 5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology & Global Change: "Forests in a Changing Climate" Biolabs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge "Forests in a Changing Climate.” Paul Moorcroft, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 7:00pm Boston Area Solar Energy Association First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist 3 Church Street, Harvard Square Cambridge, MA "The Potential of Residential Installations." http://www.basea.org/ 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 17, 2011 11:45am - 1:00pm Business and Government Seminar Series Bell Hall (5th floor Belfer Building) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA "Do Americans Consume Too Little Natural Gas? An Empirical Test of Marginal Cost Pricing." Erich Muehlegger, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/events.htm mrcbg(a)hks.harvard.edu 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 4:00pm Paleontology Faculty Search Candidate Biolabs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA "Understanding evolutionary radiations: paleontological approaches." Sterling Nesbitt, University of Washington. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 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) 9:00am - 12:30pm The 121st New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable 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 http://www.RaabAssociates.org 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" http://environment.harvard.edu/australia Contact Name: Lisa Matthews matthew(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-495-8883 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. 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 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." Contact Name: Brenda Hugot bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-496-1788 Science Center D, One Oxford Street, Cambridge Cherry A. Murray, Dean, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Professor of Physics and featuring Rich Sears, Visiting Scientist at MIT. 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?"Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science editor, and Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine environment reporter. 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" 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 Drawing from his newest book published by Harvard University Press, 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 Attend this panel discussion, featuring experts representing diverse environmental career paths including environmental consulting, research, fieldwork, policy, and sustainability. Please register to attend: ocsrsvp(a)fas.harvard.edu Contact Name: Anthony Arcieri arcieri(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. 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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