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

by Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario

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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] No group meeting tomorrow

by Joel Yuen

Due to some conflict in scheduling and the fact that several members of the group are still vacationing in Disneyland, there is no group meeting tomorrow. We'll resume next week with James. -- 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 http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-meetings-list

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email March 31 - April 14

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Tuesday, April 5: Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, and one of the world’s leading voices for combining economic development with environmental sustainability, concludes the Future of Energy lecture series with "Hurrying History: Can the World Adopt a Fast Path to Low-Carbon Energy?" Wednesday, April 6: Jon A. Krosnick, Professor, Stanford University, presents "What Americans and Massachusetts Residents Think About Climate Change: Attitude Formation and Change in Response to a Raging Scientific Controversy" in the HUCE Green Conversations lecture series with discussants Stephen Ansolabehere (FAS, Government), and Andrew Hoffman (MIT Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan). Thursday, April 7: The Arnold Arboretum welcomes Bill McKibben, environmentalist and writer, for a talk at the Trinity Church in Boston: "The Earth Is Our Garden: Are We Doing Our Best?" Calendar Listings: Tonight: 6:00pm IOP: 2011 Corliss Lamont Lecture IOP Forum Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA The Honorable Bill Richardson, Institute of Politics Visiting Fellow. The Corliss Lamont Lecture features an individual widely recognized for leadership in diminishing the risk of nuclear war. http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Events-Meetings/JFK-Jr.-Forum-Calendar/FORUM-A-p…... April 1, 2011 8:45am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Upper respiratory tract microbiota and pathogen carriage." Katherine Lemon, Forsyth Institute, HMS. http://www.msi.harvard.edu/ April 3, 2011 2:00pm HMNH Family Program HMNH 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA John "Woody" Hastings, Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard, will explore how and why creatures emit light, show live specimens from his collection, and discuss how scientists are discovering new benefits of bioluminescence for medical research. Free with museum admission. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/family_programs/index.php#bioluminescent Do Something Reel Film Festival 3:00pm Coolidge Corner Theatre Brookline, MA "Vanishing of the Bees." Narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Ellen Page, this cautionary tale reveals the mystery of the disappearing bees, and the links to industrial farming and our attitude toward the natural world. Tickets: $9.75 Adult / $7.75 Members. http://dosomethingreel.com/ April 4, 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 Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA "Is an Electric Car in Your Future?" Henry Lee, HKS Contact Name: Louisa Lund Louisa_Lund(a)harvard.edu 4:00pm EPS Colloquium Series Haller Hall Geological Museum 102 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Tiny Worlds of the Ice and Grit: NASA’s Latest Encounters with Comets Hartley 2 and Tempel 1." Jay Melosh (Purdue). http://www.eps.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k58621&pageid=icb.page298425 5:30pm Barton Seaver on Sustainable Seafood Harvard Hall 103 Cambridge, MA Join Barton Seaver, Esquire Magazine's 2009 Chef of the Year and National Geographic Fellow, for a talk on sustainable seafood. Barton is also the author of the forthcoming book, For Cod and Country. 5:30pm - 7:00pm Movie Screening: Dirt! Rock Cafe, Divinity School Harvard University Cambridge, MA Celebrate National Garden Month with a screening of Dirt! the movie. Tasting of "dirt" starting at 5 p.m. Free and open to the public. http://www.dining.harvard.edu/flp/calendar.html April 5, 2011 12:30pm - 2:00pm Reischauer Institute Special Series on Globalization and Governance Bowie-Vernon Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA "The Future of Global Food Security." Robert Paarlbert, Betty Freyhof Johnson Class of 1944 Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College, and Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA), Harvard University http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs/programs/calendar.html rijs(a)fas.harvard.edu 3:00pm - 4:30pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Climatea website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html Contact Name: Shuting Jin shuting(a)gmail.com 4:10pm Deliberative Democracy and Climate Governance 124 Mount Auburn, Suite 200-North Cambridge, MA Making reference to studies ranging from locally constituted citizen forums to global negotiations and networks, John Dryzek of Australia National University will claim that the theoretical arguments for deliberative democracy can be sustained when it comes to climate governance. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/events-calendar/deliberative-democra…... bruce_jackan(a)hks.harvard.edu 5:00pm Future of Energy: Jeffrey Sachs Science Center D, One Oxford St., Cambridge "Hurrying History: Can the World Adopt a Fast Path to Low-Carbon Energy?" Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University. Contact Name: Brenda Hugot bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-496-1788 April 6, 2011 11:00am OEB Weekly Seminar Series Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA "Where Darwin meets Freud: Genomics, Evolution and Psychopathology of the Social Brain." Bernard Crespi, Simon Fraser University. Host: Haig Lab http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 4:10pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy L-382 Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA "Climate Treaties and Approaching Catastrophes." Scott Barrett, Columbia University http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/events-calendar/seminar-in-environme…... Contact Name: Jason Chapman jason_chapman(a)harvard.edu 5:00pm - 6:00pm Green Conversations with Jon Krosnick Maxwell Dworkin G115 Harvard University 33 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA "What Americans and Massachusetts Residents Think About Climate Change - Attitude Formation and Change in Response to a Raging Scientific Controversy" Jon A. Krosnick, the Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, and Professor of Communication, Political Science and Pyschology at Stanford. Discussants: Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor, Harvard Department of Government and Andrew Hoffman, Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan; MIT Visiting Professor of Management. Moderated by Daniel Schrag, HUCE. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 7:30pm Do Something Reel Film Festival Coolidge Corner Theatre Brookline, MA On Coal River: A compelling and transcendent narrative on the human costs of coal and strip-mining, this provocative film follows the journey of a former coal miner and his neighbors. Tickets: $9.75 Adult / $7.75 Members. www.coolidge.org/showtimes 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 April 7- 9, 2011 Science and Technology Studies: The Next Twenty [See conference website for locations.] This meeting is the product of a year of conversations across several continents and dozens of institutions. It weaves together the hopes, aspirations, and-yes-frustrations of STS scholars from around the world who have committed their careers to studying the central role of science and technology in our social, political, and moral lives. http://stsnext20.org/ April 7, 2011 11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St. 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the website for topics of discussion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:00pm - 1:00pm HARVie Chat on Sustainability at Harvard Join Heather Henriksen, Director, Office for Sustainability (OFS), to learn about the University-wide sustainability goals, including the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal to reduce campus emissions by 30% by 2016, and resources and programs available from OFS to help you get involved and engaged in reducing campus environmental impacts. HARVie’s chats offer members of the Harvard community the opportunity to learn from experts across campus. From the HARVie homepage, select Chats in the left-hand column to participate. 4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group Faculty Dining Room Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA Study with IOP fellow and Former U.S. Representative for South Carolina’s 4th District Bob Inglis. discussing energy and environmental policy. http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2011-Study-…... 4:00pm Climate Seminar Haller Hall Geological Museum 102 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Precipitation parameter sensitivity and optimiztion challenges in climate models." David Neelin, University of California, Los Angeles. http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climateseminar.html 5:30pm - 6:30pm HCGEI Seminar with Altaeros Energies Sever 110 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Altaeros will speak about the airborne turbine that they are in the process of developing and its potential for producing abundant, low cost renewable energy while operating at higher altitudes than conventional wind turbines. Contact Name: Kamilia Kaczor kkaczor(a)fas.harvard.edu 7:00pm - 8:00pm The Earth Is Our Garden: Are We Doing Our Best? Contact Name: Pamela Thompson 617-384-5277 Trinity Church 206 Clarendon St Boston, MA Speaker: Bill McKibben, Environmentalist and Writer. Fee $20 Arnold Arboretum and Trinity Church members, $25 nonmember. Registration. http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/ April 8- 9, 2011 The Future of South Asia [See conference website for location information.] The symposium features a host of Harvard faculty members, dignitaries, and leaders in their respective fields. Sponsored by the Harvard South Asia Initative. http://southasiainitiative.harvard.edu/future_of_southasia/welcome.html April 8, 2011 8:45am MSI Chalktalk HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Structure & function in natural microbial communities: a transcriptomic perspective." Edward Delong (MIT-CEE/BE). Host: Colleen Cavanaugh. http://www.msi.harvard.edu/default.htm 7:00pm - 9:30pm HMNH: Special Event HMNH 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Bizarre Animals 2.0: An Evening of Contemporary Art Interventions." Artists and performers - including Harvard students, alumni and others - will transform the museum into laboratory, library, exploratorium, and stage. Admission: $6.00 at the door (ticketing begins at 6:30 pm). Free to museum members and Harvard ID holders (please note there is no plus one/free guest admission for this event.) http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php#bizarre April 9, 2011 8:30am - 6:00pm China Energy and Environment Conference http://www.chinaenergyenvironment.org Harvard University, Northwest Science Building 52 Oxford St Cambridge, MA The China Energy and Environment Conference at Harvard University will provide a forum for extensive debate and collaboration bringing influential scholars, government officials, and private sector leaders from China and the U.S. together to address Chinese energy and environmental issues. 6:00pm - 10:00pm Environmental League of Massachusetts Earth Night Sheraton Boston Boston, MA Earth Night, a party to benefit the Environmental League of Massachusetts, is Boston's biggest environmental benefit, drawing hundreds of the state's business, environmental, and community leaders. http://www.earthnight.org info(a)classic-communications.com 508-698-6810 April 11, 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 Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series Weil Hall, Ground Floor, Belfer Building, HKS 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA "Low-carbon energy options." Richard Vietor, HBS. Contact Name: Louisa Lund Louisa_Lund(a)harvard.edu 3:30pm - 6:00pm Harvard Green Carpet Awards Sanders Theater, Memorial Hall 45 Quincy St Cambridge, MA Celebrate the many dedicated and hard-working staff, faculty and students involved in campus sustainability initiatives at Harvard with distinguished guest presenters, live student performances, awards and more. http://www.green.harvard.edu/greencarpet April 12, 2011 3:00pm - 4:30pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Climatea website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html Contact Name: Shuting Jin shuting(a)gmail.com 5:00pm Science and Democracy with David Brooks: "Politics, the Brain, and Human Nature" Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall 48 Quincy Street, Harvard David Brooks, columnist for The New York, with panelists Max Bazerman, Straus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, David Kennedy, Director, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor, Department of Psychology, and moderator Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts Contact Name: Lisa Matthews matthew(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-495-8883 April 13, 2011 11:00am OEB Seminar Series Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Rasmus Nielsen, University of California, Berkeley. Title TBD. Host: Desai Lab http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 4:10pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy L-382, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA Juan Pablo Montero Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. "The Effect of Transport Policies on Air Quality: Theory and Evidence from Latin American Cities" 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 April 14, 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 7:30pm - 9:30pm Does radiation from cell phones cause cancer? Sever Hall 113 Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA Dr. Devra Davis, Founder and President of Environmental Health Trust and author of Disconnect, argues that the link exists and that the cell phone industry may be trying to do with this issue what the tobacco industry did to hide the health risks of smoking. Dr. Davis will be presenting as part of the course "Critical Thinking About Issues of Public and Environmental Health" (ENVR 160), an offering of the Harvard Extension School’s Environmental Management Program. Seating on a first come, first serve basis. dpr(a)dropeik.com --- 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. [97]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 97. 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.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: TALK: High-Level Language Abstractions for Low-Level Programming (Cyrus Omar from CMU, Thursday March 31st, 2011, 8:35 PM, Harvard Hall 104)

by Mark A. Watson

---FWD--- Title: cl.oquence: High-Level Language Abstractions for Low-Level Programming Speaker: Cyrus Omar (CMU) Date: 3-31-2011 Time: 8:35 PM Location: Harvard Hall 104 **Room change** Harvard CS264 2011 Guest Lecture Series "Massively Parallel Computing" Course (http://www.cs264.org) Host: Nicolas Pinto (Harvard, MIT) Abstract: When performance is important, developers turn to "low-level" languages like C, FORTRAN, CUDA and OpenCL. These languages handle issues related to register and stack allocation for their users, but do not otherwise attempt to manage memory allocation or control data movement. Developers continue to favor this design, despite the increased development burden, because small changes to an algorithm's data movement patterns can dramatically impact overall performance on modern hardware, including GPUs, but compilers for high-level languages are not yet able to reliably outperform motivated human experts. Indeed, the most prominent productivity-oriented languages in computational science -- MATLAB and Python -- come with significant performance overhead. In this talk, I will demonstrate that many of the productivity-enhancing features characteristic of high-level languages can be reconciled with a low-level programming model with no performance penalty, using techniques like type inference, structural polymorphism and compile-time metaprogramming. The resulting language, called cl.oquence, compiles directly into OpenCL source code. Because OpenCL is low-level, supports a variety of architectures and can be called from several languages, cl.oquence functions can be integrated into existing projects easily. For Python users, special bindings have been developed, based on pyopencl, that allow users to write cl.oquence functions inline and call them directly, without even the minimal syntactic overhead that a more generic binding would require. Although the language remains in beta, I have been using it to run large-scale neurobiological circuit simulations. An informal case study of this simulation framework will be presented. The language is free, open-source and well-documented. It will be available at http://cl.oquence.org/ shortly. Interested people can email me (cyrus(a)cmu.edu). Speaker biography: Cyrus Omar is a graduate student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on building better programming languages, compilers, development environments and data sharing infrastructure for computational science and high-performance computing, with a particular focus on computational neurobiology. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~comar -- Nicolas Pinto, PhD http://web.mit.edu/pinto _______________________________________________ Seas-gpu-cdi mailing list Seas-gpu-cdi(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/seas-gpu-cdi

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Dimitris Tsomokos visit, 26-30 April

by sarah mostame

Dear group people, Dimitris Tsomokos from Royal Holloway, University of London, will be visiting our group 26-30 April. He will give a talk on Thursday 4/28 at 11:00 am, Division room. The talk will be about "Quantum walks on complex networks with connection instabilities and community structure". Best, Sarah ------ Sarah Mostame, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street, Room Cv-B21 Cambridge, MA 02138 email: mostame(a)fas.harvard.edu http://aspuru.unix.fas.harvard.edu/People/Sarah_Mostame/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Second call for coffee money

by Semion Saikin

Hi guys, So far only Sergio has contributed to the coffee fund. Please feel comfortable donating more money. The collecting jar is on my desk. The last pack of coffee will be finished soon. Semion

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Tim Swager visit, April 14

by Leslie Vogt

Dear group people, Tim Swager will be visiting the department on April 14 as a student-hosted pchem speaker (see more info below!). If you are interested in meeting with him, please contact Lauren Zarzar (zarzar(a)fas.harvard.edu) to set up a meeting time. Cheers, Leslie -- Leslie Vogt Aspuru-Guzik Group Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lauren Zarzar <zarzar(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:46 PM Subject: Tim Swager To: Leslie Vogt <leslievogt(a)gmail.com> Hi Leslie, As you know Tim Swager is coming on April 14, and his talk will be titled "Top-Down Chemistry: Functionalization and Applications of Nano-Carbon Materials". Can you forward this information to your group, and have anyone interested in meeting him email me (zarzar(a)fas.harvard.edu) to schedule a time? thanks! lauren -- Lauren Zarzar Dept of Chemistry, Harvard University Give to learn, Learn to give: www.givology.org

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] AMP Seminar Monday April 4, Meera Parish (Princeton Center for Theoretical Science)

by James F. Babb

Please join us for an informal seminar sponsored by the Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. (Complete schedule at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/amp/events.html) 2:00 PM Monday April 4, 2011 PRATT Conference Room 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Highly polarized Fermi gases in different dimensions Dr. Meera Parish Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University In this talk, I will consider an atomic Fermi gas in the limit of extreme spin imbalance, where one has a single spin-down impurity atom interacting attractively with a spin-up atomic Fermi gas. Such a scenario is an example of the canonical "polaron" problem, the solution of which is used to construct the low-energy behavior of many-body systems. For sufficiently strong attraction, the impurity atom has the possibility of binding one or more spin-up fermions and thus changing its statistics. I will explore the nature of these binding transitions and how they are affected by the system dimensionality. _______________________________________________ Aspuru-meetings-list mailing list Aspuru-meetings-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-meetings-list

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] desks

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Just a quick note about desk assignments: Those living in "Siberia" have first dibs on vacated desks. Best, Anna Anna B. Shin Laboratory Administrator | Aspuru-Guzik Research Group Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology | Harvard University 12 Oxford Street | Cambridge, MA 02138 617.496.9964 office | 617.694.9879 cell | 617.496.9411 fax http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: TALK: Easy, Effective, Efficient: GPU Programming in Python with PyOpenCL and PyCUDA (Andreas Kloeckner, Thursday March 31st, 2011, 7:35 PM, Harvard MD G125)

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Hello: For those in the group interested in python programming. Roberto Begin forwarded message: *From: *Nicolas Pinto <pinto(a)mit.edu> *Date: *March 30, 2011 9:10:55 AM EDT *To: *undisclosed-recipients:; *Subject: **TALK: Easy, Effective, Efficient: GPU Programming in Python with PyOpenCL and PyCUDA (Andreas Kloeckner, Thursday March 31st, 2011, 7:35 PM, Harvard MD G125)* Title: Easy, Effective, Efficient: GPU Programming in Python with PyOpenCL and PyCUDA Speaker: Andreas Kloeckner (NYU) Date: 3-31-2011 Time: 7:35 PM Location: Harvard Hall 104 **Room change** Harvard CS264 2011 Guest Lecture Series "Massively Parallel Computing" Course (http://www.cs264.org) Host: Nicolas Pinto (Harvard, MIT) Abstract: High-level scripting languages are in many ways polar opposites to GPUs. GPUs are highly parallel, subject to hardware subtleties, and designed for maximum throughput, and they offer a tremendous advance in the performance achievable for a significant number of computational problems. On the other hand, scripting languages such as Python favor ease of use over computational speed and do not generally emphasize parallelism. PyOpenCL and PyCUDA are two packages that attempt to join the two together. By showing concrete examples, both at the toy and the whole-application level, this talk aims to demonstrate that by combining these opposites, a programming environment is created that is greater than just the sum of its two parts. Speaker biography: Andreas Klöckner obtained his PhD degree working with Jan Hesthaven at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. He worked on a variety of topics all aiming to broaden the utility of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. This included their use in the simulation of plasma physics and the demonstration of their particular suitability for computation on throughput-oriented graphics processors (GPUs). He also worked on multi-rate time stepping methods and shock capturing schemes for DG. In the fall of 2010, he joined the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University as a Courant Instructor. There, he is working on problems in computational electromagnetics with Leslie Greengard. His research interests include: - Discontinuous Galerkin and integral equation methods for wave propagation - Programming tools for parallel architectures - High-order unstructured particle-in-cell methods for plasma simulation -- Nicolas Pinto, PhD http://web.mit.edu/pinto

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