aspuru-list March 2011

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Tuesday March 29

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will meet on Tuesday in the usual spot at 11. My little red book says that Ramis will speak to us. Best, 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] presentation rehearsal

by Sergio Boixo

Dear Group, I'm going for an interview this week and would like to rehearsal my presentation. If you have time to criticize it, that would be great. I have booked the Division room today from 4:30 to 5:30pm. Thank you, Sergio

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] (no subject)

by Semion Saikin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl4L4M8m4d0

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Google guest lecture, March 29, in CS 264

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: > From: Hanspeter Pfister <pfister(a)seas.harvard.edu> > Date: March 26, 2011 7:00:55 PM EDT > To: gv <gv(a)seas.harvard.edu>, <scigpu(a)googlegroups.com> > Subject: Google guest lecture, March 29, in CS 264 > Reply-To: scigpu(a)googlegroups.com > > Title: Machine Learning on Big Data: Lessons Learned from Google Projects > > Harvard CS264 2011 Guest Lecture Series > "Massively Parallel Computing" Course (http://www.cs264.org) > > Speaker: Max Lin (Google Research) > Host: Nicolas Pinto (Harvard, MIT) > > Date: 3-29-2011 > Time: 7:35 PM > Location: Harvard Maxwell Dworkin G125 (http://j.mp/eCgV66) > > Abstract: > > Machine learning researchers and practitioners develop computer > algorithms that "improve performance automatically through > experience". At Gogole, machine learning is applied to solve many > problems, such as prioritizing emails in Gmail, recommending tags for > YouTube videos, and identifying different aspects from online user > reviews. Machine learning on big data, however, is challenging. Some > "simple" machine learning algorithms with quadratic time complexity, > while running fine with hundreds of records, are almost impractical to > use on billions of records. > > In this talk, I will describe lessons drawn from various Google > projects on developing large scale machine learning systems. These > systems build on top of Google's computing infrastructure such as GFS > and MapReduce, and attack the scalability problem through massively > parallel algorithms. I will present the design decisions made in > these systems, strategies of scaling and speeding up machine learning > systems on web scale data. > > > Speaker biography: > > Max Lin is a software engineer with Google Research in New York City > office. He is the tech lead of the Google Prediction API, a machine > learning web service in the cloud. Prior to Google, he published > research work on video content analysis, sentiment analysis, machine > learning, and cross-lingual information retrieval. He had a PhD in > Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fw: [sps-open] Cool Statistics Talk (and mochi ice cream!) this Tuesdayat 8pm

by Jacob Sanders

Hello group! This is an research talk for undergraduates which may nevertheless be of interest to several members of the group. I have heard nothing but great things about Professor Blitzstein's abilities as a lecturer! Unfortunately I will be out of town for this, but I highly recommend it. Cheers, Jacob <-----Original Message-----> From: Preya Shah [shah(a)college.harvard.edu] Sent: 3/26/2011 4:40:50 PM To: quincy-open(a)lists.hcs.harvard.edu; sps-open(a)lists.hcs.harvard.edu; thurj-staff(a)googlegroups.com Subject: [sps-open] Cool Statistics Talk (and mochi ice cream!) this Tuesdayat 8pm Interested in models for finance, computational physics, or bioinformatics? Statistics? Come hear "The Statistical Magic of Markov Chain Monte Carlo" with Professors Xiao-Li Meng and Joseph Blitzstein When: Tuesday, March 29 at 8 PM Where: Sever 102 Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, which originated in computational physics about a half century ago, have seen an enormous range of applications in both the natural and social sciences, and beyond. This is mainly due to their ability to simulate from very complex distributions needed by all kinds of statistical models, from bioinformatics to financial engineering to astronomy. The first part of the talk provides an introductory tutorial for the two most frequently used MCMC algorithms: the Gibbs sampler and the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. Using simple yet non-trivial examples, we demonstrate, via live performance, the good, bad, and ugly implementations. The second part of the talk shows some examples of how these algorithms are applied in practice, enabling investigations which would have been considered unimaginably complex before the advent of fast computers together with MCMC techniques. This talk will be an introduction to MCMC statistical models. Come early to get ice cream mochi before it melts! Sponsored by The Harvard Undergraduate Research Journal (THURJ) _______________________________________________ sps-open mailing list sps-open(a)lists.hcs.harvard.edu https://lists.hcs.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/sps-open

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Up for adoption: my succulent plant

by Ivan Kassal

Dear group, I have an IKEA succulent of unknown species to give away. Very resilient, has survived two weeks of non-watering while I was, um, forgetful. Think of all the hours you will spend pondering the crassulacean acid metabolism! Anyone? Ivan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [CCB_Staff] FW: WDS Production Sites Offline

by Anna B. Shin

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aloise, Allen <aloise(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:39 PM Subject: [CCB_Staff] FW: WDS Production Sites Offline To: "staff(a)chemistry.harvard.edu" <staff(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Dear CCB Staff, This email applies to the CCB homepage and various other harvard web-based services. Best, Allen --------------------------------------------------------------------- Allen Aloise, Ph.D. Director of Laboratories Co-Director of Graduate Studies Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Harvard University 12 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-4283 (office) 617-496-5618 (fax) aloise(a)chemistry.harvard.edu From: "Beeler, John" <john_beeler(a)harvard.edu> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:35:55 -0400 Cc: "itis-wds(a)harvard.edu" <itis-wds(a)harvard.edu> Subject: WDS Production Sites Offline WDS Customers – As communicated earlier today, the WDS production environment hosting (e.g. http://yoursite.harvard.edu) was pulled offline for emergency maintenance. Since our last communication, we have been working with our UIS colleagues to determine the nature and scope of the problem. Initial investigation has pointed up a security issue, and we are now actively working on two things: 1) continuing the investigation in a manner in which will not disturb any evidence that could be important, and 2) developing a recovery plan that will minimize the impact on your websites should this prove to be a problem that will require deeper forensics. We are aware that this involves a very serious business disruption, and are focusing any/all available resources to completely understand the situation and recover as quickly as possible. We will be back in touch later this afternoon with an update. Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience, and we ask that you share this message with your colleagues as or if needed. __________________________________ *Building a Better Web for Harvard** *** ___________________________________ *John D. Beeler* Harvard University Information Systems Website Development Services (WDS) 1033 Massachusetts Avenue, #462 Cambridge, MA 02138-1903 tel: 617.495.9995 http://uis.harvard.edu/wds [image: Harvard Green Printing Link]<http://green.harvard.edu/green-office/waste-reduction><http://green.harvard.edu/green-office/waste-reduction> _______________________________________________ ccb_staff mailing list ccb_staff(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccb_staff

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] mocha cake

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Immediately following group meeting, please meet me in the kitchen for a group send-off (with mocha on top) in honor of Kenta and Ivan...and Sigi! [?][?][?] Best, Anna P.S. Sigi won't be able to make it, but he's stopping by later to pick up his piece of cake. [?] [?] 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: Invitation to contribute a book chapter - "Ultrafast Biomolecular Dynamics at the Nanoscale"

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, I still have not gotten volunteers for this, which is fine, but now there has been a change. There are many possible subjects. The deadline was extended to September, 2011. Let me know if you are interested in undertaking such a mission. I was thinking that extending the Solvay proceedings review into a longer/updated manuscript could be an option for a chapter. Alan Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Associate Professor Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu | http://about.me/aspuru ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: irene.burghardt <irene.burghardt(a)ens.fr> Date: Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 2:51 PM Subject: Invitation to contribute a book chapter - "Ultrafast Biomolecular Dynamics at the Nanoscale" To: alan(a)aspuru.com Dear Alán, We are writing to invite you to contribute a chapter to a review volume on the topic of "Ultrafast Biomolecular Dynamics at the Nanoscale", which we are editing with Pan Stanford Publishing. Please find attached an invitation letter with further details. The volume aims at highlighting new trends in experimental and theoretical approaches to interactions and transport in biomolecular assemblies. Some focus will be put on elementary energy and charge transfer processes, and the role of quantum coherence, correlations, and nonequilibrium phenomena. We would be greatly honored and delighted if you could contribute a book chapter. The tentative deadline for collecting the manuscripts is July 2011, and publication is planned for early 2012. Looking forward to hearing from you, Best wishes, Irene Stefan Haacke & Irene Burghardt, Volume Editors -- Dr. Irene Burghardt Departement de Chimie Ecole Normale Superieure 24 rue Lhomond F-75231 Paris cedex 05 phone : +33 1 44 32 33 38 fax : +33 1 44 32 33 97 mailto:Irene.Burghardt@ens.fr http://www.chimie.ens.fr/UMR8642/Quantique/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [Cdi-amigos] Fwd: Equipment opportunities for ISTC-VC research - Your input required

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, See the e-mail from Hanspeter Pfister below. It actually is a great opportunity for the group to have access to some of these machines (eg. Larrabee's for our experiments in speeding up quantum chemistry) or as powerful workstations to do more work in development (some of us had discussions about this). So consider this christmas time and you are asking Santa Claus for computers. I would like from anybody interested in using some of the resources mentioned below, a concise clear paragraph or two describing what would be the use for it. Citing some of our papers that have to do with this (In Word document format). For example, the obvious example is GPU research and how having a Larrabee box would be great for it, but also how some of these machines could help e.g. the NSF Solar project or QUBE or DTRA or Quantum Biology, etc. Rather than me writing the entire narrative, I would like to get requests from interested parties, sort them and compose a larger document to send to Hanspeter early next week. Therefore, I need your "christmas" requests by Monday night. See below. Alan Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Associate Professor Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu | http://about.me/aspuru ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hanspeter Pfister <pfister(a)seas.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:36 PM Subject: [Cdi-amigos] Fwd: Equipment opportunities for ISTC-VC research - Your input required To: vcg <vcg(a)seas.harvard.edu>, cdi-amigos <cdi-amigos(a)seas.harvard.edu> As you probably know, I am part of the new Intel Science and Technology Center in Visual Computing (ISTC-VC). Intel is offering various equipment if we can make a case for it. Please send me a brief note if any of this equipment would be useful to you (or your students) and how it would be used. I'll collect the requests, try to massage them into a coherent form, and will pass them along. - HP Begin forwarded message: *From: *"Leeming, Greg P" <greg.p.leeming(a)intel.com> *Date: *March 24, 2011 12:17:54 PM EDT *To: *"istc-vc-technical-contributors(a)googlegroups.com" < istc-vc-technical-contributors(a)googlegroups.com> *Subject: **Equipment opportunities for ISTC-VC research - Your input required* Good Morning, we continue to work to get you access to Intel equipment. Here is the latest status: o *Sandy Bridge workstations*: An Intel division has communicated their willingness to fund the purchase of Sandy Bridge workstations for the Center. If you have interest, please forward a request for what you want to Frank franklin.c.crow(a)intel.com and provide a short explanation for how they will be used. Think big - don’t hesitate to ask for what will help your research. A workstation per grad student (or more than this) is not unreasonable. o *S/W licenses: *Intel has agreed to provide 25 seat licenses for Intel S/W development tool suites at no cost to ISTC-VC PIs. A URL at which you can request what you need will be made available in the short term - (likely within a few weeks - site is under development) o *Solid State Drives:* An offer has been made to supply solid state drives to the Center. If you have interest, please go to http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/index.htm and identify what you need and send your list to Frank. Please also provide a short explanation for how you will use them. The offer was to supply thousands of drives so think big. o *Larrabee workstations (now called Knights Ferry):* 15 high end platforms have been purchased for our Center - they are scheduled for delivery in Q4 of this year. o *Requests for Lablet equipment:* Greg attended a meeting on the disposition of lablet equipment yesterday - final decisions will be made by the end of April so keep tuned o *Access to cluster -* Discussions continue - not sure what the outcome will be yet. Goal is to provide access to a large cluster with significant Graphics support per core Please take maximum advantage of these opportunities. If there is Intel technology not on this list that you have interest in, please communicate to Frank. Thanks Greg, Pat, Frank and Jim _______________________________________________ Cdi-amigos mailing list Cdi-amigos(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/cdi-amigos

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