aspuru-list April 2011

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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

12 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] group travel policy on wiki

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Quick follow-up on group travel policy discussion at yesterday's group meeting: the wiki is still in revision phase but please refer to it before you do anything. If something's unclear, please email me or stop by my office hours with questions. By end of next week, I hope to email/post the travel questionnaire that you'll be required to fill out for review before Alan can give final approval. A completed questionnaire via email will suffice, but in future, Alan would like to build a simple database with online version for you to submit. It is unclear when that will roll out, but until then we'll still need an email with this information. Look out for the questionnaire in a week or so, or ask me if you need it sooner. Thanks, 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 <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=e7480c62f0&view=att&th=12eee19970…>

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Free Food

by tempel＠physics.harvard.edu

There are free leftovers in the Aspuru-Guzik, Cohen common area. David

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Jungledisk connection problems

by Jacob J Krich

There is a general connectivity problem at Jungledisk right now, so you will not be able to access your backups or put up new ones. There is an outage status report here: http://support.jungledisk.com/home It suggests rebooting your computer to help. Jacob

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Today at 12pm: "Energy and Environment Nanomaterials"

by Center for the Environment

Email not displaying correctly? [1]View it in your browser. _Harvard University’s Materials for Energy Group presents_ Links: 1. http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=8aa0168489… _"Energy and Environment Nanomaterials"_ _Yi Cui_ _Associate Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering Stanford University _ _Friday, April 29, noon_ Maxwell Dworkin, G115 33 Oxford Street,Cambridge _Abstract: _Both energy and environment problems require technologies to be high performance and low cost. The capability of controlling nanomaterials in size, shape, assembly and property developed in the past decades has enabled exciting opportunities of designing nanomaterials rationally toward novel energy and environment technologies. In this lecture, I will show how we design and synthesize nanowires, nanotubes and nanocones to manipulate fundamental processes involving photons, electrons and ions. I will illustrate our success using exciting examples in solar cells, batteries, microbial fuel cells and water filters. _About Yi Cui: _Yi Cui went to University of Science and Technology of China, where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 1998. He attended graduate school from 1998 to 2002 at Harvard University, where he worked under supervision of Professor Charles M. Lieber. His Ph.D thesis concerned semiconductor nanowires for nanotechnology including synthesis, nanoelectroncis and nanosensor applications. He went on to work as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Paul Alivisatos at University of California, Berkeley. His postdoctoral work was mainly on electronics and assembly using colloidal nanocrystals. He is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. The overall theme of his research has been on the rational design of nanoscale materials to address critical problems in energy and the environment. His research group has generated a number of breakthroughs. His group has developed silicon nanowire battery anodes with 10 times higher specific capacities than the existing carbon anodes. They have invented paper and textile batteries, opening up exciting opportunities in large-scale stationary energy storage and wearable power. His group has designed high performance nanodome solar cells and metal nanowire mesh transparent electrodes. They have generated novel electrified nanowire water filters for fast and low-cost pathogen disinfection, which was designated one of “the top 10 world changing ideas” by _Scientific American_. Most recently his group has invented mixing entropy batteries which could extract a large amount of electricity out of the salinity difference between the sea and the river water. In addition, Yi has also been actively working on topological insulators and nanoscale tools for biology. Yi has received Harvard’s Wilson Prize (2011), KAUST Investigator Award (2008), ONR Young Investigator Award (2008), MDV Innovators Award (2007), Terman Fellowship (2005), the Technology Review World Top Young Innovator Award (2004), Miller Research Fellowship (2003), Distinguished Graduate Student Award in Nanotechnology (Foresight Institute, 2002), Gold Medal of Graduate Student Award (Material Research Society, 2001). The Materials for Energy lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment. The lectures are free and open to the public. _Contact:_ Brenda Hugot Program Administrator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 [2]bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu p. 617-496-1788 f. 617-496-0425 Links: 2. mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu *|LIST:Green Conversations|* [3]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 3. http://harvard.us1.list-manage2.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. [4]Forward this email to a friend Links: 4. http://us1.forward-to-friend1.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=8a…

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email April 28 - May 12

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Tomorrow, April 29: Yi Cui, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, will discuss exciting applications of nano-technologies in solar cells, batteries, microbial fuel cells, and water filters in "Energy and Environment Nanomaterials" at the final Energy Materials group seminar. Wednesday, May 4: Join a conversation with the members of Refrigerants, Naturally! about how corporations, NGOs and government can work together to make substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in "Keeping Our Cool: Promoting Green Technologies to Combat Climate Change." Did you miss an HUCE lecture? Visit the links our events page to view the videos online: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar Calendar Listings: Tonight 6:00pm Greening Our Future Through Farming Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture SOCH 104 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Gene Baur, President of the Farm Sanctuary. Contact Name: Marina N. Bolotnikova mbolotnikova(a)college.harvard.edu 314.484.1937 7:30pm Movie Screening: The Economics of Happiness Emerson Hall 210 Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA The Economics of Happiness restores our faith in humanity and challenges us to believe that it is possible to build a better world. ‘Going local’ is a powerful strategy to repair our fractured world—our ecosystems, our societies and ourselves. April 29, 2011 12:00pm Energy Materials at Harvard: "Energy and Environment Nanomaterials" Maxwell Dworkin G115 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Featuring Yi Cui, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University. Contact Name: Brenda Hugot bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-496-1788 1:00pm - 6:00pm Tackling Global Challenges Through International Law The Fletcher School Tufts University 160 Packard Ave, Medford, MA The Forum's proposals take a three-pronged approach to ensuring environmentally sustainable growth and energy access: progress through the UN; cooperation between like-minded actors; and partnerships with the private sector and civil society. http://worldeconomicforumatfletcher.eventbrite.com 5:30pm "The Promise and Challenge of Water Sensitivity" Tsai Auditorium Center for Government and International Affairs Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Herbert Dreiseitl, Landscape Architect, Artist, Founder & Partner, Atelier Dreiseitl, Loeb Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Design. http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/2506 Contact Name: Elizabeth Flanagan elizabethflanagan(a)fas.harvard.edu 617.495.1036 April 30 - May 8, 2011 Cambridge Science Festival Locations throughout Cambridge The Cambridge Science Festival is a celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science, technology, engineering and math. A multifaceted, multicultural event every spring, the Cambridge Science Festival makes science accessible, interactive and fun for everyone! April 30, 2011 9:00am - 4:00pm WAZE Symposium -- On the Frontline: Overcoming the Challenges of Conservation Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston Campus The symposium will explore how policy, economics, ecology, medicine, culture and anthropology can intertwine to overcome current and future challenges in conservation. http://sites.tufts.edu/wazesymposium2011/ wazesymposium2011(a)gmail.com 9:30am - 1:00pm Harvard Alumni Global Month of Service - Trail Restoration at Harvard Forest Harvard Forest 324 North Main St. Petersham, MA 01366 After a short orientation period, we'll work in groups on simple maintenance projects along the Harvard Forest natural history trails. PLEASE RSVP by Friday, April 22 to hart3(a)fas.harvard.edu, specifying how many adults and children will be in your group. http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu Contact Name: Clarisse Hart hart3(a)fas.harvard.edu 978-756-6157 3:30pm HMNH Author Talk and Booksigning 26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA Learn about the massive mammals that roamed the planet 13,000 years ago at "Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals", an author talk and booksigning with science writer Sharon Levy. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php#secrets May 2, 2011 8:30am - 5:00pm College GreenFest at the 2nd Annual Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 600 Atlantic Avenue Boston, MA Improve and Grow the Economy of the Commonwealth by Advancing Business Sustainability. http://www.foundationforagreenfuture.org/upcoming_events crystal(a)isesplanning.com 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 "National Oil Companies and the Geopolitics of Energy." Jonas Meckling, Geopolitics of Energy Fellow. Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)harvard.edu 2:30pm - 4:30pm MIT Clean Energy Showcase Hynes Convention Center Boston, MA The MIT Energy Innovation Showcase will include poster presentations from the MIT Clean Energy Prize top 25 semi-finalists, MIT Clean Energy Prize alumni teams, and other successful energy start-ups in the area. http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu/network/broadcasts/201105/index.html May 3, 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: Jennifer Lake jlake(a)fas.harvard.edu May 4, 2011 10:00am Special Seminar at HKS Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th floor Harvard Kennedy School Cambridge, MA Robert H. Socolow, Princeton University. "High-Consequence Outcomes and Internal Disagreements: Tell Us More, Please" discussing the communication of uncertainty within the IPCC framework. Contact Name: Karin L. Vander Schaaf Karin_vander_schaaf(a)harvard.edu 617-496-5584 1:15pm Webcast: Sustainable Consumption and Production: Educating, Engaging and Empowering Stakeholders for Low Carbon, Inclusive Growth Online Highlights the role of education in promoting consumption and production systems that lead to low carbon, inclusive growth. http://scpwebcast.eventbrite.com/ Contact Name: Portia Gama unuony(a)unu.edu 3:00pm The Great Sendai Earthquake Room 32-123 MIT Cambridge, MA Professor Akira Wada, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan -“Impact on the Built Environment” Professor David Simchi-Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Mitigating Supply Chain Disruptions. Horace Crary Memorial Lecture. Contact Name: Marygrace A. Aboudou maboudou(a)mit.edu 617-324-6488 4:00pm Keeping Our Cool: Promoting Green Technologies to Combat Climate Change Nye Conference Center Taubman building, 5th floor Harvard Kennedy School Cambridge, MA Join a conversation with the members of Refrigerants, Naturally! about how corporations, NGOs and government can work together to make substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in a time of political austerity and contention. http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5521/keeping_our_cool.html May 5, 2011 2011 Annual Plant Biology Symposium "Genetics of Adaptation.” RSVP requested. http://www.pbi.fas.harvard.edu/events.htm pbi(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:00pm “Phase Change: Maria Telkes and the Rise and Fall of Solar Energy, 1946-1963” Portico 123 Harvard University Graduate School of Design 48 Quincy Street Cambridge MA 02138 A lecture by Daniel Barber, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Ziff Environmental Fellow. http://environment.harvard.edu/about/fellows/daniel-barber Presented by the New England Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians. 1:15pm Webcast: Vision for RIO+20: System Change for Green Economy and Poverty Reduction Online This seminar will show how changes in price structure and sustainable infrastructure can lead to poverty reduction in a green economy. http://visionrio20webcast.eventbrite.com/ Contact Name: Portia Gama unuony(a)unu.edu May 10, 2011 6:00pm HMNH Lecture and Booksigning Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA At "The Secrets of Field Notes: Capturing Science, Nature, and Exploration, Tuesday", editor Michael Canfield, lecturer in biology at Harvard, will discuss what makes these notes and journals so important, the secrets they reveal, and how they can help us cultivate skills as a bird watcher, citizen scientist, or adventurer. May 12, 2011 7:30pm Forum and Book Signing: The Renewable Revolution First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist; 3 Church Street, Harvard Square Cambridge, MA Dr. Sajed Kamal, long-time BASEA member and board member, will discuss his most recent book: The Renewable Revolution: How We Can Fight Climate Change, Prevent Energy Wars, Revitalize the Economy and Transition to a Sustainable Future. http://www.basea.org/ --- 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. [60]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 60. http://harvard.us1.list-manage.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] [Aspuru-meetings-list] Group meeting by Mark tomorrow

by Joel Yuen

When: Friday 29 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Where: Mallinckrodt 217 What: Mark is up for group meeting * * *Title: A simple electrostatic system-environment model for the* *simulation of nanodevices, otherwise known as CheESE.* * * *Abstract: The Group has heard the acronym CheESE (Chemistry in* *Electrostatic Environments) many times now. My intention is to* *describe in detail the formal basis for the model, as well as to* *provide some numerical examples. Hopefully this will give a clear* *picture of what the method precisely is, and how the other Group* *members have been working with it. In particular, we shall see* *explicitly how, and to what extent, it is different from applying a* *static electric field to a molecule, for example. If time allows, we* *may look a little at the implementation details of our code designed* *for use with Gaussian basis functions. The motivation for CheESE is* *the study of nanosystems which have a natural division into system and* *environment components, and where there is a natural prescription of* *the total electrostatic potential on a boundary surface enclosing the* *system's charge distribution. We shall indicate the advantages and* *limitations of such a model.* -- 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] Helen Schwickrath = food in the lounge :)

by Anna B. Shin

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 <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=e7480c62f0&view=att&th=12eee19970…>

12 years, 12 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: NVIDIA GTX480 Offer

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Christmas! Guys, if you are interested in asking for a GTX480, please go here. For example if you want to do MATLAB/GPGPU etc. give it a shot. 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: Chandra Cheij <ccheij(a)nvidia.com> Date: Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:29 AM Subject: NVIDIA GTX480 Offer To: Chandra Cheij <ccheij(a)nvidia.com> Hi! We’re sending you this e-mail because you’ve received some donated equipment from NVIDIA via our Academic Partnership or other various programs. We’ve recently secured some of our Fermi class GTX480 boards for our academic seeding program, and would like to send you one as continued support for your research and teaching efforts. If you are interested in receiving a GTX480, please complete the online form here http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/gtx480. When you have successfully submitted the online form, you will be automatically redirected to research.nvidia.com. If you have any questions, feel free to email me directly. This donation will come as an unrestricted gift and you may use them however you like. Of course, we hope that you will acknowledge NVIDIA’s support in any publications that may arise out of its use, and even more importantly that you will keep us posted as to any cool research results or teaching projects! Chandra & the Academic Research Team Chandra Cheij *|* Research Program Manager* | **NVIDIA** **Corporation |*11001 Lakeline Blvd. Bldg 2, Suite 100 * |* Austin, TX 78717* |* 512-401-4350 desk* |* research.nvidia.com *| **http://www.nvidia.com/gtc – now accepting submissions* ------------------------------ This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ------------------------------

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ANNOUNCEMENT: Excitonics Seminar, TODAY, 3 pm, 34-401A

by Cathy Bourgeois

*Today's seminar is in Grier A conference room: 34-401A Kindly forward to your groups and post in your area - thanks ----------------------------------------- Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:00 PM Grier A Conference Room: 34-401A* "Crystalline Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks: Opportunities in Energy Research" Prof. Mircea Dincă, MIT Abstract Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline solids wherein inorganic nodes are connected by organic ligands to give rise to highly ordered and monodisperse micropores with diameters ranging from 0.5 to ~ 2 nanometers. The micropores are responsible for unprecedented surface areas occasionally exceeding 5000 m2/g, making MOFs popular choices for energy applications in H2, CH4, and CO2 storage and capture, among others. The crystalline nature of these materials, however, also makes them attractive candidates for studying photophysical phenomena in ordered and/or confined organic chromophore aggregates. Indeed, conformational and/or structural confinement of organic dyes inside the walls of MOFs has been shown to drastically modulate the absorption and emission properties of such molecules. The various applications of MOFs in energy research, with an emphasis on their potential utility in controlling dye aggregation, light harvesting, and other photophysical properties will be discussed. Bio Mircea Dincă was born in Romania and obtained his bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Princeton University in 2003. He did his graduate work at UC Berkeley on the synthesis and characterization of microporous metal-organic frameworks for hydrogen storage and catalysis. After a two-year stint as a postdoctoral associate working on electrochemical water splitting with Prof. Daniel G. Nocera, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at MIT in 2010. His group's research is concerned with the synthesis of new microporous materials and their physico-chemical properties, with a current emphasis on metal-organic frameworks. Light refreshments provided The Center for Excitonics is an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science and Office of Basic Energy Sciences

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