aspuru-list May 2011

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] entertaining our visitor

by Mark A. Watson

Hi Group, Next week, I'll be hosting Sergio Losilla, a student from Dage Sundholm's Group, and it seems he's into football ("soccer"...) He wants to see this match between the US and Spain on Sat 4th June at the Gillette stadium: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0100468D7CFF5870?artistid=821723&majorcat… So, a few of us will be trying to get tickets. Let me know in the next couple of days if you'd be interested in joining! Best, Mark

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: commencement tickets

by Anna B. Shin

Does anyone need Commencement tickets? Judy has extra. Let me know and I'll email her w/ copy to you. Thanks, 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…> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Morrison, Judy <morrison(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:35 PM Subject: commencement tickets To: "Shin, Anna B" <anna(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Hi Anna, I hope you are enjoying your vacation. I wondered if Alan has anyone participating in Commencement next week who could use some tickets. I have 2 tickets for the morning exercises in the Yard, and 4 tickets for the afternoon exercise in the Yard. If your group doesn’t need them, I’ll offer them to the front office. You can let me know on Monday. Judy

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email

by Center for the Environment

May 21, 2011 HMNH New Permanent Exhibition: New England Forests Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA New England Forests in the Zofnass Family Gallery is a multi-media exhibition that explores the natural history and ecology of our regional forests. Experience the ecology of woodland caribou, wolves, and other wildlife of New England; learn about lichen cities that cling to rocks; and understand the circle of life within and around a forest pond from tiny aquatic insects to giant moose. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/exhibits/index.php#new 12:00pm - 3:30pm Cambridge Climate Change Week Finale Cambridge College, 1000 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA ActionFest, featuring Action oriented booths, speakers, commitments project, food. Celebrate our community's efforts and commit to specific actions you will take to fight climate change. cccweek2011(a)gmail.com May 23, 2011 12:00pm MCZ Lunchtime Seminar MCZ 101 Seminar Room 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "The evolution of acoustic behavior in katydids (Tettigonioidea)." Piotr Naskrecki, MCZ Research Associate, Entomology, Farrell Lab. Contact Name: Catherine Weisel cweisel(a)oeb.harvard.edu (617) 495-2460 12:30pm Environmental Health Colloquium Building 1, Room 1302 Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA "Human health impacts of anthropogenic changes to Earth’s natural systems: Why destroying Nature may be bad for us." Dr. Samuel Myers, Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Contact Name: Alissa Wilcox AWILCOX(a)hsph.harvard.edu May 26, 2011 Congratulations Graduates! 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. The Ecology Journal Club will continue to meet throughout the summer. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu June 10, 2011 9:00am - 12:30pm New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable: Foley Hoag LLP 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor Boston, MA "Better Integrating Policy, Planning, and Electricity Markets in New England." This Roundtable will explore the tensions between the desire for both workable markets and a variety of public policy objectives, and will consider how we can move forward to forge a more workable system here in New England. http://www.raabassociates.org/main/roundtable.asp Note: As the end of the semester comes to a close, we will only send out events listings on an as-needed basis. Have a wonderful summer! --- 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. [18]Unsubscribe aspuru-meetings-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 18. 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. _______________________________________________ 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] [Aspuru-meetings-list] Group meeting by Stephanie tomorrow

by Joel Yuen

Where: Cabot Division Room at Mallinckrodt When: Friday May 20 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM What: Stephanie is up for group meeting: "In this group meeting I will talk about two of the projects I have been working on: - The "MC-TD-JUMP method" devised to recuperate a missing quantum term in the dynamics obtained from Sangwoo's MD/QM energy trajectories. - A project on the properties of Bacteriochlorophyll antennas in collaboration with the Mosallaei group at Northeastern University." -- 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] for those who are interested in photosynthesis

by Semion Saikin

http://pesn.com/2011/05/03/9501825_could_Human_Photosynthesis_power_the_fut… -- ******************************************** Semion K. Saikin, PhD Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 email: saykin(a)fas.harvard.edu phone: (619)212-6649 ********************************************

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AMP Seminar Monday May 23, Mahir S. Hussein (Univ. S�o Paulo)

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 May 23, 2011 Pratt Conference Room 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Canonical quantum potential scattering theory: Scattering length equation for atom-atom collisions Mahir S. Hussein University of São Paulo A new formulation of potential scattering in quantum mechanics is developed using a close structural analogy between partial waves and the classical dynamics of many non-interacting fields. Using a canonical formalism we find non-linear first-order differential equations whose solutions supply: the scattering length, effective range and shape parameter. These equations can be easily solved and may simplify typical calculations, as we illustrate for atom-atom and neutron-nucleus scattering systems. Numerical examples arepresented for the Cs + Cs, and He + He atomic systems and the n + 12C nuclear system. _______________________________________________ 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] Fwd: Reminder: Consortium applications are due this Monday, May 23

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

For those interested in the Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment. Roberto ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brenda Hugot <bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:13 PM Subject: Reminder: Consortium applications are due this Monday, May 23 To: Dear Consortium students and alums, The next round of applications to the Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment<http://environment.harvard.edu/student-resources/graduate-consortium>are due this Monday, *May 23*. We would appreciate your help in making students aware of this opportunity. Please forward this reminder to friends and colleagues who might be interested in joining the Consortium. *A pdf that summarizes the program is attached*, and the online application is available here<http://environment.harvard.edu/student-resources/graduate-consortium> . Thank you in advance for sharing this. Best, Brenda -- Brenda Hugot Program Administrator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617.496.1788 Fax: 617.496.0425bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] living in a quantum word

by Sergio Boixo

Hi, I thought that some of you might be interested in this article in Scientific American by V. Vedral. http://www.nature.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/scientificamerican/journal/… Let me know if you want me to attach the pdf. Regards, Sergio

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Norbert Schuch informal talk on Tuesday

by Sergio Boixo

Dear group, Norbert Schuch will be giving a blackboard talk Tuesday at 11:30 on the division room. Topic TBA but either 1.-Entanglement spectrum and boundary theories with projected entangled-pair states or 2.-The complexity of commuting Hamiltonians. Regards, Sergio

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Announcemenet: Excitonics Seminar, TODAY, 3pm, RLE Conf. 36-428

by Cathy Bourgeois

Please forward to your groups and post in your area. - thanks Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:00 PM RLE Conference Room: 36-428 Speaker: Thomas Renger, Johannes Kepler Universitat - Linz, Austria "Theory of light-harvesting in photosynthesis: from structure to function" Abstract In photosynthesis, light energy absorbed in light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes is transferred via an exciton mechanism to the reaction center where it is used to drive electron transfer reactions. The quantum efficiency of the transfer is close to 100 percent, that is, almost all excitons created reach the reaction center. In order to bridge the gap between the crystal structures of these light-harvesting proteins and optical experiments probing their function, two essential problems need to be solved. On one hand, theories of optical spectra and excitation energy transfer have to be developed that take into account the pigment-pigment (excitonic) and the pigment-protein (exciton-vibrational) coupling on an equal footing. On the other hand, the parameters entering these theories need to be calculated from the structural data. I will give a summary of recent approaches to solve the above problems and discuss applications on different light-harvesting and reaction center complexes revealing different strategies for efficient light-harvesting. Bio Born 1970 in Zittau (Germany). Study of physics at Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany), diploma (master degree) 1995, 1998 PhD degree in theoretical physics. 1999-2001 Feodor Lynen research scholar of Alexander von Humboldt-foundation at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (USA). 2002-2009 head of junior research group (Emmy-Noether program of German Research Foundation) at Free University Berlin (Germany), institute of chemistry and biochemistry. Since 2009 head of division Theoretical Biophysics at Johannes Kepler University, Linz (Austria). Research Theory of charge and excitation energy transfer and optical spectra of biological macromolecules, dynamical theory and its parametrization by quantum chemical/electrostatic methods and molecular dynamics simulations. More detailed information can be found at: <http://www.jku.at/itp/content/e61104/> http://www.jku.at/itp/content/e61104/ 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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