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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email

by Center for the Environment

Calendar Listings: May 6, 2011 8:30am MSI Breakfast and End-of-Year Celebration HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Discuss the happenings of MSI and to make suggestions for future years (speakers, etc). http://www.msi.harvard.edu/ 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 7, 2011 8:00am - 4:00pm 22nd Sustainable Business Network Conference UMass Boston Ryan Lounge, 3rd Floor McCormack Hall, 100 William T Morrissey, Boston, MA "Building a Local, Green & Fair Economy." Engage with inspiring pioneers and learn about breakthrough programs and practices that will help us grow our businesses and organizations as we together build strong local economies that are green and fair. http://www.sbnboston.org/sbn15/ May 10, 2011 12:00pm OEB Faculty Search Candidate Seminar HUH Seminar Room Harvard Herbaria 22 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA "Bringing together herbaria, genes, and genomes." Susanne Renner, University of Munich. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 6:00pm HMNH Lecture and Booksigning Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA "The Secrets of Field Notes: Capturing Science, Nature, and Exploration." Michael Canfield, lecturer in biology at Harvard, discusses 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. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php May 11, 2011 3:00pm EPS Dissertation Defense Haller Hall - 102 Geological Museum 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Branch Faulting in Subduction and Strike-Slip Settings." Nora DeDontney. May 12, 2011 12:00pm OEB Faculty Search Candidate Seminar: Main Lecture Hall Biological Laboratories 16 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA "Conservation and diversification of a developmental program." Elizabeth "Toby" Kellogg, University of Missouri, St. Louis. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 3:30pm China Project Seminar Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA "Carbon Markets in China: Experience and Prospects." Prof. Wang Yao, Visiting Scholar, China Project, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, Harvard; Associate Professor, Research Institute of Finance and Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics http://www.chinaproject.harvard.edu/ Contact Name: Chris Nielsen nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu 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/ May 13, 2011 7:30pm "Climate Change: Is Green Consumption a Solution?" First Church (corner of Mass. Ave. & Church St.) Cambridge, MA Talk and Q/A with Heather Rogers, author of Green Gone Wrong. http://cceag.org/node/13 Contact Name: John Pitkin 617 388 4448 May 17, 2011 6:00pm - 8:30pm Smarter Living Expo Cambridge Public Library 449 Broadway Cambridge, MA A unique and fascinating discussion among Swiss and US building experts to address the challenges of sustainable buildings.RSVP requested. http://www.formstack.com/forms/?1075391-9PneY8RRIR sabine(a)swissnexboston.org 7:00pm - 9:00pm "Witnesses of Climate Change" The Laboratory at Harvard University, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge MA Eyewitness accounts of how changing climate and extreme weather events are already impacting people and agriculture, from Kenya and Argentina to the U.S. Midwest. http://cceag.org/node/13 Contact Name: John Pitkin 617 388 4448 May 18, 2011 1:15pm Webcast: Carbon Tax vs. Carbon Trading Online Professor Sampford outlines a number of arguments for the superiority of carbon taxes over carbon trading schemes and outlines a proposal for a carbon added tax. http://carbonwebcast.eventbrite.com/ Contact Name: Portia Gama unuony(a)unu.edu May 23, 2011 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 --- 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. [36]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 36. 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] AMP Seminar Monday May 9, A. Salam (Wake Forest)

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 9, 2011 PRATT Conference Room 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Influence of a Medium on Long-Range Inter-Particle Interactions: Molecular QED Theory A. Salam Department of Chemistry, Wake Forest University Non-relativistic or molecular quantum electrodynamics (QED) has been rigorously developed and applied with outstanding success to problems in atomic, molecular and optical physics [1,2] such as single- and multi-photon absorption, emission and scattering of light, optical activity and chiroptical spectroscopy, non-linear and quantum optical phenomena, and inter-particle interactions. In this talk, an overview of the theory of molecular QED will be given first, followed by application to a number of fundamental forces acting between molecules, such as resonance energy transfer and van der Waals dispersion, both in vacuum and in a medium [3-5]. The effect of thermal radiation on these interactions will also be presented [6]. [1] D.P. Craig and T. Thirunamachandran, Molecular Quantum Electrodynamics, Dover, New York, 1998. [2] A. Salam, Molecular Quantum Electrodynamics, Wiley, New Jersey, 2010. [3] J.J. Rodriguez and A. Salam, Chem. Phys. Lett. 498, 67 (2010). [4] J.J. Rodriguez and A. Salam, J. Phys. Chem. B, In Press. [5] J.J. Rodriguez and A. Salam, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 164501 (2010). [6] J.J. Rodriguez and A. Salam, Phys. Rev. A 82, 062522 (2010). _______________________________________________ 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:

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, please see relevant article by Mukamel on Stimulated Raman Scattering. 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: shaul mukamel <smukamel(a)uci.edu> Date: Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:45 AM Subject: To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Alan I hope you got my previous message. Here is a new article Shaul -- Shaul Mukamel Chancellor Professor of Chemistry University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-2025 tel:949-824-7600 fax:949-824-8571 email: smukamel(a)uci.edu http://mukamel.ps.uci.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: DEADLINE TOMORROW: EFRC Spring Research Updates due May 6

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear Group members that are members of the center for excitonics, The state of affairs is that you need to post your research updates in the blog (as usual). The deadline is tomorrow. Most of you have sent me already some research highlight, so it should not be much work to go ahead and post the update. I just found out about this today on this reminder. 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: Cathy Bourgeois <cmbourg(a)mit.edu> Date: Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:34 AM Subject: DEADLINE TOMORROW: EFRC Spring Research Updates due May 6 To: excitonics-sp(a)mit.edu Cc: excitonics-faculty(a)mit.edu Hi all, The deadline for spring research update is tomorrow. There is only one posting for this, so please take a few minutes to post your research progress. Thanks, Cathy *From:* Cathy Bourgeois [mailto:cmbourg@mit.edu] *Sent:* Friday, April 29, 2011 2:35 PM *To:* 'excitonics-sp(a)mit.edu' *Subject:* FW: EFRC Spring Research Updates due May 6 Dear students and post docs, Just a friendly reminder to upload your spring progress report by Friday, May 6. Thanks, Cathy *From:* Cathy Bourgeois [mailto:cmbourg@mit.edu] *Sent:* Wednesday, April 20, 2011 5:00 PM *To:* 'excitonics-sp(a)mit.edu' *Subject:* EFRC Spring Research Updates due May 6 To all Excitonics students & postdocs, It’s time to update your progress report on the Excitonics Center blog, which is *due by* *Friday, May 6*. Please see below for instructions. Let me know if you have any questions, Best regards, Cathy ______________ INSTRUCTIONS: There are two logins. The first login enters the server. Everyone should use the user name: wpuser Password: eXc1ton1cs The second login enters the blog itself. You should already know your personalized user name and password. (contact me if you don’t have a username or have trouble logging in) 1. Select 'My blogs' from the top menu, highlight the Excitonics blog, then select 'New post' from the drop down menu that appears. 2. Enter your project title at the top. 3. Enter your accompanying text below that. 4. Put your publications, presentations, patents and other activities in a list below the text. 5. You can upload an image by selecting 'Add media'. 6. Select 'Progress reports' in the categories menu at lower right. 7. Finally, click on 'Publish' at top right. It is OK to leave the visibility as 'public'. For a style guide, please look at the existing blog posts on the site. If you need to upload links to longer documents such as publications or presentations, select 'Add new' under the Media heading on the dashboard.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] Group meeting by Joel tomorrow

by Joel Yuen

When: Friday May 6 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Where: Cabot Division Room at Mallinckrodt What: Joel (me) is presenting: "*Nonlinear spectroscopy for excitons: Where is the density matrix?* *Coherence and decoherence, entanglement, Markovianity, and non-Markovianity, population and coherence transfers... All of these terms pervade the literature on Quantum Biology, and are explicitly related to the density matrix of the excitonic system under consideration. However, no experimental method to explicitly probe such density matrix has been proposed before. * * * *In our work, we choose a tractable model system: a coupled dimer, and ask the following questions: What set of nonlinear optical measurements need to be carried out in order to map out the time-evolving excitonic density matrix? Can a Quantum Process Tomography (QPT) be performed on an excitonic system? How is QPT related to the fancy 2D electronic spectra advocated by the leading experimental groups? I'll try to argue that these experiments (emperor's new clothes?) are too complicated for what we want, and that simpler experiments will hint us more directly about excitonic dynamics.*" -- 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] [theochem-announce] Theochem Seminar TODAY, 4pm at MIT

by Lee-Ping

Dear All, Professor Jean-Luc Bredas, from Georgia Tech, is presenting a theoretical chemistry seminar TODAY (Wednesday, May 4) from 4:00-6:00pm in Room 4-149 at MIT. Please take note of the location! Title: Electronic and Optical Processes in Organic Semiconductors: The Case of Organic Solar Cells Abstract: This presentation seeks to provide a basic understanding of the most important electronic and optical processes taking place in devices based on organic semiconductors, by taking organic solar cells as an example. We will address in particular issues related to: (i) photon absorption and exciton migration; (ii) exciton dissociation and charge separation at the organic-organic interface; and (iii) charge transport. Thank you! Lee-Ping Wang Van Voorhis Group MIT Department of Chemistry _______________________________________________ theochem-announce mailing list theochem-announce(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/theochem-announce

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Re: [Aspuru-Guzik group list] EFRC Video contest

by Cathy Bourgeois

This is for the "People's Choice Award" and if we win, another person can attend the summit for free. Anyone can vote. So get your friends and family to vote! From: Priya Jadhav [mailto:pjadhav@MIT.EDU] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 7:39 PM To: 'Cathy Bourgeois' Subject: RE: EFRC Video contest Didn't we already win something for the video? Also, who can vote for it, anyone? From: Cathy Bourgeois [mailto:cmbourg@MIT.EDU] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 12:19 PM To: efrc-all(a)mit.edu Subject: EFRC Video contest Just wanted to let everyone know about the EFRC People's Choice Award for video contest for the Energy Summit Meeting in DC. Go to the following link to cast your vote: http://www.energyfrontier.us/videos The Center for Excitonics's video is the 4th one listed. Please take a look and vote for your favorites. The video that receives the most votes by 5:00 p.m. EST on May 24th will win the People's Choice Award. Like the other winning videos, it will be shown and the video team honored on-stage by the judges at the EFRC Summit on May 25th. In addition, two members from each of the winning teams selected by the judges will enjoy a free trip to the EFRC Summit & Forum. Thanks, -Cathy

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] Paul Corkum's visit

by babb

> > Subject: Paul Corkum's visit > > Dear all, > > Paul Corkum will be visiting ITAMP on Wednesday, May 4 and giving the JAPC seminar in the afternoon. He is the Scientific Director for Attosecond and Strong Field Science at the National Research Council of Canada and the leader of the Joint Attosecond Science Laboratory of the NRC and the University of Ottawa, and recently became the editor-in-chief of Journal of Physics B. > > Paul Corkum is one of the leaders in the field of attosecond physics and high-harmonic interferometry. Some notable experiments performed in his group are the direct imaging of molecular orbitals and the probing of both multi-electron dynamics and photochemical reactions through high-harmonic interferometry. > If you would like to meet with him, please choose a slot in https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ao36fiMD8yQidFFUdU1oMzdLRmVKV0Y2NT…. He will be at ITAMP in the morning and at Harvard Physics in the afternoon. > > Best regards, > Johannes > > Johannes Feist > ITAMP > Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics & Harvard Physics Department > 60 Garden Street MS 14 > Cambridge, MA 02138, USA > +1 617-495-7773 > jfeist(a)cfa.harvard.edu > _______________________________________________ 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] EFRC Video contest

by Cathy Bourgeois

Just wanted to let everyone know about the EFRC People's Choice Award for video contest for the Energy Summit Meeting in DC. Go to the following link to cast your vote: http://www.energyfrontier.us/videos The Center for Excitonics's video is the 4th one listed. Please take a look and vote for your favorites. The video that receives the most votes by 5:00 p.m. EST on May 24th will win the People's Choice Award. Like the other winning videos, it will be shown and the video team honored on-stage by the judges at the EFRC Summit on May 25th. In addition, two members from each of the winning teams selected by the judges will enjoy a free trip to the EFRC Summit & Forum. Thanks, -Cathy

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: FW: Invitation to OP2011/ESP2011 conference, Santa Fe

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, If anybody wants to go to this one to present, Sergei especially invited us, and there is (partial) support to apply to. Please notify me ASAP if you want ot go. The conference is particularly suitable for anybody interested in organic photovoltaics, excitonics or quantum biology. 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: Sergei Tretiak <serg(a)lanl.gov> Date: Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:50 AM Subject: FW: Invitation to OP2011/ESP2011 conference, Santa Fe To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> Hi Alan, I hope that our support will facilitate Harvard student and PD attendance. Please spread the word. Thanks a lot, Sergei We intend to support junior researchers (postdocs and students) presenting at the OP2011/ESP2011 conference. Awards will be up to $500 toward travel expenses (e.g. hotel and airfare). To apply to this funding, please: 1) Register (http://cnls.lanl.gov/esp) and upload your abstract before May 15, taking an advantage of early registration fee $200; 2) Send an e-mail to Sergei Tretiak (serg(a)lanl.gov) with a brief explanation of financial need and attach your abstract. .----------------------------------------------------------. | Sergei Tretiak, Ph.D. | | Theoretical Division, T-1/CINT, Mail Stop B268 | | Los Alamos National Laboratory | | Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA | | Webpage: http://cnls.lanl.gov/~serg | | E-mail: serg(a)lanl.gov | | Voice: (505) 667-8351 | | Fax: (505) 665-3909 | .----------------------------------------------------------.

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