aspuru-list June 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] [Aspuru-meetings-list] Group meeting by Sarah tomorrow

by Joel Yuen

When: Friday June 30, 2011 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Where: Cabot Division Room at Mallinckrodt What: Sarah is up for group meeting: "Title: Dynamics of Monopoles in Spin Ice First, I will give an introduction to spin ice and magnetic monopoles. Spin ices are frustrated ferromagnets which are recognized as a class of magnets exhibiting unusual behavior such as residual entropy. In spin ice, dipolar interaction dominates the nearest neighbor interaction. Thus the spin configuration at low temperature consists of two of the four spins in a tetrahedron pointing inwards, and the others outwards (2-in, 2-out state). The 2-in, 2-out constraint is called the ice rule. Violating the ice rules by flipping a spin out of a ground state configuration, leads to a pair of pointlike defects in the tetrahedra the spin belongs to. These two defects are deconfined: they can be separated to an arbitrarily large distance at a finite cost in energy. We study the diffusion annihilation process which occurs when spin ice in a [111] magnetic field is quenched from a fully magnetized phase deep into the spin ice regime, where the excitations - magnetic monopoles - are sparse." -- 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

12 years, 9 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Special Excitonics Seminar, Monday, July 18, 1:30 PM

by Cathy Bourgeois

Special Excitonics Seminar Christian Martin, Associate Editor, Nature Materials Monday, July 18/ 1:30 PM Grier A Conference Rm: 34-401A "Publishing with NPG and Nature Materials" Abstract Nature Materials is a monthly multi-disciplinary journal aimed at bringing together cutting-edge research across the entire spectrum of materials science and engineering. This scope brings with it a focus on scientific results which are of immediate interest to a wide audience of materials scientists. Like the other Nature titles, Nature Materials is editorially independent, and all editorial decisions are taken by a team of full-time professional editors, rather than an external board. In this talk I will give an "inside view" of Nature Materials and highlight some details of the editorial process at NPG, such as the initial assessment of papers, the guiding principles of peer review, and the publication process. Bio Christian Martin studied engineering and materials science at Hamburg University of Technology in Germany. Following research on organic electronic materials at the University of Cambridge, Siemens Corporate Technology and Philips Research, he pursued a joint PhD in Applied Physics at Delft University of Technology and Leiden University in the Netherlands. During his doctoral and postdoctoral research, he studied the electronic properties of single molecules. At Nature Materials, which he joined in September 2010, Christian handles manuscripts in the broad area of applied physics and physical chemistry, with a particular interest in electronic materials. www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics The Center for Excitonics is an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Dept.of Energy, Office of Science and Office of Basic Energy Sciences Light refreshments will be served

12 years, 9 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Maggie off

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, Maggie is out of town for the next week through the beginning of the following week; she will be unavailable from now through Tue 5 July, and will return to the office on Wed 6 July. For matters that you would normally bring to Maggie's attention, please email BOTH OF US. For the time-sensitive matters, I will address until Maggie returns. 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…>

12 years, 10 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] a tip about download paper through Harvard library

by Man-Hong Yung

Hello all, To share a tip, I use the following combination to get papers through the Harvard library with a few clicks (no typing) only: 1. Use Chrome as the browser (it open pdf directly in the browser) 2. In Chrome, Install the extension called "Harvard Library Access" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdmmeepkboieoeeaaokomjhldpheopmf which does nothing but put the extension .ezp1.harvard.edu to the URL 3. Install LastPass (or equivalent) to get automatic login to the Harvard library system. Yours, Man Hong =================================== Dr. Man Hong Yung Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University mhyung(a)chemistry.harvard.edu ===================================

12 years, 10 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Of interest.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Of interest, especially to the 3 new graduate students! http://www.seas.harvard.edu/teaching-learning/graduate/secondary-fields 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

12 years, 10 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] article needed for the quantum times

by Sergio Boixo

Hello, Anyone has anything that he would like to send to The Quantum Times? It does get a fair amount of exposure, and it does not need to be fundamentally new research. This is the announcement from Ian Durham: Article needed for The Quantum Times (an APS publication) The latest issue of The Quantum Times (Volume 6, Number 1), which is the newsletter of the American Physical Society's Topical Group on Quantum Information, is scheduled to come out in the next two weeks and I am in desperate need of a cover article of 2-3 pages, 10-point font. If you've got something - some new results you'd like to share or something you feel is worthy of an article - please let me know. I have been out of town, then under the weather, and generally swamped and thus haven't had a chance to find something yet. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

12 years, 10 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [Postdocs] TGIF TODAY!!! Naito Courtyard 5PM

by Xavier Andrade

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Klobas, Joshua <klobas(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:48 PM Subject: [Postdocs] TGIF TODAY!!! Naito Courtyard 5PM To: "xavier.andrade.valencia(a)gmail.com" <xavier.andrade.valencia(a)gmail.com>

12 years, 10 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] PhD packets

by J D Whitfield

Dear people hoping to graduate from CCB at some point, FYI, There are graduation packages in the main office that have a lot of useful information (I wish I had 3 months ago) called "CCB - Ph.D. Packet." Best, James J. D. Whitfield Aspuru-Guzik Group Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University tel: 301-520-7847 web: aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/people/James_Whitfield

12 years, 10 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] No group meeting this Friday

by Joel Yuen

We'll resume next week with Sarah. -- 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

12 years, 10 months

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