aspuru-list June 2011

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: REU11 begins next week

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

For all of you hosting REUs this summer! 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: Kathryn Hollar <hollar(a)seas.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:52 PM Subject: REU11 begins next week To: Jorge F Pozo <jpozo(a)seas.harvard.edu>, Natasha Rosenberg < rnatasha(a)seas.harvard.edu>, John Free <john.u.free(a)enc.edu> Cc: Rosalind Reid <rreid(a)seas.harvard.edu>, Natasha Baker < nrbaker(a)seas.harvard.edu> Dear REU Mentors and PIs, Thank you for agreeing to host a student for the next 10 weeks through our joint Research Experiences for Undergraduates programs. We have over 70 enthusiastic students participating in our program this year! I'll keep this email brief, but will follow up with some more detailed emails on the following topics: -Orientation on June 7 -Calendar for the summer, important dates reminder -Deliverables that we require of the students, useful tips for mentors -Safety -Mentor appreciation lunch Our student orientation is scheduled for Tuesday, June 7. We ask that you meet your student at noon for a pizza lunch on Tuesday, June 7 in the Maxwell Dworkin lobby. An email with explicit instructions will shortly follow this email. I've attached a list of students who will be participating in REU activities this summer, along with tentative project titles and mentors. If you have any changes, please let me know, as we'll be putting student profiles on our website soon. I want to thank you for your patience as we worked through the selection process this year, and I'm looking forward to a great summer. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns throughout the summer. Kathryn

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Gmailtex

by Roberto Olivares-Amaya

Hi everyone, If you need yet another reason to use gmail, here's a really cool one: http://alexeev.org/gmailtex.html Roberto

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

by Joel Yuen

When: Tomorrow Friday June 3rd from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Where: Cabot Division Room at Mallinckrodt What: Xavier is up for group meeting *Long range correction of exchange and correlation density functionals based on a electrostatic approach* * Many of the exchange and correlations (XC) approximations used in density functional theory do not describe properly the asymptotic regions. In this talk I will present a method to correct this problem that can be applied to any functional. The approach is based on describing the XC functional as an electrostatic potential generated by a fictitious charge density. The correction, when applied to local and semi-local XC functionals, improves considerably the calculated ionization energies for atoms and molecules.* -- 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] NSF Solar Fest June 13th 4-6 PM. Save the date! Scipplets competition.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

*Re: SolarFEST, June 13th 4-6 PM.* Dear Friend, Mazur, Brenner and Aspuru-Guzik groups, (Please forward to your research groups) As you probably know, the four of our groups are in a collaborative effort during the NSF SOLAR program. We are organizing an NSF SOLAR get-together to see short presentations by the NSF SOLAR team members, and also to make a competition of energy-related facts, to be converted in web-deployable "Scipplets". *a) SCIPPLET COMPETITION (Your entry is needed) *What is a Scipplet? It is a Flash-based content piece that can be embedded in any website. We are currently focusing on developing Scipplets about energy. The best way to see what they are is to go to http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/ and go to the bottom right of the page, to see some Scipplets in action. You can reload the page to see more of the ones we already have. Each one of you is expected to send us at least one Scipplet for the competition. It should be about energy or the environment. See the current Scipplets: They are usually 1-6 panels of a few lines of text and associated graphics. If you get the graphics from the web, please specify the source, please do so if you create them yourself. I attach a Powerpoint template for the Scipplet Competition, please send your entry as an attachment to scipplets(a)gmx.com no later than Sunday, June 12th, 2011. The jury is led by Professor Carlos Amador-Bedolla, from UNAM, the creator of most of the scipplets shown in the website. *b) PRESENTATIONS *The first part of our meeting will be short 3-slide presentations from members of the NSF SOLAR team. We ask that each member of the SOLAR team teams up with a member of another group (E.g. a joint Mazur-Friend presentation, etc.) and sends me (alan(a)aspuru.com) the pairing so I can make a short presentation schedule. The presentations should be short (~5 minutes). *c) GROUPS GET-TOGETHER *The rest of the time, we can enjoy food and a get-together between the groups, as well as discussing possible spinoff projects or collaborations. Summary * To be able to come, you have to submit at least one Scipplet draft in Powerpoint format to the competition. * Food will be available at the event * An Amazon gift certificate will be given to the best Scipplet draft. * Please RSVP at the following Doodle Poll http://www.doodle.com/r2chwr5hpdzstp53 * We will provide food. *Where: June 13th 4 PM, Pfizer Hall, Mallincrodt (12 Oxford Street) 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] First sale for quantum computing (Nature News)

by sarah mostame

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110531/full/474018a.html

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