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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] Seminar Friday, Sept. 16: Bijan Davari (IBM) on The Future of Computing Systems and Technology

by IACS Info

Please join us for the next IACS Seminar. Speaker: Bijan Davari Location: Maxwell Dworkin G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm. Talk, 1:00pm. Title: The Future of Computing Systems and Technology Abstract: The future of technology will be shaped by the evolution of semiconductors, computing systems, software, and applications. The flow of disruptive innovations will continue to fuel the exponential growth of computational density, and communication speed. This exponential growth creates new applications and new industries, as it leads to new computing architectures which can handle and analyze vast amounts of real-time unstructured data, generated by both people and machines. I’ll explore the indispensable role of the integrated stack, including switching elements, chips, interconnect, system architecture and software, in creating "workload optimized systems." Bio: Bijan Davari received his M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984. He then joined the IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on various aspects of high-performance CMOS technologies for IBM mainframe and UNIX systems. Davari was appointed IBM Fellow in 1996, and has been the Vice President of Next Generation Computing Systems and Technology since 2003. In this capacity, Davari leads the efforts for the definition and implementation of IBM’s next generation systems, employing massively multi-threaded (MMT) architectures and special-function engines in workload-optimized systems. This activity integrates IBM’s technical disciplines in hardware and software (including silicon, packaging, cooling, system architecture, design tools, compilers, middleware, etc.) with client requirements in the new and emerging business applications in various fields. Davari received the J. J. Ebers award in 2005 and the Andrew S. Grove Award in 2010. He has authored and co-authored more than 70 publications on various aspects of semiconductor devices and technology. He is an IEEE Fellow. For information about future events AT IACS, see http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/events _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events

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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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] food in fridge

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, The Brazilian food stored in the fridge will be thrown out next week (most likely on Monday). There's still black beans, rice, plantains, and hearts of palm salad, which I had today and still delicious (especially the plantains). Also, I spoke with Elsa and she would like to clean the refrigerator at least once a month. Please make sure you clean out your stored food often. Elsa will throw away any old or abandoned food, regardless if it's in a bag or tupperware, around the 15th of each month. Thank you in advance for maintaining a sanitary refrigerator. Best, 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] Lessons from nature about solar light harvesting

by quebe

perhaps of interest to the fans of FMO, Best, Stephanie Sent to you by quebe via Google Reader: Lessons from nature about solar light harvesting via Nature Chemistry by Rienk van Grondelle on 9/23/11 Lessons from nature about solar light harvesting Nature Chemistry 3, 763 (2011). doi:10.1038/nchem.1145 Authors: Gregory D. Scholes, Graham R. Fleming, Alexandra Olaya-Castro & Rienk van Grondelle Photosynthesis starts when light is absorbed and the associated excitation energy is directed to reaction centres by antenna complexes. The principles learned from studying these complexes are described in this Review, and provide the framework from which the authors suggest how to elucidate strategies for designing light-harvesting systems that route the flow of energy in sophisticated ways. Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Nature Chemistry using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Levin-Wen model papers

by Ramis Movassagh

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407140 http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0404617 _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] S. Weinberg's paper

by Ramis Movassagh

http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6462 _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] supplies

by Anna B. Shin

Dear Group, FYI, I bought AA and AAA batteries. Since no one told me ahead of time that we were running low, the batteries will be kept in the M-112 supply drawer. As a reminder, if you notice things running low, please send an email to ASPURU.STAFF(a)gmail.com and we can order more before things run out. Thank you for your attention. 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] Announcement: Excitonics Seminar, Tues. Oct. 4. 3 pm, 36-428

by Cathy Bourgeois

Please post and forward to your group - Thanks Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement TUES, October 4, 2011 3:00 PM RLE Haus Room: 36-428 Comparing the Primary Electron Transfer Process in Organic Photovoltaic Heterojunctions with Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Garry Rumbles National Renewable Energy Laboratory, University of Colorado Abstract This presentation will focus on some of the fundamental science associated with the rapidly emerging field of organic photovoltaics (OPV). It will include a discussion of how the OPV field is evolving, examine some of the fundamental scientific issues that underpin the subject, and will discuss how spectroscopy can help to understand these issues. The goal is to enable both a better understanding of how these systems function and consequently help to advance solar energy conversion efficiencies of future OPV devices. So-called organic photovoltaic devices have seen certified power conversion efficiencies increase from 2.5% in 2001 to ~9% in 2011. Close inspection of the strategies employed to realize this impressive improvement in performance reveal a common approach of synthesizing new donor polymers, fullerene acceptors and, in some cases, new device architectures. It is questionable as to whether this approach will result in a similar four-fold level of improvement over the next ten years. And it is this question that motivates the work that will be described. At the heart of all OPV devices is the donor-acceptor interface, where photogenerated excitons are dissociated into separated charge carriers. Using flash photolysis, timeresolved microwave conductivity as a tool for detecting mobile carriers, a number of recently-studied systems will be demonstrated. These may include systems that contain new conjugated polymers, novel derivatives of fullerenes, single-walled carbon nanotubes and colloidal quantum dots, to name a few. These studies will serve to highlight a fundamental issue that we have yet fully understand: how are these carriers created with such efficiency and yield, and in a system that does not immediately suggest that this is possible? The talk will therefore include a speculative discussion about how we might better understand this process by looking at the function of Nature's photosynthetic reaction centers. Bio Garry received his B.Sc (hons) in Chemistry with Electronics at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom in 1980 and his Ph.D in Molecular Photochemistry at the University of London, United Kingdom in 1984. Currently, he is a NREL Fellow in the Chemical and Material Science Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado as well as Professor Adjoint in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. His research interest is in next generation solar photoconversion concepts based on conjugated molecules and polymers combined and nanostructured species, with a focus on the fundamental photophysics of exciton dynamics and charge generation and recombination kinetics. 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 Energy Sciences

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Free food in library

by Anna B. Shin

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email September 29 - October 13

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Monday, October 3: The next Energy Policy Seminar features HUCE faculty associate and Harvard Business School professor George Baker for a talk on "Renewable Energy on the Coast of Maine and Beyond.” Tuesday, October 11: The HUCE Biodiveristy, Ecology, & Global Change series welcomes Joshua Tewksbury, Walker Professor of Natural History, Department of Biology, University of Washington. His talk, “Catchers in the Rye: Ecology, Society, and Climate Change,” explores the impacts of climate change and how ecology plays a role in our response to environmental issues. Thursday, October 13: The HUCE Future of Energy lecture series kicks off with Chris Somerville, Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on producing fuels through biochemical innovation. Calendar Listings: September 30, 2011 8:45am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge “Bacteria pumping iron in the sun - photoferrotrophy in Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1” featuring Arpita Bose (FAS-OEB) Host: Peter Girguis 12:00pm “Non-local Influences on U.S. Air Quality: Asian Pollution, Stratospheric Exchange, and Climate Change” 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge Arlene Fiore, Columbia University, “Non-local Influences on U.S. Air Quality: Asian Pollution, Stratospheric Exchange, and Climate Change” Host: Emily Fischer 4:00pm - 5:00pm MIT EAPS Lecture MIT Building 54, Room 915, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge "How LIPs Talk to Us: Origins, Evolution, and Environmental Impact of Large Igneous Provinces" With Clive R. Neal, University of Notre Dame http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/dls.html October 2, 2011 9:00am Identifying the 25 Most Common Trees in Boston Hunnewell Building 125 Arborway, Boston With Kyle Port, Manager of Plant Records, Arnold Arboretum http://arboretum.harvard.edu/ October 3, 2011 11:45 – 12:45pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge 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 Policy Seminar Fainsod Room, Room 324, Littauer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge "Renewable Energy on the Coast of Maine and Beyond” with George Baker, Harvard Business School. Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu 12:15pm - 1:15pm Arnold Arboretum Seminar Weld Hill Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 1300 Centre Street, Boston “Microevolution and development of Mimulus: monkeying with meristem dynamics and heterochrony explains intraspecific changes in shoot architecture and life history” with Rob Baker, University of Colorado, Boulder http://arboretum.harvard.edu/research/research-talks/ 12:30pm - 1:45pm Energy and Climate Policy Research Seminar Crowe Room (G310), The Fletcher School, Tufts University, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford “Understanding Climate Mitigation Responses in the United States and China from the Strategic and Institutional Perspective” with Xingshu Zhao, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP), The Fletcher School 12:55pm - 2:00pm STS Circle Lecture 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridge With Daniel Barber (Barnard College), "Phase-Change: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Solar Energy, 1946-" Please RSVP to sts(a)hks.harvard.edu by the Thursday before. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts 4:00pm EPS Colloquium Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge Featuring Paul Falkowski, Rutgers University. Hosted by David Johnston. Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo scappo(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:00pm Harvard College Global Energy Initiative Panel Discussion Location TBD "Igniting U.S.-India Renewable Energy Collaboration and Innovation" panel discussion featuring Professor Venkatesh Narayanamurti, SEAS & HKS; Probir Ghosh, CEO of InvVest; Vinod Kumar, InvVest Ambassador https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpSQkZYUDFTZ3RfcEVBZ2… 7:00pm Science on Screen Movie: The Little Shop of Horrors Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline A special showing of B-movie maestro Roger Corman’s 1960 horticultural cult classic The Little Shop of Horrors paired with a pre-screening talk on carnivorous plants by Aaron Ellison, Senior Research Fellow in Ecology at Harvard Forest. http://www.coolidge.org/science October 4 - October 7, 2011 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, Canada Join the community at the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. Greenbuild NEXT is first time the U.S. Green Building Council is hosting Greenbuild outside the United States. http://www.greenbuildexpo.org/Home.aspx October 4, 2011 9:00am - 6:00pm Climate Change 2011: When Policymakers Fail MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building Atrium level, 20 Ames Street Building E15, Cambridge Some of America's top scientists discuss their frustration with the lack of progress on the pressing problem of climate change, and talk about their ideas for what scientists and citizens can do while policymakers fail to act. Registration is required. http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/seminars/current.html Contact Name: knight-info(a)mit.edu 3:00pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge Visit the ClimaTea website for a list of speakers and topics. http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html October 5, 2011 4:10pm - 5:30pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge “How Do Consumers Respond to Gasoline Price Changes? Heterogeneity in Vehicle Choice and Driving Behavior" http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k82245&pageid=icb.page443881 Contact Name: Jason Chapman 617-496-8054 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy House, Spindell Room, Harvard University, Cambridge Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ Contact Name: Jackson Salovaara jsalov(a)fas.harvard.edu October 6, 2011 11:30am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 310, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge 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. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu October 7, 2011 3:00pm - 5:00pm After Fukushima, Nuclear Energy 2.0: Environmental Benefits and Risks MIT 4-163, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge This presentation will discuss a new paradigm in which (i) nuclear energy can be used to displace large amounts of fossil fuels (and their related CO2 emissions) from the transportation sector, and (ii) nuclear can be combined with and stabilize renewable energy sources (such as wind and solar) to enable their expansion. Featuring Jacopo Buongiorno, Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT; Dr. Charles Forsberg, Executive Director, MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study; Jacquelyn Yanch, Peer Review Committee for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's State-of-the-Art Reactor Consequence Analysis project. October 9, 2011 2:00pm Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge Author and naturalist Michael Wojtech will explain how to identify trees by their bark—the one tree characteristic that’s visible all year round. Learn about the structure and ecology of tree bark and how its different traits evolved. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php October 10, 2011 11:45am - 12:45pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge 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 October 11, 2011 3:00pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge Visit the ClimaTea website for a list of speakers and topics. http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html 5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology, & Global Change Biolabs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge “Catchers in the Rye: Ecology, Society, and Climate Change” featuring Josh Tewksbury, Walker Professor of Natural History, Department of Biology, University of Washington Contact Name: Lisa Matthews matthew(a)fas.harvard.edu October 12, 2011 1:00pm - 5:00pm National Fossil Day Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge Explore the amazing prehistoric world of fossils including trilobites, dinosaurs, Ice Age mammals, and other creatures. Discover how fossils form and investigate fossilized bones, teeth, claws, and footprints. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php 4:10pm - 5:30pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge “On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks” http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k82245&pageid=icb.page443881 Contact Name: Jason Chapman 617-496-8054 6:00pm Life in the Extreme Deep Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge Peter Girguis, HUCE faculty associate and Loeb Associate Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard, will discuss how biologists are working with environmental and industry officials to understand how natural “oil-eating” microbes are able to aid in oil spill cleanup. Pre-registration recommended. 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