aspuru-list September 2011

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] Special group meeting by Joonsuk Huh on Friday

by Joel Yuen

We have a special group meeting this Friday by postdoctoral candidate Joonsuk Huh When: Friday September 30 from 2 to 3 PM Where: Cabot Division Room at Mallinckrodt What: See attached abstract. _______________________________________________ Aspuru-meetings-list mailing list Aspuru-meetings-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-meetings-list

12 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [CCB_Staff] Liqiang (John) Wei is back

by Anna B. Shin

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: Aloise, Allen <aloise(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Date: Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:57 PM Subject: [CCB_Staff] Liqiang (John) Wei is back To: #List-CCB-Faculty <faculty(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Cc: #List-CCB-Staff <staff(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Dear Professors, Unfortunately, Liqiang (or "John") Wei has again applied for a Faculty position in CCB. In years past, his applications have always been followed by unwelcome entrances into the CCB complex and attempts to directly engage with Faculty and Staff about his candidacy. He is not an appropriate candidate for our Faculty and has been escorted from our complex on several occasions. Should you or anyone in your research group encounter him, please call the Harvard Police Department at *5-1212* so that they can escort him from the premises and issue a trespass warning. To my knowledge he has not issued any overt threats or conducted himself in a particularly confrontational way. Regardless, we should not accept his presence within our complex and promptly contact the HUPD if he visits again. Liqiang (John) Wei http://comp.chem.umn.edu/truhlar/groupext.htm Best, Allen --------------------------------------------------------------------- Allen Aloise, Ph.D. Director of Laboratories Co-Director of Graduate Studies Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Harvard University 12 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-4283 (office) 617-496-5618 (fax) aloise(a)chemistry.harvard.edu _______________________________________________ ccb_staff mailing list ccb_staff(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccb_staff

12 years, 7 months

[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

12 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Talk by Suggy Jang now in Naito 030

by Stéphanie Valleau

Dear group, The talk by Suggy Jang on "Theories of resonance energy transfer" is starting now in Naito 030! Best, Stephanie

12 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Reminder: Talk by Suggy Jang and meeting with him!

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, If anybody wants to meet with Suggy, come to my office from 9-10, we will have the seminar 10-11, and then we only have 1/2 hour 11-11.30 to talk to him as well! So therefore, please feel free, if you wake up as early as to read this email to come to my office. Also, don't miss the seminar! 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

12 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Open Postdoctoral Position

by Patrick Rebentrost

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Open Postdoctoral Position Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:21:31 -0400 From: Paul Brumer <pbrumer(a)chem.utoronto.ca> To: Anne De Wit <adewit(a)ulb.ac.be> CC: Graham Fleming <GRFleming(a)lbl.gov>, Greg Scholes <greg.scholes(a)utoronto.ca>, "Stuart A. Rice" <sarice(a)uchicago.edu>, Yuan-Chung Cheng <yuanchung(a)ntu.edu.tw>, Mark Ratner <ratner(a)chem.northwestern.edu>, Ronnie Kosloff <ronnie(a)fh.huji.ac.il>, skourtis_duke <spyros(a)duke.edu>, David Beratan <david.beratan(a)duke.edu>, David H Waldeck <dave(a)pitt.edu>, Harald F Kauffmann <harald.f.kauffmann(a)univie.ac.at>, Paul Brumer <pbrumer(a)chem.utoronto.ca>, shaul mukamel <smukamel(a)uci.edu>, "nagatay(a)uci.edu" <nagatay(a)uci.edu>, Birgitta Whaley <whaley(a)berkeley.edu>, Vlatko Vedral <vlatko.vedral(a)qubit.org>, Alexandra Olaya-Castro <a.olaya(a)ucl.ac.uk>, Robert Silbey <silbey(a)MIT.EDU>, Rienk van Grondelle <r.van.grondelle(a)vu.nl>, Greg Engel <gsengel(a)uchicago.edu>, Thomas Renger <Thomas.Renger(a)jku.at>, Martin Plenio <martin.plenio(a)uni-ulm.de>, Thorsten Ritz <tritz(a)uci.edu>, "R.& W. Wiltschko" <wiltschko(a)bio.uni-frankfurt.de>, Judith Klinman <klinman(a)berkeley.edu>, Nigel Scrutton <Nigel.Scrutton(a)manchester.ac.uk>, "Rebentrost, Frank" <rebentr(a)fas.harvard.edu>, "aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu forwards to aspuru.com" <alan(a)aspuru.com>, Phaedon Avouris <avouris(a)us.ibm.com>, David Beljonne <David(a)averell.umh.ac.be>, Frank De Proft <fdeprof(a)vub.ac.be>, Benjamin Elias <benjamin.elias(a)uclouvain.be>, Massimiliano Esposito <mesposit(a)ulb.ac.be>, Gaspard Gaspard <gaspard(a)ulb.ac.be>, Paul GEERLINGS <pgeerlin(a)vub.ac.be>, Herman Michel <mherman(a)ulb.ac.be>, Akihito Ishizaki <aishizaki(a)lbl.gov>, Marianne Rooman <mrooman(a)ulb.ac.be>, Gabriela Schlau-Cohen <gschlau-cohen(a)berkeley.edu>, Mark Van der Auweraer <Mark.VanderAuweraer(a)chem.kuleuven.be>, Dominique Bogaerts <dobogaer(a)ulb.ac.be>, "ijuif(a)ulb.ac.be Juif" <ijuif(a)ulb.ac.be> Professor P. Brumer Chemical Physics Theory Group University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 POSTDOCTORAL POSITION THEORETICAL CHEMICAL PHYSICS/PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Please call the attention of interested candidates to an open postdoctoral position in my research group. Our group is currently engaged in theoretical and computational studies of coherent control of molecular processes, light-matter interactions, novel studies on electronic energy transfer in nanoscale and biological systems, quantum and classical analyses of laser induced molecular processes, decoherence in open quantum systems and classical-quantum correspondence. Candidates with a strong background in any of these areas are asked to send me their Curriculum Vitae by email (pbrumer(a)chem.utoronto.ca) and to arrange to have two or more letters of recommendation sent to me directly.

12 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [Cquicgeneral] Position Advertisement

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

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: Vicky Bird <vbird(a)unm.edu> Date: Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:09 PM Subject: [Cquicgeneral] Position Advertisement To: cquicgeneral(a)info.phys.unm.edu Position Announcement Assistant Professor in Physics Tenure-Track Theory Position The Physics Department, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) invites applications for one full-time, tenure-track, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, starting August 16, 2012. We are seeking a theorist working in computational physics in one of the following areas: quantum computing or soft condensed matter, especially those that will complement our current areas of research and strengthen our doctoral program in Applied Physics. Generous start-up funds are available at a level that will enable the successful applicant to establish a nationally competitive research effort. Applicants must hold a Ph. D. in Physics or closely related field, must have postdoctoral research experience with evidence of excellence in scholarship, and must have experience in teaching physics. The successful candidate is expected to pursue a vigorous research program, publish in high quality professional journals, actively seek and attract external funding, and teach and develop undergraduate and graduate courses. Applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a research plan (no more than two pages long), a statement of teaching philosophy (no more than one page) and the contact information including e-mails of four references to: Theory Search Committee Department of Physics, Mail Code 4401, Southern Illinois University Carbondale 1245 Lincoln Dr. Carbondale, IL 62901 or submit the requested materials electronically to: spleasure(a)physics.siu.edu We will begin reviewing applications on 11/15/2011 and will continue until the position is filled. SIUC is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer that strives to enhance its ability to develop a diverse faculty and staff and to increase its potential to serve a diverse student population. All applications are welcomed and encouraged and will receive consideration. _______________________________________________ cquicgeneral mailing list cquicgeneral(a)panda3.phys.unm.edu http://panda3.phys.unm.edu/mailman/listinfo/cquicgeneral

12 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Matlab

by Xavier Andrade

Hi everyone, The latest version of Matlab (2011b) for Linux and Windows is now available to download from the FAS research computing website: https://software.rc.fas.harvard.edu/software/ (you need you odyssey user/password to access it). For those who are interested in testing Matlab on a GPU, we have a machine for that. Just send me your public ssh-key and I will open an account for you. For the moment the machine has only the basic GPU support from Matlab. There are two packages to improve the GPU support: GPUMat (http://gp-you.org , freeware) and Jacket (http://www.accelereyes.com/ , quite expensive) that we could try if the basic one is not good enough. If you have a particular subroutine that is critical for performance, it could be written explicitly for the GPU (I could help with that). Xavier

12 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Topological Quantum Computation discussion

by Byron Coffin Drury

Dear Quanta, This morning's discussion of anyons in the Farhi group meeting will be continued as a weekly series of meetings, a reading group of sorts, on Fridays at 3:00 in 6-310. Anyone interested in learning more about anyons and topological quantum computation is welcome to attend. For now we will be working our way through Preskill and Pachos' lecture notes (http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/ph219/topological.pdf and quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~phyjkp/index_files/JiannisPachosLecture.pdf respectively). There will also be discussion of Kitaev's pioneering paper on the subject (http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9707021). Cheers, Byron on behalf of the Lins _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

12 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Kneeling chairs are here

by Margaret Ronald

For those of you who asked for a kneeling chair, they have arrived and are now in M104! -- Maggie Margaret Ronald Faculty Assistant | Aspuru-Guzik Research Group Office Hours: 1:00-5:00 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology | Harvard University 12 Oxford Street | Cambridge, MA 02138 617.496.1716 office | 617.496.9411 fax http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

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