aspuru-list September 2011

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by A. Eisfeld

We should develop a game! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://fold.it/portal/node/990356 As many of you already know, a protein causing AIDS in rhesus monkeys that hadn't been solved for 15 years was resolved by Foldit players and confirmed by x-ray crystallography. That paper was selected for an Advance Online Publication (AOP) today in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology; link to paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2119

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] M104 office door

by sarah mostame

Dear group members, When I came to the office (M104) early this morning the door was unlocked and no one was in the office. Following Anna's email on lab security may you ensure that the doors are locked when you leave the office in the evenings? Thank you very much and have a nice weekend. Best, Sarah ------ Sarah Mostame, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street, Room M104 Cambridge, MA 02138 email: mostame(a)fas.harvard.edu http://aspuru.unix.fas.harvard.edu/People/Sarah_Mostame/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] Group meeting by Jacob Krich on Monday

by Joel Yuen

When: Monday September 26 from 2 to 3 PM Where: Cabot Division Room at Mallinkrodt What: Jacob Krich is up for group meeting *A final word on recombination in intermediate band photovoltaics In what I hope will be my last group meeting dedicated solely to nonradiative recombination, I will discuss new predictions of nonradiative rates in intermediate band photovoltaics (IBPV). I will introduce IBPV, which hold the promise of radical improvements in photovoltaic efficiency. I will focus on building predictions from a Marcus-theory-like transfer rate. I will give a variational argument that (contrary to prior prediction) a metallic intermediate band will not slow recombination and also a perturbative prediction of actual recombination rates. I will close with prospects for successfully implementing the IBPV concept.* -- 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 https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-meetings-list

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [CCB_Staff] Please secure laptops and valuables

by Anna B. Shin

In case you didn't receive: 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: Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:35 AM Subject: [CCB_Staff] Please secure laptops and valuables To: #List-CCB-Gradstudents <gradstudents(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>, #List-CCB-PostDocs <postdocs(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Cc: #List-CCB-Staff <staff(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Dear CCB Researchers, As an open-campus located in an urban setting, Harvard typically realizes an increase in thefts when the academic year begins in the Fall. Several unsecured laptops have been reported as stolen from within the CCB complex in the past few months. I write to remind you that laptop computers and other valuable personal items should be secured at all times in order to prevent their theft. Laptops should be secured with a laptop security cable even when being used, as it is common to be momentarily drawn away thus leaving the laptop unattended. Please contact Mike Paterno, CCB Facilities Manager, (copied above) with any questions you might have regarding securing your personal affects. 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email September 22 - October 6

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: September 28, 2011: Join Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India and current Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, for a talk on "Science, Technology, and India's Policy: Energy, Nuclear Power, Space, and IT," which will detail how the diaspora can be better engaged in the process of enhancing research and higher education in India. October 4, 2011: Climate Change 2011 - When Policymakers Fail, an MIT lecture, gathers 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 when policymakers fail to act. October 5, 2011: Don't miss the next Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy, "How Do Consumers Respond to Gasoline Price Changes? Heterogeneity in Vehicle Choice and Driving Behavior." Calendar Listings: September 22, 2011 4:15pm History and Economics Seminar CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA "Did Things Have to Turn Out This Way? Energy, Technology, Markets and the Environment in the North American West." A Joint Center for History and Economics lecture featuring Richard White, Stanford University. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/ Contact Name: Emily Gauthier gauth(a)fas.harvard.edu 5:30pm Peabody Museum Lecture Peabody Museum Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge “Rags, Bones and Plastic Bags: Trash in Industrial America,” Susan Strasser, History Professor, University of Delaware, and author of "Waste and Want: a Social History of Trash." http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/files/2011%20Fall%20Cal_0.pdf 5:30pm - 7:00pm MSI Graduate Consortium Information Session HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge The evening will be an opportunity to socialize with current and prospective members of the consortium and to learn more about the program. http://www.msi.harvard.edu/graduates/consortium.html Contact Name: alenco(a)fas.harvard.edu September 23, 2011 8:30am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor, Cambridge Featuring Curtis Huttenhower (HSPH-Biostatistics), "Functional metagenomics and the human microbiome." Host: Chris Marx 12:00pm “How to Clean Water with Gold Nanoparticles” Pierce Hall Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge A lecture by Michael Wong, Rice University. Host: Chad Vecitis September 24, 2011 1:00pm - 3:00pm Environmental Justice Estravaganza Sever Hall, 25 Harvard Yard, Cambridge A student-led discussion of pressing climate, health and energy challenges Contact Name: Katrina Malakhoff 2:00pm Moving Cambridge Beyond Fossil Fuel Christopher Columbus Park, Atlantic Ave, Boston Join a worldwide event - Moving Planet - calling for our elected leaders, businesses and communities to get serious about moving beyond fossil fuels. Groups will form in Cambridge and other towns and go to Boston - on foot or by bike, T or boat - to the New England March and Rally in Boston. http://www.cceag.org Contact Name: John Pitkin john_pitkin(a)cceag.ccsend.com September 26, 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 12:15pm - 2:00pm STS Circle Lecture 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridge Featuring Lindsay Smith (UCLA), "Genetics of a Study in Faith": The Disappeared in Latin America, Science as Development, and the Fragility of Identification. 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 With Christopher Ballentine, University of Manchester, UK. Hosted by Sujoy Mukhopadhyay. Contact Name: Sabinna Cappo scappo(a)fas.harvard.edu September 27, 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 7:00pm Intercollegiate Energy Social John Harvard's (Harvard Sq.), 33 Dunster Street, Cambridge Are you a student and passionate about energy? Come to an intercollegiate energy social this Tuesday (9/27/11) for some energy community building, debate, and discussion 7:30pm "Creating More Sustainable Suburbs: Lessons from Around the World" Arlington High Learning Commons, 869 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington A Conversation with Paul Lukez, architect and author of Suburban Transformations and the forthcoming Transforming the Mid-Polis. Based on his research in the US, China and Europe, Paul Lukez will discuss new models for building more sustainable environments and consider how they apply to Arlington and other local communities. http://arlingtoncommunityed.org/registration/index.php September 28, 2011 2:30pm - 3:30pm Science, Technology, and India's Policy: Energy, Nuclear Power, Space and IT Maxwell Dworkin 115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Featuring Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India and current Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology. Join Dr. Kalam in a discussion about how the Diaspora can be better engaged in the process of enhancing research and higher education in India. Contact Name: Michael Rutter mrutter(a)seas.harvard.edu September 29, 2011 11:30am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St. 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 3:00pm ClimaTea Special Seminar Geological Museum Rm. 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge Erdal Yigit, “Parameterizing gravity waves from the lower atmosphere to the thermosphere in general circulation models” http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html September 30, 2011 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 1, 2011 9:00am - 12:00pm The Art of Photographing Trees Hunnewell Building 125 Arborway, Boston With Erik Gehring, Freelance Photographer and Multimedia Producer 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 11:45am - 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 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.” A Panel Discussion Featuring: Professor Venkatesh Narayanamurti, SEAS & HKS; Probir Ghosh, CEO of InvVest; Vinod Kumar, InvVest Ambassador Please register here. 7:00pm Science on Screen Movie: The Little Shop of Horrors Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline The Coolidge Corner Theatre kicks off a new season of its popular Science on Screen series with 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. This event is free to attend, but registration is required. Please e-mail knight-info(a)mit.edu for details and registration information. http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/seminars/current.html 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 October 6, 2011 11:30am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St. 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 --- 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. [64]Unsubscribe aspuru-meetings-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 64. 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. 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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] Change of time/reminder for Seminar Friday, Sept. 23: David Knezevic (IACS) on The Reduced Basis Method

by Rosalind Reid

Please note a slight change of time for this week's IACS Seminar. Speaker: David Knezevic Location: Pierce Hall 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30 pm in *Cruft 403*. Talk, 1 pm in Pierce 209 Title: The Reduced Basis Method for Fast and Accurate Solutions of Parametrized Partial Differential Equations Abstract: The Reduced Basis method is a well-established approach for acceleration of high-fidelity numerical approximation of parametrized partial differential equations. The method is divided into a computationally intensive Offline stage (performed on a supercomputer, for example) in which a reduced order model is generated, and a very inexpensive Online stage in which solution fields, quantities of interest and rigorous error bounds are evaluated in real-time. We demonstrate the Reduced Basis methodology through a number of examples drawn from continuum mechanics. We then discuss recent results on a component-based approach to model reduction, which combines the Reduced Basis method with domain decomposition. This framework enables construction of system models from a library of parametrized Reduced Basis building blocks (generated Offline), and yields significant advantages in terms of computational cost and Online flexibility. Bio: David Knezevic is a Lecturer on Computational Science at the Harvard Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS). He was previously a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, working with Professor Anthony Patera. Before that he attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and obtained a Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis with Professor Endre Süli. He is originally from Perth, Western Australia, and graduated from the University of Western Australia in 2004. Knezevic's research interests are in the areas of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing. He focuses on numerical discretizations of partial differential equations, with an emphasis on both theory and implementation of numerical methods. He is interested in applying numerical methods to a range of different of different continuum mechanics application areas, including fluid dynamics, heat transfer, solid mechanics and acoustics. Currently his main research interests are on model reduction of parametrized partial differential equations via the Reduced Basis method. For information about future IACS events, 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] Fwd: faculty position at Southern Illinois

by Aspuru

Alan Aspuru-Guzik Associate Professor Harvard University http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu Sent from my mobile. Please pardon any typos. Begin forwarded message: > From: Kurt Jacobs <kurt.jacobs(a)umb.edu> > Date: September 21, 2011 3:20:38 PM MDT > To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com>, Ivan Deutsch <ideutsch(a)unm.edu>, "Steven M. Girvin" <steven.girvin(a)yale.edu> > Subject: faculty position at Southern Illinois > > Hi Guys, > > Attached is an add for an Assistant Professor position at Southern Illinois University that > Mark Byrd sent me. Just in case your postdocs are interested. > > All the best, > Kurt > > -- > Mark S. Byrd > Associate Professor > Department of Physics > Southern Illinois University > Carbondale, Illinois 62901 > 618-453-2271 >

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] (no subject)

by Semion Saikin

I thought this paper may be interesting for the group. Semion

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Bristol Lectureship in Quantum Information Theory

by Sergio Boixo

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andreas Winter <a.j.winter(a)bris.ac.uk> Date: Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:49 PM Subject: Bristol Lectureship in Quantum Information Theory To: Andreas Winter <a.j.winter(a)bristol.ac.uk> Dear colleague, we have the following job opening in Bristol (Lecturer, equivalent to Assistant Professor in other countries). Please distribute it to anyone in your group or acquaintance who might be interested in applying. Best wishes, - Andreas. =========================== Applications are invited for a Lectureship in Quantum Information Theory, tenable from 1 January 2012 or a date to be agreed. A Lectureship is similar to an Assistant Professorship in North America. We seek an outstanding researcher and teacher from any area of quantum information theory who will be expected to develop an internationally leading independent research programme as well as to undertake teaching and administrative duties as appropriate. The post will be held in the School of Mathematics or the School of Physics, by agreement between the successful candidate and the University. In either case, the post will be within the inter- departmental Quantum Computation and Information Group (QCIG), one of the world’s leading groups on all theoretical aspects of quantum information processing; see http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Research/QuantumComputing/ for more information on staff and research interests. This is an open-ended post, subject to the University's standard procedures. It is expected that interviews will be held during the week commencing 5 December 2011. See http://www.bris.ac.uk/boris/jobs/feeds/ads?ID=100671 for full details of the post and the application process. -- Andreas Winter. mobile +44(0)7930906649 royal mail Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TW, United Kingdom home http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~csajw/ office: 3.2 a.j.winter(a)bris.ac.uk * fon +44(0)117 92-87968 * fax -87999 --------------- Singapore +65 90383633 --- CQT: http://www.quantumlah.org Italia +39 3462490981 ------ Deutschland +49(0)1731360934

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] breakfast leftovers from staff mtg...

by Anna B. Shin

...in lounge courtesy of Helen Schwickrath. :) 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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