aspuru-list October 2012

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by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, I just wanted to write to you regarding resuming regular meetings with many of you, especially the graduate students. Now that the tenure talk is over, and many of my past backlog is over. It would be great if all graduate students schedule a meeting with Cynthia *every month* (at least) even if you have "not much progress" to touch base and bounce back ideas. We of course can meet more often, but I have noticed that I have not seen many of you in a while. No wonder, as I was/and still am busy with tenure and overdue tasks, but I am getting out of it soon. Postdocs: Please do the same, but paradoxically, we have been meeting more often due to grants, requests, etc. than the graduate students. I will reduce my travel considerably due to my new baby that is coming and teaching PS1 next semester, so I hope to be back to normalcy (e.g. how I was in 2011) very soon. Thank you all for your patience, help and understanding during this stressful 2012. Also, thank you all for the boots. 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

11 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Friday

by Edward Farhi

Hello Quanta We will meet on Friday October 5 at 11:00 in our usual spot which is 6-310. Shelby will tell us about what she did over the summer. See you there. Eddie ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6-300 Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

11 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] group meeting tomorrow, new time!

by Ryan Babbush

Hi Everyone, Tomorrow we'll have group meeting at our new time - 2:30pm. Joon and Man Hong will be presenting their research - an abstract of which is provided below. See you there! "Open quantum dynamics associated with bosonic bath, e. g. the spin-boson model, can describe many chemical and physical processes such as electron transfer and quantum impurity. In spite of its simple structure of the Hamiltonian, the analytic solution is not available so far and the numerical simulation becomes very expensive as the number of degrees of freedom (DOF) and the bath temperature increases. In this talk, we will cover two different approaches to the bosonic problems, namely coherent state based time-dependent variational (TDV) method and quantum state diffusion (QSD). Both methods start with the coherent state expansion for the bath DOF but end up with completely different numerical procedures. They, however, share many common features and we have tried to complement each method via the links. We will present potential improvements to these methods. Additionally, we will discuss a possible efficient time propagation at finite temperature through the thermal vacuum state." -- Ryan Babbush | PhD Student in Chemistry (949) 331-3943 | babbush(a)fas.harvard.edu Harvard University | Aspuru-Guzik Research Group 12 Oxford Street, Box 400 | Cambridge, MA 02138 _______________________________________________ Aspuru-meetings-list mailing list Aspuru-meetings-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-meetings-list

11 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Theochem visitor - Valeria Molinero

by Stéphanie Valleau

Dear group, Prof. Valeria Molinero ( http://www.chem.utah.edu/directory/faculty/molinero.html) is visiting Harvard next Thursday afternoon (October 11th) as part of the Boston Area Theoretical Chemistry Lecture Series. Prof. Molinero interests include the understanding of the structure and anomalies of liquid water and its solutions, the mechanisms of ice crystallization in bulk and confined water and the study of the state of water in nanoporous and nanostructured materials. If you want to know good reasons to meet with her / faculty who come for theochem see Semion's email (sept 25th ). Activities with Valeria Molinero: - Theochem seminar on Wednesday October 10th (4-6pm) MIT - abstract and title coming shortly - We will be taking her to dinner - please RSVP. - There will be an open discussion hour - details to come shortly. Best wishes, Stephanie

11 years, 6 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ITAMP/HQOC Special Event - October 24, 2012

by Joan Hamilton

**Special Event - ITAMP/HQOC Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar** ***Special Guest Speaker - Prof. Jun Ye, JILA, University of Colorado*** ****Title: Clocks, Molecules, and/or Many-body Physics"**** Date: October 24, 2012 Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM Location: Jefferson 250 Light Refreshments will be served. -- Joan Hamilton Faculty Assistant to Profs. Lukin and Greiner HQOC Administrative Coordinator Harvard University Department of Physics 17 Oxford Street Cambridge, Ma 02138 Phone 617-496-2544 HUCTW Local Representative for the Department of Physics

11 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] movie about Christopher's research

by Er, Suleyman

Dear group, Here is a movie made by Christopher about his research. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaKSekjAnqY Hope to see you all at his talk tomorrow at 10 am in the Division room. Suleyman

11 years, 7 months

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