aspuru-list December 2012

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] not today

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta Everyone (me) is too busy so we will skip the meeting today. We will meet next week. Best, 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [ PSI-K ] Spring School "Quantum Information Processing" at Forschungszentrum Juelich

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

-- Alan Aspuru-Guzik Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu Forwarded message: > From: PSI-K <psik-coord(a)dl.ac.uk> > To: PSI-K <psik-coord(a)dl.ac.uk> > Date: Friday, December 14, 2012, 7:55:39 AM > Subject: [ PSI-K ] Spring School "Quantum Information Processing" at Forschungszentrum Juelich > > An announcement has been added in the "PSI-K" site at PSI-K (http://cselnx9.dl.ac.uk:8080/portal) > > > Subject: Spring School "Quantum Information Processing" at Forschungszentrum Juelich > > Category: Event > > From: Peter H. Dederichs > > Date: 14-Dec-2012 12:55 > > Message: > > > 44th IFF Spring School "Quantum Information Processing" at Forschungszentrum Juelich > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > The Peter Gruenberg Institute and the Institute for Advanced Simulation of the Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany are pleased to announce that registration is open for the > > 44th IFF Spring School 2013 on > > "Quantum Information Processing" > > taking place from 25 February to 08 March, 2013 at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany. The IFF Spring School 2013 will provide a comprehensive introduction to important developments in quantum information science. > > The IFF Spring School 2013 will provide a comprehensive introduction to the emerging, cross-disciplinary field of quantum information science. The field holds the promise for fundamental improvements in the speed, security and reliability of communication and computation. Lectures will cover the basics of quantum algorithms and quantum cryptography, but the primary focus of the school will be on the physical implementation of quantum information processing in solid state systems. > > > For further information on the School and how to apply, please visit our website: > www.iff-springschool.de (http://www.iff-springschool.de) > > A modest fee of 350 Euro includes accomodation at the youth hostel in Aachen as well as breakfast, dinner, transportation to and from Juelich and a book with all lectures. > Please find the Spring School flyer attached. > The deadline for applications is 31 December, 2012. > > We look forward to welcoming you in Juelich! > > With best regards, > > > David DiVincenzo > > - Scientific Director - > > > > Attachments: > 44IFFSpringSchool_Flyer.pdf (http://cselnx9.dl.ac.uk:8080/access/content/attachment/9e912646-383c-4de9-8…) > > ---------------------- > This automatic notification message was sent by PSI-K (http://cselnx9.dl.ac.uk:8080/portal) from the PSI-K site. > You can modify how you receive notifications at My Workspace > Preferences.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Thanks!

by sarah mostame

Dear Group Members, Many thanks for the beautiful postcard and all the good wishes you had for us. Our baby boy, Arvin, got born on November 22 and he is 3 weeks old now. Enclosed you may find some pictures of him. Merry Christmas and happy new year in advance. Best regards, 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.chem.harvard.edu/sarah-mostame/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] QUBE progress report.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear people that work on DARPA QUBE projects, Please send your bullet points on updates today to Stephanie Valleau as we need to send them by tomorrow. Thanks, Alan

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] EXCITONICS SEMINAR SERIES - Seth Marder - TODAY Dec. 13, 3 PM, 36-428

by Catherine M Bourgeois

TODAY Please post and forward to your group Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Thursday, Dec 13, 2012 3:00 - 4:00 PM RLE HAUS and ALLEN rooms: 36-428 Organic Semiconductor Chemistry Seth Marder, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Abstract: Organic semiconductors have attracted interest for electronic applications due to their potential for use in low-cost, large-area, flexible electronic devices. While many examples of organic semiconductors for p-channel and n-channel organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) and organic photovoltaic systems (OPVs) have been reported in the recent literature, there is a paucity of high-performance, solution-processable, small-molecule electron transport materials. Here, we report that bis(NDI) derivatives with conjugated bridging groups based on fused heterocycle ring systems can be used to create solution-processed films that exhibit OFET electron mobility values of up to 1.5 cm2V-1s-1, which is among the highest yet reported for an n-channel OFET based on a solution-processed small molecule. In addition we will discuss the development of metal complexes that can be used to both n-dope or p-dope organic semiconductors and the use of surface modifiers to vary the work function of electrodes for use in optoelectronic applications. Bio Seth Marder is currently the Georgia Power Chair of Energy Efficiency and Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, (courtesy) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Marder obtained a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from MIT in 1978 and his Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985, where he was a W. R. Grace Fellow. Dr. Marder then was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford from 1985-1987. After his stay at Oxford, he moved to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) California Institute of Technology (Caltech) where he was a National Research Council Resident Research Associate from 1987-1989. He later became a Member of the Technical Staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a Member of the Beckman Institute at Caltech and Associate Director, for the Office of Naval Research Center for Advanced Multi-Functional Nonlinear Optical Polymers and Molecular Assemblies, until he moved to the University of Arizona in 1998. He is the Deputy Director and co-principal investigator on the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center: Materials and Device for Information Technology Research. In 2003 he moved to the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the GT where he was appointed the founding director for the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics and holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Material Sciences and Engineering. He is the co-Director of Georgia Tech's NSF-Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, (MRSEC), Director of the AFOSR-Center for Organic Materials for All-Optical Switching, and an Associate Director for a DOE, funded Energy Frontier Research Center. His research interests are in the development of materials for nonlinear optics, applications of organic dyes for photonic, display, electronic and medical applications, and organometallic chemistry. Recently, his research group has been systematically designing dyes for large two-photon absorption cross sections for a variety of applications ranging from two-photon induced polymerization to dyes for two-photon fluorescence microscopy. Dr. Marder was the 1993 recipient of JPL's Lew Allen Award for outstanding research by a scientist in the early part of his career, a recipient of an NSF Special Creativity Award, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003) and the Optical Society of America (2004), SPIE (2006), the Royal Society of Chemistry (2007) and the American Physical Society (2009). He also received the 2009 Georgia Institute of Technology Outstanding Award for Research Program Development and a 2011 American Chemical Society A.C. Cope Scholar Award. He has co-authored over 350 peer reviewed research papers and holds over 20 patents, has organized or served on organizing committees for over forty scientific conferences, including chairing the Seventh International Conference on Organic Nonlinear Optics, co-chairing the Ninth International Conference on Functional Pi-Systems, and the 2012 International Conference on the Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals. In addition Dr. Marder has co-edited several proceedings including for the ACS, SPIE and MRS. He has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science Magazine, and as a member of the Editorial Board for Chemistry of Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Quantum Optics, the Journal of Materials Chemistry and the International Advisory Board for Chemical Communications and Advanced Functional Materials. He has also been a guest editor for several journals including an issue of Advanced Functional Materials and has recently co-edited two Special Volumes of Advances in Polymer Science: Photoresponsive Polymers and has served as the Chair of the editorial board for the RSC Journal of Materials Chemistry. Light refreshments will be served

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] last group meeting of 2012!

by Ryan Babbush

Hi Everyone, This Friday at 2:30 in the Division room we'll be having our last group meeting of the year. Our very own Dr. Süleyman Er will be presenting: Flow Batteries for Grid-Scale Electrical Energy Storage ============================================== Flow batteries are a promising technology for grid-scale electrical energy storage in the face of rising electricity production from intermittent renewables such as wind and solar. In this presentation, I will concentrate on a particular type of flow battery, the hydrogen-halogen flow battery. First, I will describe some of the very recent experimental work to develop new alloy oxide materials that catalyze the redox reactions in hydrogen-chlorine flow batteries. Next, I will present our results that are obtained from first-principles calculations based on density functional theory. The common aim is to find inexpensive materials that would increase the power density of flow batteries. Theoretical predictions are used both to gain insight into the electronic properties of the existing alloy oxides and to guide new experiments on the development of efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen-halogen flow batteries. -- 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [CCB_Staff] New program for studying the electronic structure of periodic systems -- CRYSTAL 09

by Anna B. Shin

Group, I bought the CRYSTAL09 license for the group several years ago. Looks like it's available via HU below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Zheng, Shao-Liang Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 Subject: [CCB_Staff] New program for studying the electronic structure of periodic systems -- CRYSTAL 09 To: "Zheng, Shao-Liang" <zheng(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Cc: "Aloise, Allen" <aloise(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Dear users I am glad to announce that a new program for studying the electronic structure of periodic systems -- CRYSTAL 09 has been installed in our center computers. You can find the tutorial at: http://www.theochem.unito.it/crystal_tuto/mssc2008_cd/tutorials/index.html Thank you for your attentions. Best Shao *********************************************** Shao-Liang Zheng, Ph.D. Lecturer and Manager of Center for Crystallographic Studies Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford St., Bauer B06 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: (617) 495-0787 Fax: (617) 496-8783 Please join us for the crystallography class in spring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbqhoBW1pqc *********************************************** -- 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/<http://?ui=2&ik=e7480c62f0&view=att&th=12eee19970eeefe4&attid=0.0.2&disp=emb&zw>

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] AAG - Lab Administrator Survey - Marlon :)

by Marlon Cummings

Dear AAG Group Members: As a follow-up to Alan's e-mail last evening, I've included a link with the questions I wanted answered. Although I asked you to send it in a word document, I think this way is more efficient and less time consuming. Please take a moment to answer each question as this will help me learn more about you. Please do so no later than Sunday, December 16th. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFB4VGFrejVvS1FEck15VX… Thanks, Marlon ----------- Marlon G. Cummings Lab Manager, Aspuru-Guzik Group Mallinckrodt M112 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-9964 617-496-9411 (fax) http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] EXCITONICS SEMINAR SERIES - Seth Marder - TOMORROW Dec. 13, 3 PM, 36-428

by Catherine M Bourgeois

Please post and forward to your group Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Thursday, Dec 13, 2012 3:00 - 4:00 PM RLE HAUS and ALLEN rooms: 36-428 Organic Semiconductor Chemistry Seth Marder, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Abstract: Organic semiconductors have attracted interest for electronic applications due to their potential for use in low-cost, large-area, flexible electronic devices. While many examples of organic semiconductors for p-channel and n-channel organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) and organic photovoltaic systems (OPVs) have been reported in the recent literature, there is a paucity of high-performance, solution-processable, small-molecule electron transport materials. Here, we report that bis(NDI) derivatives with conjugated bridging groups based on fused heterocycle ring systems can be used to create solution-processed films that exhibit OFET electron mobility values of up to 1.5 cm2V-1s-1, which is among the highest yet reported for an n-channel OFET based on a solution-processed small molecule. In addition we will discuss the development of metal complexes that can be used to both n-dope or p-dope organic semiconductors and the use of surface modifiers to vary the work function of electrodes for use in optoelectronic applications. Bio Seth Marder is currently the Georgia Power Chair of Energy Efficiency and Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, (courtesy) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Marder obtained a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from MIT in 1978 and his Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985, where he was a W. R. Grace Fellow. Dr. Marder then was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford from 1985-1987. After his stay at Oxford, he moved to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) California Institute of Technology (Caltech) where he was a National Research Council Resident Research Associate from 1987-1989. He later became a Member of the Technical Staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a Member of the Beckman Institute at Caltech and Associate Director, for the Office of Naval Research Center for Advanced Multi-Functional Nonlinear Optical Polymers and Molecular Assemblies, until he moved to the University of Arizona in 1998. He is the Deputy Director and co-principal investigator on the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center: Materials and Device for Information Technology Research. In 2003 he moved to the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the GT where he was appointed the founding director for the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics and holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Material Sciences and Engineering. He is the co-Director of Georgia Tech's NSF-Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, (MRSEC), Director of the AFOSR-Center for Organic Materials for All-Optical Switching, and an Associate Director for a DOE, funded Energy Frontier Research Center. His research interests are in the development of materials for nonlinear optics, applications of organic dyes for photonic, display, electronic and medical applications, and organometallic chemistry. Recently, his research group has been systematically designing dyes for large two-photon absorption cross sections for a variety of applications ranging from two-photon induced polymerization to dyes for two-photon fluorescence microscopy. Dr. Marder was the 1993 recipient of JPL's Lew Allen Award for outstanding research by a scientist in the early part of his career, a recipient of an NSF Special Creativity Award, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003) and the Optical Society of America (2004), SPIE (2006), the Royal Society of Chemistry (2007) and the American Physical Society (2009). He also received the 2009 Georgia Institute of Technology Outstanding Award for Research Program Development and a 2011 American Chemical Society A.C. Cope Scholar Award. He has co-authored over 350 peer reviewed research papers and holds over 20 patents, has organized or served on organizing committees for over forty scientific conferences, including chairing the Seventh International Conference on Organic Nonlinear Optics, co-chairing the Ninth International Conference on Functional Pi-Systems, and the 2012 International Conference on the Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals. In addition Dr. Marder has co-edited several proceedings including for the ACS, SPIE and MRS. He has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science Magazine, and as a member of the Editorial Board for Chemistry of Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Quantum Optics, the Journal of Materials Chemistry and the International Advisory Board for Chemical Communications and Advanced Functional Materials. He has also been a guest editor for several journals including an issue of Advanced Functional Materials and has recently co-edited two Special Volumes of Advances in Polymer Science: Photoresponsive Polymers and has served as the Chair of the editorial board for the RSC Journal of Materials Chemistry. Light refreshments will be served

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group business

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, This e-mail *Slide Archivist: *I don't recall if we have a group meeting slide archivist? The last one was James? I think somebody has that job assigned. Who is this person? If so, please contact me as we probably need to set up the presentation archive ASAP, probably in the communal Dropbox storage. *E-mail Marlon your current group duties *In any case, please e-mail to Marlon ASAP your group duties so that we can discuss this in our first group meeting in January. We can re-assign/assign group meeting duties during that time. If you don't send your duties to Marlon, I will assume you had none, and I will asign you more, so don't slack off. *Website:* There are a few of you that have not completed your website profile. Some of you are new group members. Please contact Jacob Sanders ASAP to get this complete. I want to have the website complete and up to date this week as my tenure review is upcoming. 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

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