Dear group members,
Dori and I are rearranging furniture at home and will not need this couch-bed anymore.
It cost us originally 500 back in the bay area circa 2005. We used to have it in our living room when I was a postdoc. It is well preserved and has great storage drawers.
It is *free* to the first group member that agrees to come to my house (Cambrigeport) and take it away before next Saturday when we have other furniture come in. It is great as a guest bed!
I will send another picture of it in the next message.
Again, first come, first-serve.
Alan Aspuru-Guzik
Associate Professor
Harvard University
http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu
Sent from my mobile. Please pardon any typos.
HQOC/ITAMP Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar
Sept. 5, 4:00 PM in J250
Guest Speaker: Assistant Professor Philip Walther, University of Vienna
Title: "Quantum Cloud Computing, Photonic Quantum Simulation and Quantum
Discord as Resource"
Student Presentation by Jarrod McClean, Aspuru-Guzik Group
Title: "Solving eigenvalue problems with the quantum computer in your
lab instead of the quantum computer in your dreams"
Refreshments will be served.
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Faculty Assistant to Profs. Lukin and Greiner
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Harvard University
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Dear group members,
Sorry to bother you again with my concentration, please do not send me
emails that are not directly relevant to the tenure situation (slides,
documents, research related to it) until September 10. Do it only when
it is important or time sensitive. I won't revise any more manuscripts
or reply to any referee reports, deal with minutiae of other research
directions, etc. You will notice I will farm out to you many of these
requests and ask you for help.
Thanks,
Alan
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Hi Everyone,
Group meeting has been cancelled today. No need to show up to the
Division Room at 2pm! We will resume next week unless stated
otherwise.
Ryan
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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
Hi Quanta
Some of us met yesterday and we decided to have our group meetings on Fridays at 11:00 and the seminar on Fridays at 2:00. Please let me know if either of these times presents an unavoidable conflict. As of now we will meet next Friday at 11.
Best,
Eddie
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An item of interest to our IACS friends:
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will host a special four-week mini-course on boundary value problems and medical imaging starting next Tuesday, Sept. 4. Sponsored by the Onassis Foundation University Seminars Program, the non-credit course is free and open to all members of the Harvard community.
To register: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/boundaryproblems
DETAILS
Instructor:
Professor A. S. Fokas, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
Dates, Times, & Location:
September 4-27, 2012 (Tuesdays & Thursdays) 8:30-10:00 a.m., Maxwell Dworkin G125 (33 Oxford St., Cambridge)
Course Content:
This mini-course will discuss a new method for analyzing linear boundary value problems. This method, which has been acclaimed as "the most important development in the exact analysis of linear PDEs since the classical works of the 18th century," is based on the "synthesis" as opposed to the separation of variables.
It has led to the analytical solution of several non-separable as well as non-self-adjoint boundary value problems. Furthermore, it has led to new numerical techniques for solving linear elliptic PDEs in the interior as well as in the exterior of polygons. The analytical and numerical implementation of the new method to both evolution and elliptic PDEs will be discussed.
A related topic is the emergence of new analytical methods for solving inverse problems arising in medicine, including techniques for PET (Positron Emission Tomography) and SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography). A summary of these developments will also be presented.
Target Audience:
While primarily directed at junior- and senior-level undergraduates and graduate students in medical disciplines, mathematics, applied mathematics, physics, applied physics and engineering, the course is free and open to all members of the Harvard community.
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Rosalind Reid
Executive Director, Institute for Applied Computational Science
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Dear group,
There is no group meeting neither today nor next Friday
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Harvard University
http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu
You are cordially invited to the first IACS Seminar of the new academic year. Also please note below that we are launching a new course and a new course category, Applied Computation, this fall.
Seminar speaker: Nicolas Hadjiconstatinou, MIT
Location: Maxwell Dworkin G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Date: Friday, Sept. 7
Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm. Talk, 1:00pm.
Title: Efficient Simulation of Multiscale Kinetic Transport
Abstract:
This talk will discuss a new class of approaches for simulating multiscale kinetic problems, with particular emphasis on applications related to small-scale transport. These approaches are based on an algebraic decomposition of the distribution function into an equilibrium part, described deterministically (analytically or numerically), and the remainder, described using a particle simulation method. The discussion will pay particular attention to stochastic particle simulation methods that are typically used to simulate kinetic phenomena. Algebraic decomposition can be thought of as control-variate variance-reduction formulation, with the nearby equilibrium serving as the control. Such formulations can provide substantial computational benefits; in many cases, the computational cost reduction is sufficiently large to enable otherwise intractable simulations. The proposed methods will be illustrated with a variety of problems of engineering interest, such as microscale/nanoscale gas flows.
Bio:
Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou is professor of mechanical engineering and Director of Computation for Design and Optimization at MIT. He holds BA and MA degrees in engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK), an SM degree in physics from MIT and a PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT. After completing his PhD in 1998, he spent a year at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Lawrence Livermore Fellow working with Berni Alder on computational kinetic theory. He then joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT, where he is now Professor. His interests include molecular simulation methods, microscale fluid mechanics and transport theory. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and was recently presented the 2012 Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award.
For information about future events at IACS, see http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/events. The page includes a Google calendar with details on all IACS Seminars.
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COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
Number: Applied Computation 263
Title: Data and Computation on the Internet
Meets: 4-5:30 pm Monday/Wednesday Maxwell Dworkin G125
Instructor: Ian Stokes-Rees, Lecturer in Computational Science <ijstokes(a)seas.harvard.edu<mailto:ijstokes@seas.harvard.edu>>
Course website: http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/courses/ac263
Description: From TCP/IP to HTTP, this course will present the architecture of the Internet and how it has become a key part of modern large-scale data processing and computation. We will explore low-level protocols and standards, look at data storage and movement over wide area networks, and consider how modern science, commerce and society have come to rely on the Internet and the Web.
The course will emphasize web- based interaction patterns for data and computation. Grading will be based on a mixture of reading responses, programming assignments and systems labs, culminating in a team systems + programming project. Class and section time will include tutorials, demonstrations and mini programming and systems exercises. There will be guest lectures on state-of-the-art Internet-oriented systems and “Grand Challenges” for large-scale data and computation.
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Dear students and postdocs,
Please do not go to the group admin office (Anna and Cynthia) starting
now and for the entire next week unless things
are super-urgent. Do any *urgent*requests by e-mail. Deal with any
other non-urgent or trivial requests *after* September 10 or when I
email you.
I need Anna and Cynthia to work with me in preparing documentation for
the tenure package, and they are constantly being interrupted for
other purposes. I don't want to see you guys in that office these days
until the talk is done.
I ask them to turn you away, so if they do so, they are not mean, this
is me, protecting their time for what I want them to do related to
that.
Best,
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