aspuru-list August 2012

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] special group meeting on Wednesday at 2:00 pm

by sarah mostame

Dear Group Members, Vladimir Stojanović from Basel is visiting Harvard this week and will present a talk on Wednesday in our group. You can find his work on http://quantumtheory.physik.unibas.ch/stojanovic/. Here are the title and abstract of his talk: When: Wednesday, 22 August, 2:00 pm Where: Division Room What: Talk by Vladimir Stojanović Title: Polarons: from models to materials to quantum simulation Abstract: After a brief introduction on the common electron-phonon coupling mechanisms that may bring about polaronic behavior and general conditions for the onset of such behavior, I will address three recent developments. First, I will show an example of a non-analytic behavior in a model with Peierls-type electron-phonon coupling, breaking the long-held belief that polaron models never show sharp transitions. Then I will present results of a recent study in which we demonstrated that, contrary to what is often assumed, charge carriers in crystalline organic semiconductors do not have polaronic character. Finally, I will present some essential aspects of our proposed trapped-ion based quantum simulation of the Holstein molecular crystal model. 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] Your opinion

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, Please send me your views on your interactions with Dimitry Zubarev and your impressions on his talk. Best Alan -- Alan Aspuru-Guzik Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Cluster of Excellence cfAED: 10 Research Group Leader positions available

by Xavier Andrade

Dear colleagues, recently, TU Dresden was selected as one of the few excellence universities within the German University Excellence Initiative. One pillar in its concept is the Cluster of Excellence "Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden" (cfAED, see also http://www.cfaed.org/). In this Cluster, currently 10 Research Group Leader positions are available (application deadline: 15.09.2012), for more details, please see the attached detailed description or the announcement under the following link: http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/276388-Research-Group-Leaders Please note that within this Cluster of Excellence several Professorships and numerous Ph.D. positions will be announced soon. We would appreciate if you could distribute the attached announcement at your institute, hang it at your job pin board, or directly forward it to qualified candidates you might know. Thank you for your time and your support! With best regards Gianaurelio Cuniberti -- Prof. Dr. Gianaurelio Cuniberti Chair "Materials Science and Nanotechnology" Institute for Materials Science and Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials Dresden University of Technology 01062 Dresden, Germany _______________________________________________ NANOBIO mailing list NANOBIO(a)list.ehu.es http://list.ehu.es/mailman/listinfo/nanobio

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Dmitry Zubarev visit tomorrow

by Dmitrij Rappoport

Dear all, Dmitry Zubarev will be visiting our group from Berkeley tomorrow, Friday August 17th. He is currently a postdoc in the group of Professor Lester working on Quantum Monte Carlo and is a potential candidate for a postdoc position with the Chemistry Portal project. Dmitry will give a group meeting tomorrow at our usual time 2pm. The title of his talk is "Qualitative and Quantitative Quantum Chemistry of Realistic Systems". He will also be around all day tomorrow so please use this opportunity to get to know Dmitry and tell him about the research in our group. Please let me know if you would like to speak with him at some point tomorrow so I can coordinate. Best wishes, Dmitrij Rappoport

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] Mark your calendar: IACS fall seminars start Sept. 7

by Rosalind Reid

Dear friends, The Institute for Applied Computational Science at Harvard SEAS is pleased to announce that the second year of IACS Seminars will begin Friday, Sept. 7, with a presentation by Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou, director of the new program in Computation for Design and Optimization at MIT. This year IACS Seminars will take place every other Friday in room G125 Maxwell Dworkin (33 Oxford St., Cambridge). Once again, speakers and attendees will enjoy lunch at 12:30 and begin the talk at 1 pm. *********** Visit http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/events to subscribe to our Google calendar, manage your subscription to this mailing list, or access video and audio recordings of previous seminars. *********** Our eclectic fall lineup follows: --Sept. 7: Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou (http://web.mit.edu/ngh-group/), professor of mechanical engineering and director, Computation for Design and Optimization, MIT --Sept. 21: Joseph Teran (http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jteran/), associate professor of mathematics, UCLA --Oct. 5: David Cox (http://www.coxlab.org/), assistant professor, molecular and cellular biology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard --Oct. 19: Paul Maragakis (http://www.deshawresearch.com/members_c-b_maragakis.html), lab member, D E Shaw Research --Nov. 2: Margot Gerritsen (http://margot.stanford.edu), associate professor of energy resources and engineering and director of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford --Nov. 16: Edoardo Airoldi ( http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~airoldi/), assistant professor of statistics, Harvard --Nov. 30: David Lazer (http://www.hks.harvard.edu/davidlazer/html/), professor of computer and information science and political science, Northeastern University; and associate professor of public policy and Director of the Program on Networked Governance, Harvard Kennedy School of Government ----------------- Rosalind Reid Executive Director, Institute for Applied Computational Science Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/people rreid(a)seas.harvard.edu | 617-384-9091 _______________________________________________ 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] [qip] Thursday

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will meet on Thursday of this week at 11:00 in 6-310 to all report on what we have done this summer. 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] Tenure talk invitation and photos from group request.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members and ex-group members, As many of you know, tenure talk time has come! My talk will be in Pfizer Hall, at 4.15 PM on Monday, September 10. You are all invited to attend if you are in the area. It will be great to have you there to showcase the work from the group. I am planning to show a short slide show with pictures from the group as it has grown. Rather than going through my own camera and iPad, etc. only, I would like to call for crowdsourcing. If you all have any pictures that you took of the group, the office, bike rides, chair races, graduation, etc. or whatever event you would like to share, it would be awesome if you could send it to Cynthia! That way, I can have these pictures for the history of the group in a central location, and again, create a quick slide show at the end of my talk. Please send them to Cynthia, at aspuru.staff(a)gmail.com who will be collecting them in a Dropbox folder. Thank you again for all your hard work during these years, and I hope the talk, although mostly focused on a topic, reflects the work of all of us. If you have tons of photos and want to share them in another way (Album/Dropbox folder, CD, etc.) work with Cynthia to arrange for giving them to her, rather than attachment. :) Best, and cheers to all, especially the ones I have not written to in a while :) Alan -- Alan Aspuru-Guzik Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] Aspuru group meeting Friday

by Ryan Babbush

Hello Everyone, This Friday a visiting post-doctoral candidate, Dr. Dmitry Zubarev, will be presenting for the Aspuru-Guzik group meeting. The talk will be given at the usual time and place: Division Room, 2pm. The title and the abstract of his talk is given below. "Qualitative and Quantitative Quantum Chemistry of Realistic Systems" In its attempt to describe and predict complicated behavior of realistic molecular systems theoretical chemistry has to deal with problems of both quantitative and qualitative nature. The talk will concentrate on these two aspects of the ongoing research. The recent developments in application of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) to the simulation of molecular electronic spectra will be presented with emphasis on x-ray absorption spectroscopy. Capability of QMC to meet the existing demand for a quantitatively accurate theory of electronic excited states will be discussed. Another area of research is relationship between delocalization effects in graphene and its physical-chemical properties. Cases of formation of edge-states and emergence of critical behavior in response to chemical modification will be presented as examples. -- 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] looking for a book about J-aggregates

by Semion Saikin

Guys, Who keeps a dark-blue book about J-aggregates? Could you please return it back to me? Thank you! Semion ******************************************** Semion K. Saikin, PhD Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 email: saykin(a)fas.harvard.edu phone: (619)212-6649 ********************************************

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] AMP Seminar Monday, August 13, Keith A. Tereszchuk (University of York) ACE-FTS Observations of pyrogenic trace species in boreal biomass burning plumes during BORTAS

by James F. Babb

Please join us for an informal seminar sponsored by the Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. (Complete schedule at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/amp/events.html) 11:00 AM Monday, August 13, 2012 Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA ACE-FTS Observations of Pyrogenic Trace Species in Boreal Biomass Burning Plumes During BORTAS Keith A. Tereszchuk (University of York) _______________________________________________ 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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