aspuru-list December 2013

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Free black vinyl couch-bed with 3 storage drawers

by Aspuru

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.

9 years, 11 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] AAG Administrative Office

by Marlon Cummings

Dear Friends: The office will be closed today at 3PM for the holiday break. On behalf of the team I want to take a moment to wish you all a happy holiday and bright and productive new year. See you on January 3rd. All the best, 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/

10 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [Cquicgeneral] Tenure/Tenure-Track Opportunity at the University of New Mexico

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University | 12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu | http://about.me/aspuru ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ivan Deutsch <ideutsch(a)unm.edu> Date: Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:07 PM Subject: [Cquicgeneral] Tenure/Tenure-Track Opportunity at the University of New Mexico To: "cquicgeneral(a)phys.unm.edu" <cquicgeneral(a)phys.unm.edu> Dear Colleagues, I would to draw your attention the following opportunity at the University of New Mexico. The Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM) is currently searching for two (2) tenure/tenure track faculty positions in a variety of areas. Areas of interest include: quantum sensing, metrology, tomography, and entangled photons in solid state materials. Applications will be considered at all ranks. The deadline for applying for a position is February 18, 2014. Please see the job description below for more details. Best regards and happy holidays, Ivan P.S. Please pass this information on to your associates and interested colleagues. ************************** *Job AD:* The Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM) at The University of New Mexico (UNM), is pleased to invite nominations and applications for two (2) tenure/tenure-track positions within the general research areas related to Classical, Quantum and Computational Imaging. The successful hires will concurrently hold a tenure/tenure-track appointment in a department in the School of Engineering or College of Arts and Sciences. Both experimentalists and theorists are encouraged to apply for these positions. Applicants with interests overlapping with existing UNM efforts are preferred. Representative areas in support of the above themes; include but are not limited to: Mid- infrared photonics, Semiconductor devices, 2D materials, Metamaterials and plasmonic devices, Novel imaging paradigms based on compressive sensing and sampling, Bio- inspired imaging and computer vision algorithms, Quantum sensing, metrology, and tomography, Entangled photons in solid state materials. Specific duties and responsibilities for the selected hires include: •Establish and lead an internationally recognized, externally funded research program in the areas related to classical, quantum and computational imaging. •Teach undergraduate and graduate level courses in STEM disciplines relevant to their expertise and serve the programs supported by their department of tenure and interdisciplinary programs. •Initiate and foster research collaborations among UNM faculty. •Attract, mentor, direct and help retain highly talented junior faculty, researchers, post-docs, and students to UNM. •Catalyze increased financial support from government, industry, and other sources. •Work with UNM researchers to build upon current research capabilities and programs. •Develop innovative nationally and internationally recognized research programs and capabilities. •Forge strategic partnerships between UNM, the federal laboratories, local and national industry through joint research, technology co-development, contract research, and technology exchange. For best consideration please submit all application materials by February 18, 2014. The full job description and instructions on how to apply can be found using the following UNMJOBS link: unmjobs.unm.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=75719. Please send all nominations by email to Jannell Vander Grift at jvander2(a)unm.edu. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, especially women, minorities and those from other underrepresented groups. The University of New Mexico is committed to promoting and supporting the diversity of our campuses. UNM is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. _______________________________________________ cquicgeneral mailing list cquicgeneral(a)panda3.phys.unm.edu http://panda3.phys.unm.edu/mailman/listinfo/cquicgeneral

10 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] OUR PARTITION IS EMPTY

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear compute freaks, I just heard from my ears at RC that the entire might Aspuru-Guzik queue is empty. Good opportunity for filling it in with all your large jobs. Let's see how long it takes until it is full again. Compute, compute compute! Hugs to all and happy holidays, Alan Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University | 12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu | http://about.me/aspuru

10 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] FW: open faculty positions at the University of Tokyo

by Leonardo A Pachon

Please see email below regarding openings at the associate and assistant professor levels in the field of computational or theoretical chemistry at the University of Tokyo. Rob –––––––––––––– Robert A. Batey, Ph. D. Professor and Chair Department of Chemistry, LM 151 University of Toronto 80 St. George St., Toronto, ON CANADA, M5S 3H6 Chair's office: 416-978-3566; fax: 416-978-1631 Research: 416-978-5059 Web: http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/staff/RAB/bateygroup.html –––––––––––––– From: Keisuke Goda <goda(a)chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wednesday, 18 December, 2013 5:05 AM To: Robert Batey <rbatey(a)chem.utoronto.ca> Subject: open faculty positions at the University of Tokyo Dear Prof. Batey On behalf of the chemistry department’s chair at the University of Tokyo, I would like to announce two open positions at the level of associate and assistant professors in the field of computational or theoretical chemistry. I would appreciate it if you could convey this announcement to students and postdocs in your department. Details of the announcement can be found here: http://www.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/recruit/?id=383 Best regards Keisuke -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Keisuke Goda, Ph.D. Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Tokyo Associate Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering University of California, Los Angeles E-mail: goda(a)chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp, goda(a)seas.ucla.edu Homepage: http://www.goda.chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Address: 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 Phone: +81-3-5841-4329

10 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Holiday Party Today @ 2PM - Division Room

by Marlon Cummings

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/

10 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Spin glass breakthrough in Germany

by Ryan Babbush

Dear Group, As many of you are already aware, there was a significant breakthrough in our understanding of spin glasses earlier this week; someone has finally managed to map the Ising model to a board game. This accomplishment is chronicled on the MIT arXiv blog, here: https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/83c9cf45dcdd and, of course, in the corresponding arXiv paper, here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1839. In order to stay relevant in this highly competitive field, I believe we must procure a copy of this game for the group and possibly some of our collaborators. The game is somehow produced by this computational physics group (http://www.compphys.uni-oldenburg.de/en/) at the University of Oldenburg and its possible to buy it through the German language version of Amazon.com here: http://www.amazon.de/2274-5-Spinglas/dp/3814222741/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8…. Its 16 Euro. I've already tried to buy the game. The only problem is that they will only ship to addresses in Germany (Salvatore and I already tried to ship it to his parents in Italy). This brings me to the point of the email: is anyone going to Germany? Does anyone have people visiting from Germany? I can arrange to buy the game and have it shipped to any address in Germany and will pay a courier fee. Clearly, this is crucially important for research purposes. Warm Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Babbush | PhD Student in Physics (949) 331-3943 | babbush(a)fas.harvard.edu Harvard University | Aspuru-Guzik Group 12 Oxford Street | Cambridge, MA 02138

10 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] Mark your calendar: IACS annual symposium and ComputeFest in January

by Baker, Natasha

Dear IACS friends, Once again, IACS will present a special two-week program of events to build computational knowledge and skill. ComputeFest 2014 will take place January 13-24, culminating in a symposium focusing on the promise and challenges of data science. Please note the details and links below. We are pleased to invite you to the symposium; our annual ComputeFest workshops (Jan 13-17); and the Computational Science Ventures (CSV) mini-symposium (Thursday, Jan 23), focusing on entrepreneurship in computational science. Feel free to share this announcement with colleagues. All events are free and open to the community. Note that workshops (see below) are primarily intended to benefit the Harvard academic and research community; should interest in an event exceeds capacity, Harvard students, faculty and researchers and staff will be given priority. 1. SYMPOSIUM TITLE: "Weathering the Data Storm: The Promise and Challenges of Data Science" DATE: Friday, Jan 24 TIME: 9:00am- 5:30pm; continental breakfast 8:30-9am LOCATION: Science Center Hall B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 EVENT WEBSITE: http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/data-storm REGISTRATION: Free; no registration required. SPONSORS: Liberty Mutual Insurance (platinum) and WMWare (gold) PROGRAM DETAILS: Industry leaders, researchers, and Harvard students will come together for a day of lively conversation about the sweeping advances in data science at the intersection of statistics, computer science, and various domains. Leading experts in data science will talk about the way organizations are using careful analysis of data to address important real-world issues, about the challenges of big data, and about the future of this exciting emerging field. This one-day symposium will bring together data analytics professionals, domain scientists, academic researchers and users, and fosters an exchange of ideas through invited talks, panels, and plenty of audience interaction. SPEAKERS: • Ryan Adams, Harvard University • Luke Bornn, Harvard University • Jeff Heer, University of Washington • Diane Lambert, Google • Fernando Perez, UC Berkeley • Claudia Perlich, Dstillery • Bonnie Ray, IBM • Cynthia Rudin, MIT • Rachel Schutt, Columbia University • Yuan Yuan, Dropbox *********************** 2. COMPUTEFEST WORKSHOPS DATES: Monday-Friday, Jan 13-17 (morning and afternoon sessions) TIME: Check website for details LOCATION: Harvard University, Northwest Building Level B, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 EVENT WEBSITE: http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/workshops TOPICS: Matlab, Python, R, Julia, Unix, MPI, Amazon Web Services, high-performance computing, CUDA PROGRAM DETAILS: The week-long workshop program features instruction in software tools for modeling, analysis, scientific computing and visualization, as well as how to use cluster, grid and cloud resources available to Harvard faculty, students and staff. This year, we are offering an expanded program with additional sessions in Python, MATLAB, and high-performance computing. We are also pleased to welcome CUDA and Julia to the workshop line-up. PARTNERS: Mathworks, Continuum Analytics (Python), Amazon, FAS Research Computing, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Julia group (MIT), NVIDIA. NOTE: The workshops are intended to benefit the Harvard community; others are welcome as space permits. TO REGISTER: Please follow links at http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/workshops *********************** 3. COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE VENTURES DATE: Thursday, Jan 23 TIME: 9am-12 noon; continental breakfast 8:30-9am LOCATION: Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 EVENT WEBSITE: http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/computational-science-ventures PROGRAM DETAILS: IACS's annual Computational Science Ventures mini-symposium explores the extraordinary entrepreneurial opportunities on the frontier of computational science. This year's theme is "Applications to Cyber-Physical Systems." Computational Science Ventures is organized by Alexander Wissner-Gross, a scientist, inventor and entrepreneur who is Institute Fellow at IACS. SPEAKERS: • Marija Ilic, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University • Ted Morgan, Founder and CEO, Skyhook • Sokwoo Rhee, Presidential Innovation Fellow & Founder/CTO, Millennial Net., Inc. ----------------- Natasha Baker Administrative Coordinator Institute for Applied Computational Science Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Tel: 617-496-2623 Email: nrbaker(a)seas.harvard.edu _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events

10 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Help Needed Tomorrow at 1:00

by Marlon Cummings

Hi Guys: I'll need some help setting up tomorrow at around 1:00PM. I also need someone to secure a small bin for beer (and ice) - large enough to put on a table. 2 large garbage bins, and of course everyone to help with clean-up. See you tomorrow. Thanks, MC. --------------- 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/

10 years, 4 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Practice talk

by Xavier Andrade

Hi everybody, I wanted to ask a big favor to the group members that speak Spanish. I have a video-conference job interview for the University of Chile this Thursday 19 an I would like to do a practice session tomorrow Wednesday. I will do it in Spanish, since they asked me to give it in that language (and explicitly said that they do not want Spanglish). I propose to do it from 12:00 to 13:30, pizza will be provided. Let me know if you can come. Thanks, Xavier PS: Of course, non-Spanish speakers are welcome too.

10 years, 4 months

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