aspuru-list May 2013

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ITAMP topical lunch discussion: Thursday May 23 @ 12:00

by Mikhail Lemeshko

Dear Friends, On Thursday, May 23, there will be an ITAMP topical lunch discussion. Tea Room (P-226) @ CfA (60 Garden Street) Time: 12:00-1:30 As always pizza will be served. Speaker: Prof. Julia Lee Title: The Dirt on Cosmic Dust: An X-ray Perspective Abstract: Cosmic dust and molecules play a major role in the chemical evolution of astrophysical bodies (stars, planets, organics), and the energy balance of the Universe. Directly, and indirectly, their effects are felt in many aspects of astrophysics research from nucleosynthesis to cosmology, while their physics and chemistry play an important role in the formation of organic compounds vital to the development of life. I will discuss how the combination of experimental programs at synchrotron beam-lines and high spectral resolution X-ray studies of compact objects (e.g. black holes and neutron stars), can be used as a powerful new tool for revealing information about cosmic dust properties, including the element-specific gas-to-dust ratio in addition to its composition and structure. I will discuss how these studies together with physiochemical modeling can be used to track the environment in which the dust was formed, and our plans for a publicly available database of standards. Time permitting, I will end with a brief overview of bright future prospects, including how we may use X-ray techniques to address outstanding unanswered questions. Looking forward to seeing you there, Misha Lemeshko -- Dr. Mikhail Lemeshko Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (ITAMP) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics MS-14 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA 02138 U.S.A. mlemeshko(a)cfa.harvard.edu http://sites.google.com/site/mishalemeshko/ Tel. +1 (617) 496-7610 Fax +1 (617) 496-7668

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] D-Wave team from ISI visiting on Thursday

by Ryan Babbush

Hi Everyone, This Thursday, Dr. Sergio Boixo, Dr. Federico Spedalieri and Dr. Bob Lucas, the three scientists that operate and study D-Wave One (and now D-Wave Two) at the USC-ISI center will be visiting our group. Sergio is a former group member, one of the leading experts on D-Wave, and is involved in the Google-NASA QI research center that was recently announced. From 10:30am - 12:00pm in the Division Room, we will have an open discussion with these three and anyone from the group (or friends of the group) are welcome to come. The Aspuru-Guzik QI subgroup is extremely encouraged to attend. Additionally, there are time slots available from 9:30am to 10:15am and from 4:00pm to 4:45pm to meet with the researchers more privately for those who have a specific interest in their work and the device. Finally, we will be going to lunch at noon on Thursday and a few more slots are available so email me if you are interested. Best 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 _______________________________________________ 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] group pictures

by Joey Goodknight

I give you the partial Aspuru-Guzik, the Clean Energy and Quantum Walsh function groups! https://plus.google.com/photos/115354754820295198098/albums/587916909482680… This is my album for group pictures this year; the recent ones from today are at the beginning but feel free to join in the joy that was our Darpa Review roadtrip earlier this semester! You should be able to download full size images from Google+ photos but let me know if there's a problem -Joey

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Away Thursday and Friday

by Marlon Cummings

Dear Group: I will be away on Thursday and Friday of this week. 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] [qip] talk this Friday from 12:45-3:45

by aram harrow

Dear quanta, I'm giving a talk this Friday, May 24, at MSR New England from 12:45-3:45 (with pizza served at 12:30). The talk is part of a series on CS theory topics, and I'll talk about how de Finetti theorems / monogamy relations can be applied to classical optimization problems - and in particular, a problem called the unique games conjecture. I'll try not to assume too much background - the long length should let me explain technical details instead of just citing papers. Here is more detail including location and an abstract: http://people.csail.mit.edu/madhu/reading-group/ aram _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Spring 1902 Results

by Welch, Jonathan

1902 Movement Results Are on the wiki https://aspuru.wikidot.com/diplomacy In Short…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQkaD6fG8mk And someone lost…. Kind Regards, Jon

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Away Today

by Marlon Cummings

Dear team, I'm away from the office today. Please hold off on any requests until Monday. 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] VOTE

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, Here is the list of possilbe names for our umbrella website. Please vote for your favorite or add a new one by adding your name after the actual site name e.g. <Johannes, Sule, Alan, Stephanie>... so far molecularspace.org is winning as we can have explore.molecularspace.org and my.molecularspace.org, etc. Here is the URL. Voting ends at midnight today! https://aspuru.wikidot.com/possiblecepnames Best, 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] group meeting tomorrow: Dr. Christoph Kreisbeck

by Ryan Babbush

Hi Everyone, Christoph Kreisbeck will be presenting group meeting tomorrow. We'll be meeting in the Division Room at 3:00pm. The abstract and title for his talk are included below. Quantum coherence in photosynthesis - A journey from wave like motion to vibrations and back Recent advances in two-dimensional (2d) electronic spectroscopy (ES) reveal remark- able energy transport properties in light-harvesting complexes (LHCs). In particular, oscillatory components in 2d echo-spectra are considered as evidence for quantum wave like motion. This relevance of wave like motion is surprising and inspires to design artificial excitonic devices, which take full advantage from robust quantum coherence. In order to guide experimentalists in the fabrication process it is of fundamental importance to unambiguously characterize and probe the intended transport properties of the designed functional unit. The most outstanding question is how to read the detected wiggles in the 2d-echo spectra. There is a discrepancy between the experimental interpretation as wave-like motion and recent theoretically proposed models that interpret the wiggles in terms of vibronic coherence induced by underdamped vibrational modes. We show that the energy transfer is most dominantly affected by excitonic coherence, while the influence of vibronic coherence is two orders of magnitude smaller. However, the situation is different in the experimental 2d echo-spectra were additional processes like excited state absorption and ground state bleaching pollute of the 2d-signal with vibrational frequencies. -- 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 _______________________________________________ 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: CO2 Seminars - 5/17-9/26

by Adrian Jinich

Hi group! I found this series of seminars extremely interesting. I share it in case anyone else does. cheers! adrian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sysbio Announcements <Sysbio_Announcements(a)hms.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:30 PM Subject: CO2 Seminars - 5/17-9/26 To: SYSBIO_INTERNAL(a)listserv.med.harvard.edu ****

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