aspuru-list September 2013

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] -I am mostly offline this week-

by Er, Suleyman

Dear all, I will be on a (tentative) parental leave this week, so I cannot make it to my appointments with some of you as was planned earlier. Sorry about that. Best wishes, Suleyman Süleyman Er, PhD http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/suleyman-er/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Fwd: XVII Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2014), Barcelona, 03-07 February 2014

by aram harrow

Note the talk submission deadline of Oct 15. Sadly the conference is during the first week of MIT's spring semester. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Antonio Acin <antonio.acin(a)icfo.es> Date: Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:06 PM Subject: XVII Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2014), Barcelona, 03-07 February 2014 To: antonio.acin(a)icfo.es Dear all, the XVII Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2014) will take place in Barcelona (AXA Auditorium) on 03-07 February 2014. Registration is now open. Anyone interested to attend is invited to register thought the official website: http://benasque.org/2014QIP/ The official website also contains all the relevant information about the conference, including a selection of hotels that offer a limited number of rooms at special prices for QIP 2014 participants. We encourage all participants to register and book accommodation as soon as possible to take advantage of the early registration fee and these accommodation offers. QIP 2014 will feature plenary talks, contributed talks, and a poster session. In addition, there will be a rump session with short informal talks. Call for contributed talks and posters is also open through EasyChair. Detailed instructions can be found in QIP 2014 website. Important dates are: - Submission of talks deadline: October 15 - Submission of posters deadline: November 30 - Decision on talks and posters submitted before October 15: November 22 - Decision on posters submitted after October 15: December 06 We look forward to seeing you all in Barcelona, Antonio Acín (ICFO) (chair) Emilio Bagan (UAB) (chair) John Calsamiglia (UAB) José Ignacio Latorre (UB) Maciej Lewenstein (ICFO) Ramón Muñóz-Tapia (UAB) Anna Sanpera (UAB) Andreas Winter (UAB) *************************************** Antonio Acin ICREA Professor ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences Mediterranean Technology Park Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 3 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain T: +34 93 553 40 62 F: +34 93 553 40 00 E: Antonio.Acin(a)icfo.es I: www.icfo.es _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Friday plus

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will meet tomorrow, Friday September 13, at 11:00 in 6-310. Jeongwan Haah will tell us about what he has been up to. Also we are still deciding about the time for the seminar. We are debating between Friday at 1:30 and Friday at 2:00. If for some reason you prefer one of these times to the other please let me know by email. If you have no opinion please keep it to yourself. 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] Alexandre Tkatchenko 9/16-17

by Cynthia M. Chew

Hi Everyone, Just a reminder that Dr. Alexandre Tkatchenko (Fritz-Haber Institute) is visiting Harvard to give an ITAMP/CCB seminar this coming Monday 9/16 at 2pm in Pfizer. Please refer to Martin's earlier e-mail for the abstract. If you are interested in meeting Alexandre on Tuesday 9/17 morning at 10am, please let me know by Friday afternoon. Thanks, Cynthia Cynthia M. Chew Faculty Assistant | Aspuru-Guzik Research Group Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology | Harvard University 12 Oxford Street | Mallinckrodt 112 | Cambridge, MA 02138 617.496.1716 office | 617.496.9411 fax http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] group meeting time: 2:30?

by Joey Goodknight

Hello Everyone, It occurred to me and Alan independently during group meeting that the first 30 minutes of the group meeting are the most important minutes for a rotator to attend. Thus, having group meeting start at 2:30 instead of 2 is back on the table so that our rotator Jennifer will be able to get a better understanding of the group. Please say to me or Ryan if there's a big problem with that, otherwise Alan says that group meeting will start at 2:30 from now on this semester Thanks! -Joey

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Interesting product.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

There is a free version. Let me know if you guys use it. It may be useful if one needs to 'consolidate' many nodes of Oddyssey http://www.scalemp.com/products/vsmp-foundation-free/ 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] Farewell cake for Jenny

by Cynthia M. Chew

Hi Group! We will be having cake to say farewell to Jenny right at the start of group meeting today. Please join us! Cheers, Cynthia

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] Reminder: IACS Seminar Friday, September 13: Efthimios Kaxiras (SEAS) on Multiscale Hemodynamics

by Hastings, Meg

We hope to see many of you at the first IACS Seminar tomorrow for the talk by IACS Founding Director, Eftimios Kaxiras. Kind regards, Meg Hastings Interim Executive Director, IACS NW B165 hastings(a)seas.harvard.edu<mailto:hastings@seas.harvard.edu> From: iacs-events-bounces(a)seas.harvard.edu [mailto:iacs-events-bounces@seas.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Baker, Natasha Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 4:40 PM To: iacs-events Subject: [IACS-events] IACS Seminar Friday, September 13: Efthimios Kaxiras (SEAS) on Multiscale Hemodynamics; Upcoming IACS Seminars Date: Friday, September 13, 2013 Location: Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Speaker: Efthimios Kaxiras, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics, SEAS Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm. Talk, 1:00pm Title: Multiscale Hemodynamics: Using Computation to Diagnose and Predict Heart Disease Abstract: The patterns of blood flow in arteries are crucial in determining the onset and progression of heart disease. These patterns can only be captured by simulations, assuming that the important details at different scales are properly described. This presentation will give an overview of our efforts to construct multiscale models of arterial blood flow based on the lattice Boltzmann equation. Speaker bio: Efthimios Kaxiras was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics. Following a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and a Consulting Research Physicist position at the Naval Research Laboratory, he joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1991. He is currently the John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics in the Department of Physics and Director of the Institute for Applied Computational Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His research interests span a range of topics in the physics of solids and fluids and the use of multiscale simulations to address problems such as: the electronic and optical properties of crystalline and amorphous solids and their dependence on the atomic structure and chemical composition; the nature of electronic states and optical properties of biomolecules like DNA, melanin, flavonoids and organic dyes; the microscopic origin of brittle or ductile response of solids and the effects of chemical impurities on mechanical behavior; the physics of blood flow in heart arteries and their connection to heart disease. Recent applications of the computational models that his group has developed focus on discovering new materials and processes for solar energy conversion and energy storage. ************************* Upcoming IACS Seminars The next IACS seminar will be held on Friday, 9/27 by Sadasivan Shankar, IACS's Distinguished Scientist in Residence & Senior Principal Engineer and Program Leader for Materials Design, Design and Technology Group, Intel Corp. Please isit 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. _______________________________________________ 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] [Aspuru-meetings-list] group meeting tomorrow: Dr. David Tempel

by Ryan Babbush

Hi Everyone, Sorry for the late notice on this: tomorrow David will be presenting group meeting on an idea about encoding the evolution of an open quantum system in a Feynman/Kitaev/McClean type clock state. We'll be meeting at 2pm in the Division Room. An abstract for David's talk is included below. The notion that one quantum system can be used to simulate another quantum system was originally pioneered by Richard Feynman. Feynman and later Kitaev envisioned a quantum simulator, in which the simulated system is entangled with a "clock particle" and the entire history of the simulation is encoded as the ground state of a Hamiltonian. This construction often referred to as "Feynman’s clock", in it’s original formulation is restricted to isolated quantum systems evolving unitarily. In this talk, I'll present an idea in which a Feynman clock construction can be used to encode the evolution of an open quantum system. Stochastic trajectories are generated as the ground states of an ensemble of randomly chosen Hamiltonians and then averaged to yield the open system density matrix. I'll show a few simple, but illustrative numerical examples too. _______________________________________________ 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] HQOC/ITAMP Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar - David J. Wineland

by Hamilton, Joan

HQOC/ITAMP Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 4:00 PM Jefferson 250 Guest Presenter: David J. Wineland, Nobel Laureate, National Institute of Standards and Technology Presentation: Quantum Control of Trapped Atomic Ions Abstract: Precise control of quantum systems currently occupies many labs throughout the world, with recent interest focusing on quantum information. This talk will focus on quantum-state manipulation in the context of trapped ions, one example of similar work that is being carried out with many other AMO and condensed matter systems. Refreshments will be provided Guest Presentation will begin at 4:30 PM Joan Hamilton Faculty Assistant to Profs. Greiner and Lukin HQOC Laboratory Administrator HUCTW Local Union Representative Harvard University Department of Physics 17 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 P: (617) 496-2544 F: (617) 496-2545

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