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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Cambridge-Connecticut AMO Open House on October 15

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, If interested in presenting a poster and attending what looks like an awesome symposium (below) let Cynthia know by Friday. Send her a tentative poster title and a few sentece description of the research project that you would like to present. I will only support posters for published or submitted work already, and for work done in the group. I may select a subset of the posters at my discretion given the AMO focus. I may ask some of you that don't volunteer to send a poster anyway as well :) 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ni, Kang-Kuen <ni(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Date: Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:26 PM Subject: Cambridge-Connecticut AMO Open House on October 15 To: "Park, Hongkun" <hpark(a)fas.harvard.edu>, "Ni, Kang-Kuen" <ni(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Cc: "Ragusa, Janet" <ragusa(a)fas.harvard.edu>, "Hamilton, Joan" <joanhamilton(a)fas.harvard.edu> Dear Colleague, Greetings! On behalf of the MIT/Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, we would like to invite you and your research group to join and present posters at the Cambridge-Connecticut AMO Open House, hosted by CUA, at Harvard on October 15, 2013. You may recall the previous open house (in 2008), which was a great success. It brought together students, postdocs, and professors to learn about each others work (and have some nice refreshments). This year, you will see we are combining the poster session and talks with a special symposium celebrating Dan Kleppner's 80th birthday, with talks by Wineland, Haroche and Chu. We hope that you can bring all of your students and group members to all these events. Please inform us by September 21st if you will attend, and how many posters that your group will present, and about how many people total from your group. The schedule for the day is detailed below. We look forward to seeing you in October. Kang-Kuen Ni & Hongkun Park Local Organizers ******* Cambridge-Connecticut AMO Open House Open House talks on current topics in AMO physics Department of Physics, Jefferson 250 9:00-11:00 AM (4 talks, 30 mins each) "bottom-up" (Vladan Vuletic) "top-down" (to be determined) "molecules" (Kang-Kuen Ni) "hybrid systems and applications" (Misha Lukin) Open House poster session (box lunch and beverage provided) Harvard Department of Physics Library 11:30-2:30 PM CUA Seminar: a Celebration of Daniel Kleppner’s 80th Birthday Scientific Talks at the level of a Physics Colloquium Sanders Theatre 3:30-3:40 PM – Welcome and Introduction 3:40-4:30 PM Serge Haroche, Collège de France 4:30-5:20 PM David Wineland, National Institute of Standards and Technology 5:20-6:10 PM Steven Chu, Stanford University 6:10-6:20 PM– Closing Remarks 6:30 PM - Cocktail Reception

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: fifth international conference on "Nano structures" (ICNS5)

by sarah mostame

FYI ------ 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/ Dear friends, You may already know about the the fifth international conference on "Nano structures" (ICNS5), which will be held on 6-9 March 2014 in the beautiful Kish island (http://nanosharif.ir/icns5). I am the chairman of the conference and some confirmed distinguished speakers of this event are - Prof. Andre Geim, - Prof. Michael Graetzel, - Prof. Klaus Muellen and - Prof. Mark Welland, You can find more in the site or the poster attached here. The conference aims at providing an opportunity for national and international researchers to meet and present the most recent advances and future challenges in the fields of nano science and nano structures and I hope it would be a great event in the region. We need you advertising the event on your neighborhood and if you can encourage people from your labs or your departments to contribute. The deadline is approaching fast. Best regards, Reza P.S. Could you please forward this email to any body may interested or your network?

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] talk today at 4:15pm

by aram harrow

Dear quanta, This talk is on a classical subject, but one that is closely related to the exponential lower bound on linear programs for TSP that de Wolf et al found using quantum techniques. The techniques today are classical, but the quantum generalizations are interesting open questions. aram ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dana Moshkovitz <dana.moshkovitz(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:19 PM Subject: [Theory-seminars] TOC Colloquium starts Sep 10, 4:15pm, 32-G882 To: toc(a)csail.mit.edu, theory-seminars(a)csail.mit.edu Hi all, Tomorrow we're going to have our first Theory of Computation Colloquium for the Fall. Ankur Moitra, who just joined the math department, will talk about his recent work with Mark Braverman on the limitations of linear programming. * Date:* Tuesday, September 10, 2013 *Time:* 4:15 PM to 5:15 PM *Refreshments Time:* 3:45 PM *Location:* 32-G882 (Talk), RSA G5 Lounge (Refreshments) You might recall that last year we had Ronald de Wolf speak about a quantum information inspired technique for linear programming limitations for the traveling salesperson problem (STOC 2012 co- best paper). Ankur will talk about a subsequent work suggesting a different approach based on classical information theory. Colloquium upcoming talks: 9/10/2013 Ankur Moitra 9/17/2013Sofya Raskhodnikova 9/24/2013Richard Peng 10/1/2013Larry Guth 10/8/2013 Phil Klein 10/15/2013Columbus Day See you tomorrow! Costis and Dana _______________________________________________ Theory-seminars mailing list Theory-seminars(a)lists.csail.mit.edu https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/theory-seminars _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Fwd: iQuISE program kickoff event

by Edward Farhi

Please note the following kickoff event for the iQuISE program! In particular the graduate students should pay attention to these activities. > > > Geordie Rose, Founder and CTO of D-Wave Systems, > on Thursday, Sep. 12th, 12pm, > > in CUA Seminar room (26-214). > > > > Thank you! > > > > --- > > > > Dear fellow students, > > > > We are glad to announce that the official launch of the iQuISE program for the upcoming academic year. As you may know, the iQuISE community gathers graduate students from all disciplines interested in quantum information, science, and engineering at MIT. This year again we are planning many interesting activities to strengthen our community including weekly seminar lunches, social events, outdoor trips, and company visits. > > > > Here is the important information: > > > Join the iQuISE mailing list by visiting https://groups.mit.edu/webmoira/list/iquise or sending a request to kbeck(a)mit.edu. Tell your friends and labmates about it! > Add the weekly seminar lunches to your calendar. They will be held on every Thursday at 12:00pm in 26-201. Of course, fresh and healthy food will be provided! > Join the new google calendar for an updated list of the upcoming seminars and activities. > In addition, make sure not to miss any of the upcoming events: > > > Thu., 09/12 at 12pm in 26-214: Kickoff luncheon with Geordie Brown, Founder and CTO of D-Wave Systems > Thu., 09/19 at 12pm in 26-201: iQuISE lunch followed by group picture, speaker TBD > Thu., 09/26 at 12pm in 26-201: iQuISE lunch, speaker TBD > Fri., 09/27 at 7:30pm in Thirsty Ear Pub: Kickoff social night! > > Here are some other events that you may feel interested in: > > > 09/18, 4:30-6:00pm (Harvard, Jefferson 250) - Dave Wineland (NIST) > 09/23, 4:00-5:30pm (Harvard, Phillips auditorium) - Rainer Blatt (Innsbruck) > 10/01, 4:00-5:30pm (Harvard, Jefferson 250) - Sankar Das Sarma (Maryland) > > You can also visit these links to find information about upcoming seminars: > > > CUA (http://cuaweb.mit.edu/pages/seminars.aspx) > QIS (http://qis.mit.edu/seminars.php) > ITAMP (http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html) > MIT Dept. of Physics (http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html) > > > > > Thank you for your interest. Looking forward meeting with you on Thursday, > > > Alex, Ed, and Kristi > ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 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] Recommendation letters.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear everybody, especially postdocs in faculty searches. Please *only* use aspuru.staff(a)gmail.com as a contact e-mail address for recommendation letters. Cynthia uploads the letters and not me. My e-mail inbox is unruly and I may lose one of the letters (not forward to Cynthia) if you do so. Many thanks, 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] Alexandre Tkatchenko [Fritz-Haber Institute]

by Martin Blood-Forsythe

Dear colleagues, Alexandre Tkatchenko will be visiting on Monday 9/12 and will give a seminar on collective van der Waals interactions at 2-3:00pm in Pfizer Auditorium (abstract below). Post-docs in the group are invited to attend lunch with him at 12-1:30pm in the Division Room. Please reply to me by Wednesday evening at the latest if you would like to attend the lunch. Best wishes, -Martin *Collective van der Waals Interactions and their Relevance in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics* *2-3:00pm in Pfizer Auditorium * Van der Waals (vdW) interactions are ubiquitous in nature, playing a major role in defining the structure, stability, and function for a wide variety of molecules and materials. Thus, reliable description of vdW interactions is essential for improving our understanding of a multitude of systems in biology, chemistry, and condensed matter physics. It is widely recognized that vdW interactions arise from collective electronic fluctuations and their accurate description requires the usage of quantum electrodynamics. Despite this well-known fact, most of the widely employed atomistic models for vdW interactions are still based on a simple pairwise interacting "atoms-in-molecules" picture, ignoring the rather strong collective effects. To address this problem, we have recently developed an efficient method, based on coupled atomic response functions, to accurately compute the long-range non-additive many-body vdW energy in molecules and materials [1]. We demonstrate that collective many-body effects play a significant role even for rather small molecules, becoming crucial for an accurate treatment of larger, more complex, systems. Our method achieves accuracy close to that of the "gold standard" of quantum chemistry, namely CCSD(T). However, the computational cost of our method is negligible compared to the underlying DFT calculation, enabling calculations for thousands of atoms. Applications to be discussed include (hard and soft) bulk materials [2,3], organic/organic and organic/inorganic interfaces [4], the structure and dynamics of peptides and DNA [5,6], and vdW scaling laws in nanostructured materials [7]. In all cases it is found that vdW interactions play a noticeable, if not crucial role, not just for quantitative values but also for the qualitative behavior. --------------------------------------------------- [1] A. Tkatchenko, R. A. DiStasio Jr., R. Car, and M. Scheffler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 236402 (2012). [2] G. Zhang, A. Tkatchenko, J. Paier, H. Appel, and M. Scheffler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 245501 (2011). [3] A. M. Reilly and A. Tkatchenko, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4, 1028 (2013). [4] V. G. Ruiz, W. Liu, E. Zojer, M. Scheffler, and A. Tkatchenko, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 146103 (2012). [5] A. Tkatchenko, M. Rossi, V. Blum, J. Ireta, and M. Scheffler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 118102 (2011). [6] R. A. DiStasio Jr., O. A. von Lilienfeld, and A. Tkatchenko, PNAS 109, 14791 (2012). [7] V. V. Gobre and A. Tkatchenko, Nature Communications 4:2341 (2013).

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] lunch tomorrow

by aram harrow

Dear quanta, I think it would be nice if we saw each other for things like lunch outside of just seminars/meetings/etc. Let's start tomorrow! I propose that whoever wants to join meets on the 3rd floor of the CTP at 11:50am. This will let us beat the food truck lines. Then we can get sandwiches and bring them back to eat on the couches on the 4th floor of the CTP. My number is 617-595-6438, in case anything goes wrong. aram _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: FHP Student travel Awards

by Laszlo Seress

FYI if you're interested. Laszlo ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: FHP messages <fhp(a)aps.org> Date: Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:14 PM Subject: FHP Student travel Awards To: seress(a)college.harvard.edu Message to APS members of the Forum on history of physics, authorized by Cameron Reed,Secretary-Treasurer of FHP. ********************************************************************** Dear FHP Colleague: The FHP makes available travel grants of up to $600 for students (graduate or undergraduate) who present an oral history-of-physics paper at a FHP contributed-papers session at either the March or April APS meeting. If you have a student who is working on a history of physics project, please encourage them to consider applying for this opportunity. Note that any presenter at an APS meeting must be a member of the Society and register for the meeting; the first year of a student membership is free. Applications describing the project (two pages maximum) should be sent to myself at reed(a)alma.edu by Monday, November 18, 2013. Applications will be circulated to the FHP Executive Committee, which will determine awardees and non-awardees. With best wishes, Cameron Reed FHP Secretary-Treasurer To stop receiving email of this nature from APS, click on the link below. http://ultron.aps.org/cgi-bin/scrconf?MID=61130507&UNIT=FHP&ACTION=-1 -- Laszlo Ryan Seress Harvard University '14 A.M. Degree Candidate in Chemistry A.B. Degree Candidate in Chemistry & Physics and Mathematics 1-614-670-2205 323 Cabot Mail Center, Cambridge, MA 02138

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Scandal: Gian eats american pizza

by Joey Goodknight

Seen today in the break room!

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] group t-shirt size survey

by Joey Goodknight

Hey, We are getting everyone a T-shirt for the open house but I need to know your sizes. Please fill out the following two-question survey as soon as possible so we can get the order out ASAP. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NcjVVndMITdyb3UQzln3p56k9G856Rn_B5dcbFwpmI… -Joey [image: your front design]<http://www.customink.com/designs/jarvard2/cya0-000w-q3cv/share/?pc=EMAIL-40…> [image: your back design]<http://www.customink.com/designs/jarvard2/cya0-000w-q3cv/share/?pc=EMAIL-40…> T

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