aspuru-list September 2013

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] where did it go?!

by Sawaya, Nicolas

The coffee machine has been traveling! Zubarev and I received these pics from an anonymous source, and we're very worried. Please tell us if you know of the whereabouts of our baby. [cid:1b00485e-eeb9-4f5e-abe4-ab86e2c49e66@fasmail.harvard.edu] [cid:11486bbc-7a3b-4777-b672-37cc5499e493@fasmail.harvard.edu] [cid:77a82dbd-d358-438e-8b09-9e1355294e8a@fasmail.harvard.edu] [cid:69417aae-eebc-4850-918b-62fc8fb95813@fasmail.harvard.edu] [cid:413a6f6d-4d7f-49aa-a7c2-53f4edf8fd15@fasmail.harvard.edu] [cid:85b4a0e3-a25d-45ff-aed0-6602a70baa42@fasmail.harvard.edu] [cid:117e1dca-ccb7-4734-af86-cf18084510ba@fasmail.harvard.edu] [cid:8135bd72-e8b1-4b7c-b52d-1a407dcbe332@fasmail.harvard.edu] [cid:3c31c2c4-feec-4852-a0c8-591b988e41b3@fasmail.harvard.edu]

10 years, 7 months

Re: [Aspuru-Guzik group list] where did it go?!

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

LOL! -- Alan Aspuru-Guzik Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu On Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Sawaya, Nicolas wrote: > _____________________________________________ > Aspuru-list mailing list > Aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu > https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-list > Sane Attachments: The attachments in this email have been copied to Dropbox by the magic of SaneBox (http://sanebox.com). > PastedGraphic-2.tiff (http://db.tt/rlJrKvS0) - Dropbox/SaneBox/Sawaya, Nicolas/[Aspuru-Guzik group list] where did it ..., 2013-09-07 04.40.20 PM/ > Click the link above or find it in Dropbox with the path of the file provided next to the link. You can also forward this email as usual. Learn more (http://help.sanebox.com/customer/portal/articles/473528-sane-attachments). You still see the original attachments because some attachments are impossible to strip. > > > The coffee machine has been traveling! > Zubarev and I received these pics from an anonymous source, and we're very worried. Please tell us if you know of the whereabouts of our baby. > > > > > <photo copy 2.JPG> <photo copy 3.JPG> <photo copy 4.JPG> <photo copy 5.JPG> <photo copy 6.JPG> <photo copy 7.JPG> <photo copy 8.JPG> <photo copy.JPG> <photo.JPG> >

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

by Baker, Natasha

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] Fwd: open position (permanent) in scientific computing

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 colleague, dear friend, currently, at the University of Oldenburg (Germany), we have an open position (permanent) as a member of the scientific staff (PhD required) in the field of scientific computing. Details can be found online at nature.com: http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/341636-coordinator-for-scient… (in German) at the University homepage: http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/stellen/?stelle=62755 Please forward this email to anyone in your group and to your collaborators who might be interested. Note: the application deadline is 30. of September. Best regards Alexander Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Dr. Alexander K. Hartmann, Institute for Physics University of Oldenburg, Phone +49 (0)441 798 3893 book: AK Hartmann, Practical Guide to Computer Simulations, WSPC 2009 paper summary server: www.papercore.org

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Quantum Dynamics of Low-Dimensional Systems Workshop

by Martin Blood-Forsythe

Dear colleagues, Those of you who study quantum dynamics might find this workshop interesting. Best wishes, -Martin Begin forwarded message: > From: "Bastin, Jennifer" > Subject: Quantum Dynamics of Low-Dimensional Systems Workshop > > Dear colleagues, > > On Sep 21-22, Harvard CMT group will host a workshop Quantum Dynamics of Low-Dimensional Systems. This workshop is organized in memoriam of Adilet Imambekov, who was a graduate student at Harvard in 2002-2007. Adilet died last year while climbing Khan Tengri mountain in Kyrgyzstan. He would turn 32 this September. > > The conference program can be found at: www.physics.harvard.edu/events/QDworkshop2013 > > You are welcome to participate in the conference. If you plan to come, please, send an email to Jennifer Bastin so that we can make proper arrangements for coffee breaks. > > Thank you. > > Conference organizers, > Dima Abanin & Eugene Demler > -- > Jennifer Bastin > Faculty Assistant > Physics Department – Lyman 324b > > Harvard University > 17 Oxford Street > Cambridge, MA 02138 > 617.495.8852 > 617.496.2545 (fax) >

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Friday

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will meet tomorrow, September 6, at 11:00 in 6-310. Please come prepared to volunteer to speak at a future meeting and also with suggestions for seminar speakers. Best, Eddie ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics 6-300 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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] ATTN: coffee folk

by Joey Goodknight

Hey everyone, Let me know if you'd be interested in joining an Aspuru-Guzik coffee appreciation society. The basic idea is that all of us who are interested would purchase a coffee of the month club subscription together. Specifically I'm looking to do http://www.mistobox.com/ unless someone else has another suggestion. Then, coffee in hand, we get together once a week to sample one of the coffees and chat about science or just get back to work if you have to. This seems like a really cool service to try lots of different fancy (read: hippy... if you listen to Thomas) coffee. Please let me know if you're interested and we'll get going as soon as possible! -Joey

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] group meeting tomorrow: Dr. Jennifer Brookes

by Ryan Babbush

Hi Everyone, Tomorrow at 2pm in the Division Room, Jenny will be telling us about her work involving interesting physical effects in avian navigation. An abstract for the talk is included below. ============================== Birds, remarkably, are able to use the Earth’s magnetic field to determine migration. Their ability to do so is not only light dependent, but wavelength dependent; they orient better given blue light. Given some empirical observations I will discuss the possibility of a signal transduction in birds that encodes weak magnetic field information, but is not hosted by cryptochrome as conjectured in the radical pair (RP) hypothesis, but rather that takes place directly in the birds opsins. I shall discuss the feasibility of certain molecules that make donor/acceptor combinations that could facilitate magneto-detection. I shall also briefly discuss how this mechanism may be derived from light-harvesting versus photo-protecting in photosynthesis and draw comparisons between these systems thought to use quantum effects in biology. -- 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] [qip] this week

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will have our first meeting of the term this Friday (September 6) at 11:00 in our usual spot, 6-310. Please let me know if there is a conflict with meeting every week at this time. Please come with suggestions for speakers for our seminar series and also with topics that you would like to speak about in our group meeting. 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

10 years, 8 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Course on Materials Design

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, Please find the very interesting course attached, 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: Efthimios Kaxiras <kaxiras(a)physics.harvard.edu> Date: Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 8:59 AM Subject: Course on Materials Design To: faculty(a)physics.harvard.edu, faculty(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Dear colleagues I want to bring to your attention a new course, offered as part of the Computational Science and Engineering program, Applied Computation 275: Computational Design of Materials, taught by a Visiting Professor from Intel (Sadasivan Shankar) and a Lecturer (Brad Malone). I hope some of your graduate students might find it useful and interesting. sincerely, EK

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