aspuru-list January 2014

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by Xavier Andrade

Hi everybody, There are some professional-looking scales in the Biolabs recycling room. They would do great in a kitchen. Xavier

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] IACS Seminar Series: Spring Semester Save the Date!

by Hastings, Meg

We have a great line-up of speakers for the IACS Seminar Series in Spring 2014. Titles and abstracts coming soon to our website, but you'll want to save the dates now. Location: Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm. Talk, 1:00pm Jan 31 Bo Peng, Data Scope Analytics Feb 14 Leslie Greengard, NYU Feb 28 Stratos Idreos, Harvard SEAS Mar 7 Johan Bollen, Indiana University Mar 14 Raul Jimenez, University of Barcelona Mar 28 Devavrat Shah, MIT Apr 4 Yaron Singer, Harvard SEAS Apr 11 Hadley Wickham, R Studio and Rice University Apr 25 Spiros Mancoridis, Drexel University Also, we've got a great crowd in Science Center Lecture Hall B right now halfway through the Data Science Symposium<http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/data-storm>. Feel free to join us at this final ComputeFest 2014 event! Kind regards, Meg Hastings Interim Executive Director, Institute for Applied Computational Science Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 52 Oxford Street, Northwest B165 Cambridge, MA 02138 http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/ hastings(a)seas.harvard.edu | 617-384-9091 _______________________________________________ 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] ITAMP topical lunch discussion: Friday, January 24 @ 12:00

by tony.lee＠cfa.harvard.edu

ITAMP Topical Lunch Discussion Date: FRIDAY, January 24 Time: 12:00-1:30 pm Pizza will be served. Location: B-106 @ Center for Astrophysics (60 Garden Street) Directions: after entering the lobby of the CfA, turn right to enter the hallway of the B building. In the hallway, turn right again, and B-106 is there. Speaker: Alexei Bylinskii (MIT) Title: Friction under microscope in a trapped-ion optical lattice simulator Abstract: Friction is a ubiquitous phenomenon with rich many-body physics that is not well understood at the nano-scale. At this scale traditional friction laws break down and quantum mechanics may start playing a role, potentially revealing new dynamics and phases of matter. Studying friction in this regime could show us a way to construct more efficient and novel nano-mechanical devices, as well as give us general insight into strongly correlated many-body systems. We demonstrate a new experimental system that is able to study nano-scale friction using an array of atomic ions in a 1-D optical lattice. This simulator offers the possibility to measure and control friction atom-by-atom and access the quantum many-body regime with strong, long-range interactions in periodic potentials.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Lecture Friday with NPR reporter (and physics alumnus) David Kestenbaum

by Martin Blood-Forsythe

Might be an interesting seminar tomorrow. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- * “How to Tell a Story in Four Minutes”* *David Kestenbaum, NPR * *After getting a degree in physics (and after a girlfriend left him for a writer) David Kestenbaum decided on a career change. He wanted to write about science instead. David ended up at National Public Radio where he learned how to pack a whole narrative into just four minutes. He’ll share secrets for finding good stories, and translating complicated topics into plain English.* *Friday, January 24th at 4pm* Geological Lecture Hall, Harvard University 24 Oxford St., Cambridge *Free and open to members of the Harvard and MIT communities* *Reception to follow* For more information: *http://comscicon.com/news/david-kestenbaum-deliver-keynote-january-2014-comscicon-local-workshop <http://comscicon.com/news/david-kestenbaum-deliver-keynote-january-2014-com…>* -- Martin A. Blood-Forsythe

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] REMINDER: "Weathering the Data Storm" symposium TOMORROW, Friday, 1/24 (8:30am-6pm)

by Baker, Natasha

Please share this announcement with your fellow colleagues, students, researchers, etc. This symposium is free and open to the public. Weathering the Data Storm: The Promise and Challenges of Data Science Third Annual Symposium on the Future of Computation in Science and Engineering Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard University http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/data-storm Friday, January 24, 2014, 8:30am - 6:00pm Harvard Science Center, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Attendance is free, no registration required Symposium Co-Chairs: Hanspeter, Computer Science Joe Blitzstein, Statistics Pavlos Protopapas, Institute for Applied Computational Science Industry leaders, researchers, and Harvard students will gather 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, News Corp. • Yuan Yuan, Dropbox Symposium Sponsors: Platinum - Liberty Mutual Gold - VMWare _______________________________________________ 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] [IACS-events] REMINDER: "Weathering the Data Storm" symposium TOMORROW, Friday, 1/24 (8:30am-6pm)

by Baker, Natasha

Feel free to share this announcement with colleagues. This symposium is free and open to the community. Weathering the Data Storm: The Promise and Challenges of Data Science Third Annual Symposium on the Future of Computation in Science and Engineering Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard University http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/data-storm Friday, January 24, 2014, 8:30am - 6:00pm Harvard Science Center, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Attendance is free, no registration required Symposium Co-Chairs: Hanspeter, Computer Science Joe Blitzstein, Statistics Pavlos Protopapas, Institute for Applied Computational Science Industry leaders, researchers, and Harvard students will gather 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, News Corp. • Yuan Yuan, Dropbox Symposium Sponsors: Platinum - Liberty Mutual Gold - VMWare _______________________________________________ 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] Abstract for Anatole's seminar Thursday, Jan 30, 4:15pm

by Martin Blood-Forsythe

Dear colleagues, Below are the details for the pchem seminar with Anatole von Lilienfeld next Thursday, Jan 30th. Best wishes, -Martin *Date:* Thursday, Jan 30, 4:15pm, Pfizer (coffee & cookies at 4pm) *Title:*" 'Quantum Machine': Supervised learning of Schrödinger's equation in chemical compound space" *Abstract:* Many of the most relevant chemical properties of matter depend explicitly on atomistic details, rendering an atomistic resolution of any employed simulation model mandatory. Alas, even when using high-performance computing, brute force high-throughput screening of all the possible compounds is beyond any capacity for all but the simplest systems and properties due to the combinatorial nature of chemical compound space (compositional, constitutional, and conformational isomers). Consequently, when it comes to the computational design of properties or systems that require first principles calculations, a successful optimization algorithm must not only make a trade-off between sufficient accuracy of applied models and computational speed, but must also aim for rapid convergence in terms of number of compounds visited. I will discuss recent contributions related to the former aspect. More specifically, we developed statistical models of quantum mechanical observables based on supervised learning in chemical space. Our results suggest that for those out-of-sample molecules that lie in interpolating regimes of chemical space, a predictive accuracy can be achieved that comes close to ``chemical accuracy'' (~1 kcal/mol), highly sought-after in thermochemistry, at a fraction of the computational cost.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Manuel Endres - HQOC Special Seminar - Today at 11:00 AM, Lyman 425

by Hamilton, Joan

***HQOC Special Seminar*** **Thursday, January 23nd at 11:00 AM, Lyman 425** Manuel Endres, Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Probing Quantum Many-body Systems at the Single-particle Level The manipulation and detection of individual quantum excitations forms the basis of modern quantum physics experiments. However, most of these experiments have been restricted to systems composed of only a few particles. In recent years, tremendous experimental progress has been made in probing strongly interacting many-body systems at the level of individual particles. This was achieved using single-site- and single-atom-resolved imaging and manipulation of quantum gases in optical lattices. With this technique, ‘snapshots’ of a fluctuating many-body system are obtained, where individual excitations are directly visible and, by shining light through the imaging system, are also directly addressable. I will review these developments and present a few chosen experiments in more detail: the single-site-resolved detection of correlation functions [1], the detection of an amplitude ‘Higgs’ mode [2], and the observation of the quantum dynamics of a mobile spin impurity [3]. I will conclude by analyzing the current limitations and possible future developments, particularly concerning the detection of entanglement in quantum many-body systems. 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] AG Group Code Sharing - February 19th - 1pm

by Tim Hirzel

Hello Everyone, I have spoken with some of you and believe there is interest in sharing code within the group. I know Alan is interested in this as well. It would be great to get together and talk about what code sharing could look like for the AG group. To this end, I'd like to propose meeting up on Wednesday Feb 19th at 1pm. I'll send out a reminder and a location when the time draws near. Thanks! Tim

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] back to work!

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will meet this Friday at 11:00 in 6-310. Please bring tales of your holiday adventures. See you there. 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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