aspuru-list January 2014

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] group meeting tomorrow: Nico Sawaya

by Ryan Babbush

Hey everyone, Tomorrow at 2:30pm in the Division Room, Nico will tell us about some of his recent research. You can find an abstract for his talk below. ========================== DNA for Angstrom-scale design ========================== Because DNA strands can be designed to self-assemble into easily predictable structures, this macromolecule has no rival in the design of Angstrom-scale devices. Nano-actuators, nano-antennas, and nano-robots can now be synthesized in several forms. I'll give a literature review of DNA nanotech, talk about possible pitfalls and opportunities in the field, and discuss our progress towards combining accurate excitonic calculations with current software for DNA structure design. These devices may be the technology of the future or they may be a cute intellectual game, but we hope for the former. -- 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

10 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: [CCB_Faculty_Staff] International Students - F1-OPT visas

by Marlon Cummings

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/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lavin, Joe <lavin(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Date: Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:08 AM Subject: [CCB_Faculty_Staff] International Students - F1-OPT visas To: #List-CCB-Faculty_Staff <faculty_staff(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Dear CCB Lab Administrators, If you have any international graduate students who plan to graduate for May, please remind them to make an appointment with the Harvard International Office to discuss their visa. If they plan to continue working at Harvard after graduation (or anywhere else in the US), they will likely need an F1-OPT visa, and they should make an appointment with HIO by February 15th, if they have not already done so. May degree candidates will need to submit their dissertation by May 16th, and generally a 3-month lead time before that is needed for the F1-OPT visa application process. Best, Joe Joe Lavin Finance and Academic Administrator Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street - Mallinckrodt 139 Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 496-3209 Fax (617) 496-5618 lavin(a)chemistry.harvard.edu _______________________________________________ ccb_faculty_staff mailing list ccb_faculty_staff(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccb_faculty_staff

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HQOC Special Seminar - Nick Hutzler - Today at 2:00 PM, Lyman 425

by Hamilton, Joan

***HQOC Special Seminar*** **Wednesday, January 22nd at 2:00 PM, Lyman 425** Nick Hutzler, Doyle Lab Graduate Student, Harvard University A New Limit on the Electron Electric Dipole Moment The electron is expected to have and electric dipole moment (de), though it has so far eluded experimental observations. While the Standard Model’s prediction for de is still far beyond any foreseeable experiment, new physical theories (especially Supersymmetry) predict values for de that are near the experimental limit. The ACME Collaboration recently performed a search for de via a precision spin precession measurement in a beam of polar ThO molecules. Our measurement did not see any evidence for a non-zero de, but we did sent the limit |de| < 8.7 × 10-29 e cm. This represents an order of magnitude improvement over the previous best limit, and places tighter restrictions on new physics beyond the Standard Model. 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] [IACS-events] ComputeFest Symposia Tomorrow and Friday

by Hastings, Meg

A reminder about our two symposia concluding the two weeks of ComputeFest 2014 activities: Computational Science Ventures Thursday, January 23 9am (coffee at 8:30am) Maxwell-Dworkin G115 http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/computational-science-ventures Third Annual Symposium on the Future of Computation in Science and Engineering Weathering the Data Storm: The Promise and Challenges of Data Science Friday, January 24 9am (coffee at 8:30am) Science Center Lecture Hall B http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/data-storm Hope you can join us! 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 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] [qip] Fwd: [A&C seminar] A talk by Matt Coudron this Thursday!

by Henry Yuen

Hi all, Matt will be giving a talk about our result on infinite randomness expansion this Thursday, 4pm (in Stata, 32-G575), which will also be presented at QIP in two weeks. The abstract can be found below. Hope to see you there! Henry ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ilya Razenshteyn <ilyaraz(a)mit.edu> Date: Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:57 PM Subject: [A&C seminar] A talk by Matt Coudron this Thursday! To: compalgsem(a)lists.csail.mit.edu, theory-seminars(a)lists.csail.mit.edu Hi! After a long break, we continue our A&C seminar! This _THURSDAY_ 4pm (location is still TBA, but tentatively let's aim at the good old 32-G575) Matt Coudron from MIT will present his exciting joint work with Henry Yuen (also from MIT) about Infinite Randomness Expansion. See the title and and the abstract below, and don't forget to read a great blog post by Henry: http://mittheory.wordpress.com/2013/12/25/can-you-tell-if-a-bit-is-random/ . Hope to see you all there! Ilya TITLE: Infinite Randomness Expansion with a Constant Number of Devices ABSTRACT: We present a device-independent randomness expansion protocol, involving only a constant number of non signaling quantum devices, that achieves inﬁnite expansion: starting with m bits of uniform private randomness, the protocol can produce an unbounded amount of certiﬁed randomness that is exp(−Ω(m^1/3))-close to uniform and secure against a quantum adversary. The only parameters which depend on the size of the input are the soundness of the protocol and the security of the output (both are inverse exponential in m). This settles an open problem in the area of randomness expansion and device-independence. We also present a protocol that achieves inﬁnite randomness ampliﬁcation using a constant number of devices. The input seed is not necessarily uniform, but can be generated from a Santha-Vazirani source, a type of weak randomness. The output is still nearly uniform, secure against a quantum adversary, and can be arbitrarily long. In contrast, it is well known that classically one cannot extract even a single near-uniform bit from a Santha-Vazirani source. The analysis of our protocols involves overcoming fundamental challenges in the study of adaptive device-independent protocols. Our primary technical contribution is the design and analysis of device-independent protocols which are Input Secure; that is, their output is guaranteed to be secure against a quantum eavesdropper, even if the input randomness was generated by that same eavesdropper! The notion of Input Security may be of independent interest to other areas such as device independent quantum key distribution. Join work with Henry Yuen. _______________________________________________ Compalgsem mailing list Compalgsem(a)lists.csail.mit.edu https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/compalgsem _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Lunch with Anatole von Lilienfeld, January 30th

by Martin Blood-Forsythe

Dear colleagues, I need some additional volunteers to join us for the lunch discussion with Anatole on Thursday January 30th, 12:00-1:30pm. Best wishes, -Martin Martin A. Blood-Forsythe On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Martin Blood-Forsythe < martin.bloodforsythe(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > On Wednesday January 29th Professor O. Anatole von Lilienfeld (University > of Basel) will be visiting us. Dr. Lilienfeld's research focuses on > combining statistical mechanics, electronic structure theory, and machine > learning algorithms for the rational design of materials from first > principles (http://www.alcf.anl.gov/~anatole/). On Thursday he will be > giving the pchem seminar at 4:15pm entitled "'Quantum Machine': Supervised > learning of Schrödinger's equation in chemical compound space". This talk > will be particularly relevant for anyone involved with any of the materials > screening projects in our group. > > If you are interested in meeting with Anatole on Wednesday, please sign up > for one of the slots below, or join us for lunch 12-1:30pm (I need 3 > volunteers). > > 10:00am-10:30am > 10:30am-11:00am > 11:00am-11:30am > 11:30am-12:00pm > 12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch > 1:30pm-2:00pm > 2:00pm-2:30pm > 2:30pm-3:00pm > 3:00pm-3:30pm > 3:30pm-4:00pm > > There will also be an in-house lunch discussion on Thursday 12-1:30pm. > > Best wishes, > -Martin > >

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Proposal practice talk tomorrow Monday 4 PM at Division Room

by Xavier Andrade

Forwarded messages from Joel: Dear all, Thanks a lot for the people who came to my previous practice talks, and sorry for the last minute cancellations. These rehearsals helped me quite a lot for the actual interview! I haven't practiced my second talk, which is a research proposal talk, and I thought it would help me to do it at least once in front of you. Due to the lack of time, I need to do my practice talk tomorrow Monday (MLK holiday). If you are able to show up in the department at 4 pm, we'll congregate in the Division Room if it's not being used. If it is, we'll try to find somewhere else in Mallinckrodt. Please let me know if you can make it. Many thanks. And I won't cancel this time! -- Joel Yuen-Zhou, PhD Center of Excitonics, Robert J. Silbey Fellow, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139

10 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Meetings & lunch with Anatole von Lilienfeld, January 29th

by Martin Blood-Forsythe

Dear colleagues, On Wednesday January 29th Professor O. Anatole von Lilienfeld (University of Basel) will be visiting us. Dr. Lilienfeld's research focuses on combining statistical mechanics, electronic structure theory, and machine learning algorithms for the rational design of materials from first principles (http://www.alcf.anl.gov/~anatole/). On Thursday he will be giving the pchem seminar at 4:15pm entitled "'Quantum Machine': Supervised learning of Schrödinger's equation in chemical compound space". This talk will be particularly relevant for anyone involved with any of the materials screening projects in our group. If you are interested in meeting with Anatole on Wednesday, please sign up for one of the slots below, or join us for lunch 12-1:30pm (I need 3 volunteers). 10:00am-10:30am 10:30am-11:00am 11:00am-11:30am 11:30am-12:00pm 12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch 1:30pm-2:00pm 2:00pm-2:30pm 2:30pm-3:00pm 3:00pm-3:30pm 3:30pm-4:00pm There will also be an in-house lunch discussion on Thursday 12-1:30pm. Best wishes, -Martin

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] non-CEP-archive data on jabba06c

by Hachmann, Johannes

Hi everybody, As announced the other day, the non-CEP-archive data on /n/jabba06c is now being moved to /n/Aspuru-Guzik_TEMP/. Cheers and best wishes, Johannes ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Johannes Hachmann Assistant Professor University at Buffalo The State University of New York Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering NYS Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics 612 Furnas Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 http://www.cbe.buffalo.edu/people/full_time/j_hachmann.php -----------------------------------------------------------

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