aspuru-list February 2014

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Re: [Aspuru-Guzik group list] Prof. Irene Burghardt visiting Tues March 4

by Sawaya, Nicolas

Hi group, Please help me fill some spots, both for meetings and for lunch! (Canceling dinner.) Her schedule is embarrassingly sparse right now... Cheers, Nicolas On Feb 26, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Nicolas Sawaya <nicolassawaya(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:nicolassawaya@fas.harvard.edu>> wrote: Hi Group, Professor Irene Burghardt (http://www.theochem.uni-frankfurt.de/research.php) will be visiting the department next Tuesday, March 4. People in the group who do quantum dynamics might be interested in meeting with her. She's here for the Theochem seminar, which she'll be giving at BU the next day. Besides having a couple of smaller meetings, we'll also probably have a 45-minute hangout in the late afternoon with whomever wants to participate. Please let me know if you'd like to meet with her, and which times of day you cannot meet with her (since the professors have not responded yet, it's easier for me to schedule this way). These might not be one-on-one meetings. Also, let me know if you would like to go to dinner and/or lunch (and order of preference between the two). Spots are limited. Cheers, Nicolas

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] farewell to Christoph part 1

by Joey Goodknight

Hey Everyone, 7:30 in the big office, we will be leaving to go to John Harvard's with Christoph as a first leg of his farewell tour. Please *let me know if you would like to join* so I can make a reservation! -Joey

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] 1 Question Poll: What Programming Languages Do You Use?

by Tim Hirzel

Greetings Everyone, We took a quick programming language poll in the code-sharing meeting today. The results were interesting so we decided to extend the question to the whole group. Please take 10 seconds to click on your programming languages. (Let me know if I need to add any.) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1B4Ec9vQ1a9dQ-woK85i4Jo5qItis5mq-cxM9gqWA7T… Thanks! Tim

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Prof. Irene Burghardt visiting Tues March 4

by Sawaya, Nicolas

Hi Group, Professor Irene Burghardt (http://www.theochem.uni-frankfurt.de/research.php) will be visiting the department next Tuesday, March 4. People in the group who do quantum dynamics might be interested in meeting with her. She's here for the Theochem seminar, which she'll be giving at BU the next day. Besides having a couple of smaller meetings, we'll also probably have a 45-minute hangout in the late afternoon with whomever wants to participate. Please let me know if you'd like to meet with her, and which times of day you cannot meet with her (since the professors have not responded yet, it's easier for me to schedule this way). These might not be one-on-one meetings. Also, let me know if you would like to go to dinner and/or lunch (and order of preference between the two). Spots are limited. Cheers, Nicolas

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ITAMP topical lunch discussion: Friday, February 28 @ 12:00

by tony.lee＠cfa.harvard.edu

ITAMP Topical Lunch Discussion Date: FRIDAY, February 28 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: Amitai Bin-Nun Title: Science on Capitol Hill ("Dr. Smith goes to Washington") Abstract: Amitai Bin-Nun spent over 2 years in Washington on a fellowship designed to bring scientists to the nation's capital. He served first in the Department of Energy in the Executive Branch, and then as a Fellow in the office of Senator Chris Coons from Delaware. In this talk, he will give an overview of the federal government and then discuss the process by which laws and funding decisions are made, highlighting the role that scientists can play in the process.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Code Sharing Meeting Tomorrow at 1pm, Division Room

by Tim Hirzel

Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1pm in the division room: The first meeting to collect ideas, goals, and potential strategies to aid and improve code sharing in the group. My hope is to get input from people with all levels of programming experience, from all corners of the group, who use a variety of programming languages. If you cant make it, but harbor code sharing dreams, please send me an email and I will be sure to relay your ideas to the group. Thank you, Tim

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] talk tomorrow of interest!

by Edward Farhi

Dear Quanta Please check out this talk tomorrow byJake Taylor. Also see the list of seminars in their series. Best, Eddie > > > _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Fwd: Charles River Science of Information Day

by aram harrow

Dear quanta, This conference (see below) has a quantum session and also includes some classical information theory talks that look very interesting. While I'm writing I'll also mention that one of the organizers is Yury Polyansky, a new faculty member at MIT. Yury was the one who worked out the classical version of http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4722 and he is interested in starting to talk more to quantum people. aram ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yury Polyanskiy <polyanskiy(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:29 AM Subject: Charles River Science of Information Day To: Yury Polyanskiy <yp(a)mit.edu>, CSOI-organizers(a)csail.mit.edu WHEN: April 28, 2014 (whole day!) WHERE: Stata Center, MIT WHAT: Dear Colleagues, I would like to invite you to take part in a small workshop we are organizing. More information here: http://www.soihub.org/meetings/mit.php Please be sure to REGISTER and forward it to your students, postdocs, colleagues from industry and others. Thank you very much and hope to see you there! Best wishes, Yury (on behalf of organizers) _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] John Lowengrub, UC Irvine, lecture tomorrow at 3:30pm

by Hastings, Meg

This speaker in the Widely Applied Mathematics seminar series (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/WAM/) may be of interest to some of you: John Lowengrub, UC Irvine Tuesday, February 25, 3:30pm – 4:30pm Lyman 425 Title: Feedback, lineages and cancer Most tissues are hierarchically organized into lineages. Tumors arise when the carefully regulated balance of cell proliferation and programmed cell death (apoptosis) that ordinarily exists in normal homeostatic tissues breaks down. Traditionally, cancer cells are assumed to acquire a common set of traits. However, not all proliferating cells in a tumor matter seem to matter equally and tumor cells apparently progress through lineage stages regulated by feedback. The reasons for this are still not well established. In this talk, we will present new mathematical models to simulate the spatiotemporal dynamics of cell lineages in solid tumors. We account for protein signaling factors produced by the cells and nutrients in the microenvironment. Our models demonstrate the development of heterogenous cell distributions and the formation of niche-like environments for stem cells. Feedback processes are found to play a critical role in tumor progression, the development of morphological instability, and response to treatment. We also find that feedback regulation can enable healthy tissues to spontaneously recover from deleterious mutations by inducing the activation and proliferation of normal tissue stem cells. When mutant cells differentiate and participate in feedback processes, stem cell activation can be suppressed enabling survival of mutant cells. This provides a possible explanation as to why cancer stem cells, feedback processes and lineage structures seem to persist in tumors. 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] [IACS-events] IACS Seminar featuring Stratos Idreos (Harvard SEAS) on FRIDAY, 2/28

by Baker, Natasha

Date: Friday, February 28, 2014 Location: Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Speaker: Stratos Idreos, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvard SEAS Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm. Talk, 1:00pm Title: Soon everyone will be a “data scientist” or a “data explorer”. What data systems will they be using? Abstract: How far away are we from a future where a data management system sits in the critical path of everything we do? Already today we need to go through a data system in order to do several basic tasks, e.g., to pay at the grocery store, to book a flight, to find out where our friends are and even to get coffee. Businesses and sciences are increasingly recognizing the value of storing and analyzing vast amounts of data. Other than the expected path towards an exploding number of data-driven businesses and scientific scenarios in the next few years, in this talk we also envision a future where data becomes readily available and its power can be harnessed by everyone. What both scenarios have in common is a need for new kinds of data systems which are tailored for data exploration, which are easy to use, and which can quickly absorb and adjust to new data and access patterns on-the-fly. In this talk, we will discuss this vision as well as recent and on going advances towards systems which are tailored for data exploration. Speaker bio: Stratos Idreos is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He works in the area of data management with emphasis on designing systems for big data exploration. For his doctoral work on Database Cracking, Stratos won the 2011 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation award which recognizes the best thesis internationally in the field of data management. In addition, he won the 2011 ERCIM Cor Baayen award as "most promising European young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics" from the European Research Council on Informatics and Mathematics. *********************** UPCOMING SEMINARS 3/7 Johan Bollen (Indiana University) 3/14 Raul Jimenez (University of Barcelona) 3/28 Devavrat Shah (MIT) 4/4 Yaron Singer (Harvard SEAS) 4/11 Hadley Wickham (R Studio & Rice University) 4/25 Spiros Mancoridis (Drexel University) Please visit 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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