aspuru-list April 2014

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: FW: The Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Harvard University Mexican Association of Students present a special seminar

by Marlon Cummings

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.<http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id=25a3285f9c…> [image: Your Company] <http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-04-21/%E2%80%9Cperspectives-mexi…> *The Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Harvard University Mexican Association of Students present a special seminar:* *Leonardo Beltrán Rodríguez* Deputy Secretary for Energy Planning and Transition, Mexican Secretariat of Energy *"Perspectives on Mexico's Energy Reform: * Opportunities for Innovation and Investment*"* *Monday, April 21* * 4:00 - 5:00 pm* *Harvard Kennedy School* Taubman Room T-275 15 Eliot Street Cambridge, MA *Leonardo Beltrán Rodríguez* is the Deputy Secretary of Energy Planning and Transition at the Mexican Secretariat of Energy where he is responsible for technology development and sustainability, including climate change. Previously, he held the positions of Director of International Negotiations and Director General of Information and Energy Studies at SENER. He was responsible for the organization of the Energy Efficiency and Access Forum, which took place in Mexico City in 2010. Mr. Beltrán will share SENER´s views on the energy reform and the opportunities for innovation and investment that open up with its implementation. This event is organized by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Harvard University Mexican Association of Students. For more information, visit:http://environment.harvard.edu/mexico-energy. This lecture and discussion is free and open to the public. *Contact:* Email aspuru.temp(a)gmail.com with questions. Become a Fan of HUCE on Facebook<http://harvard.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe…> !

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] THUD Island - Friday, April 25 at 8PM - Lowell Lecture Hall

by Ian Dunn

Hey everyone, As some of you might know, I'm a member of The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers (THUD) and I'm putting on my last show this Friday, April 25th at 8PM at Lowell Lecture Hall (directly next to the chemistry building). The show is called THUD Island and I really hope that some of you can make it! If you're interested in a ticket ($5 in advance) shoot me an email sometime this week. I hope to see you there! Best, Ian

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ITAMP topical lunch discussion: TUESDAY, April 22 @ 12:30

by tony.lee＠cfa.harvard.edu

ITAMP Topical Lunch Discussion This week, we will have two lunch discussions: Tuesday and Friday. Note different time and location for Tuesday. Date: TUESDAY, April 22 Time: 12:30-2:00 pm Pizza will be served. Location: B-105 @ 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-105 is there. *Speaker*: Prof. Igor Lesanovsky (University of Nottingham) *Title:* Dynamical Phases of Open Quantum Systems *Abstract:* In the talk I will give an overview of our recent work on the non-equilibrium dynamics of open (many-body) quantum systems. These systems are described by a quantum Master equation of Lindblad form. To characterise their non-equilibrium properties we make use of the unravelling of the dynamics in terms of stochastic quantum jump trajectories. To classify dynamical phases we introduce as a dynamical order parameter the number of quantum jumps in a specific time interval. This approach rather naturally leads to a framework (called the s-ensemble) that permits an understanding of the non-equilibrium phase structure from a perspective that is very similar to that of equilibrium statistical mechanics. I will first demonstrate the approach for a driven three-level atom diplaying intermittency in its quantum jumps which is controlled by the driving fields. Then I will discuss a dissipative version of the quantum Ising model where such intermittency occurs as well but unlike in the previous case is a genuine many-body effect. Finally, I will focus on a strongly interacting many-body system with kinetic constraints that displays a dynamical transition which is not accompanied by a change in the stastics. This feature results in non-trivial and strongly correlated relaxation behaviour.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Rhino Volleyball

by Dmitry Zubarev

Dear Colleagues, This is a follow-up on the yesterday discussion of the AAG participation in the volleyball tournament. Those who are willing to take the punishment and taste the glory, please flag yourselves so that we have a head-count for any paperwork that might be necessary. Please note, Harvard ID is a prerequisite for participation. The League rules can be found here http://rhinoleague.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70673&pageid=icb.pag… It looks like 4 players are required to avoid forfeiting, but considering that the tournament lasts several weeks and scheduling conflicts are unavoidable, it pays to have 8-ish people ready to show-up. Also, we need a team name. Best, Dmitry

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] FW: TODAY: "Silk as a Technological Biomaterial Platform on the Micro- and Nanoscale": Fiorenzo Omenetto

by Hamilton, Joan

From: "Larson, Jill U." <jlarson(a)seas.harvard.edu<mailto:jlarson@seas.harvard.edu>> Subject: [Friday-seminar] EE Seminar on Friday, April 18 - Fiorenzo Omenetto Date: April 14, 2014 2:40:49 PM EDT To: friday-seminar <friday-seminar(a)seas.harvard.edu<mailto:friday-seminar@seas.harvard.edu>> Cc: ap-gradstudents <ap-gradstudents(a)seas.harvard.edu<mailto:ap-gradstudents@seas.harvard.edu>> [hseas-logo] Harvard EE Seminar Series Friday, April 18, 2014 3:00-4:00 p.m. Room 330 60 Oxford Street Light Refreshments Silk as a Technological Biomaterial Platform on the Micro- and Nanoscale Fiorenzo Omenetto Tufts University Biomaterials offer opportunities for devices that operate at the interface of the biological and technological worlds. Stringent requirements on material form and function are imposed when operating at the nanoscale or when interfacing such materials with the microelectronics or photonics realms. In this talk we will present recent progress on the use of silk fibroin as the material base for nanostructured optical materials and thin-film electronics. Devices such as silk-based photonic crystals, lasers, wireless antennas and resorbable electronic will be described as some examples of the possibilities that this water-processed, biocompatible material offers. Speaker: Fiorenzo (Fio) Omenetto is the Frank C. Doble Professor of Engineering at Tufts University. He is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and also holds an appointment in the Department of Physics at Tufts. His research interest cover optics, nanostructured materials (such as photonic crystals and photonic crystal fibers), nanofabrication, and biopolymer-based photonics and electronics. Since moving to Tufts at the end of 2005, he has proposed and pioneered (with David Kaplan) the use of silk as a material platform for photonics, optoelectronics and high-technology applications. Applications of this material platform have received extensive press coverage, and have been featured in MIT’s Technology Review magazine as a TR10– ‘top ten technologies likely to change the world’ (2010). He was named one of the top-50 people in tech by Fortune magazine in a class of 50 featuring Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Shigeru Miyamoto among others. Prof. Omenetto was formerly a J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Host: Marko Loncar _______________________________________________ Friday-seminar mailing list Friday-seminar(a)seas.harvard.edu<mailto:Friday-seminar@seas.harvard.edu> https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/friday-seminar

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Interesting talk

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ITAMP topical lunch discussion: Friday, April 18 @ 12:00

by tony.lee＠cfa.harvard.edu

ITAMP Topical Lunch Discussion Date: FRIDAY, April 18 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*: Prof. Kang-Kuen Ni (Harvard) *Title:* Polar molecule express *Abstract:* I will discuss a new planned experiment in my group.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Planners - Group Tour

by Marlon Cummings

Dear Group: At around 1:45PM, members of Alan's lab planning team (casali group, inc.) will be looking at each lab office. If I'm not around, please allow them into the offices. Thanks, Marlon. ------------- 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/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Excitonics Seminar - Paul McEuen - TODAY, 3 pm, 36-428

by Catherine M Bourgeois

Please post and forward to your groups ___________________________________ EXCITONICS SEMINAR SERIES [http://www.rle.mit.edu/excitonics/images/mceuen_001.jpg] Paul McEuen Department of Physics Cornell University Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science Light and Fast: Probing Carriers and Vibrations in 1D and 2D Materials Thursday, April 17, 2014 RLE Conference Room - 36-428 3:00 - 4:00pm Abstract: Carbon nanotubes and 2D atomic membrane materials cut across many disciplines with their remarkable optical, thermal, mechanical, and electronic properties. In this talk we will examine cases when a combination of properties, e.g. optical and mechanical, are simultaneously important. First, we will discuss ultrafast optoelectronic measurements of graphene p-n junctions that probe the fundamental thermal relaxation processes for excited carriers. Next, we will discuss experiments where circularly polarized light creates a valley polarization in an MoS2 monolayer, leading to a Hall effect in the absence of a magnetic field. Finally, we will discuss experiments where individual carbon nanotubes are picked up with micron sized tweezers. These tweezers double as electrical probes, allowing us to simultaneously study the optical, electronic, thermal, and vibrational properties of nanotubes as they are strained or buckled. Bio Paul L. McEuen is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics at Cornell University. He directs the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science. His research focuses on nanoscale electronic, optical, and mechanical properties of graphene, nanotubes, and related materials. He received his B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Oklahoma in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Yale University in 1991. He joined the faculty at UC-Berkeley in 1992 before coming to Cornell in 2001. Awards and honors include a Packard Foundation Fellowship, a National Young Investigator Fellowship, and the Agilent Europhysics Prize. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a novelist, and his scientific thriller SPIRAL was named the debut thriller of the year by the International Thriller Writers Association. Light refreshement will be served The Center for Excitonics is an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science and Office of Basic Energy Sciences

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Sad News

by Marlon Cummings

Dear Friends: Last night, Borja and his wife's apartment building caught fire. Luckily, they got out safe and are now in a shelter. I do not have much details, but I wanted to share this with our group. It's Holy Thursday and time for reflection. As a group, lets think about our friends and keep them in our thoughts and prayers as we enter this Easter holiday - a time for renewal and goodwill. MC. --------- 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/

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