aspuru-list April 2014

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Got Questions? Announcing askbot.chem.harvard.edu

by Tim Hirzel

Hello Group, -> Sign Up For the Aspuru-Guzik Group Askbot<http://askbot.chem.harvard.edu/account/signup/?login_provider=local> <- On behalf of the code-sharing meeting attendees, I am pleased to present the Aspuru-Guzik group askbot, a question and answer website exclusively for members of Alan's group. For those who are familiar with the stack-exchange, askbot is an open source clone of that. Many of you have already made accounts (and received awesome answers to your questions). If not, it takes one click. Go sign up now. Otherwise, you will be missing out on the goodness that is the askbot. The code-sharing group hopes this site will help us share information that is technical or scientific (or other) in nature. In particular, if you are new to the group, consider using the site for basic/startup type questions as this site will preserve the answers for others in the future. Feel free to contact Tim, Carolina, or Jorge with any questions. Thank you.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] ****NEW LOCATION**** IACS Seminar featuring Hadley Wickham (RStudio and Rice University) on FRIDAY, 4/11

by Baker, Natasha

****NEW LOCATION**** Date: Friday, April 11, 2014 Location: Northwest Building Room B-101, 52 Oxford Street Speaker: Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist of RStudio; Assistant Professor of Statistics, Rice University Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm. Talk, 1:00pm Title: Expressing Yourself in R Abstract: There are three main time sinks in any data analysis: 1. Figuring out what you want to do. 2. Turning a vague goal into a precise set of tasks (i.e. programming). 3. Actually crunching the numbers. A well-designed domain specific language (or DSL) tightly coupled to the problem domain can make all three pieces faster. In this talk, I’ll discuss two DSLs built in R: ggvis for visualisation and dplyr for data manipulation. These build on my previous packages ggplot2 and plyr, improving both expressivity and speed. Data visualisation and manipulation are key parts of data analysis. ggvis makes it easy to declaratively describe interactive web graphics. It combines a declarative syntax based on ggplot2 with shiny’s reactive programming model and vega’s declarative JS rendering system. dplyr implements the most important verbs of data manipulation in a datastore-agnostic fashion, so you can think about and compute with your data in the same way regardless of whether you’re working with a local in-memory data frame or a remote on-disk database. Co-sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health (Biostatistics Dept). gCal<https://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cale…> iCal<webcal://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/76466/feed.ics> Speaker bio: Hadley Wickham is Chief Scientist at RStudio and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Rice University. He's interested in building tools (computational and cognitive) that make data preparation, manipulation, visualization and analysis easier. He's developed over 30 R packages, for data analysis (ggplot2, plyr, reshape), making frustrating parts of R easier to use (lubridate for dates, stringr for strings, httr for accessing web APIs), and for streamlining the R package development process (roxygen2, testthat, devtools, lineprof, staticdocs). *********************** UPCOMING SEMINARS 4/25 Spiros Mancoridis (Drexel University)--- Location: Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street (Cambridge) 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: friends seeking sublet for the summer

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, >From a friend of Dori. Share if you know anybody interested or if you are. Best, 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: Dori Aspuru-Takata <dtakata(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:59 AM Subject: friends seeking sublet for the summer To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> Travelling this summer? Friends of ours are looking for a house-sitting situation or a sublet while they teach at Harvard for the summer (a classics prof and a history of science prof). They are looking for housing for the last week of June to beginning of August (June 21st to August 9th) for a family of 3 people (two adults and a toddler) -- ideally a housesitting situation. Please contact Eugenia Lao < jmovesell(a)gmail.com> if you have any leads. Thank you!

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] April 9, 2014 - Prof. Federico Capasso - HQOC/ITAMP Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar

by Hamilton, Joan

HQOC/ITAMP Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar Wednesday, April 9, 2014, Jefferson 250 Prof. Federico Capasso, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Flat Optics with Metasurfaces Artificial structuring of metal-dielectric surfaces at the sub-wavelength scale provides great flexibility in designing the wavefront of scattered light and the propagation of surface waves through local control of amplitude, phase and polarization, leading to a rich verity of phenomena and to a new class of photonic components. Student Presentation by Jan Balthasar Muller, Capasso Group Asymmetric surface plasmon polarition emission by a dipole emitter near a metal surface. Student presentation will begin at 4:00 PM Refreshments will be served from 4:10-4:30 PM Guest presentation will begin at 4:30 PM 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] Free registration to the hack day for GreenWeb.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, check the info below. I got you guys free passes. I think you may still be able to register, Dear Alán, I've Included some language to send to your contacts as you see fit. Please feel free to use the code "greentown" for free admission for yourself and the rest of your team. All My Best, Traver Normandi Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Dear ___, Today is the *last day* to register for the 3rd Annual Boston Cleanweb Hackathon! Taking place this weekend at Greentown Labs in Somerville MA, the Cleanweb Hackathon is a two-day prize competition to demonstrate the impact of applying information technologies to energy and resource constraints, known as the cleanweb. This unique event serves not only to engage and inform developers and programmers about the opportunities available in the growing cleantech sector but also to connect and establish a growing community of young entrepreneurs and programmers out of which companies and businesses may potentially emerge. Bring yourself or come with a team for the chance to win a piece of our *$10,000* in total prize money, including a *$5,000 prize for 1st Place*!!! For the next 24 hours we are offering all college students free passes by using the code "greentown" when registering online. Please visit our website at www.cleanwebhackathon.com to purchase tickets and learn about the event. We look forward to hacking with you soon! 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Prof. McAlpine's Visit Friday Apr. 4th

by Jonathan Welch

Hi Everyone, This is just a reminder that Professor McAlpine will be visiting tomorrow. If you are on the attached schedule please either be in your office shortly before the time of your meeting or let me know where you will be so I can come grab you. Thanks! * 10:30--11:00 Joonsuk Huh * 11:00--11:45 Semion Saikin * 11:45-1:30Lunch(Jonathan Welch, Joey Goodknight, Felipe Herrera, Semion Saikin) * 1:30--2:00Thomas Markovich * 2:30-3:00Felipe Herrera Kind Regards, Jon -- Jonathan M. Welch Aspuru-Guzik Lab jwelch(a)fas.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Friday April 4

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will meet on Friday April 4 at 11:00 in 6-310. Adam Bookatz will tell us about what he has been doing. 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ITAMP topical lunch discussion: Friday, April 4 @ 12:00

by tony.lee＠cfa.harvard.edu

ITAMP Topical Lunch Discussion Date: FRIDAY, April 4 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: Hossein Sadeghpour (ITAMP) Title: How an electron catches an ultracold atom; or an entire BEC Abstract: When an electron wave function becomes so extended as to overtake the mean interparticle distance, stuff happens. One of the "stuff" is spectral line shift and/or broadening. In an ultracold trap, this manifests itself in interesting, and at times unexpected phenomena, during a Rydberg excitation.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] REMINDER: ****NEW LOCATION**** IACS Seminar featuring Yaron Singer (Harvard) on FRIDAY, 4/4

by Baker, Natasha

****NEW LOCATION**** Date: Friday, April 4, 2014 Location: Northwest Building Room B-101, 52 Oxford Street Speaker: Yaron Singer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvard SEAS Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm. Talk, 1:00pm Title: Information Diffusion Through Adaptive Seeding gCal<https://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cale…> iCal<UrlBlockedError.aspx> Abstract: In recent years social networking platforms have developed into extraordinary channels for spreading and consuming information. Along with the rise of such infrastructure, there is continuous progress on techniques for spreading information effectively through influential users. In this talk we will introduce a new paradigm for optimizing information diffusion processes, called Adaptive Seeding. The framework is designed to leverage a remarkable phenomenon in social networks, related to the "friendship paradox" (or "your friends have more friends than you"). We will discuss this structural phenomenon and present key algorithmic ideas and fundamental challenges of Adaptive Seeding. Speaker bio: Yaron Singer is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Google Research and obtained his PhD from UC Berkeley, where he was advised by Christos Papadimitriou. He is the recipient of the 2012 Best Student Paper Award at the ACM conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), the 2010 Facebook Fellowship, the 2009 Microsoft Research Fellowship, and several entrepreneurial awards for work on advertising in social networks. *********************** UPCOMING SEMINARS 4/11 Hadley Wickham (R Studio & Rice University)--- Location: Northwest Room B-101, 52 Oxford Street (Cambridge) 4/25 Spiros Mancoridis (Drexel University)--- Location: Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street (Cambridge) 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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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] compressed sensing talk by Stanley Osher

by Semion Saikin

Hi Guys, I just saw a poster in the hall that next Thursday Stanley Osher, one of L1 optimization guru will give a talk in Science Center. There will also be a talk by Shoucheng Zhiang who is one of the promoters of topological insulators. I expect that both talks will be very interesting. best, Semion -- ******************************************** Semion K. Saikin, PhD Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 email: saykin(a)fas.harvard.edu phone: (619)212-6649 ********************************************

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