aspuru-list September 2014

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by Marlon Cummings

If you hear me speaking in a very high pitch today it's because of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihs-vT9T3Q Lets enjoy our Friday. -------------- 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] [IACS-events] REMINDER: IACS Seminar with Mauricio Santillana (Harvard SEAS & HMS)--- TODAY (9/12)

by Baker, Natasha

Date: Friday, September 12, 2014--- TODAY!!!! Location: Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Speaker: Mauricio Santillana, Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the Harvard SEAS & Instructor at the Harvard Medical School Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm. Talk, 1:00pm Title: Using Big Data in Epidemiology for Digital Disease Detection: Lessons Learned and New Directions gCal <https://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cale…> iCal<UrlBlockedError.aspx> Abstract: Preventing outbreaks of communicable diseases is one of the top priorities of public health officials from all over the world. Although traditional clinical methods to track the incidence of diseases are essential to prevent outbreaks, they frequently take weeks to spot critical epidemiological events. This is mainly due to the multiple clinical steps needed to confirm the appearance and incidence of diseases. Recently, the real time analysis of big data sets such as search queries from Google, posts from Facebook, tweets from Twitter, and article views from Wikipedia, has allowed researchers to identify epidemic events in multiple communities, giving rise to the creation of internet-based public health surveillance tools. These new tools often provide timely epidemiological information to public health decision makers up to two or three weeks ahead of traditional reports. In my talk I will discuss the importance of robust mathematical methods in digital disease detection. I will discuss some of the disappointments of big data in public health and the new methodological improvements we have proposed to fix them, specifically regarding previous weaknesses in digital disease sentinels such as Google Flu Trends. I will give an overview of the use of multiple big datasets to detect, track, and model disease outbreaks across the globe. Speaker bio: Mauricio Santillana is a lecturer in applied mathematics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and an instructor at the Harvard Medical School. He is also a scientific research associate at the Boston Children’s Hospital Informatics Group. Santillana is a physicist and applied mathematician with expertise in scientific computing. His research in numerical analysis and computational fluid dynamics has been used to model floods due to hurricanes and to improve the performance of global atmospheric chemistry models. In recent years, his main interest has been to develop mathematical models to predict disease incidence using big data sets such as Google search queries, clinician’s databases, participatory digital disease surveillance systems, mobile phone data, and the output of global and regional climate models. Santillana completed his undergraduate studies in physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and his PhD in computational and applied mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin. Santillana first joined Harvard as an Environmental Fellow at the Harvard Center for the Environment. *********************** UPCOMING SEMINARS 9/19 Chris Rycroft (Harvard SEAS) on High-throughput screening of crystalline porous materials 10/3 Nima Dehghani (Wyss Institute, Harvard) 10/10 D.E. Shaw 10/17 Ashish Mahabal (Caltech) 10/31 Chris Miller (Brandeis & HHMI) 11/14 Bill Henshaw (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) 11/21 TBA 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] Authorea

by Edward Pyzer-Knapp

Hi all. Our friends at Authorea have kindly implemented one of our suggestions: now, if you click on the 'follow' star at the top of a paper, you will be emailled if anyone posts a comment (or chat message) on that paper! Happy paper writing! Ed

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Friday the 12th

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will meet on Friday at 11:00 in 6-310. The Lins will tell us about what they have been doing. Best, Eddie *********************************************** Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 6 room 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] Fwd: WiKi Update

by Nicolas Sawaya

Hi friends, Please update your data on the wiki page. Site is here: https://aspuru.wikidot.com/members:info. You might be spammed with extra email if you don't, so watch out. Cheers, Nicolas Begin forwarded message: > From: Marlon Cummings <marloncummings(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> > Subject: WiKi Update > Date: September 11, 2014 at 3:44:56 PM EDT > To: Nicolas Sawaya <sawayanicolas(a)gmail.com> > > Hi Nico: > > Please update the following pages on the Wiki Site: > > Administrative Information (please ask each group member for their updated info) > > Thanks!! > > ------------ > 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] Responsible Conduct of Research - Required Course

by Marlon Cummings

For any new group member Please register. http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k60142&pageid=icb.page412714 https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8kADcUgISnaR0rj Thanks!! ------------ 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] Fwd: AW: AW: Application and VISA

by Marlon Cummings

Incoming Graduate Student Visitor -- Seeking assistance. Needs a room/studio to rent. Please email Gregor directly if you have any leads. *Gregor Simm - gsimm(a)student.ethz.ch <gsimm(a)student.ethz.ch>* -------------- 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: Simm Gregor <gsimm(a)student.ethz.ch> Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:22 PM Subject: AW: AW: AW: Application and VISA To: Marlon Cummings <marloncummings(a)fas.harvard.edu> Hi Marlon, I just wanted to let you know that I will be arriving in Boston on September 28. My VISA documents and insurance are both sorted out and I am currently looking for an apartment. As far as I know, the first thing I have to do once I have arrived is to register with HIO. If there is anything to be done beforehand, please let me know. Would it be possible if Alán and I met sometime around October 1 so that we can talk about my project? Thank you very much. I am looking forward to meeting you, Gregor

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Postdoctoral Opportunity at UT

by Cortese, John - 0889 - MITLL

Hello Quanta ! This post-doc opportunity may be of interest to folks. ---------------------------------------------------------- Dear Friends and Colleagues I am writing with news that the University of Tennessee has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral research fellow working in the modeling and simulation of quantum sensing and communication applications. Theoretical expertise in error correction and fault-tolerance is especially relevant. Please note that the two-year position is an IC postdoctoral research fellowship and must be filled by a US citizen within five years of receiving their doctorate degree. The attached PDF includes the complete description of the position and application instructions. Kind Regards, Travis Humble 865-574-6162 Assistant Professor Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN thumble(a)utk.edu Co-Director Quantum Computing Institute Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN humblets(a)ornl.gov _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: ComSciCon at Harvard: looking for a few great students!

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

If you want to volunteer, let me know 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: Christopher Faesi <cfaesi(a)cfa.harvard.edu> Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 5:21 PM Subject: ComSciCon at Harvard: looking for a few great students! To: alan(a)aspuru.com Cc: Nathan Sanders <sandersn(a)gmail.com>, Shannon Morey < shannon.morey(a)gmail.com>, Alyssa Goodman <agoodman(a)cfa.harvard.edu> Dear Prof. Aspuru-Guzik, I am one of a group of mostly Harvard graduate students who has led the organizational efforts for ComSciCon, the Communicating Science Workshop for grad students. Our workshop brings together students from around the country and across scientific disciplines together with expert panelists to learn and practice science communication skills and to network with fellow young leaders in science. In the two years we have run this workshop, we have received over 1500 applications for only 100 spots, so it is extremely competitive! If you haven’t heard of ComSciCon, please see our website <http://comscicon.com/> and the attached summary document. We are delighted to report that we have recently made an agreement with GSAS and FAS to make Harvard the institutional home of ComSciCon for the next three years, making it possible to continue conducting our annual workshop. The original team of organizers was mostly astronomy students, but as the workshop serves all fields of science, we would very much like to involve graduate students at Harvard that are in other departments in the organization process. *We are thus reaching out to specific faculty in the hopes that you might have suggestions for one or a few students in your department that might be interested in joining the organizing committee for our 2015 workshop, which will be held in June 2015 in Cambridge.* Astronomy professor Alyssa Goodman gave me your name as THE faculty member in chemistry who might be able to help direct our search. Please let us know if any students’ names comes to mind, and feel free to share this message and our summary document with these students. You can have them get in touch with us, or if you share their email addresses we will reach out to them. Thanks so much for your time, Chris Faesi PhD Candidate, G4, Astronomy, Harvard University on behalf of the ComSciCon leadership team

9 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ITAMP lunch seminar - Jeff Thompson (9/12)

by Richard Schmidt

ITAMP Topical Lunch Discussion Date: Friday, September 12th 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: Jeff Thompson, Harvard University Title: Nanoscale quantum optics with cold atoms Abstract: Cavity QED is a promising platform for quantum technologies because it allows for strong interactions between stationary and propagating quantum information carriers, such as atoms and photons. We have recently developed techniques for trapping cold rubidium atoms near a nanoscale optical cavity in a photonic crystal nanobeam. By virtue of their size, these cavities provide extremely large atom-photon coupling strengths and good prospects for scalability and integration into complex optical circuits. As a first application, we present a coherent optical phase switch, where a single photon is used to control the propagation of many signal photons, with the interaction mediated by the atom and cavity. Additionally, we discuss extensions of the current work to multi-atom interactions, including gates and simulation of many-body quantum dynamics.

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