aspuru-list January 2015

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Reminer: 01/27/2015, HQOC Post Doc Finalist Presentation: Adam Kaufman

by Coleman, Karl

The HQOC is pleased to announce a special presentation by HQOC postdoc candidate, Adam Kaufman, on Tuesday, January 27, 2015, at 3:00 PM in Jefferson 256. A flyer is attached. If you are interested in meeting with Adam, or providing him with a tour of your lab, please use the link below to sign up. He will be available on Tuesday (January 27) and Wednesday (January 28) and the schedule is still wide open. Lab tours should be reserved for 30 minutes (2 blocks of time) Meetings should be reserved for 30 minutes (2 blocks of time) Lab tours AND meeting combinations should be reserved for 45 minutes (3 blocks of time). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iIwcTNvqbAjqSbJ4nJs0nkoa4HR6B58GMUX… We encourage you to provide him with an opportunity to see what the Harvard Physics Department is all about. Thanks. Karl Karl Coleman HQOC Laboratory Administrator Faculty Assistant to Profs. Greiner and Lukin 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] Magic Friday

by guerreschi＠fas.harvard.edu

No TGIF today? Do not despair, there will be magicians on campus! G

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] (no subject)

by Semion Saikin

Cool event for this weekend http://www.harvardsquare.com/legendary-5th-annual-chocolate-festival-harvar… Semion

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] 01/27/2015, HQOC Post Doc Finalist Presentation: Adam Kaufman

by Coleman, Karl

The HQOC is pleased to announce a special presentation by HQOC postdoc candidate, Adam Kaufman, on Tuesday, January 27, 2015, at 3:00 PM in Jefferson 256. A flyer will be distributed shortly (he is finalizing the abstract). If you are interested in meeting with Adam, or providing him with a tour of your lab, please use the link below to sign up. He will be available on Tuesday (January 27) and Wednesday (January 28). Lab tours should be reserved for 30 minutes (2 blocks of time) Meetings should be reserved for 30 minutes (2 blocks of time) Lab tours AND meeting combinations should be reserved for 45 minutes (3 blocks of time). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iIwcTNvqbAjqSbJ4nJs0nkoa4HR6B58GMUX… We encourage you to provide him with an opportunity to see what the Harvard Physics Department is all about. Thanks. Karl Karl Coleman HQOC Laboratory Administrator Faculty Assistant to Profs. Greiner and Lukin 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] ITAMP lunch seminar - David F. Phillips (Walsworth group), CFA (Friday 01/23)

by Richard Schmidt

Dear colleagues, this week we are happy to have David Phillips from the Walsworth group introducing us to their latest work using the astro-comb. Kind regards, Richard and Swati ITAMP Topical Lunch Discussion Date: Friday, January 23d 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: David F. Phillips (Walsworth group), CFA Title: Towards detecting terrestrial exoplanets via sub-m/s radial velocity measurements of the Sun using the astro-comb Abstract: We have recently demonstrated sub-m/s sensitivity in the radial velocity between the Earth and Sun using a simple, home-built solar telescope feeding the HARPS-N spectrograph calibrated with the astro-comb. We plan in the coming year to use the astro-comb calibrated spectrograph and solar telescope to detect the solar radial velocity signal from Venus and demonstrate sensitivity of these instruments to detect terrestrial exoplanets. In this talk I will present the astro-comb, results from the astro-comb calibrating the HARPS-N exoplanet searcher spectrograph, solar radial velocity stability and plans for observing the signature of Venus. --------------------------- Dr. Richard Schmidt Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (ITAMP) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics MS-14 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA 02138 U.S.A. richard.schmidt(a)cfa.harvard.edu Tel. +1 (617) 496-7610 Fax +1 (617) 496-7668

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] Group Meeting 1/22, Div. Room, 2:30pm

by Jennifer Wei

Hi Everyone, Tomorrow we have Jarrod giving group meeting. See below for the title and abstract of his talk. See you there, Jennifer ---------------------- Title: How to solve problems by changing the question Abstract: In this talk I will cover some topics of general interest to myself with a common theme related to understanding the difficulty of a problem as related to how one poses their question. I will discuss some commonly known problems related to simple integration of functions as well as consequences for eigenvalue problems in high dimensions and precision on both classical and quantum computers. This naturally leads to a discussion of the Van Vleck catastrophe, adiabatic quantum computation, and the meaningfulness of the wavefunction in systems with many particles. I then generalize the concern of the relevance of an N-particle wavefunction to all models and introduce the idea of sloppy parameters. Example applications and explanations of relevance will be given in domains including molecular dynamics, spectroscopy, and beyond. _______________________________________________ Aspuru-meetings-list mailing list Aspuru-meetings-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/aspuru-meetings-list

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: HUCE Summer research opportunities for students

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, If you would like to host undergraduates under this program (CEP, Flow batteries, etc) please send me project abstracts to review Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Clem, James* <james_clem(a)harvard.edu> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 Subject: HUCE Summer research opportunities for students To: Cc: "Clem, James" <james_clem(a)harvard.edu>, "Nault, Kellie" < knault(a)fas.harvard.edu>, "Simms, Eric" <esimms(a)fas.harvard.edu> Dear HUCE Faculty Associates: This is the time of year when we begin planning for our summer research grant program for undergraduates. The Center’s Undergraduate Summer Research Fund <http://environment.harvard.edu/student-resources/undergraduate-summer-resea…> offers undergraduates funding to work individually, under faculty supervision, on research projects (often in preparation for a thesis) or as research assistants on projects with Harvard faculty. *For the RA positions, we need to compile a list of RA opportunities for the students to apply to*. We are thus asking you to consider providing a short paragraph describing a potential summer research project – *relating to an important environmental challenge* – that would benefit from student research support while providing an interesting research experience. These positions are generally in the range of six to ten weeks in duration. Students will find these opportunities on our website and the website of the Office of Career Services. They will apply with a brief essay, a transcript, information on their summer expenses and financial aid needs, and a short letter of support from the sponsoring faculty member. We aim to have decisions on the summer grants by mid-April. We will start advertising our summer grant programs in early February, after students have returned to campus, so please send in your RA position ideas as soon as possible. This message will reply to our Educational Programs Manager, Eric Simms<esimms(a)fas.harvard.edu <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','esimms(a)fas.harvard.edu');>>, who will collect these job descriptions and post them, after an internal review, as they come in. Please feel free to send questions to me. Best, Jim James Clem, Ph.D. Managing Director Harvard University Center for the Environment t: 617-496-5458 f: 617-496-0425 clem(a)fas.harvard.edu <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clem(a)fas.harvard.edu');> -- 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] [IACS-events] Special CS Colloquium Wednesday 1/21 at 4pm - Cynthia Dwork (Microsoft)

by Baker, Natasha

Cynthia Dwork of Microsoft Research will give a talk entitled "Privacy in the Land of Plenty" Wednesday, January 21, 2015 4:00 p.m. Maxwell Dworkin G125 Light refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in the Maxwell Dworkin ground floor lobby ------------------------------------------------------------ "Privacy in the Land of Plenty" Abstract: Privacy-preserving data analysis has a large literature that spans several disciplines. Many early attempts have proved problematic either in practice or on paper. A new approach, "differential privacy" -- a notion tailored to situations in which data are plentiful -- has provided a theoretically sound and powerful framework, and given rise to an explosion of research. We will review the definition of differential privacy, describe some algorithmic contributions, and conclude with a surprising application. Bio: Cynthia Dwork, Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research, is renowned for placing privacy-preserving data analysis on a mathematically rigorous foundation. A cornerstone of this work is differential privacy, a strong privacy guarantee frequently permitting highly accurate data analysis. Dr. Dwork has also made seminal contributions in cryptography and distributed computing, and is a recipient of the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize, recognizing some of her earliest work establishing the pillars on which every fault-tolerant system has been built for decades. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Host: Salil Vadhan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meg Hastings | Area Director Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 133 Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 P: 617-496-7358<tel:617-496-7358> _______________________________________________ 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] EFRC all-hands meeting tomorrow.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, Could you please send me an email if you are attending the all-hands meeting tomorrow? 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Team Aspuru-Guzik - Annual CCB 5K race, 2015

by Jarrod McClean

Hi All, As discussed at group meeting today, the annual department 5K is coming up (March 15), and many of us (including Alan!) are interested in running. Everyone is welcome (including PI's and lab admins!) and after the race there is actually free beer at many near-by places and a chance to hang out! It's a lot of fun! If you are interested in running (or walking, but it's warmer to run...), sign up ASAP (see the email below), and email me to say that you've registered so we can make a full list of participants from the lab. ~Jarrod -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [G5] FW: Annual CCB 5K race, 2015 Date: 01/13/2015 12:42 PM From: Schwickrath, Helen <schwickrath(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> To: Schwickrath, Helen <schwickrath(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Dearest CCB, The Ras na hEireann U.S.A 5K is an annual race held (this year) on *Sunday March 15th* in Davis Sq., Somerville. Undoubtedly, some of you are familiar with this race as running it has been a department tradition in the past. This race is a great opportunity to run for both your own well-being and your lab spirit. In the interest of keeping up this tradition the GPC wishes to encourage everyone, at all levels of athletic ability, to participate. Participation will involve each lab nominating a team captainto organize the individuals that will be running (and liaise with their PI and lab admin(s) should they be interested in running). I would like for the captains (read: one person in each lab) to email me [jjanetzko(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:jjanetzko@fas.harvard.edu>] with a list of those that have *registered* [any time prior to when the scoring will be done – aka the morning of the race]. Obviously providing me with a list of your runners prior to the race would be best. Each lab should aim to have at least *five* runners /complete/ the race, though more runners are of course encouraged. Only the rankings of the top five runners in each lab will count towards a lab’s score – that being said, you can still bump other peoples rankings (hence the advantage of more runners). The winning lab will receive a totally new and awesome trophy, as well as bragging rights, of course. In addition, we’ll have three more prizes: one for fastest male, one for fastest female and one for the lab with the greatest participation. The registration is $36.00 and includes an event shirt and finishers medal as well as access to a happening after party. The link to the event is here: http://baevents.com/rasnaheireann/ Please register ASAP since *this event frequently fills up prior to race day* – yes, that’s right, there will be ~5,000 people running! Hope to see you at the start line! —GPC

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