aspuru-list February 2015

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Please Help NERSC Find Postdoc Candidates

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Harvey Wasserman* <hjwasserman(a)lbl.gov> Date: Monday, February 23, 2015 Subject: Please Help NERSC Find Postdoc Candidates To: alan(a)aspuru.com Dear Alán, NERSC now has multiple openings for postdoctoral fellows and I'm writing to ask if you can please help us identify highly qualified candidates. The fellows will work at NERSC with DOE application scientists to prepare codes for the 30-petaflop/s Intel KNL-based Cori machine. This represents a unique opportunity for early career scientists to conduct high-impact breakthrough computational science research on a key future generation system. Fellows will port, analyze, tune, and run their applications on hardware simulators, early access systems, and the Cori system itself when it first arrives in 2016. Several of the projects require a knowledge of, and interest in, electronic structure methods, is why I'm writing to you. The job advertisement, list of available projects, and application procedure is on https://lbl.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=80066 Berkeley Lab postdoc positions are limited to individuals no more than five years past their Ph.D. We at NERSC believe that success of the Cori system is important for the HPC community as a whole. We thank you in advance for your help in recommending top candidates. Sincerely, Harvey Wasserman User Services Group National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory www.nersc.gov -- 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

9 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Farewell Taka

by Aspuru Lab Email

Dear friends, Please join us in wishing Taka farewell and best of luck on his return to Japan Taka, I will miss you. God speed my friend. Marlon G. Cummings

9 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Prof Peter Wolynes Visit

by Thomas Markovich

Hi All, Professor Peter Wolynes will be visiting Harvard next Tuesday, Feb 24th, as part of the Theochem lecture series. He does fascinating research into protein folding, glasses, and gene networks. We have lots of meeting slots to fill, so please let me know if you're interesting in a half hour or an hour meeting with him. We have spots available for lunch and dinner as well. Please let me know if you're interested. Best, Thomas

9 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Visit of postdoc candidate Doran Bennet - March 9th

by Rafa Gómez Bombarelli

Dear All, Post doctoral candidate Doran Bennett will be visiting us on March 9th. I am putting together his schedule for the day, and looking for people interested in meeting him for a chat. He will be presenting a talk entitled "*Light Harvesting in Plants: Energy Transfer and Capture in Photosystem II*" (abstract attached). Doran describes his interests as "If I were going to offer a few key words to describe my areas of interest they would be (in no particular order): dynamics of open quantum systems, excitation energy transfer, electronic structure calculations, molecular dynamics, light harvesting, non-linear spectroscopy, electron transfer reactions, and quantum computing. I make no claim to expertise in those areas, but they are the tools/problems that I have been interested in continuing to explore." That overlaps with pretty much everything we do in the group, so I hope this will be of interest to quite a few of us. All the best Rafa

9 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] REMINDER: IACS Seminar: "Quantopian: Free Software in Finance"------ TODAY, Friday 2/20 @1pm

by Baker, Natasha

Date: Friday, February 20, 2015 Location: Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Speakers: Ray Jones, IACS Lecturer Time: Lunch 12:30pm; talk 1:00pm Title: Quantopian: Free Software in Finance Abstract: Write code to invest money. Quantopian offers a free platform for you to develop, backtest, and execute trading strategies against the market. Our platform is based entirely in Python and we are currently getting ready to launch our newest tool, an in-browser iPython notebook with access to historical market data. We will go over how our platform can be used to develop a trading strategy and how you can run a hedge fund from your home. Presenters: Delaney Granizo-Mackenzie, Rich Frank and Andrew Campbell (Quantopian)<https://www.quantopian.com/> Free and open to the public. No registration required. *********************** UPCOMING SEMINARS 3/13 Alan Aspuru-Guzik<http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/> (Harvard University) 3/27 Jeff Bilmes<http://www.ee.washington.edu/faculty/bilmes/> (University of Washington) 4/10 Budhendra Bhaduri<http://web.ornl.gov/sci/gist/staff_bios/staff_bhaduri.shtml> (Oak Ridge National Laboratory<http://www.ornl.gov/>--- Geographic Information Science and Technology) 4/24 Christian Rudder<http://www.okcupid.com/about> (OkCupid) Click here<https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events> to subscribe to our events list. _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events

9 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Harvard ID Numbers

by Marlon Cummings

Dear Group: Starting on Monday, please stop by the office with your ID cards. We need your Harvard ID number to allow electronic door access to the new offices. MONDAY (not today or Friday). In addition, I've noticed the bins outside M104 are empty. Please start disposing of old papers, etc. We really want to be prepared to move with a week's notice, so lets start cleaning up. 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/

9 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Friday the 20th

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will meet tomorrow, Friday the 20th, at 11:00. Iman Marvian will give a brief presentation. See you there. Eddie Edward Farhi farhi(a)mit.edu _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

9 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group welcome.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, This is a long overdue email to welcome to the group *Ian Kivilchan*, a physics graduate student and *James Sungjin Kim* (a sabbatical researcher from Samsung). Ian will be joining our quantum effort and James will be joining our Flow Battery effort. Let's have them re-introduce themselves at the next group meeting. I am on travel and will be back by mid next-week. Cheers to all, 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

9 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ITAMP lunch seminar: Dr. Anja Metelmann (2/20)

by Singh, Swati

Dear colleagues, This week we are looking forward to a talk by Anja Metelmann, who is currently a post-doc in Aash Clerk's group at McGill University in Montreal, Canada- one of few places still colder than Boston. Kind regards, Richard and Swati *--------------* *ITAMP Topical Lunch Discussion* Date: Friday, Feb. 20th 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: *Dr. Anja Metelmann- McGill University *Title: *Non-reciprocal photon transmission and amplification via reservoir engineering *Abstract: *The general desire to break reciprocity in engineered photonic structures has garnered an immense amount of recent interest. For example non-reciprocal microwave-frequency devices are crucial to efforts at quantum-information processing with superconducting circuits. We discuss a general method for constructing non-reciprocal, cavity-based photonic devices, based on matching a given coherent interaction with its corresponding dissipative counterpart; it generalizes the basic structure used in the theory of cascaded quantum systems. In contrast to interference-based schemes, our approach allows directional behaviour over a wide bandwidth. We show how it can be used to devise isolators and directional, quantum-limited ampliﬁers; of particular interest is a directional phase-sensitive ampliﬁer which is not limited by any fundamental gain-bandwidth constraint. Our approach is particularly well-suited to implementations using superconducting microwave circuits. -- Dr. Swati Singh Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (ITAMP), Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, MS-14, Cambridge, MA 02138 https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ssingh/

9 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [Aspuru-meetings-list] Group Meeting, 2/19, 2:30pm, Div Room

by Jennifer Wei

Hi everyone, Tomorrow Joon will be giving us group meeting. Please see below for the title and abstract of his talk. Jennifer ------------------------------------------------------ Title: Boson Sampling for Molecular Vibronic Spectra Quantum computers are expected to be more e efficient in performing certain computations than any classical machine. Unfortunately, the technological challenges associated with building a full scale quantum computer have not yet allowed the experimental verification of such an expectation. Recently, boson sampling has emerged as a problem that is suspected to be intractable on any classical computer, but efficiently implementable with a linear quantum optical setup. Therefore, boson sampling may o er an experimentally realizable challenge to the Extended Church-Turing thesis and this remarkable possibility motivated much of the interest around boson sampling, at least in relation to complexity-theoretic questions. In this work, we show that the successful development of a boson sampling apparatus would not only answer such inquiries, but also yield a practical tool for difficult molecular computations. Specifically, we show that a boson sampling device with a modified input state can be used to generate molecular vibronic spectra. _______________________________________________ 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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