aspuru-list April 2015

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: New England Machine Learning Day 2015

by McClean, Jarrod

Begin forwarded message: From: Adam Kalai <Adam.Kalai(a)microsoft.com<mailto:Adam.Kalai@microsoft.com>> Date: April 4, 2015 at 11:37:25 AM EDT To: Adam Kalai <Adam.Kalai(a)microsoft.com<mailto:Adam.Kalai@microsoft.com>> Subject: New England Machine Learning Day 2015 The fourth New England Machine Learning Day<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__research.microsoft.com_…> (NEML) will be May 18th, 2015, 10am-5pm (breakfast/registration opens at 9am), at 1 Memorial Dr. (floor 1) in Kendall Square. Like previous years, it will bring together local researchers in machine learning and related fields, as well as those who use ML in applications. There will be a lively poster session during lunch. Deadline 4/27/15: To submit a poster, please email a title, list of authors and affiliations, and abstract of at most three paragraphs to MLday15(a)microsoft.com<mailto:MLday15@microsoft.com>. Please also encourage students to attend and submit posters. To plan for food and seating, if you expect to attend, please register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__research.microsoft.com_…>. If registration exceeds capacity, priority will be given to students, faculty, and those who have registered earliest. Invited speakers: Tamara Broderick (MIT) Jennifer Dy (Northeastern) Krzysztof Gajos (Harvard) David Jensen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Tim Kraska (Brown) Jennifer Listgarten (Microsoft Research) Ankur Moitra (MIT) Suvrit Sra (MIT) For more information/updates, see the website: http://research.microsoft.com/events/neml2015/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__research.microsoft.com_…> Please help us publicize the event by forwarding to appropriate mailing lists. Hope to see you there, Carla Brodley (Northeastern) Finale Doshi-Velez (Harvard) Stefanie Jegelka (MIT) Adam Tauman Kalai (Microsoft Research) The steering committee that selects the organizers of NEML each year consists of Ryan P. Adams, Sham Kakade, Adam Kalai, and Josh Tenenbaum. Hospitality Notice for University and Government Employees: Microsoft Research is providing hospitality at this event. Please consult with your institution to determine whether you can accept meals and other hospitality under your institution’s ethics rules and any other laws that might apply. By accepting our invitation, you confirm that this invitation is compliant with your institution’s policies.

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] FW: ISN ANTS Presentation - Dr. Eckart Rühl - 08 April 2015 - 2-3pm

by Catherine M Bourgeois

From: Franklin E.W Hadley [mailto:fhadley@mit.edu] Sent: Friday, April 3, 2015 9:53 AM Cc: Franklin E.W Hadley Subject: ISN ANTS Presentation - Dr. Eckart Rühl - 08 April 2015 - 2-3pm Good day, everyone! Next Wednesday, April 8, from 2-3pm, ISN will be pleased to host a visit by Dr. Eckart Rühl, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Freie Universität Berlin, who will present a seminar entitled “A Close-up View on Nanoparticles in Biological Matter and Dermal Drug Delivery.” An abstract for this talk is attached. For those able to make it to the MIT campus, we would love for you to join us in person in the ISN Seminar Room (500 Technology Square, Room 189, Cambridge, MA; NE47-189 by MIT’s addressing system). For those unable to join us in person, we will be sharing the talk live on Adobe’s Connect Pro platform, for which connection information is provided in the attachment. See you next week! ___________________________________ Franklin E.W. Hadley Director of Outreach and Communications Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Printer managers at new offices.

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, I will assign new printer managers for the new office distribution. If you want to volunteer to be the printer-master for the Excitonics, Quantum Computing and Cloud Forest printers, let us know. I will need 3 people. You will need to learn the tricks of the trade from Joey, who I will relieve from his job once the group is moved. 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] For the high throughout people in the group

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

aka flow battery, cep, samsung folks https://www.dropbox.com/s/x2nbjq3s1jh1ks8/c4cp04338c.pdf?dl=0 -- 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] [qip] Friday the 3rd

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will meet tomorrow at 11:00 in 6-310 and Aram will tell us some stuff. 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] Fwd: [CCB_Faculty_Staff] Grantseeking 101: A Beginner’s Guide to External Funding for Postdocs

by Marlon Cummings

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: Lavin, Joe <lavin(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:42 AM Subject: [CCB_Faculty_Staff] Grantseeking 101: A Beginner’s Guide to External Funding for Postdocs To: #List-CCB-Faculty_Staff <faculty_staff(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> Dear CCB Lab Administrators, I want to draw your attention to this event for postdocs about funding opportunities. This announcement will go out to the postdoc list, but you may also want to remind postdocs in your lab about this event. Best, Joe *Grantseeking 101: A Beginner’s Guide to External Funding for Postdocs * FAS Research Development, in collaboration with the Office for Postdoctoral Affairs, is pleased to offer a workshop on grantseeking for postdoctoral scholars. Participants will learn the basics of identifying the best fit among federal and private funders for their research, with a particular focus on the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. We will also discuss strategies and tools for learning about new funding opportunities, and navigating the grant submission process at Harvard. Although this workshop was designed for postdoctoral scholars, graduate students and administrators may also find the information useful and are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be provided. Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 3:00pm to 4:30pm Location: Biolabs 1080, 16 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA Registration: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Grantseeking101_April2015 _______________________________________________ ccb_faculty_staff mailing list ccb_faculty_staff(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccb_faculty_staff

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ITAMP lunch seminar - Michael Kolodrubetz, Boston University (04/03)

by Richard Schmidt

Dear colleagues, this week we are happy to announce Michael Kolodrubetz from Boston University as the speaker at our weekly seminar. Kind regards, Richard and Swati ITAMP Topical Lunch Discussion Date: Friday, April 3rd 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: Michael Kolodrubetz, Boston University Title: Measuring geometry and topology of superconducting qubits Abstract: There is a strong connection between dynamics during slows ramps and the geometry of the ground state manifold. I will explain this connection and show how it can be used to measure quantum geometry in a wide class of systems, including an experimental example of superconducting qubits. By integrating the geometry over a closed parameter manifold, I will show how one can obtain topological invariants know as Chern numbers in these simple systems. I will comment on the generalization of these ideas to more complicated cases such as interacting many- body systems and situations with non-Abelian connections, all of which should be readily measurable in future experiments. work in collaboration with: Anatoli Polkovnikov – Boston University Michael Schroer, Will Kindel, Konrad Lehnert – University of Colorado Boulder Pedram Roushan, Yu Chen, Charles Neill, John Martinis – University of California at Santa Barbara --------------------------- 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, 4/2, 2:30pm, Div Room

by Jennifer Wei

Hi everyone, Tomorrow Gian will be giving us group meeting. Please see below for the title and abstract of his talk. Jennifer ------------------------- "Quantum interferometry and losses: Can frequency modulation help?" No definitive answer will be given in this talk, but I will provide an introduction to some recent work done together with Felipe Herrera. I will summarize a few important results in the field of quantum interferometry (What is it meant with "interferometry"? Does quantum mechanics help? What about photon losses?) and show that the chiral characterization of a sample can be rephrased as an interferometric task. I will present the effect of frequency modulation on a light probe and show that it can improve the robustness to losses for a "classical" protocol involving a one-mode homodyne detection scheme. Preliminary results for the "quantum" version of the protocol do not indicate a significant quantum improvement, but more concrete conclusions require a few additional steps that I will briefly outline. _______________________________________________ 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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