aspuru-list February 2016

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [qip] various quantum opportunities

by Aram Harrow

Dear quanta, Whatever career stage you are, some of these should be relevant: 1. "It from qubit" summer school, at Perimeter 2. PhD and postdoc opportunities with Jérémie Roland in Brussels 3. Lecturer opening at University College London ---------------- 1. We would like to bring your attention to the “It from Qubit" Summer School taking place at Perimeter Institute from July 18-29, 2016. In recent years, compelling evidence has emerged that information theory provides a powerful way to structure our thinking about quantum gravity and quantum field theory. In turn, fundamental physics provides new classes of fascinating questions for quantum information theorists to address. In spite of these exciting developments, high energy physics and quantum information theory remain distinct disciplines and communities, separated by significant barriers to communication and collaboration. This school has been organized by the "It from Qubit" Simons Foundation Collaboration to promote communication and learning between the two research communities. In particular we strongly encourage applications from interested students and junior researchers whose background is limited to either of the two fields but who are interested in reaching across disciplinary boundaries. The school will include both lectures and hands-on tutorials. More information about the event may be found at the website: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/conferences/it-qubit-summer-school <http://link.perimeterinstitute.ca/c/306/1a36b5ce87401e5a6e67b683eefb3011c3e…> --------------------- 2. As part of a new project on quantum communication complexity and quantum cryptographic primitives (such as weak coin flipping), I am looking for one postdoctoral researcher (2-year grant) and one PhD student (1-year grant, with possibility of extension). The successful candidates will join the Centre for Quantum Information and Communication <http://quic.ulb.ac.be/> (QuIC, which also includes as permanent members Nicolas Cerf and Raúl García-Patrón Sánchez) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium). Interested applicants can send an email with their resume to jroland(a)ulb.ac.be and are encouraged to have at least 2 letters of recommendation sent to the same address. Don't hesitate to circulate this announcement among your students and colleagues. Thanks! -- Jérémie Roland ULB QuIC Ecole Polytechnique de Bruxelles Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50 - CP165/59 B-1050 Brussels, Belgium ------------ 3. We have an open position at University College London, details here: http://tinyurl.com/hrv5z5e The Department of Computer Science has a growing research group in the area of quantum information and computation:http://quantum.cs.ucl.ac.uk/ See also http://www.uclq.org/ for a larger list of quantum information researchers at UCL. _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

8 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Michael Mavros visit March 11–Need volunteers

by Steven A. Lopez

Dear Group, I will host the latest CEP postdoc candidate, Michael Mavros on March 11. He is finishing his PhD in the Van Voorhis group at MIT. His schedule is wide open at this point, and I will need volunteers to meet with him. This is of obvious interest to the materials people, but I'd like to include excitonics and quantum computing people, so he can get a feel for the group. Thanks all, Steven PS. *Origins of life* subgroup *you know who you are* should sign up for a time slot too. :) -- Steven A. Lopez, PhD Postdoctoral researcher, Aspuru-Guzik group Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Harvard University

8 years, 2 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Congratulations to Marlon!!

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, Marlon is the recipient of this year's Deans' Distinction Award. This award is given to the exceptional staff at the University. Join me in congratulating him for this well deserved honor. Alan PS. The department and the Dean will announce this later next week to the wide community as the people that did not get the prize are still to be notified. Please hold this news to the group until then. After that we will announce it in our website, etc. 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

8 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] For true chemists! :-)

by Salvatore Mandrà

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8 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] February 24, 2016 - ITAMP/HQOC Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar: Martin Zwierlein

by Ploucha, Clare Dolores

HQOC/ITAMP Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar Wednesday, February 24, 2016 4:00 PM, Jefferson 250 Prof. Martin Zwierlein "Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases of Atoms and Molecules" The physics of strongly interacting Fermi gases, from neutron stars and complex materials down to atomic nuclei, is often not even qualitatively understood. Ultracold Fermi gases of atoms and molecules can realize systems with strong interactions in a pristine environment, opening up a microscopic view at the scale of one interparticle spacing, and the observation of dynamic processes in real time. I will discuss three ways to induce strong interactions: In bulk Fermi gases, the use of Feshbach resonances enables the formation of fermionic superfluids with unitarity limited interactions. A novel type of box potential directly yields the equation of state of state of the homogeneous, unitary Fermi gas. Another way to induce strong interactions in Fermi gases is their confinement into optical lattices. I will describe our Fermi gas microscope, allowing for the observation of fermions at the single-atom, single-site resolved level. As a new direction I will present the creation of stable fermionic molecules at ultralow temperatures featuring strong dipole moments. We demonstrate quantum control of rotational and hyperfine states and Ramsey coherence times on the order of one second, spurring hopes for the molecules’ future use in quantum information applications and the realization of novel states of matter. Student Presentation from 4:00-4:10 PM Refreshments Served from 4:00-4:30 PM Guest Presentation from 4:30-6:00 PM -- Clare Ploucha Faculty Assistant to Professors Lukin & Greiner and their labs Department of Physics 17 Oxford St., Lyman 324A Cambridge, MA 02138 P. (617) 496-2544

8 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Great

by Afshan Mohajeri

Congratulations Marlon... Afshan

8 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Group Meeting, Feb 18, 2:30 PM, Div Room

by Ian Kivlichan

Hi all, Joey will give group meeting tomorrow in the Div Room at 2:30. Title and abstract to follow. Best, Ian

8 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [qip] Friday the 19th

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will meet on Friday the 19th at 11:00 in our usual spot. Iman is going to describe his recent work. See you, 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

8 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Exciton dynamics in organic solar cells

by Doran Bennett

Hi Folks, Just a heads up that David Blank is giving a talk at MIT today with the above title that might be relevant to people interested in either materials or excitonics. The talk is at 4:30 pm in 6-120. All the best, Doran

8 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Princeton's Prof Debenedetti visiting Feb 22

by Sawaya, Nicolas Per Dane

Hi Friends, Professor Debenedetti (http://pablonet.princeton.edu/pgd/html/liquids_glasses.html) will be visiting the department on Tuesday, February 22, as part of the Boston Theochem seminar series. I am looking for people to meet with him in small groups, and to attend lunch/dinner. He will be here only in the afternoon, so slots are much more limited than usual. Prof. Debenedetti studies a variety of topics in statistical mechanics. His website places his research into several categories: * water and aqueous solutions * supercooled liquids * glasses * theory of nucleation * statistical geometry Let me know if you'd like to meet with him! Cheers, Nicolas

8 years, 3 months

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