aspuru-list May 2016

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Monday, May 23, 11:00am: "MITx and Harvardx On Campus and Online"

by Ploucha, Clare Dolores

Hello, Below find the announcement of a talk which may be of interest. Please note that the location of this talk is on the Harvard campus. [cid:F9624F2E-F058-43DA-B7C5-9FF9D90D3C51] Monday, May 23 11:00 AM "MITx and Harvardx - On Campus and Online" Isaac Chuang, Professor of Physics, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Senior Associate Director of Digital Learning at MIT Sponsor: RCC Study Group: The Challenge to Design a Technological Agora, Digital Learning at MIT RCC Main Conference Room 26 Trowbridge Street Cambridge, MA -- 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: Accommodations Request - May 31 - June 3

by Marlon Cummings

Guys: We have a visitor coming next week and unfortunately he waited until today to ask for accommodations. As you know, Harvard Alumni week starts soon and all the hotels are booked -- including Hostels. Does anyone have a spare room to assist from 6/2-6/3 Unfortunately, I cannot compensate you, but will be a huge help. He's a Quantum visitor and Tere is his host for the week. Ideas/suggestions. thanks, Marlon. ---------- *Marlon G. CummingsLab Manager, Aspuru-Guzik GroupMallinckrodt M136Department of Chemistry and Chemical BiologyHarvard University12 Oxford StreetCambridge, MA 02138617-496-9964617-496-9411 (fax)http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/ <http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/>*

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: BASF Research Forum 2016

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Christopher D Hewitt* <christopher.hewitt(a)basf.com> Date: Thursday, May 19, 2016 Subject: BASF Research Forum 2016 To: "alan(a)aspuru.com" <alan(a)aspuru.com> Cc: Christopher D Hewitt <christopher.hewitt(a)basf.com>, Marc Schroeder < marc.schroeder(a)basf.com>, Kim M Lenahan <kim.lenahan(a)basf.com> Dear Professor Aspuru-Guzik: BASF Corporation, USA, will be holding a two-day forum for scientists who are completing their PhD or in the first year of their Postdoctoral research in the US, Mexico or Canada. The following disciplines will be represented: - Chemistry - Industrial Biotechnology - Plant Biotechnology - Chemical Engineering - Materials Science - Computer modeling The forum offers the opportunity to find out more about BASF’s research activities and the transition from academia. Participants will have the opportunity to talk to scientists from our main research facilities and will meet representatives from research and business management. We will also present and discuss the diverse employment and career opportunities within the BASF Group with our guests as well as engage in a number of fun group activities. In order to support networking between the participants and BASF experts, we will host a poster session with posters from all guests. *The BASF Research Forum 2016 will take place in Southfield, Michigan, from August 31-September 2, 2016.* BASF’s Southfield site is located on over 17 acres with four buildings totaling 376,000 square feet. It’s the North American headquarters of our Automotive Coatings business and the shared headquarters of our resins and performance additives for coatings, printing and packaging business. Other business units located in Southfield include automotive catalysts and our Plastics and Coatings Excellence laboratory. Just under 700 people are employed at the BASF Southfield site. The participants will be guests of BASF during the forum. BASF will cover the expenses incurred for travel, board and lodging. If you are interested having a member of your group participate in the Research Forum, please respond to this email with their name and ask them to send their application documents (attached application form, cover letter with an explanation of why they wish to attend, and resume or CV) to kim.lenahan(a)basf.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ikim.lenahan(a)basf.com');> not later than *June 17, 2016*. Since we anticipate more applications than available places, participants will be selected based on professional qualification, relevance to BASF's research topics and diversity of the group. Kind regards, *Dr. Chris Hewitt, F.R.S.C.* Science Relations Manager, North America Phone: +1 734 324-6149, Mobile: +1 724 931-9069, Fax: +1 289 360-6001, Email: christopher.hewitt(a)basf.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','christopher.hewitt(a)basf.com');> Postal Address: BASF Corporation, 1609 Biddle Avenue, 48192 Wyandotte, United States *Marc Schroeder* Head of North American Center for Research on Advanced Materials Phone: +1 617 496-3862 Mobile: +1-734-819-6305 E-Mail: marc.schroeder(a)basf.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','marc.schroeder(a)basf.com');> Postal Address: BASF Corporation, Harvard University, Pierce Hall 113, 29 Oxford St, 02138 MA, USA [image: We create chemistry!] -- 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] Group meeting, May 19, 2:30 PM, Div Room

by Ian Kivlichan

Hi all, Tomorrow Rafa will give group meeting. The title and abstract are below. Next week there will be no group meeting because of convocation. When we come back on June 2nd, we'll start off our "Great / Crazy Ideas" series with Borja and Steven. The full first round of talks is in the schedule <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LioqdopHr5ZAmn0GaCQwLUTYoU4ZJuvfrMY…> now, and the code I used to generate it is here after Rafa's abstract. If anyone has a conflict with their assigned time we'll skip that week and push the whole thing back. Finally, starting on June 9th group meeting will start at 3:30 rather than 2:30. Best, Ian ----------------- Speaker: Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli Title: Deep learning chemical space Abstract: Virtual screening is increasingly proven as a tool to test new molecules for a given application. Through simulation we can gauge whether a molecule will be a promising candidate in an automatic and robust way. A large remaining challenge, however, is how to perform optimizations over a discrete space of size at least 10^60. Despite the size of chemical space, or perhaps precisely because of it, coming up with novel, stable, makeable molecules is not trivial. First-principles approaches to generating new molecules fail to capture the intuition embedded in the approx 100 million existing molecules. Tomorrow I will report our progress towards developing an autoencoder that allows us to project molecular space into a continuous, differentiable representation. David Duvenaud (now at the Adams group at SEAS and very soon at University of Toronto) has contributed loads to this work and will be joining us tomorrow for the talk. It'll be a great opportunity to bring up everything you always wanted to know about deep learning but were afraid to ask. ----------------- import random people = ["Doran", "David G", "Rafa", "James", "Christoph", "Steven", "Salvatore", "Borja", "Jorge", "Dmitrij", "Semion", "Dmitry", "Sam", "Joey", "Adrian", "Ian", "Thomas", "Jonathan", "Ben", "Jacob", "Nico", "Teresa", "Stephanie", "Jennifer"] random.seed(42) random.shuffle(people) for i in xrange(len(people) / 2): print "%s, %s" % (people[2 * i], people[2 * i + 1])

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] ITAMP lunch seminar - Ling-Na Wu & Shen Dong (05/19)

by Stefan Pabst

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Dr. Libor Veis visiting from Academy of Science of Czech Republic

by Teresa Tamayo

Hello everybody, Dr. Libor Veis, a post-doc at the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, will be visiting Harvard on from May 31st to June 2nd. He has experience in Quantum Algorithms on Chemistry, Quantum Information, and Electronic Structure Methods. He will give a talk on *June 1st at 11:00 a.m.* If you are interested in meeting with him or have lunch on *Tuesday, May 31st*. Please let me know. Best, Tere

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [qip] Thesis defense invitation: Wednesday, May 18, 10:30am, 32-D463 (Star)

by Henry Yuen

Hi quanta, I'll be defending my thesis this coming Wednesday, May 18 at 10:30am. Details are below. Everyone is invited to attend! Best, Henry Title: Games, Protocols, and Quantum Entanglement Committee: Dana Moshkovitz (thesis advisor, chair), Scott Aaronson, and Aram Harrow. Time: May 18, 10:30am Location: 32-D463 (Star room in Stata) Abstract: Quantum entanglement once was a philosophical peculiarity, just another bizarre feature of quantum mechanics, alongside wave/particle duality, the uncertainty principle, and cats simultaneously dead and alive. However, the last twenty years of quantum information theory and quantum computation have established entanglement as central to the story that connects quantum physics, information theory, and computer science. Now, entanglement is viewed as a powerful resource that allows us to perform computational, cryptographic, and communication tasks that cannot be accomplished classically. However, entanglement can sometimes be wielded by adversaries to break the security of a cryptographic protocol, or the soundness of a proof system. My thesis focuses on techniques and methods for characterizing and constraining adversarial entanglement in games and protocols. Specifically, I will discuss entangled adversaries in three different contexts: (1) infinite randomness expansion protocols, (2) the parallel repetition of games, and (3) one-time authentication of quantum data. In each of these settings, I will show that the adversary's ability to use entanglement to disrupt the desired functionality of the game or protocol is limited. _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] new baby, new group member

by Adrian Jinich

Dear AAG Group, I'd like to announce the arrival of a new group member. Her name is Clara Kumi, and she and her mom are healthy and happy (and her mom and I are profoundly happy and extremely sleepless!). Here is a picture of her yawning: [image: Inline image 1] She has already expressed interest in quantum chemistry research, in particular doing QMMM simulations of breast milk and oxytocin, and machine learning optimal feeding/burping/sleeping/diaper-changing schedules. with affection, Adrian -- Adrian Jinich Aspuru-Guzik Lab Harvard University 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 ajinich(a)fas.harvard.edu http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/adrian-jinich/

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [qip] Friday at the 13th

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will meet on Friday the 13th at 11:00. We will hear from Lijie Chen. 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] Group meeting, May 12, 2:30 PM, Div Room

by Ian Kivlichan

Hi all, Tomorrow at 2:30 Dmitry will talk at group meeting. Title and abstract below. Best, Ian ----------------------- Speaker: Dmitry Zubarev Title: Enantio-enrichment in Prebiotic Amino Acid Synthesis Abstract: The origin of biological homochirality is still a mystery. The earliest reactions that create stereogenic bonds in prebiotically relevant reaction networks are good suspects for chiral induction. I will talk about an ongoing experimental and theoretical investigation of chiral induction in the hydrolysis of aminonitrile precursors to proteinogenic amino acids catalyzed by chiral ketones, aka Strecker reaction. The role of theory in this effort is to reveal mechanistic underpinnings of prebiological enantioselective organocatalysis. Computational analysis is also used to motivate experiments via prediction of substrate/catalyst combinations with high propensity to enantioenrichment.

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