aspuru-list January 2017

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Boston Area Excitonics Seminar: Feb. 9, 6pm

by Doran Bennett

Dear Excitonics Community of Boston, The first Boston Area Excitonics seminar will be on February 9th, 2017 at 12 Oxford street, Division Room. Food will be served at 6 pm, the talk will begin at 6:15 pm. Our speaker, Prof. Will Tisdale, will be presenting on “Excitoncs, Disorder, and Nonequilibrium Transport in Semiconductor Nanomaterials.” Please see attached flyer for the abstract. If you plan to attend, please register here <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GSYFF75.> so that we have an accurate head count for the food. Please feel free to forward this e-mail to anyone else who might be interested and post the flyer in common areas. We look forward to seeing you at the seminar! Doran and Christoph *Doran I. G. Bennett* Harvard University, Department of Chemistry CIFAR Postdoctoral Fellow Bio-inspired Light Harvesting Program

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: Harvard SEAS REU Recommendation

by Siria Serrano

Group, We do not know who the student making the request is, so we cannot submit a letter. If you or a student your mentor needs this letter please swing by or email me their name. Cheers, Siria ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Embark Team <noreply(a)embark.com> Date: Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 2:57 PM Subject: Harvard SEAS REU Recommendation To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <aspuru.staff(a)gmail.com> Hello, You are receiving this email because a student asked you to upload a letter of recommendation for the 2017 Joint Application for Summer Internship Programs administered by the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. This is a friendly reminder to please try to upload this by Wednesday, February 15, 2017. If you have any issues, please email us at reu(a)seas.harvard.edu. Thank you, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences reu(a)seas.harvard.edu -- *Siria Serrano* *Faculty Assistant* *Aspuru-Guzik Group* *Harvard University **Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology* *12 Oxford St. M 136* *Cambridge, MA 02138* *P:** (617) 496-1716 <%28617%29%20496-1716>** F: **617-496-9411 <617-496-9411>*

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] ML meetup today 11am (Dennis Shebelra)

by Benjamin Sanchez Lengeling

Hi group, Today we will have the first Machine Learning subgroup meetup of the year, at Acapulcoplex conference room 11am, lead by Dennis Shebelra. Should be good! Hope all is well, Ben

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Group meeting, Thu Jan 26, 3:30 PM, Div Room

by Ian Kivlichan

Hi all, Tomorrow Jhonathan will talk about hybrid quantum-classical variational algorithms for chemistry. See below for the title and abstract. Also, if you have a conflict with one of the possible new group meeting times and haven't replied, please do! See you there, Ian ----------------- Title: Perspectives on hybrid quantum-classical variational algorithms for chemistry Abstract: Quantum computers have arrived and are here to stay. The technological race between the experimental groups in companies and universities will soon deliver the first medium size non-error corrected quantum computers. These machines are projected to be able to run a few thousands gates in about 50 qubits, just about the size of the biggest molecular systems that can be acurretely studied using full configuration interaction (FCI) or density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) approches. Among all the quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry, hybrid quantum-classical methods, such as the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), are in a better position to take advantage of the new quantum devices due to their lower requirement in coherence time and relative robustness to noise. In this talk, I will briefly review the VQE algorithm and its implementation using a unitary coupled cluster (UCC) ansatz. I will discuss the method from the perspective of the static vs dynamic correlation paradigm, commonly used to guide the design of multireference approaches in quantum chemistry. I will describe how the same concepts can be used to generate new hybrid quantum-classical schemes that can be implemented on medium-sized quantum computers. I will illustrate the methodology with two examples: 1) generalization of UCC to entangled reference states and 2) UCC with orbital optimization.

7 years, 3 months

Re: [Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Shifting group meeting time

by Ian Kivlichan

Hi all, Thank you all for the quick replies! Unfortunately both those options seem to give a conflict for somebody - how is Wednesdays 4:00-5:00? Thanks and best, Ian On Mon, Jan 23, 2017, 14:17 Ian Kivlichan <ian.kivlichan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > We're looking at shifting the group meeting time slot for this semester. > The two options are > > 1. Wednesdays 3:30-4:30, or > 2. Thursdays 1:30-2:30. > > Please let me know if you have a conflict with either of these times. > > I'll let you know which days change. Some invited speaker slots may have > to stay at the Thursday 3:30 slot (February 9th, 16th). > > All the best, > > Ian >

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Equipment Tracking

by Siria Serrano

Everyone, We're looking to do some equipment/inventory tracking and Facilities says someone in the group used to help Marlon with that. Please swing by Felix and I's office or email us if you have any information on this, or were the person who helped with this previously. Cheers, Siria -- *Siria Serrano* *Faculty Assistant* *Aspuru-Guzik Group* *Harvard University **Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology* *12 Oxford St. M 136* *Cambridge, MA 02138* *P:** (617) 496-1716 <%28617%29%20496-1716>** F: **617-496-9411 <617-496-9411>*

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: FW: discussions with Craig Mundie

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Vadhan, Salil P. <salil(a)seas.harvard.edu> Date: Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 5:13 PM Subject: FW: discussions with Craig Mundie To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik (alan(a)aspuru.com) <alan(a)aspuru.com>, Valiant, Leslie G. <valiant(a)seas.harvard.edu> Hi Alan, Thought the wed 4pm discussion on quantum computing with Mundie might be of interest to you or your students. - Salil -----Original Message----- From: Schrag, Daniel P. Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 4:17 PM To: Michael Mitzenmacher; Cynthia Dwork; Barbara Grosz; Doshi-Velez, Finale; Shieber, Stuart M.; Singer, Yaron; Li, Na; Parkes, David; Chen, Yiling; Chong, Stephen; James Mickens; Vadhan, Salil P.; Harry Lewis; Scott Kuindersma; Zittrain, Jonathan L.; Krzysztof Gajos Cc: Seltzer, Margo I.; Waldo, James H.; Sulmeyer, Michael L; Eaves, David; schneier(a)schneier.com; Bjelde, Katherine Subject: discussions with Craig Mundie CS Colleagues - As some of you know, I direct the Science, Technology and Public Policy program over at the Kennedy School. As part of that effort, I have worked to build a digital technology policy group - and Jim Waldo is a big part of that team, along with Bruce Schneier, David Eaves, and Michael Sulmeyer. They have nice space over in 1 Brattle Street on the 4th floor - what we have been calling “DigitalHKS”. Next week, my PCAST colleague, Craig Mundie, will be visiting the digital technology policy group at HKS. Many of you probably know Craig as the former CTO of Microsoft. It is not the most convenient time, with the start of classes, but it is the only time that fit in his schedule. He is coming to have a series of conversations about various ideas he has. I think he feels a bit isolated since his retirement from Microsoft and is looking for engagement and interaction. On Monday at noon (over lunch) at 1 Brattle, Bruce Schneier will host a discussion with Craig about his ideas on artificial general intelligence. On Tuesday at 2:30 at 1 Brattle, Michael Sulmeyer will host a discussion with Craig on rebooting the global financial computer system after a disruption. On Wednesday at 4 PM, Jim Waldo will host a conversation (This one will be in Maxwell Dworkin) on quantum computing. And then Thursday at noon (over lunch) at 1 Brattle, David Eaves will host a discussion with Craig about cybersecurity versus privacy tradeoffs and the concept of “virtual sovereignty”. The idea for each of these sessions is to get a relatively small number of people (maybe 12 people tops) into a conversation, with Craig leading off with some opening remarks about his ideas, and then a general discussion following. You are welcome to participate, and I would appreciate it if you could RSVP as spaces are limited (and also we need to order lunch). The only one that is more open is the Wednesday 4 PM session over in Maxwell Dworkin - so please feel free to invite others (including students) to that one if they are interested. If there are other people you think would be interested in the smaller sessions, please let me know and we will try to make room. Please RSVP to Kate Bjelde at: Katherine_Bjelde(a)hks.harvard.edu Please make sure you tell her which of the conversations you plan on attending. And Craig is also available for individual or small group meetings. If you would like to arrange that, just let me know and we will work on it. Thanks - i hope this will be interesting. best, Dan Schrag -- Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University | 12 Oxford Street, Room M138 | Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu | http://about.me/aspuru

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Possibly shifting group meeting time

by Ian Kivlichan

Hi all, We're looking at shifting the group meeting time for this semester. The two options are 1. Wednesdays 3:30-4:30, or 2. Thursdays 1:30-2:30. Please let me know if you have a conflict with either of these times. All the best, Ian

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Postdoc candidate visit on Monday 23th, seminar 11:00-12:00 Division room.

by Sheberla, Dennis

Hi all, We'll have a visit of postdoc candidate Loïc Roch on Monday Jan 23rd , he'll give a talk from 11:00 to 12:00 in Division room. You can find the abstract attached. The title of his talk is: "Implementation and performance of spin-component-scaled double-hybrid density functional theory". His dissertation title was: "Development of Cost-effective Single Reference Methods for an Accurate Description of Dynamic Correlation Energy" Please let me know if anyone want to go for lunch with him on Monday, or meet with him during the day (or other day, he will be in Cambridge from Saturday until Monday). Best, Dennis

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: Chem 267

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University | 12 Oxford Street, Room M138 | Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu | http://about.me/aspuru ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Friend, Cynthia <friend(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 5:02 PM Subject: Chem 267 To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> Dear Alan I am writing to ask you to let your students know about the graduate course on surfaces and interfaces being offered this spring, chemistry 267. The course is suitable for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. If your stdents are interested in interfaces, this course will be helpful. The website is https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/2198 <https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/21989> *(Harvard log in required)* Best Cynthia *Please excuse typos. I have a broken finger and am using voice recognition software.* Cynthia Friend T.W. Richards Prof. of Chemistry Prof. of Materials Science Director of Rowland Institute IMASC EFRC Director Harvard University Cambridge MA 02138 Phone: 617 495 4052 <(617)%20495-4052> friend(a)fas.harvard.edu http://efrc.harvard.edu http://faculty.chemistry.harvard.edu/friend-lab/home

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