aspuru-list January 2017

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [qip] conference announcement: TQC 2017 Call for papers

by Aram Harrow

Dear colleague, The TQC conference is going into its 12th year and will be held in Paris, France during June 14th to 16th, 2017. Please consider the call for papers below and circulate among your colleagues and students. Best wishes, Mark M. Wilde (program committee chair) Damian Markham (local organizing committee chair) ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography ---- TQC 2017 ---- Paris Centre for Quantum Computing Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, France June 14-16, 2017 ======================================================================= This is the twelfth in a series of conferences that aims to bring together the leading researchers in the areas of quantum computation, quantum communication and quantum cryptography. TQC covers all theoretical aspects of quantum information. Areas of interest include, but are not restricted to: * quantum algorithms * models of quantum computation * quantum complexity theory * simulation of quantum systems * quantum cryptography * quantum communication * quantum information theory * quantum estimation and measurement * intersection of quantum information and condensed-matter theory * quantum coding theory * fault-tolerant quantum computing * entanglement theory Important dates: * Paper/Talk/Early-Poster submission deadline: March 10, 2017 * Decision notification: April 14, 2017 * Final manuscript deadline: April 28, 2017 * Late-Poster submission deadline: May 8, 2017 * Conference: June 14-16, 2017 Two tracks: Conference(talk + proceedings) and Workshop(talk only). As the goal of TQC is to bring together researchers on all aspects of quantum information, submissions are solicited for two tracks: * Conference(talk + proceedings): Submissions to this track must be original papers that have not previously appeared in published form. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the conference and will appear in the conference proceedings. The proceedings will be published by the OpenAccess LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics). * Workshop(talk only): We solicit submissions for talk-only papers; accepted submissions will be presented orally at the conference but will not appear in the proceedings. This track allows authors to publish their work elsewhere and accepts already published material. Programme committee: * Dominic Berry (Macquarie University) * Mario Berta (Caltech) * Sergey Bravyi (IBM) * Michael Bremner (Univ. Technology Sydney) * Roger Colbeck (Univ. York) * Nilanjana Datta (Univ. Cambridge) * David Elkouss (TU Delft) * Omar Fawzi (ENS de Lyon) * Markus Grassl (Max Planck Erlangen) * David Gross (Univ. Freiburg) * Rahul Jain (National Univ. Singapore) * Zhengfeng Ji (Univ. Technology Sydney) * Stephen Jordan (Univ. Maryland / NIST) * Shelby Kimmel (Univ. Maryland / NIST) * Vadym Kliuchnikov (Microsoft) * Francois Le Gall (Kyoto Univ.) * Troy Lee (National Univ. Singapore) * Yeong-Cherng Liang (National Cheng Kung Univ.) * Yi-Kai Liu (NIST / Univ. Maryland) * Hoi-Kwong Lo (Univ. Toronto) * Laura Mančinska (Univ. Bristol) * Prabha Mandayam (IIT Madras) * Tomoyuki Morimae (Gunma Univ.) * Tobias Osborne (Univ. Hannover) * Lidia del Rio (ETH Zuerich) * Neil J. Ross (Univ. Maryland / NIST) * Pradeep Sarvepalli (IIT Madras) * Valerio Scarani (National Univ. Singapore) * Ujjwal Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Inst.) * Yaoyun Shi (Univ. Michigan) * Barbara Terhal (RWTH Aachen Univ.) * Dave Touchette (Univ. Waterloo / Perimeter Inst.) * John Watrous (Univ. Waterloo) * James Whitfield (Dartmouth College) * Mark M. Wilde (Louisiana State Univ.) (PC Chair) * Man-Hong Yung (South Univ. Science & Tech. China) Local organizing committee (UPMC, Paris Centre for Quantum Computing): * Damian Markham - chair * Eleni Diamanti - co-chair * Elham Kashefi - co-chair * André Chailloux * Tom Douce * Frédéric Grosshans * Marc Kaplan * Iordanis Kerenidis * Anthony Leverrier * and the entire Quantum Information group at the UPMC Steering committee: * Anne Broadbent (U Ottawa) * Wim van Dam (UCSB) * Aram Harrow (MIT) * Yasuhito Kawano (NTT, Tokyo) * Michele Mosca (IQC, Waterloo and Perimeter Institute) * Martin Roetteler (Microsoft Research) * Simone Severini (UCL) * Vlatko Vedral (Oxford and CQT, Singapore) For further information, please see http://tqc2017.lip6.fr/ _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Group meeting delayed to 3.45

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear all, let's start group meeting at 3.45 end 4.45 Sorry I am tied up at a MIT-Harvard discussion across the street ! I will be there 3.45 to start group meeting ShARP at that time !!! Tell others in your office. Alan

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [Heads Up] Group Meeting Today May Start A Little Late

by Siria Serrano

Group, Alan might be tied until a little after 3:30 this afternoon requiring him to start Group Meeting late. If this happens, Alan or I will email the group with a new estimated start time. If you do not receive an email from either of us in the next few hours proceed to Group Meeting/Division Room as scheduled. 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] Group meeting, Thu Jan 19, 3:30 PM, Div Room

by Ian Kivlichan

Hi all, Hello from Seattle! Steven will give a practice job talk tomorrow at group meeting (title and abstract below). There's a faculty meeting before us that might run long so things could start a little late. Best, Ian ----------------- Title: Computational chemistry for real-world problems: From in vivo bio-imaging to organic photovoltaics Abstract: Sustainable chemical processes have generated broad intrigue across chemical, materials, and chemical biology communities. Simultaneously, computational power has dramatically increased to allow theoretical methods to emerge as an invaluable tool in organic and materials chemistry. With a focus on copper-free strain-promoted “click” reactions, I will describe how quantum mechanical calculations can be used to derive general rules for de novo design of mutually orthogonal bioorthogonal cycloadditions. Next, I will present an accurate multi-mode methodology to simulate charge-carrier mobilities of small-molecule organic semiconductors, such as oligothiophenes. My most recent results through the Harvard Clean Energy Project feature a combined quantum mechanical and machine learning approach to screen over 50,000 next-generation acceptor materials for organic photovoltaics applications.

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Board game night, tomorrow 6pm, Division Room

by Jennifer Wei

Hi everyone, A reminder that our board game meetup is tomorrow night at 6pm! Let's meet in the Division Room. Bring 1 or 2 board games to share if you like, and/or a friend that is interested in playing. Games I will bring are: - Codenames (similar to scattegories) - Dixit (picture based apples-to-apples) - Bang! - a deck of cards We will plan to order some take out at the board game night for dinner. See you all tomorrow! Jennifer

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] FW: Registration for All Hands Meeting - January 25

by Catherine M Bourgeois

Dear members: Today is the last day to register for the All Hands meeting. Best, Cathy From: Catherine M Bourgeois Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 10:43 AM To: excitonics-sp <excitonics-sp(a)mit.edu>; efrc-faculty <efrc-faculty(a)mit.edu> Subject: Registration for All Hands Meeting - January 25 Importance: High Hi all, Just another friendly reminder to register by no later than Tuesday, Jan 17, if you plan on attending. Also, if you are funded by the center that you are expected to attend and give a 5 min presentation on your work. See the details below. Kindly take a moment now to register. [CLICK HERE TO REGISTER]<https://goo.gl/forms/G2BWZrgrWrM3dhu22> Best, Cathy From: Catherine M Bourgeois Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 10:53 AM To: efrc-faculty <efrc-faculty(a)mit.edu<mailto:efrc-faculty@mit.edu>>; excitonics-sp <excitonics-sp(a)mit.edu<mailto:excitonics-sp@mit.edu>> Subject: Registration for All Hands Meeting - January 25 Dear members: I would like to invite everyone to the 2017 All-Hands Meeting on Wednesday January 25 at the MIT Endicott House in Dedham. Please use this gathering as an opportunity to meet and talk with your colleagues. Somewhere in the room there may well be a collaborator for your next big result. We'll be using the same guidelines as last year for the talks: Each student or postdoc that is funded by the center is expected to give a 5 minute presentation. It is important that these brief talks be comprehensible to our broad audience and to potential funders, so we are asking presenters to craft their talks with care. We're also asking all attendees to participate in scoring and providing helpful comments on each presentation. This can be useful guidance for more effective communication, an increasingly important career skill. "Research Communication Challenge" scoring will focus on three criteria: 1. Clarity of motivation & significance: Why are you doing the work? What do you hope to achieve? 2. Speaking style & delivery: Tell us an engaging story without too much jargon. Can we hear you? 3. Effectiveness of slides and graphics: Can we read and understand everything that you project? Does each slide support the message, or is there too much information competing with the narrative for us to process in such a short amount of time? Highest scorers in each category will win certificates and $100 cash prizes. In addition, the highest scorer overall will receive $100. Attached is the slide presentation template with guidelines; however, you may modify it or design slides more suitable for your particular talk. You may use as many slides as you think you need, but please follow the 5 minute time limit exactly. Presenters who exceed the 5 minute limit by more than 30 seconds will be penalized in the scoring. However, there may be some time for Q&A following each presentation. [CLICK HERE TO REGISTER]<https://goo.gl/forms/G2BWZrgrWrM3dhu22> Deadline to register is Tuesday, January 17. Finally, please send your presentations by Sunday evening, January 22nd to Cathy (cmbourg(a)MIT.EDU<mailto:cmbourg@MIT.EDU>) and we'll upload them and organize them into the schedule. We'll send links to each registered participant on Wednesday morning, Jan 25th, for you to access the presentation scoring and feedback site via a smartphone, tablet or laptop. Until then, Marc

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [qip] Spring group meetings

by Aram Harrow

Dear quanta, Now that class schedules are online, it's time to think about when to hold group meetings. In the past, Fridays at 11am have worked well. Before I do any complicated doodle polls, let's see if that works. If anyone has a conflict with Fridays at 11am, please let me know. thanks, aram _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: Reminder - special talk - January 20, 2017

by Stefan Pabst

FYI -------- Forwarded Message -------- Special ITAMP Seminar Hossein Zolfaghari Jooya University of Kansas /"Development of New Theoretical and Computational Frameworks for Electron Dynamics in Atomic and Molecular Systems and Quantum Circuits Under Strong External Fields."/ January 20, 201 7 11:00 AM Phillips Auditorium, Center for Astrophysics -- Naomi Tariri Program Coordinator The Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 60 Garden Street, MS 14 Cambridge MA 02138 617-495-9524 | http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: Reminder - special talk - January 19 - 2017

by Stefan Pabst

FYI -------- Forwarded Message -------- Special ITAMP Seminar Victor Albert Yale University /"Drainage solutions for quantum systems"/ January 19 , 201 7 11:00 AM B-105 , Center for Astrophysics * * -- Naomi Tariri Program Coordinator The Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 60 Garden Street, MS 14 Cambridge MA 02138 617-495-9524 | http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/

7 years, 3 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Mentors

by Felixander Negron

Good morning, For those of you who are mentoring an undergraduate student, please provide me with the following details for that student: 1) Name 2) E-mail 3) Year (freshman/sophomore/junior/senior) 4) Concentrations If you are mentoring this student with another group member, please be sure to copy them on the e-mail. If there are any questions, please let me know. Thanks, Felix *Felixander Negron* *Laboratory Administrator * *Aspuru-Guzik Group* *Harvard University **Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology* *12 Oxford St. M 136* *Cambridge, MA 02138* *P:** (617) 496-9964** F: **617-496-9411*

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