aspuru-list March 2017

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [qip] Fwd: [OQE] OQE Seminar: Prof. Jens Koch, Northwestern University - Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 11:00 AM, Haus Room, 36-428

by Dirk R Englund

Should be an interesting seminar! Begin forwarded message: From: Janice L Balzer <balzer(a)mit.edu<mailto:balzer@mit.edu>> Subject: [OQE] OQE Seminar: Prof. Jens Koch, Northwestern University - Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 11:00 AM, Haus Room, 36-428 Date: March 2, 2017 at 5:03:39 PM EST To: oqe <oqe(a)mit.edu<mailto:oqe@mit.edu>> [cid:image001.png@01D220C1.A66C2D50] Professor Jens Koch Northwestern University Seminar: Parametric modulation and sidebands in circuit QED – from red to blue, and on to “purple” Wednesday, March 8, 2017 11:00 AM Haus Room, 36-428 Hosted by Dirk Englund Abstract: Superconducting circuits rank among the top contestants in the pursuit of scalable quantum information processing. Indeed, remarkable advances in quantum engineering of circuit QED systems have led to an increase in coherence times of 5 orders or magnitudes in these Josephson junction based devices. At the same time, exquisite control via microwaves has enabled the demonstration of high-fidelity 1- and 2-qubit gates now approaching the quantum error correction threshold. I will review how quantum mechanics manifests in these circuits, enabling exciting studies in quantum optics and quantum information processing. The talk’s main part will focus on our recent theory work investigating parametric modulation and sideband physics in these systems – where simultaneously driving of red and blue sidebands may allow for stabilization of qubit states along any desired axis of the Bloch sphere. Bio: Jens Koch is an Associate Professor of Physics at Northwestern University. His research focuses on superconducting qubits and circuit QED for quantum simulation and quantum computation. He received his Ph.D. from Freie Universitat Berlin in 2006 under supervision of Felix von Oppen. In 2006, he received a Yale Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship and worked as a Postdoctoral Associate in Steven Girvin’s group before moving to Northwestern University in 2010. _______________________________________________ OQE mailing list OQE(a)mit.edu<mailto:OQE@mit.edu> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oqe _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Invitation: Boston Area Excitonics Seminar - Thursday, March 9th

by Doran Bennett

Dear Excitonics Community - I have checked the weather forecast and it seems like we really will have our the first Boston Area Excitonics Seminar this Thursday *March 9th at 12 Oxford St, Division Room*. Food will be served at 6:00 pm. Our speaker, Prof. Will Tisdale, will be presenting on “Excitoncs, Disorder, and Nonequilibrium Transport in Semiconductor Nanomaterials.” If you plan to attend, please register here <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MK9KBPQ> so that we have an accurate head count for food. Feel free to forward this e-mail to any interested colleagues. We look forward to seeing you at the seminar! Doran and Christoph *Abstract * In semiconductor nanomaterials, spatial confinement and structural heterogeneity can present transport behavior that deviates markedly from the bulk phase. Using a combination of ultrafast spectroscopy, timeresolved optical microscopy, and kinetic Monte Carlo simulation, I will show how these effects manifest in assemblies of colloidal quantum dots (QD) and atomically thin two-dimensional semiconductors. As an area of emerging focus in my group, I will highlight some of the intriguing and counterintuitive aspects of exciton transport, annihilation, and interfacial transfer in 2D materials. Preview attachment BAE_Feb9_Tisdale.pdf BAE_Feb9_Tisdale.pdf 764 KB <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=a3d594860f&view=att&th=159dcd1266…> *Doran I. G. Bennett* Harvard University, Department of Chemistry CIFAR Postdoctoral Fellow Bio-inspired Light Harvesting Program

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Excitonics Meeting Moved

by Siria Serrano

Group, Please note that the Excitonics Subgroup Meeting time for March has been moved from 10-11 to *1:30-2:30 PM *on March 21st. As always, Group Calendar reflects all changes. 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>*

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Guava roll in AcapulcoPlex

by Benjamin Sanchez Lengeling

Hi all, I brought some guava roll (like a candied fruit roll of guava) from my hometown. Left it in the acapulcoplex microwave/kitchen area, feel free to try and take some. Ben

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Peeps Oreos

by Felixander Negron

Available in the war room! [image: Inline image 1] *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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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] pictures

by Joey Goodknight

Hello Everyone, Thanks for your patience yesterday! Please find a link below to the normal, silly and superposition photos. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vf6na4xfcedr0xy/AABwFabcqtBsiYQsKVdg-klaa?dl=0 Enjoy your weekend! -Joey

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] March 8, 2017-Ortwin Hess-HQOC/ITAMP Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar

by Ploucha, Clare

HQOC/ITAMP Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:00 PM, Jefferson 250 Prof. Ortwin Hess, Imperial College London “Controlled Single-Molecule Strong Coupling and Stopped-Light Lasing in Nanoplasmonic Cavities” Recent progress in nanophotonics and metamaterials physics is now allowing us to ‘look inside the wavelength’ and exploit active nano-plasmonics and metamaterials as a new route to quantum many-body optics on the nanoscale [1,2]. At the same time, lasers have become smaller and smaller, reaching with the demonstration of plasmonic nanolasing, scales much smaller than the wavelength of the light they emit [3,4]. Here we discuss recent progress in the study of quantum emitters and quantum gain in nanoplasmonic systems and deliberate on approaches. We combine classical and quantum many-body theory and simulation to describe and model the spatio-temporal dynamics of the optical near field and plasmon polaritons coupled with quantum emitters in nano- plasmonic cavities. We reveal the mechanisms that have allowed us to experimentally reach the strong-coupling regime at room temperature and in ambient conditions [5]. Moreover, it will be demonstrated that applying thenanoplasmonic stopped-light lasing principle to surface- plasmon polaritons (SPP) facilitates trapped/condensed non-equilibrium surface-plasmon polaritons at stopped-light singularities, providing an entry point to SPP-condensation. [1] O. Hess et al. Nature Materials 11, 573 (2012). [2] O. Hess et al., Science 339, 654 (2013). [3] T. Pickering, et al., Nature Communications 5, 4971 (2014). [4]S. Wuestner, T. Pickering, J. M. Hamm, A. F. Page, A. Pusch and O. Hess, Faraday Discuss. 178, 307 (2015). [5] R. Chikkaraddy, B. de Nijs, F. Benz, S. J. Barrow, O. A. Sherman, E. Rosta, A. Demetriadou, P. Fox, O. Hess and J.J. Baumberg, Nature 535, 127(2016). Student Presentation from 4:00-4:10 PM Refreshments Served from 4:10-4:30 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: Young Sustainable Impact mentors

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: YSI Global <contact(a)ysiglobal.com> Date: Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:02 PM Subject: SV: Young Sustainable Impact mentors To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> SaneAttachments has copied these files to *Dropbox* [image: SaneBox] logo.png <https://db.tt/VykzSW7LLn> Dropbox/SaneBox/YSI Global/SV_ Young Sustainable Impact mentors, 2017-03-02 04.02.51 PM/ Note: SaneBox was unable to remove all of the attachments and as a result the original files are still included. As I understand your time is limited, maybe you can send the information provided below to the students and post docs you had in mind? Thank you for responding fast and for your help. I`m looking forward to seeing you at Katapult Tech Fest in Oslo! Bets regards, Didrik ------------------------------ *Fra:* Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> *Sendt:* 2. mars 2017 20:49:16 *Til:* YSI Global *Emne:* Re: Young Sustainable Impact mentors I could have some of my students and postdocs as mentors. I am too busy to participate directly. Best, Alan 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 On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:10 PM, YSI Global <contact(a)ysiglobal.com> wrote: SaneAttachments has copied these files to * Dropbox* [image: SaneBox] logo.png <https://db.tt/Rtn4o6fUw6> Dropbox/SaneBox/YSI Global/Young Sustainable Impact mentors, 2017-03-02 02.10.51 PM/ Note: SaneBox was unable to remove all of the attachments and as a result the original files are still included. Hey and good day! I am Didrik Strøhm from Young Sustainable Impact. We`re creating an innovation program for young 25people under 25 years, from all over the world. The goal is for teams of five to create innovative solutions for the sustainable development goals. The program is online from April-August and in Oslo, Norway from 14-25th of August. Right now we have 7500 applicants from 160 countries and there is no doubt we will have amazing teams. Our job is to ensure that we can heighten the chance of success with all details we can actively control. For this to happen we need mentors with knowledge in the various fields of exponential technologies. We have three different mentor models: 1. Available for questions once a month trough mail. 2. Available for skype once a month (30-60 minutes) or 3. Available to be a mentor during the main conference in Oslo, between 14-25th of August. We are a non-profit business and hope you can join us anyway. We are open for other arrangements in certain cases, so please contact me if there is any interest in this project outside being a mentor. We are also well known in the political and business world of Norway and are gaining massive traction all over the world, with a reach of 197/206 countries (Google analytics) - This will be a fun, valuable and exciting experience for all involved! More info: www.ysiglobal.com Best regards, Didrik Strøhm +4793054387 <+47%20930%2054%20387> Program Director YSI <http://www.ysiglobal.com/> Young Sustainable Impact / YSI GLOBAL <http://www.ysiglobal.com/> www.ysiglobal.com An organization empowering youth to solve the sustainability challenges of the 21st century. -- 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

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Group Photo @ end of group meeting!

by Sam Blau

Hey everyone, Please be sure to be present at the end of group meeting so that you are included in the 2017 group photo! Thanks!

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: Recruiting talk in physics department

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

FYI 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: Areez Mody <amody(a)quantlab.com> Date: Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 1:34 PM Subject: Recruiting talk in physics department To: "alan(a)aspuru.com" <alan(a)aspuru.com> SaneAttachments has copied these files to *Dropbox* [image: SaneBox] Harvard_presentation.pdf <https://db.tt/HBQKnDZzvn> Dropbox/SaneBox/Areez Mody/Recruiting talk in physics department, 2017-03-02 01.34.28 PM/ Dear Alan, I am an alum from the Harvard Physics Department (2004 under Rick Heller). Tomorrow Friday, March 3 at 10 AM in the physics department, I am giving a recruiting/information talk for the company I work for called Quantlab. We do algorithmic trading, not Quantum Mechanics! Rick mentioned to me over lunch that the smartest students at Harvard were to be found in your group - literally. Could you please pass this information along to them, so that they may attend if they wish to. I do apologize for sending this out last minute. Sincerely, Areez ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ The information in this communication and any attachment is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). All information and opinions expressed herein are subject to change without notice. This communication is not to be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security. Any such offer or solicitation can only be made by means of the delivery of a confidential private offering memorandum (which should be carefully reviewed for a complete description of investment strategies and risks). Any reliance one may place on the accuracy or validity of this information is at their own risk. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of the future results of an investment. All figures are estimated and unaudited unless otherwise noted. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering this to the intended recipient, you are not authorized to and must not disclose, copy, distribute, or retain this message or any part of it. In this case, please notify the sender immediately at 713-333-5440 <(713)%20333-5440>

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