aspuru-list September 2017

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Desk Assignments

by Felixander Negron

Hello all, Just a reminder that if you would like to change desk locations, please swing by and speak with Siria and I before moving. We have a few people leaving and arriving and we will need to continue to keep track of what desks are available. 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*

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] No ITAMP seminar tomorrow

by Hannes Pichler

Dear all, since many of us want to attend the colloquium by E. Cornell at MIT (http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html <http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html>), there will be no lunch seminar at ITAMP tomorrow. Best, Hannes

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [Important. Time Change] Group Meeting on September 21 moved to 1:30 PM

by Siria Serrano

Dear Group, Please note that this week's group meeting will be taking place *Thursday, 1:30-2:30 PM*. The change only affects this week's meeting. 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>*

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: postdoc listing

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: Mohan Sarovar <mnsarov(a)sandia.gov> Date: Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:23 PM Subject: postdoc listing To: Mohan Sarovar <mnsarov(a)sandia.gov> Dear colleagues, I’m looking to hire a postdoc with interest and experience in the theory of quantum simulation, quantum sensing and/or AMO physics. If you know anyone who is suitable, please ask them to search for position # 658868 at http://www.sandia.gov/careers/ (or they can also email me for more information). Thanks, mohan ______________________________ Mohan Sarovar Principal Member of Technical Staff Extreme-scale Data Science and Analytics MS 9158 Sandia National Laboratories 7011 East Avenue <https://maps.google.com/?q=7011+East+AvenueLivermore,+CA+94550&entry=gmail&…> Livermore, CA 94550 <https://maps.google.com/?q=7011+East+AvenueLivermore,+CA+94550&entry=gmail&…> p: 925.294.2578 <(925)%20294-2578> w: https://sites.google.com/site/sarovar/

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Oreos in the war room!

by Felixander Negron

[image: Inline image 2][image: Inline image 3] *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*

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [qip] Umesh Vazirani talk this Friday

by aram harrow

Dear quanta, Vazirani is speaking this Friday in the Harvard/MIT/MSR CS theory reading group; details below. -aram ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Madhu Sudan <madhusudan(a)g.harvard.edu> Date: Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 1:26 PM Subject: [Theory-reading-group] Reading Group this Friday with Umesh Vazirani To: <theory-reading-group(a)csail.mit.edu> All Our speaker this Friday will be Umesh Vazirani who'll walk us through a 1-dimensional quantum system and show us how to compute its ground state in polynomial time. For the deterministic/probabablistic analog of this problem, a simple dynamic program would solve the 1-d problem, but for quantum systems many technical barriers need to be overcome; and Umesh will explain the math behind this! As usual talk will be from 1:15-4:15, pizza at 1, break around 2:30. Talk is in 20 Garden Street <https://maps.google.com/?q=20+Garden+Street&entry=gmail&source=g> (in Cambridge obviously!): After you enter the building take the stairwell one floor down to the ground level and use your nose to find the pizza! Madhu *Friday, September 22, 2017 at 20 Garden Street: Speaker: Umesh Vazirani <https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/%7Evazirani/> (Berkeley) * Topic: Rigorous RG algorithms for simulating 1D quantum systems. Computing low energy states of quantum many body systems is a central challenge in condensed matter physics. From a computational complexity viewpoint these are near optimal solutions to (quantum) constraint satisfaction problems. Mathematically, the problem is specified by a succinctly described Hamiltonian - an exponentially large matrix, and the challenge is to find the eigenstates with small eigenvalues. A priori it is not even clear whether such eigenstates can be succinctly described, let alone computed efficiently. In this talk I will describe novel combinatorial arguments showing that low energy states for systems of particles with nearest neighbor interactions in 1D can be described succinctly, leading to an efficient classical algorithm for computing them. The algorithm provides a new perspective on the well known Renormalization Group (RG) formalism within condensed matter physics. Over the last quarter century the famous Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) algorithm has been widely used as a numerical heuristic for identifying ground and low energy states of 1D quantum systems. A recent implementation of our algorithm shows promise for outperforming DMRG in hard cases with high ground space degeneracy or near criticality. The talk will be aimed at a broad audience of computer scientists and physicists, and I will not assume a background in quantum computing. Based on joint work with Itai Arad, Zeph Landau and Thomas Vidick. http://theory.csail.mit.edu/reading-group _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: Recruit Undergraduates at the HUROS 2017 Research Fair

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

If you want to recruit undergraduates, please present a poster and a set of abstract(s). I am going to task Hannah to collect them all from you and run by me so that I can check in a single go all of them and then we can send them to the office. Alan 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Babakhanyan, Anna <ababakhanyan(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 3:38 PM Subject: Recruit Undergraduates at the HUROS 2017 Research Fair To: "Aspuru-Guzik, Alan" <aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu> SaneAttachments has copied these files to *Dropbox* [image: SaneBox] Portable Network Graphics image <https://www.dropbox.com/s/59w404xczbvagnc/Portable%20Network%20Graphics%20i…> Dropbox/SaneBox/Babakhanyan, Anna/Recruit Undergraduates at the HUROS 2017 _, 2017-09-18 03.38.07 PM/ Note: SaneBox was unable to remove all of the attachments and as a result the original files are still included. Dear Dr. Aspuru-Guzik, We invite your research group to present a poster at the *Harvard Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Science (HUROS) Fair *(previously known as the LSURF) on *Thursday, November 9, 2017 from 2:30 - 4:30 pm. *The HUROS 2017 will be held at the Knafel Center located at 10 Garden Street in Cambridge. At the HUROS Harvard faculty and researchers present posters describing their research to Harvard College undergraduates interested in conducting science research. The fair provides the opportunity for you to discuss your current scientific projects with undergraduates who are interested in joining a lab. Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates are all welcome to present a poster and represent their labs. At the HUROS many researchers have recruited undergraduates to join their labs, and many students have found host labs. You can submit your abstract(s) here <https://lifesciences.fas.harvard.edu/huros>. Presenters will also have a research abstract included in an abstract booklet given to students at the fair. The Sciences Education Office, Office for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, and the Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association have co-sponsored this event since 2010. We thank you for the mentoring, training, resources, and research guidance that you and your research group provide to undergraduates. We hope that you will participate. Best regards, Anna Babakhanyan, Ph.D., MBT, Undergraduate Science Research Advisor Margaret Lynch, Ph.D., Associate Director of Science Education Life Sciences Undergraduate Education FAS Division of Science *Harvard undergraduates and researchers at the HUROS* [image: ../Divisional%20Fair%202016/Screen%20Shot%202016-08-26%20at%203.18.54%20PM.png]

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fall Subgroup Meetings

by Siria Serrano

Dear All, I need a representative from each subgroup to swing by, Gchat me or Slack me by COB Wednesday, September 20th so we can schedule subgroup meetings for Fall. 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>*

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] ACS Division of Physical Chemistry - 255th National Meeting

by Felixander Negron

Good morning, Please see attached for details for the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry's 255th National Meeting. -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*

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [qip] 3-4 Month Research Internship opportunity @ IBM Research in Cambridge MA

by Ramis Movassagh

Dear all, I like to bring to your attention a research internship opportunity. Please see below and let me know if interested. This will have the standard IBM internship details and benefits and in principle can be co-supervised. Best wishes, Ramis - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3-4 Month Research Internship opportunity @ IBM Research in Cambridge MA. Location: 75 Binney Street, Cambridge MA Start date: Available immediately. Contact : Ramis Movassagh ( q.eigenman(a)gmail.com ) *Research Topics:* Quantum information and computation. Theory and the application of random matrix theory. Non-symmetric spectral dynamics. There is flexibility in the actual definition of the project, and the topic may intersect the student's thesis work. If interested please contact Ramis Movassagh ( q.eigenman(a)gmail.com ) with a CV. Optional: Indicate your research interests. _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

6 years, 7 months

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