aspuru-list September 2017

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: TeraChem on Pascal

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: PetaChem Help <help(a)petachem.com> Date: Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 3:45 AM Subject: TeraChem on Pascal To: PetaChem Help <help(a)petachem.com> Dear TeraChem Users, This is to announce that there is now a release version of TeraChem which supports Pascal (e.g. P100, 1080GTX). You can download this at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ym2bfc9xeg5532t/tc1.93P.tar?dl=0 Your current license file should work. Please let us know if we have contacted the wrong person (and if you know the correct current email address of the end user, we would appreciate hearing that) so we can remove you from our mailing list. Also, let us know if there are any troubles with the software. All the best, The PetaChem Team -- Sent from Postbox <https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=siglink&utm_campai…> -- 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

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [qip] Hartree postdoctoral fellowships at QuICS (Maryland)

by Aram Harrow

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Childs <amchilds(a)cs.umd.edu> Date: Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:46 PM Subject: Hartree postdoctoral fellowships at QuICS To: aram(a)mit.edu Dear Aram, I'm writing to share the announcement of our annual search for the Hartree postdoctoral fellowship. It's an exciting time here at QuICS, with newly-arrived faculty members Brian Swingle in physics and Xiaodi Wu in computer science, new adjunct fellow Gorjan Alagic, and incoming Hartree postdocs Shalev Ben-David and Aarthi Sundaram all joining the Center. I would appreciate very much if you could pass this announcement along to potential applicants for next year's set of Hartree Fellows. Best, Andrew --- QuICS Hartree Postdoctoral Fellowships The Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS, http://quics.umd.edu) is seeking exceptional candidates for the QuICS Hartree Postdoctoral Fellowships in Quantum Information and Computer Science. QuICS is a research partnership between the University of Maryland (UMD) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with the support and participation of the Research Directorate of the National Security Agency/Central Security Service. Located at the University of Maryland just outside of Washington, D.C., the center advances research and education in quantum computer science and quantum information theory. Ongoing projects at QuICS include theoretical and experimental research on quantum algorithms, quantum complexity theory, quantum communication, quantum error correction and fault tolerance, quantum-enhanced metrology, quantum cryptography and quantum-secure cryptography, implementations of quantum information processing, foundations of quantum mechanics, applications of quantum information to physics, and more. QuICS Postdoctoral Fellows are expected to work in close collaboration with one or ideally more than one Center Fellows, and will have opportunities to interact with leading computer scientists and theoretical and experimental physicists at UMD and NIST. Successful applicants may focus on any area of quantum information processing. Applicants are encouraged to contact QuICS Fellows directly to inquire about current research interests. The term of appointment is two years, with a competitive salary plus benefits and a small stipend for research expenses. The application deadline for full consideration is December 1, 2017, but applications may be considered until the positions are filled. Applicants should submit a Curriculum Vitae including a complete publication list and a two-page Research Statement, and should arrange for three reference letters. Applications should be submitted through AcademicJobsOnline at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/fellowship/9689. The fellowships are named in honor of Douglas Hartree, who worked at NIST in the mid 1900s and who made fundamental advances in physics and computation. The University of Maryland, College Park, actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, or political affiliation. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Woodward CCB speaker, Prof Shana Kelley, U Toronto, 09/18/2017

by Felixander Negron

Good afternoon, Our group will have a chance to sit with Professor Kelley from the University of Toronto on Monday, September 18th from 11:00-11:30 am. If you would like to meet with her, please let us know. http://www.kelleylaboratory.com/ 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] Quantum Tunnelers t-shirt

by Benjamin Sanchez Lengeling

Hi A2G2, If you want to get the and improved Quantum Tunnelers t-shirt, get into the groups "running" slack channel and post you size by *this Friday. Shirt is described as "*Sport-Tek Heather Performance Shirt". If you want to get a sense of how the shirt looks like it will be here are two photos: [image: Inline image 1][image: Inline image 2] Link to the design is here: https://goo.gl/WUbN4Y Hope all is well, Ben

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [qip] No group meeting tomorrow.

by Peter Shor

I am going to be out of town, so we will not be having a group meeting tomorrow. Peter _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Group meeting, Thu Sept 07, 3:30 PM, Div Room

by Ian Kivlichan

Hi all, Tomorrow Jonathan will talk at group meeting. See below for his title and abstract. All the best, Ian ----------------- Title: Quantum autoencoders: theory and applications Abstract: Classical autoencoders are neural networks that can learn efficient low dimensional representations of data in higher dimensional space. The task of an autoencoder is, given an input x, to map x to a lower dimensional point y such that x can likely be recovered from y. The structure of the underlying autoencoder network can be chosen to represent the data on a smaller dimension, effectively compressing the input. Inspired by this idea, we introduced the model of a quantum autoencoder to perform similar tasks on quantum data [1]. A quantum autoencoder consists of a quantum circuit representing a parameterized unitary that is trained to compress a particular dataset of quantum states, where a classical compression algorithm would require exponential resources. Given a set of states in N qubits and a choice of reference state in k qubits with N>k, the autoencoder finds a unitary that factorizes all the states in the training set as a tensor product of a state in N-k qubits and the reference state. The parameters associated with the circuit are optimized using a classical optimization algorithm. In this talk, we present the details of the autoencoder implementation on a quantum computer and explore applications to quantum simulation and quantum information. References: [1] J. Romero, J. P. Olson and A. Aspuru-Guzik, *Quantum Sci. Technol.* In press, 2017.

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Wibe de Jong <wadejong(a)lbl.gov> > Subject: DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program > Date: September 6, 2017 at 1:44:12 PM EDT > To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> > > Hi Alan, > > The next round of applications for the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program (https://science.energy.gov/wdts/scgsr/ <https://science.energy.gov/wdts/scgsr/>) are due November 16. Chances of success are pretty good, based on my experiences. > > If you have any grad students that have passed their prelims and are interested in working at a national laboratory for 3-12 months as part of their graduate research, please let me know. It is a great avenue to develop collaborations. > > Cheers, > > Bert

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] ITAMP lunch seminar - Callum Murray, Aarhus University (September 7th)

by Hannes Pichler

ITAMP Lunch Seminar Speaker: Callum Murray (Aarhus University) Date: Thursday, September 7th Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Includes Pizza. Title: Coherent photon interactions with Rydberg polaritons Abstract: Coupling light to ensembles of Rydberg atoms has emerged as a particularly powerful approach to quantum nonlinear optics at the level of single photons. Here, photons are converted into strongly interacting Rydberg polaritons, which are coherent superpositions of light and matter. However, with the conventional approach to Rydberg quantum optics, the emerging photon interactions are intrinsically dissipative, a feature that ultimately hinders many practical applications. In this talk, I will discuss a new approach to Rydberg quantum optics based on an entirely different underlying mechanism that allows for coherent photon interactions with drastically suppressed losses. The implications of this for certain practical applications will then be discussed, and compared to previous methods. Location: B-106 @ Center for Astrophysics (60 Garden Street) Directions: After entering the lobby of the CfA, turn right to enter the hallway of the B building. In the hallway, turn right again, B-106 will be at the end of the hallway on the left side.

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Theochem visit - Prof. Yoshitaka Tanimura, 09/14

by Romero Fontalvo, Jhonathan

Hi all, Professor Yoshitaka Tanimura, from Kyoto University, will be visiting Harvard on Thursday next week (September 14th) for the first Theochem seminar of this year. His work focuses on quantum dynamics of open systems and multidimensional spectroscopies. Check out the abstract of his talk that will take place Wednesday next week (4:15 pm, MIT Building 4, Room 237). *Please contact me in your want to meet Prof. Tanimura. There are spots for lunch and dinner available too. * Cheers, Jhonathan. -- Jonathan Romero Fontalvo *Ph.D. Student in Chemical Physics* *Harvard University* Website: https://sites.google.com/site/jonathanromeroswebsite/

6 years, 7 months

[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Fwd: International workshop "Quantum Simulation & Computation" Bilbao, Spain 12 - 16 February 2018

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Quantum Simulation_Computation <quant.sim.comp(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 1:42 PM Subject: International workshop "Quantum Simulation & Computation" Bilbao, Spain 12 - 16 February 2018 To: Dear Colleagues and Invited speakers, We are glad to announce an international workshop on ‘Quantum Simulation & Computation’ taking place at the UPV/EHU (Univ. Basque Country) in Bilbao from 12 - 16 February 2018. Please, send the information that appears below to anybody that could be interesting. In a moment of time in which the field of quantum technologies is defining its short, mid- and long-term goals, the development of quantum simulators and quantum computers finds itself in a particularly critical point, in which important challenges have to be addressed, such as: - The utility of quantum simulators and quantum computers for short-term practical applications. - Issues of scalability in a variety of platforms: cold atoms, trapped ions, superconducting circuits, quantum photonics, quantum dots, among others. - Development of new quantum algorithms and study of the complexity of existing ones. - Practical demonstrations of quantum advantages, both in theoretical problems, as well as in practical ones. The aim of this workshop on “Quantum Simulation & Computation: Advantage, Scalability, and Verification” is to gather leading figures in the experimental and theoretical realms, to address these and other problems, showcasing the state-of-the-art in the field, and planning for the near- and long-term future. *website:** http://qsc2018.hbar.es <http://qsc2018.hbar.es/>* *contact email:** quant.sim.comp(a)gmail.com <quant.sim.comp(a)gmail.com>* *Application* Late September 2017, a period of two months will be open during which we will accept applications to participate in the conference. Application consists on a brief email quant.sim.comp(a)gmail.com including - Name, affiliation and homepage - Title, brief abstract and type of contribution (poster/talk) if any Late in 2017, we will publish a list will all applications that were accepted, as well as a conference program. *Invited speakers (confirmed)* Mohammad Amin (D-Wave Syst.) Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Harvard Univ.) Rainer Blatt (IQOQI / Univ. Innsbruck) Jacqueline Bloch (Paris Sud Univ.) Jonas Bylander (Chalmers Univ.) J. Ignacio Cirac (MPQ) Ivan Deutsch (New Mexico Univ.) Michel Devoret (Yale) Jens Eisert (Freie Univ. Berlin) Leonardo Fallani (Florence Univ.) Maciej Lewenstein (ICFO) Miguel Ángel Martín-Delgado (Univ. Complutense) John Martinis (Google/UCSB) Chris Monroe (JQI/Univ. Maryland) Christine A. Muschik (Univ. Innsbruck) William Oliver (MIT/Lincoln Labs) Jian-Wei Pan (Hefei Nat. Lab.) Krysta Svore (Microsoft) Leticia Tarruell (ICFO) Lin Tian (UC Merced) Lieven Vandersypen (TU Delft) Andreas Wallraff (ETH-Zurich) Will Zeng (Rigetti Computing) We look forward to meeting you in Bilbao. Best regards, *Local organisers* Enrique Rico (Univ. Basque Country), Pol Forn-Díaz (BSC), Juan José García Ripoll (IFF-CSIC) *Scientific committee* Enrique Solano (Univ. Basque Country), Gavin K. Brennen (Macquarie Univ.), Barbara Kraus (Univ. Innsbruck), Chris Wilson (IQC), Jose Ignacio Latorre (Univ. Barcelona) *Advisory committee* Immanuel Bloch (LMU/MPQ), Tommaso Calarco (Ulm Univ.), Steven Girvin (Yale), Serge Haroche (ENS), Ashley Montanaro (Bristol Univ.), Barry Sanders (Calgary Univ.), Göran Wendin (Chalmers Univ.), Peter Zoller (Univ. Innsbruck) -- 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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