Date: Friday, March 13, 2015 Location: Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Speaker: Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University Title: Billions and Billions of Molecules: Exploring Chemical Space Abstract: Many of the challenges of the twenty-first century are related to molecular processes such as the generation, transmission, and storage of clean energy, water purification and desalination. These transformations require a next generation of more efficient and ecologically-friendly materials. In the life sciences, we face similar challenges, for example drug-resistant bacterial strains require novel antibiotics. One of the paradigm shifts that the theoretical and experimental chemists needs to embrace is that of accelerated molecular discovery: The design cycles need to be sped up by the constant interaction of theoreticians and experimentalists, the use of high-throughput computational techniques, tools from machine learning and big data, and the development of public materials databases. I will describe three projects from my research group that aim to operate in this accelerated design cycle. First, I will describe our efforts on the Harvard Clean Energy Project<http://www.molecularspace.org/>g/>, a search for materials for organic solar cells. I will continue by talking about our work on developing organic molecules for energy storage in flow batteries. Finally, I will describe our work towards the discovery of novel molecules for organic light-emitting diodes. Free and open to the public. No registration required. *********************** UPCOMING SEMINARS 3/27 Jeff Bilmes<http://www.ee.washington.edu/faculty/bilmes/> (University of Washington) 4/10 Budhendra Bhaduri<http://web.ornl.gov/sci/gist/staff_bios/staff_bhaduri.shtml> (Oak Ridge National Laboratory<http://www.ornl.gov/>--- Geographic Information Science and Technology) 4/24 Christian Rudder<http://www.okcupid.com/about> (OkCupid) Click here<https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events> to subscribe to our events list. _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events