Dear group, We are very busy with group meetings. 9.00 AM Introduction to computational chemistry M113 11.15 AM-12.00 AM TODAY: Meeting with Bernd Berg. I decided to make this meeting with him open to all the group so we can meet him. This will take place either in my office or in M113 Bernd Berg is one of the world experts in Monte Carlo simulation. I think this is important for both the QC and the classical people in the group. Especially his PRL about optimization in rugged landscapes for protein folding/etc. We should compare our QC algorithms to his! Next tuesday at 5.00 we will listen from Jonathan from the David Cory group about the simulation of Hydrogen in NMR Next thursday, we will listen to a potential postdoctoral candidate, Sarin Deshpande from Cornell University talk to us a about a scheme for measuring individual elements of the density matrices! (Relevant to stuff that we are doing in DFT and in quantum computing) Alan -- Alán Aspuru-Guzik Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)384-8188 Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu