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From: Joanne Talbot Hanley <joanne(a)csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Subject: [Toc-faculty] Theory and Beyond : Lunchtime Seminar Series:
Alan Aspuru-Guzik - Wed., December 12 at 12:15pm!
To: toc-faculty <toc-faculty(a)csail.mit.edu>du>,
toc-students(a)csail.mit.edu, toc-visitors(a)csail.mit.edu
Theory and Beyond Lunchtime Seminar Series
Title: Quantum Computing for Chemistry Applications:
Status, Challenges, and Opportunities
Speaker: Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Associate Professor, Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard U.
When: 12:30-13:30pm, Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Refreshments: Light lunch served starting at 12:15pm
Where: 32-G882 (Hewlett Reading Room)
Host: Scott Aaronson
Abstract: About 30% of the supercomputing time in government
supercomputing centers is used calculating properties of materials,
molecules, and studies of biological systems. Nevertheless,
numerically exact solutions for those problems are intractable in
classical computers. Some of these problems may show exponential
speedup on quantum computers. Since 2006, me and my group have been
working on developing quantum algorithms for problems such as
molecular electronic structure, molecular dynamics and protein
folding. I will briefly describe how the algorithms work and our
progress collaborating with experimentalists in their early
implementation on quantum computers. I will conclude with describing
some questions to the computer scientists in the audience regarding
the computational complexity of these problems.
Biography:
Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik is currently Associate Professor of
Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, where he started
his independent career in 2006. Alán received his undergraduate degree
in Chemistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
in 1999. He received the Gabino Barreda Medal from UNAM, which prizes
the top achiever in each field of study. After receiving his PhD in
Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in
2004, under Professor William A. Lester, Jr., he was a postdoctoral
scholar in the group of Martin Head-Gordon at UC Berkeley from
2005-2006.
Professor Aspuru-Guzik carries out research at the interface of
quantum information and chemistry. In particular, he is interested in
the use of quantum computers and dedicated quantum simulators for
chemical systems. He has studied the role of quantum coherence in
excitonic energy transfer in photosynthetic complexes, and developed
methodology for studying the spectroscopy of molecules in nanoscale
environments. He and his group recently developed a density functional
theory for open quantum systems. He leads the Clean Energy Project: a
distributed computing effort for screening renewable energy materials.
In 2009, Professor Aspuru-Guzik recently received the DARPA Young
Faculty Award, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award and
the Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2010, he received the
Everett-Mendelsson Graduate Mentoring Award and received the HP
Outstanding Junior Faculty award by the Computers in Chemistry
division of the American Chemical Society. In the same year, he was
selected as a Top Innovator Under 35 by the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Technology Review magazine.
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I remind group members who are interested in quantum computation that
Alan is talking at MIT tomorrow, 12:30-13:30pm.
Yours truly,
Man Hong
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Dr. Man-Hong Yung
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
mhyung(a)chemistry.harvard.edu
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From: Joanne Talbot Hanley <joanne(a)csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Subject: [Toc-faculty] Theory and Beyond : Lunchtime Seminar Series:
Alan Aspuru-Guzik - Wed., December 12 at 12:15pm!
To: toc-faculty <toc-faculty(a)csail.mit.edu>du>,
toc-students(a)csail.mit.edu, toc-visitors(a)csail.mit.edu
Theory and Beyond Lunchtime Seminar Series
Title: Quantum Computing for Chemistry Applications:
Status, Challenges, and Opportunities
Speaker: Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Associate Professor, Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard U.
When: 12:30-13:30pm, Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Refreshments: Light lunch served starting at 12:15pm
Where: 32-G882 (Hewlett Reading Room)
Host: Scott Aaronson
Abstract: About 30% of the supercomputing time in government
supercomputing centers is used calculating properties of materials,
molecules, and studies of biological systems. Nevertheless,
numerically exact solutions for those problems are intractable in
classical computers. Some of these problems may show exponential
speedup on quantum computers. Since 2006, me and my group have been
working on developing quantum algorithms for problems such as
molecular electronic structure, molecular dynamics and protein
folding. I will briefly describe how the algorithms work and our
progress collaborating with experimentalists in their early
implementation on quantum computers. I will conclude with describing
some questions to the computer scientists in the audience regarding
the computational complexity of these problems.
Biography:
Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik is currently Associate Professor of
Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, where he started
his independent career in 2006. Alán received his undergraduate degree
in Chemistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
in 1999. He received the Gabino Barreda Medal from UNAM, which prizes
the top achiever in each field of study. After receiving his PhD in
Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in
2004, under Professor William A. Lester, Jr., he was a postdoctoral
scholar in the group of Martin Head-Gordon at UC Berkeley from
2005-2006.
Professor Aspuru-Guzik carries out research at the interface of
quantum information and chemistry. In particular, he is interested in
the use of quantum computers and dedicated quantum simulators for
chemical systems. He has studied the role of quantum coherence in
excitonic energy transfer in photosynthetic complexes, and developed
methodology for studying the spectroscopy of molecules in nanoscale
environments. He and his group recently developed a density functional
theory for open quantum systems. He leads the Clean Energy Project: a
distributed computing effort for screening renewable energy materials.
In 2009, Professor Aspuru-Guzik recently received the DARPA Young
Faculty Award, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award and
the Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2010, he received the
Everett-Mendelsson Graduate Mentoring Award and received the HP
Outstanding Junior Faculty award by the Computers in Chemistry
division of the American Chemical Society. In the same year, he was
selected as a Top Innovator Under 35 by the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Technology Review magazine.
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