Dear group, Dear Orpha, On Friday, we have the important visit of Professor Toshikazu Takada, from RIKEN. His expertise is on ab initio calculations of Photosynthesis. He will be the whole day with us, and we need to schedule meetings with him. I will pick him up at 9.30 at his hotel (Roberto and Professor Ju: I have to cancel my meeting with you guys, let's reschedule for later that day, how about at 11.00?, sorry about that). I propose the following schedule: 9:30-11.00 Alan 11.00-11.30 - Write -in 11.30-12.00 - Write -in 12.00-1.00 Lunch w/ 2 interested group members (Write-in two people) 1.00-1.30 Write-in 1.30-2.00 Write-in 2.00-2.30 Write-in If there are more interested members, we could have more meetings later in the afternoon. You can also meet with him in teams of 2 to talk for an hour. Thank you, and I think this will probably open the possiblity of collaborating wtih RIKEN on explicit QM-MM on reaction center or explicit calculation of excitonic states in presence of the protein environment. Alan Please e-mail orpha cc me with your choices for meeting wtih him. I would like for anybody interested in photosynthesis/energy transfer to meet with him to talk about their research and learn from his experience. I attach a very relevant paper for calculations on the reaction center. -- Alan 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