无处不在的Google……

当然作为一个小职员用户，我早就厌烦了Oracle calendar……同时作为一个不太坚定的GFan（比如对浏览器我还持观望态度……）和重度Google用户，这次换系统我还是要撒花滴～～

使用一年后，我感觉仍然错过很多精彩Seminars，同时被很多不感兴趣的seminars spammed……继续琢磨，终于明白了其分类导出events的机理！现在我的Calendar上包括如下Seminars，大大提高了我安排schedule时的效率：

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Seminars
Bioengineering Seminars
Computational Biology Seminars
Genetics, Genomics & Development Seminars
Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminars

那么，如何寻找并添加你感兴趣的Seminars并加入Google Calendar？比如：Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Seminars的添加地址是：
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/ical/sn/mcb/type/future.html?filter=Secondary%20Event%20Type&filtersel=1193

1. 确定发布events的院系/机构（mcb），进入其event page。你可以在这里找到学校所有的events发布单位各自的calendar。
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/mcb.html

2. 进入后在Seminar series（或Envent types）的下拉菜单中选择Division of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology→Go

3. 待页面刷新后，用鼠标右键点击页面左侧任意一个RSS图标，选择“Copy link location"(firefox) 或者 "copy shortcut"(IE)。比如，你点击的是”This month's events"右边的RSS图标，这时候你复制的地址（你可以粘贴到记事本中查看）应为：
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/rss/sn/mcb/type/month.html?filter=Secondary%20Event%20Type&filtersel=1193

4. 修改上述红色部分的参数为
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/ical/sn/mcb/type/future.html?filter=Secondary%20Event%20Type&filtersel=1193

5. 导入Google Caldendar
settings→ Calendar → Browse interesting calendars → Add by URL→加入上述URL。之后，你可以在Google Calendar中修改这个导入的Calendar的名字（默认为URL本身，很丑……），比如"Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Seminars"。

6. 从此你将不会错过任何被MCB department归类为Biochemistry & Molecular Biology的Seminars了！

PS1：对于本文开头给出的seminars地址，可以直接复制其链接后从Step 5继续。

PS2：Cal Academic Calendar（学校假期等，至2013年）
http://opa.berkeley.edu/AcademicCalendar/ (打开后下载ics格式文件导入Google Calendar）

PS3：如果你很有钻研精神，想弄清楚Events Calendar URL里各参数是什么意思，可以查阅官方帮助how to set the event filters。

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刚刚在校内网上又看到了经纬好同志分享的一篇描写Terry Tao lecture的白描文字。我的第一感觉是：太像莫扎特了。结合今天考试被虐，马上又有种莫名的悲凉：这世界天才这么多，我在这里干什么——想起gift这个词，我环顾四周便能随手数出一二三四五个人来——然而这种悲凉马上被五十步笑百步的自嘲情绪代替，因为我想起了《Good Will Hunting》里面Fields奖得主MIT大教授Lambeau对男主角Will说的这么一段话：

You're right, Will. I can't do that proof and you can. And when it comes to this there are only twenty people in the world that can tell the difference between you and me. But I'm one of them.

因为，似乎强如Terry Tao的神童，我很不幸的还没有遇到呢——我估计我也遇不到，毕竟不是一个级别上的生物。

情绪的进一步平复还是依靠《Good Will Hunting》的另一段台词，即Will和他的死党都在建筑工地上赚钱糊口时，他表示不愿意接受Lambeau给他安排的应用他的数学天赋的工作时的对白（可直接看划线部分）：

WILL: What do I want a way outta here for? I want to live here the rest of my life. I want to be your next door neighbor. I want to take out kids to little league together up Foley Field.

CHUCKIE: Look, you're my best friend, so don't take this the wrong way, but in 20 years, if you're livin' next door to me, comin' over watchin' the fuckin' Patriots' games and still workin' construction, I'll fuckin' kill you. And that's not a threat, that's a fact. I'll fuckin' kill you.

WILL: Chuckie, what are you talkin'...

CHUCKIE: Listen, you got somethin' that none of us have.

WILL: Why is it always this? I owe it to myself? What if I don't want to?

CHUCKIE: Fuck you. You owe it to me. Tomorrow I'm gonna wake up and I'll be fifty and I'll still be doin' this. And that's all right 'cause I'm gonna make a run at it. But you, you're sittin' on a winning lottery ticket and you're too much of a pussy to cash it in. And that's bullshit 'cause I'd do anything to have what you got! And so would any of these guys. It'd be a fuckin' insult to us if you're still here in twenty years.

WILL: You don't know that.

CHUCKIE: Let me tell you what I do know. Every day I come by to pick you up, and we go out drinkin' or whatever and we have a few laughs. But you know what the best part of my day is? The ten seconds before I knock on the door 'cause I let myself think I might get there, and you'd be gone. I'd knock on the door and you wouldn't be there. You just left.

CHUCKIE (cont'd): Now, I don't know much. But I know that.

我这才意识到，《Good Will Hunting》是多么好的一部励志电影。我要做的事情，也不过仅仅是去cash in my winning lottery ticket。区别仅仅在于，我没中头奖而已。

对于我这样的人来说，如此解读自己活着和努力是为了什么——‘cause I owe it to others——反而比告诉我，我应该为自己的目的活着，让我更轻松。

Title: Getting Spin Right in Quantum Chemistry: A New Approach to Potential Energy Surfaces.

Abstract:
In this talk, we review one of the primary goals of Quantum Chemistry, which is to devise models that compute molecular Potential Energy Surfaces.  Until recently, there were no feasible solutions to this problem that incorporate the correct Quantum Mechanical treatment of electron spin.  We will present a new model that is able to do this in tractable computational effort.

对着一群Computer Geeks大谈Quantum Chemistry，不知道这个童鞋怎么想的……说不定我会成为明天组会上听得最懂的一个……

欢迎来函索取组会笔记。

同时切实的感受到了Berkeley在60年代以前化学的辉煌……见Alumni部分。

之后的衰落估计是因为60年代以后Stanford的壮大（硅谷啊硅谷）和Caltech的崛起，作为美国各大私立学校兴盛的典型代表。同时想起张五常的说法，公立学校在60年代以后式微和美国黑人政策有关（当然他指的是中小学）。总之现在是辉煌不再了。

当然，从积极的角度看，随着社会对研究投入越来越多，新型研究机构的不断兴起（EMBL、马普所……），一个学校越来越难以保持在一个大领域内的领先优势（想想UChicago的经济），百花齐放百家争鸣总是一件好事。