Welcome to Tim Havel's Home Page

Positions:

Research Associate
Engineering Systems Division

Sloan Fellow, Class of 2007
MIT Sloan School of Management

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Physical address:

Electronic address: tfhavel@REMOVETHIS.mit.edu

• Role of nanotechnology in our transition to a post-petroleum energy economy;
• Quantum and molecular computing by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy;
• Distance geometry methods for the analysis of molecular conformation and kinematics;
• Discrete and computational geometry, geometric algebra, Baysian statistics.

If you're here to see the pictures from Kurt Wuthrich's Nobel Celebration at the ENC in March 2003, here's the catalog ; or if you're looking for Cambridge-MIT Institute Sponsored Quantum Information Processing Activities, follow the links in here .

If you're new to NMR quantum computing, here's a link to the testimony I presented to the US House Subcommittee on Basic Science on September 12, 2000; if you'd like a more indepth technical account, see the LANL quant-ph preprint Principles & Demonstrations of Quantum Information Processing by NMR ; the geometric algebra connection is described in Geometric Algebra in Quantum Information Processing (with C.J.L. Doran).

Just for fun, you might also download my presentation on the REAL density matrix.

If you'd like to learn more about distance geometry (with geometric algebra), here're the overheads for a talk I gave to the Special Session on Discrete Geometry at the AMS Eastern Regional Meeting in Lowell, MA on April 2, 2000; if you're interested in the chemical applications, here's my 1998 review in the Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry.

Finally, here are some lectures on geometric algebra which I gave during the MIT Independent Activities Periods of January 2000 & 2001.

Here's a complete list of my refereed publications.

Here's a list of my lectures over the last ten years or so.

Here's a list of some other things I've done.

Here's a BibTeX file of all my publications.

Here's my complete CV in PDF.

... we have a global network, a global economy and global companies, but we have not got a global legal system. Never before have we lived in a situation like this.       Robert Cailliau, World Wide Web co-founder @ CERN, in interview with New Scientist Magazine, August, 2000.