Fardowsa Omar, a recently graduated high school student form East Lansing, MI, will be working with us this summer. Fardowsa, who is part of Project SEED, will be investigating the relationship between structure and absorption spectrum in cyanine dyes. Welcome Fardowsa!
MWTCC has come and gone
The Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference took place this week in East Lansing. Thanks to all who participated! If you missed it, please check out the scientific program, the poster prize winners, and some pictures of the event. It was a good time!
Many thanks to our sponsors: PetaChem, JPC, JCP, CORE-CM, the MSU local section of the ACS, the MSU Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, and Office of the Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies.
Thanks also to my co-organizers, Brenda Franklin, Mary Mroz, and the students who helped with the organization and set up.
I look forward to seeing you next year at the 50th annual MWTCC. It’s returning to where it all began: University of Chicago!
Welcome, Tiffany!
Tiffany Rivera, an REU student from Cal. State Monterey Bay, has joined our group for the summer. Tiffany will be studying organic molecules which may serve as redox couples in flow batteries. Welcome, Tiffany!
Welcome, Andy!
Andy Durden, an incoming graduate student, will be spending the summer doing research in our lab. Andy will investigate electronic excitations in metal clusters and nanoparticles. Welcome to the group, Andy!
Congrats to Mike!
Congratulations to new Ph.D. candidate Mike Esch for passing his second year oral exam. Nice work!
Congrats to Derek!
Congratulations to Derek Metcalf, who was awarded the Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry by the ACS PHYS division. This award recognizes Derek’s work in research and his performance in both undergraduate and graduate physical chemistry courses. Nice work, Derek!
Fast CASSCF Gradients!
Check out Scott’s newest paper in JCP. In this collaborative effort with the Martinez group, we report the implementation of the CP-CASSCF equations for GPU hardware.
Thanks to JPC and the ACS PHYS division for the JPC-PHYS Lectureship
Ben is honored and grateful that the Journal of Physical Chemistry and the ACS PHYS division have awarded him the JPC A Lectureship! Ben will deliver his lecture at the Fall ACS National Meeting in Washington D.C. in August. Hope to see you there!
Welcome Dylan and Derek!
Welcome to first year graduate student Dylan Hardwick, who has just joined our group!
Also a belated welcome to undergraduate student Derek Metcalf, who has been working with us since the beginning of the semester on developing protocols to model the ligand donor ability in late transition metal compounds!
New Paper on Dynamics Near Conical Intersections
Check out Garrett’s new paper in JCP. It describes diabatized Gaussians on adiabatic surfaces (DGAS), an approach to modeling nonadiabatic dynamics that walks a fine line between the adiabatic and diabatic representations, maintaining the primary advantages of both representations while avoiding their respective pitfalls.
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