Scott’s recent JCTC paper was chosen as the ACS Editors’ Choice article for October 5th!
Fast Full CI on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs)
Check out the new paper in JCTC reporting Scott’s implementation of full/complete active space CI for GPUs. Scott’s code can compute the ground state energy of a 72-silicon-atom nanoparticle (~1.5 nm diameter, >1,000 electrons) with a 16-electron/16-orbital active space and the 6-31G** basis in under an hour!
Conical Intersections in Nanoparticles!
Check out Yinan and Scott’s new paper in Nano Letters presenting conical intersections in three defective nanoparticles (1.3 nm in diameter) computed at a fully ab initio, multireference level of theory. This work was made possible by our GPU implementation of CASCI, which will be described in a forthcoming paper.
New paper on wave function interpolation in spawning
Check out Garrett’s new paper on incorporating norm-preserving interpolation into spawning dynamics. Garrett shows that our wave function interpolation scheme allows the accurate calculation of population transfer probabilities even when the coupling between states varies on time scales much shorter than the integration time step.
Updated: Congratulations To Scott and Garrett!!!
Congratulations to Scott and Garrett, who respectively won best student talk and best poster awards at this weekend’s Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference in Ann Arbor! Scott’s talk was on our GPU-accelerated strategy for optimizing conical intersections in nanomaterials, and Garrett’s poster was on some charge transport in graphitic carbon nitride photocatalysts. Great job, guys!
Update: The College of Natural Sciences has posted a news story of Scott and Garrett’s awards.
Levine Group at MWTCC
If you will be at the Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference this coming weekend in Ann Arbor, make sure that you see Scott’s talk on Saturday morning on his work developing GPU accelerated CASCI methods for studying non-radiative processes in nanoscale systems. Also check out Garrett and Wei-Tao’s posters.
Levine Group at ACS Denver
Please come check out the symposium titled “Modeling Excited States of Complex Systems,” organized by Ben and Prof. Sergey Varganov of University of Nevada at Reno. It will run all week, with a total of 32 invited speakers. Many thanks to the PHYS division for their support! Ben will not be in attendance for personal reasons, but he hopes everyone will have a great time!
Also, two Levine group members will be presenting talks: Scott will present his work on the GPU acceleration of Full/CAS CI in the above mentioned symposium, while Garrett will present his work on the norm-preserving interpolation (NPI) approach to computing time-derivative couplings in the dynamics symposium (also in PHYS). Make sure you check them out!
Evolutionary Optimization of Fluorophores for OLEDs
Check out Yinan’s newest paper in J. Chem. Phys, which describes our evolutionary approach to the design of fluorophores for light emitting diodes. We identify several classes of molecules which are predicted to have a high propensity for thermally activated delayed fluorescence, and also demonstrate our genetic algorithm approach to provide an efficient sampling of chemical space.
Conical Intersections on the Oxidized Silicon Surface in JPC C
Yinan’s newest paper on conical intersections which arise upon oxidation of the silicon surface is in J. Phys. Chem. C.! We show that several different silicon epoxide defects exhibit low-lying intersections, and suggest routes to experimental confirmation of these predictions. Check it out!
Welcome to David!
David Bianchi, an MSU junior, will be joining our evolutionary molecular design effort. Welcome, David!
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