Check out this article in the SBU News regarding Zain Zaidi’s Goldwater Award. Congrats again, Zain!
Open-Source AIMS with PySpawn and OpenMolCas!
Check out the newest feature in PySpawn: an interface to the OpenMolCas electronic structure code. This fully open-source option allows you to run ab initio multiple spawning (AIMS) not only with CASSCF, but also several flavors of MS-CASPT2 (MS, XMS, RMS, and XDW). Keep an eye out for a corresponding manuscript to show up on ChemRxiv in the next few days. Lea-Maria Ibele and Davide Avagliano really led this effort, and it’s been a tremendous pleasure for Ben and Arshad to work with them on this!
Congratulations, Arshad!
Postdoc Arshad Mehmood will be moving to a new position as a research scientist in the Division of Information Technology at Stony Brook University. Congratulations to Arshad for this well deserved opportunity! And as a bonus, we’re very excited that despite the new position, we will still have the opportunity to work closely with him.
ACTC in Lake Tahoe
Fangchun, Arshad, Ben, Caitlin, and Andy attended ACTC in Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe is pretty much the best place to talk science! Here we are on a sunset cruise following the TeraChem/FMS Developers meeting. (Thanks, Todd!)
Moving to Stony Brook
Perhaps this announcement is a little late, but our group will be moving to Stony Brook University in August! We’ll be associated with the Department of Chemistry and Institute for Advanced Computational Sciences there. Our friends and colleagues at MSU will be dearly missed, but we are very excited about the new opportunities that SBU presents.
Ben Joins JPC EAB
Ben is very pleased to joining the Journal of Physical Chemistry Editorial Advisory Board!
ACTC Highlight in JPC
Ben’s talk at July’s American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry has described in a highlight article in JPC. Many thanks to Zach Goldsmith of the Hammes-Schiffer group at UIUC for writing the highlight!
Hello MSU!
Prof. Levine is very excited to have joined the faculty of the MSU Chemistry Department. Let the science begin!
Levine Research Group at Stony Brook University 