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Vigneshwar defends his MSc thesis, becomes 7th MSc/MEng of the group

Vigneshwar Kumaran Sudalayandi Rajeswari passed his thesis defense titled “First-Principles Modeling of Polymer Degradation Kinetics and Virtual High-Throughput Screening of Candidates for Biodegradable Polymers” today and is now the 3rd MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Vigneshwar, good job! Vigneshwar will stay on with the group for at least another few weeks to finish up some work and plan for his next adventures, so it’s not quite time yet to say goodbye.
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Categories: Graduation, Milestones, News, and Team.

Johannes at the Humboldt Kolleg on New Vistas in Molecular Thermodynamics

Johannes is in Berkeley, CA, for the next three days for the Humboldt Kolleg on New Vistas in Molecular Thermodynamics. He is going to give an invited talk today at the beginning of the Session on Fundamentals of Chemical Design and Engineering titled Machine Learning the Structure-Property Relationships that Define Chemistry. The Kolleg will also celebrate the 90th birthday of Professor John M. Prausnitz, one of the pioneers of Molecular Thermodynamics.
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Categories: Conferences and Meetings and News.

Atif at the 254th ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC

Atif is currently in Washington, DC, for the 254th ACS National Meeting. He will give a poster titled “Machine Learning Approach for the Fast and Accurate Prediction of Optical Properties of Organic Molecules” this morning in the CINF Division Scholarship for Scientific Excellence Poster Session and one titled “Discovering Polyimides with Exceptional Optical Properties using First-Principles Modeling, Virtual High-Throughput Screening, and Machine Learning” in the COMP Division Poster Session on Monday as well as in the Sci-Mix Poster Session on Tuesday. He had also submitted a talk for the COMP Division but that session got scrapped. Atif will also meet
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Categories: Conferences and Meetings and News.