More good news: Atif was just awarded the American Physical Society Distinguished Student Travel Award, which includes a travel bursary and a speaking slot at the 2017 APS March Meeting in New Orleans. Congrats, Atif! Excellent job!
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Johannes is currently out in Seattle for the 2016 Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry (TACC) conference. He will give an invited talk titled “A Software ecosystem for the data-driven design of chemical systems and the exploration of chemical space” on Wednesday and Chair a session on “Excited States” on Tuesday.
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The group welcomes Ryan A. Fair, a rising senior in the UB CBE undergraduate program, as the latest addition to our team. He will initially work with Yudhajit on our project to model Li-ion mobility on graphene nano-patches.
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Mojtaba is on a roll during the ongoing 252nd ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia. After winning the ACS CINF Scholarship Award for Scientific Excellence, he now also won the Outstanding Student Poster Award of the Division for Physical Chemistry. Good job and well done, Mojtaba!
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Mojtaba just won the Scholarship Award for Scientific Excellence of the ACS Division of Chemical Information. Congrats, Mojtaba, well done!
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Johannes made it to the final of the “Emerging Technologies in Computational Chemistry” competition of the ACS Division for Computers in Chemistry, but unfortunately did not win in the end. Congrats to Greg Beran from UC Riverside who came out on top.
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Atif, Mojtaba, Yudhajit, and Johannes are heading out to Philadelphia today at the 252nd ACS National Meeting. The group has a busy program with the following events: Sun (Aug 21), 9:30am – 9:45am, Maestro A/DoubleTree: ACS PHYS “Accelerating discovery: Citizen science, big data and machine learning for physical chemistry”, Johannes (session intro talk) Sun (Aug 21), 11:00am – 11:30am, Benton/Sonesta: ACS COMP “ChemLG – A smart and massively parallel molecular library generator”, Atif (talk) Sun (Aug 21), 1:30pm – 2:00pm, Warhol/Sonesta: ACS COMP “A Software ecosystem for the data-driven design of chemical systems and the exploration of chemical space”, Johannes
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Yujie Tian passed her thesis defense titled “Inheritance of Molecular Orbital Energies from Monomer Building Blocks to Larger Copolymers in Organic Semiconductors” today and is now the 2nd MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Yujie! Yujie will stay on with the group until October to finish up some work and plan for her next adventures, so it’s not quite time yet to say goodbye.
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