Atif won one of the Springer Poster Awards at the 2018 Conference on Foundations of Molecular Modeling and Simulation – Innovations for Complex Systems (FOMMS 2018) in Delavan (WI) today. Congrats, Atif, good job!
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Atif, Arpit, Andrew, and Johannes are in Delavan (WI) this week for the 2018 Conference on Foundations of Molecular Modeling and Simulation – Innovations for Complex Systems (FOMMS 2018). Atif will present a poster on Wednesday titled “Large-Scale Exploration of Chemical Moieties for the Design of Next-Generation High-Refractive-Index Polymers“, Andrew will have presentations on his work with the Kofke Group, and Johannes will chair the Session on Quantum Chemistry for Challenging Systems.
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Mojtaba was awarded a 2018 Phase-I MolSSI Software Fellowship yesterday. These prestigious awards by the Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) recognize advanced graduate students and postdocs pursuing the development of software infrastructure, middleware, and frameworks that will benefit the broader field of computational molecular sciences, including biomolecular and macromolecular simulation, quantum chemistry, and materials science. In addition to a generous stipend, fellows receive specialized training in state-of-the-art software design principles and tools, and they engage in outreach and educational efforts organized by the MolSSI.
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Atif, Mojtaba, and Johannes are in Pittsburgh (PA) this week for Machine Learning in Science and Engineering 2018. Mojtaba will present a poster on Wednesday titled “Software Development and its Application for Predicting Optical Properties in Molecular Space: ChemML Program Suite, Machine Learning in Science and Engineering“, Atif will have a poster on Friday on “Harnessing Virtual High-Throughput Screening and Machine Learning for the Discovery of Novel High-Refractive-Index Polymers“, and Johannes will give an invited talk discussing “Advancing Molecular Property Predictions and Design with Machine Learning” on Friday as well. All presentations are part of the MLSE Symposium on Predicting
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Our latest paper (publication #21) titled “Building and Deploying a Cyberinfrastructure for the Data-Driven Design of Chemical Systems and the Exploration of Chemical Space” is now online at Molecular Simulation, and you can find it here. Congrats to Atif, Mojtaba, Yudhajit, and Johannes!
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Today was Chris Bamix’s last day in the group before he goes off for his new job in the real world, i.e., in the US Navy. Chris is the 5th MEng student to graduate from the group. Thanks for your hard work and best of luck for your future career, Chris!
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Shirish Sivaraj gave his MSc project defense titled “ChemBDDB: A Software-Assisted Database Infrastructure for the Exploration of Chemical and Materials Space” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the 4th MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Shirish! Very nice presentation – good job! Shirish will stay with the group for another few weeks to tie up a few loose ends on his project and hand it over to the next generation of students, before he heads out for a job in the industry.
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Mojtaba and Atif just won NSF Travel Awards to the 2018 Machine Learning in Science and Engineering conference in Pittsburgh (PA) next month. Congrats, guys, good job!
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Johannes is in Anaheim, CA, today for the 2018 TechConnect World Innovation Conference. He is going to give an invited talk at the beginning of the Symposium on Informatics, Modeling, and Simulation titled Advancing a Data-Driven In Silico Research Paradigm in the Chemical and Materials Domain.
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Johannes received the 2018 UB AIChE Professor of the Year Award during today’s annual banquet of the AIChE UB Chapter.
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