Atif and Johannes represented the CBE department during the UB campus visit, lab tour, and grad student panel discussion that were part of the Grad School Opportunities Fair of the 23rd Annual McNair Scholars Research Conference today. The Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program at UB is a federally funded TRIO program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. The McNair Program is designed to provide encouragement and services to low-income and first-generation college students, and increase participation from underrepresented groups in pursuing doctoral study.
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Welcome to the latest batch of master students in the Hachmann Group: Aditya Sonpal, Amol Mahajan, Gaurav Vishwakarma, and Po-Han Chen. We are very excited to have you on board and expect great things from you!
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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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Exciting news for the group: It was announced today that Bryan won a 2014 SMURI Summer Research Award! Congrats, Bryan – well done!
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Dr. Hans Peter Lüthi, a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the ETH Zurich, is visiting the group for a couple of days. We are very excited to have Hans Peter in Buffalo for a while as he has been on the forefront of many important developments in quantum chemistry, in particular he has been way ahead of his time on Big Data ideas in computational chemistry. He will give a seminar on the 28th titled “Assisting the Search for Novel Materials Using Computation: Donor/Acceptor Functionalization of π-conjugated Systems”. Welcome to the Queen City, Hans Peter!
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Arti Shivram – a 4th year grad student in Venu Govindaraju’s group over in Computer Science and Engineering – has decided that she wants to get her hands dirty in the Big Data and ML aspects of computational chemistry. She’ll team up with Mojtaba, Shawn, and Gaurav, and her expertise in the CSE aspects of our project will be invaluable for this ambitious research endeavor.
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Gaurav Kumar – a 5th year grad student in the group of Venu Govindaraju in Computer Science and Engineering – has volunteered to contribute his outstanding ML expertise and background to our big computational chemistry data mining and modeling work. Welcome o’board, Gaurav!
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After Johannes gave last week’s group meeting in the Govindaraju Group and had a number of conversations with Venu, the two PIs decided to join forces to tackle some of the Big Data and machine learning challenges that are creating a lot of interest in computational chemistry these days. It is very exciting to be on the forefront on this emerging field and have a partner who is an absolute expert in the CSE aspects of this research. We are very much looking forward to the things to come.
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After some hassle with the vendors we finally managed to finish up refurbishing our big office in 205 Furnas Hall with all new desks, chairs, couch-area, etc. Our space looks great now.
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