Prof. Peter M. W. Gill of the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University, visits for a chemistry seminar on "New Ways to Think About Electronic Excited States."
Prof. Laura Gagliardi, Director of the University of Minnesota's Chemical Theory Center, visited for a chemistry seminar on "Computational Design of Functionalized Metal-Organic Framework for Catalysis." flyer
Welcome to our first postdoc, Dr. Bradford A. Barker, from the Louie group in physics at UC Berkeley. His thesis was on strong spin-orbit effects in solids, and will be working on application of the GW/Bethe-Salpeter Equation methodology to open-shell transition-metal complexes.
Prof. Anthony Dutoi of the chemistry department at the University of the Pacific in Stockton visited for a chemistry seminar on "Excitonic coupled-cluster theory for large-scale electronic structure calculations." flyer