• ACS certified B.S. in Chemistry, University of Central Arkansas
• Ph.D. in Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005

     General-Order Single-Reference and Multi-Reference Methods in Quantum Chemistry, 2005

• 1st Place, House-Flaschka-Ashby Graduate Student Awards Symposium, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004
• Best Graduate Student Lecture, Annual Meeting of the Southeast Theoretical Chemistry Association (SETCA), 2004

``PSI4: An Open-Source Ab Initio Electronic Structure Program,'' J. M. Turney, A. C. Simmonett, R. M. Parrish, E. G. Hohenstein, F. A. Evangelista, J. T. Fermann, B. J. Mintz, L. A. Burns, J. J. Wilke, M. L. Abrams, N. J. Russ, M. L. Leininger, C. L. Janssen, E. T. Seidl, W. D. Allen, H. F. Schaefer, R. A. King, E. F. Valeev, C. D. Sherrill, and T. D. Crawford, WIREs Comput. Mol. Sci. 2, 556-565 (2012) (doi: 10.1002/wcms.93)

``On the Orbital Dependence of Compact, Weight-selected Configuration Interaction and Coupled-cluster Wave Functions,'' M. L. Abrams and C. D. Sherrill, Mol. Phys. 24, 3315-3320 (2005) (doi: 10.1080/00268970500302436)

``Important Configurations in Configuration Interaction And Coupled-cluster Wave Functions,'' M. L. Abrams and C. D. Sherrill, Chem. Phys. Lett. 412, 121-124 (2005) (doi: 10.1016/j.cplett.2005.06.107)

``General-order Single- and Multi-reference Configuration Interaction and Coupled-cluster Theory: Symmetric Dissociation of Water,'' M. L. Abrams and C. D. Sherrill, Chem. Phys. Lett. 404, 284-288 (2005) (doi: 10.1016/j.cplett.2005.01.101)

``Full Configuration Interaction Potential Energy Curves for The X ¹Σ_g⁺, B ¹Δ_g, and B^{′ 1}Σ_g⁺ States of C₂: A Challenge for Approximate Methods,'' M. L. Abrams and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 9211-9219 (2004) (doi: 10.1063/1.1804498)

``Natural Orbitals As Substitutes for Optimized Orbitals In Complete Active Space Wavefunctions,'' M. L. Abrams and C. D. Sherrill, Chem. Phys. Lett. 395, 227-232 (2004) (doi: 10.1016/j.cplett.2004.07.081)

``An Assessment of the Accuracy of Multireference Configuration Interaction (MRCI) and Complete-Active-Space Second-Order Perturbation Theory (CASPT2) for Breaking Bonds to Hydrogen,'' M. L. Abrams and C. D. Sherrill, J. Phys. Chem. A 107, 5611-5616 (2003) (doi: 10.1021/jp034669e)

``A Comparison of Polarized Double-zeta Basis Sets and Natural Orbitals for Full Configuration Interaction Benchmarks,'' M. L. Abrams and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Phys. 118, 1604-1609 (2003) (doi: 10.1063/1.1532313)

``The Equilibrium Geometry, Harmonic Vibrational Frequencies, and Estimated Ab Initio Limit for the Barrier To Planarity of the Ethylene Radical Cation,'' M. L. Abrams, E. F. Valeev, C. D. Sherrill, and T. D. Crawford, J. Phys. Chem. A 106, 2671-2675 (2002) (doi: 10.1021/jp0134143)