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September 2016: Professor Sherrill is featured in Georgia Tech Research Horizons articles about computational materials research and data-driven science
Professor Andreas Hesselmann will visit us Thursday and Friday, October 6-7
Professor Ugur Bozkaya will visit us Monday-Saturday, October 3-8
July 2016: The Sherrill group welcomes new graduate students Matt Schieber and Constance Warden
October 28, 2015: The group cluster Hexagon has been upgraded to 15 nodes.
August, 2015: The Sherrill group is part of a multi-PI, $3.6M award from the NSF under the Sustainable Software Infrastructure (SSI) program. The project, Removing Bottlenecks in Computational Science, focuses on the development of reusable software components and the development of our Common Driver for Quantum Chemistry.
February, 2015: Rob Parrish was named to Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 in Science
February, 2015: Professor Sherrill was inducted as a Fellow of the AAAS for his "notable advances in electronic structure theory and their application in seminal studies of non-covalent pi interactions"
Sept 30, 2014: The group cluster Hexagon goes into sevice with 9 6-core nodes, five of them featuring the new Intel Haswell processors that have fused multiply-add (FMA) instructions, doubling hypothetical performance for matrix multiplications.
Aug 25, 2014: Professor Sherrill was interviewed by Chemical and Engineering News about his talk at the Fall 2014 ACS National Meeting in San Francisco on sustainable software for quantum chemistry

Introductory summer lecture series in theoretical chemistry

Group Meetings

Group meetings are Thursdays 2:00 - 3:30 in MS&E 4202A

Date	Presenter	Topic
Thurs, July 7	David Sherrill	Report on CECAM and MQM conferences
Thurs, July 14	Constance Warden	Prior Research Presentation
Mon, July 18 10am	Seth Polansky and Mike Zott	REU Research Presentation
Thurs, July 21	Leonardo dos Anjos Cunha	Research Update
Thurs, July 28	Lori Burns and Daniel Smith	Report on SciPy conference
Thurs, Aug 4	Group	Literature Update
Thurs, Aug 11	Brandon Bakr	Research Update
Thurs, Aug 18	Ryan Richard	Research Update
Thurs, Aug 25	N/A	No Meeting
Thurs, Sep 1	Group	Literature Update
Thurs, Sep 8	Daniel Smith	Research Update
Thurs, Sep 15	Dom Sirianni	Research Update
Thurs, Sep 22	Group	Literature Update
Thurs, Sep 29	Ben Pritchard	Research Update
Thurs, Oct 6	Visitor(s)	TBA
Thurs, Oct 13	N/A	No meeting
Thurs, Oct 20	Lori Burns	Research Update
Thurs, Oct 27	Matt Schieber	Research Update
Thurs, Nov 3	Group	Literature Update
Thurs, Nov 10	Constance Warden	Research Update
Thurs, Nov 17	TBA	TBA
Thurs, Dec 1	Group	Literature Update
Thurs, Dec 8	TBA	TBA