{"id":209,"date":"2016-07-26T11:44:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2016-08-05T07:40:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T11:40:35","slug":"mercury-conference-2016-a-great-time-for-students-to-experience-computational-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/mercury-conference-2016-a-great-time-for-students-to-experience-computational-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"MERCURY conference 2016 — a great time for students to experience computational chemistry!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Alexandra

Alexandra Cassell presenting her poster at MERCURY 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week \u00a0Alex, Justin and I traveled (along with the Navea group) to the MERCURY conference<\/a> at Bucknell University,
\na conference devoted to computational chemistry done by undergraduates. \u00a0Its a a great opportunity\u00a0to see the wide diversity of work that qualifies as ‘computational chemistry’, everything from really detailed studies of small molecules using high-level theory, to simulations of huge biomolecules with an aim towards discovering better drugs. \u00a0 Not to mention mechanistic organic chemistry, applied materials research, and lots more. \u00a0 \u00a0 Six speakers from\u00a0research institutions and companies also come in to talk about their careers and research programs. \u00a0 Its a not-to-miss conference every year!<\/p>\n

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\"Justin

Justin Gerard presenting his poster at MERCURY 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

Justin and Alex both presented results from their\u00a0summer research on excited-state time-dependensity density functional theory calculations of indole and tryptophan (respectively). \u00a0Both spoke\u00a0for a quick 1-minute abstract talk in front of the entire audience of 100+ attendees and then presented their poster for an hour during the poster session, speaking with other students, faculty at undergraduate colleges, and the six invited speakers. \u00a0 \u00a0Justin<\/a> and Alex<\/a> have posted trip reports. \u00a0 \u00a0Here are the vital pictures \u00a0— they both did a great job!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Last week \u00a0Alex, Justin and I traveled (along with the Navea group) to the MERCURY conference at Bucknell University, a conference devoted to computational chemistry done by undergraduates. \u00a0Its a a great opportunity\u00a0to see the wide diversity of work that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21],"tags":[23,22],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-report","category-group-news","tag-pictures","tag-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}