{"id":8,"date":"2016-05-31T21:14:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T01:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2016-05-31T23:27:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T03:27:01","slug":"what-you-need-to-learn-to-do-computational-chemistry-everything-chris-cramer-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/what-you-need-to-learn-to-do-computational-chemistry-everything-chris-cramer-knows\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to learn to do Computational Chemistry:  everything Chris Cramer knows!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing computational chemistry requires (1) the technical know-how to use special software and computers and (2)\u00a0the knowledge to understand what the software is\u00a0telling you.<\/p>\n<p>On that second point, there&#8217;s a lot of math and physics behind the theories of chemistry&#8212;and its great stuff! But before you dive into studying a lot of formal math and physics, its good to know what you&#8217;re working towards. <a href=\"http:\/\/pollux.chem.umn.edu\">Chris Cramer<\/a> (a professor at U. Minnesota) is a computational chemist who has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Essentials-Computational-Chemistry-Theories-Models\/dp\/0470091827\">computational chemistry textbook<\/a> and put a bunch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLkNVwyLvX_TFBLHCvApmvafqqQUHb6JwF\">free video lectures<\/a> up on Youtube that explain the concepts behind computational chemistry at a level that most students can understand. If you&#8217;ve taken general chemistry, an organic chemistry course, and a couple semester of calculus (multivariable calculus is great, but not absolutely necessary), these videos are great background and inspiration. \u00a0As you move through the video series (49 total &#8212; a full course!) the material gets rich, but if you follow along you should understand the spirit of it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ComputationalChemistryUMN\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLkNVwyLvX_TFBLHCvApmvafqqQUHb6JwF\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing computational chemistry requires (1) the technical know-how to use special software and computers and (2)\u00a0the knowledge to understand what the software is\u00a0telling you. On that second point, there&#8217;s a lot of math and physics behind the theories of chemistry&#8212;and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/what-you-need-to-learn-to-do-computational-chemistry-everything-chris-cramer-knows\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[9],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamkennerly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}