Q-Chem Has a New President

September 30, 2019
Peter and Anna working at Berkeley Developer workshop.

We are proud to announce that our board member/developer, Prof. Anna Krylov, has taken the reins as President of Q-Chem. We look forward to much growth and prosperity under her wise leadership!

We would also like to take this time to send out our immense appreciation to our former President, Prof. Peter Gill, for all of his years of excellent service and leadership.

We feel so lucky and honored to have such an amazing team here at Q-Chem. There is none better.

Here's… Read More

Thomas Jagau Receives European Research Council Starting Grant

September 30, 2019
Chem Unbound Electrons

Congratulations to Q-Chem developer, Thomas Jagau, of the University of Munich, Germany, who has landed a European Research Council 2019 Starting Grant

Starting Grants are awarded to early-career researchers of any nationality with two to seven years of experience following completion of their PhD and having a scientific track record that shows great promise. Their research must be conducted in a public or… Read More

Thomas Jagau Awarded the Hellmann-Award

September 26, 2019
Thomas Jagau -Hellmann-Prize

Congratulations to Q-Chem developer, Thomas Jagau, on being awarded the Hans G. A. Hellmann-Prize for Theoretical Chemistry for young German-speaking theoretical chemists!

This award commemorates a pioneer of Quantum Chemistry, Hans G. A. Hellmann (1903 - 1938).  It is periodically awarded to promising young German theoretical chemists to honor their accomplishments.

 

 

Prof. Shirin Faraji Joins the Q-Chem Board of Directors

July 27, 2019
Shirin Faraji pic

Q-Chem is proud to announce our newest board member, Dr. Shirin Faraji of the University of Groningen.

Welcome, Shirin!

Prof. Martin Head-Gordon elected to Royal Society of the UK

June 7, 2019
Royal Academy of Science

Congratulations to Q-Chem Advisor and developer, Prof. Martin Head-Gordon, of the University of California at Berkeley, on being elected to the extremely prestigious Royal Society of the UK.   

Posted citation reads, "Head-Gordon has advanced quantum chemistry in three critical components - theory, algorithms, and software. This includes major advances in foundational quantum mechanical wavefunction methods, practical density functional theory and the interpretation of quantum… Read More

Publication by Q-Chem Developers: "Feshbach-Fano Approach for Calculation of Auger Decay Rates Using Equation-of-Motion Coupled-Cluster Wave Functions: Theory and Implementation"

November 15, 2020
Types of Auger effects

Congratulations to Wojciech Skomorowski and Anna I. Krylov on their new theory for calculating Auger decay rates using equation-of-motion coupled-cluster wave-functions, "Feshbach-Fano approach for the calculation of Auger decay rates using equation-of-motion coupled-cluster wave functions: Theory and implementation"

Skomorowski, Wojciech; Krylov, Anna (2020): Feshbach-Fano Approach for Calculation of Auger Decay Rates Using Equation-of-Motion Coupled-Cluster Wave Functions: Theory… Read More

Yuezhi Mao - Winner of the 2020 Michael Wormit Award

July 1, 2020
Yuezhi Mao

Congratulations to the 2020 Michael Wormit Award winner, Yuezhi Mao.  Dr. Mao is recognized for his unparalleled work on Q-Chem's infrastructure, his commitment to code maintenance, his selfless assistance to other Q-Chem developers, as well as for his important technical contributions.

The Michael Wormit Award was established in 2016 to recognize excellence in the development of new methods and algorithms in electronic structure theory and the… Read More

Pavel Pokhilko - Winner of the 2020 Michael Wormit Award

July 1, 2020
Pavel Pokhilko

Congratulations to the 2020 Michael Wormit Award winner, Pavel Pokhilko. Dr. Pokhilko has made substantial contributions to the base Q-Chem code and has been actively engaged in the developer community.  He has helped less-experienced developers to navigate Q-Chem infrastructure and the ccman2 code in particular, including outside collaborations in the groups of Profs.… Read More

Introducing Q-Chem 5.3!

June 18, 2020
Q-Chem 5.3 logo

 

We are pleased to announced our latest release:  Q-Chem 5.3!  Its improved performance means that your computational work will run more efficiently so you can be more productive.

• Support for meta-GGA density functionals for TDDFT analytic forces and frequencies (with contributions by Narbe Mardirossian)
• Suite of tools for simulating X-ray spectroscopy (XPS, XAS, XES, and RIXS): delta-… Read More

Q-Chem Welcomes Two New Board Members

August 3, 2022
New Q-Chem board members Joonho Lee and Yuezhi Mao

We are delighted to welcome two new members to the Q-Chem board, Dr. Yuezhi Mao and Dr. Joonho Lee. Yuezhi and Joonho are well-known to the Q-Chem developer community for their extensive… Read More

Q-Chem 6.0 Has Been Released!

July 1, 2022
Introducing Q-Chem 6.0

Q-Chem is pleased to introduce our latest release, Q-Chem 6.0. Its improved performance means that your computational work will run more efficiently so you can be more productive.… Read More

Webinar 64: Q-Chem 6 - Dawn of the Next Generation

June 20, 2022
Webinar 62: Q-Chem 6 - Dawn of the Next Generation

Did you miss our latest webinar, "Q-Chem 6 - Dawn of the Next Generation," presented on June 16, 2022 by Prof. Martin Head-Gordon of… Read More

Annual Q-Chem Award Symposium

June 14, 2022
Q-Chem Award Symposium Webinar Invitation Image

Video presentations are now available for viewing from the two award presentations by the 2022 Wormit Award Winner, Dr. Xintian Feng and by the Read More

Q-Chem Developer Joonho Lee Appointed as Assistant Professor at Harvard University

May 25, 2022

Congratulations to Q-Chem developer Joonho Lee on his appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University! Joonho has made many… Read More