We develop new theoretical, computational, and conceptual methods for understanding, interpreting, predicting, and quantifying chemical phenomena. We are particularly interested in how electrons rearrange during chemical reactions, molecular rearrangements, and redox processes. The tools we develop are applicable to a wide range of chemical processes, including drug design and medicinal chemistry, nuclear waste reprocessing and remediation, and catalysis.
01-02-2017:
K Finzel, PW Ayers, "The exact Fermi potential yielding the Hartree-Fock electron density from orbital-free density functional theory" Int. J. Quantum Chem. Online Preprint (2017)
15-01-2017:
JSM Anderson, JI Rodríguez, PW Ayers, AW Götz "Relativistic (SR-ZORA) quantum theory of atoms in molecules properties" J. Comput. Chem. (2017)
13-01-2017:
K Boguslawski, F Réal, P Tecmer, C Duperrouzel, ASP Gomes, Ö Legeza, PW Ayers, V Vallet, "On the Multi-Reference Nature of Plutonium Oxides: PuO2(2+), PuO2, PuO3, PuO2(OH)2" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2017)
01-01-2017:
F Heidar-Zadeh, Stijn Fias, E Vöhringer-Martinez, T Verstraelen, PW Ayers "The local response of global descriptors" Theor. Chem. Acc. (2017)
Announcements
26-04-2017: Fanwang Meng has been awarded a Dalley Fellowship. Congratulations Fanwang!
01-04-2017: Anand Patel has been awarded the NSERC CGS-M award.
10-03-2017: David Kim, Derrick Yang and Yilin Zhao have passed their comprehensive exams!
13-09-2016: Prof. Paul Ayers has been elected a member of the college of the Royal Society of Canada. Congratulations!
New members & visitors
01-05-2017: Ali Tehrani and Nadin Abbas have joined the group this summer as undergraduate research assistants!
01-12-2016: Gabriela Sánchez-Díaz joins the group as a visiting Ph.D. student. Welcome Gabriela!
01-11-2016: Dr. Stijn Fias has joined the group as a Postdoctoral Researcher! Welcome Stijn!
01-09-2016: Corinne Duperrouzel joined the group as a 4th year undergraduate thesis student.
Presentation
23-03-2017: Corinne is presenting her senior thesis work at 7:00 pm in ABB 163.
Group Meeting
22-03-2017: Corinne is presenting her senior thesis work for this week's group meeting. Please join us in ABB-204 at 2:30 pm.
Group Meeting
29-02-2017: Gabriela is presenting Peptide Structure Determination by NMR and Molecular Mechanics for this week's group meeting. Please join us in ABB-204 at 2:30 pm.
Group Meeting
15-02-2017: Anand is presenting Using Pade approximants to calculate nonlinear optical properties for this week's group meeting. Please join us in ABB-204 at 2:30 pm.
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