Sorry for neglect­ing a site for almost two months. There were many rea­sons for that. These days were extremely busy for me. First of all, I attended a 235^th Spring ACS National Meet­ing & Expo­si­tion in New Orleans. I gave two quite suc­cess­ful talks on the meet­ing. The first one “An ab ini­tio mol­e­c­u­lar dynam­ics study of the ini­tial chem­i­cal events in nitramines: Ther­mal decom­po­si­tion of CL-20” and the sec­ond one “Struc­ture of liq­uid water from ab ini­tio mol­e­c­u­lar dynam­ics at the com­plete plane wave basis set limit”. As I expected, the later one inspired a lot of “after ses­sion” dis­cus­sion. We spent almost half of the lunch break.
Later, I pre­sented the same talk, on 8^th South­ern School on Com­pu­ta­tional Chem­istry and Mate­ri­als Sci­ence. Although, the con­fer­ence has ended, you can still access the full pro­gram as a PDF compilation.

Last, but not least, I suc­cess­fully defend my Ph.D. the­sis on May 2^nd, 2008:) I am pretty excited about that. I hope to put some pic­tures from these events. In the mean time, a friend of mine, Dmytro Kosenkov high­lighted some of these events in his notes.

6th May, 2008 1 Comment