Hm. Exciting things over the past month or so ( Read more... )

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Once again, I'm updating later than expected. Anyways, here's my impression of the semester, by class ( Read more... )

This may be the longest I've gone without an update. Since I'm not dead or otherwise incapacitated, the reason is probably that I've been busy or deprived of easy computer access. It's actually a mix of the two, but I'm finally settling down again ( Read more... )

So tomorrow we've got our third lecture on coupled cluster theory. Dr. Crawford is going to show us how to draw the coupled cluster equations. Yeah, that ("draw") is not a typo, there are these funny-lookin diagrams with circles and dots and lines that translate into equations. It's easier to work with the diagrams because the diagrams ( Read more... )

Wow. I actually wrote lyrics. A complete set in an hour's time ( Read more... )

It's so quiet now. Almost everyone went home for the 4th of July 'weekend'. The other REU kids are great and I love hanging out with them, but a couple days of quiet are nice too ( Read more... )

Yesterday we (the Crawford lab) shut down our server, Sirius, in order to get all the machines on the same operating system (Fedora Core 3) and to establish a batch queue for submitting jobs to the various clusters. Last night, everything was good to go and Dr. Crawford made sure that Sirius was ready for normal operation the next morning ( Read more... )

So I figured since a good portion of my summer is dedicated to this molecule, I might as well let people know what it "looks like" (of course it looks nothing like this). Anyway, this is the classical ball-and-stick model of the S enantiomer of 2-chloropropionitrile, and calculating its gas-phase specific rotation at fixed wavelengths (more ( Read more... )

So today was cool ( Read more... )