Summer at Q-Chem 2021 - Now Accepting Applications

March 4, 2021
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Q-Chem has announced that it is now taking applications for its 2021 Summer at Q-Chem programClick here to find out more about this year's program and to find out the application procedures.  Application is open to graduate students and postdocs who are members of the Q-Chem developer community.

Congratulations to Marta Lopez Vidal: The 2021 Michael Wormit Award Winner!

March 3, 2021
Marta Lopez Vidal

Q-Chem is pleased to announce that Marta Lopez Vidal has been chosen as a recipient of the 2021 Michael Wormit Award, on the basis of her scientific innovation, her wealth of exciting new ideas, her impressive code development, and the breadth of her contributions to Q-Chem's infrastructure and to the Q-Chem developers' community.

The Michael Wormit award was established to recognize excellence in the development of new methods and algorithms in the area… Read More

Webinar 48: The ezSpectra Suite: An easy-to-use Toolkit for Spectroscopy Modeling

February 24, 2021
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Watch Q-Chem's Webinar 48, "The ezSpectra Suite: An easy-to-use Toolkit for Spectroscopy Modeling," presented on March 3, 2021 by Dr. Samer Gozem (Georgia State University).

New Videos from the Wormit Award Webinar Mini-Symposium

December 18, 2020
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Watch the videos from our 2020 Wormit Award virtual event presented on December 2, 2020:

New Video: "Chemistry doesn't happen in a vacuum: Bringing advanced solvent environments to Q-Chem for dynamics and more"

December 15, 2020
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Watch Q-Chem's November webinar, "Chemistry doesn't happen in a vacuum: Bringing advanced solvent environments to Q-Chem for dynamics and more," co-presented on November 23, 2020 by Dr. Maximilian Menger (University of Groningen) and Dr. Vale Cofer-Shabica (University of Pennsylvania).

Upgrade Today: Q-Chem 5.3.2 is Released!

December 10, 2020
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Q-Chem is pleased to introduce our latest release, Q-Chem 5.3.2. Its improved performance means that your computational work will run more efficiently so you can be more productive. The Q-Chem 5.3 release log contains a complete list of improvements in the software.

Any of our customers who have purchased Q-Chem 5.3 are eligible for this upgrade, free of charge. Update your software today!

If you do not have a Q-… Read More

New Video: "PySurf - A Framework for Database Accelerated Direct Dynamics"

November 9, 2020
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Watch Q-Chem's October webinar, "PySurf - A Framework for Database Accelerated Direct Dynamics," presented on October 28, 2020 by Dr. Maximilian Menger (University of Groningen).

View our latest webinar: GPU Computing with Q-Chem and BrianQC

August 21, 2020
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Last week, István Ladjánszki of BrianQC presented our latest webinar, "GPU Computing with Q-Chem and BrianQC."

If you missed it, you can now view it on our YouTube page. Enjoy!

 

Prof. Joseph Subotnik Elected APS Fellow

May 1, 2020
Prof. Joe Subotnik

Congratulations to Q-Chem developer, Prof. Joseph Subotnik of the University of Pennsylvania, who has been elected 2020 APS Fellow.

The citation for this reads, "For pioneering advances in understanding the nature of nonadiabatic processes and merging electronic structure with chemical dynamics, advances that have allowed us to better model photo-induced processes and dissipation at metal-molecule… Read More

Joonho Lee Awarded the 2020 Justin Jankunas Doctoral Dissertation Award

April 15, 2020
Joonho Lee

Dr. Joonho Lee earned his B.S. in chemistry and physics in 2013 from Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea. He then moved to the United States to study as a Kwanjeong Educational Foundation fellow at Caltech where he earned his M.S. in chemistry under Prof. Thomas F. Miller III. Subsequently, he moved to UC Berkeley in 2015 and completed his Ph.D. work in chemistry in 2019 under Prof. Martin P. Head-Gordon.

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Q-Chem Webinar 67: Projection-based Quantum Mechanical Embedding Methods in Q-Chem

October 13, 2022

Modeling of the environment plays an essential role in computational studies of chemical processes in realistic condensed-phase systems. Projection-based embedding theory provides a robust and… Read More

Q-Chem Webinar 66: Decoding chemical information from vibrational spectroscopy data: Local vibrational mode theory

September 7, 2022
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Local vibrational mode theory is a useful tool for characterizing chemical bonding and weak chemical interactions, and the open-source program LModeA can help! It’s designed to work with quantum… Read More

Q-Chem 6.0.1 Is Released

August 24, 2022
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Q-Chem is pleased to introduce our latest release, Q-Chem 6.0.1. It includes several bugfixes and improvements to the recent 6.0 release. For a full list of updates, fixes, and resolved issues,… Read More

Q-Chem Webinar 65: Non-Hermitian Quantum Chemistry Methods in Q-Chem

August 11, 2022
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Most quantum chemistry methods assume that all electrons remain bound to the nuclei, but how do we accurately model situations where this isn't the case? The answer can be found in non-Hermitian… 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