electronic structure theory

Inside the dye laser used for the duration of my project.

Finishing the fourth-year project

Posted by David in Natural Sciences on May 21, 2015

Central to the final year of the integrated masters is the fourth-year project, taking up half of all allocated module time and culminating in a project report (which I gave some advice on writing here). After months of working in the laser lab, running hundreds of simulations, and 24,600 words I’m pleased to say last […]

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One big breakthrough in computational chemistry came in the development of Density Functional Theory, where it was shown that the kinetic energy, attractive and repulsive terms of a system could be formulated using the electron density alone. This gave rise to a powerful new way of modelling systems, in particular larger ones like the C60 molecule shown above, that would go on to win one of the founders, Walker Kohn, a nobel prize.

The final project seminar and the viability of holding The Winter Olympics on Enceladus

Posted by David in Natural Sciences on March 26, 2014

With the final project seminar drawing to a close, the panic for the approaching final deadline was mediated only with thoughts of this Friday’s exams, making this week pretty hectic in terms of collecting final sets of data while revising the past few months of material! On the Natural Sciences degree, your project is assessed […]

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