August 19, 2024
The American Chemical Society Division of Computers in Chemistry held a Symposium in honor of Don Truhlar’s birthday at the ACS National Meeting in Denver on August 18 and 19. Don’s lecture was entitled “Improved nonclassical-energy functionals for multiconfiguration nonclassical-energy functional theory (MC-NEFT).” Many group alumni and collaborators presented their research: Yihan Shao, Rubén Meana-Pañeda, Jiali Gao, Hai Lin, Shikha Nangia, Laura Gagliardi, Jingjing Zheng, Arindam Chakraborty, Andreas Heyden, David Schwenke, Hua Guo, Sijia Dong, Roland Lindh, Yan Zhao, Xiaosong Li, Jingzhi Pu, Ahren Jasper, Lucas Bao, Jingyun Ye, Ilja Siepmann, and Ben Janesko.
Don Truhlar with the symposium organizers. Left to right: Hai Lin (University of Colorado at Denver), Don, Sijia Dong (Northeastern University), and Jingzhi Pu (Indiana University at Indianapolis).