Cf., Hernandez Group Meeting Schedule
- November 18, 2009:
Gungor Ozer received a Best Poster Award at the
Frontiers
in Macromolecular Simulations Symposium
on the 17th. Congratulations Gungor!!!
- October 19, 2009:
Matthew Hagy received the Best Poster at the Homecoming Research Symposium
on the 17th. Congratulations Matt!!!
- October 19, 2009:
The Herty75 Celebration was
featured
in the
October 19th issue of C&EN
on pages 43-44.
It includes a quote that "Endlessly energetic, Hernandez [the Herty75
Chair] emceed most of the activities..."
- July 20-26, 2009:
Prof. Hernandez is delivering lectures on statistical mechanics
as part of this week's
Telluride
School on Theoretical Chemistry (TSTC) being held at the
TSRC
in Telluride, CO.
- July 21, 2009:
A raw version of my public lecture on "TippingPoings: Avoiding collapse in
economic, molecular and social networks"
is now available at the
Telluride Web TV
archives.
The link to the direct video stream is
also available.
- June 18, 2009:
Next week, Prof. Hernandez will co-organize the TSRC workshop
on Chemistry
and Dynamics in Complex Environments in Telluride, CO.
He will also deliver the
TSRC/Pinhead Town Talk
on
Tipping
Poings: Avoiding collaps in econonmic, molecular and social networks.
Check out the
article in the Telluride Watch.
- February 6, 2009:
Hernandez will be delivering the plenary lecture at the
29th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting (PRISM 2009)
of the
Puerto Rico Louis Stokes Alliance
for Minority Participation (PR-LSAMP)
on March 14th on the subject,
"Using chemical tools to make sense of molecular, economic
and social networks."
- January 23, 2009:
Our article on
De novo identification of binding sequences for antibody replacement molecules
was just published online by
Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics.
- January 1, 2009:
Congratulations to Megan Damm for being selected as a Rohm & Haas
Fellow in the Spring.
- October 22, 2008:
Our article with Profs. Tino Borondo and Rosa Benito from Madrid
on the direct numerical observation of the Kramers Turnover
has just been published on-line in
the
October 24th issue of Physical Review Letters.
- August 1, 2008:
Dr. John L. Gohres sucessfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis
jointly advised by C. Eckert, C. Liotta and R. Hernandez.
He received his degree at Georgia Tech's Graduation Ceremony
this summer. Congratulations!
(Check out the picture in the
Gallery.)
- July 25, 2008:
Hernandez has been invited to participate in the
6th Annual
National Academies Keck
Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Conference:
Complexity 2008.
- July 25, 2008:
Congratulations to Denise Enekwa for being selected as a
Molecular Biophysics Trainees for academic year 08/09.
And a belated congratulations to Ashley Tucker
for having been selected as
Molecular Biophysics Trainees for the academic year 06/07.
- July 25, 2008:
Congratulations to Denise Enekwa for being selected as a Rohm & Haas
Fellow in the Fall.
- July 15, 2008:
A belated congratulations to Ashley Tucker for being selected as the
first Rohm & Haas Fellow in Spring'08.
- July 1, 2008:
The recently released
ACS 2007 Annual Report quotes Hernandez as saying:
"Every member of the American Chemical Society has a story. Every member
of the ACS is unique.
But we also have something in common. And that is, we love chemistry.
And why do we love chemistry?
Because it ofers us problems that are interesting, that we want to solve,
and that, in turn, give back solutions to society."
(Local copies of the
full report and the
back page containing the quote
are available.)
- March 28, 2008:
The
report from the NSF/DoE/NIH "Workshop on Excellence Empowered by a Diverse Academic Workforce: Achieving Racial & Ethnic Equity in Chemistry"
has now been released. Hernandez was a member of the Steering Committee.
(For a local copy,
click here.)
- August 11, 2007:
Hernandez appears in the ACS Boston Meeting welcome video
that will be shown in the lobbies of the conference hotels
next week.
The
video is available on YouTube.
or here.
- July 7, 2007:
Dr. Yanping Qin recently defended her Ph.D. Thesis, and will
receive her degree at Georgia Tech's Graduation Ceremony
this summer.
(Check out the picture in the
Gallery.)
- June 15, 2007:
Hernandez has just appeared on p.19 of the
ACS 2006 Annual Report
promoting science advocacy in the public interest in
"ACS
opens doors to the public".
(For a local copy of the report click
here.)
- May 19, 2007:
Ashley Tucker placed third in the Poster Session
at the 2007
annual meeting of the Southeastern Theoretical Chemistry Association
for her work on the
"Diffusion of a Spherical Particle Through a Stationary Liquid Crystal."
- May 4, 2007:
Gungor Ozer successfully defended his outside proposal and
has now been advanced to candidacy.
- May 3, 2007:
Dr. Jeremy Moix and Dr. Charu Shukla received their degrees
during Georgia Tech's Ph.D. Graduation Ceremony.
Pictures available in the Gallery.
- April 23, 2007:
Ashley Tucker successfully defended her outside proposal and
has now been advanced to candidacy.
- April 9, 2007: Jeremy Moix
successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis, titled
"Molecular dynamics and stochastic simulations of
surface diffusion." Congratulations!!!
- April 3, 2007: Jay Foley,
our former undergraduate research student and recent Georgia Tech Graduate,
will be going to University of Chicago for graduate school in
theoretical and computational chemistry.
He also won a very prestigious McCormick Fellowship!
- January 18, 2007:
Jeremy Moix has been awarded a
Feinberg Fellowship by the Dean of the Faculty
of the
Feinberg Graduate School
to conduct his postdoctoral research with Prof. Eli Pollak at the Weizmann
Institute of Science upon his graduation.
This is a competitive program and funds a very limited number of applicants.
- December 11, 2006:
Charu Shukla successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis, titled
"Computationally probing the cybotactic region in gas-expanded liquids",
and jointly advised by C. Eckert, C. Liotta and R. Hernandez.
Congratulations!!!
- September 18, 2006:
The entire group moved to the new MS&E Building!
Prof. Hernandez's office is now in 2100L, and the group is located on
the Fourth floor just south of the main atrium.
- June 27, 2006:
Ashley Tucker has been selected as one of five
Molecular
Biophysics Trainees for the 2006-07 academic year.
- June 27, 2006:
Dr. Shi Zhong has accepted a position as a
Bioinformatics Scientist at the
MLSCN
at Emory between
the Chemistry and Pharmacology departments.
- May 15, 2006:
The official web release of D2Check.
- March 15, 2006:
Prof. Hernandez has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship
by the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a stay in
Germany in the 2006-2007 academic year.
- March 12, 2006:
Jay Foley, undergraduate researcher in our group, was selected
for the HYPERCHEM Award.
- February 17, 2006:
Look for the Hernandez group at the
American Chemical Society national meeting in Atlanta
during the week of March 26 - 30, 2006.
A schedule of our presentations and posters is available.
- February 13, 2006:
The p.96
article in the February 13, 2006 issue
of
C&EN
on "How Some Chemists Got Involved in Politics"
leads with a
picture of Hernandez and Congressman Lewis
in the latter's DC office, and several quotes by Hernandez.
- November 22, 2005:
Prof. Hernandez appears on
WTOC11 in Savannah, Georgia
emphasizing the use of Internet2 to facilitate
computational sciences.
Both a pdf snapshot of the WTOC story
and the
WTOC video segment
are available.
- September 11, 2005:
Prof. Stephen Rick
from the
University of New Orleans
has joined the group
for the fall semester as an affiliate of Georgia Tech while
New Orleans recovers from Hurricane Katrina.
- August 22-26, 2005:
Jeremy & Shi present oral talks at the ACS meeting in Washington, DC.
- August 14, 2005:
The new web site is now up.
- August 5, 2005:
CCMST takes delivery
of our new 154 processor DELL cluster.
- May 11, 2005:
Jeremy Moix receives
CCG Excellence Award (Press Release).
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