Talks by our group at the AIChE Annual Meeting

Next week the AIChE Annual meeting takes place in Pittsburgh, PA. Quite a few current and former people from our group, including Kelly Nicholson, Sung Gu Kang, Ambarish Kulkarni, Tom Manz, and Hanjun Fang, will be giving talks. Several of our experimental collaborators, including Sangil Han and Fateme Rezaei, are also giving talks. The full program for the meeting is available here:
https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2012/webprogram/start.html

New paper in Phys Rev B

A new paper by Kelly Nicholson from our group has just appeared in Phys. Rev. B:

"Computationally efficient determination of hydrogen isotope effects on the thermodynamic stability of metal hydrides"
URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.134113
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.134113

Congratulations Kelly on your nice work. 

Two collaborative postdoc positions available

Our close collaborator Prof. Sankar Nair has two open postdoctoral positions that will involve experimental work on projects where theoretical work is being done in our group. Information about these positions is available here: http://nair.chbe.gatech.edu/DownloadDocs/GeorgiaTech_PostdoctoralPositions_Oct2012.pdf
Questions or applications for these positions should be directed to Prof. Nair.

Welcome to Dalar and Ross

We are very pleased to welcome two new PhD students to our group. Dalar Nazarian and Ross Verploegh are both currently first year students in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. We look forward to getting to know them and working with them over the next several years.

Talk on capturing CO2 from air in London

Next week, David will be one of the invited speakers at a 1-day symposium on capture of carbon dioxide from air in London. More information is available here:

AIR CAPTURE: DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGIES FOR CARBON RECYCLING AND NEGATIVE EMISSIONS

16 October 2012, London

www.imeche.org/events/S1706

Southeastern Catalysis Society Annual Symposium

Multiple members of our group will be attending the 11th Annual Symposium of the Southeastern Catalysis Society in Asheville, NC on Sept. 30-Oct. 1. If you are attending, look for talks and posters from our group!

Farewell to Xuerong

We are bidding farewell to Xuerong Shi, who is moving from Atlanta to be with her husband in Germany. It has been a pleasure having Xuerong here as a postdoc, where she has done terrific work in collaboration with experiments by the Gellman group at Carnegie Mellon, the Sykes group at Tufts, and the Sievers group at Georgia Tech. Best wishes in the future Xuerong!