Thx & congrats to all involved! particularly the @barryblight.bsky.social, Dyker, @cortogantese.bsky.social, Ignaszak, Qu, @eislergroup.bsky.social groups, and our neighbour Limoges group from earth science! @unbresearch.bsky.social
3x3 mosaic of the department’s honour’s thesis presentations, including presenters (ul,ur,ml,lm), organizers & audience (um, ll), slides (mr,lr) and unb chem logo (mm). Part 1
3x3 mosaic of the department’s honour’s thesis presentations, including presenters (um,ml,mr,ll,lr), audience (ul), slides (ur,lm) and unb chem logo (mm). Part 2
Throwback to the annual highlight of our department’s honour’s thesis presentations last Tuesday! The breadth and quality of the work never ceases to amaze us. (1/2)
… and well represented by our chemistry faculty, at the forefront of innovation! @barryblight.bsky.social @cortogantese.bsky.social #RPC
Michael Schuurman presenting a slide showing ultrafast spectroscopy
Michael Schuurman from @uottawa.ca /NRC showing how ultrafast spectroscopy can help us better understand isomerization processes in the a/diabatic picture in today’s department seminar.
Dr. Graham Bodwell (right) during department seminar. First slide is shown with seminar title “Pyrenophenes as springboards for the synthesis of larger and more elaborate nonplanar pi systems”
Monday department seminar by @memorialu.bsky.social’s Dr. Graham Bodwell on how to negotiate with Nature to get strain in aromatic systems with pyrenophenes #aromatics #chemsky 🧪
Omid closed an exciting and busy January seminar schedule!
Right before the white season hits: green chemistry with #upei’s Dr. Marissa Clapson during the department’s last departmental seminar, educating us on the diversity of sustainability and sustainability of diversity. 🧪💚
Watch Harri's award lecture next Thursday!
Our seminar coordinator Dr. Jan-Hendrik Pöhls (left) introducing 2025’s Toole lecturer Dr. Alex Voznyy from @utsc.utoronto.ca presenting lessons learned from #AI for materials discovery, or extrapolation ≠ interpolation. #chemsky #canchem
As always, lively discussions and a whole-lotta-learning during QuNB seminars! (2/2)
Wonderful hosting Ruben Van der Stichelen again in the QuNB lab during a quick hop from his @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social long stay abroad at the Izmaylov lab at UofT. Quantum chemistry in the age of NISQ and the seniority quantum number. (1/2)
Shoutout to @ciccheminst.bsky.social, the Canadian Light Source and Western University for supporting Dr. Mar’s travel through the Canadian Light Source T. K. Sham award in Materials Chemistry, giving our students the opportunity to learn and engage with our top scientists. 🏅
Insightful lecture today by @ualberta.bsky.social Dr Arthur Mar on prediction principles in material chemistry, or how to not be a #cleverhans!
Happy to be highlighted by @unbresearch.bsky.social @discoverunb.bsky.social for this exciting work completed by Dr Mason Lawrence and Rob Horne on our team, supported by Research NB. blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...
Join us in celebrating Research Celebration Week at UNB, October 6-10, 2025!
This week puts a spotlight on the impactful research happening at our university, and the talented and committed people who make it happen.
Find the full list of activities and more at: unb.ca/researchweek
When a Machine Learning model trains on just DFT energies, does it pick up there is an underlying quantity that governs the data: the electron density? We set out to investigate that question, and looked at electron populations in very much the same way we looked at embedding representations (1/5)
Congrats to Harri, job well done 🎉🥳
Excited to see this long-running #CompChem collaboration with @cortogantese.bsky.social now in print! Led by the excellent Amir Ayati, we develop a new computational method to capture strong electron correlation. @uclchemistry.bsky.social @chemistryunb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1063/5.02...
🎉Congrats to Emily Doucet from the Pöhls group for winning the C-Therm Award for Excellence in Solid-State Chemistry at #CSC2025
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Congrats to Harri Jones on his fantastic talk at #CSC2025
Mason had awesome engagement at the final talk slot of #CSC2025. Making hydrogen gas and Aluminum MOFs from Al waste.
Strong delegation from @chemistryunb.bsky.social QuNB group at @ciccheminst.bsky.social #csc2025 meeting in Ottawa! Contributions from
1. Ehsan Ghasempouri discussing Max-Cut inspired quantum circuit decomposition for spin glasses on Mon (arxiv.org/abs/2504.12096) [bottom center] (1/4)
reference character is concentrated. The rest is dynamical correlation.
NOCI+PT2 becomes the work horse.
Ideas that have been floating between @hughburton.com and the QuNB group for a few years, it’s been an honour to work with these bright scientists (2/2) @chemistryunb.bsky.social
Very happy to have this one out! Two takeaways or tl:dr’s:
1. Spin projection is known to be “too expensive” as an N-body operation, but not if you focus on the relevant (valence) space where static correlation strikes.
2. This basically helps you identifying the active space where the multi (1/2)
The Canadian Journal of Chemistry Best Paper Award recognizes the “best paper” published in the volume year of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry (CJC). Congrats to Amer El-Samman & @cortogantese.bsky.social of the University of New Brunswick on being the recipients of this award. buff.ly/5RkYtx1
Very proud of the team effort that went into this! UG’s Stef De Castro (pKA) and Brooke Morton (13C- NMR), wonderfully mentored by recently minted PhD Amer El-Samman (logS)! It was the smoking gun for us that embeddings from GCNNs could learn actual chemistry #ProudPI
Right “in resonance” with #WorldQuantumDay2025, #UNBResearch posted a research profile of the QuNB lab
blogs.unb.ca/research/202...
Check out the #ResearchNB spotlight on the Blight lab @barryblight.bsky.social!
UVic Chemistry is hiring. We're looking for an Assistant Professor in experimental chemistry, particularly in one of the areas of physical and/or inorganic chemistry. More details in the ad below. Great department & part of the world to live! #facultychemjobs
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
And big congrats 🎉 to Stefano De Castro (right) of @cortogantese.bsky.social (left) QuNB lab for winning the Bob Ellison People’s Choice award for best presentation. 🥇