2018

Andre Laestadius, postdoctoral researcher at the Hylleraas Centre, was awarded one of the first two Young CAS projects this summer, with his project "Do Electron Current Densities Determine All There Is to Know?"

We congratulate Hylleraas members Erik Tellgren and Sangita Sen with the feature article A local tensor that unifies kinetic energy density and vorticity in density functional theory in The Journal of Chemical Physics

Dalton and LSDalton had their first official release since they became OpenSource programs.

Marius Kadek recently defended his PhD thesis entitled "Advancing relativistic electronic structure methods for solids and in the time domain."

Hylleraas PI Kathrin H. Hopmann has been appointed Associate Editor of the ACS Journal Organometallics from November 1^st.

Organometallics publishes high-quality articles on the synthesis, structure, reactivity, and applications of organometallic compounds. Kathrin will contribute her expertise on computational modelling of organometallic systems to assist the journal in selecting high-quality submissions in the field. 

Kathrin H. Hopmann, one of the Principal Investigators of the Hylleraas Centre, has together with her co-workers Annette Bayer and Janakiram Vaitla published a combined experimental and computational study in Angewandte Chemie entitled Iron‐Catalyzed Carbenoid Transfer Reactions of Vinyl Sulfoxonium Ylides: An Experimental and Computational Study

We congratulate Hylleraas leader Trygve Helgaker with the feature article Bethe–Salpeter correlation energies of atoms and molecules in The Journal of Chemical Physics

We congratulate Hylleraas members Hima Bindu Kolli, Sigbjørn Løland Bore and Michele Cascella with the cover of the September edition of the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (JCTC).

Kenneth Ruud and Bjorn-Olav Brandsdal are organizing a mini-symposium in connection with Nobel laureate in chemistry Prof. Arieh Warshel's promotion as Doctor Honoris Causa at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Time and place: Sep. 25, 2018 - Sep. 26, 2018, Tromsø

Odile Eisenstein, one of the Principal Investigators of the Hylleraas Centre, has, together with co-workers from Zürich, Osaka and UC Berkeley, established  chemical shift as a predictive descriptor for catalytic activity of olefin polymerization and oligomerization. Their important work was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)

Trygve Helgaker was invited by students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, and Harvard University to give a lecture as part of the Greater Boston Area Theoretical Chemistry Lecture Series

Hylleraas members Simen Kvaal and Fabian Faulstich have been awarded the 2018 Peder Sather grant together with Asst. Prof. Lin Lin of UC Berkeley

We congratulate Hylleraas member Odile Eisenstein on the very successful organization of ICQC; the largest quantum-chemistry conference in 2018.

Led by Trygve Helgaker, "Molecules in Extreme Environments" brought together thirteen scientists to explore unusual chemistry.

Odile Eisenstein has been elected president of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences (IAQMS).

Hylleraas PI Kathrin Hopmann has been awarded the gender equality prize of the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway for 2018.

The Titan news article "Nytt «designer-molekyl» kan spare industrien for store beløp" is dedicated to the recent research by Hylleraas members David Balcells, Ainara Nova and Odile Eisenstein

We congratulate Michele Casella and Jürgen Gauss with their grant award!

A meeting focussing on chemistry in extreme environments was held June 4–6 2018 at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters