Hamilton students, who have been using computational chemistry in their summer research, presented their findings at the MERCURY conference. MERCURY is a consortium of seven liberal arts institutions with access to high performance computing resources for chemistry students and researchers. Current equipment consists of a 32 processor SGI Origin 300 and an 8 processor SGI Origin 300. The annual meeting is the only national conference devoted to undergraduate computational chemistry and was held at Hamilton College from July 30 - August 1.
Students working with George Shields, Winslow Professor of Chemistry, presented their work:
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Christy House '06, discusses her poster on " Comparison of Different Methods for the Determination of Energies of Deprotonation" with a conference participant. |
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Danielle Massee '07 with her poster on "Recognition and Binding within the Minor Groove DNA by Various Molecules." |
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Matt Palascak '07 with his poster, "Experiment Free: Energy of Hydration Values of H+, OH- and H30+." |
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Rebecca Shepherd '06 presented a poster on "Abstraction of Hydrogen after Bergman Cyclization of Benzannelated Enedynes with Ortho Substituents." |
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Meghan Dunn who is sophomore at George Washington University has spent a couple summers in Prof. Shields lab. Here she discusses her poster on "Conformation Analysis of cEQ: THe Functional Peptide of the Breast Cancer Inhibitor AFP" with Shields and other conference participants. |
