CHEM 268/368, MENG 255/355, Spring 2024

Course Syllabus: here

Lectures:

Room: Kent 101

Office HoursTimeLocation
Matthew HennefarthSearle 105
Bhavnesh JangidSearle 105
Jiawei ZhanERC 351
Jacob WardzalaSearle 105

Lecture Notes

Assignments

Homework

Midterm

The midterm is schedules for Thursday, April 18 from to (during class time). Some information:

  • The syllabus will cover content up until the week before.
  • You are allowed to bring a formula/cheat sheet (only 2 pages), a calculator, and you will not be allowed to use the internet during the test.
  • There will be 5 questions.

Final

Please choose between one of these two options for the final:

  1. Write a simple Hartree-Fock or DFT code with a two-page explanation of what it does. The source and/or executable should be submitted and the instructors/TA should be able to run it.

  2. Perform a short research project that would involve setting up a calculation (or a series of calculations) based on the methods described in the class on a system of your choice, running such calculation(s), and writing a max 3-page report, as it if were a scientific paper, in which the method used should be described, together with the findings.

The final should be delivered no later than .