Mid September in Hasselt means the start of a new academic year. It brings to an end a summer of doing some unrestricted research. Especially the last month has been extremely busy.
- The DFT2024 conference in Paris from August 25th until 30th, where I presented our recent work on the GeV defect, which we will be submitting shortly.
- The materiomics summer school, where I gave a lecture on performing practical quantum mechanical calculations,
- The public PhD defense of Emerick Guillaume (QuATOMs group member) on the growth of diamond: congratulations Emerick!
- A seminar at UNamur on “extreme machine learning”, discussing our work on small datasets and some of the work I did this summer on a spray coating dataset.
Today the first week of academic year ended, and I already had the pleasure teaching quantum mechanics and modelling courses to chemistry and materiomics students. We also welcome 2 MSc materiomics students to the group: Brent Motmans and Eleonora Thomas. Brent will be working on an experimental-theoretical project, where the theoretical side will focus on machine learning of his experimental data. Eleonora on the other hand will be combining DFT and machine learning in her study of diamond. A very warm welcome to the QuATOMs group for both.
