Hi All, Attila Szabo, one of the two people behind everyone's favorite electronic structure book, will be visiting us this week. He will be at Harvard on Tuesday and there will be an open meeting with him for students and post docs from 4:30PM to 6:00PM (Location to be announced, likely the Division Room). Please drop by for some length of time to say hello if you can. If you have not participated before with Theochem, it's a great way to get to know faculty in the field and to learn from the experiences of the theorists who came before you! We will also be going out to dinner with him on Tuesday, and there are still a few slots open, so you can contact me if you are interested. As always, there will be a talk on Wednesday, and if my sales pitch above didn't get you excited for it, his title and abstract certainly will: Time: 4:00PM Wednesday (10/2/13) Place: MIT Building 4 Room 163 Title: HOW TO DO RESEARCH BY CHANGING NOTATION Abstract: The interrelation among the following will be discussed: particle-in-a box, Huckel theory, harmonic oscillator, the polarizability of the hydrogen atom, trapping and first passage times, free energy of a confined random coil, turnover times in enzyme catalysis, gambler's ruin, kinetics of ligand binding to hemoglobin, Levinthal's paradox in protein folding, cyclization of a polymer, and force induced rupture of a single molecule. If you want to see some of the other speakers we have lined up for the semester/year, you can check out the full line up at: http://people.bu.edu/theochem/schedule.html ~Jarrod