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• Recognize how the axis scale type, axis range, and other parameters can influence the appearance of a scientific plot.
• Tips for reading figures/ plotting figures with less ambiguity.

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• Learn the numerical algorithm for solving Schrödinger equation as a 1D boundary value problem
• Apply the algorithm to solve 1D Harmonic Oscillator

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• Learn to create static graphs with molecule structure labeled with arrows that represent some interesting vectors, such as normal modes, energy gradients, and even non-adiabatic coupling vectors.
• Learn to create animations of molecular vibration in given the normal mode vector

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• Learn to plot 3D graph to visualize potentials in multidimensional space
• Play around with the generalized force constants of 2D harmonic potential to understand how the diagonal and off-diagonal elements influence the shape of the potential

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• Learn basics about maniputlating datasets with the python package, Pandas
• Learn to fit Morse potential based on experimental vibrational spectrum data
• Try the interactive python code to visualize the Morse potential of low-lying electronic states of diatomic molecules

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• Learn the basics about Numerov method
• Try the interactive python code to solve particle in a box problem numerically
• Understand how grid size can influence the accuracy of grid-based methods.

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• Learn about a few math books/courses that may be useful for theo/comp chem graduate students.
• Let’s talk about the fear of missiong out (FOMO) on math courses.

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• Try the interactive python code to plot the wave function of Harmonic Oscillator (1D).
• Play with the different parameters and try answering the questions asked at the end of this tutorial.

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• Try the interactive python code to plot the 1D particle in a box wave function.
• Observe the change of the wave function with different box lengths and quantum numbers.

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• Try the interactive python code to plot the blackbody radiation curve with classical and Planck’s formula.
• Learn the history of “ultraviolet catastrophe” and the birth of quantum mechanics

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• Get some tips about learning programming as a beginner in computational chemistry.
• Topics:
  1. The first language to learn?
  2. From one to more?
  3. More isn’t always better

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• Utilize bash to run for loops and if conditions
• Edit text with sed

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• Locate the online resources for learning machine learning.

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• Get familiar with different ways to run python
• Set up your personal computer ready to run Jupyter Notebook
• Learn to run Jupyter Notebook from remote cluster through port forwarding

Learning objectives

• Run a simple GPU-based quantum chemistry calculation
• Get familiar with running calculations on computer clusters

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• Learn to visualize molecular structures for molecular simulation.
• Topics:
  1. Common software for molecular structure visualization.
  2. Visualize a static molecule structure.
  3. Visualize a trajectory (a moving molecule).

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• Learn basic python scripting to run a quantum chemistry simulation from scratch
• Topics:
  1. Geometry generation
  2. Input file generation
  3. Output file processing

Learning objectives

• Run a simple quantum chemistry calculation
• Understand the different aspects a researcher can contribute to a computational project.

At this site, we post mini tutorials for the basic techniques that students new to computational chemistry would need.