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A colleague here at the University of Pittsburgh recently asked me to give a guest lecture for her graduate class in scientific visualization.

The group of Dr. Zhong Lin at Georgia Tech has recently been pumping out a range of interesting papers on the use of zinc oxide (ZnO) “nanoribbons” for energy generation. (People may be best aware of ZnO as a sunscreen material — you used to smear the white stuff on your nose.)

The basic principal is [...]

Recently, I wrote to ask for suggestions in chemistry visualizations. Rajarshi Guha wrote in with several suggestions. One of the most interesting to me was to map results or numeric data to structures themselves:

In terms of mol vis itself, I’d like to see useful ways of mapping things to structures themselves – so fragment properties [...]

It sits atop the cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore, and is larger than the dome of the US Capitol, St. Paul’s in London, or even St. Peter’s in Rome. It was built before any of them, in 1436. No scaffolding was used, nor does it need external support.

Filippo Brunelleschi has been celebrated as an architectural [...]

I’ve been asked to give a guest lecture at a computer science colleague’s graduate class on scientific visualization in February. She’s asking for a quick summary to put into her syllabus.

Her key question is this: what are problems that we are trying to solve in chemical visualization? What is the current state of visualization tools, [...]

I was recently asked online why I bother at all with writing open source chemistry software. It’s a good, important question for myself and my career.

I believe in working smarter and harder. One of my Ph.D. advisors said “a day in the library saves a month in lab.”

I believe a day (or a week) designing [...]