Hi everyone! I'm new here and not so sure someone will ever read what I'm typing right now.

So let's procede with this #introduction...
I'm a MSc student in Chemistry.
At the moment I'm working on my thesis project within the Theoretical Chemistry group of Turin, Italy.

I joined the SDF community one year ago and I update with some (in)consistency my lovely gopherhole.

A few months ago I started taking some pictures after my gf gave me a Liam Wong book. The results are not so bad.

@Mit

What is the topic of your research, if you are willing to say? Theoretical chemistry is a field (not to say minefield!) of intriguing, difficult problems.

@publius our group studies condensed phase matter from an ab initio point of view; we are on the borderline between chemistry and physics.
More specifically I'm working on the application of group theory in the evaluation of the anharmonic terms of the potential energy surfaces of molecules and
crystals.

@Mit

My father, who started out in chemistry at Berkeley (where he had the privilege of meeting Glenn Seaborg) before switching to physics, likes to say that chemistry is not an easy subject to do theoretical work in. What would ever lead you to expect that a light, silvery, reactive metal and a heavy, toxic greenish-yellow gas would combine to form table salt?

I suppose with modern advances in quantum physics, there must be more scope for that than there was in the 1970s.

@publius Your father was definitely right. Chemistry is a huge field, largely dominated by experimentalists. But in recent times, with the increase in computing power, theoriticians can finally play a decisive role. In the past, simulations of systems of more than a dozen atom was simply impossibile.