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About

Hello, Guten Abend, and Bienvenue to the new Thom Group Wiki. (Apparently evenings are good times to read the Wiki.)

In this Wiki you can find various pieces of useful information, such as when group meetings are, who is going to bring cake, how to run a particular calculation or perform a certain computer trick, who's using which computer in the group, and so on. You can also see how fun we are as a group by looking at our various photos.

Events

Group Calendar

Calendar available here

Group Meetings

Past Group Meetings here. Group Meetings take place every Thursday at 15.30 in U203

Lent 2025

Date	Talk	Cake
22 January	Informal	Andreea
29 January	Lila	Reka
05 February	Informal	Lila
12 February	NONE
19 February	Tamara	Reka
26 February	Informal
05 March	Part III
12 March	Part III
19 March	Informal

Link to Chemistry Room bookings Here

Journal Club

12pm in the cybercafe with pizza provided (alternative possible).

Past Journal Clubs here.

2024-25

Date	Contributor	Paper
30 October 2024	Bence	Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations
25 Nov 2024	Jack	Sustained Quantum Coherence and Entanglement in the Avian Compass
22 Jan 2025	Alex	Nonuniversality for crossword puzzle percolation
13 Feb 2025	Charlie	Starquakes in millisecond pulsars and gravitational waves emission

Seminars

• Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe Coffee Meetings
• Quantum Information Seminars

QCQCDG

Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry Discussion Group (QCQCDG) info available here.

Quantum Brainstorm

Informal quantum discussions taking place at 10am on Wednesdays in the supervision area. Notes available here.

Group Expectations

The Group Expectations document is available on overleaf here

Quantum computing Open Questions

Outstanding questions, along with answers and helpful reading material, can be found here.

Summer 'Interns'

A list of past summer interns is available here here. A list of the current or most recent interns is given.

Name	Start date	End date
Tom Edwards	7th July	29th August
Nestor Novakovic	30th June	5th September
Petar Panayotov	15th July	15th September
Divye Baid	30th June	22nd August
...	...

Dissertations

• Dissertations - Part III Reports, MPhil Theses, First Year Reports, PhD Theses
• Group Meeting Presentations
• Template for Latex poster

Project Ideas

Based on recent talks etc.

Computers

Computing Resources

- Group computers available.

- Clusters available.

- Storage available.

Computing Setup Guide

Anaconda takes up a lot of space on /home so it's worth running

  mv ~/.conda /scratch/$USER/.conda
  ln -s /scratch/$USER/.conda ~/.conda

Introduction to basic shell commands

There are a number of tutorials available which document basic operations that are useful which include:

1. General bash commands
2. Setting up cygwin
3. Setting up ssh keys and general bash commands what are helpful
4. Setting up ssh config files
5. using GIT
6. The Ten Git-mmandments
7. Useful cerebro queue commands
8. Some vim tidbits

Useful Software

1. Using QChem
2. Using QCMagic
3. SimpleDMC
4. MRCC
5. GAMESS

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Useful Information

1. Guidelines on Code Review
2. How to do things relating to HANDE
3. How to run PySCF or other Python software on Archer
4. How to run QChem on darwin
5. Where to get Travel Money
6. Backed-up Storage
7. How to get IQMol to run a local version of Q-Chem via SSH
8. Slow ubuntu dash
9. Persistent X sessions for remote working
10. Paper submission
11. Getting Started with cerebro
12. Things to do before leaving
13. The Ten Git-mmandments: what NOT to do
14. Mathematical Physics Lectures by Frederic Schuller: Geometrical Anatomy of Theoretical Physics and Lectures on Quantum Theory
15. Mathematical Physics Lectures by Carl Bender: Perturbation and Asymptotic Series