Our undergrad Aidan has quietly been working away on some very innovative data modeling approaches from computer science over the last months and is now ready to incorporate our quantum chemistry data into these models as well. Awesome job, Aidan!

For what it is worth, I have to say you folks at CEP set the gold standard for feedback to us crunchers. Keep up the good work!

Alan is giving a big talk at MIT today. The title of his presentation is "Learning from Nature: Bacterial light harvesting antennas and perspectives for new organic materials for solar cells" and he will combine some of the excitonics work in the group as well as our Clean Energy Project. Here is the full abstract:

"Green-sulfur bacteria is a remarkable organism that can carry out photosynthesis in low-light conditions such as those present in the bottom of the ocean or moonlight. In this talk, geared for a general scientific audience, I will describe my group's efforts to understand how this organism harvests sunlight so efficiently. I will proceed to describe the possible implications of these light-harvesting mechanisms for enhancing energy transport in organic materials. I will end by briefly discussing our screening efforts for materials for organic solar cells using computer time from distributed donors around the world."

Absolutely, it also gives a stimulus to keep engaged in this wonderfull project.

@cleanenergy: I am confused.
> "Green-sulfur bacteria is a remarkable organism ..."
Could you please explain how more than one organism (green-sulfur bacteria) can be just one organism? What kind of mathematical trickery is this?
Does the phrase "green-sulfur bacteria" refer to a class of organisms comprising multiple species or strains of bacteria, or do all green-sulfur bacteria belong to the one species and strain?
Either way, you could have said "green-sulfur bacteria are remarkable organisms ...". This would have given no information regarding the number of species involved. You could perhaps have said "The green-sulfur bacterium is a remarkable organism ...", but only if you wished to imply that all green-sulfur bacteria are of the same type.
Could you please explain what you mean so that I can be freed from my terrible state?
- Rick