Our research group is interested in all manner of difficult electronic structure problems (a sub-field of molecular quantum mechanics), especially those dealing with the correlated motions of electrons. Some of my biggest projects deal with methods for high-accuracy calculations of molecular structure and/or dynamics of electrons and atoms in very large systems (thousands of atoms). There are also side projects in the spectroscopy of small molecules that have been set in motion by a short light pulse (then to be followed by an even shorter x-ray pulse), the nature of bonding between two metal atoms, and sampling schemes for attacking liquid structure with high-quality (i.e., expensive) energy calculations.
