One of the greatest challenges in quantum chemistry is the development of practical yet robust and systematically improvable treatments of many-electron correlation effects, which are needed to accurately determine ground- and excited-state molecular potential energy surfaces and property functions that emerge in studies of chemical reactivity, spectroscopy and photochemistry.

Stephen H. Yuwono, a Michigan State University graduate student in the Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Science, won the prestigious Longuet-Higgins Early Career Researcher Prize awarded by the editors of "Molecular Physics" for his article “Accelerating convergence of equation-of-motion coupled-cluster computations using the semi-stochastic CC(P;Q) formalism,” which was named the journal’s best paper in 2020.

 

The Longuet-Higgins Early Career Researcher Prize, which includes a $1,000 stipend, is given annually to a researcher who has written and published a top-quality article in "Molecular Physics" the previous year and within five years of being awarded their Ph.D. Authors who have not yet completed their Ph.D. can be awarded the prize as well.

To read more about Stephen H. Yuwono's work, visit natsci.msu.edu