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Hylleraas Member Einar Aurbakken defended his MSc thesis on June 26, 2020

Centre leaders support the conclusions and recommendations of the recently published report “Evaluation of the Norwegian Centres of Excellence (SFF) Funding Scheme”. 

The work by Hylleraas Researcher David Balcells has been featured in the front cover of the Chemical Science journal issue 18, published on 14 May 2020.

An international panel have evaluated the Norwegian Centre of Excellence program and found it to have been a great success and instrumental to raising the quality of Norwegian research.

Hylleraas member Sigbjørn Løland Bore defended his PhD thesis "Advances in the Hybrid Particle-Field Approach: Towards Biological Systems" on 23 April 2020, after having presented his trial lecture “Principles of Monte Carlo Simulations” earlier the same day.

Hylleraas Researcher David Balcells has been awarded by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry with the award for young researchers leading a group

Hylleraas Member Bastian Skjelstad defended his MSc thesis on April 2, 2020

Hylleraas research Magnus Olsen received a Young Investigator Grant from the Villum Foundation.

In their publication The Grignard Reaction - Unraveling a Chemical Puzzle, Hylleraas members Raphael M. Peltzer, Michele Cascella and Odile Eisenstein, in collaboration with Jürgen Gauss  (Uni. Mainz), solve the old chemical puzzle of the Grignard reaction

On November 14, a one-day seminar on career development was organised by the Hylleraas Centre at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

In celebration of  the 50th anniversary of Odd Hassel's Nobel prize in chemistry, a two day seminar was held in Oslo 31st of October to 1st of November, with members of the Hylleraas Centre in the organising committee.

Shaman Durek Verrett — boyfriend of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway — claims he can turns atoms and so reduce age. Hylleraas Director Trygve Helgaker explains.

Ten fellows from the 2017–2018 project Molecules in Extreme Environments at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) visited the Hylleraas Centre November 17–22 2019.

Former Hylleraas Member Chandan Kumar defended his PhD thesis 29 November 2019

Hylleraas Member Thomas Bondo Pedersen has been elected national representative of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics (ISTCP)

Deputy director Kenneth Ruud has received the distinction of AAAS Fellow.

Deputy directory Kenneth Ruud joins director Trygve Helgaker in the Board of Directors of the International Society for Theoretical and Chemical Physics

Deputy directory of the Hylleraas Centre, Kenneth Ruud, was recently elected as the new vice president and leader of the Natural Sciences Division of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for the period 2020-2022.

The Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences is now officially open. 

July 11-17 2019, the Hylleraas Centre organised the 10th Congress of the International Society of Theoretical Chemical Physics in Tromsø. With 545 registered participants, it was one of the largest conferences in this conference series.