{"id":6907,"date":"2017-03-10T06:46:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T06:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2017-03-10T06:46:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T06:46:23","slug":"always-choose-the-right-hamiltonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/03\/10\/always-choose-the-right-hamiltonian\/","title":{"rendered":"Always choose the right Hamiltonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the I-SEE <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=6904&amp;action=edit\">event<\/a> the other night and managed to hang in through a whole\u00a0evening of Density Functional Theory. \u00a0Here's a\u00a0beginners' <a href=\"http:\/\/newton.ex.ac.uk\/research\/qsystems\/people\/coomer\/dft_intro.html\">guide<\/a>. \u00a0I thought I might struggle when the speaker, Aron Walsh, began by saying\u00a0that he'd\u00a0be talking at the boundaries of chemistry and physics. \u00a0I knew that I was <em>going<\/em> to struggle when he got onto <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamiltonian_mechanics\">Hamiltonian mechanics<\/a> after about 5 minutes. \u00a0That said, I did learn something and the whole thing was very engaging. \u00a0The best advice Walsh\u00a0had to offer was to say, \"Make sure you choose the right Hamiltonian\" which is something that I intend to take to heart.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh had a nice line in self-deprecating humour. \u00a0His response to a well-judged\u00a0introduction by the Chair, where his impressive CV was to the fore, was to note that some people think that he is more impressive on paper than in person. \u00a0It's not true though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the I-SEE event the other night and managed to hang in through a whole\u00a0evening of Density Functional Theory. \u00a0Here's a\u00a0beginners' guide. \u00a0I thought I might struggle when the speaker, Aron Walsh, began by saying\u00a0that he'd\u00a0be talking at...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}