Grad Student Ranasinghe Speaks on Computational Chemistry
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Duminda Ranasinghe, a Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry, spoke April 16 in Exley in the fourth event of the Graduate Student Speaker Series. (Photos by Hannah Norman ’16.)
![Ranasinghe gave a talk titled “Computational Chemistry: Chemistry Without Chemical.”](https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/files/2015/04/eve_stu_2015-0416111527.jpg)
![Computational chemistry uses quantum mechanics to predict reactions and molecular properties.](https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/files/2015/04/eve_stu_2015-0416111333.jpg)
![Over the past decade, computational chemistry has become popular with chemists as a tool to explore reactions and molecules. At Wesleyan, researchers are making reliable computational methods, which are accurate and faster than what is currently available.](https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/files/2015/04/eve_stu_2015-0416111300.jpg)
Duminda Ranasinghe, a Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry, spoke April 16 in Exley in the fourth event of the Graduate Student Speaker Series. (Photos by Hannah Norman ’16.)