Talks

Slides & some recordings

Below I have linked to some key talks I have made throughout my career. Enjoy! 

(And yes, I do reuse the title images a lot... I have included only substantially different talks below for convenience and diversity.)

Harmonic Vibrational Frequency Calculations

What model chemistry, what errors & interesting applications in astrochemistry

[30 mins]

Presented at RACI PhysChem Webinars, March 2023. 

SciX: Scalable & sustainable authentic research experiences for high-school students

[16 mins]

Presented at ACS Fall, Aug 2022.

(Diatomic) Molecular Spectroscopic Data

Presented at International Symposium of Molecular Spectroscopy, June 2021

Involving High-School Students in Computational Molecular Spectroscopy Research (video; 15 mins)

Presented at International Symposium of Molecular Spectroscopy, June 2021

How Do We Know If We've Found Aliens (video; 25 mins)

Presented at RACI PhysChem webinar series, April 2021

Computational Molecular Spectroscopy across the Electromagnetic Spectrum. (~2019)

2ndYrMcKemmishGroup
APATCC2019_TiO_McKemmish

A Challenge for Quantum Chemistry: Spectroscopic Accuracy for TiO Rovibronic spectroscopy

(Presented APATCC 2019)

Searching For Aliens, and Discussing my new TiO line list for non-astronomers. (~2019)

TiO_nonastronomers
Defining the McKemmish Group

Musings of a First-Year Lecturer: Defining the McKemmish Group, with a story about using Molecular Spectroscopy to find Aliens on exoplanets. (~ 2019)

Hot Jupiters & Cool Stars Beware: 

A new TiO line list is here. (~2019) 

(Astronomy audience talk)

TiO
Stellar Diatomics

Stellar diatomics: 

What they are, where they are and how we can study them!

RmatReact3: Developing Theoretical Methodology to Investigate Ultra-cold Atom-Molecule Collisions Over Deep Potential Wells

RmatReact_20mins.pdf

Measuring Proton-to-Electron Mass Variation using High Precision Spectroscopy on Diatomic Molecules

MassVariation_Jan2016.pdf

Searching For Alien Molecules with Twinkle

ExoMol.pdf

How to Use the ExoMol Line Lists

HowToUseExoMol.pdf

Diabatic Models 

DiabaticModel_Jan2016.pdf

Rational Molecular Design for Frequency-based Quantum Computers

LKM_Wollongong.pptx