Conferences

The Liu Group recently traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, to participate in the 2025 Catalysis Innovation Consortium (CIC) Annual Meeting , hosted at Emory University from October 2nd to 4th, 2025. This year's meeting marked a significant milestone for the consortium, achieving its highest-ever registered attendance with 153 participants  and a record-breaking 70 posters  presented by students and postdocs from member groups. Bridging Academia and Industry The CIC’s mission is to

Members of the Peng Liu Group traveled to Washington, D.C. this week to showcase their latest computational chemistry research at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2025 National Meeting . The group had a strong showing, delivering multiple oral presentations and poster sessions that highlighted our work in mechanistic studies, catalyst design, and cheminformatics. Oral Presentations On Tuesday, August 19th, three group members delivered talks on their current projects:

We are proud to highlight the work of Mateo Contreras , an NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) student in our group, who successfully presented his research today at the Department of Chemistry’s REU Poster Session. Summer Research: Simulating New Enzymes Over the past 10 weeks, Mateo has been working closely with our team to apply molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study de novo  designed enzymes. His project focused on characterizing the structural dynami

Members of the Peng Liu Group recently traveled to Dresden, Germany, to attend the 2025 Houk Research Conference (HRC) . Held from June 29 to July 1, 2025, the international symposium brought together leading computational and experimental chemists under the theme "Pushing Back the Frontiers of Science: Combining Computation and Experiment" . Keynote and Presentations Prof. Peng Liu  was a featured Plenary Speaker at the conference, delivering a keynote address titled "Compu