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December 2011 Merry Christmas to everbody! I wish all readers all the best, joy, peace, health.
    Here are Christmas greetings specifically from Winnipeg!
    And this is for those of us who speak Denglisch/Gernglish ...
December, 2011 Congratulations to Grigory who has been offered a consultant/ staff position (I am not sure about the actual title of the position) with Westgrid, based here at the University of Manitoba!
November 23, 2011 As part of the WestGrid and Compute Canada Seminar Series, Georg gave a general research talk by videoconference.
November 21, 2011 Congratulations to Akef on passing his candidacy examination, too!
November 1, 2011 Georg's NSERC Discovery Grant application has been submitted today ... phew ...
October 26, 2011 Congratulations to Samuel on passing his candidacy examination today − a major milestone in the life of a Ph.D. student!
... And the colloquium as well (Nov. 18) ...
October, 2011
Photos from the recent WATOC have now been posted, including the group photo. (Reproduced here in low resolution only; the high-resolution version is available on the conference websites.)
October, 2011 All the best to Grigory and Abu and their families; they both have recently completed their work in our group. Grigory is now a Research Associate at Kazan State Technological University in Russia, and Abu has moved to the University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, USA.
August 27, 2011 It was 20 years ago today that Ulrike and Georg first set foot onto Canadian soil. Time for reflection and celebration ...
Heute vor 20 Jahren sind Ulrike und Georg erstmals auf kanadischem Boden gelandet.
August, 2011 News article featuring Abu's dye regeneration paper on the SCM (ADF) website.
June/July, 2011 Georg will give invited talks at the 26th Rare Earth Research Conference (RERC11) in Santa Fe, NM USA, and the 9th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC 2011) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
May, 2011 I have added a new page specifically dedicated to undergraduate projects. I hope it makes sense − comments are welcome.
April 6, 2011
Congratulations to Abu who has successfully completed the Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (CHET)! Abu received his official certificate today.
May, 2011 Welcome to our newest group member, Luke Zhang! Luke will join us as a summer student in May. Luke is an undergraduate student at the University of Calgary.
March, 2011 Congratulations to Qing-Jiang Pan on his recent promotion to the rank of Professor!
March 17, 2011 Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick's Day ... Happy St. Patrick's Day to all you Irish out there!

March, 2011
The paper by Greer et al. on 207Pb NMR of coordination polymers has been featured on the cover of Chemistry − A European Journal, volume 13 (2011), issue 17! You can also download the cover picture here.
March 3, 2011 Ulrike and Georg will be taking the Canadian citizenship test on March 3. Here is a sample test − how would you fare?
February 23−25, 2011 Craig Peeples has been selected to attend the Nuclear Industry Conference and Trade Show 2011 in Ottawa, ON.
February 3, 2011 Happy (Chinese) New Year to all our Chinese friends and to those who have reason to celebrate the Chinese New Year!


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