title: Response to "Comment on 'Exploring the potential energy landscape of the Thomson problem via Newton homotopies"' [J. Chem. Phys. 143, 247101 (2015)].
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
authors.forename: Dhagash
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823, USA.
authors.forename: Tianran
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: University Chemical Laboratories, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: John W R
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.affiliation: University Chemical Laboratories, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Wales