Congratulations to Scott, who successfully defended his thesis yesterday!
He’ll be leaving our science team to join the group of Todd J. Martinez at Stanford as a postdoctoral researcher in a few weeks.
Congrats (almost) Dr. Fales!
Formation of H3+ in a Strong Laser Field
Check out our most recent collaborative effort with the Dantus group, published in Scientific Reports. This paper describes a combined experimental and theoretical study of the mechanisms of H3+ formation from methanol in a strong laser field. Two different mechanisms were observed in AIMD simulations at the full-valence CAS level (carried out by Muath using Scott’s GPU-accelerated CAS code).
Also check out this awesome video on this work, created by Dantus-group undergraduate Patrick Pawlaczyk.
Welcome, Dmitry!
Welcome to Dmitry Fedorov, who joins our group as a postdoctoral researcher! Dmitry earned his Ph.D. working with Sergey Varganov at University of Nevada, Reno, where he implemented ab initio multiple spawning dynamics with spin-orbit coupling.
Levine Research Group at Stony Brook University 