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Group Awards Round Up

The group is collecting awards faster than I can get it together to post them on the website, so here is a round up:

Soon-to-defend Ph.D. student, Thomas Knoll, will receive two awards at commencement: The Chemistry Award for Outstanding Service and the Chemistry Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student

Ubaid Hassan, who spent the summer of 2024 with us as part of the IACS DCD REU program, was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the group of Andrew Rappe at U. Penn.

And last but not least, former group undergraduate Zain Zaidi was awarded the Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Zain is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Princeton in the group of Joe Subotnik.

Congratulations and nice work, all around!

Congratulations, Caitlin!

Just before Thanksgiving, Caitlin Hetherington successfully defended her PhD! Caitlin has lead our recent work on hot carrier cooling in semiconductor quantum dots. This week, she started work in the group of Joel Freundlich at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School as a postdoctoral researcher. Congrats, Caitlin!

Congratulations, Satoshi!

Congratulations to Satoshi who successfully defended his Master’s on Thursday! Satoshi, who will be joining the Chemistry PhD program at UT Austin this fall, has done really nice work computing the electronic absorption spectra of atomically precise gold clusters. This work is a collaboration with the group of Chris Johnson here at SBU, and some of the results can be found in this recent preprint. Nice work, Satoshi!

Open-Source AIMS with PySpawn and OpenMolCas!

Check out the newest feature in PySpawn: an interface to the OpenMolCas electronic structure code. This fully open-source option allows you to run ab initio multiple spawning (AIMS) not only with CASSCF, but also several flavors of MS-CASPT2 (MS, XMS, RMS, and XDW). Keep an eye out for a corresponding manuscript to show up on ChemRxiv in the next few days. Lea-Maria Ibele and Davide Avagliano really led this effort, and it’s been a tremendous pleasure for Ben and Arshad to work with them on this!

Welcome, Ubaid!

Welcome to Ubaidullah Hassan, a Chemical Engineering major from the Cooper Union, who will be joining our group this summer as an a participant in the IACS DCD REU program. Ubaid will be working with Arshad to simulate the photodynamics of an ESIPT system.

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