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.
Congratulations, Arshad!
Postdoc Arshad Mehmood will be moving to a new position as a research scientist in the Division of Information Technology at Stony Brook University. Congratulations to Arshad for this well deserved opportunity! And as a bonus, we’re very excited that despite the new position, we will still have the opportunity to work closely with him.
Zain named Goldwater Scholar!
Congratulations to Zain Zaidi for being named a 2024 Goldwater Scholar! Over the last almost two years, under Arshad’s mentorship, Zain has been working on several photochemistry projects. Well done, Zain!
Welcome, Tudor!
Welcome to Tudor Muntean! Tudor is a first year Ph.D. student doing a rotation in our group.
Welcome, Eric!
Welcome to Eric Marants, who has officially joined our group as a Ph.D. student!
Zain wins ACS COMP Undergrad Poster Award!
Congratulations to Zain, who (as a rising sophomore!) won the ACS COMP Division Undergraduate Poster Award at the Fall 2023 National Meeting of the ACS in San Francisco. Great job, Zain, and great job to his postdoc mentor, Arshad!
Update: SBU did a news article on Zain and Arshad’s accomplishment. Check it out!
Welcome Ari, Eric, and Iulianna!
Welcome to Ari Pereira, Eric Marants, and Iulianna Taradachuk! Ari is an incoming Ph.D. student joining our group. He comes from Birla Institute Of Technology And Science, Pilani. He’s previously performed Masters research projects with Federica Agostini and Oleg Prezhdo.
Eric is also an incoming Ph.D. student who will do a rotation in our group this Fall. He comes from Cornell, where he did undergraduate research Nandini Ananth.
Iullianna is an undergraduate student in Chemistry who will be working on a senior thesis project.
Congratulations, Almost-Dr Durden!
Congratulations to Andy Durden, who successfully defended his PhD thesis! Next month, Andy will be joining the group of Berny Schlegel at Wayne State University. Keep up the good work, Andy!
Welcome, Peter!
Welcome to Peter Scully, an undergraduate student joining us from Tufts University for the summer. Peter is with us as a participant in the Data + Computing = Discovery (DCD) REU program, hosted by IACS. Peter will be working on a machine learning project with Arshad.
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