Our weekly Blitz meetings are held on Mondays, 10:00-11:00 am Pacific, via Zoom. Connect through
this link.
Our group seminar is on Wednesdays, noon, in a hybrid mode (SSC 604 and Zoom).
Connect through this link. See schedule
here.
Congratulations to Carson Baker for being recognized by the Wittig Research Award and to Naynthara Jayadev for raking two awards last night -- a poster prize and Dulligan's Graduate Student Award. And thanks everyone for presenting great posters at the Stauffer poster session!
Sad news:
John Stanton, a friend, a mentor, and a long-term collaborator of many
current and past group members has passed away. A devastaing loss for quantum chemistry...
Alumni news: congratulations to Prof. Lyudmila Slipchenko
on recieving 2025 USC Chemistry Alumni Award! Lyuda was among the first batch of graduates from the iOpenShell lab--she has graduated from USC 20 years ago.
The award will be presented at the upcoming
Stauffer Symposium.
Congratulations to Dr. Pawel Wojcik on defending his Ph.D. thesis!
Congratulations to Dr. Goran Giudetti on defending his Ph.D. thesis!
Goran now holds two doctorates -- one from USC and one from University of Groningen.
Warm welcome to Carson Baker, Victoria Nazarova, Harsh Aryan Jalan, and Nikita Chernyshov, who officially joined the group. Great deeds await!