September 2024 | Siyu passes her A-exam and receives a Master of Science in Chemistry. Congratulations, Siyu! |
January 2024 | Shreyas Malpathak passes his B-exam and earns a Ph.D. in Chemistry! Shreyas will be joining the Izmaylov research group at University of Toronto as a postdoctoral researcher. Congratulations, Nathan! |
September 2023 | Sujata passes her A-exam and receives a Master of Science in Chemistry. Congratulations, Sujata! |
May 2023 | Nathan London passes his B-exam and earns a Ph.D. in Chemistry! Nathan will be joining the Momeni research group at University of Missouri-Kansas city as a postdoctoral researcher. Congratulations, Nathan! |
May 2023 | Sutanuka is awarded Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize! Congratulations, Sutanuka! |
April 2023 | Ken Miyazaki passes his B-exam and earns a Ph.D. in Chemistry! Ken will be working with professor Roel Tempelaar at Northwestern University as a postdoctoral researcher. Congratulations, Ken! |
November 2022 | Sutanuka passes her A-exam and receives a Master of Science in Chemistry. Congratulations, Sutanuka! |
October 2022 | Shreyas and Matt’s paper “A Semiclassical Framework for Mixed Quantum Classical Dynamics” was featured in JPC. JPC link |
September 2022 | Elliot Eklund passes his B-exam and earns a Ph.D. in Chemistry! Congratulations, Elliot! |
August 2022 | Five undergrads Isabelle, Phil, Juliana, Annabelle, and Aarzoo join the group. Welcome! |
August 2022 | Congratulations to Ken and Nathan for presenting poster at American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry! |
August 2022 | Siyu Bu in Chemistry and Chemical Biology joins the group as a first year graduate student. Welcome, Siyu! |
October 2021 | Sujata Nandi, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, joins the group. Welcome, Sujata! |
May 2021 | Shreyas is awarded Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize! Congratulations, Shreyas! |
May 2021 | Shreyas is awarded ACS Graduate (Covestro) Teaching Award! Congratulations, Shreyas! |
July 2021 | Srinath Ranya passes his B-exam and earns a Ph.D. in Chemistry! Congratulations, Srinath! |
October 2020 | Sutanuka Manna, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, joins the group. Welcome, Sutanuka! |
July 2020 | Shreyas passes his A-exam and receives a Master of Science in Chemistry. Congratulations, Shreyas! |
May 2020 | Ken is awarded Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize! Congratulations, Ken! |
November 2019 | Nathan passes his A-exam and receives a Master of Science in Chemistry. Congratulations, Nathan! |
October 2019 | Ken passes his A-exam and receives a Master of Science in Chemistry. Congratulations, Ken! |
May 2019 | Ken is awarded ACS Cornell Section Graduate (Covestro) Teaching Award! Congratulations, Ken! |
April 2019 | Matthew Church passes his B-exam and earns a Ph.D. in Chemistry! Congratulations, Matt! |
October 2018 | Shreyas Vijay Malpathak in Chemistry and Chemical Biology joins the group as a first year graduate student! |
September 2018 | Brady Bruno, an M.Eng student in Materials Science & Engineering, joins the group! |
July 2018 | Nandini is promoted to Associate Professor with indefinite tenure! |
July 2018 | Srinath wins best poster prize at the CECAM conference on nonadiabatic quantum dynamics. |
June 2018 | Peter Tomlinson, a summer REU student, joins the group. |
May 2018 | Althea Lutwak, an undergraduate student majoring in chemistry, joins the group. |
May 2018 | Sadrach and Eric pass their B-exams and earn a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry! |
July 2018 | Congratulations to Eric for accepting a new position as a postdoc with Dr. Rob DiStasio! |
April 2018 | Matt is a winner of the Bauer Scholarship Award. |
July 2018 | Congratulations to Adam on his admission to the UC Berkeley graduate program! |
January 2018 | Britta Johnson joins the group as a postdoc. |
December 2017 | Sadrach’s paper “A mapping variable ring polymer molecular dynamics study of condensed phase proton-coupled electron transfer” is accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics. JCP Link |
December 2017 | Ken Miyazaki and Nathan London join the group as first year graduate students. |
November 2017 | Matt and Tim’s paper “Nonadiabatic semiclassical dynamics in the mixed quantum-classical initial value representation” is accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics. JCP Link |
August 2017 | Eric and Tim’s paper (in collaboration with Campos, Sfeir, and McCamey) “Tuning Singlet Fission in pi-Bridge-pi Chromophores” is accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. JACS Link |
August 2017 | Srinath Ranya passes his A exam and receives a Master of Science in Chemistry. |
June 2017 | Matt’s paper “Validating and Implementing Modified Filinov Phase Filtration in Semiclassical Dynamics” is accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics. JCP Link |
May 2017 | Molecular Physics (journal) awards Timothy J.H. Hele the Longuet-Higgins Early Career Resarcher Prize for 2016! |
May 2017 | Nandini Ananth is chosen for a GPSA Faculty Award at Cornell! |
May 2017 | Congratulations to Matt for winning the Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize for outstanding third year graduate students in the Chemistry department! |
May 2017 | Jessica Duke passes her B-exam and earns a Ph.D. in Chemistry! Congratulations, Jess! |
November 2016 | Rachel passes her B-exam and earns a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering! |
November 2016 | Elliot Eklund, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, joins the group. Welcome, Elliot! |
September 2016 | Jess wins the prize for best poster at the Reaction Rate Theory: Faraday Discussions conference in Cambridge, UK. Good job! |
August 2016 | Rachel’s paper, “Direct Simulation of Electron Transfer in the Cobalt Hexammine(II/III) Self-Exchange Reaction,” is accepted for publication in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Well done, Rachel! PCCP Link |
August 2016 | Matt passes his A-exam and receives a Master of Science in Chemistry. Congratulations, Matt! |
August 2016 | Austin passes his A-exam and receives a Master of Science in Chemistry. Well done, Austin! |
June 2016 | Jess’s paper, “State Space Path Integrals for Electronically Nonadiabatic Reaction Rates,” is accepted for publication in Faraday Discussions. Congratulations! Faraday Discussions Link |
May 2016 | Tim’s paper, “Deriving the Exact Nonadiabatic Quantum Propagator in the Mapping Variable Representation,” is accepted for publication in Faraday Discussions! Faraday Discussions Link |
May 2016 | Congratulations to Eric for winning the Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize for outstanding third year graduate students in the Chemistry department! |
May 2016 | Eric’s paper, “A Direct Mechanism of Ultrafast Intramolecular Singlet Fission in Pentacene Dimers,” is accepted for publication in ACS Central Science. Congrats, Eric! ACS Cent. Sci. Link |
April 2016 | Jess wins the Deep Science Award for best presentation at the 2016 Milliken Graduate Research Symposium. Well done! |
January 2015 | Brittany DeCola, an undergraduate student majoring in chemistry, joins the Ananth group. |
February 2016 | Congratulations to Nandini for being named a Cottrell Scholar! |
February 2016 | Jess is selected to present at this year’s Milliken Graduate Research Symposium. Congratulations! |
November 2015 | Srinath Ranya, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, joins our group. Welcome, Srinath! |
October 2015 | Jess’s paper, “Simulating Excited State Dynamics in Systems with Multiple Avoided Crossings Using Mapping Variable Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics,” is accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Congrats, Jess! JPCL link |
August 2015 | Timothy Hele joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Tim! |
August 2015 | Congratulations to Sergey Antipov for being offered a position to work with Jiri Vanicek at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne! |
August 2015 | Victor Fung is admitted to UC Riverside for graduate school in chemistry. Good luck, Victor! |
August 2015 | Sadrach passes his A-exam and receives a Master of Science in Chemistry. Well done, Sadrach! |
July 2015 | Eric passes his A-exam and receives a Master of Science in Chemistry. Congratulations, Eric! |
May 2015 | Rachel passes her A-exam and receives a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering. Great job, Rachel! |
May 2015 | Sergey’s paper, “Dynamically consistent method for mixed quantum-classical simulations: A semiclassical approach,” is published in The Journal of Chemical Physics. Congrats, Sergey! JCP link |
May 2015 | Jess is awarded the Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize, given to outstanding third year graduate students in the Chemistry department. Congratulations, Jess! |
April 2015 | Sadrach Pierre receives a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. Well done! |
March 2015 | Toby Zeng will join the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada this summer. Please contact him for graduate student or postdoc positions if you are interested in his research. Congratulations, Toby! |
February 2015 | Nandini receives an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Congratulations, Nandini! |
November 2014 | Graduate students Matthew Church and Austin Green join the group. Welcome! |
August 2014 | Toby’s paper, “Seeking small molecules for singlet fission: a heteroatom substitution strategy,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations, Toby! JACS Link |
August 2014 | Ziyu Ye enters the Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania. Good luck, Z! |
August 2014 | Pratima Satish enters the Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkeley. Good luck, Pratima! |
July 2014 | Jessica Duke passes her A-exam and receives a Master of Science in Chemistry. |
May 2014 | Eric Fuemmeler, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, joins the Ananth group. Welcome, Eric! |
April 2014 | Toby’s paper, “The low-lying electronic states of pentacene and their roles in singlet fission,” is highlighted in JACS Spotlights. |
March 2014 | Nandini’s paper, “Mapping variable ring polymer molecular dynamics: A path-integral based method for nonadiabatic processes,” has been selected for inclusion in the 2013 JCP Editors’ Choice collection. JCP Link |
March 2014 | Toby Zeng’s paper, “The low-lying electronic states of pentacene and their roles in singlet fission,” is accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations, Toby! JACS Link |
January 2014 | Victor Fung, an undergraduate student majoring in chemistry, joins the Ananth group. |
November 2013 | Sadrach Pierre, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, joins the Ananth group. |
September 2013 | Toby Zeng wins the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (NSERC) to support his research on investigating exciton dynamics in organic photovoltaics. Congratulations, Toby! |
September 2013 | Nandini’s paper, “Mapping variable ring polymer molecular dynamics: A path-integral based method for nonadiabatic processes,” is published in The Journal of Chemical Physics. Congratulations, Nandini! JCP Link |
July 2013 | Toby Zeng joins our group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. |
June 2013 | Pratima Satish, an undergraduate student majoring in chemistry, joins the Ananth group. |
May 2013 | Sergey Antipov joins our group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. |
April 2013 | Nandini receives the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award. Congratulations, Nandini! |
January 2013 | Ziyu Ye, a junior majoring in chemistry, joins the Ananth group. |
December 2012 | Jessica Duke, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, joins the Ananth group. |
November 2012 | Rachel Kenion, a second-year graduate student in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, joins the Ananth group. |
October 2012 | Nandini is elected to membership in the Cornell Center for Materials Research. |
July 2012 | Nandini Ananth joins the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University. |