Paesani Research Group

Laboratory for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at UC San Diego  

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Photo Album 2021

February

International Day of Women & Girls in Science

March

Kartik is one of the recipients of the 2020/21

Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowships

March

MBX v0.3.0a is released

with a new interface to LAMMPS

March

Virtual welcome party for the new members of our group. We are happy to introduce Ph.D. students Ruihan, Hilliary, Yuanhui, and Etienne, and undergraduate student Yiwen!

March

After a year, we are back on campus!

March

Dr. Sigbjørn Bore joined our group in October. After 5 months of Zoom meetings and getting vaccinated, he finally had a chance to visit our beautiful campus!

May

Cianna joined our group as an undergraduate student in April 2020. After more than a year of Zoom meetings and earning her degree in biology, we are excited to finally meet in 3D and welcome her as our new Ph.D. student!

January

Kickoff meeting of our MURI funded by the

Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

June

Congratulations, Dr. Colin Egan!

June

Virtual meeting with John Perdew to talk about many-body interactions and DFT

August

Time for a surf break at the 2021 Quantum Multiscale Hackathon 2021 with the

Andreussi and Pavanello groups

August

Farewell party for Dr. Vinicius Cruzeiro

June

Congrats to our Ph.D. candidates Kelly, Teri and Kartik, our new M.S. students Alesssandro and Chanin, and our 2020 graduating students Eric, Ruihan, Perry, & Graham!

August

After a year of remote research, we welcome 2nd year Ph.D. student Yuanhui

August

We welcome 1st year Ph.D. student Richa

September

Group beach party... Bonfire, pizza, and s'mores to welcome the new class of Ph.D. students (present and in the making 😎)!

September

Mandeville Coffee Cart:

The best place to discuss science

with some of the incoming Ph.D. students

September

Hank presents our research

on atmospheric water harvesting with MOFs

at the J. Yang Scholars Symposium

September

Etienne presents our research on density-corrected DFT at #LatinXChem2021

October

Etienne is one of the recipients of the

Quantum Multiscale Student Awards

October

Kelly, Kartk, and Hilliary check up on our many-body molecular dynamics simulations at the San Diego Supercomputer Center

November

Francesco presents our research on many-body molecular dynamics simulations of molecular fluids at the AiCHE meeting in Boston

November

We had a lot of fun at the grand opening

of the Blue Line Trolley extension!

December

End of the year gathering

with the Jun, McHugh, and Tezcan groups