Paesani Research Group

Laboratory for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at UC San Diego  

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Photo Album 2023

January

Annual meeting of our AFOSR MURI project. Lots of exciting science on ice, from many-body and coarse-grained simulations to theoretical models, NMR, ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy, synthesis and machine learning

March

We also had a great time at the second visitation weekend for prospective graduate students

February

Exciting first visitation weekend for prospective graduate students

March

Congratulations to Richa, Ethan, Henry, and Xuanyu on passing the second-year exam!

January

Former undegraduate student Debbie Zhuang, now a Ph.D. student at MIT, visited our group

March

Congratulations to Saswata on receiving the prestigious Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship!

April

Goodbye to Marc, who is starting a new position as a software engineer at Comcast

May

Big shoutout to Ruihan, Hilliary, Yuanhui, and Etienne for acing their qualifying exams and officially becoming Ph.D. candidates!

April

Etienne presents our research on many-body models from density functional theory

at the 8th Annual Sloan Foundation Conference

May

We are beyond ecstatic to see Cianna in the lab today after more than five months!

June

Francesco is a speaker at the MolSSI workshop  

Machine Learning and Chemistry:

Are We There Yet?

June

Alessandro graduates!

June

End-of-the-year celebration

June

Francesco attends the Birthday Symposium

in Honor of Pablo Debenedetti

June

Francesco presents our research on density-corrected DFT models

at John Perdew's Birthday Symposium

July

Francesco presents our research at the Dynamics of Molecular Collision Conference

June

Francesco presents our research

at Korea University and TMCQ2023

July

Etienne attends TDDFT2023

July

Congratulations to Etienne

on the Bruno Zimm Award!

May

Congrats to Cianna on passing the second-year exam with flying colors!

April

We are beyond excited to welcome Cianna home after more than four months!

July

Richa, Ruihan, Henry, Xuanyu, and Ethan attend the Gordon Research Conference Chemistry and Physics of Liquids

August

Chancellor Khosla and Associate Chancellor Kish visit Cianna and her family

August

Hilliary, Ching-Hwa, and Yuanhui

attend the Gordon Research Conference

Nanoporous Materials and Their Applications

August

Reunion with former members

Kartik, Dan, and Marc

at the ACS meeting in San Francisco

August

Francesco presents our research on data-driven many-body potentials the symposium

Modeling of Water & Hydration at Stony Brook

September

Poster session for incoming graduate students

September

Etienne and Saswata participate in the

Quantum Multiscale Hackathon

at Rutgers University

September

Francesco is the student-invited speaker at MIT

September

Group dinner to kick off the new academic year

September

Omkaar presents his research

at the undergraduate symposium

October

Group retreat in Los Angeles and SoCalTheoChem symposium at UCLA

December

Francesco is the plenary speaker at the

Molecular Modelling 2023 Conference

at the University of Wollongong

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December

Holiday dinner to say goodbye and thank you to Raja, who is starting is independent career at North Carolina State University in January

December

Congratulations to Cianna on the San Diego Fellowship and Ching-Hwa on the Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship