Group News


·         Collaborative work with Millard Alexander is published in J. Chem. Phys. as a communication and was one of 20 most downloaded paper in Dec. 2009

·         Shi Ying left the group after eight years for a faculty position in China, Dec. 2009.

·         Collaborative work on O + O2 reaction, with Z. Sun, L. Liu, D. H. Zhang and Reinhard Schinke, is accepted by PNAS, Nov. 2009

·         Greg and Zhihong’s work on SpvC is published on J. Phys. Chem. B as a cover article, Nov. 2009.

·         Hua received another NIH grant as a subcontract from Utah State University (Alvan Hengge) on protein tyrosine phosphatase, Nov. 2009.

·         Mr. Sen Lin joined the group as an exchange student from Nanjing University, China, Oct. 2009.

·         Greg presented his research at the Southwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference in Houston, Oct. 2009.

·         Dr. Zhihong Ke joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow, Sept. 2009.

·         Hua gave a seminar at Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Sept. 2009.

·         Hua gave a seminar at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sept. 2009

·         The National Science Foundation funds our proposal on surface reaction dynamics, Sept. 2009.

·         Dr. Jianyi Ma joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow, August, 2009.

·         Ken received travel allowance to attend a NSF sponsored workshop on accelerated computing using graphics processing unit (GPU) at University of Tennessee, August, 2009.

·         Ken Seal and Lidong Wang joined the group, August, 2009.

·         Chris moved on to Rice to continue his undergraduate study, August, 2009.

·         Our work with Zhigang Sun and Donghui Zhang was one of the most downloaded papers on J. Chem. Phys. in May 2009

·         Hua gave an invited talk at the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions meeting in Snowbird, Utah (July, 2009)

·         Dingguo’s work on carboxypeptidase published on JACS (June, 2009)

·         Hua gave an invited talk at the 10th International Workshop on Quantum Reactive Scattering held in Dalian, China (June, 2009)

·         Chris Smith joined the group as an undergraduate research assistant (June, 2009)

·         National Institutes of Health funds our proposal for arginine deiminase (May, 2009)

·         Shi Ying’s extensive work on the O(1D) + H2 reaction is published on the Schatz Festschrift on J. Phys. Chem. A (April, 2009)

·         Hua gave a seminar at Department of Chemistry at Utah State University (April, 2009)

·         Hua gave a seminar at Department of Chemistry at University of California at Riverside (April, 2009)

·         Ryan Johnson joined the group (April, 2009)

·         Greg was selected as an EAPSI (East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes) Fellow by NSF and will spend the summer with Daiqian in Nanjing (April, 2009)

·         Greg gave a presentation at the Nano Cafe at UNM (March, 2009)

·         ACS-PRF funds a New Direction Award for methanol steam reforming study. (March, 2009)

·         Hua gave an invited talk at a workshop entitled "Chemical Dynamics: Challenges and Approaches" sponsored by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications at University of Minnesota. (Jan., 2009)

·         Hua was an invited speaker at the Conference on Computational Molecular Structure and Dynamics (WyattFest) in Austin, Texas. (Jan., 2009)