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·         Bin's work on the H + HCN reaction is published on JCP, December, 2013

·         Hua gives a talk at Northeastern University, December, 2013.

·         Hua is elected an APS Fellow, December, 2013.

·         Our collaborative work with Dawes' group on the ozone potential energy surface is published on JCP as Communication, November, 2013.

·         Jun and Bin's new work on neural network fitting of potential energy surfaces is published on JCP, November, 2013.

·         Two of our recent JCP communications on OH + CO and X + H2O systems were among the most read ones in 2013. November, 2013.

·         Ben joined the group, November, 2013.

·         Our collaborative work with the Ono and Xie groups on the S mass-independent fractionation is published on PNAS, as part of the Chemistry and Applications in Nature of Mass Independent Isotope Effects Special Feature, October, 2013.

·         Yongle left us for another postdoc position at NYU, October, 2013.

·         Bin's work on SVP and its application to X + H2O reactions is published on JACS, October, 2013.

·         Hongwei joined the group as a postdoctoral research associate, September, 2013.

·         Jun's work on F + H2O reaction barrier in collaboration with the Stanton group is published on JPCA., September, 2013.

·         Hua gave a talk at Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, China, August, 2013.

·         Hua delivered a plenary talk at the 13th Chinese Conference on Chemical Dynamics in Wuhu, China, August, 2013.

·         Yongle's work in collaboration with the Grey group is published on J. Mat. Chem. C as a cover article, August, 2013.

·         Anyang's work on F + HCl is published on PCCP, August, 2013.

·         Greg successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Smith!

·         Jun's work on the Cl + H2O potential energy surface is published on JCP, August, 2013.

·         Bin's work on permutation invariant neural network fitting of potential energy surfaces is published on JCP, August, 2013.

·         Bin gave a contributing talk at the Conference of Dynamics of Molecular Collisions held at Granlibakken, California, July 2013.

·         Hua chaired  the Conference of Dynamics of Molecular Collisions held at Granlibakken, California, July 2013.

·         Jun and Yongle's JCP communication on the X-H2O complexes is one of the most read JCP articles in the second quarter of 2013.

·         Bin's work on methane dissociative chemisorption on Ni(111) is published on Chem. Sci., July, 2013.

·         Anyang's work on roaming resonances in MgH + H reaction is published on JPCA, June, 2013.

·         Yongle's work on OH + CH4 rate constants is published on JCP as a communication, June, 2013.

·         Bin's work on the Sudden Vector Projection (SVP) model is published on JCP, June 2013. This model extends the Polanyi's rules on mode selectivity and energy disposal in bimolecular reactions.

·         Hua gave an invited talk on roaming resonances at the 12th Workshop on Quantum Reactive Scattering, Bordeaux, France, June 2013.

·         Ryan is spending the summer in the group of Al Viggiano at the Air Force Research Lab as a "Space Scholar" through the Universities Space Research Association, June, 2013.

·         Jun's work on O + H2O PES was published on JCP, May, 2013.

·         Our JCP communication on HOCO potential was one of the most read JCP papers in the first quarter of 2013.

·         Prof. Zhigang Sun of DICP visited the group and gave a talk on his research, May, 2013.

·         Hua attended the Banff workshop on Mathematic Methods in Quantum Molecular Dynamics and gave talk on potential energy surface and quantum reactive scattering, May 2013.

·         Prof. Anne McCoy of Ohio State visited the group, April, 2013.

·         Ryan's work on CO oxidation on PdZn was published on PCCP, April 2013.

·         Ryan spent a month at Fritz Haber Institute in Germany as a PIER fellow, April, 2013.

·         Jun and Yongle's work on the covalent nature of the X...H2O systems was published as Communication on JCP. It was one of top 20 most read articles in April, 2013

·         Hua gave an invited talk at the National ACS meeting in New Orleans, April, 2013

·         Yongle's work on ring polymer molecular dynamics calculations of H + CH4 reaction was published on JCP, March, 2013

·         Our JCP communication on HOCO potential was the second most cited paper published on JCP in 2012.

·         Jun's work on spin-orbit corrected potential energy surfaces for the F + H2O reaction was published on JCP, Feb. 2013.

·         Hua gave an invited talk on the F + H2O work at 2013 Mesilla Chemistry Workshop, Feb. 2013.

·         Prof. Scott Kable of University of Sydney visited the group, Feb. 2013.

·         Dominique (Niko) Maffucci joined the group as an undergraduate intern, Jan. 2013.

·         Bin's work on the rotational and orientational effects in H2O dissociative chemisorption published on JCP, Jan. 2013

·         Prof. Millard Alexander of University of Maryland visited the group, Jan. 2013.

·         Anyang's work on the O + NH reaction published on JCP, Jan. 2013.

·         Jun and Bin’s work on mode specificity in the F + H2O reaction was published on JACS as a communication. It was recommend for Spotlight coverage, Jan 2013.

·         Jun and Bin’s work on the enhancement of the F + H2O reaction by a pre-reaction van der Waals complex is published on Chem. Sci., Jan 2013.

·         Viet left the group to attend med school, Jan, 2013

·         Yongle’s work on RPMD rate calculations for the O(3P) + CH4 reaction was published on J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Jan. 2013.

·         Bin’s work on bond selectivity of dissociative chemisorption of HOD on Cu(111) was published on Chem. Sci., Jan. 2013.