News
June 12, 2024- The PJ group welcomes summer undergraduate Alma Mora to the group. This summer she will be working on generating densities of small biochemical molecules to be used in inversions. Welcome Alma!
May 9, 2024- Congratulations to Vince who received the Departmental Fellowship Award and Brittany who received the Graduate Research Excellence Award at the CBC Awards Ceremony!
May 5, 2024- Aurora, Vince, Brittany, and Sage present their work at the West Coast Theoretical Chemistry Conference (WCTC) at UC Merced.
April 17, 2024- Brittany, Zach, and Vera’s paper, “Exchange–correlation entropy from the generalized thermal adiabatic connection” is published in JCP!
April 4, 2024- Estefania is awarded an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Congratulations!
April 3, 2024- Aurora, pictured alongside fellow speakers Dr. Anna Quider and Dr. Alexandra Bordisso, attends the APS April Meeting in Sacramento, CA. At the meeting, Aurora presented on the development of high energy density science research at UC Merced.
March 19, 2024- Vincent’s paper, “Inverting the Kohn-Sham equations with physics-informed machine learning,” is published in Machine Learning: Science & Technology. This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Attila Cangi and Karan Shah from the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS). The paper can be found here. Congrats Vince!
March 19, 2024- Brittany and Brianna present their work at the ACS COMP poster session in New Orleans, LA.
March 12, 2024- The PJ group welcomes a new postdoc, Dr. Lei Chen. He will be working jointly with Prof. Venkatt Ayyaswamy and Prof. David Strubbe. Welcome Lei!
March 6, 2024- The PJ group goes out for dinner while at APS!
March 4, 2024 - Aurora, Brittany, Vince, and Brianna present their work at the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
March 2024 - PJ group to attend APS March Meeting 2024: Aurora, adiabatic connections for exact and approximate thermal density functional theory; Brittany, generalized thermal adiabatic connection and exchange-correlation free energy approximations; Vincent, upside-down adiabatic connection and asymmetric Hubbard dimer; Brianna, spin symmetry breaking and constrained SCF.
December 19, 2023 - Jose and Alejandro join the PJ group. Welcome!
December 16, 2023 - Jared graduates from UCM with his B.S. in Chemistry and a Biochemistry emphasis. Congratulations!
September 28-29, 2023 - The CfHEDS team gathered for two days of presentations and discussions on collaborations in research, education, and training at the newly opened University of California Livermore Collaboration Center.
June 29 - July 8, 2023 - Brittany and Brianna attend the TDDFT School & Workshop at Rutgers University-Newark.
June 13 - 16, 2023 - UC Merced hosts the 35th Electronic Structure Workshop. Check out the news story here!
March 29, 2023 - Brianna receives an NSF GRFP award . Check out the news story here.
March 6, 2023 - Burke APS reunion at Able Baker Brewery in Las Vegas.
