Dr. Mark Watson from Princeton University is visiting the group for a few days.
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Dr. Andrew Schultz joins the group (part time)
Andrew Schultz – a Research Assistant Professor in the UB CBE – has agreed to be part of the group as well (at least on a part-time basis). Andrew spends most of his time working with the Errington and Kofke Groups as well as providing service to the Department. He’ll now also have a desk in our big office and collaborate with the people in our group to get his hands dirty on some quantum problems. Welcome Andrew – great to have you on board!
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Day 1
Today is officially Day 1 of the Hachmann Group. How exciting…
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Johannes joins the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports
Johannes was invite today to serve as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group, the publishers of Nature. Scientific Reports launched in 2011 as a multidisciplinary, online-only, open access publication covering all areas of the natural sciences. It does not set a threshold of perceived importance to the papers that it publishes; rather, it publishes all papers that are judged to be technically valid.
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Johannes relocates to Buffalo
Johannes relocated to Buffalo today. Lesson learned: Winter may not be the best season to move to Western New York. But in the end, everything worked out despite snow and ice.
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Mojtaba Haghighatlari, Ching-Yen Shih, Jun Pan, and Shawn Zadeh join the group as the first batch of graduate students
After the new grad student information and recruiting session as well as many conversations during the UB CBE Graduate Student Symposium, four new grad students – Mojtaba (PhD), Ching-Yen (MSc), Jun, and Shawn (both MEng) have decided to join the group. This is very exciting – the group is really taking shape now.
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Bryan Moore joins the group as its second undergraduate student
Bryan Moore – a third year UB CBE undergrad – will be the second student to join the group. His initial project addresses some of the issues in the calibration of computational data and the corresponding database integration. Welcome Bryan!
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Sai Prasad Ganesh joins the group as its first undergraduate student
After talking to Johannes during the new grad student information and recruiting session, Sai decided to join the Hachmann Group and gain some hands-on research experience. Sai’s initial project is concerned with the study of the Scharber model for the power conversion efficiencies of organic photovoltaics and the development of improvements and extensions to the model.
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First paper with UB affiliation is now online
Our latest paper (publication #14) titled “Lead Candidates for High-Performance Organic Photovoltaics from High-Throughput Quantum Chemistry – the Harvard Clean Energy Project” is now online at Energy & Environmental Science, and you can find it here. Congrats to Johannes and our co-authors at Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton!
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UB moves up in Times Higher Education World University Rankings
Good news for UB: In the 2013-14 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, UB managed climb up to a respectable rank 176, well inside the highly competitive Top 200 list. In North America, UB is ranked 74th. Our efforts to push for academic excellence are apparently paying off! http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/campus/campus-host-page.host.html/content/shared/university/news/ub-reporter-articles/stories/2013/times_world_ranking.detail.html
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