December 2019
Kevin Bishop defends his PhD!
December 2018
Matt Schmidt defends his PhD!
June 2018
Neil Raymond wins the Dean of Science award for his M.Sc. thesis.
Alexander Ibrahim joins the group. Will start M.Sc. in the fall.
Mai 2018
Adam Marr joins the group. Will start M.Sc. in the fall.
April 2018
Dmitri Iouchtchenko is awarded a Ph.D. OGS postgraduate scholarship.
Kevin Bishop is awarded a Ph.D. OGS postgraduate scholarship.
January 2018
Xichen Lou joins starts her M.Sc.
September 2017
Chris Herdman starts a faculty position in the department of Physics at Middlebury
August 2017
Jianying Sheng defends her M.Sc. thesis
April 2017
Dmitri Iouchtchenko is the Waterloo Campus Graduate PhD Seminar Prize Award Winner.
Dmitri Iouchtchenko is awarded a Ph.D. OGS postgraduate scholarship.
Matthew Schmidt is awarded a Ph.D. OGS postgraduate scholarship.
Spencer Yim is awarded a Ph.D. OGS postgraduate scholarship.
March 2017
Postdoc Chris Herdman’s work on entanglement in liquid helium appears in Nature Physics (doi:10.1038/nphys4075). The paper got media coverage in Science News!
January 2017
Spencer Yim starts his Ph.D.
December 2016
Postdoc Yulia Kalugina co-edited the book Interaction-induced Electric Properties of van der Waals Complexes, Springer, 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-49032-8
Dmitri’s paper on the calculation of entanglement with PIMD is selected as book cover for Recent Progress in Quantum Monte Carlo
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PN Roy is awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Molecular Dynamics
November 2016
Postdocs Yulia Kalugina and Tapas Sahoo join our group
August 2016
Spencer Yim defends his M.Sc. thesis
January 2016
Tom Halverson joins the group as a postdoc
December 2015
Lindsay Orr defends her M.Sc. thesis
October 2015
Kevin Bishop is awarded an NSERC CGS-D scholarship
August 2015
Dmitri Iouchtchenko defends his M.Sc. thesis
July 2015
Former postdoc Toby Zeng starts as an Assistant Professor in the department of Chemistry at Carleton University.
April 2015
Nabil Faruk is awarded an NSERC PGS-D scholarship
Kevin Bishop is awarded an NSERC PGS-D scholarship
Dmitri Iouchtchenko is the Waterloo Campus Graduate MSc Seminar Prize Award Winner.
Kevin Bishop is the Waterloo Campus Graduate PhD Seminar Prize Award Winner.
July 2014
Lecheng Wang and Nabil Faruk both won a poster prize at the Montréal CSTCC meeting!
May 2014
Matthew Schmidt is awarded an NSERC Vanier scholarship to start his Ph.D. in our group.
Kevin Bishop is awarded an OGS postgraduate scholarship and transfers to the Ph.D. program.
April 2014
Matthew Schmidt successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis on April 25th.
Kevin Bishop is the Waterloo Campus Graduate MSc Seminar Prize Award Winner.
March 2014
Kevin Bishop wins first round of the Waterloo Science 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition
September 2013
Toby Zeng is awarded a Banting postdoctoral fellowing to go to Cornell
June 2013
Steve Constable wins the Dean of Science award for his M.Sc. thesis.
May 2013
Matthew Schmidt wins the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry M.Sc. seminar award.
Matthew Schmidt wins the Department of Chemistry Teaching Assistant Excellence Award (Winter 2013).
March 2013
Matthew Schmidt is awarded an NSERC PGS-M scholarship.
Matthew Schmidt is also awarded an OGS scholarship.
CHEM494 student Kevin Bishop wins the “Computational Science Award" for the work term report titled: "Persistent Data Storage" while employed in the Sanofi Aventis Group.
Kevin wins second prize for his presentation at the SOUSC
November 2012
Postdoc Toby Zeng wins the prestigious John Charles Polanyi Prize in chemistry. See article in The Record and the following link for a list of past winners.
July 2012
Jing Yang defends her M.Sc. Thesis
Steve Constable defends his M.Sc. Thesis
July 2011
Chris Ing defends his M.Sc. Thesis
June 2011
Chris Ing and Steve Constable respectively won first and second place at the Drakon’s Den competition at the 2011 CERMM meeting in Montreal
Toby Zeng has been awarded an Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI) postdoctoral fellowship!
May 2011
Toby Zeng has been awarded Canada’s Governor's General Gold Medal for his graduate work at Alberta.
March 2011
Toby Zeng who recently joined the group has been awarded an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship. He will work of the quantum properties of mixtures of water and hydrogen.
October 2010
An article about our work on molecular superfluids appears in The New Scientist
A synopsis of our work is featured in physics.aps.org
September 2010
Our paper on Molecular superfluidity ( Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 133401 (2010)) was selected as an Editors' Suggestion (Papers the editors and referees find of particular interest, importance, or clarity)
September 2009
Journal cover featured in Volume 131 Issue 11 on September 21, 2009 of The Journal of Chemical Physics